It was just like fightning against an Iceman, but in a time where there was almost no counter for him. With a rank 4 5-star champion with class advantage, the coldsnap was enough to almost kill your champion at full HP.
Man it was horrible, it wasn’t like fighting a stacked iceman now, the Coldnsap damage took pretty much the full health of a 4-55 5* that wasn’t either boosted had class advantage or an abnormally high health pool, any 4* or r3 5* had to be fully boosted to stand a chance, and back then the only coldsnap immune in game was mephisto and he hits like a noodle without incinerate, there was no such thing as a 5-65 then either, it was horrible, I remember fighting her 6 times with a 4* hulk full health boosts and a lot of revives and potions
I respectfully passed. If content introduces an opponent with no existing counter on my roster, I skip it. That Coldsnap was impossible back then. Today she would be no problem at all. ☻👍
Yeah, only to the point a class advantage 4-55 went to 15% health from full, Coldnsap still killed any unboosted 4*
< There were a couple of exceptions, Rogue being the one that comes to mind. If you could either reduce the duration of the coldsnap or shake the debuff off you could survive. But I don’t think anything under 4/55 could just tank the damage fully.
Others have already described the difficult attributes of Ice Phoenix - the initial cold snap and the heal block - but what really made her nasty was the consequences of all that stuff. At the time not many people had experience fighting Iceman so evading Ice Phoenix’s specials was not easy for most. Couple that with the heal block and you get a champion what was very likely to kill you. Couple *that* with the initial coldsnap damage and you get a champ you couldn’t just revive and fight again, so you couldn’t just keep trying until you got her. If you died, you either had to revive *and* use a lot of potions (or else coldsnap would just kill you at the start of the fight) or reset the whole map and try again.
To be honest, at the time there was probably a lot of players dealing with UC content by just reviving their way through the rough spots, and Ice Phoenix was something you couldn’t do that for. That made her especially nasty for many UC players at the time. But even pretty good players could have extreme difficulty with her.
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With a rank 4 5-star champion with class advantage, the coldsnap was enough to almost kill your champion at full HP.
That Coldsnap was impossible back then. Today she would be no problem at all. ☻👍
There were a couple of exceptions, Rogue being the one that comes to mind. If you could either reduce the duration of the coldsnap or shake the debuff off you could survive. But I don’t think anything under 4/55 could just tank the damage fully.
Others have already described the difficult attributes of Ice Phoenix - the initial cold snap and the heal block - but what really made her nasty was the consequences of all that stuff. At the time not many people had experience fighting Iceman so evading Ice Phoenix’s specials was not easy for most. Couple that with the heal block and you get a champion what was very likely to kill you. Couple *that* with the initial coldsnap damage and you get a champ you couldn’t just revive and fight again, so you couldn’t just keep trying until you got her. If you died, you either had to revive *and* use a lot of potions (or else coldsnap would just kill you at the start of the fight) or reset the whole map and try again.
To be honest, at the time there was probably a lot of players dealing with UC content by just reviving their way through the rough spots, and Ice Phoenix was something you couldn’t do that for. That made her especially nasty for many UC players at the time. But even pretty good players could have extreme difficulty with her.