Mei by Nima Nightmare

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Mei

By: Nima Nightmare
Last Updated: Mar 22, 2020
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Mei

Frosty climatologist

Cheerful, creative, and optimistic, even in the face of overwhelming odds, Mei is a scientist who has taken the fight to preserve the environment into her own hands. She specializes in the study of abnormal climate phenomena and their effects on different ecosystems around the world. She strongly believes in preserving the world for future generations.

Strengths:


-Massive crowd control
-High damage
-Utility
-Capable of escaping

Weaknesses:


-Low mobility
-Requires prediction
-Effectless against Unstoppable


Stats:


Base Health: 1450
Base Health regenerarion: 3
Mana: 500
Mana regeneration: 4
Base Attack damage: 50
Base Attack speed: 4.00
Attack range: 5.00
Base movement speed: 100%

Just like in Overwatch, Mei is capable of freezing enemies and making them vulnerable. it's just like a stun. but much more nightmarish. She almost has the same mechanic as she has in Overwatch with a few exceptions:
-Cryo freeze and Ice wall has extra duration.
-To prevent players from accidentally exit Cryo freeze against their calculated time, it can only end manually by reactivating the ability instead of pressing any buttons.

Combat Trait

1
Frost
Your basic attacks pierce through units and slows the enemies hit by 20% and increases by 2% per second. Subsequent attacks Freeze enemies for 1.75 seconds which prevents them from moving, attacking and using abilities. Each enemy can be Frozen once every 4 seconds.

*It takes 2.5 seconds to fully freeze an enemy.

Primary Abilities

1
Icicle
After 0.5 cast delay, Fire a single bolt of ice that deals 250 (+ 4% per level) damage to the first enemy unit it hits.

cooldown: 5 seconds
Mana: 30
2
Cryo freeze
Instantly surround yourself with ice which places you in Stasis, regenerates 530 (+4% per level) health overtime and removes all current debuffs from yourself. But prevents you from doing anything else. Lasts 4 seconds.

cooldown: 13 seconds
Mana: 50

*Reactivate the ability to exit Cryo Freeze early.
3
Ice wall
Places a wall of ice that blocks incoming projectiles and prevents units to pass by it. Lasts 6 seconds.

wall health: 600
cooldown: 17 seconds
Mana: 50

*Reactivate the ability to destroy the walls early.

Heroic Abilities

1
Blizzard
Throw your weather control drone at the target location. After 1 second it landed, it starts dealing 170 (+ 4% per level) damage per second, slowing enemies inside by 20% and freezing them after 2.5 seconds. Your basic attacks can freeze enemies faster in the Blizzard's radius. Lasts 4 seconds.

cooldown: 70 seconds
Mana: 90

*Basic attacking enemies inside Blizzard's radius Freezes them within 1 second.
2
Ice trap
Throw a projectile at the target direction which after 2 seconds puts the first enemy hero hit into an ice block that time stops them. After 3 seconds, the ice block will explode and deals 470 (+ 4% per level) damage to enemy heroes near it and freeze the primary target for 1.25 seconds.

cooldown: 60 seconds
Mana: 80

*The primary target won't take damage by the explosion.

Talents Level 1

Icy Day (Trait):
Increase Frost's Freeze duration by 0.5 seconds.
Chilling Icicle (Q):
Icicle slows the enemy hit by 20% for 1.25 seconds.
Quest: Piercing Ice (Q):
Hit at 30 enemy heroes with Icicle to empower it.
Reward: After hitting 30 enemy heroes with Icicle, increase it's damage by 125 and make it Pierce through 3 units at once.

Talents level 4:

Cold Snap (W):
When Cryo Freeze ends, nearby enemies are instantly Frozen.
Snowball Effect (W):
You can now move during Cryo Freeze. While moving, you can knockback enemies and stun them for 0.75 seconds.
Tricicle (Q):
Icicle now shoots three projectiles in separated ways instead of 1.
Quest: Overabsorbed Walls (E):
Block 10000 damage from enemy heroes with Ice Wall to empower it.
Reward: After blocking 10000 damage with Ice Wall, everytime the Ice Wall is destroyed, it deals 300 around and slows nearby enemy heroes by 40% for 3 seconds.

