Champion Spotlight - Vision (Aarkus)
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About VISION (AARKUS):
Vision, whose true name is Aarkus, is an alien law enforcement officer from a dimension known as Smokeworld. After being accidentally contacted by a scientist from Earth, Aarkus came to our dimension to fight crime. He has the ability to control gasses, smoke and cold, even teleporting to the far side of the world using little more than a smouldering cigar.
VISION’s (AARKUS) Mechanics:
Aarkus starts every fight with a Power Gain Buff and gains more over time. As long as he has at least one of these Buffs, he can inflict Armor Break Debuffs onto his Opponent just by staying near them. While under the effect of an Armor Break, Opponents also take Coldsnap damage over time. To end a fight, Aarkus can convert his Armor Breaks into a very long Armor Shattered Debuff, which shuts down Robot systems and lets him deal bursts of bonus Energy damage with his Special 1 Attack and Special 2 Attack.
BASE STATS & ABILITIES
* All stats based on 4-Star, Rank 5, Level 50, Signature Level 99
| HEALTH: 15660 |
ATTACK: 1148 |
| MAX PI: |
WITHOUT SIGNATURE: 3879 WITH SIGNATURE (99): 4756 |
| HEALTH: 31398 |
ATTACK: 2301 |
| MAX PI: |
WITHOUT SIGNATURE: 7807 WITH SIGNATURE (200): 10580 |
Character Class: Cosmic
Basic Abilities: Power Gain, Armor Break, Coldsnap, Fury
STRENGTHS
- Power Gain
- Aarkus starts each fight with a pretty strong Power Gain Buff, and gains an additional one every 10 seconds. Once he has a few of these, they more than compensate for his decreased base Power Rate, and he’s able to use Special Attacks way more frequently than the average Champion.
- Anti-Power Control
- Aarkus has a few abilities which punish Champions who try to control his Power. He reduces the strength of Power Drain effects and the duration of Power Lock against him. He also gains an additional Power Gain buff whenever he receives a Power Drain or Lock.
- Armor Break and Armor Shattered
- While he has at least one Power Gain Buff, Aarkus applies an Armor Break Debuff every 2.3 seconds, just by being near them. These Armor Breaks are also Paused while close to Aarkus, so he’s able to build up quite a few, and deal progressively more damage to the Opponent. Finally, he can convert all these Armor Breaks into a very long Armor Shattered Debuff, which has a higher overall potency and shuts down Robot systems for its duration.
- Consistent Nullify - Doctor Strange, Symbiote Supreme
- Aarkus needs Power Gain Buffs before he has access to any of his other abilities. He gains one of these every 10 seconds, but if an Opponent is able to consistently remove them with a Nullify effect, they’ll keep Aarkus under control.
- Coldsnap and Armor Break Immunity - Mephisto, Human Torch, Thing
- Aarkus’ other major threat is that while Opponents have an Armor Break or are Armor Shattered, he deals Coldsnap damage to them just by being near them. But if the Opponent is Immune to any of those effects, they can just ignore this damage entirely.
Abilities:
Passive:
- Aarkus reduces the potency of Power Drain effects by 80%, and the duration of Power Lock effects by 50%.
- Aarkus gains 15% less Power from landing and receiving Hits.
- Aarkus draws strength from the Smokeworld dimension at all times. He starts the fight with a Power Gain Buff, and gains 1 every 10 second(s).
- These Buffs last indefinitely. The first one grants Aarkus 4% of a Bar of Power every 1 second(s), and every subsequent Power Gain Buff is 33.33% less effective.
- He also gains one whenever his Power is Drained or he receives a Power Lock Debuff.
Frozen Air:
- While Aarkus has a Power Gain Buff, he freezes the area near him. Every 2.30 second(s) the Opponent spends near Aarkus, they gain an Armor Break Debuff, decreasing Armor Rating by 222.22 for 5 second(s). These Armor Breaks are capped at 10.
- Armor Break Debuffs on the Opponent are Paused while they are near Aarkus.
- While the Opponent is near Aarkus and they have an Armor Break or Armor Shattered Debuff, they also gain a Coldsnap Debuff, dealing 126.28 Energy damage every 0.50 second(s). Opponents under a Coldsnap cannot Evade attacks.
SPECIAL ATTACKS
Hits from Special Attacks Pause all Armor Break Debuffs on the Opponent until the end of the Special Attack.
Developer’s Note: The main reason for this is so Aarkus doesn’t have to worry about getting too far from the Opponent during his Special Attacks.
Special 1 Attack - Spiral of Smoke
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Special 2 Attack - Blizzard Blast
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Special 3 Attack - Talk to the Hand
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Signature Ability - Smoke and Mirrors: Like smoke slipping through your fingers, this Signature Ability makes Aarkus even harder to pin down.
