DarkHawk unawakened, best way to use him?
Etjama
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Just pulled my first 6 star and low and behold, it was DarkHawk! I know he's best awakened, but he's still pretty solid unawakened too. But when he's unawakened, what's the best way to use him? This is on of the very few champs I have virtually no experience with,so any tips would be greatly appreciated.
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Using the synergy with Night Thrasher is also very helpful since he starts the fight in a random mode.
Definitely add Night Thrasher or Moon Knight to the team - Darkhawk's modes are really important, and starting in Null mode gives you double damage until it fades out. Also either Ghost Rider or Punisher is an excellent synergy choice for additional Power Gain or Critical Rating.
Null mode is great for damage; Stealth mode can help you avoid a few hits; but it's mostly about dramatically reducing the opponents defensive Power Gain, which can be very handy if their Specials are tricky to avoid. So it's helpful if synergy helps you start in Stealth mode, too.
The one thing I do very differently with DH is to occasionally deliberately take hits to trigger his regeneration; which is nice to have, but tricky to make use of. If you're fighting an opponent with a multi-hit or otherwise low-damage SP1 (like War Machine, Joe Fixit, Loki), then you can drop block and take the last hit to put you in Shield mode, then use SP2 or SP3 to trigger a new mode, and a bit of regeneration. Then push them back to SP1 and repeat, if you like.
overall, just fight normally, no special method really