Sgt. Hammer by Maximus Ultima

5 Votes

Sgt. Hammer

By: Maximus Ultima
Last Updated: Mar 13, 2025
Quick Share

Sgt. Hammer

Rework Concept

This a rework concept for Sgt. Hammer.

My goal in this rework is to open up her playstyle options while also helping her fit the fantasy of a Siege Tank more. To this end, I've made several major changes to her base kit and almost entirely overhauled her talent tree.

Sgt. Hammer now has a higher basic attack DPS against a single target in Tank Mode rather than in Siege Mode. Her attack speed has been increased in Tank Mode and significantly decreased in Siege Mode. Additionally, Siege Mode now has a minimum range and no longer grants extra vision range.
To make up for this, Siege Mode's basic attacks deal far more damage per attack, their splash area and damage have been increased, and their baseline range has been increased.

Spider Mines and Concussive Blast have been normalized. They now have a fixed range that is the same for both Tank and Siege Modes.

Neosteel Plating has been removed in favor of Field Repairs. Instead of being able to simply sit through enemy damage, she will have to pull back to heal up before rejoining the fight. This will offset the greater difficulty in reaching her with allowing damage done to be meaningful by forcing her back at least.

A new active ability called Hold Fire has been added to command Sgt. Hammer to cease firing until a new attack command is issued. This is just a nice quality of life change I've always thought she could use.

Napalm Strike is now more powerful but has a longer cooldown and a higher mana cost to compensate.
At level 20, Advanced Lava Strike has been replaced with Scorched Earth, which focuses more on the burn and area denial role of Napalm Strike.

Blunt Force Gun has had its initial damage reduced in exchange for cooldown reduction for every enemy hit by it and the unlisted change of increasing its scaling from 3% to 4% per level.
Orbital BFG has been replaced with Siegebreaker, which increases its damage and travel speed and adds a knockback and stun effect.

Almost all of Sgt. Hammer's talents have been scrapped and replaced, reworked, or tweaked.

Combat Trait

1
[Trait] Siege Mode
Cooldown: 2 sec.
Duration: 1.5 sec.
Activate to transform into or out of Siege Mode over 1.5 seconds.
Sgt. Hammer cannot move, cast abilities, or make Basic Attacks while transforming.
Being stunned or silenced while transforming does not halt the process. While in Siege Mode, being Silenced does not prevent Sgt. Hammer from transforming out of Siege Mode.

While in Siege Mode, Sgt. Hammer is immobile and her Basic Attack becomes a slow but long-ranged and heavy hitting splash attack.

Siege Mode does not grant additional vision range.
2
[Basic Attack 1] Twin 90mm Plasma Cannons
Damage: 130
Attack Speed: 1.33/sec.
Range: 6
3
[Basic Attack 2] 180mm Shock Cannon
Damage: 260
Attack Speed: 0.5/sec.
Maximum Range: 15
Minimum Range: 2.5
Splash Damage: 50%
Splash Radius: 2.5
While in Siege Mode, Sgt. Hammer's *base Attack Speed is reduced to 0.5 per second and *base Attack Damage is increased to 260. She also gains 150% increased Basic Attack range but a minimum range of 2.5, and her Basic Attacks splash for 50% damage in a radius of 2.5 around the target.

Sgt. Hammer's minimum Basic Attack range in Siege Mode is equal to her Basic Attack's splash radius.

*Note that all damage and attack speed modifiers scale off of the base value. For example, a +50% Attack Speed bonus in Siege Mode would provide only 0.25 more attacks per second, whereas a +50% Attack Speed bonus in Tank Mode would result in ~0.67 more attacks per second.

Primary Abilities

1
[Q] Spider Mines
Cooldown: 12 sec.
Mana Cost: 60
Damage: 90
Cast Range: 6
Trigger Range: 4
Leash Range: 6
Splash Radius: 1.5
Health: 1
Duration: 30 sec.
Place 3 mines that arm and burrow after 1.25 seconds. When an enemy passes within 4 range of a Spider Mine, it will unburrow and chase them, dealing 90 damage to all enemies within a radius of 1.5 upon reaching them.
Spider Mines have a leash range of 6, and will stop chasing a target and reburrow if the target leaves range or vision.
Spider Mines can be destroyed by 1 Basic Attack and automatically self-destruct after 30 seconds.
2
[W] Concussive Blast
Cooldown: 12 sec.
Mana Cost: 60
Damage: 150
Range: 6
Arc: 45°
Knockback Distance: 4
Deal 150 damage to enemies in a 45° arc front of Sgt. Hammer and knock them back 4 range.
3
[E] Field Repairs
Cooldown: 10 sec.
Mana Cost: 20/sec.
Healing: 5% max HP/sec.
Activate to heal Sgt. Hammer for 5% of her maximum Health per second while out of combat.
Sgt. Hammer can move, make Basic Attacks, and transform between Siege and Tank Mode while Field Repairs is active, but taking damage, casting any other ability, or reactivating this ability cancels Field Repairs.
If Field Repairs is canceled within 1 second of being activated, its cooldown is reduced to 3 seconds.

