- January 13, 2026
- 4:33 am
Hero Info
Aside from his position as Talon's accountant, Maximillen is the figure behind many impactful events. Gambling on the edge of conflicts, he uses wealth and connections to build his own power.
Passives
Subrole: Tactician
Store excess ultimate charge.
Ult charge stored:
up to 25%
Store excess ultimate charge.
Backed Hand
Give your excess ultimate charge to your Ace.
Ult charge given:
up to 25%
Give your excess ultimate charge to your Ace.
- Ace is selected with Max's ultimate "Ace in Play".
- Only grants excess charge stored via the Tactician subrole passive.
- Grants via ult points instead of fixed percentage.
- The target ally hears a surging sound on activation.
Weapon
Executive Wristwatch
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Two-round burst hitscan weapon.
Damage:
40 (per round)
Headshot: ✓ (x2)
Rate of fire:2 rounds per 0.8s
Ammo:24
Reload time:1.5 seconds
Two-round burst hitscan weapon.
- Shot radius: 0.12m (same as Illari)
- Damage falloff range: 25-45m (longer than Ashe, shorter than Illari)
- Damage falloff rate: 50%
- Recovery time reduces when alternating between primary and secondary fire.
- Elimination: "The house always wins."
Breach Laser
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Three short beams with a rotating triangular spread.
Damage:
135/s (45 per beam)
Headshot: x
Range: 13m
Spread:3.6 degrees (initial) - 2 degrees (after 0.75s)
Three short beams with a rotating triangular spread.
- Beam radius: 0.1m (less than Symmetra's minimum radius)
- Rotation speed: 180 degrees/s
- Narratively, Max uses this weapon to cut holes on doors and walls, hence the name and the spinning 3-dot pattern.
- Elimination: "Think twice before you get close."
Abilities
Spade
Slash with a card and fling it out. Place a Spade on enemies hit, allowing allies to lifesteal from them.
Damage:
40 (slash) + 40 (projectile)
Headshot: x
Slash Range: 4m
Projectile Speed:70m/s
Projectile Size:0.35m
Spade duration:4s
Ally Lifesteal Rate:30% (15% on tanks)Stops applying when ally already has more than 40% lifesteal.
Slash with a card and fling it out. Place a Spade on enemies hit, allowing allies to lifesteal from them.
- The slash and projectile themselves lifesteals too.
- The slash's animation allows enemies at range to react to the following projectile.
- Enemies with Spade see a overlay effect on their screen.
- Healing from Spade charges Max's ultimate ability.
- To self/target: "Bleed the pot."
- To allies: "Claim your cuts from them."
Heart
Place area healing on an ally, which grants movement speed too when an enemy is eliminated inside.
Selection Range: 25m
Area Healing: 25/s
Area Healing Radius: 12m
Speed/Damage Boost:25%
Boost Duration: 2.5s afer elimination
Place area healing on an ally, which grants movement speed too when an enemy is eliminated inside.
- Max cannot place Heart on himself.
- Heart expires after losing Max's LOS for 5 seconds.
- "Go earn your healings."
- "Make my investment worth it."
- "Go, impress me."
- On elimination: "Well done."
- On elimination: "Stay in motion, agent."
Ace In Play
Place an Ace on an ally. The ally instantly revives for one time during the effect, then places a Spade on their eliminators.
Enemies don’t know who carries the Ace until they get very near.
Selection Range: 25m
Cast Time: 0.6s
Initial Healing:
100
Ace Uptime: 7s
Ace Reveal Range: 5m
Ace Health On Revive:Up to 350
Place an Ace on an ally. The ally instantly revives for one time during the effect, then places a Spade on their eliminators.
Enemies don’t know who carries the Ace until they get very near.
- Enemies can hear when Max ults, but can't see the Ace icon over the ally until they're up close.
- All enemies see the Ace icon from the moment when one enemy sees it.
- Ace's secrecy enables lots of mind games for example, Max can place the Ace on himself, but tell an ally to charge in anyway, tricking the enemies into thinking the ally have the Ace.
- The Ace cannot revive from an environmental death.
- With Max's passive, he always gives excess ult charge stored to his Ace. This can be used to quickly ready an important ally ult.
- In the middle of the fight, Ace's 100 instant healing can save an ally, but might also spoil who received it.
- On deploy, to enemies: “An Ace is on the table. Play wise.”
- On deploy, to Ace/self: “Fear nothing, my Ace!”
- On deploy, to allies: “Ace has been deployed.”
- On revive, to enemies: “YOU MISPLAYED.”
- On revive, to Ace: “Now, shall we continue?”
Perks
Contingency
You can damage and kill your Ace. This puts a Spade on yourself too.
You can damage and kill your Ace. This puts a Spade on yourself too.
Feed the Greed
Hitting enemies with Spade restores ammo.
Hitting enemies with Spade restores ammo.
Shared Pot
Heart’s radius increases by 50% for 3s when an enemy is eliminated inside.
Heart’s radius increases by 50% for 3s when an enemy is eliminated inside.
Liquidation
Reset Spade cooldown when your Heart carrier dies.
