What is octane missing? Team utility. His jump pads are nice, but are they really an "ultimate?" They can't get you the distance or height of a zip, they don't make you unhittable like a portal, they're loud, highly visible, and make you a massive target for all to lazily line up their shot and click you in air like a clay pigeon.
That could all change. What if hitting a pad gave you one charge of octane's stim (max one per pad, one charge at a time, takes your hp obviously without the regen)
Suddenly, your squad is MOBILE! Suddenly, your teammates are hovering around you like the skeezy little drug dealer you are begging for that next hit of sweet sweet speed juice. Imagine a caustic stim sprinting at you to hurl their alt. Imagine a Gibby stim strafing with gun shield. Imagine wraith stim tunnelling you to safety. Imagine a lifeline zipping in to pick you up and then her bot healing back her stim damage
Now we have utility; now we have team cohesion!
Just something to consider.
