Guaná the Lobo-Guará (WIP)

[old vessel]

First of all, they’re not a “mané d wolf” (Brazilian pun)

passive

The idea behind this character is having a rush down character that’s almost an antithesis to Laika’s run and gun, they’re a fast shooter, but also a fast misser, so aim training is advised for Guaná players (btw, it’s pronounced gwanah, for those who are wondering!)
Their ability is “MC U Bleed”, it reads “as your mag goes down, your fire rate goes up and your accuracy goes down”, it’s a percentile based passive ability in which on each bullet shot adds 0.01x to your fire rate and -0.011x to your accuracy, that means in the lower half of your pent you’ll have 1.5x fire rate and 0,45 of your accuracy.
They’re an overly confident and overly self blamer, just like their ability, but get them on a spree and they’ll not stop talking about it.

Lines:

Pick:
“How is that snake standing up???”
“Things about to go down, not my bullets tho”
“Guaranázin da vitória né pai?” (“Just a refresher for the vic” would be a overall ok translation)
“Getting close and personal!”

LostG:
“WHY NONE OF THE BULLETS HIT THEM?”
“yo, i think i'll hit 3d aim trainer cuz tf?”

LostR:
“Amigo que mata amigo tem 100 anos de perigo em” (“friends killing friends suffer greater demands, huh?” Is an good translation for it)
“Bro, I trained hard for this???”
“I’m not sleeping until I can 1v1 ya…”

WonR:
“DID YOU SEE THAT NO SCOPE?”
“The TikTok guys were right, lobos-guará are scary!”
“Don’t ever call me a Manned wolf”

Hurt:
“This but-a scratch.”

Enemy low:
“Spray n pray baby”

WonG:
“É Brasil né pai?”
“We’ve got talent!”

This is a simple and honestly pretty bad sketch of them, did it in like 5 mins then started thinking about the other stuff:

[old vessel]

Guaná the Lobo-Guará (WIP)

[old vessel]

Maybe the accuracy on the flamethrower could be smth like this:
Each point added or subtracted from accuracy will grant 2 things
1: 0.009x to gun range
2: -0.05x to cone
If subtracted, the values get multiplied by -1x

(?)

Also the flamethrower will have its fire rate buff be of 0,015x to make it a puff of flames

[elfin vigil]

I love the line about Siaro

[old matrix]

I see fortune there haha

[elfin vigil]

Hola Punsii omgg

[old matrix]

Omg Nyaaaan

[orchid bay]

Ive been detected.

[old vessel]

I was thinking about synergies that this guy would have

Synergies

Energy drink:
Since energy drink is an 1.37x multiplier (I believe) to accuracy, it would help mitigate the accuracy drop, although for very little time

Lazer (forgot its name):
Same as before, but forever

Small mag:
Here is where things get interesting, small mag would normally be bad, but for Guaná, depending on how you play, it’s an blessing. Since the multiplier of the buff and the debuff are percentile based, the lesser the bullets to go through, the faster the buff activates

Bigger mag:
Same as before, if you want to snipe, for example (idk why, but if it’s the only solution) you’ll need more time with your accuracy up

Different types of clicking:
If you can click fast enough, you could turn an boira into an semi auto auto pistol, or if you know how to double click, you could turn it into a burst weapon, and the list goes on

Akimbo:
Here’s the thing: you are holding two guns, so that would mean you have two mags, therefore the buff should be doubled, HOWEVER, this could be very bad, just picture double AK with 3x fire rate and 0 accuracy at half mag, so idk if it should be double the buff/debuff or if it should stay the same

Shotgun:
One of the things that balance the shotgun out is its low FR, with higher FR and virtually no drawbacks as it is an shotgun and it already has basically no accuracy, you could have an boira with massive bullets and a fuckton of damage

Other things from outside the game:
Bow and arrow wouldn’t have any synergy, since it’s only 1 bullet

Super shorty, if it shoots 2 bullets at once wouldn’t synergise either

Non synergies:

Sniper:
Paçoco brought a very massive point to this weapon as in: while adsing you have pinpoint accuracy, so if the sniper is a non synergy is debatable, as it accentuates its main issue: close combat

Grenade launcher:
For this to be a balanced weapon in his hands, I’m thinking of making its buff to be a 0.0075x instead of an 0.01x, this would make it so he doesn’t do a better job as Lars of being the explosive guy

Laika:
Precision weapon, no pinpoint accuracy

Bullet time:
Bro, the character is supposed to cause havoc and chaos, pausing time would give enemies time to breathe and shoot you more than you shoot them, but it can be used strategically to make the enemies shoot slower while you are ramping up your own fire rate

Design:

While thinking about this character’s design (as in how he fits into the gameplay and world), he is the type of guy who will make you think before you act while also diving into chaos, it would be a hard pick up for a new player, but I believe it would have a niche
He has many cards that synergise with him, as well as many guns, but not being able to use precision weapons well would hurt your deck a lot, having bad luck and not getting any good weapons could turn things south very very quickly, but you could also just turn the game at its head with good draws, so I do think it is fairly balanced
It is basically lars in reverse, both are characters that incentivise you to get close, but while lars does it through giving you explosives and asking you to do a crime, Guaná would do the same with auto’s

Design (as in art):

