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8 Supports on the same "team" in a deathmatch. Damage eachother by using healing abilities and earn 30 eliminations to win!

AI bots will also have additional behaviours based on the hero they are playing to allow for a more challenging and immersive experience when playing alone!

For all heroes:

Health is always 5 less than maximum health to allow for healing to occur
Self healing has zero effect, dealing no damage nor healing (self-healing from ultimates ignored)

Ana is well balanced in this type of gamemode! The changes made were to allow Ana to have a way to sleep teammates without being too powerful.

Sleep Dart

Disabled

Nano Boost

Ultimate generation rate increased to 150% of base rate
Instead of powering up a teammate, deal 50 damage and put them to sleep

Baptiste is interesting as his Biotic Grenades heal instantaneously, meaning that he only heals for as much health as teammates would have health missing. Without his primary fire, Amplification Matrix was changed to be much more impactful both on its own and combined with Baptiste's abilities.

Healing

Damage dealt to full health teammates will always be at least 20

Biotic Launcher

Primary Fire disabled

Amplification Matrix

Fires a swarm of Biotic Grenades through the window whilst active
When rotated sideways, fires Biotic Grenades in two opposing directions

Brigitte is tough to balance due to her high survivability. To get the most value out of her healing, she now needs to be at a closer range.

Healing

Healing dealt is dependant on how far away Brigitte is from the healing target, starting from 80% healing dealt within 4 metres to 20% healing dealt beyond 10 metres

Barrier Shield

No longer blocks damage
Blocks healing recieved from teammates in front of the shield

Shield Bash

Can be used against teammates

Repair Pack

Start with only 1 Repair Pack on respawn
Recharge rate reduced to 90% of base rate

Rally

Ultimate generation rate increased to 115% of base rate
Slow down teammates in range by 30% of their move speed
Deal 30 damage per second to teammates in range

Illari is mostly balanced except for her Healing Pylon, which cannot be destroyed by teammates. Multiple changes have been added to prevent Healing Pylon from being too overwhelming

Outburst

Can be used against teammates

Healing Pylon

Projectile speed decreased to 0% of base speed
Projectile gravity increased to 500% of base gravity
Stays active for a maximum of 10 seconds
Cooldown increased to 15 seconds
Immediately destroyed upon death

Captive Sun

No longer applies Sunstruck
Deals 160 damage to all affected teammates

Kiriko's survivability with Swift Step and Protection Suzu were tricky to balance. A few changes were added to prevent Kiriko from being too powerful, as well as to boost the effectiveness of Kitsune Rush for herself.

Healing

Healing dealt reduced to 66% of base healing

Swift Step

Cooldown increased to 15 seconds

Protection Suzu

Cooldown increased to 20 seconds
Starts on 10 second cooldown on respawn

Kitsune Rush

Whilst active, gain 50% projectile speed and 33% healing dealt

Lifeweaver's lock-on burst healing can be extremely oppressive combined with peeking corners and the use of Petal Platform, so his range was reduced. Lifeweaver is now also able to earn environmental kills by using Life Grip to satiate all of the sadistic Lifeweaver players (me).

Healing

Healing dealt reduced to 80% of base healing

Healing Blossom

Max ammo reduced to 4
Max range reduced to 15 metres

Life Grip

Applies knockback to a teammate once Life Grip ends at 10 metres per second towards Lifeweaver's facing direction
Starts on cooldown on respawn
Max range reduced to 15 metres

Lúcio is somewhat balanced but can also extremely oppressive in the right hands. His mobility allows him to get out of most situations and to dive in on an already on-going battle.

Healing

Healing dealt reduced to 90% of base healing

Soundwave

Damage reduced to 25
Can be used on teammates

Sound Barrier

Instead of applying overhealth, deal 50 damage and knock all affected players upwards and towards you, locking movement for 0.5 seconds

Mercy isn't a difficult hero to play, so balancing her to reward skill became a slight issue. Her healing dealt had to be reduced, but her potential to earn two eliminations on the same teammate with good timing and positioning makes her at least somewhat viable.

Healing

Healing dealt reduced to 50% of base healing

Guardian Angel

Cooldown increased to 7.5 seconds

Resurrect

Cooldown increased to 60 seconds
Teammates are revived at half of their max health

Moira was immediately a first pick for many players and she easily dominated with vanilla stats, so multiple changes were made to make her still powerful but more strategic.

Healing

Healing dealt reduced to 90% of base healing

Biotic Grasp Alt Fire

Disabled

Biotic Grasp

Maximum Biotic Energy reduced to 25% of base max
Biotic Energy recharge rate increased to 20 biotic energy per second
Biotic Energy starts recharging 2 seconds after not firing

Fade

Cooldown increased to 8 seconds

Biotic Orb

Cooldown increased to 12 seconds
Maximum healing dealt reduced to 150 health
Damage orb explodes on the first collision, knocking back teammates

Coalescence

Healing dealt reduced by 75%

Zenyatta being able to heal his teammates passively forces them to decide between staying out of line of sight or hunting down Zenyatta. Some changes were made to make Zenyatta much more active and less passive.

Healing