Baptiste by Cooler39140

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Baptiste

By: Cooler39140
Last Updated: Jan 3, 2021
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Baptiste

Combat Medic

"No dying on my watch."


Baptiste is the newest support for Heroes of the Storm who fights for a greater cause after leaving Talon. He's a healer who demands precision with his healing abilities, and uses an ammo system. However, he also provides a lot of safety tools and can boost damage of projectile based heroes, including his basic attack damage that stands out among his archetype peers. Similarly to Tracer, his Heroic ability - Amplification Matrix - has no cooldown, but needs to be charged.

His weakness is lack of mobility outside of combat, and he has long cooldowns on most of his cooldowns to compensate for his power. His healing is also sustain-based, meaning he can't heal in a clutch outside of Immortality Field, which is not a heal in the first place - the healing weakness is compensated by lack of Mana, however. On top of that, he lacks self-sustain outside of Regenerative Burst, and because of that ability's long cooldown, Baptiste's vulnerable to poke. He also offers no CC for the majority of the game and lacks a mount to rotate between lanes.

Changelog


[*] 3/01/21 - Release.

Combat Trait

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[D] Biotic Launcher
Baptiste has 36 ammo, meaning he can attack 12 times before needing to reload over 0.75 seconds. Unlike other ammo-based heroes, he doesn't reload automatically until he runs out of both basic attack ammo and all of his Healing Grenade charges, but reloading restores both all ammo and charges. He can also manually reload by pressing [D]. Additionally, his basic attacks are fired in a tri-burst, each dealing 33.33% of his Attack Damage and expending one ammo - if the target dies before all three attacks are fired, ammo is saved.

Primary Abilities

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[Q] Healing Grenade
Active: Baptiste launches a biotic greande at target location, healing ally heroes hit other than Baptiste for 64 (+4% per level) Health. Can only be thrown within your attack range.

(0.625 CD; 12 Charges, cannot recharge outside of using Boitic Launcher or running out of ammo)
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[W] Regenerative Burst
Active: Baptiste activates a burst that heals him and other ally heroes for 250 (+4% per level) Health over 5 seconds.

(16 CD)
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[E] Immortality Field
Active: Baptiste launches a device for 4 seconds that grants all ally heroes 50 Armor inside the area. The device can be destroyed with 2 enemy basic attacks, and it cannot be hidden.

(20 CD)

Secondary Abilities

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[1] Health Pack
Active: Baptiste emits a Health Pack station in target area that generates a Health Pack every 15 seconds. Ally heroes can pick up a Health pack to restore 300 (+4% per level) Health to themselves. Only one station can be active at once.

(45 CD)

Heroic Abilities

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[R] Amplification Matrix
Active: Baptiste creates a field for 8 seconds that increases the damage and healing of ally heroes' projectiles that pass through the field by 35%. Vector targetting

(Can't be cast unless you Charge it up to 100%; generate Charge by damaging enemies and healing allies. This ability is also usable from level 1.)

Special Mount

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[Z] Exo Boots
Active: Baptiste channels for up to 3 seconds, with full values reached at 1.5 seconds - he's slowed by 15% while channeling. After 3 seconds or casting this ability earlier, Baptiste launches into air, gaining up to 40% movement speed for 2 seconds. If he got 40% movement speed (max value), he can also move over terrain for 2 seconds.

Talents

Level 1


[Q] Self-Patched
Quest: Collecting Regeneration Globes increases Baptiste's Health Regeneration by 1, up to 30.
Reward: Healing Grenade now restores 40% of its value as Health to Baptiste.

[Q] Professional Care
Quest: Restore 20000 Health with Healing Grenade.
Reward: Increase healing from Healing Grenade by 30%.

[1] Health Pack
Activate to place a Health Pack station in target area that generates a Health Pack every 15 seconds. Ally heroes can pick up a Health pack to restore 300 (+4% per level) Health to themselves. Only one station can be active at once. 45 CD

Level 4


[W] Exo Boost
Grants 15% movement speed to healed allies over the duration.

[W] Regen Up!
Regenerative Burst now emits an aura for 5 seconds that follows Baptiste and applies the healing effect to allies who initially weren't affected by the ability.

[W] Instant Help
50% of Regenerative Burst's healing is now applied instantly on cast. The remaining half will be healed over 5 seconds.

Level 7


[D] Bullets and Bandages
Increases the range of basic attacks and Healing Grenade to 6.5.

[Q] Reload Upgrade
Reduces the cooldown to 0.5 seconds.

[Q] Biotech Storage
Collecting Regeneration Globes causes your next Healing Grenade to spawn one near the impact area.

Level 10


[E] Safety Protocol
Increases the cooldown of Immortality Field by 10 CD, but it now grants Protected instead of 50 Armor.

[R] Amp it Up
Reduces the time to fully Charge Amplification Matrix by 25%.

[1]Mega Health Pack
Increases the healing from Health Pack by 50%, reduces the cooldown to 30 CD and increases the maximum amount of Health Pack stations to 3.

Level 13


[E] Rescuing Drone
Placing the Immortality Field now knocks away enemies to the outer area.

[E] Vigilant
Extends the duration of ally bonuses granted by Immortality Field to 2 seconds after exiting the area.

[E] Step Inside
Increases the radius by 30% and increases the amount of attacks required to destroy the device to three.

Level 16


[Q] Poisoned Grenade
Healing Grenade now deals 64 (+4% per level) damage to nearby enemies upon impact.

[R] Virtual Damage Sphere
Increases the damage and healing of passing projectiles to 50%, and the width by 20%.

[D] Mwen pa santi anyen!
Increases attack speed by 20% and attack damage by 20%.

Level 20


[E] On My Duty
Increases the cooldown of Immortality Field by 10 CD, but it now gains a second charge.

[R] Entry Denied
Amplification Matrix'a field is now impassable terrain, and enemies trying to use movement abilities to move through it will be instead knocked away and will take 56 (+4% per level) damage.

[W] First Aid
Regenerative Burst now removes Slows, Stuns, Silences, Fears and Roots from ally heroes affected.

[Z] Gravity Falls
Exo Boots no longer have a channel time, thus they don't slow you. Grants 10% permanent movement speed to Baptiste.

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SMILE (1) | January 3, 2021 2:23pm
His Matrix has the same problem as Rein's Shield for HotS tho.
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Cooler39140 | January 3, 2021 10:27pm
While it would cause a lot of spaghetti code, I prefer staying true to each Overwatch hero's identity from that game. If anything, I haven't exactly specified the ability's area of effect, so it may aswell be a flat rectangular, similarly to D.Va Defense Matrix.
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