Wow that was boring

Hoodie25

I’ve heard that archangel melts this guy, but since I don’t have that luxury, I had to slog it out with doom. Kinda disappointed in this fight honestly, the creativity was sorely lacking. If you pick a solid counter, then there’s just nothing interesting about it at all, the hardest part is not falling asleep halfway through. If you don’t, then you’ll die from fun and interactive shock damage. Anyone else feel the same way, or is it just me?

RiderofHell

Hoodie25 said:

I’ve heard that archangel melts this guy, but since I don’t have that luxury, I had to slog it out with doom. Kinda disappointed in this fight honestly, the creativity was sorely lacking. If you pick a solid counter, then there’s just nothing interesting about it at all, the hardest part about it is not falling asleep halfway through. If you don’t, then you’ll die from fun and interactive shock damage. Anyone else feel the same way, or is it just me?

Same here, i barely finished rogue last week b4 losing interest

DawsMan

Summer of pain livin up to its name

DawsMan

Ebony_Naw said:

They advertised the first 3 as easier fights, so I'm still giving benefit of the doubt. But I do think it odd that there was nothing overly tricky about the fight.

testing different things. Week one was spacing and dealing with not blocking, this week was endurance, i'm sure there will be different themes.

Kappa2g

The Rogue fight definitely had more room for mechanical skill expression and less about correct counters.

Mauled

A lot of this is going to be a test of roster depth and ingenuity. Even using AA you’ve still got to manage the neuro expiring at the wrong time and Sinister’s sp1 transferring a load of unconverted bleeds/poisons.

Colinwhitworth69

LOL. People will complain about anything.

MrInsanity

DawsMan said:

Ebony_Naw said:

dealing with not blocking, this week was endurance, i'm sure there will be different themes.

Yep so much endurance when AA can do it in like 100 hits

GroundedWisdom

Colinwhitworth69 said:

LOL. People will complain about anything.

Yep.

SwarmOfRavens

Depends on who you use, had the option of slogging with r3 Doom/Thing but went with sunspot and g99 instead and had a fun fight.
Sent me back to doing 6.2 sinister with no synergy g99

Hoodie25

Colinwhitworth69 said:

LOL. People will complain about anything.

I know some people might see it that way, but I’ve been pretty content with the direction that the game has taken over the past 6 months. It’s just that this fight in particular didn’t seem like a test of either skill or ingenuity, which is what I thought SoP was going to be geared towards. I know it’s only one fight, but it felt a little off

DawsMan

MrInsanity said:

DawsMan said:

Ebony_Naw said:

dealing with not blocking, this week was endurance, i'm sure there will be different themes.

Yep so much endurance when AA can do it in like 100 hits

It's almost as if I was addressing the many posts I've seen of 5-600 hit fights with Doom, and not talking about just one counter. Any champion can do it if dex is removed, it's just a grind. Hence endurance. I am aware AA can melt him thank you very much.

LibertyPrimeV1

It was genuinely really Fun with Guardian... Really Tests your Parry Skills, and it rewards you by taking 0 Damage.

Hera1d_of_Ga1actus

Sunspot was a great counter, just using my R4 5* I was able to solo and even though I died a lot I was easily able to go back in and practice until success

Hoodie25

GagoH said:

Colinwhitworth69 said:

LOL. People will complain about anything.

Turns out he was also complaining about the 4* cavalier challenge.

That was more of an honest question than a complaint (I even prefaced the whole discussion by saying that it was not intended to be a complaint post). I just wanted to know if there might be a better alternative, but there were some complications with the method that I was thinking of. I actually agreed that it wouldn’t work further down, a couple people made some solid points that I hadn’t considered.

FluffyPigMonster

Sure, let’s call it super boring so they can give us a stun immune, debuff immune, thorns, spiked armor, immune to ability accuracy modification, death touch unstoppable unblockable Nameless Electro-Korg

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

MrInsanity

FluffyPigMonster said:

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

The only hard part was my finger hurting after I solo with Doom on my first try. Very boring compared to Rogue

Wicket329

MrInsanity said:

FluffyPigMonster said:

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

The only hard part was my finger hurting after I solo with Doom on my first try. Very boring compared to Rogue

There were other options to use that provided better skill and mechanical checks. I used Sunspot. Got him down in 71 hits after a few false starts.

With Sunspot you have to be absolutely flawless with your parries because if you dex even once, EMP mod will wipe out your solar state stacks. It was a fun challenge.

Hammerbro_64

Man I’m so bored of moving up a tier in some of the best rewards out there.

Hoodie25

Wicket329 said:

MrInsanity said:

FluffyPigMonster said:

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

The only hard part was my finger hurting after I solo with Doom on my first try. Very boring compared to Rogue

There were other options to use that provided better skill and mechanical checks. I used Sunspot. Got him down in 71 hits after a few false starts.

