Idea Ninja eggspam

Ninja eggspam is pretty annoying since it can practically immobilize you when you try to get of certain flagrooms and overall it gives the defence a big advantage. In comp it would prevent the use of tactical fouls, but I'm not aware whether that's a major problem.

My suggestion would be to make it like chemist's mana pool, so that ninjas can use max 3 consecutive eggs. Similar changes (and the exact same change) have been suggested several times, and I'm sure a lot of you would agree that this needs a change but nothing has been done about it.

Spoiler: Previous suggestions

Same suggestion:
https://www.brawl.com/threads/74341/

Egg cooldown like mage's damage spell:
https://www.brawl.com/threads/73713/

Max 5 eggs that regenerate like medic webs:
https://www.brawl.com/threads/73587/

Other mentions/ideas:
https://www.brawl.com/threads/74379/
https://www.brawl.com/threads/58343/

 

Good question. I think the regen rate to be able to throw an egg should be 3-4s. If it's 3s, then the ninja can throw 4 consecutive eggs with an interval of 1s in between each of them, and then they would have to wait a full 3s until their 5th one. Or they could throw 2 with no interval, then wait 2s and throw another, then wait 1s to throw another and then they're mana would be fully depleted. Or in whatever interval combination, but in general they would be able to throw maximum 4 eggs in 3s.

Three seconds may seem like it's not enough, but I think it makes it a harder for the ninja because they have to try to get the timing right to use 4 eggs efficiently and it also makes them more vulnerable. To tie this to Paddishly's point, I'm not sure whether the use of 4 eggs over 3s results in a warning but I definitely think even a regen rate of 3s would severely reduce ninja's ability to halt people with eggspam so that it wouldn't have to be monitored.

 

Tbh I think that would be a little too much (trying to orient it around mmr where bursts of max 3 are allowed), but it's hard to say without having done any tests yet. Maybe with 3 eggs it might be more balanced if the regen rate were >4s for one egg or 1/3 of the bar to make it easy to throw 3 eggs but not 4, but like I said I'm not certain.