His sig is what makes him useful, many champs outdamage him and he is never the best option ever without dupe. Dupe gives him usability, its by far the most important part of his kit.
Still he’s a good champ without it, doesn’t matter whether he’s usable or not he’s still good
That's if you're definition of good is based on damage only. If so, then yeah, he is a good champion unawakened. But if you're like me and I rate champions based on damage and utility then Namor isn't that great without his awakened ability providing him with great utility.
He has some solid utility without awakening, good bleeds decent regen unblockable specials, sure he gets a insanely good piece of utility when awakened, but he still has a lot of stuff going for him unawakened.
Bleed isn't utility, its damage. 3% Regen and unblockable special attacks are nice but small/weak utility. Not to mention other mutants have it and do it better. His awakened ability is the real utility that makes him so good.
If something is part of there kit it’s utility
just because you have utility doesn’t mean it’s good. The regen is small. Unblockable specials are nice… and that’s it.
His sig is the best part of his kit
Imagine using Aegon without his sig. Or Scarlet Witch without hers. And a few champs (looking at you, OG Storm) are completely unplayable.
Like many have said before, Namor needs his Awakened Ability because without it, he's just another mutant damage dealer in a sea of many others which have more utility unawakened.
And like I’ve said before I’m not comparing him to other champs
All champs are only good and bad comparatively to each other, so actually you do
Namor without his awakened ability is pointless. You can use a myriad of other mutants that do significant damage or some that do less damage but will survive the fight because of their abilities.
Namor’s ability to reflect damage is vital to his survivability. Otherwise he’s just a champ that takes a bit to ramp up his big damage. And since you spam specials with him - if you run suicides and have no means to heal (reflecting the damage when Namor has suicides heals him faster) is just going to kill himself quickly.
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Namor’s ability to reflect damage is vital to his survivability. Otherwise he’s just a champ that takes a bit to ramp up his big damage. And since you spam specials with him - if you run suicides and have no means to heal (reflecting the damage when Namor has suicides heals him faster) is just going to kill himself quickly.
He’s a great champ at max sig specifically.
Otherwise he’s high damage with nothing else.