Secondary Abilities

1
[Active] Hold Fire
Cooldown: 1 sec.
Activate to have Sgt. Hammer stop making basic attacks until a new attack command is issued.
2
[Active] Immortality Protocol
Cooldown: 150 sec.
Stasis Duration: 5 sec.
Armor: 75
Reconstruction Duration: 4 sec.
Upon taking fatal damage, Sgt. Hammer becomes a Wreckage and enters Stasis for 5 seconds.
Within this time period, this ability can be activated to exit Stasis and grant her Wreckage 100% of her maximum Health and 75 Armor for 4 seconds. After 4 seconds, Sgt. Hammer revives with all of the Wreckage's remaining Health, and the Armor decays over 2 seconds.

Activating this ability sets it on cooldown. Failing to activate this ability causes Sgt. Hammer to die but does not trigger the cooldown.

This ability requires the level 20 talent Immortality Protocol.

Heroic Abilities

1
[R1] Napalm Strike
Cooldown: 20
Mana Cost: 50
Impact Damage: 300
Range: 15
Radius: 2.5
Area Damage: 50/sec.
Duration: 6 sec.
Launch a shell at a target area that deals 300 damage upon impact and creates an AoE that deals 50 damage per second for 6 seconds.
2
[R2] Blunt Force Gun
Cooldown: 60 sec.
Mana Cost: 80
Damage: 400
Range: N/A
Width: 4
Fire a massive missile across the battlefield, dealing 400 damage to all enemies in its path.
Every enemy hit reduces Blunt Force Gun's cooldown by 2 seconds.

Special Mount

1
[Z] Thrusters
Cooldown: 30 sec.
Duration: 4 sec.
Speed Boost: 60%
Activate to gain 60% increased Movement Speed for 4 seconds.
Casting Thrusters while in Siege Mode causes Sgt. Hammer to transform out of Siege Mode over 0.75 seconds before Thrusters activates.
Thrusters is always active while at the Altar.

Talents



Level 1


[Trait] Smart Servos
Increases Siege Mode's transformation speed by 100%.

[Basic Attack] Gyroscopic Stabilizers
Sgt. Hammer can now make Basic Attacks while moving.

[Q] Mine Spitter
Casting Spider Mines now places only one Spider Mine at a time.
Spider Mines now has 5 charges with a 0.5 second cooldown between uses and costs 15 mana. All charges are restored by the cooldown.

[W] Barricade
Concussive Blast creates unpassable terrain in front of Sgt. Hammer for 4 seconds.
Concussive Blast can be reactivated after 1 second to remove the Barricade.



Level 4


[Trait/Basic Attack 2] Ambush Protocol
Sgt. Hammer gains Stealth when entering Siege Mode or after not attacking or taking damage for 3 seconds while in Siege Mode. Leaving Siege Mode breaks Stealth.
While Ambush Protocol is active, Sgt. Hammer's next Basic Attack within 1 second of losing Stealth deals 50% additional damage.

[Basic Attack] Maelstrom Rounds
Basic Attacks ignore and reduce the primary target's Armor by 3, up to 15, for 2.5 seconds.
Reduces Siege Mode Basic Attack splash radius to 2 and splash damage to 33%.

[Basic Attack 2] Artillery Suppression
Siege Mode Basic Attacks reduce enemy Heroes' damage by 10%, up to 40%, for 3 seconds.

[Basic Attack 2] Shrapnel Shells
Increases Siege Mode Basic Attack splash radius to 3 and splash damage to 66%.



Level 7


[Trait] Entrenched
While in Siege Mode, Sgt. Hammer becomes Anchored, rendering her immune to Displacement and accompanying effects.
Siege Mode Basic Attacks grant Sgt. Hammer 5 Armor, up to 25, until she leaves Siege Mode.

