How Good is Overseer?

Phillip14233

Just duped my 6* overseer. Know very little about him but know some people really like him. Is he worth trying out and possibly ranking?

Pikolu

Yeah, you should check out how to play him

Yodabolt21

He is underrated. Is he a top 5 Science champ, no. But he is very good and worth learning. His rotation is pretty simple as well.

BitterSteel

Great nullify immune champ, solid taunt with up to 50% up time, poison immune, great debuff amount for despair.

Occasional utility with reducing AAR of opponent specials, can help for footloose, Doom Aura, Juggs unstoppable, but you’ll see that useful in longer fights - not so much in short ones

His max ramp up takes the opponent filling 6 bars of power (each gives you one gamma power to a max of 6), but a few things can speed that up:
- opponents with power gain or increased combat power rate, taunt helps control that
- If duped, triggering an immunity will give you a gamma power, so that’s poison immune or nullify immune. So buffet, mystics or poison speeds up ramp up in a big way
- If duped, opponent ability failing due to decreased AA gives you a gamma power. So that’s what I mentioned with the reducing AAR of specials

Each gamma power you have increases attack, and when over 3 and you throw a special (having 2 and throwing a special that pushes them over a bar of power will also work here), triggers cosmic mode.

Here, your light attacks do a nice burst of physical damage. It lasts longer the more gamma you had, and is paused during both champs specials. Gaining gamma while in this mode no longer gives you the gamma, but instead a fury buff which is more potent the more gamma you used to enter cosmic mode (so 6 to begin will have a stronger fury than 3)

Playstyle is super simple. Get to sp3, get to 6 gamma. Bait specials so they’re on low power. Parry, throw sp3. Do MLLLL and get as many light attacks in as you can. Use sp1 to stun lock. If you want, throw heavy before your sp3 then parry and throw sp3 to help opponent throw specials so you can stay aggressive.

That’s the basics, he has other tidbits of nice utility. Like sp1 regenning some missing health, special attacks letting you have a similar autoblock safety net to Medusa, and also letting you go stun immune while that’s up. A disorient on sp2 is ok but I don’t use it much. Sp3 also inflicts physical vulnerability to let your burst damage do more.


I’d personally say if you have Spidey or Negative they do a fair bit of what he already does, but I’ve rank 3d them all very close together and even though they have overlap, I’ve found uses for them all. If you like him, deffo rank him up. The burst damage is crazy good at times, he’s tanky as hell and he has a lot of nice utility and damage. If you’re interested, I can share a video or two

thanks4playing

How good is the Overseer? Based on his character description:
"The Overseer has just started his conquering career and while he isn’t villainous, he’s not quite noble either."

So he's not as good as those categorized as heroes, but not as bad as those who are villains.

Terra

thanks4playing said:

How good is the Overseer? Based on his character description:
"The Overseer has just started his conquering career and while he isn’t villainous, he’s not quite noble either."

So he's not as good as those categorized as heroes, but not as bad as those who are villains.

That doesn't make sense considering most of the top meta in this game is both heroes and villains respectively

Riptide

I’d check out @BmcG on YouTube, he has an amazing guide on OS

Texas_11

He also can stun through block on his SP1 which gives you free openings

ItsDamien

I haven’t used him much but he’s a contender for R4 if I get science from 7.4

mmmbanyas

Very good, BitterSteel pretty much explained it all. The only thing I’d add is you also get extra burst damage punishing the enemies specials and heavy attacks

Gildarts99

Mine is r3 as well used him quiet a number of times in my 7.4 exploration and he never disappointed.really good if u ask me

Terra

Nocko said:

Just pulled himself recently
Is awakening a something he needs?

Not really. It's just a very nice boost.

BitterSteel

Nocko said:

Just pulled himself recently
Is awakening a something he needs?

I’d largely agree with Terra, it isn’t necessary to play him. But honestly, the impact it has on ramping up when you face buffet/mystics with nullify, poison nodes/champs, or champs with abilities that can fail on specials is nothing to scoff at. It’ll take fights from ramping up to 6 gamma over 55-60 hits, to 35-40. It’s a really huge benefit for those fights, allowing you to get to your big damage phase quicker.

Overall though, and outside of those fights, unduped is still absolutely fine.