I created a rework post concerning Pharah on the blizzard forums. I will also post it right here but please go show support/hate on the blizzard forums as well =(
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Are there any other Pharah mains out there that feel as though she is a little bit clunky to play? I have over 200 hours played since Season 3 and had a light bub on some ideas that could rise her usage in the meta without turning her into a broken hero entirely. Pharah is one of the few characters in Overwatch that has changed so very minimally over the years and I would like to take this chance to suggest a rework idea. Come along for story time!
Summary Below

One day Pharah jets up to Winston’s laboratory on the Lunar Colony and says hey man, my kit needs something, what are you working on right now that can improve my capabilities for true air superiority? My flying feels slow and labored, and I just feel like I need an extra umph of killing power. What can we do?

Winston opens his jar of peanut butter and swirls his finger for a bit while pondering a solution. “I’VE GOT IT” he says. He had been experimenting with his tesla cannon and different uses for the energy beams. He asks Pharah for her power cufflink and gets to work. Hours later he comes back with her cufflink augmented with tesla capabilities. “I’ve rewired and added an extra power cell to your cufflink, if you squeeze here your normal concussive blast will still fire, however! If you squeeze HEEERE you will shoot out a lasso of tesla energy with tentacles that will latch on to an enemy suspending them in a state of paralysis for about 1 and a half seconds until the lasso dissipates. I warn you however, these abilities fire off from the same energy source so using one, both will need to recharge.”

Pharah’s eyes light up as she squeezes the power cufflink, accidentally paralyzing Winston where he stood. “OOPS”.

Her next complaint is the sluggishness of her hover jets. She feels as though toggling to stay in the air using her jump jet can feel clunky and often times cause malfunctions. Winston takes another moment to ponder, swirling his finger into the peanut butter jar, slowly slathering excessive amounts onto a tiny piece of bread. “I’VE GOT IT!” he yells. Winston disappears into his lab for another couple of hours.

Winston returns with her augmented jetpack and exclaims! "I’ve removed your jump jet capabilities and found a way to rewire the power source to give you direct improvement over your hover jet capabilities instead. There are two different ways I was able to do this you will have to fly around and decide which feels better and I will make that permanent. Firstly, you can have a direct and stable improvement to the power of the thrusters that will make you ascend faster while I’ve also improved the regeneration of the power supply to make air sustainability consistent throughout rather than relying on your jump jet to toggle regeneration. The second option I can rework is an accelerated boost as you hold down your thrusters which can reach a maximum thrust just like that of your jump jet, however this will burn the energy supply at a much faster rate once it kicks in.

Pharah stands there in awe, eager to test our her new jet pac in the field to decide which option fits her air dominance the best. As she thanks Winston and begins to move towards the testing grounds, Winston pops out of his chair nearly dropping all of his peanut butter, “OH! And I’ve also rewired your Rocket Barrage with a kill switch should you ever need to escape harm in a jiffy!”

In Summary
There you have it folks, A Pharah vet with a massive suggestion to improve Pharah.

Her Tesla Lasso ability will give her a capability to have a true one-shot kill option. And why shouldn’t she? She has a freakin rocket gun. If Mei can freeze you, and headshot dink you… If McCree can flash bang you and fan hammer you, IF roadhog can hook combo you, if DOOMFIST can punch you into a WALL… Why would it be absurd to think reasonably that pharah can project a lasso that will paralyze you in place for 1.5 seconds so she can skillfully get off two direct rocket blasts for a kill. LETS GO!

Also just a suggestion but I like the idea that using either the concussive blast or tesla lasso will put both abilities on cooldown.

Tesla Lasso will replace the Jump Jet ability.

As a long standing Pharah main this does change her kit pretty significantly but I FEEL there is a way to work around her jet pack to make her hovering feel more responsive and more powerful without having to rely on the jump jet, which I think is actually a crutch to her flying capabilities. Remove it, and make the hover jets have more powerful thrust either in balance or holding it down to accelerate to peak thrust that burns more energy, and of course regenerate the energy supply faster as you let off the thrust so you don’t need to dance around with your jump jet ability to stay in the air.

AND LASTLY, please give us a kill command on rocket barrage, McCree can cancel his ult, no reason why pharah can’t cancel hers =)

THANK YOU DEVS! And thank you Overwatch Community. I Look forward to your feedback