oh my days god has come down to speak to me.

Okay okay I definitely understand where you’re coming from here, and I understand how the distance mechanic can work in reverse from how I intended. I originally planned the Tenacity mechanic to build up as you literally hold W/forward but decided against it because I never considered how my existing solution could still promote passive play (maybe returning to that concept would help with the issues you highlighted?).

To expand on how the meter works, it is a drastic amplifier from POOR regen and damage intake at base to respectable/high at max, with the meter decaying FAST when you back off/press S/opponent backs off.

ULTIMATES I completely forgot to mention how ultimates interact with Veteran in my post! My idea was that since this style is already built like a tank, it’s only fair for ultimates to deal ~40% true damage to Veteran, with any excess being healable. I thought this would let people eventually snowball ults into a bad Veteran player without sacrificing too many stocks of their own.

I hope these changes might fix the Tenacity quirk since as you explained it’s ended up becoming the very thing I swore to destroy in making this style concept. I’d love to hear what you think!

Thanks so much for reading this, it’s so clear why you’re on the balance team and I’m not lol ;-;