Lian

**Lian**, otherwise **Lian Aico**, is a member of the Mercenaries and a member of the Damage class. She puts out good damage with her *Family Rifle*, using modifications to shoot a poisonous bullet and power shots from it. Her ultimate, **Queen's Grenade**, allows her to unleash a wide bomb that deals a lot of damage on impact.

## Primary Weapon: Family Heirloom Rifle

Lian's primary weapon is her family heirloom rifle, a rifle passed down through House Aico for generations being used as early as the American Revolutionary War. Over the years, modifications have been made to it to improve the rifle's power. The rifle has a maximum ammo capacity of 8 and shoots medium bullets at a slow rate. It deals 20 body damage and 25 headshot damage. Reload time is 2 seconds.

## First Ability: Poison Dart

A modification made to Lian's rifle during WWII allowed the rifle to fire a small poison dart. Activating the ability in game, Lian will dash forward and auto-aim fire a dart that deals 5 impact damage and 2 damage overtime for 3 seconds, up to 11 total damage from the dart. Cooldown is 10 seconds.

## Second Ability: Power Shot

A modification made to Lian's rifle recently at the start of the crisis allows for Lian to fire a powerful shot from her rifle that deals good damage up close. It takes a second to charge, but when it releases, the power shot pierces an enemy, dealing 35 damage and is able to go through an enemy into another. It can also ricochet back and deal smaller damage. Ten second cooldown.

## Ultimate Ability: Queen's Grenade

The final modification made to Lian's rifle back in WWI allowed for her gun to shoot a powerful grenade that deals a ton of impact damage and can incredibly ruin an enemy. When activated, Lian will levitate into the air and rotate sideways before blasting the grenade in the direction she's facing. It will deal 150 impact damage, 100 graze damage, and 50 splash damage depending on where it lands.

## Lore

*Lian was born in the New England part of the United States, and it wasn't long before she joined in on the family tradition of fighting for their country.*

### **Joining the Mercenaries**

Lian was recruited to the Mercenaries in her early years, as the Mercenaries executives at the time of her recruitment were composed of mostly her family. Her father was the co-founder, and he made sure that all of his descendants somewhat played a role in battle and protecting their homeland. It wasn't long before Lian was brought into the mix. Lian was his only daughter out of his three children, her two older brothers being Caspian and Strix. Once Lian joined the Mercenaries, she got the utmost training and was treated like a queen. Her father eventually withered to old age and passed shortly after Lian's 19th birthday, so she took on the role of one of the Mercenaries' executives, as Caspian moved far away from the U.S. and Strix resigned from the Mercenaries after his father's passing.

### **Recruiting Medics & Vanguards**

Lian's weaponry wasn't equipped to serve as a vanguard, and she had no medical experience, so she set out on a major mission to recruit enough medics and vanguards to keep the Mercenaries protected and alive during deployments as the rising popularity of their rival, Blackwing became a problem, and the formation of the Syndicate. Lian recruited monk Zenyatta, who was a biologist and an advocate of peace in the world, and Kiriko, a spiritual lover of the moon and the believer of the Kitsune. She eventually recruited another soldier, Uplink, and took a specific liking to Uplink, giving her a special six-shooter pistol and assisting her in getting trained to help out with the Mercenaries' deployments. After she found those three medics sufficient, she recruited vanguard Rain but was unable to find anyone else powerful enough to serve as a vanguard, as the other two known vanguards worked for Blackwing. Lian found the early stages of the Mercenaries to be ready for deployments.

## Voice Lines

### **Character Selects**

*"Anything you need, I can get. Anything for my family."*

*"House Aico built the foundation of the Mercenaries. I will not let it fall."*

*"We will have peace. No matter what."*

*"The afterlife fears me."*

*"I want respect. Not fear."*

### **Kill Quips**

*"Don't worry, hon. It's my family's tradition to stomp on our rivals."*

*"Keep your allies close, and your enemies in the grave."*

*"The generational tradition continues!"*

*"Love, Lian."*

*"I come from a plateau you cannot even comprehend."*

### **Ultimate Lines**

*"Bow down to House Aico!"* (friendly)

*"Kneel!"* (hostile)

### **Special Interactions**

#### **Friendly**

(To Uplink) *"Back to back. Let's tell them why their mothers never loved 'em."*

(To Uplink) *"Put that revolver to good use."*

(To Kiriko) *"Use that spirit you follow to your best ability. We can't let them win."*

(To Zenyatta) *"The Mercenaries have always fought for peace. We will never back down. Let's win this, Zen."*

(To Rain) *"Show them how fearful you truly are, big guy."*

(To Laser) *"Ugh."*

(To Spellmaker) *"Let's finish this quickly. You reek of... death."*

(To any member of Blackwing) *"When I said it was the last thing I'd do, I didn't really expect it to actually happen."*

#### **Special Kill Interactions**

(Killing Uplink) *"I thought I freed your mind of corruption, love."*

(Killing any member of the Mercenaries) *"What caused you to turn?"*

(Killing Laser) *"Vile in life and in death."*

(Killing Spellmaker) *"Blackwing will tremble before us."*

(Killing Spellmaker) *"Your father ran Blackwing better than you ever could."*

(Killing any member of Blackwing) *"That looked like it stung. Good. You deserve it."*

## Heirloom: Microphone of History

Heirloom: Family Heirloom Microphone

New character select quip: ***"This little viper's got her dad's fangs."***

New finisher: Bow Down to Me

Obtainable for 150 Heirloom Shards.

## Tips

* Lian is very powerful with combos. Do a 4-shot primary weapon fire, then fire your poison dart, then power shot. Leave it to a teammate, or just reload to finish the enemy.
* If you want to quickly get knocks, ult on an enemy who's already low health. Lian's ultimate excels at watering down enemies who are low.
* If enemies are grouped up, ult! You can still deal a lot of damage by grazing them and splash damage. Direct hits also still work on grouped up enemies!