Reset Spade cooldown when your Heart carrier dies.
Design Process
Weapon
Weapon feels closer and closer Max’s identity as they iterate. After Zen and Lucio, Max will be the third support that doesn’t heal with a mouse button.
The House
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Smart pistol with red dot scope.
Smart pistol with red dot scope.
Executive Wristwatch
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Four-round burst dart projectile weapon.
Four-round burst dart projectile weapon.
Tracker Chip
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Make your next shot reveal target position. Press again to detonate the chip.
Make your next shot reveal target position. Press again to detonate the chip.
Executive Wristwatch
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Two-round burst hitscan weapon.
Two-round burst hitscan weapon.
Breach Laser
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Three short beams with a rotating triangular spread.
Sustain
Max started with a “mobility + self sustain” ability, borrowing the tech of Kiriko’s clone power in Stadium.
I then wanted to jump out of the “movement and heal” cliche and design a different sustain ability. “Marking enemies for lifesteal” came to mind.
After a few changes, the ability allows Max to do the “Slash and Laser (alt fire)” combo to survive close combat. The lifesteal rate is tuned down against tanks to encourage hitting squishies.
Now, Max needs to make a decision in a fight: Do I save my Spade against a dive, or do I throw it to enemy front line to relieve healing pressure?
False Tell
Dash and release an identical decoy. The decoy heals you when it takes damage.
Dash and release an identical decoy. The decoy heals you when it takes damage.
Bounty
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Empower your next shot with a Bounty mark, allowing allies to lifesteal from its target.
Empower your next shot with a Bounty mark, allowing allies to lifesteal from its target.
Spade
Slash and fling a piercing card. Place a Spade on enemies hit, allowing allies to lifesteal from them.
Slash and fling a piercing card. Place a Spade on enemies hit, allowing allies to lifesteal from them.
Utility and Healing
With or without the lifesteal applied, Max still needs a way to provide consistent healing. Maybe also some form of utility.
Joint Stake aimed to go after Adam Warlock in Marvel Rivals and make a pair of allies tankier. However in OW, this is no different from “increasing effective max health”, which is pretty rule breaking considering the damage threshold is much more delicate.
“Heart” card aimed to send an ally on a “mission”, let them earn healings themselves. With some utility added, it becomes more powerful in close range fights/late fights, while building a fantasy of someone who profits from conflict.
Joint Stake
Select an ally to echo healing received and partially share damage taken.
Select an ally to echo healing received and partially share damage taken.
Heart (Old)
Place area healing on an ally. Healing increases when the ally hits enemies.
Place area healing on an ally. Healing increases when the ally hits enemies.
Heart
Place area healing on an ally. Boost this ally’s speed and damage when anyone is eliminated in the area.
Place area healing on an ally. Boost this ally’s speed and damage when anyone is eliminated in the area.
Ultimate
Saying Max is a gambler is downplaying his intelligence. I want his ultimate to revolve around mind games; he tricks enemies into making the wrong decision, and take advantage if they are too scare to even make one.
Many versions of Ace in Play was written, but they all revolve around a secret player being chose, and enemies need to read the room, or spot the visual cue, to respond properly. Initially, it felt very against OW’s core rule “shoot the red people”, and could be too counterintuitive in a chaotic fight.
The final iteration made the best Ace choices (all close range heroes) easier to be exposed, also allowing enemy frontline/mobile heroes to expose the Ace more easily.
Ace in Play (Old)
Select an ally to instantly revive on death with increased speed and damage. Expires when you or any other ally dies.
Select an ally to instantly revive on death with increased speed and damage. Expires when you or any other ally dies.
Ace in Play (Old)
Secretly mark self or an ally as an Ace. The Ace instantly revives on death with increased speed and damage.
Enemies don’t know who carries the Ace until it deals enough damage.
Secretly mark self or an ally as an Ace. The Ace instantly revives on death with increased speed and damage.
Enemies don’t know who carries the Ace until it deals enough damage.
Ace In Play
Place an Ace on an ally. During its uptime, the Ace carrier instantly revives on death and places a Spade on their eliminators.
Enemies don’t know who carries the Ace until they get very near.
Place an Ace on an ally. During its uptime, the Ace carrier instantly revives on death and places a Spade on their eliminators.
Enemies don’t know who carries the Ace until they get very near.
Passive
Changed from a boring flanker alert to a strategic tool. The passive synergizes with the Tactician passive, allowing Max to use Ace as a “catalyst” for a crucial ally ult.
Alerted
Be alerted of visible enemies aiming at your back.
Backed Hand
Give your excess ultimate charge to your Ace.
Give your excess ultimate charge to your Ace.
Discarded Perks
Diamond
Bounty Shot can crit enemies and deal 25 damage over 1 second.
Club
Joint Stake heals both sides by at least 5% max health per second.
Cut for Two
Heart's healing increases by 35% with you inside it.
Spade Tracker
Enemies with Spade reveals their location and ultimate status.
Lethal Conduct
Your laser beam attack bounces between your Spade carriers.
Contingency (Old)
You can do friendly damage to your Ace and False Tell decoy.