[Basic Attack] Endless Siege
Basic Attacks heal for 6% of the damage dealt, doubled against Heroes.

[W] Hold Your Ground
Increases Concussive Blast's arc to 60°.
Each enemy Hero hit by Concussive Blast reduces its cooldown by 2 seconds and grants Sgt. Hammer 10 Armor, up to 50, for 4 seconds.

[E] Regenerative Bio-Steel
Sgt. Hammer regenerates 2.5% of her missing Health every second, increased to 5% while Field Repairs is active.



Level 13


[Trait] Hover Siege Mode
Hammer can now move at 60% Movement Speed while in Siege Mode.

[Basic Attack 2] Graduating Range
While in Siege Mode, Sgt. Hammer's Basic Attack range increases by 1 every 3 seconds, up to 3.
This bonus decays over 3 seconds after leaving Siege Mode.

[Q] Cerberus Mines
Spider Mines Slow enemies they hit by 15%, stacking up to 30%, for 2 seconds.
Increases the movement speed and trigger/leash range of Spider Mines by 50% and increases their splash radius to 2.5.

[W] Muzzle Blaster
Increases Concussive Blast's damage, radius, and knockback distance by 50%.



Level 16


[Basic Attack] Tank Buster
Basic Attacks in Tank Mode deal additional damage to Heroes equal to 0.75% of their maximum Health.
Basic Attacks in Siege Mode deal additional damage to Heroes equal to 3% of their maximum Health.

[Basic Attack 2] Artillery Calibration
While in Siege Mode, Basic Attacks against Heroes or Structures increase Sgt. Hammer's Attack Speed by 10%, up to 50%.
This bonus is lost after leaving Siege Mode.
❢ Quest: Make 10 Basic Attacks against enemy Heroes or Structures while Sgt. Hammer has the full Attack Speed bonus.
❢ Reward: Sgt. Hammer permanently gains 10% of the Attack Speed bonus while in Siege Mode, stacking up to 50%.

[Q] Shredder Mines
Spider Mines deal additional damage to Heroes equal to 2% of their maximum Health and reduce their Armor by 10 for 3 seconds.



Level 20


[Basic Attack 2] Shaped Blast
Siege Mode's Basic Attacks no longer have a minimum range.
Basic Attacks in Siege Mode deal 33% more damage if Sgt. Hammer or another allied Hero is within their splash radius.

[Q] Auxiliary Detonation Cores
After hitting a target, Spider Mines burrow and then rearm after 1.25 seconds. Spider Mines can rearm up to 2 times.
Increases Spider Mines' health to 2 and duration to 45 seconds, and their health and duration is restored after rearming.

[Active] Immortality Protocol
Reduces the Mana cost of Field Repairs by 50%.
Activate within 5 seconds of taking fatal damage to rebuild Sgt. Hammer's tank over 4 seconds.

[R1] Scorched Earth
Increases Napalm Strike's radius by 0.5, duration by 2 seconds, and area damage by 50%.
Each enemy damaged by Napalm Strike reduces its cooldown by 0.25 seconds, doubled against Heroes.

[R2] Siege Breaker
Blunt Force Gun travels 100% faster and deals 25% more damage to Heroes and 50% more damage to non-Heroes.
Blunt Force gun knocks aside enemies in its path, Stunning them for 1 second.

Quick Comment

You need to log in before commenting.

[-] Collapse All Comments

Sort Comments By
2
[-]
Simoky | November 2, 2020 6:14pm
pretty good idea, it really gives the 'siege tank' feeling.
3
[-]
TrojanVirus | April 22, 2020 2:59am
I freaking LOVE this concept so ******* much. Just reading this I can feel how this would play. Massive weakness to divers like before, probably more so if you focus on Siege Mode a lot, but such more damage output in exchange for that weakness. I feel like you've done a wonderful job in both pushing the siege tank feeling more and giving her just enough tools and things to think about to allow her to survive and thrive at what she should do best.

Murder everything at long range.

I honestly wish I could upvote this more than once and I genuinely hope that the HOTS team takes a look at this and takes notes. Brilliant work!
Loading Comments...
Load More Comments

HeroesFire is the place to find the perfect build guide to take your game to the next level. Learn how to play a new hero, or fine tune your favorite HotS hero’s build and strategy.

Copyright © 2019 HeroesFire | All Rights Reserved