THE BIRTH OF A TECH GOD

HOWARD THE DUCK. A meme for years. Finally given his justice!

He is SUPER fun, constantly stacking up buffs and debuffs. He's a damage and utility machine as well without the reliance on poor RNG or a long ramp up. Howard the Duck is now a god, top 5 in the tech class in my opinion (tied with Hulkbuster at 5th). He can do so many things now, I find it funny that all the "Howard nerf" people could even think the old Howard was anywhere near the power level of the current Howard. Amazing job on this buff, Kabam!

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Crcrcrc

How did I know it was you just from the title?
Also, wow, 28% in 3 hits? He's OP

KDSuperFlash10

Also Kabam thanks for making the 115% AAR in the sig ability not have a scaling effect, I love having that full Domino counter available at sig 1.

H3t3r

Wanna do a Crossbones one as well. Then a nova still a dud one too. Lol.

BuffBeast

Winter soldier in the MUD

The_Sentry06

Playing around with the 3 star, he's much more fun now and has some more utility.

IronGladiator22

Finally. No more threads on Howard’s “Nerf”

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KDSuperFlash10

Wanna do a Crossbones one as well. Then a nova still a dud one too. Lol.

Crossbones is phenomenal now. Top meta champ with insanely high damage potential and amazing utility. He feels like a Falcon/Kingpin hybrid.

Nova is still a dud.

KDSuperFlash10

Finally. No more threads on Howard’s “Nerf”

I just can't believe that some people thought this would be a nerf, it's mind-boggling to me. One of the best buffs as of late.

CosmicGuardian

Do his MASH armour breaks count towards the cap, or is it just the initial armour break? I believe they’re only supposed to cap at 10.

Rasilover

Well then, time to take mine to R3

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KDSuperFlash10

Well then, time to take mine to R3

I'd take a 6 star Howard to r3 for sure, good choice

KDSuperFlash10

Do his MASH armour breaks count towards the cap, or is it just the initial armour break? I believe they’re only supposed to cap at 10.

The mash armor breaks exceed the cap! The furies scaling with the armor breaks makes his damage nuts

The_Sentry06

Could you explain how to use his MASH ability? Struggling a bit over here.

slacker

Also Kabam thanks for making the 115% AAR in the sig ability not have a scaling effect, I love having that full Domino counter available at sig 1.

Really ? that's better than i thought ? no max sig always a good thing.

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KDSuperFlash10

I think I am missing something couldnt stack those armor breaks
how to use MASH ability?
i turned on the refight for one and didnt for once and didnt make a difference so I am prolly doing something wrong

The mash armor breaks exceed the cap
To mash, just spam the the left side of the screen (blocking animation) during special attacks, heavy attacks, before the fight starts, and parry.
The prefight makes it so that you don't actually have to manually mash yourself, but it's slightly less effective than you do the mashing yourself.

Scopeotoe987

“Howard nerf” now people will actually use him.

KDSuperFlash10

Hes def got things going for him. Top 5 tech? Just no. They still went the wrong route on this one taking away utility

For one, it was an overhaul, so they didn't actually have to keep any utility. They built him from the ground up. It would have been nice to keep the regen tho I guess, but you can build some armor ups for sustainability. And it's not like they actually took any meaningful utility away, his sp2 was an RNG fiesta that resulted in short, random debuffs. His sp1 inflicted weak effects (24% heal reduction is not doing anything useful). His sp3 effects were useless against all classes but 2, and for those, they were only 9 seconds for a whole sp3 ramp up. He now has great, guaranteed utility and a much faster damage ramp up.

Masterpuff

Hes def got things going for him. Top 5 tech? Just no. They still went the wrong route on this one taking away utility

His “utility” was pretty unreliable before. That said, Howard still doesnt have much in the utility department.

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slacker

Just test him, seem like Mash! is really practical, i was able to stack 10+ fury in just few seconds.

KDSuperFlash10

I think I am missing something couldnt stack those armor breaks
how to use MASH ability?
i turned on the refight for one and didnt for once and didnt make a difference so I am prolly doing something wrong
The mash armor breaks exceed the cap
To mash, just spam the the left side of the screen (blocking animation) during special attacks, heavy attacks, before the fight starts, and parry.
The prefight makes it so that you don't actually have to manually mash yourself, but it's slightly less effective than you do the mashing yourself.
there is no counter on the screen though right? i only see the green thing light up at times

There is a counter, it's like a greyed effect that goes up until the animation ends and they become "real" effects.

KDSuperFlash10

Could you explain how to use his MASH ability? Struggling a bit over here.

To mash, just spam the the left side of the screen (blocking animation) during special attacks, heavy attacks, before the fight starts, and parry.
You spam during special attacks to gain bonuses (extra heal blocks and suppression debuffs)
You spam during heavy attacks to gain more armor breaks
You spam before the fight starts to gain more armor ups
You spam during parry to gain furies

magnus_xix

I think I am missing something couldnt stack those armor breaks
how to use MASH ability?
i turned on the refight for one and didnt for once and didnt make a difference so I am prolly doing something wrong
The mash armor breaks exceed the cap
To mash, just spam the the left side of the screen (blocking animation) during special attacks, heavy attacks, before the fight starts, and parry.
The prefight makes it so that you don't actually have to manually mash yourself, but it's slightly less effective than you do the mashing yourself.
there is no counter on the screen though right? i only see the green thing light up at times

When the green thing lights up that's when u mash

KDSuperFlash10

Also Kabam thanks for making the 115% AAR in the sig ability not have a scaling effect, I love having that full Domino counter available at sig 1.
Really ? that's better than i thought ? no max sig always a good thing.

It's awesome, plus it seems his debuff duration reduction ability scales relatively well as well.

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KDSuperFlash10

Just test him, seem like Mash! is really practical, i was able to stack 10+ fury in just few seconds.

Yep, super easy to ramp up his damage. Way easier than it was before, which also required a synergy and was still quite slow.