Punisher 2099 great champion now!
DarthHaas
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So I ranked my punisher 2099 to rank 3 prior to the tune up announcement. I pulled a 3rd tech t5cc and was super annoyed that I didn’t have a single worthy tech champion worthy. I then duped my punisher so I just said screw it and ranked him. I was initially not super excited about the tune up. After trying him out multiple quests with the new monthly events I am really liking him. His ability to control power is extremely nice! His damage output is great also!
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I took him into AQ to test against the Energize node, where the opponent gets 200% powergain when you strike them.
When in overdrive it didn't seem like this was affected at all, which I think is strange. Anyone else test this?
It says it causes the opponent to gain 90% less power not that it reduces by 90%
In my head it works like this:
Normal powergain = 100
In overdrive they gain 90% less (100-(100*90%)) = 10
With 200% powergain = 100*200% = 200 or 100+(100*200%)=300
In overdrive = 200-(200*90%)= 20 or 300-(300*90%)=30
None of that happened and they had an sp3 in a 5hit combo even in overdrive.
This would feel right based on my experience though. This diminishes p2099's potential quite a bit though.
He's a lot like Psylocke in that way. She can actually take advantage of Power Gain effects by carefully spamming SP1; but P2099 can't do that.
Luckily there aren't too many +200% Energise nodes around; but it's definitely a limitation. Aside from the obvious champs with Power Gain (like Hypes, etc), there's a few champs with built-in Energize that he'd be somewhat less effective against, too - Carnage, Cyclops Blue and Awakened Moon Knight spring to mind.
And when compared to psylocke the only thing stopping psylocke from being an amazing champ is her terrible damage, but P2099 has some great damage and he has a few more bits and bobs of utility, like a passive heal block, and guaranteed stun on his heavy as long as he has 10 charges