Talents level 7

Quick Freeze (W):
While in combat, If you take fatal damage, Cryo Freeze will automatically activate. This effect has 30 seconds cooldown.
Energy Hibernation (W):
Cryo Freeze now has 2 seconds increased duration. If your health is at maximum rate, Cryo Freeze will regenerate 150 mana over the duration instead.
Popcicle (Q):
Icicle explodes on Frozen targets, dealing an additional 280 to enemies nearby the target.
Cold Barrier (Passive):
After not taking damage for 3 seconds, gain a permanent barrier that blocks the next heroic damage and slows the attacker's movement speed by 30%.

Talents level 13

Friendly Freeze (Active):
Target an allied hero to apply an untalented Cryo Freeze on them. The affected ally can exit the Cryo Freeze early by using any ability. Cannot be casted on Mei. Has 30 seconds cooldown and costs 30 mana.
Ice Spikes (Q):
Reduce the cooldown of Icicle by 2 seconds and increase its range by 30%. But it also increases its mana cost by 10.
Let's See You Get Past This! (E):
Ice Wall now has 2 charges and 200 increased health. but the cooldown is increased by 4 seconds.
Absolute Zero (Trait):
Frozen enemies are slowed by 50% and Blinded for 3 seconds after Freeze duration is off.

Talents level 16:

Shatter (Trait):
Frozen enemies will deal 290 damage to their nearby allies upon dying if they are still Frozen.
Ice Age (Trait):
Enemy heroes that come near their Frozen allies, will Freeze for 1.25 seconds.
Quoted:
Each enemy can be affected once per enemies Frozen.

Frozen waters (Trait):
Frozen enemies will also be slowed by 70% after Freeze duration ends for 4 seconds.
Icy You (Trait):
Frost reveals enemies for 10 seconds.

Talents level 20:

Endless Blizzard (Heroic R):
Blizzard now has 40% larger radius. increases allied heroes' movement speed by 20%. Enemies Frozen inside will reset its duration.
Winter Is Coming (Heroic R):
The primary target of Ice trap is no longer invulnerable (Freezes them for the duration instead of Time Stop) Reducing their Armor by 25. The primary target now takes damage by the explosion and is slowed by 90% for 3 seconds once Ice Trap expires.
Instant Bolt (Q):
Removes Icicle's cast delay and when it hits an enemy hero, refreshes its cooldown and refunds its mana.
Quoted:
Doesn't trigger by the hit of additional projectiles of Tricicle.

Lich Frost (Trait):
Everytime an enemy hero is Frozen, you gain 20% bonus movement speed per each enemy hero Frozen for 5 seconds and reduce their Armor by 15. Frozen enemies also take 40% more damage from your attacks and abilities. Killing a Frozen enemy restores 20% of your max health.

Counters and Match ups:

bad against:

Tracer: because of Tracer's Blink or Recall, she can easily escape from Mei's attacks. If Mei has recently used Cryo freeze, she has no way to avoid Pulse bomb's damage (if stuck on Mei.)
Illidan: Illidan is full of Mobility and can easily Evade getting Frozen and Mei's basic attacks. Illidan's heroic abilities makes him Unstoppable enough to not get slowed or stopped. Mei also needs a lot of prediction in order to escape Illidan's The hunt.
The butcher: thanks to his abilities that makes him Unstoppable, Frost is completely effectless against him.
Gul'dan: since he got many damage-over-time abilities and Cryo freeze has a long cooldown, Mei can die so fast to him.

Others:
-any hero with Unstoppable or Invulnerability, can avoid getting Frozen.
-heroes with high damage can quickly destroy Ice wall.
-heroes with Polymorph can take time from Mei in order to let her escape.

