Before you debunk, I know this would devalue some mercs, and they would be adjusted to be more viable in conjunction with this merc
Special thanks to @SweetGenocide for the help
Name: Bouncer (name subject to change, also considering Jägerin)
Health: 130
Movement speed: 390
Nationality: Swiss (sorry I don’t know Swiss German, normal will have to do, and I didn’t want another medium health German female)
Gender: Female
Quotes:
Ihr Leben ist so vergeblich wie deine Granaten. (your life is as futile as your grenades)
Primary (and maybe only) ability: trophy system
Destroys nearby projectiles in front of and above the character, but not behind. All explosives will explode when destroyed, affects mines, conc nades would have no effect if destroyed. Would not effect non explosive deployables such as turrets and recon abilities. Would be disabled by EMP effects. Piles up to a number (maybe four?) where after one skybro airstrike or two arty strikes would leave her without any trophy defenses. she would only block the missles from the strike that would hurt her, explodeydendron strikes would still hurt her a small amount. she would not be able to block an entire strike unless the nade is tossed within the trophy range and has line of sight. In such a case, the skyhammer would only suffer a 15 second cooldown. The vertical range would be greater than the horizontal range, and she would be able to be damaged by grenades with large radiuses, such as Fraggers nade, though it would only deal a small amount of damage. 12 second cooldown per defense thingy. Would not effect Kira laser
Primaries: BR 16 (default), M4A1, Stark AR
Secondaries: Caulden (default), DE. 50, Simeon
Melee: Beckhill (default) , Stilnotto, cricket bat
About the merc: Designed to be a counter to skyhammer and arty, as there is currently little you can do to prevent them from destroying the EV (I know you can jump on skybros nade to prevent the strike, and hitting arty will prevent designation, but such can be difficult). As you can likely tell this idea is quite new, as I have not determined many things about it. It would also completely wreck the suicide proxies and would counter Nader’s spammy side, though not for long as Nader’s cooldowns are much shorter.
Along with the release of this merc, Fraggers health nerf should be reverted, skyhammers cooldown should be reduced, Artys cooldown should be reduced. Stokers cooldown should be reduced (IMO it’s too long as is besides). Possibly other effected merc ability reductions as well, such as Thunder’s.
And before you say free rotation against this merc would suck, two of this guy hugging the EV would be no better than one against skyhammer, against arty maybe, I’ll have to adjust a little bit in dealing with that. I posted this after very little refinement, and I apologize, help me improve on what I believe to be an interesting mechanic rather than just crying that it’s OP, because it is very counterable, though perhaps not enough