#68

Yea, but all other supports have been brought inline to discourage this going solo strategy. Alani as she stands is capable of going toe to toe with just about any character in the game due to self heal thus negating her support role.

Her CC is very very capable. Making it so she can ONLY heal her teammates prevents her from going beyond her support role.

I would recommend increasing her speed and lowering her health and dps.

Her osmosis is based on hits not kills. That is what she should be doing. Landing hits, slowing, binding and keeping her teammates in the fight. Her moves already either go through enemies and teammates or just appear under them so getting hits wouldn’t be a problem for a skilled player. After much thought I think that is the correct design if they MUST go with an “attack healer”

#69

My preference is to kill the dps from her primary. She would still have some of the best control in the game, her healing (and would be fine with making it so she heals off healing others and can’t heal herself directly), and plenty of AoE damage from her skills without being the wrecking crew she is now.

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#70

Correct me if I’m wrong here as I stopped playing Alani awhile ago but the geyser heal had a way bigger AOE than the geyser itself. Like bigger than a sunspot’s radius. Hitting an enemy while healing multiple allies with it is super easy if your team isn’t full stupid.

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#71

I’ve tested that and it’s true the geyser puts out a large green ring that heals allies when it erupts

#72

yes the aoe ring of the heal is big even bigger with the 25% radius boost its stupuid easy to hit people with it and use it for cc at the same time

#73

With that, we do agree.

#74

LoL when you are a dmg dealer and you are fight a healer the healer is not supposed to out stun, out heal, and out damage you. Before my buddy literally would take on 4 people at point blank range and kill all of them np when a char can do that somethings wrong. I thoroughly enjoy the nerf because before you could just go all dmg and you would be unstoppable. You are just sad cause you relied on a practically invincible char and when they took her down a notch you started dying.

#75

I’m noticing that she’s not on both sides of every single match now and people are playing different characters. I don’t think I ever killed one without a massive DPS ultimate on a weakened alani… which is not something you want for a support, they should be easier to take down 1v1 than other characters or when focused so they fill a more supportive role.

I’ve been saving coins since the release of info that you would need around 50k to unlock her, and am now at about 17k so it’s going to be a while until I even get to try her out. I think that is a major issue in and of itself, releasing a character that people cannot play themselves makes everything they do seem unfair as it takes you by complete surprise and you can’t understand their strengths, weaknesses, or utility properly until you actually do get to use them. I understand she is still technically free, but unless you play nonstop you will most likely be like me, farming the coins for her until basically the next character drop… building animosity as you don’t understand what she’s doing and just assuming she is overpowered.

I mean, it takes me so long to farm those coins that I might not have enough to buy her by the time the next character comes out so I skip her entirely. Especially since I jump on for 2 or 3 games and get matched 4v5 or against a premade of 5 most of the time and just close application to go play overwatch.

#76

Squishy healers are useless. It would be more appropriate to say you wouldn’t expect a healer/support to burst you down like an assassin. Miko is not squishy. Reyna is not squishy. Ambra is not squishy. Kleese can be depending on situation, but is very hard to kill when dug in.

#77

Oh no… I have to use one piece of Hp+ gear to end above pre-nerf stats. :sob: :scream:

Yeah… -inappropriate motion here-

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#78

While you aren’t wrong, it makes gearing more selfish. As someone that wants to play Alani as an actual support, I’d prefer to use that slot for healing gear.

The real problem with Alani IMO is that many people are choosing her not as a support, or even as a controller, but because she is a killing machine.

#79

I still find geysers damage amp to be ridiculous 30% damage amp (highest in the game)and you’re in the air in a giant bubble. Yes geyser take a bit to erupt but if she drops it behind you odds are you won’t see it

#80

The damage amp has no place in her kit, IMO, which I have said before, because you are already making the target easy to focus, which is already very good. It should be removed.

#81

you can drop it on some one and they still stand in it like morons

#82

Yeah when I play her some People just stand there. I just don’t think that she should have the damage amp and put you in the air as an easy target

#83

I really didn’t think people would care so much when I made this thread. Thanks for all the interesting feedback from both sides. I even appreciated the snarky comments that didn’t actually contribute anything to the conversation but did make for a good chuckle. :joy:

After tinkering with my gear a bit, she’s about okay. Hoping they leave her alone now and move on the screwing with other characters. :eyes:

#85

“about okay” lol, no, she still needs her overall DPS dropped… and the additional %30 in the bubble helix probably shouldn’t exist since the CC is enough on its own… I mean, she’s just silly ATM

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#86

You ulted 3 people are you saying they need to nerf all three of her DPS kills or just her ult dmg because it has a spin uptime also before the first burst of dmg. Her auto attacks could use a dmg drop but not her skills sence her ult and geyser have obvious animations that are easy to dodge

#87

Geysers’s animation is anything but obvious. If it is under you or behind you, you cannot see it. Compare this to: shadowfire pillar, arc mine, scrap trap without invisible helix, sunspots which despite being tiny are still pretty obvious, tag team. That’s just off the top of my head, I am sure there are more. Even riptide is pretty obvious, geyser? Not so much.

#88

Than listen to alanis audio ques i believe it has a few take rath for instance will sometimes say a storm is coming or IM ENDING THIS when dropping dread wind on you alani will say liquid snake at time on her ult. But in all honesty just try to stay mobile and move around if eh is in the general area of the battle she will place it in the middle of a clustered group if you guys are obviously bunched up move if your in a pack of minions move solo its pretty easy to guess where she will put it if your a melee she will drop it on herself just to punish you for meleeing her this will catch you or insure you back off so she can gain distance.

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