Gabriel Tosh (Wip 65%) by beargeist

Play style

Giant killer, or any life percent based dmg is intentionally absent. This also means a majority of his dmg can be blocked, thou he has a fair split between physical and ability based dmg.
His cloud burst(W) gives him a rare capacity to output direct dmg, without relying on enemy health pool and armor bypass.

Knockback, roots and slows are also absent. Forcing him to rely on his team to control enemy front liners.
utilizing his decreased stealth delay, is his best defensive tool against frontliners and direct target

His threat to front liners is in his ability to punish indecision over a sustain period
Also his ability to counter comp certain follow up characters.

Mechanical Notes

Psi Module
the deployment delay/ deactivation prevents overlap, keeping the window between effects short and fair/controlled (flexible for dev adjustments). It also prevents a new cast of the module, when the intent is a last second Reactivate.

Resetting the stealth delay by exiting module range, means you must be in module radius to receive stealth.

Visuals: The Module's radius probably only needs visible to Tosh in a distinct way
solution #1. clicking on the module could reveal its area of effect to other players. It allows them to learn the distance, without having to see something that isn't so critical to the inch.
solution #2. could use two different visuals, a permanent more visible one for tosh. And a low visual aid for other players. Using Crystalline bank with status effect could then make it more visible to everyone.

Cloudburst shell's "doubletap"
The second shell does not have to be part of the same clip to gain atk/spd bonus, as long as another energy point is queued.

the double tap and atk delay reset, adds mechanical depth to the basic attack. it also keeps the pacing of crystalline relevant. allowing good players to constantly keep it off cooldown, when his shorter atk range is managed properly.

Blinds prevent shell consumption


Crystalline's recharge and restricted use features, force the player to commit position for poke. But the transfer of energy to tosh, allows him to chase/kite outside of the "committed" position.. Committing to a position is a central theme, and how greater use from the stealth update is leveraged.

using a slower recharge rate effect, instead of a faster recharge rate, gives the player more consistent timings when the power is most relevant

If the blast hits two heroic targets the storm persists for an additional 1.25s.

Hitting two heroic targets with the storm increases the blasts dmg by 50%

targets hit by the blast deal 25% less dmg to tosh for 4s.

cloud burst(W/Q) cloud burst splashes mind lash's storm



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Stalker module (active/passive) - the module sprouts legs and crawls towards tosh.
While outside of module radius, Psi cloaking module's cooldown recharge is 50% faster.
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Shell (W) - cloud burst splashes for its ability dmg when the primary target is heroic.

Bank (W) - Refreshes mind lash cooldown

Mind lash (Q) - reduces ability armor by 20 for 4s



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Talents

T1

Portable Crystalline (E) - Bank can grant energy outside of module radius.
!quest: 0/25, heroic hits with cloud burst. Reward: recharge slow is reduced to 35%. -15%
!quest: this quest can be repeated once (reduced to 20%)

Mind Blast (Q) - Hitting two heroic targets with mind lash's blast grants an energy point.
!quest: 0/8, fully charge Mind lash's bonus dmg. Reward: fully charging mind lash grants 1 energy point.

Slide trigger (W/passive) - Gain an energy point every 10s while remaining in combat, basic attacks vs heroes reduce the effect timer by 1s. effect trigger will pause at 0s while at fully energy
!quest: 0/18 successfully double tap Cloudburst. Reward: Cloudburst can triple tap.
must have energy queued. Fire a third shell at 50% attack speed, if done in succession


T2

Ghost (D) - Module gains a second reactivation charge. 2s delay between charges.

Operator (D) - Module reactivation removes roots, slows and silences. If it does not remove a root or a silence, the movement speed bonus does not decay.

Shade (W/passive) - Stealth grants 15% movement speed lasting for 1s after stealth is broken. Cloudburst reduces the current stealth delay by an additional 0.25s


T3
Equalizer (D) - Module grants Tosh 15 armor, but its radius is reduced by 15%.

Spectre Module (passive) - Tosh becomes "undetectable" by reveal status. The module has its unit vision increased by 50% and can see over terrain. Reveal area powers will still show him, but not prevent or break stealth. global auto target powers like mephisto's Consume souls won't have its dmg mitigated, just the reveal status = Detected Icon.

Still suited (E) - Crystalline bank grants a 3rd stack of crystalline recovery. Additionally each stack grants 10% amped healing.


T4
Consumption (R1)


T5 - att build


T6 - att build finisher


T7