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So if Ghost Rider does win the buff poll, what do you hope to see in his kit?
Some personal wishes I'd like to see:

Hellfire
Ghost Rider doesn't just use normal fire, he has hellfire. This fire does not just burn a persons flesh but directly targets their soul. It ignores normal resistances to fire so it could be cool to see Ghost Rider have the ability to inflict Hellfire instead of Incinerates (maybe from his special 2 if they keep the animations the same?) that ignores incinerate immunities.

Penace Stare
Ghost Rider his most famous attack probably, the penace stare. Directly damages a person for all the pain and injurty they have ever caused in their lives, Might be a hard thing to impliment but maybe we could include this in a way of giving Ghost Rider stronger damage against #villain champs? Not sure how to implement it otherwise but it could be cool!

Zarathos
Zarathos is the demon inside of Johnny Blaze, they often fight for who is in control. Zarathos is a LOT stronger and comes with some awesome blue fire instead of the normal orange. Might be neat if after throwing a special 3 (or some other method) Ghost Rider could let Zarathos take control for a short period where Ghost Rider gains a massive fury boost!

More motorcycle!!!
Right now there are only two instances where the Hell Cycle is seen, during the special 3 animation and standing behind Ghost Rider in the victory animation. If the art-team could maybe make it so that Ghost Rider rides into the battle on his motorcycle before jumping off to fight, that would be awesome! Maybe his victory animation could also be him riding away on it? The Hell Cycle is way too badass to not be seen slightly more!


So those are my wants/wishes for a Ghost Rider buff/rework. What do you guys wanna see?

Well, considering how quickly he does that fight after the buff, there has to be a downside so I'm kinda glad it is the way it is. If he was able to punish Zola's heavy just like that I feel like it would we way too easy and it's too early to have a champ shut down Zola almost completely.

Yeah but without heavy counter he's absolutely useless against him in AW at all and any "no parry" meta in BGs (which is often:)

Yeah but in AW there are so many champs you can use, it's not as hard and draft dependant as in BGs and time doesn't matter so allowing him to hard counter him completely in AW would just make his defensive value continue to drop when it's already dropping because of all the defenders who can counter his heavy but aren't exactly fast.

As for BGs, not really the only metas that would hurt Cull are fully stun immune metas and those are extremely rare. Purify or cleanse metas he will still be able to do as long as you can reparry.

Shall I assume you have a rank 4 Zola as mostly a defensive investment? but yeah.. so Cull will cook Zola in non-competitive modes like story quest or EQ.. unfortunately that's pretty worthless

I'm not saying I want him to be overpowered, but I wanted him to be viable in AW? Yes, there are 300 champs to use in AW, but the topic is using Cull? As a character to be excited about the tune up/release

And if they don't fix his block proficiency won't he be useless in BGs too? Where health actually matters or am I wrong?

Sorry, not trying to be argumentative, but I was pretty excited about him and the lack of heavy counter against a defender we all had in mind for him, plus no tune up to block proficiency just feels disappointing

No just r3 lol and that's where he's staying because I already think he's losing some value, not a lot but a little bit. I mean he can still cook him in non stun immune nodes in AW even if it doesn't happen too often, and he will definitely be cooking him in BGs on most metas as long as parry and reparry are possible.

I don't mean to be argumentative either but I think it's pretty clear at this point that AW is not a relevant game mode, or at the very least not as relevant as it was which is why we had Big Thing season in the first place. Very few people play in the higher leagues even with radiance being added as an incentive. I'm aware they buffed him so he could start with charges in war too but the buff itself I think was focused mainly on BGs which is where Zola's causing trouble the most.

If you can parry and reparry no, also you have to keep in mind stat focus is a thing now and I'm 100% sure statcast relics will allow you to give him even more block proficiency to the point where that will no longer he an issue unless you're straight up fighting on stun immune nodes.

Not for me personally, for one I think changing his animations to make it work would be too much work, and second I don't think he should be allowed to cook Zola everywhere in 35 secs because again that would kill a lot of the defensive value Zola currently has. Look how long after Bullseye was released it took for us to get Gentle, Cull would essentially be what Gentle is for Bullseye if he was able to do what you're asking for and Zola's too new to already be getting counters that shut him down everywhere with zero skill involved but that might just be me.

I think I preferred the old one because you understood the abilities first and then the rotation was shown to demonstrate how the abilities come together. You had more context into how the champ worked once you were watching the rotation.

With this new style you kinda learn the rotation and abilities at the same time. I don’t think that’s an issue per se but personally I prefer having the context of abilities first and then going into how they fit together in the rotation of the champion.

Honestly though, Karate Mike did a great job. He always does a great job at the Deep Dives. Absolutely nothing but love for that man. I’m not trying to criticise, just giving my thoughts.

I also really enjoy DLL’s spotlight with context videos, and Simula’s champion guides. Both are very informative and useful. I’d recommend them if you want to learn a champ in addition to the deep dives.