Reaper by BunnyFuFU

I see what you mean, and that's definitely possible with this hero. I envisioned the E ability working like Sgt. Hammer's Siege Mode, where it lasts for any amount of time and it changes the play-style of the hero. While I like your idea, I would need to make the trait have and active role, pressing D would change weapons and E would be the buff you described. That would work with the change to the trait you describe below, but I like to keep the jumping over walls part of the hero, it makes him unique and accurate to how the unit was in Starcraft.



You're right, so I added a small movement speed buff to the mount (Z) and changed the (Q) to be a charge forward. A teleport would work, but I have shaped the hero to rely on Movement Speed and Range to survive. The current state of Reaper means that the jumping over walls is a situational escape that allows you to outplay your opponents. In combination with the Movement Speed buffs, it makes the hero able to chase, but susceptible to Stuns/Roots. A teleport instead of the jump would make the Reaper impossible to chase and, well, overpowered in that sense (think of Zeratul and how he is very mobile just with one teleport). Also, Nova has two traits, so it is acceptable that this hero would have two as well.



Did that on purpose to make players choose whether they prefer harass w/pistols or chasing w/machine guns. There is the increased radius on the (W) at Tier 3 and that's where such traits usually are on characters. Tier 1 usually has small buffs to abilities and the common Block, etc.



Changed the (E) so that there is no targeting system (too clunky) and the trait wording to be more clear. That is a good idea, and probably make the talent more useful. Changed it and removed First Aid, since both combined would be too much healing. Replaced it with a talent that changes (W).



Changed it to be a flat Basic Attack damage buff.
Thanks for the feedback!

Honestly, used google for all but the trait icons, those are straight from the game. The icon for the reaper itself is someone's really good art. You can right click to see each image and its source. Glad you enjoyed the concept.

I like the concept of a highly mobile assassin, that could up the whole ganking game since his trait allows him to pretty much navigate over obstacles.

If his E is supposed to operate like Tychus' Overkill than maybe since a lot of his talents are mainly passive buffs, you can make the switching between Pistols and Machine Guns actives, like how you can control Lost Vikings. This would also allow to make E more flexible, say if proc'd on pistols it gives a burst damage for next 3 shots, while if proc'd on Machine Guns, reduces movement debuff and increases attack speed while attacking (like Tychus Overkill;not sure if you know this but Tychus can reach pretty high base attack speeds).

Also I'm not sure what you mean by "no mount or teleport(hearthing should always be available to all heroes)", but since you put in his trait that he can also maneuver over obstacles maybe having his Z be half or a quarter of the range of Falstads' but instant. This would allow the trait button to not be divided between two uses, and the healing trait can be an active heal over time which would help in self-sustain during prolonged teamfights.

This would also allow you to passively buff his health regen to something like between Muradin levels(2.17+ 1 perlvl) and Murky (10 + 2.4 per lvl), which would make up for his out of combat regen. I say this because it seems his build seems to be sustained and is countered by burst.

Two of your tier 1 talents is pretty much the ideal version of seasoned marksman, so if this guy was put into the game, they'll probably just make it seasoned marksman so you mind as well put that in and just come up with another talent. Maybe move the second charge (W) talent or increase it's radius. I don't think vulnerabilities stack so from an assassination build it can really help to secure kills mid+ game, or from a team fight build the increased radius would help especially since the core damage comes from the explosion. Or put Boosters at lvl 1 though personally I think it should be a base passive since he's supposed to be next best chaser in the game next to Illidan.

Tier 3 you say One in the Chamber "prefers heroes", I would like to point out you just have to right-click to focus. More of a spelling issue but still. Also since this is my personal opinion, and I do think you should make Combat Drugs an activated passive trait, you can change the first aid to merely boost this to say 15%. At lvl 7 that'd be 163.5 a second and have it on a 25 sec cd (which would just slightly outscale the amount of first aid). He would still be squishy towards high burst, but at least he won't be an overextended uncloaked Nova, without the ability to enter stealth. Don't forget regardless of the assassin the cc chain is always the best counter, so if caught out he'll still be in trouble.

Siphon (Q): Increases Fuel Injection Healing by 50% on targets poisoned by Sticky Bomb. <--not sure how that would work out since Fuel Injection is based on his Basic damage and Sticky Bomb doesn't increase basic damage. It sounds a little like what you're saying is that if used while a sticky bomb is deployed Fuel Injection heals for 50% instead of 25%,but since you have BfB and First Aid at lvl 7 anyways makes it kind of pointless to have on that tier. Maybe increase basic attack range, which could help with a pure assassin chase build.

Really really nice concept! His playstyle is very unique and it fits perfectly into the current game with the quite slow roaming squads :)
He lacks some CC and maybe utility but the team can compensate that i guess - nothing for casual gamers though because I think Reaper would need a good team to work properly. Need to get more into the talents :D

And may i ask you where you got this cool Ability icons from? :)