Pharah by beboptimusprime

Fareeha Amari's commitment to duty runs in her blood. She comes from a long line of highly decorated soldiers and burns with the desire to serve with honor. An altruistic individual, Pharah seeks to make the world a better place, and bring order out of chaos. She loves the feeling of entering the unknown, and has a udjat tatoo, bearing the Eye of Horus.

Pharah is a challenge to translate from Overwatch, as much of her kit in her original game revolves around the vertical mobility offered by her Jet Boosters, which cannot be directly replicated in HOTS. Instead of trying to match it in a gimmicky way, I focused on what the height advantage offered her and her team and tried to capture that. While airborne, Pharah is in a better position to bombard her foes, so I increased her attack range during Boosters. She also serves as a scout, so I increased her vision. To capture the feeling of being unreachable by certain enemies and vulnerable to others, I reduced her movement speed but made her immune to melee autoattacks. She would be unreachable by some heroes attacks, but very susceptible to Spell Damage and powerful ranged attacks, as she'd be unable to avoid them easily.

Overall, Pharah's design is meant to be simple, on the lower end of the skill requirements in the roster. My goal is for her to provide a consistent, steady output of AOE sustained damage for the team but not necessarily do much that would be flashy. She would excel on point control maps but do poorly in maps requiring a lot of rotation mobility. Maps where her vision shines would also be good. My thouhgts are that she would do best on Infernal Shrines, and probably worst on Hanamura.