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Forgot to add, Ivy could become a fun pub hero that gets picked every match and players are happy to have them in every match, a la pudge. All Icefrog would have to do is:

>remove wisp tether
>remake tether to be AOE passive to share double dip healing, bullet lifesteal
>longer ult cooldown

and then buff her gun damage to not purposely be weaker than LITERALLY EVERY OTHER HERO IN THE GAME. But this won't happen, because again, the game needs to be a competitive esport with a large viewerbase. What happened to pudge was his movespeed was gutted, his slow from rot was gutted, his passive health gain from kills was gutted so even if you get kills, you don't benefit nearly as much, and pudge was reworked into a support hero who hooks teammates and heals them, so Ivy is likely a support hero for the rest of this game's lifespan