Idk why people are acting as if ONLY supp players wanted her nerfed. She was released overturned, dominated lobbies, almost always consistently banned and hated by everyone. Ppl love to pin everything on supp players cause apparently every single one of them is trash, boosted, all that. Dps wanted her nerfed, TANKS wanted her nerfed. Sure they may have screwed up a few things, but her nerfs hit this hard because she was so strong, not because "whiny support mains with skill issues" complained.

Once it starts all I can do is try to pocket them and pray but sometimes (most of the time) that’s not enough 🫩.

Example:

Mantis/Ultron can't work

Mantis/Adam can work

If your Mantis or Adam has the aim of a Scarlet Witch player on Hawkeye you will lose.

Edit: READ the image PLS. I'm talking about major characters in popularity.

Jean should've been a support IMO, and Cyke a tank. =/

Jokes aside, it's genuinely insane how much effort they put in dps only.

I'm not a pessimist but his whole hit scan MoonKnight laser beam ability is going to make our lives a whole lot harder... It was bad enough being eaten by a Dinosaur...

This image captures two brave strategists perfectly in sync, taking on the back line bully daredevil and obliterating him.

I remember seeing a lot of ppl on twitter and Reddit from all 3 roles saying don’t nerf Dino he’s so fun play and makes the game fun and were even calling pros miserable for calling him broken now so idek why this meme was made to make it seem like only invis or support mains in general were the only ones saying this. Same thing happened with wf balanced changes almost everyone from all roles advocated for buffs cause she felt a little weak but when the buffs made her op all of a sudden it was only “boosted support players “asking for her to get buffed.

I used to think that Nightcrawler really only worked as a duelist until a few months back when I saw a concept video on a strategist kit. Now it’s all I want. Since then I built around the idea from the concept video I saw into something that I found a little more interesting. My concept is built around the idea of the more you teleport the more you heal and around his ability to create chaos through his unpredictable movement and his ability to move people around the battlefield, both friend and foe.

Now I’ll start by saying that Strategist is currently my least favorite role, but that is just because I find most of the rosters kits very boring. When I play strat it’s usually Gambit, Ultron, White Fox, and recently Rocket. Thats because I mainly just find my self heal boting on the rest of the roster (besides Mantis and I’ve never played Adam), but that might just be on me. But that’s why I like my concept, because it brings something different to the role where the focus isn’t on healing, it’s just a passive that’ll happen naturally as you use his kit.
It’s hard for me to picture things like damage/healing numbers or exact distance traveled without actually testing things out, so I’m going to be vague about distance and am leaving out damage/healing numbers all together. I mapped the kit out on PC since that’s what I play on, so that’s how I’m going to format it here. Sorry to all the console players ahead of time.

HP: 250

Passive: Wall Climb\Hang & Bamf’s

His first passive ability is pretty straight forward. He will have the ability to climb and hang on walls. Anyone who knows anything about Nightcrawler should expect this as a passive for his kit.

The second passive is by far the most important of his kit. Every time you teleport a Bamf appears at the destination of the teleport. The Bamf then attaches itself to the player with the lowest percent hp in the area and heals them for 3 seconds before disappearing. For those who don’t know what a Bamf is, they are little imp like beings that resembles Nightcrawler and usually cause mischief. This is what his healing revolves around and is the part that i built around from the concept video I saw. In the video it was an ability, but I felt it works better as a passive. It’s important to keep in mind Every time a mention a teleport in any of this moves going forward that he is also creating a Bamf on the battlefield.

Left Click- Basic Attack: Triple Rapier

His basic attack is a 5 strike combo that goes left sword slash, right sword thrust, right sword slash, left sword thrust, tail sword spin that hits everyone around him, and the the combo resets.

Right Click: Back Stab

He teleports behind an enemy and slashes and kicks them pushing them away from him. He gets 1 charge with a 5 second cooldown.

Shift: Teleport

He teleports a medium distance in the direction he’s facing, but can’t teleport through walls so if the he cant go max distance he will teleport onto the surface that is stopping him from going the full distance, going right into his wall crawl/hang passive. He gets 3 charges of his teleport that have a 4 second cooldown.

E: Guardian Angel & F: Fiendish Foe

For his first ability Guardian Angel, he is able to teleport to any teammate his can visibly see, if he taps E he teleports again and brings the teammate right back to where he was, and if he holds E he can then look in a direction and teleport them a medium distance away. The first version is perfect for quick rescues, while the second version can be useful for repositions, flanks, and chase downs.

As for his second ability Fiendish Foe, he has the ability to teleport to any enemy you can see, if he taps F he teleports again and brings the enemy right back to where he was, and if he holds F he can then look in a direction and teleport them a medium distance away. Both versions are perfect of kidnaps and peeling, but the second version is best for dropping enemies off the map when able, because you have to take the extra time to aim to your next location it leaves you susceptible to stuns by the enemy team.

I put these 2 abilities together because they both work very similarly. I have 2 ideas on how cooldowns can work for these abilities. The first idea is a shared resource. He would get three shared charges that have 6 second cooldowns, making you have to choose between using his charges defensively to protect his teammates or using them offensively to kidnap and harass the enemy. The other idea is the more basic option which is giving both abilities 1 charge and separate cooldowns. Guardian Angel would get a 4 second cooldown and Fiendish Foe would get a 20 second cooldown.

Q- Ultimate: Bamf Blitz

When he activates his ultimate he gains unlimited cooldowns on his shift ability, as well as increased damage and healing for 8 seconds, granting him the ability to create Bamf’s all over the place during his ultimate.

Thanks for reading and sorry if it was longwinded.

Hi all!

I am wondering how I can help be a better support in this situation, I feel like its hard to enable my team this game.

I also feel like this will give a good idea of my positioning and when I go to retreat. Unfortunately I feel like I was pigeon-holed into playing much more defensively then I like to.

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