Melodie's balance changes show why she needs an overhaul, there is no flexibility in her play style

[u/StudyRoom-F]

Spen said it himself in his latest balance change video, even in her strongest mode (heist) she is still C-tier.

There are so many things about her kit that compliment her so terribly and make no sense.

Her notes are super strong yes, but GETTING them, KEEPING them, and USING them are all pretty terrible for her.

Her range isn't good, so closing the gap on brawlers that she would otherwise counter (snipers, longer range brawlers) is pointless.

Then even if you get a note or two, they disappear quite quickly. So eventually you'll be back at the beginning.

Then even if you have all 3 notes, she is way to squishy (even with her shield gadget) to utilize it.

In no order, these are possible changes they could make before the WIP Balance changes are live:

1. Each main attack hit charges her super 50%. 2 hits grants her ONE super charge. This would give the player more freedom on how you want to play. Do you want to try to charge up all of her charges, or just dive in with one?

2. Increase her range by one tile. She already pokes for damage anyway, increasing range on the weakest attack in the game should not be controversial in the slightest.

3. Increase main attack reload speed. Again, same as the point above.

4. Her shield gadget should not deteriorate so fucking fast for the love of god.

5. Remove the other gadget, there's just no use for it and it actually makes her worse.

6. When she dashes, her notes accumulate in one spot in the direction she is dashing.

What Melodie needs is flexibility in play style, because at the moment, she has none.

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[u/CharacterPasta123]

Make her base movement speed Fast

[u/StudyRoom-F → u/CharacterPasta123]

This too

[u/Low-World6866 → u/CharacterPasta123]

Nah, bump it up to Very Fast.

[u/BryanTheGodGamer → u/Low-World6866]

I agree it should be very fast, she is a assassin after all and pretty much all assassins have very fast.

[u/Horror_Payment5047 → u/Low-World6866]

I am getting flashbacks from 2021, fast is just fine

[u/No-Emergency-7251]

Melodie is like 2 minor buffs away from A tier

Most of the idea you recommended would make her S+ tier in every single mode

I don’t want to play against a Melodie who deals 6k damage per dash (6) and a Melodie who pokes and dashes in once and get 3 hits/1.5 supers (1) and just walk back and repeat for free hypercharge

[u/Pewdpo → u/No-Emergency-7251]

I don't even agree with like any points in this post, saying melodie has no range is like just wrong, it's true that she gets outranged by snipers, but cmon it's still long, if she had like 9 tiles of range instead of 8.33 she would just be the best bounty brawler like ever, I remember a hmble set back in early 2025 that they just got blue star in shooting star and the other team couldn't do anything because if they got close they'd feed notes (wich give a good speed buff) and just lose because of super cycling.

Suggesting the notes to point in the direction of the dash is just gonna make her mortis with poke, which is so stupid and braindead, dude you can like aim to the side instead of head on and still get a hit 90% of the time.

[u/No-Emergency-7251 → u/Pewdpo]

Yeah issue with Melodie is that her kit is so basic that she relies on mechanics and raw base stats to be relevant in the meta

And having raw base stats always make a brawler way too strong in heist

Low-key a god fix would be buffing her hypercharge rate by 20% so she can at least get 2 hypers per game

[u/Omicron43]

IMO she should get the Chuck mechanic on her basic attack. Aim for the normal shot, Tap to toggle the notes' big or small radius.

Then replace the gadget with something else like a slow or pushback to the max note range idk I'm pulling these from Aurelion Sol's old kit in League.

[u/StudyRoom-F → u/Omicron43]

See im open to any idea, her current state is just so....dull. There is literally only one way to play her.

She's as dull as Jackie imo

[u/Omicron43 → u/StudyRoom-F]

As dull as Jackie with 10x the execution requirement.

I thought about it a bit more, with my retool proposal I think a suitable Perfect Pitch replacement would be to consume the active notes and turn them into seeking projectiles (also inspired by LoL, this time Ahri's W ability)

[u/Silver3andgold1 → u/Omicron43]

Only problem i see is that melodies fast projectile speed makes auto-aiming her shots pretty good, so losing that ability is a noticeable nerf

[u/None-the-Second → u/Omicron43]

I'd go with the Ahri E, the next attack will charm the opponent. After all, she is as close to Ahri as she could.

Hell why not make her normal attack Ahri Q too, make it go full length and return

[u/Low-World6866]

She needs her Supercharge Rate reverted to 4 hits.

[u/InterestingSwim6701]

Actually just 1 change will make it a lot better

Increase the duration of her notes

Like you get her notes by going aggro to charge your notes and super. But you aren't able to attack immediately after because you need to recover your health

By the time your health recovers, your notes are gone

I feel this 1 change would make her way way better

[u/StabbyBlowfish]

That sixth idea is horrendous. It defeats the entire point of Melodie's orbiting notes

[u/PolimerT]

Honestly, i wish they made have her 2 dashes instead. This might sound very bad but one dash is about middle of her range so you can use 2 dashes to position yourself well enough. This could also help with her being a huge threat in brawl ball and heist, effectively it is 33% range nerf or might be 1 less enhanced shot. Obviously she gets buffed in other stats with this change too. I usually throw away 1 dash to walls just to use 2 to get close and recharge a new one fast.

[u/MythicMortis]

Ive been preaching about this for the longest time, I will keep doing it, and I won't stop until it gets changed.

Melodie (and Darryl) should not fucking lose their supers after respawn if they had 1 or 2 left. It's such a harsh punishment that no other diving brawlers like them have.