He is an intrinsically Brasilian with an S character, I’m thinking of giving him a lot of accessories, lines or other things that makes you think of Brasil, like Brazilian miku
He is supposed to be a badass akin to Laika or Donnie B, but not in the same coolness as Sable or Lars, for example
When I think of him I think “Lucio if he was a DPS”, and since he is supposed to be intrinsically brasilian, I’m thinking of making him an MC (the same as an DJ in Brazil), that’s the reason behind the name of its passive being “MC U Bleed”
There are, however, issues with these design ideas, the main one being “WTF is a braSilian” like honestly, I am from Brazil and I DONT KNOW EITHER
Brazil is so diverse and so big, literally every single character could be Brazilian
Donnie B? Oh, thats just kid bengala but as a badass woman (as in I can hear her singing “só as cachorras”, not as in “she doesn’t take care of her children” type of way)
Ribberto? He is literally Capuccino mafioso but as a red head nerd
It is very hard to quantify Brasil into one character, and I don’t want to make an “I come from the favelas” character since it’s very boring, but at the same time I can’t do an são paulino or else he won’t have the vibes

I’m thinking about giving him an oversized sports T, more specifically from Flamengo, seeing as in they have the biggest organised crowd from Brazil and some of them do a lot of crimes, giving him an double cut in his right eyebrow and wear earrings
This style is very common in brazillian AMAB people (seeing as NB people also use it, and Guaná does use he/they) and it’s called “chave” or “chavoso” or, more commonly, “mandrake”, it is an alternative style akin to Spike’s British punk
This, even if it goes against my thought of “I don’t want him to be an “I come from the favelas” character”, is an VERY good rep of brazils style and could open up variants

References:

I was also thinking of giving them some black/brown religions rep through his design
But I am hesitant since I don’t want to butcher it

[brazen grove]

I would say that punchr would be excellent synergy since it has a pinpoint accuracy with no variation and something like thick skin, tin man, painkillers, etc could mitigate the self damage and also turn you into essentially a one-sided self destruct device

Also bullet time could be good if you are close enough to the enemy to the point that the accuracy difference is offset and now you just have a faster shooting rate

Also you sniper is pinpoint accurate while adsing aswell so it could make for a pretty powerful long distance killer

[brazen grove]

I would honestly say their better synergies are quick reload, better accuracy and energy drink

I think that my biggest problem really is the voice lines, as much as i love my Brazilian rep i think it might be a bit overtuned here

The ability is really interesting though

Design wise i love it, and the power seems to be really fun and with a good skill ceiling

[old vessel]

That’s actually a very good point

[old vessel]

Basically normal shooting during a slowmo

[old vessel]

Hmmmm
You do bring a point, I’ll try to fix that before posting the finalised charac

[brazen grove]

Not to mention that during bullet time you can shoot as soon as the game allows because of the extra time you have to spam, so it would be the moment you make the most out of his power

[brazen grove]

Yeah I'm thinking like, you'll hear these voicelines hundreds of times, and remembering how characters Iike jawhara and ktqtpi were received by the community it makes me a bit scared of trying too hard on a vibe

Like people mention kt and immediately follow it up by like "the cringe furry" and that just feels bad ya know

[old vessel]

Yea, it would turn the charac into an stereotype basically
While that is something good to an extent, he needs to be less of one

Gotcha, ty very much for the input

[brazen grove]

I love this sort of debate dw, good luck and i hope he gets added in one way or another

[old vessel]

You did bring good points with the sniper and the punchr
If it dropped, punchr + Tinman or heartnuke would basically overthrow lars, and this is not the best way to go, since the last thing you want on a character is them doing what others do but better

[brazen grove]

I disagree, lars biggest strength is using regular bombs anyway, punchr is good on him but because he can tank his own damage, but literally any character can use tin man or thick skin to spam

You could do the argument that kt does that job the better since the faster reload on energy drink makes it so you essentially have an endless punchr clip for 8 seconds

[old vessel]

I think it would, since the biggest punchr drawback is it’s slow fire rate that every character has to deal with
If Guaná can basically remove this drawback and also use energy drink and tinman, that would honestly make him just a better Lars at that point

Like, even if he doesn’t get the intrinsic 60% resistance to explosions, they still can cause just as much havoc if not more than the bombs away guy

[old vessel]

@pastel kindle hey dude, sorry for the pin
i just wanted to ask for permission to make an "cobras fumantes" little tag using siaro smoking a blunt as its image

cobras fumantes were the brazilian ww2 troops, theres even a sabathon music ab them

[pastel kindle]

Lol that would be funny, sure

[old vessel]

Ight ty!

[old vessel]

Pattern recognition time!

so, as i've seen in the game's skins, they are all very different, obviously, however they do have some things in common:

textures, layers and colors:

so, a rule of thumb i recognized ingrained into the game's style: you either get a lot of layers, or you get a lot of textures, take Ribberto for example: they have little layers of clothing, but they have a LOT of differing textures, making him look not very well dressed, but this makes sense for this character, while Myk and Moose both have 2 layers each and are usually more tame with their looks, and as an extreme, there is Jawhara that stacks an vest on top of an long sleeve shirt on top of a skirt on top of her pants on top of her socks, and as her having a lot going on, her design stays slick by not having a LOT of textures
colors are vibrant in everyone and is very deliberate: myk uses orange and blue, they are opposite in the color wheel, so they go well together, moose has the enby flag as an color scheme and ribberto is, again, all over the place