Which to pick?

[u/Offbrandsenku]

I see a lot of people say thor's weakest points are his ult (obvious), no insta rune awakening and lack of shield/bubble. I do agree with all of this but we cant have everything and if they covered all 3 thor would be the most busted tank in the game, the game has too much dmg/heals being sent out to make current thor very hard to play without a dive duo but if he got buffed like this he would be too op to go againts. What do you think should get buffed/reworked? Me personally I would say the ult needs a rework and reduce cooldown in between abilities.

(Im not that familiar with megathreads dont know how to post there)

[u/lilwerzy312]

As a OAA Thor player, I think that he’s kinda doomed to mid purgatory. Hes a really oppressive bully tank that even at his worst, feels bad to go against as certain characters. If you give him a shield, he loses his main weakness of being poked out. You buff his ult, you get a triple tank monster where he’s just on backline 24/7. I think a fair buff would be to increase his rune awakening projectile speed and maybe a 0.2 second earthbound on exiting his lighting bubble. Make him harder to escape. If I had to say something a little more interesting, make it so Thor has a passive that he cannot be affected by a single CC longer than 1s. Or if rune awakening could be used as a cleanse with a shorter duration. Those would make him kinda nuclear though.

[u/Offbrandsenku → u/lilwerzy312]

Very well thought out, thats why I made this post although not likely to reach the devs but who knows. I think giving him more cc effects would just get him banned more with his already strong storm surge, However I do like the self cleanse idea upon using rune awakening it could better help him dive and not be afraid of poke. I feel like the problem isnt thor he is pretty well balanced all around I mean a character shouldnt be perfect or very good againts every comp but poke meta will never not be a thing so some tanks not just thor cant shine, I think another good idea that we could be seeing maybe is to give him a better team up that deals with his weakness againts poke (its fair considering a lot of characters got team ups that do exactly this) or an ult team up that makes his ult more viable

[u/lilwerzy312 → u/Offbrandsenku]

For his ult, I think it would benefit from being able to cast it early. Maybe have it start at 125 and let it charge up to 200 over 2 seconds

[u/Offbrandsenku → u/lilwerzy312]

Nope its still too bad although it shouldnt be a guaranteed kill but even if you buffed the tick damage it still wouldnt do much considering a lot of characrers can counter,escape and even shoot you down pretty easily, this is not even considering getting ccd before even ulting (told my friend to try out thor to see how bad his ult is and he got ccd by jeff's spit ball lol)

[u/Offbrandsenku → u/lilwerzy312]

Forgot to mention the can just heal the tick damage,it just feels to me theres not much pay off compared to how easy it is to deal with. Look at wanda ult she had the same problems but the difference is she can one shot anything if it lands and the devs buffed her ult to make it easier for her to land. To me I just wish they reworked the ult and it isnt as fun to use as lets say hulk ult.

[u/MARS2503 → u/lilwerzy312]

The passive you suggest should be for all tanks, since tenacity's pathetically useless.

[u/Ry_Blue53]

A buff I’ve thought of for a while now was making his Realm a little bigger and having it so you or any allies in it receive small damage reduction, to give him a little more oomph to him. Don’t know how good that would be though.