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Wasn’t today the day for top-30 prestige in AQ?

Because our displayed number didn’t change

TyEdge

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Niko v/s Kushala

Hello all, I have been reading, watching about both Niko and Kushala. I have got both of them and played many matches with them. A general perspective of the community seems to be that Niko is game breaking and may be best of mystics..

I feel Kushala can play against almost any one as long as they are not buff immune. On the other hand Niko is OP when playing against cosmics. However, when it comes to other classes and champions (which there are many) Niko doesn't seem to do well in my comparison. Kushala can work around incinerate immunity by using sp2 with buffs. Niko can't do the same for poison immunity as it seems the acid burn does not apply to non cosmics.

I wanted to know other community members' thoughts on the same. Overall, my understanding is...

If you want a cosmic destroyer and a good BG defender rank Niko.

If you want a very good and versatile attacker who is a mediocre defender, go for Kushala.

What do you all think.

PS. I may not have considered some/many aspects here and hence this discussion thread. Please comment so I can learn those aspects..

mcocinterpreter

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Re: Yelena + Dark Pheonix balance update ??

Unfortunately, and I hope I am wrong but based on where the company seems to be going, I suspect that it has been pushed out till today or tomorrow so that the Nico/Karolina one will come out a month later, i.e. after the cyber weekend deals. I would recommend everyone hold off from spending for this year's cyber-weekend deal unless that update comes out before it and your find with what it includes. Personally, that is what I will be doing this year and will completely stop spending permanently if Nico or Karolina get nerfed.

Dr. Crab

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Re: Next r4 help. Spiderwoman vs. Photon?

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2893059#Comment_2893059

If it wasnt a huge piece of her kit, Kabam would have just taken ensnare off of defense. They are nerfing her because it wrecks abilities. They obviously valued that more than stopping evade which 15 other champions do. If you need a big damage champ take her up, that wont change. If you are looking for utility she isnt going to be as good after the nerf.

Cdub5071

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Re: Next r4 help. Spiderwoman vs. Photon?

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/406026/next-r4-help-spiderwoman-vs-photon

Photon, SW nerf is a lot bigger than people are realizing. I would not have R4'd her without the 30 decrease in AAR.

Cdub5071

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Re: Next r4 help. Spiderwoman vs. Photon?

go with spider women , more damage on offence , on defence both do the same thing turn of dex and sw sever debuff cant be srugged off

eldenRing

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Re: Spider-woman balance update

Btw the out of 5 ratings are meaningless

According to it, Apocalypse is a 5/5 Defender.

Polygon

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Battlegrounds Matchmaking

So as we all know battlegrounds can get quite unfair for certain players. As someone who returned to the contest on a new account, I really try my best to enjoy the gamemode but once I got to silver, I (as a 381k rating player) keep getting matched against ~3m rating players. I understand that people who played longer deserve more rewards, but if you make it so that defenders give passive debuffs (like incinerate, bleed, etc.) based on their already boosted attack rating there's basically no chance for me to have a decent chance in a predecided battle. For example, in some matchups I can dodge all the defender's attacks and specials, but will still die after dealing 15-20 hits. At this point it feels like I'm just a bot to be farmed by lazy and probably mediocre high rating players. There's no reason why matchmaking shouldn't be in power rating ranges (or atleast based on battledeck) or even if it's just based on account tiers (like arena used to be). Please make this gamemode more fun and enjoyable for everyone so that skillfull players actually get rewarded and not punished for not starting earlier.

FYI: If anyone wants to make this about how much money invested etc, I've already spent over $200 in my first 1.5 weeks, so I'm sure I actually deserve to enjoy the game as much as other players.

The_Cadenza

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Re: Next r4 help. Spiderwoman vs. Photon?

I went with photon. I'll check sw after her nerf and if she's worth it then only I'll r4 her. The resources aren't that limited now

Ab_Samad

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Re: Next r4 help. Spiderwoman vs. Photon?

SW would work on that far left path just fine - the only time you really would want Photon over SW is if you need a miss counter.

Looking over the fights of that path, only 2 are really undesirable for SW - Infamous IM I think you shouldn't have lots of buffs which rules SW out with her furies, and Jabari would cleanse a lot of the debuffs - potentially Hulkling as well but that could still work…maybe?

PantherusNZ

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