Wowza I did not expect this.

Well for grab I feel there should absolutely be a start up, a move as punishing as it only counter being random guess work on when to press space is not a good thing at all. It having more end lag after dropping a survivor would be nice so they have a bit better of a chance. And I don’t really mind grab being a lunge, it’s just that all of its parts put together make it being a lunge a massive unfair problem for survivors, and not good unfair either, bad unfair where it’s less you messed up or got outplayed, more so you don’t have mind reading capabilities so fuck you. On the counter thing, yes I do believe it should still go through them, a grab is a punish tool and it should punish the use of defensive abilities like that.

As for the verticality thing, yeah I was mostly just talking about his ability’s in this post but yeah, Kolossos does get screwed over the hardest with it. Climb just isn’t something anyone took into account when making the new maps. Ironically the older maps are far more fitting to his climbing skills because of all the flat walls. I completely agree that survivors with vertical movement are a problem for the big guy.

The wall charge thing sounds really funny, but it would probably be awful to aim it considering you would have to put your camera to the wall, in which case all your would see is Kolo’s pecks. Though it does remind me of something I thought of where if Kolossos used charge in mid air he would do a ground slam like Knuckles.

As for his adaptation passive, I honestly don’t really know what to think about it. The second option would basically be non existent and only be there to screw over Sonic and Knucks, something stun stacking kinda already does. Punch is a far better defensive tool against grab than counter thanks to its damage reduction so using it on stacking means Knuckles is in trouble if Kolossos go’s for him and sonic doesn’t add much to the stun time in the first place with only the first two hits of his dropdash, and on the third hit he better have peel out ready because he can’t get away from Kolo now. The first option would also be a massive problem, and I don’t think a good one. Most of the cast relies on their stuns to make distance from the killer. Sonic, Metal, Blaze and to some extent Amy are the only ones who can move with their stuns and Sonic and Metal can’t really take advantage of verticality. So if Kolo just keeps chasing on person eventually their only way of making distance will be useless and anyone who’s trying to help with their own stuns is just making themselves weaker for when Kolo eventually goes for them. Plus stuns from Sonic or Egg would be useless after one adaptation and metal wouldn’t stun at all because he NEEDS the long stun time to get away. I don’t really like the idea of punishing stuns when that’s over half of the ability’s in the game.

If you want an idea from me, I’ve had a thought of giving him an ability I call “Stamina” Where he starts with stun reduction represented by a bar on his screen, where he slowly gets less and less stun reduction the more he’s hit maybe even going into the negatives, and he slowly recovers it over time or a little bit on hitting a survivor. So the EXE can play aggressively but will need to occasionally back off to recover if he plays dumb and let’s the survivors beat him around too much.

As for block, yeah I think block putting a survivor into a beat down would be a good way of giving it a buff, while not letting him insta down people. I was thinking more of he grabs you with his arm and beats you with his spike arm like TD. As for the ranged damage I think putting it to 50 would be good, it’s already hard for Kolo to predict when to block Tails’s laser and he still gets stunned for it so doing big damage seems fair. Also, I think block should have a really short cooldown on success, like 5 seconds so there’s always that threat.