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Elektra: What Does She Do Well?
DrZola
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As the proud owner of a shiny new L20 6* Elektra, I took it as a sign that Kabam wanted me to trot my newly duped #mercenary champ out to stomp some Ghost gluteus.
Not so much.
I’m likely to fold Little Miss Natchios back into the hind parts of my roster and take my run at point #27 with Cage, Domino or maybe even rank up that monkey guy.
In the meantime, I hadn’t realized how far Elektra had fallen off the meta. She was at one time a respectable champ, especially if you ran the Inequity limb of the mastery tree. Her bleeds seemed potent and she left “no loose ends.”
I remember her with nostalgia like the attractive and funny “You’ve Got Mail” Meg Ryan—but her effectiveness in today’s game tends to be more along the lines of…well, the 2021 version of Meg Ryan.
To crib a line from Drax: Why is Elektra?
Dr. Zola
Not so much.
I’m likely to fold Little Miss Natchios back into the hind parts of my roster and take my run at point #27 with Cage, Domino or maybe even rank up that monkey guy.
In the meantime, I hadn’t realized how far Elektra had fallen off the meta. She was at one time a respectable champ, especially if you ran the Inequity limb of the mastery tree. Her bleeds seemed potent and she left “no loose ends.”
I remember her with nostalgia like the attractive and funny “You’ve Got Mail” Meg Ryan—but her effectiveness in today’s game tends to be more along the lines of…well, the 2021 version of Meg Ryan.
To crib a line from Drax: Why is Elektra?
Dr. Zola
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The one thing that elektra does well is reduce ability accuracy of opponent by 85% while they are suffering from debuff. If you do have a better option for reducing AA, she is unfortunately a bench warmer.
I appreciate the refreshes—they have all been well-intentioned efforts, even if the community didn’t like them all. It’s sad to see them have to be scaled back.
That’s not really the point I was making, and Elektra is not the worst skill champ. But when you have an awakened 6* champ, she’s a mercenary, you remember her as decent and decide to give a tough fight a whirl, you’d like a little more than the meager amount she has to offer. That’s all.
Dr. Zola
People say the domino cut screen was borderline inappropriate... How about Elektra's "cheeky" design. Y'all know people have tried to determine if she's pulling a Jessica Rabbit (in the original cut) or not.
And that when content was around that her skills were useful for, there were always better options for those pushing content.
1. First year and early game? Og black widow was better.
2. Rttl and safeguard came out, especially og vision? Crossbones was better and by then we also had blade, quake and AA, who were all better.
3. Any year since then? Quake and AA rule the roost. You'd take 4* 5/50 quake or AA over 5/65 dupe Elektra for any content that needs AAR.
Plus she needed 2k ish in units to unlock the mastery that most players used to get value from her.
She's always been better than having to deal 100 hits to get past robots on safeguard. But she was never even remotely optimal.
And as someone with a sig 40 6* and every version of her from 2* to 6*, her dupe crits in the final 25%, is only useful for arena.
She was never the best option and you have to go back 6 years for her to be the second best option. She's been overshadowed since day 1.
Along with all the year 1 release characters, she could really do with a tune up.
Dr. Zola