PTR Lucio

```Song's area-of-effect radius decreased from 30 meters to 10 meters
Healing-per-second has been increased by 50% (also applies to Lúcio's Amp It Up ability)
Movement speed increased by 30% when wall riding
Lúcio now receives a burst of speed when leaping off a wall```

Whoa. Weaker but more fun and skillish, this could be exactly what was needed. Right direction anyway.

ANOTHER HERO that was decent they make a OP powerhouse i wonder what they are smoking in the blizzard office

They are working at making him more effective at directly healing now, not such a big radius but more effective healing.

This goes both ways, speed is less effective but healing is more.
I don't know how to feel about this though, speed was his specialty so feeling a bit less fun.

I do like the Lucio changes they have up; however, I think that the wallriding speed buff hurts you more cause even when using healing aura, you go too fast when wallriding and you can overshoot a wall when you're turning over a corner. So it makes advanced wallriding a bit harder. So maybe somewhere around 10-20% speed increase instead of 30% would be better.

full patch notes: https://playoverwatch.com/en-us/blog/20635660

Key takeaways:

• Eichenwalde has a new route to first point for attackers
• Any "points" that need to be captured are tracked on a percentage basis - each extra second on point now matters. They will still decay to the existing 3 ticks
• Lucio changes:
  • Sonic Amplifier
    • Projectile speed increased from 40 to 50
    • Alternate fire now considers vertical orientation when knocking targets back
  • Crossfade
    • Song's area-of-effect radius decreased from 30 meters to 10 meters
    • A temporary in-game visual has been added to illustrate this radius (it is only visible to Lúcio and his teammates)
  • Heal Song
    • Healing-per-second has been increased by 50% (also applies to Lúcio's Amp It Up ability)
  • Sound Barrier
    • Radius decreased from 30 meters to 20 meters
  • Wall Ride
    • Movement speed increased by 30% when wall riding
    • Lúcio now receives a burst of speed when leaping off a wall*

Lucio is fucking speedemon

Ajax showing off and sharing thoughts on new lucio on stream: https://www.twitch.tv/ajax1tv

10 meter too small

pls blizzard make 15 or maybe 20.

god bless.

Can someone put 10 metres in to perspective?
What radius is Mei's Blizzard for example?

Blizzard is in fact a 10m radius. The passive healing/speed seems really good now. I think they should increase lucio's radius to 15 or 20m though. Maybe slightly nerf something else to compensate for the increased radius.

Admirable [#9]

Can someone put 10 metres in to perspective?
What radius is Mei's Blizzard for example?

Zenytta's Transcendence and Mei's Blizzard are both 10m for radius. Sombra's EMP is 15m radius.

Mei's blizzard seems huge to me, can't believe Lucio's AOE is three times that. This dude needs a nerf blizz please

https://gfycat.com/BewitchedQuestionableHornshark
Seems a bit op

Heaven forbid we increase the skill ceiling :D

Angry_rock [#13]

https://gfycat.com/BewitchedQuestionableHornshark
Seems a bit op

There will be some lit lucio wall ride maps now though :D

gzuzz [#2]

ANOTHER HERO that was decent they make a OP powerhouse i wonder what they are smoking in the blizzard office

the old lucio was worse than ana, at least you don't remember those days,

Angry_rock [#13]

https://gfycat.com/BewitchedQuestionableHornshark
Seems a bit op

Temate: Reinhart 5 health in there backline.
Lucio: I got it.

This. Is. Awesome.

lucio is already pretty survivable, looks like he'll be harder to click on and a lot better at stalling. if the point was to lower lucio's pick rate i can't imagine these changes helping. i could only see him being picked more often than before if that's possible. his AOE may have been nerfed but if he can move that quickly between low hp targets the change isn't so effective

increasing the projectile speed is a good change and i thought he needed a damage buff

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/overwatch/topic/20753618444

Lucio:
Sonic Amplifier
Damage increased by 25%

Heal Song
Self-healing reduced by 33% (Note this does not affect healing done to other players)

Wall Ride
Bonus speed decreased from 30% to 20%

Competitive Play
Map rotation expanded to all maps

Update in PTR for lucio, glad to see they are still experimenting

They're going the right way to balance Lucio himself but if all the pros are saying his increased heals in a smaller radius will lead to stodgy tank meta, then clearly they should go another direction. Is anyone actually in contact with them this time?

Yes I believe the pros have been giving more PTR feedback since the Bastion stuff slipped through :D

ADMIN HE IS DOING IT SIDEWAYS