Talk:Hildryn/@comment-2600:8804:6400:2B9:5C2:5B81:F115:8517-20190310185357

As I'm sure everyone's noticed, Hildryn is pretty much a straight rip of Zarya from Overwatch's overall concept, with some tweaks to make her more Warframe-flavored.

Hildryn's 1 is an explosive energy missile, very similar to Zarya's energy mortars (Except it's a missile instead of a mortar).

Hildryn's 2 is primarily a self-surviviability tool that functions by providing shields and has functionality involving stealing energy from enemies(Zarya gives herself a personal barrier that empowers her by absorbing energy from attacks against it, Hildryn recharges her massive shield-pool by stealing energy from enemies)

Her 3 is shield-based support tool. Zarya puts a shield on an ally. Hildryn prodcues an aura giving allies a large buff to shields and shield regen. The personal empowerment Zarya has on her equivalent ability is replaced with straight damage to enemies in the aura on Hildryn. Hildryn's version of the ability also grants her invulnerability upon shield depletion to any affected allies.

Hildryn's 4 is a CC-focused ability that works by suspending enemies within a radius around a central point in the air. Zarya's version of this ability also pulls people in towards the central point, while Hildryn's version does not, but instead has her function as the central point and thus allows the central point to move. As far as I can tell, the flight capabilities Hildryn gets are mostly intended to be a combination of flavor and a means to make it easier for Hildryn to navigate and get good vantage points on affected enemies without compromising the ability.

Her passive serves to provide more of the functionality of Zarya's barriers, namely where they completely negate any damage that occurs in excess of what the shield can block.

Oh, and her signature arch-gun is basically a recreation of Zarya's gun in one of Warframe's styles.

Amusingly, Hildryn's lack of an energy pool can be taken as further example that Hildryn is effectively the Warframe universe's instance of Zarya. We'll try to avoid spoilers, but effectively Zarya would not be able to channel the energy used by warframes. Thus, if the original Hildryn = Zarya, she wouldn't be able to either, and thus wouldn't have a pool of this energy for operation.