Champion Buff Proposal: Taskmaster

L_217

The Ultimate Counter is in poor shape with today's Contest, being too complicated for the amount of payoff he gives. My proposed buff simplifies some of his mechanics while giving some permanent features that benefit throughout the fight. Taskmaster will now remember the opponent's attack patterns and throw it back at them with lethal precision, so be sure to follow the prompts matching the opponent's attacks. The best part is, once an attack is Memorized, you gain a potent damage bump while denying the opponent their abilities.
Stats Based on a 5/65 5 Star Champion
Passive – Mnemonic Charges

>Each Unique Attack the opponent attempts applies a Mnemonic Charge on them, each reducing their Ability Accuracy by 10%.
>Each Unique Attack performed by Taskmaster applies a Mnemonic Charge on him, each increasing Perfect Block Chance and Exploit Weakness Damage by 10%.
>Each Champion can only have up to 6 Mnemonic Charges at a time.
Being Struck by a Special Attack resets removes all Mnemonic Charge both champions.

Passive – Exploit Weakness

>Taskmaster spots a weakness in the last attack his opponent attempts, which can be exploited by striking his opponent with that same attack within 4 seconds.
>Successfully exploiting the opponent allows Taskmaster to memorize that Attack for the remainder of the fight and deals 2081.7 Direct Damage.
>Memorized Attacks gain +925.2 Attack and cannot Miss or be Evaded.
>Once Taskmaster memorizes an Attack, he cannot memorize it again.
>Successfully exploiting the opponent with a Memorized Attack doubles the direct damage dealt to the opponent.
>After Exploit Weakness is triggered or expires it goes on cool down for 3 seconds

Passive – Learn the Foe

>Each time a Debuff is placed on Taskmaster, all future Debuffs placed on him have their Potency reduced by 25%.
>If the Debuff Potency reduction reaches 100%, Taskmaster becomes Immune to Debuffs.
>While Defending, whenever the Attacker gains a Prowess effect, this ability is reset.

Passive – Photographic Reflexes

>Charging a Heavy Attack or activating a Special Attack will immediately end the Exploit Weakness Cooldown.
>If Taskmaster has triggered Exploit Weakness in the last 1.5 seconds, or his current Exploit Weakness target is a Heavy Attack or Special Attack, he avoids any incoming attacks for 1.5 seconds after charging his Heavy Attack and at the end of his Special Attack.

Special 1: Use their Weaknesses

>The last three hits inflict Bleed lasting 10 seconds and dealing 2775.6 damage, per Debuff triggered on the opponent in this fight. Max Damage after 4 debuffs.
>If this attack is Memorized and successfully exploits the opponent, each hit will inflict a Bleed debuff.

Special 2: Steal their Strengths

>The last hit of this Attack inflicts Armor Break lasting 10 seconds reducing Armor by 1411.76 per Buff triggered on the Opponent this fight. Max Damage after 4 Buffs.
>If this attack is Memorized and successfully exploits the opponent, the Armor Break lasts 25 seconds instead.

Special 3: Ideal Counter

>If there is an active Exploit Weakness target it is automatically triggered and Memorized.
>Causes Bleed lasting 10 seconds and dealing 8126.6 Damage, per Debuff triggered on the Opponent in this fight. Max Damage after 4 Debuffs.
>Causes Armor Break lasting 10 seconds reducing Armor by 1411.76 per Buff triggered by the Opponent in this fight. Max Damage after 4 Buffs.
>This attack gains +809.55 Attack for each Debuff and Buff triggered on either Taskmaster or his Opponent in this fight, up to +4047.75 Attack.

Signature Ability: Intuitive Pattern Recognition

>Striking the opponent with a Memorized Attack reduces the Opponent’s Defensive Ability Accuracy by 20 to 50%.
>Whenever the opponent fails to trigger an ability, Taskmaster gains 5 to 12.5 % of a bar of Power.
>For each Mnemonic charge on Taskmaster, gain +95 to +201 Critical Damage Rating.
>For each Mnemonic Charge on the opponent, reduce their Critical Rating by 43 to 180.

Synergy Changes:
>Mostly Average Joes with Hawkeye: Special Attacks are Unblockable if Memorized when Exploiting a Weakness.
>Professors in Crime with Crossbones: Memorized Basic attacks grant +15% Offensive Combat Power Rate.
>Termination Contract: Memorized attacks cannot be auto-blocked.
>Thunderbolts with Winter Soldier: Memorized attacks have a 35% chance to be Unblockable when Exploiting a Weakness.

daveyj_196_

Let me guess, you've just pulled him as a 6*.