I personally feel that Lifeline needs a bit of a buff in general. The healing drone is nice, but benefiting from it is slow, which means excessive time standing still, which is excessive time when you're not doing literally anything else in a game when you should be constantly doing other things. It greatly feels like the benefit of using it is countered by this fact. Healing is something literally every character in the game can do, and the comical thing is you can still move while using items, even if it is more slowly. You could argue that her ultimate makes up for a sub-par tactical, but... not really? I'm not saying it's not good, but it suffers from similar issues. If your team is doing well and has good armor, it's not as helpful. And you can't exactly call it down effectively in the middle of a firefight or in the last few circles where people are nearby, when you're more likely to actually need it. It's also easy to spot, and it charges sooooooooo slowly.
Lifeline is literally the only healing class in the game, and yet she feels lackluster, and that makes me sad because she's a really neat character. I don't have as much of a definitive answer to how I think she should be changed, but perhaps if her drone healed all friendlies over a much much wider area then it would be more helpful during a firefight. Alternatively, if you could assign the drone to someone and it follow them, or if you're not pointing at another player it would follow Lifeline naturally. It would still heal players in the circle, but would benefit from also being able to be mobile. Just something to make it feel more like an active ability and not, let's sit in a corner silently for a minute while this bar slowly regenerates.
