How did Odin make it past the testing phase?

Odin's kit is unbelievably flawed. For one, he doesn't have nearly enough utility. Literally a 7 second true strike and that's about it. Secondly, he has a weird Odinsleep mechanic where he can't play some fights, a major weakness to the champion. So many champions can do every fight and do much more damage and have much more utility. Odin does not have one single piece of utility nor crazy damage to make him worth anything in the contest. He's a massive disappointment.

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Crcrcrc

Tbh he looks decent, like someone you would bring on a team to use occasionally, and not like Ghost who is the only champ used on a team for stuff. He'll be useful for newer players, but definitely not meta-dominating

Doomsfist79

I think the point of Odin is for him to enhance other characters (Asgardians) and his pre fight which will benefit every champion in the game..

KDSuperFlash10

I think the point of Odin is for him to enhance other characters (Asgardians) and his pre fight which will benefit every champion in the game..

The prefights aren't even all that. As Karatemike explained, a small 15% aptitude really won't make much of a difference unless you're stacking up a ton of buffs. Same goes for the protection, a 15% damage cap that doesn't apply to sp3s isn't all that enticing. The 90% shock resistance is nice, but extremely niche. I'm sure that one will have some rare uses tho.

Masterpuff

Looks pretty terrible.

TheLegend27

I'm going to post a thread a created but which got basically no views and no comments.

"Why Isn't Odin Shock Immune"

I know, I know. People hate these threads, but I'm genuinely curious what the thought process was behind designing Odin without some sort of interaction with shock....especially after his motion comic highlighted him talking about how Thor has the thunder but Odin created the storm.

OG Thor: 40% shock resistance.
Ragnarok Thor: Shock debuffs shrugged off 40% faster.
Jane Foster: 70% shock resistance.

So why does Odin's base kit have no interaction at all with shock? At the very least shouldn't he have a higher shock resistance than those above? Or, since it's Odin, maybe he somehow benefits from having a shock placed on him (such as passive power gain or dealing bursts of true damage to the enemy on each hit as long as a shock is placed on him)? Just seems strange that the only part of his kit with anything about shock resistance is with his pre-fight/cross-fight ability where he can apply a 70% shock resistance to anyone on the team except for himself...

KDSuperFlash10

This year's champs have been nothing short of extremely disappointing. 5/6 of them will have nearly no impact on the game, with the only good one, Stryfe, serving no purpose to anyone who has Aegon and until new everest content is released.

BlackTuran

I think the point of Odin is for him to enhance other characters (Asgardians) and his pre fight which will benefit every champion in the game..

Apoc enhances mutants to a crazy degree, yet he himself is incredible to play

H3t3r

I want him lol. Would r3 him easy.

ShoNuff29

4/55 Angela hitting harder than 6*r2 Odin basic attacks 😢... need a numbers buff immediately (won’t happen but saying it anyway)...

Qfury

Heimdall 2.0

Hoitado

And to think that Majority of people voted for Kabam to add another Cosmic Champion to the game

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DRTO

Even Airwalker is better than Odin

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TrashyPanda

He's basically Heimdall with better (but still meh) attack and worse synergies.

Crcrcrc

seriously though his damage in ROL was awesome
everywhere else i guess his damage was ok with odinsleep
weaving in heavies shouldnt be a problem for a lot of fights

the not doing every fight is fine but bit too forced
like its fine if we dont play apoc every other fight so he can get some regen
but its odd if a champ loses damage because he needs someone else to win a fight

I need to see if the next champ loses the fight and then will he get the odinsleep or not by the wording it seems like he wont but then again from one of the videos it shows he can get odinsleep back for the same fight if revived

hopefully we can find some uses for him same as ihulk

iHulk has hundreds of uses wdym

Pseudouber

Yeah very disappointed. He should have also gotten a regen after sleep too. basically like Dr. Voodoo does every fight. It wouldn't be too much. THen he would at least be more sustainable and good for suicides.

SpideyFunko

This year's champs have been nothing short of extremely disappointing. 5/6 of them will have nearly no impact on the game, with the only good one, Stryfe, serving no purpose to anyone who has Aegon and until new everest content is released.

I feel like that’s kinda okay. They’re just fun additions to the games and are alternative options to do stuff instead of using the same champs over and over.

Plus who knows, maybe future content will have paths and fights that really let them shine like we’ve seen before

Kerneas

Yes, his mechanic is that he has to rest between fights. That's how Odin works, both in Marvel and in Norse mythology. Tbh I find this idea in particular to be great. Rest of his kit doesn't impress me. The frequency of buff refreshing he requires is actually outrageous

The_Sentry06

Honestly don't know what to say. I mean his damage of sp2 with many buffs and all is pretty sweet. Other than that, he ain't got much. Next 5* featured is gonna be really terrible unless it contains the newly reworked, Ultra OP, meta defining Sentry.

Fear_of_Clowns2099

Kabam made another oopsie.... The start of this year upto now looking a bit like the start of 2020.

GroundedWisdom

Why are we still judging Champs 5 seconds after they come out?

KDSuperFlash10

This year's champs have been nothing short of extremely disappointing. 5/6 of them will have nearly no impact on the game, with the only good one, Stryfe, serving no purpose to anyone who has Aegon and until new everest content is released.
I feel like that’s kinda okay. They’re just fun additions to the games and are alternative options to do stuff instead of using the same champs over and over.

Plus who knows, maybe future content will have paths and fights that really let them shine like we’ve seen before

Yeah I guess, it's just that a lot of the new champs just need a little bit of tuning and they'll be solid. Like Skrull with more potent furies, or Psycho Man with increased base attack.

KDSuperFlash10

Yes, his mechanic is that he has to rest between fights. That's how Odin works, both in Marvel and in Norse mythology. Tbh I find this idea in particular to be great. Rest of his kit doesn't impress me. The frequency of buff refreshing he requires is actually outrageous

No I completely understand the mechanic, it's part of his comic book lore. But it serves no purpose, and is not actually in line with comic book lore. As Karatemike said, Odin sleeps once a year, not once every fight. Also, when sleeping, Odin regenerates in comics. Why does he not have that in game? Or not even regeneration in game, just something that makes the sleep worth it. Like Apoc for example does not have to slumber, but when he does, he regenerates health. However, unlike Odin, he does not become weaker when fighting twice in a row.

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