Infamous Iron Man, awesome design, but disappointing performance?
DarknessFalls
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I was so happy to recieve my Infamous Iron Man from the featured crystal. Could wait to rank it up, didn't even wait for level up event.
But what followed since has been just disappointment and mediocre performance with few flashed of brilliance, making it niche, and could be easily done with many other characters which are more viable in other content as well.
The amount of weakness is mind boggling on this character.
1. Armour break - it's done and dusted, easily available on many characters.
2. Nullify - In-case above is not available.
3. Shock immunity
4. Watch out for local and global nodes which removed buffs on your character - so unreliable. Literally you need to check each and every node on a path to make sure your incinerate or shock immune Infamous IR can even be used for the quest, though good luck with incursions or wars and alliance quests.
If the above wasn't all, the unreliability in power burn, and the high risk to cost any fight. Cause your heal is not gonna activate if you are against a SP3, one miss step it's over.
All in all, regretting awakening it as well as making it my number one. My CGR can do better job even at class disadvantage or bad matchup.
Still testing but seems will become another side character, not one to stay in main roster, sigh.
Just my experience, not sure how you guys feel about the champion.
But what followed since has been just disappointment and mediocre performance with few flashed of brilliance, making it niche, and could be easily done with many other characters which are more viable in other content as well.
The amount of weakness is mind boggling on this character.
1. Armour break - it's done and dusted, easily available on many characters.
2. Nullify - In-case above is not available.
3. Shock immunity
4. Watch out for local and global nodes which removed buffs on your character - so unreliable. Literally you need to check each and every node on a path to make sure your incinerate or shock immune Infamous IR can even be used for the quest, though good luck with incursions or wars and alliance quests.
If the above wasn't all, the unreliability in power burn, and the high risk to cost any fight. Cause your heal is not gonna activate if you are against a SP3, one miss step it's over.
All in all, regretting awakening it as well as making it my number one. My CGR can do better job even at class disadvantage or bad matchup.
Still testing but seems will become another side character, not one to stay in main roster, sigh.
Just my experience, not sure how you guys feel about the champion.
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Also every champion in the game has counters and weaknesses so just don't use him in those fights. He also gets around the shock immunity via Peni Parker synergy. Used my iron doom to melt down a korg that way before, very fun fight.
Just very unreliable overall. Though I understand your point. I want it to work in my main team, really like the design and attack animations, still trying and testing.
Even after Awakening the block proficiency and energy resistance he gets is also dependent on his armour being up. Weak defender(maybe some node can help, but in his case one won't do), unreliable attacker.
When it comes to points 2 and 4, you can play around stuff like buffet and power snack by letting the node consume the precision from dexterity before the armor comes back. If you're facing a node like tranquility then you wouldn't bring someone that relies on buffs in the first place. In fact, he's not the first champion in the game that loses utility and/or damage when their buffs are removed so I don't get why this is a complaint.
Point 1: Unless it's something like crumbling armor + a passive AI, or armor break on contact/without doing anything like Terrax or Knull (and you shouldn't be bringing IDoom into these match-ups either way), he is pretty reliable. Ghost is useless the moment she gets an armor break on her. Same with Guardian, SC loses his immunities. Why is it a problem that Tech characters are susceptible to being armor broken?
Point 3: Unless it's BGs you can bring Peni along and the shocks are replaced with incinerates that serve the same function. Again, you don't see people complaining that Ibom loses all his damage against poison immune or that BWDO is bad against shock immune.
Whereas for IR, even special 2 is conditioned to get the damage out.
Infamous IR, love the character, so only disappointed. The more you use it, the more you will face uncertainty of him being one of the main stay in your attack or build your team around him. He is niche, not even completely reliable even against mutant class. Forget other match ups. The question is if a character is build only to counter few characters or should have some more to it as well.
Also, not that good against both Mags. Usually it's not just characters, but local and global nodes on top as well. Still haven't fought all mutants yet, but mixed observations.
Doom being a mystic character, made me believe Infamous would have at least some little mystical abilities like Stagger or Nullify, but no.
Further when you carry 3 team for quest/war/incursion is he the effective incinerate/shock immunity champ that you can rely on ?
Cause even that is not certain.
I would take regular doom over him any day. He is more effective, he is not even match for regular doom.
Impractical but it might come in handy if u ever need it lol.
In Mcoc, we have around 80+ armour break champions.
And 30+ nullify champions.
Futher all you can hope is they don't release a armour break relic, else one whole class can counter him completely, cause he is completely dependent on armour for all abilities. Sigh.
Short fight, nearly get to his SP2 and just prior apply his heavy strike and then go into the special for an unblockable SP2
longer fights. Get to his sp3. Do the same apply his shock from heavy (make hit 1 ‘the slap’ connect) then action his SP3
Both champs (attacker & defender get a power gain buff) use your striker and get the SP1 and bingo your opponent is basically power locked - spam SP2. Opponent Ko”d
I hope why you see this is a bit silly
Why is everything amour dependent is the question. Either take his defense or offense, not everything.
Would be more viable if it had versatility. Anyways I see more disagreement and I respect that opinion, but I am sure many feel same as meas well, wouldn't be top champ to rank up if you have alternative in team as it's has specific usage and counter.
I have him Sig 200 r4(prestige move)
So I do want to learn him and bring him more, But Im not doing too good. I'm missing a lot of things... I'm a complete nub..smh
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