Good against:

Brightwing: without Blink heal, Brightwing cannot avoid Mei's high damage and can even get ganked easily.
Maiev: if Maiev needs to escape, she might need to use Blink, and thanks to Ice wall, Mei can prevent her from escaping after Blink. Also Containment disc's contain cannot be activated during Cryo freeze and ends up with being wasted.
Jaina: Without her Level 20 Teleport, Jaina lacks mobility and can die to Mei easily.

Others:
-any hero without mobility can die easily to Mei.
-heroes with low damage need more time to destroy Ice wall and in that time, Mei can kill them.

Works well with:

Zarya: Sheild ally can save Mei if she cannot use Cryo freeze yet. With Gravitation surge and Blizzard, enemies have no chance to survive.
Leoric: if the caught enemy(s) in Tombstone try to escape Leoric, Ice wall can be a great assist for him.
D.va:Blizzard can help Self destruct to kill more enemies at time.

Others:
-heroes with high damage AoEs can assist Mei in killing more enemies.

Works bad with:


Maiev: Containment disk can prevent the target from taking damage from Mei.
Genji: Frozen enemies cannot attack and Deflect won't do any damage.
D.va: Ice wall can block everything. Including Self destruct or Big shot's damage. So the enemies won't take damage by them.

Others:
-any hero that relies on enemies' damage will not make a good team with Mei.

Tips and gameplay:

playing as Mei:


-Mei is very great for crowd control as her basic attacks can Freeze the enemies and prevent them from escape.
-ability strategy:
-Frost (Trait): Mei's basic attacks are really good for escaping or capturing an enemy. While attacking, enemies will be slowed continuely and after a short time they will Freeze in place. But remember that continuely attacking an enemy won't reset or increase the Freeze duration. So after Freezing an enemy, use your abilities to kill them.
-Icicle (Q): Mei's first ability shoots a single ice projectile that just deals heavy damage to the first enemy unit it hits. It also hits non-heroic enemies. So make sure that there are no creeps in front of your target.
-Cryo Freeze (W): this is Mei's first escape ability. Using this ability will make you Stasis and allows you to regenerate health. But also makes you immobile. Use this ability to dodge high damage spells.
-Ice wall (E): this is Mei's second escape ability and also her enemy capturing ability. Use this ability to block enemies gateway. But remember that enemies can damage and destroy this wall.
-Blizzard (Heroic 1): after 1 second you can Freeze enemies in a large area. Using basic attacks in Blizzard radius will Freeze enemies much faster.
-Ice trap (Heroic 2): this ability can capture an enemy and Freeze them after its end. After using this ability, you can call your team to gank the captured hero and kill them.

Playing against Mei:


-try to avoid Mei's basic attacks so you can avoid getting Frozen.
-despite Icicle's high damage, it has 0.5 seconds cast delay. So you can predict it in order to escape it.
-do not cast all of your powerful spells against her without delay. Since she got Cryo freeze. So wait and after that, cast your powerful spells on her.
-if Mei blocks your way out with Ice wall, try to find another exit way and do not engage attacking Mei or her walls because of their high health.

Recommended builds:


1-Icicle hunter:
-Piercing ice
-Tricicle
-Popcicle
-Ice trap (Heroic)
-Ice spikes
-Icy you
-Instant bolt

2-Siege freezer:
-Icy day
-Cold snap or Snowball effect
-Icy barrier or Energy hibernation
-Blizzard (Heroic)
-Absolute zero
-Ice age
-Lich frost

3-Damage blocker:
-chilling icicle
-Overabsorbed walls
-Quickfreeze
-Ice trap (Heroic)
-Let's see you get past this!
-Shatter or Frozen waters
-Winter is coming

Possible cosmetics

Skins:
Heliotrope-Jade (base skin): Cheerful, creative, and optimistic, even in the face of overwhelming odds, Mei is a scientist who has taken the fight to preserve the environment into her own hands. She specializes in the study of abnormal climate phenomena and their effects on different ecosystems around the world. She strongly believes in preserving the world for future generations.