With Sunspot you have to be absolutely flawless with your parries because if you dex even once, EMP mod will wipe out your solar state stacks. It was a fun challenge.

I have to admit, Seatin’s video with Sunspot made the fight look way more enjoyable

MrInsanity

Wicket329 said:

MrInsanity said:

FluffyPigMonster said:

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

The only hard part was my finger hurting after I solo with Doom on my first try. Very boring compared to Rogue

There were other options to use that provided better skill and mechanical checks. I used Sunspot. Got him down in 71 hits after a few false starts.

With Sunspot you have to be absolutely flawless with your parries because if you dex even once, EMP mod will wipe out your solar state stacks. It was a fun challenge.

The fight should be fun for everyone though not just people with an optimal counter

StevieManWonder

It was boring but I enjoyed the challenge to solo it

SirGamesBond

FluffyPigMonster said:

Sure, let’s call it super boring so they can give us a stun immune, debuff immune, thorns, spiked armor, immune to ability accuracy modification, death touch unstoppable unblockable Nameless Electro-Korg

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

Also add True strike, you know why.

FluffyPigMonster

SirGamesBond said:

FluffyPigMonster said:

Sure, let’s call it super boring so they can give us a stun immune, debuff immune, thorns, spiked armor, immune to ability accuracy modification, death touch unstoppable unblockable Nameless Electro-Korg

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

Also add True strike, you know why.

D’oh! I forgot!

Wicket329

MrInsanity said:

Wicket329 said:

MrInsanity said:

FluffyPigMonster said:

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

The only hard part was my finger hurting after I solo with Doom on my first try. Very boring compared to Rogue

There were other options to use that provided better skill and mechanical checks. I used Sunspot. Got him down in 71 hits after a few false starts.

With Sunspot you have to be absolutely flawless with your parries because if you dex even once, EMP mod will wipe out your solar state stacks. It was a fun challenge.

The fight should be fun for everyone though not just people with an optimal counter

I mean, I’m just saying what I personally did. There are tons of other options out there, my YouTube suggestions are full of them.

That being said, I don’t doubt that upcoming SoP challenges may be just as much roster checks as they are mechanical skill checks. This one was a little bit of both. Either use a specific playstyle (without dexing) to combat EMP mod with any good Mr. Sinister counter, or bring in a shock immune champ and have a very long fight.

BuggyDClown

Hoodie25 said:

I’ve heard that archangel melts this guy, but since I don’t have that luxury, I had to slog it out with doom. Kinda disappointed in this fight honestly, the creativity was sorely lacking. If you pick a solid counter, then there’s just nothing interesting about it at all, the hardest part is not falling asleep halfway through. If you don’t, then you’ll die from fun and interactive shock damage. Anyone else feel the same way, or is it just me?

Well you have counter so why not. But it was already stated that first 4 fight would be easy. Maybe we should wait for week 5

MrInsanity

Wicket329 said:

MrInsanity said:

Wicket329 said:

MrInsanity said:

FluffyPigMonster said:

It was super hard Kabam. Keep bringing them like this.

The only hard part was my finger hurting after I solo with Doom on my first try. Very boring compared to Rogue

There were other options to use that provided better skill and mechanical checks. I used Sunspot. Got him down in 71 hits after a few false starts.

With Sunspot you have to be absolutely flawless with your parries because if you dex even once, EMP mod will wipe out your solar state stacks. It was a fun challenge.

The fight should be fun for everyone though not just people with an optimal counter

I mean, I’m just saying what I personally did.

Yes and I was just stating my personal experience

doctorb

I actually enjoy these fights. I don't find them too easy or too hard but they are a little on the harder / challenging side. I hope kabam doesn't make the remaining fights too difficult but rather keep them at this level of difficulty. 😊

Reference

Too hard, complain. Easier, complain.
Can OP treasure the efforts of Dev team in deciding nodes combination on these bosses? Mister Sinister just 1 out of 9 bosses only.

The_Sentry06

Tbf, OP's giving some feedback on the fight.

Hoodie25

Reference said:

Too hard, complain. Easier, complain.
Can OP treasure the efforts of Dev team in deciding nodes combination on these bosses? Mister Sinister just 1 out of 9 bosses only.

Sure I can, I thought Rogue was a very well-designed and engaging fight: but that’s because it was mainly a test of skill. No matter who you used (Quake not included) it took good awareness and solid technique to bring her down. And it’s precisely because I appreciate this kind of node combination that I felt let down by week 2. There are a few characters that make this fight interesting, but most of the champs that work for it either shut Sinister down with little difficulty (e.g. Archangel and Warlock) or have to slog it out through 300-400+ hits in mind-numbing fashion (e.g doom, thing, guardian). And yeah, it’s just one fight, I know it’s not that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. I just wanted to know if anyone else felt the same way (but judging from the disagrees, most of you guys enjoyed the fight, which is a good thing - I guess I just shouldn’t have used doom ¯\_(ツ)_/¯).