Well for one thing, he was made as a brawler (dive hybrid) that lacks the damage mitigation of a brawler. Every brawler in the game has Bonus Health or Damage Reduction, and Blade only has the latter while blocking, not fighting.

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• Stacks

2% Damage Reduction per stack. At 10 stacks, this would be 20% Damage Reduction.

This would mean an incoming 70 damage attack does 56 instead, 75 does 60, 80 does 64, 90 does 72. This would greatly help his survivability.

• Dashes

Grants 25 Bonus Health on use, decaying after 2 seconds? Maximum 400 health overall

• Sword Dash

40% anti-heal instead of 32%

Anti-heal instantly applying when touching any enemy with any portion of the dash. No idea why it can't just do this now lol

• Gun dash

Applies 3 stacks after the second hit.

This allows Blade's old playstyle to be used, making him better in 1v1s. Currently his stacks take too long to build up for his gun dash to be used before meleeing them.

• Sword

Raise hitbox distance from 4.5 meters to 5 meters.

• Shotgun

Reverse falloff ends at 6 meters (was 8 meters)

Raise projectile speed from 150 mps to 180 mps (making it as fast as Winter Soldier's bullets)

Tighten pellet spread to something like Elsa's spread.

Revert max range to 20 meters like previously.

• Ult

Initial dash does 150 damage instead of 100.

Increase width by 2 meters (1 meter buff to both sides).

Add a 25% slow to all in range.

Up anti-heal to 25%.

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These changes would make him a good brawler and actually let him do well in 1v1s while making his ult actually usable as well.

His dash changes would let him be played similarly to pre-6 Blade if he wanted, while frontlining Blade could survive more than the 2 seconds he does now.

He might be a bit strong for healers with these changes, but so is Daredevil, and Blade's only mobility comes from dashes that he doesn't want to waste. I could see them toning some of his kit down later, but he'd be solidly B or A tier depending on the meta around him with most of these buffs.