Snow plum-Earthen (rare): Cheerful, creative, and optimistic, even in the face of overwhelming odds, Mei is a scientist who has taken the fight to preserve the environment into her own hands. She specializes in the study of abnormal climate phenomena and their effects on different ecosystems around the world. She strongly believes in preserving the world for future generations.

Deathfrost (Legendary): As Viper's coldest assassin, Deathfrost is a class known to be cold, merciless and lethal. Especially during arctic missions which is the best environment for her to kill.
Features: Themed abilities
Notes: This skin is part of a shared theme of Viper organization skins.


Voice lines:
Quoted:
"Hang in there".
"A-Mei-Zing!"
"I got you something".
"I hope you learned your lesson"


Announcers:
Mei announcer (Legendary)

sprays and portraits:
Carbot Mei-snowball-cute-pixel-Mei-hem-Illustrated Mei portrait-Mei hero-Mei mastery-Mei emblem.

Check out my other concepts :3


Moira

 Minister of genetics

Symmetra

 Vishkar architech

Mercy

 Field medic

Ashe

 Deadlock leader

Orisa

 Guardian robot

Brigitte

 Mechanical squire

changes:

9/10/2018:


-upgraded the Level 20 talent, Instant bolt.
-added 2 secondary abilities.
-added Works bad with category to Counters and matchups.
-added a new level 13 talent, NIce walls.

9/15/2018:


-added a new level 7 talent, Ancient ice.

9/18/2018:


-increased Icicle's damage from 300 to 310.

9/19/2018:


-increased Ice wall's health from 500 to 600.

9/24/2018:


-added duration for Ice wall.

9/30/2018:


-Reduced Cryo freeze's cooldown from 12 seconds to 11 seconds.

10/3/2018:


-changed the level 4 quest talent Icicle walls to a new talent, overabsorbed walls.
-removed the level 7 talent, Ancient ice.
-upgraded Cryo freeze.

10/6/2018:


-Added Mei-rry skin.

10/11/2018:


-changed the level 7 talent, Sentry freeze into a new talent, Popcicle.

10/17/2018:


-added a new level 7 talent, Icy barrier.

10/21/2018:


-upgraded the level 20 talent, Winter is coming.

10/25/2018:


-added a new level 20 talent, Freeze aura.

10/27/2018:


-the level 20 talent Freeze aura is moved to level 13 talents.
-removed the level 13 talent, Bigger walls.

10/31/2018:


-increased Icicle's damage from 310 to 350.
-added Recommended builds in tips and gameplay.
-upgraded Tricicle.

11/3/2018:


-Fixed some misspelled descriptions.

11/5/2018:


-changed the level 13 talent, Freeze aura to a new talent, Blinding ice.

11/9/2018:


-upgraded the level 4 talent, Empowered cryo.
-removed the level 4 talent, Energy cryo.

11/14/2018:


-moved the level 20 talent, Ice queen's agility to level 7 talents.
-moved the level 7 talent, Sense of the ice queen to level 20 talents.
-upgraded level 20 talent, Sense of the ice queen.
-Weakened the level 7 talent, Ice queen's agility.
-upgraded the level 16 talent, Ice age.
-added Mei emblem portrait.

11/16/2018:


-removed the level 7 talent, Ice queen's agility.
-removed the level 20 talent, Sense of the ice queen.
-added a new level 20 talent, Lich frost (it is actually a merged talent of Sense of the ice queen and Ice queen's agility).

11/24/2018:


-added a new level 7 talent, Word breaking ice.
-added images.

12/11/2018:


-added a new level 20 talent, Icicle walls.

12/13/2018:


-revamped the level 20 talent, Icicle walls.

12/21/2018:


-changed secondary abilities icons.

1/12/2019:


-added a new level 16 talent, Ice cone.

7/4/2019:


-fixed some misspelled words.
-changed the role from Specialist to Ranged assassin due to roles changed.

7/9/2019:


-changed Trait's name from Endothermic blaster to Frost (they are the same. the name is just changed) .
-changed all Endothermic blasters in all descriptions to Frost.

12/2/2019:


-added images.

