Champion Spotlight - Stryfe
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About Stryfe
A child was created as a clone of infant “Nathan Summers” in the hopes of salvaging his techno-organic virus ravished body. Thinking this child to be Nathan, Apocalypse kidnapped him and raised him as his own, giving him the name “Stryfe” and encouraging the boy's arrogance and cruelty in preparation to one day transfer his own consciousness into Stryfe’s body. Years later, during the ritual of transferring Apocalypse's mind into Stryfe, it was discovered that he was actually a clone and thus unfit to house the essence of Apocalypse. Feeling betrayed by both what he thought were his real parents and his adoptive father Apocalypse, Stryfe grew up as an embittered madman seeking vengeance on those who wronged him.
Stryfe’s Mechanics
Stryfe uses Heavy Attacks and his Invisibility Cloak to build Telepathic Charges, using these as a resource in his kit! With these charges he is able to Concuss the opponent, block Unblockable attacks, stun Unstoppable opponents, glance incoming attacks, or ramp his damage potential! Telepathic Charges can also be stored as a persistent charge to carry throughout the quest by using Special Attack 3 or by winning a fight! All of this makes him a great option for really long and extreme fights like those found in the Abyss!
BASE STATS & ABILITIES
| Health | Attack | PI (Max Signature) | |
| 3-Star | 6124 | 463 | 1973 |
| 4-Star | 15356 | 1159 | 4949 |
| 5-Star | 30789 | 2324 | 10640 |
| 6-Star (Rank 3, Level 45) | 39672 | 2994 | 13690 |
Character Class: Mutant
Basic Abilities: Concussion, Shock, Invisibility
STRENGTHS:
- High Damage Potential
- By storing Persistent Telepathic Charges throughout a quest, Stryfe can ramp up his damage to rival other high damaging Champions such as Star-Lord, Ægon and others!
- Great Survivability
- Stryfe’s Telepathic Charges will cause incoming attacks to Glance, dealing a lot less damage to him. Additionally if Stryfe’s signature ability is unlocked, Glancing attacks can trigger his invisibility, giving him a great window to recover from the opponent’s combo!
While Stryfe has a Concussion on the opponent he is able to block unblockable attacks, this can be done fairly easily throughout the entire fight if need be!
Stun Unstoppable Opponents
For the cost of 2 Telepathic charges, Stryfe can strike an unstoppable opponent, removing their unstoppable effect and inflicting stun! This is a very handy trick to use when fighting an opponent who goes unstoppable at unpredictable moments such as the final boss of the Abyss!
WEAKNESSES:
- Power Lock, Burn and Drain
- While suffering from any of the above effects Stryfe cannot build his telepathic charges.
- Opponent power gain
- Stryfe is unable to use his telepathic cloak invisibility while the opponent has more than 1 full bar of Power. Anywhere Special Attacks cannot be baited or where the opponent is gaining a lot of power will make it a lot more difficult to ramp his charges!
Opponent’s who are able to bypass Miss will counter Stryfe’s cloak and make it hard to ramp up charges quickly.
Shock Immune or Energy Resistance
Stryfe gets a nice chunk of his damage through his shock and his basic energy attacks, anywhere where the opponent is immune or has resistance to energy damage will significantly reduce his damage output.
ABILITIES:
The following Stats and Abilities are based on a Rank 5, Level 65, 5-Star Champion
Psionic Blasts:
- Psionic blasts occur on Medium, Heavy and Special 2 attacks, these deal Energy Damage instead of Physical and cannot be Evaded.
- Reduce the Potency of incoming Passive Direct Damage by 100%.
Telepathic Charges - Max 20:
- Telepathic Charges are unaffected by Ability Accuracy reduction but cannot be gained while suffering Power Lock, Burn or Drain.
- All attacks gain +69.72 Attack Rating per Telepathic Charge.
- 55% chance to gain +1 Telepathic Charge when landing a Heavy Attack. Chance increased by a flat 15% for each full Bar of Power.
- Gain +1 Telepathic Charge when struck by a Critical Hit.
- Gain +1 Telepathic Charge each time Stryfe or his Opponent Misses.
- When Struck at 5+ Telepathic Charges, consume 5 charges to cause the attack to Glance. Glancing Hits cannot be Critical, deal 50% reduced damage, and suffer -100% Offensive Ability Accuracy.
- Striking an Opponent or into their Block while they are Unstoppable consumes +2 Telepathic Charges to remove the effect and inflict a Passive Stun for 1.20 seconds. Cooldown 8 seconds.
