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I know I’m not the only one vouching for a Mirage buff but I also feel like there aren’t many of us and I really want to try to start a discussion about it. Mirage imo is one of the funnest characters in the game just because he’s so interesting but I do find that his abilities are lacking. Here’s my proposal-

Ultimate: Remove the decoys (too much of a give away for your location), and either increase his run speed or increase the duration of being invisible- either way it’s too short. The current viability of where you can use the Ult is too close to combat imo; to make him a true flanker he’s got to be able to close distances easier while ulting. Granted I’d be open with keeping the decoys or tweaking them a bit so maybe they’re more obvious if the distance he can travel while invisible is increased to balance the ability out but I think it should be removed and placed in another ability as I’ll go over below.

Tactical: Up to 3 decoys can be active at a time, increase cool down for balance. One just simply isn’t enough and is easy to track, Mirage’s overall play style should ultimately be to create confusion and flank hard- he cannot currently create adequate confusion in his current state and his one decoy is more a giveaway than anything, especially to people who are eagle eyed enough to gauge who is and isn’t a decoy

Passive: Currently is freakin garbage. Completely useless. Remove it entirely- instead, have him create 2 other decoys (maybe 1 for balance), standing next to him automatically upon having his shield broken or going down to half health- something to that extent. Sure it puts a target on your back because now people know you’re weak, but now you’ve also got a couple decoys causing a distraction and making it harder to see you.

OR

Drop a single decoy and make you invisible for like, 3 seconds (is that too long) upon reaching half health- although that may be too OP even with the short invisibility and might disrupt the flow of action if you suddenly can’t use a weapon because your invisible, could get annoying.

Mirage could just be so much more, so very interesting and even viable! I don’t feel like he gets the love he deserves- despite his amazing town take over event. Mirage’s stats aren’t up there with the others and doesn’t get played as much because right now he’s too predictable and his abilities don’t help him be aggressive or defensive. How can we have a character who’s thing is making decoys and causing confusion be bad at the very thing he’s supposed to be good at? It doesn’t make sense.

Any thoughts on the matter? What do you think of buffs? Any alternate ideas?

Thanks for reading my essay lol