Idea Make soldier more vulnerable to assassin

TLDR: Soldiers have to block and crouch to prevent assassins. Crouching disables wallclimb.

So on most maps, soldier is undeniably the most annoyingly overpowered capping class, and a good soldier is essentially unkillable once they're out of the flagroom and have a medic near their base. Once the defensive pyro is distracted or killed, they can freely bunnyhop over 90% of players, and ninja is too weak to take down soldiers. Get a pair of soldiers with medics carrying the flag on both teams and everyone can forget recovery.

I find that assassin should be the ideal counter to soldier outside the flagroom: it has mobility, ignores armour, and is immune to fall damage if assassinate is used. Usually, having to block removes a flagcarrier's mobility, and therefore they are more vulnerable to headshots and multiple recoverers. Soldier, on the other hand, can wallspam away and often accidentally block assassins: the best recovery class is essentially a non-issue for soldiers.

The point I'm trying to make is that even an assassin's presence should have to make the flagcarrier more watchful, and remove mobility - which is why I'm suggesting this mechanic, in which soldiers have to block+crouch in order to block assassins, but cannot wallclimb while crouching.

This doesn't tip the tables too much for either side. Soldiers can still block assassins easily enough, but they actually have to stand there instead of wallspamming away. It would make flagcarrying as soldier more difficult, as it should be, and would make midfield recovery off a soldier somewhat easier. And it also removes accidental blocking, which is stupid.

Personally I think this is a perfect nerf: it doesn't make assassin overpowered, it just slightly decreases the flagcarrying power of soldier.

 

I don't think you've even read the post. Please explain to me how making soldier blocking take one extra step suddenly makes assassin OP?

And as a recovery class, I feel like assassin should counter soldier, not the other way round. With this change, soldier can still kill assassins easily.

 

I wouldn't even call it an assassin buff, more a soldier nerf. It's still easy to block, and nerfs soldier more than buffs assassin.

Assassin's mechanics stay exactly the same.

 

Could you maybe provide reasoning as to why you think a class with decent armour, damage output, health pool and unlimited vertical mobility is balanced?