Well we all know that groot is one of the worst champions in the game, let’s be honest. He deals weak damage unless he has his passive active. His sp 1 only has a bit of armour pierce unlike Thor’s true damage. His sp 2 is weak and has a small regeneration and his sp 3 places a decent damage bleed on the opponent for about 2 seconds with no masteries. And finally he has an awakened ability of physical resists which have a chance to appear with his passive which do hardly anything. So basically he is overall pretty useless. The only thing we kind of have going for him is his bleed immunity even though we Can find much better bleed immunes, and his value in defence (which isn’t even that much). So what can we do to make groot better? Well recently we have all been enjoying a battle against red hulk who has thorns which is a really annoying node if you don’t have the right counters.
So instead of making groot better offensively maybe he can have a slight buff to make him an annoying surprise fight or overall difficult without the right counters in defence. We already have annoying defenders such as medusa, modok, killmonger who you need to play smart to beat but recent reworks have made great attackers who still lack defensively. Just to clarify groots awakened ability at the moment is that he has a chance to gain a physical resist buff every pacifism charge consumed when he activated his passive. So my suggestion is that these act like thorns, like normal they activate with his passive and last for this duration. When the opponent lands a critical hit on groot whilst a physical resistance is active there is a 100% chance (can be altered by ability accuracy reduction) , 10% of groots damage (increases by 5% for each resistance active) would be dealt in energy damage on the opponent. This would kind of work with reality as punching a tree is bound to hurt. With this simple buff on his awakened ability it could provide him to be an annoying defender and make him more useful in game. This could also make people make his signiture level higher to get more resistances which can make him an annoying fight If you don’t have someone like dr voodoo to counter and nullify the buffs.
This makes sure he is a balanced defender as he can be susceptical to ability accuracy reduction and nullify abilities but can be lethal if these aren’t used. Comment your opinions on this (even if you don’t want another annoying defender) but don’t go saying this won’t help him at all as i already mentioned possible weaknesses but this could be an effective easily added buff.
And kabam if you actually see this then don’t add it something similar as a synergy as then it’ll be useless as they don’t work in defence