On Fourth Light Attack:
- Consume 1 Telepathic Charge to inflict a Passive Concussion for 12 seconds reducing the Opponent’s Ability Accuracy by 20%.
- While the Opponent is suffering from Concussion Stryfe can block Unblockable attacks.
Heavy Attacks
- Deal a burst of 581 Energy Damage. +500% potency if Invisible.
- Gain +3 Telepathic Charges if Invisible.
SPECIAL ATTACKS
Special 1: Telepathic Camouflage
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Special 2: Exceptional Psionics
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Special 3: Your Mind, My Playground
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Signature Ability - Substantial Psionic Power
The signature chance for a Glancing hit to activate Telepathic cloak is also extremely valuable when making a mistake and eating a hit since it has a good chance of not only saving Stryfe from eating a combo, but also allowing him to rebuild a portion of charges lost on the Glancing hit by causing the opponent to miss! |
SYNERGY BONUSES
Miss Me? - with Ebony Maw (Unique Synergy)
- Stryfe: Once per fight after being struck by a Basic Attack the Opponent is inflicted with a Passive Falter for 3 seconds giving them a 100% chance to Miss.
- Ebony Maw: While the Opponent is suffering Black Tongue they are inflicted with a 3 second Falter Debuff every 13 seconds. Additionally, while the Opponent is Faltered, Gain +40% Attack Rating.
Bull Targets - with Guillotine, Thor and Hood (Unique Synergy)
- Stryfe: Start the fight with Invisibility active.
- Hood: gain +50% Attack Rating while Invisible.
- Guillotine: Souls last 30% longer and are paused during either Champions Special Attacks.
- Thor: Activating a Special Attack grants +3 Fury Buffs each granting 10% Attack Rating for 6 seconds.
Cloned At Birth - with Cable (Unique Synergy)
- Stryfe: Start the fight with +5 Telepathic Charges.
- Cable: While the Opponent is suffering from a Degeneration effect Special Attacks grant 50% less power to the Opponent.
Big Bad Dad - with Apocalypse (Unique Synergy)
- Stryfe: The final hit of Special Attack 2 pauses all Shock effects on the Opponent for 4 seconds. If this Champion is a Horseman of Apocalypse, become Passively Unblockable as long as 20 Telepathic Charges are active.
- Apocalypse: Activating Special Attack 1 or 2 increases the potency of personal burst damage by +25%, this can stack up to +300% max
Enemies - with, Beast, Mister Sinister, Havok
- All Champions gain +155 Critical Rating.
Family - with Cyclops (New Xavier School), Cyclops (Blue Team), Cable, Phoenix
- All Champions gain +6% Health.
RECOMMENDED MASTERIES
Glass Cannon
- Stryfe can play fairly safe at low health with his Glancing mechanic and Invisibility cloak, this means he doesn’t need a high high base health and this mastery is a great option to give him a bunch more attack!
Block Proficiency & Perfect Block
- Landing Heavy Attacks is a great way to shortcut Stryfe’s loop, these masteries that help reduce block damage will help him get off more heavy attacks with less chip damage!
Assassin
- This mastery allows Stryfe to close out fights much quicker, this also reduces the window of opportunity to receive an attack that might glance and remove Telepathic Charges.
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Comments
I need to get Stryfe somehow now
Hood gets flat +50% Attack with all the added Crit from Invisibility, Guillotine's Souls last Longer and are Paused during any Specials making them even more manageable, Thor gets 3 Furies on Sp1 and Sp2 though 10% Attack each doesn't sound like a lot he gains Armor Penetration for each Fury active.
And don't even get me Started on the Apocalypse Synergy, my Rank 3 5 Star already gets 3k Burst Damage when all 4 Debuffs are active. +300% sounds Horrifiying...
Cable and Ebony Maw's could be good for them but might need to see it in action first, Cable doesn't exactly need Specials with the Apocalypse Synergy but who knows.
The Synergies aren't listed for what Star Variant Unlocks them, but I assume since the Apocalypse one is on the Bottom of the Unique ones you'll need a 5 Star Stryfe to use it.
Hoping for #metal
Also, for @nolcuN his Tags include #Metal and#Villain.
Does that means that he counts as both L and XL in Alliance Wars, but only L elsewhere?
with these new temp tags being added specifically only to the AW mode. i foresee new globals or nodes relating to L and XL champs. be ready LOL