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@ DARKWhisper (I don't prefer tagging people)
I totally agree with 95%* of that.
I'm also thankful that you put forward your findings and opinions in a respectful manner which seems be lacking these days. 🙏

He seem to be doing exactly as advertised from what I observed.

These stats shouts mid.
He is a survivor. Bunch of armor crit resistant and couple immunities.
Using energy based attacker on him and failing a single dex during a special will cost.
I won't trust someone who is saying solvarch is supposed to be THE OP nuke meta attacker.

Doing quiet decent vs quiet a few mutants and energy matchups. And that's where his reign ends.

One sp3 cycle kills, but he doesnt have any damage to finish of the remaining heath on the defender. If sp3 doesnt kill, going for another takes extra time. There's sp2 rotation looks better vs mutants.

A lot slower vs others, for a being a 6*, which is fine. Got a hard learning curve. Got him for free just playing the game though.

A single 1 minute sp2 sp1 sp3 cycle took 60% of storm in ROL. That's about 300k health. Not bad for a defender.
A 7r4 will definfilty be relevant in BGs (niche on attack). 6* is not tho.
He gets the title of fun rankup.
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*5% on point 5, it was 31 second fight. Pretty nukey for a niche champ without coldsnap immunity.

Not sure about the defender potential tbh, he has passive armor ups but they get removed by armor break still. Might be tricky for a while with his specials and the healing off of energy damage but common nukes like Medusa, Scream and Thanos should have no problems I think. We'll see about it I guess, its even harder to judge a champions defensive capabilities compared to his offensive strength.


Also I'm kinda used to the off-topics at this point as I deserve them most of the time but idk why this weirdo is camping in the thread waiting for a new comment to react to. I'm literally on-topic for once in my entire life, I even discussed Solvarch on a Solvarch discussion thread. Literally every comment here is getting off-topic'd in an instant, idk whats wrong with the guy and I probably shouldn't have acknowledged him honestly. It can't be Tairique's ghost either, he would have loved to discuss Solvarch with us just as anyone here would. Man, I just miss him sometimes...

He is niche as a defender too. A bit tanky and energy damage will charge him. So have to save one non energy attacker.
And it's good he is not a big problem. The defenders are raining these days, sometimes it's nice to get a break.

Off topic is the new normal. I'd like to hit 1k so it's great.

Now that Tairique finally has bars on his profile we can actually have a serious discussion about this lol.

I like him personally, and I'm in the process of taking him to r4 soon. On the previous thread which got closed I saw a lot of people mentioning how his only use is mutants with energy damage (mind you that includes Capt. Britain, Domino, Onslaught, Havok, Iceman, Dust, Jean, Sinister, Cassandra and Dazzler which is basically 90% of all mutant defenders/dual threats) because in every other matchup he's kinda slow therefore he's mid. This is an argument I don't really agree with, I would if those where the only matchups he can take but in BGs he can also handle others like Zola, Bullseye, Enchantress, Shuri, Prowler although at a much slower pace due to having to use different rotations and strategies.
Now, I agree that for these last few matchups I mentioned he's not faster or better than their actual counters however BGs is a game mode where draft can easily completely screw you over and for that reason alone, I think there is some value there, he's a safety net in case you get terrible luck.
I would agree that he's mid if he didn't basically nuke most current mutant meta defenders in 30-40 secs but he does, and he does the rest of the matchups I explained so that to me is enough to make him decent. Nothing crazy, probably not even a top 5 tech, but decent enough to where I actually want to r4 him and have him in my deck.
To add to all this, he's also a solid defender, nothing too crazy but without a decent counter it's a guaranteed timeout essentially.
The only real downside that bothers me is that the sp3 can't nuke if he's punching a rank above, that rotation is only a guaranteed ko in same rank fights.

So yeah overall not op, not top a top champ either, but definitely not mid, imo he's decent. We'll see when I do all the testing this upcoming season but I really don't see him being extremely meta dependant or too slow to allow him to shine even in higher leagues in GC where time matters a bit more.

We're fine if there's no 7 star lock. If else, there's no hope for small valiants. Even mid level valiants with 100+ 7 stars would struggle in that case. Its not a negligible change to go from 2 runs of 32 fights to a single one of 64. I'm not even sure if I have the mental fortitude and physical stamina to finish it up in a day. All good if no rarity lock though considering how Lagacy literally used a 4 star Serpent to solo a fight in the previous crucible.

I got the feeling of going on a Serpent rant while typing but I'll hold myself. Just like the way he holds his specials while in death immunity till he reaches 3 bars.

You don't have to finish it in a day. You can stay in crucible while doing other quests, and finish it in maybe stretches of 10 bosses each time.