//Lancer — Class

Lancers are skirmishers: high mobility, gap-closing, and hit-and-run playstyles that capitalise on verticality.

▸Role

▸Tactics & Synergy

Lancers provide "vertical pressure," forcing enemies to look away from the main frontline. They are the ideal follow-up to Controller zoning, as they can bypass barriers to strike at vulnerable Marksmen. Their primary goal is to engage, disrupt focus, and disengage before a counter-strike lands.

▸Design Notes

• ▪Momentum: Abilities should chain with movement (Titanfall 2 + Mirror's Edge), allowing creative traversal-based plays.
• ▪Flight: Design cues should emphasize speed, with tapering VFX trails and high-frequency audio shifts.

▸Typical Abilities (design template)

• ▪Passive — Aerodynamic Momentum: each successful gap-closer grants a temporary boost to movement speed and reload speed.
• ▪Tactical (1) — Shrapnel Dash: a fast repositioning move that leaves a small trail of damaging debris.
• ▪Core (2) — Vertical Spike: a high-impact gap-closer that can be used from the air to deal damage on landing.
• ▪Special (3) — Skirmish Protocol: temporarily increases evasion and allows for faster horizontal movement.
• ▪Ultimate (4) — Grand Lancer: a massive multi-directional dash that deals damage to all enemies passed through and resets all mobility cooldowns.

▸Synergies & Counters

• ▪Synergies: Controller (zoning setup), Recon (marking targets), Triage (mobility heals).
• ▪Counters: Sentinel (defensive buffs), Bulwark (absorbs hits), Vandal (interrupts momentum).

▸Example Operatives

• ▪Yumiko — high-mobility lancer with arcing charges.
• ▪Dakota — Kinema recon-lancer with repositioning spikes.
• ▪Yuichi — wind/psychic skirmisher with aerial combos.
• ▪Genzo — wind lancer specialising in sustained flanks.
• ▪Quentin — cosmic/atomic lancer with burst reposition tools.
• ▪Alex — normal lancer who excels at hit-and-run.
• ▪Hitomi — light lancer with team-support bursts.
• ▪Emiko — veteran lancer (old guard) with reliable gaps.