Hood’s buff

Still on edge about the Bullet mechanic but adding the fateseal back to the sp2 is solid.

Something to note though, he's going have lower damage than the previous buff because the sp2 Hex Vulnerability isn't there anymore.

SkyLord7000

*sad maw noises

ItsDamien

Yeah.... I want to rank mine down.
Why

The bullet mechanic sucks. The diminishing miss mechanic sucks. I hated the buff before, and I hate it now even with the Fate Seal.

The_Sentry06

https://playcontestofchampions.com/champion-spotlight-the-hood/

BuffBeast

*sad maw noises

One could probably argue that’s tigra

Jaded

https://playcontestofchampions.com/champion-spotlight-the-hood/

Thanks

Bendy

At least fate seal is back on sp2 with the new mechanics from previous buff but do hate the bullets just hope this time nothing is bugged with his abilities like last time

BitterSteel

I’m glad fate seal is back, doesn’t look like the bullet mechanic and miss ability reducing every time you use it is for me. But I’m really, really glad fate seal is back.

I’m looking forward to testing it out, and I’ll make up my mind after using him - but I’m not the biggest fan of the bullets running out, and I preferred the miss before where it was more useful against projectile attacks, now it’s not as good.

Maybe I’ll enjoy the miss intercept playstyle more though.

BitterSteel

I’m interested to hear what @Cat_Murdock thinks of the new buff on paper, you’re the biggest Hood fan I know. What do you think?

Grootman1294

I’m glad fate seal is back, doesn’t look like the bullet mechanic and miss ability reducing every time you use it is for me. But I’m really, really glad fate seal is back.

I’m looking forward to testing it out, and I’ll make up my mind after using him - but I’m not the biggest fan of the bullets running out, and I preferred the miss before where it was more useful against projectile attacks, now it’s not as good.

Maybe I’ll enjoy the miss intercept playstyle more though.

With the mole man synergy he gains 3 bullets when knocking the opponent down. So you could maybe spam heavy to stockpile 42 bullets before you start getting into things.

BitterSteel

I’m glad fate seal is back, doesn’t look like the bullet mechanic and miss ability reducing every time you use it is for me. But I’m really, really glad fate seal is back.

I’m looking forward to testing it out, and I’ll make up my mind after using him - but I’m not the biggest fan of the bullets running out, and I preferred the miss before where it was more useful against projectile attacks, now it’s not as good.

Maybe I’ll enjoy the miss intercept playstyle more though.

With the mole man synergy he gains 3 bullets when knocking the opponent down. So you could maybe spam heavy to stockpile 42 bullets before you start getting into things.

Really, something like that should be on his base kit in my opinion. I’m looking forward to testing though!

Grootman1294

No big nerf threads going on yet, so that's encouraging. I'll test him out once the buff goes live.

The_Sentry06

I’m glad fate seal is back, doesn’t look like the bullet mechanic and miss ability reducing every time you use it is for me. But I’m really, really glad fate seal is back.

I’m looking forward to testing it out, and I’ll make up my mind after using him - but I’m not the biggest fan of the bullets running out, and I preferred the miss before where it was more useful against projectile attacks, now it’s not as good.

Maybe I’ll enjoy the miss intercept playstyle more though.

With the mole man synergy he gains 3 bullets when knocking the opponent down. So you could maybe spam heavy to stockpile 42 bullets before you start getting into things.

That's actually a great synergy. That makes his buff really solid on paper atleast in terms of damage. Hopefully we get the actual buff instead of it's bugged version.

Edit: Still don't like the stagger duration decrease but the fate seal should cover that up in theory. Power steal has definitely been nerfed though.

Chikel

I’m glad fate seal is back, doesn’t look like the bullet mechanic and miss ability reducing every time you use it is for me. But I’m really, really glad fate seal is back.

I’m looking forward to testing it out, and I’ll make up my mind after using him - but I’m not the biggest fan of the bullets running out, and I preferred the miss before where it was more useful against projectile attacks, now it’s not as good.

Maybe I’ll enjoy the miss intercept playstyle more though.

I liked the old miss but the current one will allow for easy openings without blocking or parrying. One of the things I enjoy with the miss is fighting Yondu or other champs with non-contact mediums, it's like Ghosting except way safer and with no skill cap.
I personally don't like the change to the power steal being limited to mediums as rng can ruin you. With old one you have the safety of 5 hits to trigger power steal and prevent sp3.

Rockypantherx

The bullet mechanic feels too similar to old Diablo for my liking. It’s not as bad, but it has me very worried.

At the same time, I think he’s only ever going to get used in matchups with buffs. His buff very much reminds me of Sym supreme to be honest. Not much of a lane clearer.

I think I would still have preferred the old invisibility to be bumped to 100% on projectiles. The new invisibility has its uses but I think the projectile miss would actually have interacted really well with the bullet mechanic, and given him another niche to be used in.

