Here are the Falcon buff notes

Hammerbro_64

https://playcontestofchampions.com/champion-spotlight-falcon/

What do y’all think?

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avenge_123

He's gonna be a good evade counter

Hammerbro_64

Honestly I would need to see him in action. I do think Gambit got the better buff, but then again locked on with the lower cooldown might be very nice.

avenge_123

so excited

SpideyFunko

Very curious about that coming soon champ...

TheLegend27

Just from what I read, it seems like a letdown. In a class where you have 2 champs miles ahead of the rest, they just took Falcon from a joke to useable. They could have and should have done a lot more with his buff IMO. Regardless of how his damage/utility comes out, he still sounds like an outdated champ.

I'll reserve final judgment until I can actually play with him though.

Kill_Grey

He looks decent. But I think I'll still rank my 6* Elsa over him.

Holros

He will definitely have his uses,his 100% daar will come in really handy

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Wicket329

It sounds like he will (almost) be to evade champions what Torch is to Mystics. Just able to scale up damage to a genuinely absurd degree. This may sound niche (because it is), but also some of the most difficult content in the game has evasion involved. Every single Abyss and Labyrinth fight, for example.
Or every single alliance war that has a mix master Korg, Falcon will absolutely shred. Just activate locked on right at the start of the fight and go to town. With 100% ability accuracy reduction, korg won’t shrug off parries or send thorns damage back, and anytime mix master would have been triggered you get additional damage. He’s definitely got his uses now.

Chikel

Honestly I would need to see him in action. I do think Gambit got the better buff, but then again locked on with the lower cooldown might be very nice.

Where is the gambit buff notes? I can't find it

Hammerbro_64

@Chikel there is another thread floating around general discussion for gambits buff

Etjama

It sounds like he will (almost) be to evade champions what Torch is to Mystics. Just able to scale up damage to a genuinely absurd degree. This may sound niche (because it is), but also some of the most difficult content in the game has evasion involved. Every single Abyss and Labyrinth fight, for example.
Or every single alliance war that has a mix master Korg, Falcon will absolutely shred. Just activate locked on right at the start of the fight and go to town. With 100% ability accuracy reduction, korg won’t shrug off parries or send thorns damage back, and anytime mix master would have been triggered you get additional damage. He’s definitely got his uses now.

You really think he'll be viable for Mix Master Korg? The problem I see is that there's no way he'll end the fight in 14 seconds so you'll just have these damage intervals mixed in with intervals where you can't do much since you're waiting on the cool down for Red Wing.

Side note: When it says "When the opponent fails to trigger an evade", does it mean:
(a) When fighting Black Widow with a 7% evade chance, you gain crit damage on every hit that she doesn't evade? Or
(b) You'll only gain crit damage when your AAR prevents an evade that would've triggered?

Cause if it's the second one, Falcon still kinda sucks.

Wicket329

You really think he'll be viable for Mix Master Korg? The problem I see is that there's no way he'll end the fight in 14 seconds so you'll just have these damage intervals mixed in with intervals where you can't do much since you're waiting on the cool down for Red Wing.

Side note: When it says "When the opponent fails to trigger an evade", does it mean:
(a) When fighting Black Widow with a 7% evade chance, you gain crit damage on every hit that she doesn't evade? Or
(b) You'll only gain crit damage when your AAR prevents an evade that would've triggered?

Cause if it's the second one, Falcon still kinda sucks.

Yeah, I’m thinking that if you have it active when he would regain his rock stacks, it will be permanently shutoff. I think that’s what the spotlight is getting at.
As for the other question, that I don’t know. Probably the second one though

kfd2010

Does feel like they've changed his overall mechanics but instead beefed them up. And I'm fine with that.

I'll need to see him in action (and I have a very low rank 5* I will take for a spin) but it seems like in the right scenario, he can do some major numbers. Like most evade champs you can really build your damage. And they make the Lock On more available.

I'm looking forward to seeing how he plays

Masterpuff

He looks really disappointing.

Ultimatheory

Redwing cool down should be at most 6 seconds imo. It’s annoying enough to have to set up and reapply as is.

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Nameless_IW

That lock on cooldown is too long and not practical i believe

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Pulli

Having Gambit Falcon as my first 6 stars doesn't look so bad anymore

TheHoodedDormammu

He also has a synergy with Thor ragnarok coming soon. Thor ragnarok is getting buffed!!???

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Hammerbro_64

Like others have said the cooldown feels way too long. On evade heavy fights where you're basically using him for the evade shutdown there's already champs out there who don't have to spend a third of the fight without their evade counter active. Maybe the damage increase will be enough to tolerate the long cooldown, we'll see when it goes live, but someone like NT or Elsa can do the same job without it. Cut it down to 4-5 seconds and it seems more practical to be worth using.

Not to mention Nick Fury who gets permanent evade counter with one L1

Texas_11

Like others have said the cooldown feels way too long. On evade heavy fights where you're basically using him for the evade shutdown there's already champs out there who don't have to spend a third of the fight without their evade counter active. Maybe the damage increase will be enough to tolerate the long cooldown, we'll see when it goes live, but someone like NT or Elsa can do the same job without it. Cut it down to 4-5 seconds and it seems more practical to be worth using.

It’s not about making him the best option , it’s about making him a viable option. Sure , may take a little longer , but Elsa and Nick cant counter thorns, or korgs?

It’s worth using if you don’t have them either

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Karatemike415

I think he looks phenomenal.

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Kill_Grey

I think he looks phenomenal.

CCP videos coming soon? 👀

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