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Good day, fellow summoners! I’d like to tell you about how our beloved little indie company, Kabam, works!

As many of you know, last week a bunch of players got their accounts banned for donating to the game through third parties. Because of this, my honest and dear allies and friends suffered—people who play the game fairly, without using third-party software, and who also have great skill and an impressive stock of testosterone. They contacted support to find out exactly why they were banned, and the answer from support was a killer — they were banned for cheating in Battlegrounds. And everyone got the exact same response.

I’m not going to speculate on the real reason for the bans, because it’s just laughable. Nobody broke the rules in Battlegrounds — some of them didn’t even really play that mode in the past season.

So, here’s the point of my post: I wasn’t banned. And I thought — what if I contact support with the same issue my friends had, but with my account still active? Guess what? I got exactly the same response as my friends. You can’t make this up.

The funniest part is the ticket submission form. Support asks you to provide your in-game nickname, when you made a purchase, when you last logged in — all, apparently, just to create the illusion that they care about the player. In reality, it seems they didn’t bother to run any actual checks, since our beloved little indie company apparently decided to put their support in fully automated mode so they wouldn’t waste too much effort. I’ll attach screenshots of the ticket and the response to this post, as well as proof that I wasn’t banned.

@ItsClobberinTime You 100% care about all the arguing… your actions show it. Doesn’t matter if you sayyyy you don’t if your actions don’t show it. 💀 & calling me a narcissist proves that you have no idea what narcissism is. 🤧

But you know what… since you’re so upset about it… and i’m such a nice, caring guy…….
Let me know your exact rotation that makes Solvarch seem decent in your eyes and i’ll actually go and test it out and let you know if it changes my mind or not. So just SP1 and SP3?

Go watch the video I posted? It has multiple rotations that give him decent enough damage to deal with the current problematic meta defenders. He literally takes all current meta relevant mutants, Zola, Spider Woman and Bullseye in under a minute what else do you want? You keep glazing Patriot every single day but this is trash? Patriot is literally ass for anyone that isn't Photon.

Anyways, you build to three bars and while at 100 core charges you throw sp1 to get 5 energize then do mm mlllm while they're stunned and sp3 immediately. If a r1 is getting 240k damage in one rotation then a r3 should be close to ko WS with one, if he doesn't you're doing something wrong and just to prove that I will r3 mine before Bastion so you can finally stop complaining and spreading misinformation.

Used this exact rotation I mentioned on a non energy non mutant matchup and the sp3 was 138k in total for a r1 Solvarch:



Total damage was 235k, how is 235k damage for a r1 bad? Sure he isn't the fastest I won't argue that, but he can easily punch same rank defenders including non mutant non energy ones like Bullseye in roughly 50-55 secs. Doesn't mean he's insane but he's not trash at all, or mid especially when you think someone like Patriot is top tier lol.

Tried special damage stat focus previously and the total sp3 damage was 138k, you think it'd be better than armor penetration but I tried it with armor penetration right now and the sp3 damage went from 138k to 151k



So it seems armor penetration is definitely the way to go with him, again this is r1 Solvarch. I'll be taking him to r4 after Crucible to see what he can really do.

Just took him to r2, and tried same sp3 rotation, exact same fight.



At r1, the sp3 damage was 151k and total damage was 262k. At r2 the sp3 damage went up to 194k and total damage went up to 334k.
Basically, sp3 damage increased by nearly 50k, total damage increased by nearly 75k. Sure sp3 rotation still isn't the fastest but if it continues scaling this way then he will have zero issues taking out same rank Bullseye Photon Spider Woman and Enchantress with that rotation even if it takes about 50-55 secs, better than getting straight up outdrafted without a counter. And then he will of course be a tank on defense if you really don't have a defender to use him against or if you draft a better counter.

I will continue to update next week when I take him to r3, and eventually r4 once I do the Crucible. There's a solid chance he might even be able to punch a whole rank above even against Bullseye and the others.
I'll definitely be doing a lot of testing this BGs season as well, that sp3 rotation is being slept on.

I felt like doing an analysis with just a bit of simplified math, hope I don't mess this up.

If we're discussing over the video Nick136 posted then I'll have small calculations and share some insights to disprove some of the false impressions created as seen on this post. I'll go case by case for his best performances against certain champions but keep in mind that both Solvarch and the defender is r4 in this video. I'll just analyze the matchups as seen in the video so prepare for some excessive yapping while I act as if someone cares.

Photon (1 min 9 sec): I don't think there's much to analyze here, with just the addition of Inequity this matchup clearly won't work at all or take much longer than ideal for a bgs matchup.

Spider-Woman (55 sec): Again, inequity will mess him up and lead to a timeout with a decent loss of health at best.

