The deep dive for Hercules is here
odishika123
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A few good synergies too.
I'm hopeful.
His persistent charge mechanic seems to be pretty slow and there seems to be no effect of the number of strengths we have, so I don't understand why do we even need a limit or even why do we stack them. And also once we reach 12 stacks, do we stop getting the completion bonus? Seems kind of incomplete to be honest. (Maybe we'll understand this better once the spotlight is revealed)
Also for max damage we need the opponents to have armor up buffs which isn't a great requirement.
Sig ability is pretty nice.
He does have a lot of abilities thrown here and there, but doesn't seem like he'll shake the meta or anything.
Access to True Sense is the main draw for me. I’m lacking a miss counter among my R3’s, and his looks to have pretty good uptime.
However, aside from that he seems to be slightly lacking on the utility side. Autoblock counter is obviously great but we do have a lot of champs now that can do that. The stun shrug is good but will hurt his damage. The SP3 ranking seems wildly impractical in my eyes. And 50% reduction in bleed will only really help with suicides, he’s not going to be a biohazard etc counter
I’m really not sure about the immortality. The fact it is susceptible to ability accuracy reduction makes it unreliable in AW. He’s definitely not going to be the new Corvus in that regard. A nice fail safe to be sure but I’m not sure if it can be utilised for much more than that.
Relying on special intercepting could also be problematic. Mainly because the mechanic differs from how most players actually special intercept. For most people, special intercepting is countering the opponent after they have completed their dash. Hercules and Black Panther require you to actually interrupt the dash, making it far more AI dependent and unreliable
His infuriate will mitigate that a bit but my concerns remain
As far as the persistent charges mechanic goes, I’m actually a massive fan of it. He’s not the kind of champ that needs to ramp up to actually access to utility, it’s an added bonus, he can still access everything in fight 1. That’s where champs like Corvus and Ægon annoy me.
So provided his playstyle comes together, I think he’s going to be a good, hard-hitting champ that while I don’t think he’s going to dominate the game, I think he’s going to be useful tool in some rosters, especially those of us who run suicides
Also... for sp3 tanking I assume if you parry, sp3, then inflict an infuriate debuff they would throw the sp3... and if that doesn't work you can intercept to increase the indestructible buff length until they throw it