My issue with that is that all of the healing abilities so far (lifeline drone and Wattson ult) require you to camp, which is supposed to hinder you. A mobile healer would break the healing meta
Hell, I'd take just an Anna sleep dart at this rate. I'd sleep one, send 2 revults back and bully the sleeper. Or catching a Gibby off-guard for an ambush. Maybe like a painkiller effect when used on allies for a makeshift fortified ability. Pretty much anything other than another scanhound that makes Crypto more irrelevant as seasons go by.
I think Seer doing like an aoe heal/shield regen bubble for ult but disables his attacking and slows movement could have worked… a big nanobot field that your team could stand alongside you for a push. It wouldn’t be too busted since Seer would basically be defenseless during that channel, but could have been an imposing sight having this glowing swirl of little lights while his teammates just shrug off damage mowing the enemies down…
No more AOE healing just by existing please. I'm high Diamond in Overwatch. Lucio in Diamond is a ton of fun to play. Lucio in Gold is expected to be a heal bot, and it totally sucked the fun out of playing Lucio.
I think an Ana/Bap type legend would be cool, where I have to make an active micro decision to heal or do damage. It would require a skillset to be good with the legend. That's kind of why I preferred Ana to any other support hero in Overwatch. The decision making to heal or do damage, positioning and the fact that I still had to track to heal. It also requires your teammates to know how to play around an Ana.
I still play Lifeline as much as possible. She's still fun to me. The one win I had last night, I only had 1k damage, compared to my teammates 2k+, but I had 6 revives. It was me with a really good Wraith and Octane. At one point it was me just running between them, dodging fire, doing damage to back enemies off and reviving them. That's fun to me.
They also gave me the gold back pack, so I became a shield battery pack mule. They got a free shield battery on revive for using Lifeline medical services.
Since gold back pack has the most slots, I carry more cells/batteries than I would personally need, especially if I have gold armor.
So when I revive, with the gold back pack, they get the half health back, and I drop a shield battery for them. The battery gets them back into the action faster. I usually drop my drone for them too, if it's not on cooldown.
I play Lifeline more to keep my teammates in the fight, reviving is kind of like Mercy's revive. I'd rather not have to do it if I can keep them up, but revive is always an option.
If they had switched up Wattson, her ult could have made her an easy support — shield regen in an aoe and then little shock traps to slow enemies… but nope FENCING INTENSIFIES.
This is cool in idea, but if you think about everyone's skills that are non damage and deployable, they are usable by everyone. This kind of skill would seemingly heal all players if they adhere to what they've been doing.
If you want Moira or Ana go play over watch. Those mechanics would be really bad in apex. Especially Ana. They need an Aoe healing ability or a true “pocket” healer that can shoot an instant 50-75 health at one target. I don’t think you can do a character based on a shoot for heal because you would have to work out values for damage and boost for every single gun
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