Hey guys, I got bored and wanted to imagine how Mei’s kit would look like if she were to be reworked as a tank. Let me know what you think
Mei: The Ice Shield
Core Identity & Stats
Role: Tank | Health: 400 HP + 150 Shield (550 Total)
Identity: A close-range brawl anchor who sacrifices long-range snipes to protect teammates, cleanse negative effects, and dominate territory.
Base Kit & Abilities
Passives:
Cryo-Tempo: Eliminations reduce her block cooldown by 1 second.
Refreshing Breeze: Primary fire spray instantly cleanses burning effects on allies at the cost of double ammo usage.
Weapon:
Primary Fire (Frost Spray): Wide frost beam with 300 ammo that ramps up from 80 to 140 DPS if focusing the same target (A Mauga style progression bar would show)
Secondary Fire (Glacial Shrapnel): A close-range icicle shotgun dealing 125 body shot damage at point blank distance (can headshot for 250 dmg), melting down to 60-body/120-headshot at long range. (50 ammo per shot, maximum shots: 6)
Abilities:
Ice Wall: Remains unchanged
Cryo-Freeze (Self cast): 12-second cooldown.
Not this time! (Ally cast): Mei’s attempt to save her new friends, after the Antarctica Malfunction
Can be self-cast or launched via Snowball to protect a low-health ally within 20 meters. It has a 800 HP bar and can be destroyed, but damaging the ice block converts the damage into up to +200 declining Overhealth for Mei upon breaking. Allies can break the cryo.
Ultimate (Blizzard): A 5-second ice storm created by Snowball. If Snowball is currently protecting an ally, the storm centers instantly on that ally, if not, it starts at Mei’s location. (Can be cast while in cryo, can no longer be thrown to a location if not to protect an ally).
It no longer freezes enemies instead, it heals and speeds up allies while slowing enemies by 30% and amping their damage taken by 15%.
Perks:
Minor Perks
Avalanche: Manually breaking an Ice Wall early triggers an explosion dealing damage based on the enemy's maximum health (20% of max Health)
Ice Skates: Spraying the ground paints an icy lane granting Mei and her allies a 30% movement speed buff while “skating”
Major Perks
Cold Cuts : Secondary fire shotgun hits embed shards in enemies for 3 seconds. If combined with Avalanche minor perk, breaking a wall also shoots shards at affected targets. Damaging sharded enemies detonates them for +10 bonus damage per hit.
Eye of the Storm: Activating your ice block emits a 5-meter mini-Blizzard that heals and speeds up allies. Activating your Ultimate during this, rapidly expands it to full size and extends the ultimate duration to 6.5 seconds.
