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I don’t really care about most of the conversation happening here about SF Blade being good or mid or bad, we’ll see how good he is when we can actually play with him. I do agree that SF Blade was never supposed to be a 100% upgrade over his regular counterpart, where he does everything regular Blade does but better. Anyone expecting that, or even a SF Blade that had every ability regular Blade does to varying degrees, was setting themself up for disappointment.

On that topic of regular vs. SF Blade, though, what does immediately disappoint me is that SF Blade has NOTHING with regular Blade. The 4 regular Deathless all had unique synergies with their regular champion counterparts that were neat bonuses (Deathless Thanos did not have a synergy with regular Thanos, but I’m willing to give them a pass on that one since he’s built to have very powerful synergies with the rest of the Deathless and regular Thanos was frankly beyond saving via synergy). SF Star-Lord didn’t have a special unique synergy with regular Star-Lord alone, but he did have a synergy with him regardless that offered him something, however small. SF Blade has zero synergy bonuses with regular Blade though, not even a generic +5% Attack boost or something, which feels like a waste. Throw those Blade loyalists a bone, it’s not gonna make him break the meta again, I promise.

You don't want something fun, you wanted something groundbreaking. Judging by your profile pic, I might even go as far as to guess that you have some personal feelings about this

Thing is that Kabam proposed introducing a Blacklist into BGs a while back and people seemed to be overwhelmingly against it, and unfortunately this seems to be the rare instance where Kabam was actually cowed by such negativity bc I haven’t heard a peep about it since.

Yea, I agree with Herbie. If you needed 30 revives for Ordeal which is really doable under 10 revives with the champs we have now, then you'll definitely need to prepare a Bong amount of revives for Epoch.

If you have explored Epoch, you'll have an idea. Better check out the guides to plan a real good team and lessen revives use. Ares' diffs from player to player. Some can get him in under 10, some 30. If you fought him before, you'll have an estimate.

So people who don't play alliance modes are complaining about scoring on an event that has mostly alliance mode consumables....

Yeah sounds about right for the forums.

(Waiting for the 1 person who is going to point out the 1 sig stone)

You’re getting that same comment because your expectations were unrealistic, and you’re just throwing a tantrum for no reason.

Maybe if you chill out and read what I said you’ll understand why they didn’t make his regen and other things stronger, SYNERGIES. Deathless champs other than Thanos are the exact same in that sense they need synergies for certain abilities to be strong I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if one of the synergies with Doom or someone else makes Blade’s regen even stronger. This is how all Deathless champs other than the main chase one were designed yet I didn’t see you throwing a tantrum about Vision or DKG being mid. You’re just mad that the champ you care about is not that crazy even though YOU set those high expectations yourself. Even when you knew how this SF chase would work, exactly the same as the Deathless one: all champs other than the main one mid and synergy reliant.

I can understand the frustration over Dracula being ass and I completely agree, but this one’s on you man.

Every 5 minutes I’m getting this comment… “IDK what you expected It’s just Stellar Forged”

I expected Mystic Blade, enhanced by Isophyne in her ambitions to take down the Eidols. I expected the spotlight to not be 2 minutes long. I expected something fun… interesting. Not even strong or even better than old Blade. Just something fun. You see Star Lord being basic after he went from tech to skill makes sense. Skill champions aren’t interesting or creative, they’re practical and physically impressive.

A Vampire hybrid joining the mystic class is supposed to make us feel like he’s a vampire hybrid that’s joining the mystic class. I’m not even mad at the kit for the most part. What I’m mad about is that now when I unlock this champion I’m going to have to spend more time deliberating over whether or not I should take Skill Blade or mystic blade to a contest. All because Kabam couldn’t even do us the decency of copying and pasting Blade’s kit over to his SF counter part, and adding on degen and power steal. Couldn’t even let him regen to 80% health (SCREW IT! 75%) 🫩this isn't that hard. I didn't ask them to give him invisibility and Pheonix force powers or a completely new SP3 animation or the leather jacket. Just reduce the annoyance of picking which character to bring into a mode by giving him all of skill blade’s kit… and ACTUALLY enhancing it.

In summary since I ended up waffling! There is no reason why Blade should be worse at any of his vampiric abilities during the process of literally having his vampiric abilities “Enhanced”. And Kabam’s decision to once again remove vital utility and survivability from a kit just reflects the modern champion design (you can hide behind SF gimmicks all you want) but this is just the truth of modern champion designs. 2 steps forward, 1 step back. Never anything to write home about. Nothing that I can tell my friends “Hey look! ITS MYSTIC BLADE! HE’S DIFFERENT THAN THE OLD BLADE!” It’s basically the meme “All he did was take a few steps back” or the one with the tooth pick. I mean aight… cool I guess

Just considering a few more attacking options: as far as I can see from DLL's Deep Dive with context, Ruby's Autoblock (unlike Peni's) isn't immune to ability accuracy reduction, so there's another very solid cosmic attacker choice: Angela.

Non-cosmic champs who have access to AAR, too: Black Widow, Ronin, etc. I'm sure AlisonEdits will showcase Ronin, if he does. Heck, Mister Sinister is a mutant, but I don't see why his 100% concussion won't work.

Also, whilst he's primarily a defender, Attuma completely ignores (actually benefits from) these Tech champions who reduce the ability accuracy of either True Accuracy or Stun. He's a great option for Red Skull, so I don't see why he won't work for Ruby.