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SYNERGY BONUSES
FIRST OF HIS NAME - Unique - 5 Star and up - With Vision, Vision (Age of Ultron)
- Vision (Aarkus): Armor Shattered also decreases Ability Accuracy and Power Gain of Tech Champions who rely on #Metal.
- Vision, Vision (Age of Ultron): Power Burn effects also grant a Fury Buff for 6 second(s). The Fury potency increases with the amount of Power Burned.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
DRY ICE - Unique - 4 Star and up - With Iceman, Mysterio
- Vision (Aarkus): Increase the duration of Armor Break Debuffs by 2 second(s) flat.
- Iceman: Increase the duration of Frostbite Passives by 4 second(s) flat.
- Mysterio: Increase the duration of Reflection and Frenzy gas by 3 second(s) flat.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
SENIOR'S DISCOUNT - Unique - 3 Star and up - With Black Widow (Claire Voyant), Old Man Logan, Captain America
- Synergy Members: Special Attacks cost 15% less Power.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
TEAMMATES - Unique - 2 Star and up - With Doctor Strange, Winter Soldier, Captain America (WW2), Namor
- All Champions gain +5% Perfect Block Chance.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
RECOMMENDED MASTERIES
Enhanced Fury
- The Fury on Aarkus’ Special Attack 3 is already quite strong, but it can be improved even more with the Enhanced Fury mastery. And as mentioned above, this will also increase the damage he deals with Coldsnap.
Despair
- Aarkus has a very easy time putting lots of Armor Break Debuffs on the Opponent. While he can only stack up to 10 of them, that’s more than enough to fully suppress the Opponent’s regeneration effects via the Despair mastery.
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Comments
Haha
Poor Cap.
Honestly though, he seems like he’ll be a pain on defense. Not a bad champ at all.
Warden out ~
1. he doesnt seem like a suicide friendly champion,
2. prestige is meh, epecially after all recent higher prestige champ came out this year
3. he destroys robots
4. good vs auto evade champs
5. Has good power gain, no immunites, no regen etc
6. Another champion who relies on getting to sp3 for "fury"
7. gets outshined by other cosmics, Corvus,CMM,
Hype (fury+insane power gain like aarkus) and prob better than medusa who also counter robots.
Looks like Aarkus gets armour shatter from sp2 and can do lots of damage from an sp1
They should add the tag.
FIRST OF HIS NAME - Unique - 5 Star and up - With Vision, Vision (Age of Ultron)
Vision (Aarkus): Armor Shattered also decreases Ability Accuracy and Power Gain of Tech Champions who rely on #Metal.
didn't you forget about that ability of his that makes him laggy to fight?but hey despite that he does look like quite a cool (pun not intended, but definitely noticed) champion. Quite a nice bit of power gain, an Armor Shatter effect that can work on a slightly wider group of champions, quite a decent amount of damage, and more. I'd like to get him, but I'll just wait for him to get added to the basic pool like all the other f2p peeps.
EDIT: and oh yeah he's got power manipulation resistance. That'll be nice. Basically the best counter for stuff like Languor (damage when your power drops to 0) (you'd only need to make sure you don't use a sp3)
here some suicide aarkus but he really is NOT suicide friendly,
his damage is also sub par without it and UNLIKE omega, he loses armor shatter and has NO way to keep it up when u deash back u ALWAYS loses his armor break debuff, and can ONLY be extended by doing SP3 WHILE he is armor shatter to get the fury + extending his cold aura.
i really think he needs a rework, he has no defensive utilities,immunities and requires a good amount of ramp up.
@Kabam Zibiit
Feel like a pretty neat counter part to OG Vision would be if this version of Vision was maybe immune to Incinerate (given Aarkus’s cold abilities) or something along those lines. Poison immunity really though feels like the one thing that’s surprisingly missing to me.
Quick search on Fandom I found these interesting items on Aarkus:
Intake Immunity: As of yet there is no toxin or atmosphere known to harm him, he can virtually breath in anything allowing him to survive throughout dimensions.
Superhuman Durability: Aarkus extra-dimensional body makes him impervious to close range gun shots but he has been knocked unconscious by a deathly blow to the head, a minute later recovering with no visible marks or pain.
Mind Control: Can take temporary control of any person.
Why doesn't Aarkus have any immunities?
with suicide masteries 120.000 damage
But tell me about non-damaging debuff.... witch are?
Armor break
Stifle
And with are the other?
Stun and parry doesn’t deal damage but Aarkus is unable to purify them...
I think if Aarkus can be a very great Champ if he purify stun and parry