I also really don’t like the decrease stagger duration. It’s reliable sure, but it was already a very high chance before, and the increased chance isn’t worth the 33% duration decrease in my opinion. The 5 second stagger has a much higher chance of falling off during a special

And that’s not even mentioning the power steal change, which I’m not a fan of either. It’s traded some of its usefulness to be a power gain mechanic, probably so you can spam SP2’s more often. But I think I preferred the previous version

However, the addition of the date seal is massive, and will make him much better than he was when he was originally buffed.

As the owner of a 6* Hood, I’m not sure I’ll be ranking him. Mainly because I run suicides, and I’m not sure how he’ll handle them. Selfishly I wouldn’t have minded a value bump on the regen. But I also don’t know if I’ll be ranking him because it feels like he was built to take high buff matchups. But as far as I’m concerned, has actually gotten slightly worse in controlling those matchups in favour of higher damage

Don’t get me wrong, hood needed more damage, and I think that will lead to him seeing more use. But when I’m looking at this buff and considering whether I would rank him, I see less reason now to rank him than I did before. Because damage, while somewhat important to me, doesn’t make up for the fact that what I would maybe have ranked him up for before, he’s now slightly worse at.

I don’t know, maybe I expected too much. I guess I just hoped that in 5 months we would have seen more of the flaws I originally saw in his new kit fixed, rather than just a fate seal slapped back on

Raichu626

an upgrade to his Miss lets you reliably deal with Special Attacks

use this to deal with some hard to dodge Special Attacks

Lmao, hilarious. Good joke, Kabam.
...
They're serious, aren't they?

Pretty much the only hard to dodge specials are ones with projectiles, usually lots of projectiles. Like WM or Fixit sp1, Punisher or WS sp2. He can deal with those more easily right now than with the new mechanic where he'll just run out of misses halfway through.

I mean, it can probably be used if you dex parts of the special. But acting as if that's some kind of upgrade is comical. The only upgrade is when dealing with basic attacks, which it was useless for previously.

slacker

I’m glad fate seal is back, doesn’t look like the bullet mechanic and miss ability reducing every time you use it is for me. But I’m really, really glad fate seal is back.

I’m looking forward to testing it out, and I’ll make up my mind after using him - but I’m not the biggest fan of the bullets running out, and I preferred the miss before where it was more useful against projectile attacks, now it’s not as good.

Maybe I’ll enjoy the miss intercept playstyle more though.

With the mole man synergy he gains 3 bullets when knocking the opponent down. So you could maybe spam heavy to stockpile 42 bullets before you start getting into things.
Really, something like that should be on his base kit in my opinion. I’m looking forward to testing though!

Also by adding fate seal in sp2 , in many buffs match up, lauch sp2 and you could reload tons of bullets because each time he nullify a Buff, he gains 2 bullets, that actually slove the lack of bullet problem. So it's not bad as ppl thought the same with pre-buff Diablo.

ItsDamien

The bullet mechanic feels too similar to old Diablo for my liking. It’s not as bad, but it has me very worried.

At the same time, I think he’s only ever going to get used in matchups with buffs. His buff very much reminds me of Sym supreme to be honest. Not much of a lane clearer.

I think I would still have preferred the old invisibility to be bumped to 100% on projectiles. The new invisibility has its uses but I think the projectile miss would actually have interacted really well with the bullet mechanic, and given him another niche to be used in.

I also really don’t like the decrease stagger duration. It’s reliable sure, but it was already a very high chance before, and the increased chance isn’t worth the 33% duration decrease in my opinion. The 5 second stagger has a much higher chance of falling off during a special

And that’s not even mentioning the power steal change, which I’m not a fan of either. It’s traded some of its usefulness to be a power gain mechanic, probably so you can spam SP2’s more often. But I think I preferred the previous version

However, the addition of the date seal is massive, and will make him much better than he was when he was originally buffed.

As the owner of a 6* Hood, I’m not sure I’ll be ranking him. Mainly because I run suicides, and I’m not sure how he’ll handle them. Selfishly I wouldn’t have minded a value bump on the regen. But I also don’t know if I’ll be ranking him because it feels like he was built to take high buff matchups. But as far as I’m concerned, has actually gotten slightly worse in controlling those matchups in favour of higher damage

Don’t get me wrong, hood needed more damage, and I think that will lead to him seeing more use. But when I’m looking at this buff and considering whether I would rank him, I see less reason now to rank him than I did before. Because damage, while somewhat important to me, doesn’t make up for the fact that what I would maybe have ranked him up for before, he’s now slightly worse at.

I don’t know, maybe I expected too much. I guess I just hoped that in 5 months we would have seen more of the flaws I originally saw in his new kit fixed, rather than just a fate seal slapped back on

The worst part for me is that I had him ranked up as a 6* prior to him ever being buffed, and knowing Kabam they won't offer RDTs or such and I'll be stuck with a champ that I will now never use outside of arena.

