I’m of the opinion that reworking warframes generally is not worth the effort but there are exceptions, hydroid being one of them. In most cases I think adding a new warframe is better than a rework in case there are enough people that liked the old abilities. With that in mind I think his abilities need to be improved and made more fun instead of scraped.
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reduce cast time and remove charging. He’s just too slow.
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replace puddle with a water form that starts at 100% damage reduction and reduces to 0% damage reduction towards the end of the ability as he dries out and as it negates damage.
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increase damage for his abilities by the number of tentacles spawned. Damage of abilities increases by 10% per tentacle active.
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tentacles don’t grab enemies but attack them and stun them. Tentacles grab corpses and throw them at other enemies.
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killing an enemy has a chance of spawning a tentacle in addition to ground slams. Raise the maximum number of tentacles from the passive to 5.
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enemies hit by tentacles take 10% more damage from all sources every time they are hit.
Never heard of Illaoi until this comment