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New HE....buff thoughts
MachoNacho
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I'm excited about the new improvements to HE which include power drain and bleed.... lol. But honestly....i feel like they missed a HUGE opportunity to really make him game changing.
What i mean is, throughout the MCU and Marvel comics HE has proven not only to be an expert marksman but also a great strategist. One aspect they could have included in his kit would have been to give him a barrage of various arrows in his quil. Not just bleed, but also shock, incinerate and cold snap or what have you. I would have loved for the character to be able to automatically cycle through them based on his opponent's immunities. For instance, if they are bleed immune, shock them. If they are both bleed and shock immune, incinerate them. Etc.
Starlord and Winter Soldier have similar capabilities in their kit... why not Hawkeye??
Ahh well... maybe that's expecting too much.
What i mean is, throughout the MCU and Marvel comics HE has proven not only to be an expert marksman but also a great strategist. One aspect they could have included in his kit would have been to give him a barrage of various arrows in his quil. Not just bleed, but also shock, incinerate and cold snap or what have you. I would have loved for the character to be able to automatically cycle through them based on his opponent's immunities. For instance, if they are bleed immune, shock them. If they are both bleed and shock immune, incinerate them. Etc.
Starlord and Winter Soldier have similar capabilities in their kit... why not Hawkeye??
Ahh well... maybe that's expecting too much.
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A skill champ that can do that is pretty valuable. Especially when Kabam adds power gain nodes and mechanics everywhere in new content these days.
At face value it’s decreased without achieving the perfect release bonus. - 50% combat power rate + 25% power drain.
Does that equate to more than the flat 40%
If you're playing aggressively, how much Power do you usually grant your opponent in eight seconds?
(twelve seconds, if you can stack Perfect Release passives)
I'd say easily a bar of power, so you're preventing the gain of more power than with 'Old' Hawkeye; against ordinary opponents.
Three other situations get better or worse:
1: Opponents with Power Gain (Hypes, Dr Strange, Sym Sup etc): Reducing the opponent's Combat Power is relatively less important. New HE will do less well against these opponents.
2: Opponents who shrug-off debuffs - obviously he'll do less well here, too.
3: Opponents with Power Drain Immunity or Resistance (King Groot, Annihilus, IMIW) - New HE will do slightly better; as at least he can still access some kind of power control. Although King Groot still a very bad match-up for him...
Either way, I think HE is going to be good, just not game breaking.