Rockypantherx

The bullet mechanic feels too similar to old Diablo for my liking. It’s not as bad, but it has me very worried.

At the same time, I think he’s only ever going to get used in matchups with buffs. His buff very much reminds me of Sym supreme to be honest. Not much of a lane clearer.

I think I would still have preferred the old invisibility to be bumped to 100% on projectiles. The new invisibility has its uses but I think the projectile miss would actually have interacted really well with the bullet mechanic, and given him another niche to be used in.

I also really don’t like the decrease stagger duration. It’s reliable sure, but it was already a very high chance before, and the increased chance isn’t worth the 33% duration decrease in my opinion. The 5 second stagger has a much higher chance of falling off during a special

And that’s not even mentioning the power steal change, which I’m not a fan of either. It’s traded some of its usefulness to be a power gain mechanic, probably so you can spam SP2’s more often. But I think I preferred the previous version

However, the addition of the date seal is massive, and will make him much better than he was when he was originally buffed.

As the owner of a 6* Hood, I’m not sure I’ll be ranking him. Mainly because I run suicides, and I’m not sure how he’ll handle them. Selfishly I wouldn’t have minded a value bump on the regen. But I also don’t know if I’ll be ranking him because it feels like he was built to take high buff matchups. But as far as I’m concerned, has actually gotten slightly worse in controlling those matchups in favour of higher damage

Don’t get me wrong, hood needed more damage, and I think that will lead to him seeing more use. But when I’m looking at this buff and considering whether I would rank him, I see less reason now to rank him than I did before. Because damage, while somewhat important to me, doesn’t make up for the fact that what I would maybe have ranked him up for before, he’s now slightly worse at.

I don’t know, maybe I expected too much. I guess I just hoped that in 5 months we would have seen more of the flaws I originally saw in his new kit fixed, rather than just a fate seal slapped back on
The worst part for me is that I had him ranked up as a 6* prior to him ever being buffed, and knowing Kabam they won't offer RDTs or such and I'll be stuck with a champ that I will now never use outside of arena.

I mean, I still think he’ll be usable, I can definitely see potential for him to have massive DPS in high buff matchups. But if you do find yourself not using him, then yeah, that sucks. I do hope it’s better than you expect though, for your sanity’s sake

Eb0ny-O-M4w

*sad maw noises

Don't worry, that's just clickbait

Cat_Murdock

I’m interested to hear what @Cat_Murdock thinks of the new buff on paper, you’re the biggest Hood fan I know. What do you think?

Admittedly I’m still frustrated. I don’t want to be frustrated, I want to just be happy about Hex Seal being back. And yes, I am very glad it is back because it was the most important thing that was removed during the previous update.

At first I was also very glad that they put back his Heavy refresh mechanic, because that also should never have been removed. Except, they only gave him back half of it. He can refresh Hex Seal and Bleeds, but he can no longer refresh Staggers and Shocks (shocks being the biggest loss here, imo). It’s not the flashiest ability, but it was always available and was extremely handy in certain match ups, namely Thunderstruck. I don’t understand why they’ve teased with only reinstating part of this ability. Why this half measure?

They didn’t take any other feedback into consideration, they’re still shortening his staggers by two seconds and his Invisibility mechanic seems to be just as they changed it before.

I didn’t care for his bullet mechanic before. I found it hard to sustain over the course of a quest and working specifically to reload them was a play style I didn’t enjoy. It could be very flashy and powerful sometimes, definitely. But losing abilities over the course of a quest is some pre-buff-diablo energy that really just shouldn’t be mechanics. I prefer champs that work the same each time. At least with the return of Hex Seal it should be easier to reload than before because you’ll be able to nullify a bunch at once again.

I’m frustrated that this is it. I highly highly doubt they’re going to listen to any more criticism on the matter and that....this is it. Revoking the first buff was already unprecedented. They spent all this time but only really listened to one part of the feedback. “See we gave you Hex Seal be happy stop complaining”

I’m able to at least use my r3 Hood in most of the situations that I’ve always used him again. I AM glad for this. I have to be glad for this.

I’m sure the people that never used or liked him before will take interest in him and continue to tell me he “doesn’t suck anymore” and won’t miss what he’s lost.

TrashyPanda

I can't really tell without messing with him personally. Only thing I can say is that I will likely never enjoy the Diablo-like... well, now Hood-like, limited charge system.

What I would've rather seen is increased damage (burst during Invisibility, likely, similar to Falcon), a combination of the 2-miss and 90% projectile miss system, and some 'good' regen -- even if some damage was sacrificed to make it happen. Teensy Regen is just a hindrance that can set off nodes and abilities; better off not having it.

pseudosane

The funny thing is they are calling invisibility a buff....now. It was ALWAYS a buff. You can stagger his invisibility now.