Bullseye (52 sec): Now this is where I do a slight bit of math to show why this matchup is not decent by any means. In the video we see Solvarch nuke Bullseye with a beautiful sp3. Unfortunately this matchup seems too risky for most scenarios. To see why, let's analyze the numbers a bit. Sp3 does 79k damage with a 171k burst which equals about 250k. A r4 Bullseye has around 400k health if I'm correct and we see the sp3 knock him out at %60 hp which is about 240k health points. Here is the tricky part, Solvarch had 76 core charges when he threw the sp3 which resulted in 10k excess damage. By the way his reverb scales with core charges, had he lost a few milliseconds and went down to 72 when he threw the sp3 he would have lost around 10k burst damage (around the same as the excess damage he had in the video) and considering the rounding error he would have been just a bit off from the knockout, probably resulting in eating an sp3 afterwards. Had it not been picture perfect as in the video his damage would have been barely off and it only gets worse for the passing of each second equaling about a 10k damage loss per second. I personally don't find a matchup with such strict numbers in play decent and wouldn't even attempt it at all. This was almost a miracle, not a realistic showcase of his capabilities.

Onslaught (32 sec): What can I say, this guy was made to nuke champions who inflict constant energy DoT. He excels at those matchups like no other but you can clearly see how limited those are unless nodes are involved. Seems insanely fun for them though, what a guy.

Captain Britain (39 sec): Same as Onslaught but I don't expect her to be meta relevant, a meta merchant at best. Not much else to say.

Jean Grey (39 sec): Poor Jean...

Mister Sinister ( 1 min 2 sec): The fact that Solvarch is not an actual robot really hurts him here, you can't do medium combo enders ever. He also doesn't have anything to counter ability accuracy reduction so pick whatever special you wanna bait, it'll mess you up. Not the best not the worst but far from ideal. All of Mister Sinister's threats are there, he only lacks the regen in this fight which is definitely valuable but still. Just serviceable at best and can't dare to call him a counter.

Iceman (31 sec): He nukes, fair and simple. Only downsides are the fact that he can't inflict coldsnap since Iceman is immune and you take some coldsnap damage even though a portion of it is healed back. Nonetheless a hp loss of over 10% is not the greatest but its Iceman afterall. Don't even worry about it, you probably won't ever face a r4 sig 200 Iceman. If you do you may have already lost that match, not even Solvarch would save you from such a whale.

Domino (39 sec): Constant energy damage is both nice and not nice. Nick loses over 10% hp yet again here but the main problem is the ability accuracy reduction, although not as much as your average champion you will still rely on RNG and there's no way around it. Literally a luck based fight that would be hard to consistently pull off as quickly as in the video. One great thing worth mentioning is the fact that you can prevent evade with your coldsnap which simplifies the fight quite a lot. Not a tricky fight at all, just a bit luck dependent which sucks since I'm never lucky 😞

Dust (1 min 2 sec): Nothing special here. Her sandstorm does inflict constant energy damage but do you really wanna trigger that? Honestly not sure if that can be a viable strategy, I'm curious now. Another 10% hp lost here as well and it also took quite a bit of time. Not great but not that bad either. Just... What was the word... Mid?

Enchantress (1 min 6 sec): I can probably count 200+ champions that can do this fight as effectively as Solvarch did in the video. I find it pointless to analyze an Enchantress fight tbh. Even Domino isn't as luck and AI dependent as her, pretty sure that Solvarch can do a lot better and a lot worse in this fight. Nothing to comment on, happens every once in a while when Enchantress decides to play nice.

Overall only 4-5 of these matchups at most could be considered ideal or great imo. The rest are either nothing noteworthy or just straight up out of reach for Solvarch. He seems like quite the specialist. You can claim that he has the damage, that he has the utility but he definitely does not have any versatility whatsoever. So this analysis will wrap up my final thoughts on the champion for now until we see more from him and I hope it makes sense to anyone unfortunate to read this mess. My general thoughts on him are out here in the comments piece by piece as if anyone would be interested. At least he looks cool.

I do agree with some of your points but I disagree with a few.

1. Bullseye: after you throw that sp1 it's very hard to screw up and lose charges unless your reaction time is not that good. That's how I've been doing that WS in ROL and so far it plays perfectly, bait two sp2s and fight's done. The only thing that could screw this up is the metas mainly power gain ones, now of course I could be wrong but I'm definitely willing to try this matchup myself and I will once he's r3. I definitely don't think it'll be as hard as you think
2. Sinister: I don't think it's really as bad as you make it sound, I've done Sinister with champs like FAM and Red Skull and the rotation is pretty much the same as with Solvarch. Bait heavy and push to sp2, and the fight usually goes pretty well, I do think however he should've used sp3 here not sp2 sp1 like he did. Again, another match up I will definitely be trying myself.
3. Dust, Domino: I agree he's not the best and he will either take long or lose some hp but the way I see Solvarch for these fights is as a last resort. We all have been screwed by luck RNG, what if your opponent didn't get a counter for your defender that's an easy win right there. If you draft a better counter you can always throw him on defense instead.
4. Enchantress: another champ where I think he used the wrong rotation, what I will be trying out is bait two sp1s and go straight to sp3 before she throws sp2 but fight has to be over after her sp2.
5. Capt. Britain: I think she will be a lot more relevant than you think and that increases Solvarch's value, not saying she's this unkillable defender but she is very tanky you have to slow play it without a counter.

I do take back the Photon and Spider Woman comments tho, Inequity is absolutely going to be a problem there. I'm still going to try both but you might be onto something.
Also, another thing is he likely won't be able to punch a rank above unless it's a mutant or a matchup where you can get all 10 energize passives so that is something worth keeping in mind. I doubt he will be this insane dual threat like Spider Woman but personally, I do think there's some value and potential there, we'll see.