1/26/2020:


-Re-added images.
-Removed the level 4 talent, Empowered cryo.
-Added 2 new level 4 talents, Cold snap and Snowball effect.
-Added a new level 7 talent, Energy hibernation.
-Removed the level 7 talent, Word breaking ice.
-Removed the level 13 talent, Blinding ice.
-Added a new level 13 talent, Absolute zero. (basically a merged version of Word breaking ice and Blinding ice)
-Changed the name of level 13 talent from Quickcicle to Ice spikes.
-Removed the level 16 talent, Ice cone.
-Removed the level 20 talent, Icicle walls.
-Reduced damage.

2/19/2020:


-Added a few hints.
-Fixed some misspelled descriptions.

3/3/2020:


-Fixed some misspelled descriptions.

3/18/2020:


-Reworked Ice trap. It is now a skillshot rather than a unit-target ability.
-Icy barrier talent is no longer based on your health percentage.
-Endless blizzard talent no longer increases Blizzard damage. It now also resets its duration when an enemy hero is Frozen inside.
-Renamed the level 13 talent, NIce walls to Let's see you get past this!.
-Added Deathfrost skin.
-Fixed some misspelled descriptions.

3/23/2020:


-Changed the color of all of abilities from Dark blue to Light blue.
-The level 7 talent, Energy Hibernation now restores a certain amount of mana instead of a percentage of your maximum mana.
-Allied heroes now can exit Friendly Freeze early.
-Reduced the slow of the level 13 talent, Absolute Zero from 60% to 70%.
-Removed the level 16 talent, Endothermic Explosions.
-Added a new level 16 talent, Shatter.
-Fixed some misspelled descriptions.

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Lillmy (2) | January 26, 2020 11:12am
Some of her numbers are insane.

Her Basic Attack does 4 attacks per second and each attack is 80 damage? That's 320 DPS. Compared to Valla who has 225 DPS at max Hatred Stacks.

Icicles deal 350 damage. Jaina's Frostbolt deals 184 damage and works kinda similiar.

Her Blizzard ult deals around 1730 damage at level 13, in an AoE + a possible stun. For Comparison, Li-Ming has 1797(ish) Health with Glass Cannon at level 13. Even if this was an only dmg ult, the numbers are insane but then on top of that it's also a cc ult.

Mei being able to reactivate both Cryo-Freeze and Ice Wall makes her easier to play. If she's able to leave Cryo-Freeze earlier she is able to block a high amount of dmg and then instantly get out before the enemy has time to punish her. She has an Ice Block from lvl 1 without sacraficing a talent tier, so there has to be some kind of drawback to it.

Also, Ice wall being able to be cancelled early is also something I see makes her a lot more forgiving. If you accidentaly place a bad Ice Wall you can just lower it instantly. I know both Nazeebo and Tassadar can lower their Zombies and Walls early. But Ice Wall is instant, available at lvl 1 and I believe it blocks projectiles. So it's like a Tassadar ult on a longer cooldown, on a basic ability.

But most of all it's just her damage numbers that are a bit to high. I'd try and look at some other heroes who work similarly and look at their damage numbers for 'inspiration'.

Talents:

Quick Freeze, seems a bit annoying as you might not always want to be frozen once you reach 40% Health. Maybe when you take Fatal damage, Higher cooldown and move it up some tiers could make it work but right now it looks kinda unwanted. Maybe if you are hit by a cc ability below 40% hp?

Absolute Zero, a 3 second Silence and Blind that combos with her ult. 3 second silences and blinds come at lvl 20 for Deckard and Mephisto, on their ults and not anything else.


Also -25 Armor is the lowest you can go I believe.

Good Luck! ♥
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Nima Nightmare (2) | January 26, 2020 11:35am
Thanks for the comment ^^

Well. i actually wanted to make her act exactly like how she is in Overwatch. even tho i know she is a bit op and all. i will still adjust her x)

Tho i still believe Ice wall being cancelled early is necessary.
Yeah quick freeze won't be picked that oftenly unless the player has bad reflexes.
as for damage: don't worry. she'll be nerfed.
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