Does anyone else think Electro is unfun?

What I mean is it’s kinda ridiculous that I don’t get hit at all during a fight and still lose 70% of my champions health through static damage

I always feel like Electro is punishing me for playing the game.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a hard fight at all. Electro is actually one of the easiest characters to defeat, but it always feel so bad to lose that much health for basically no reason.

I know that only attacks that make direct contact with him do this, but then again, the vast majority of attacks fall in this criteria.

And what makes it worse is that the damage you take is based on the damage you hit him with, so bursting him down or grinding him out will result in the same thing

I can’t be the only one who thinks this?

Comments

Ortoun

There are a few good counters for him. But I do agree, the unavoidable damage is just garbage. Black Cat, Falcon, and Namor are probably the best counters for him I can think of off the top of my head

DUHveed

What I mean is it’s kinda ridiculous that I don’t get hit at all during a fight and still lose 70% of my champions health through static damage

I always feel like Electro is punishing me for playing the game.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a hard fight at all. Electro is actually one of the easiest characters to defeat, but it always feel so bad to lose that much health for basically no reason.

I know that only attacks that make direct contact with him do this, but then again, the vast majority of attacks fall in this criteria.

And what makes it worse is that the damage you take is based on the damage you hit him with, so bursting him down or grinding him out will result in the same thing

I can’t be the only one who thinks this?

Electro was the OG “fun and interactive damage” champ

JT_Supreme

Attumas the new electro, so annoying

Magrailothos

I thought this comment was going to be from athe other perspective: playing with Electro is not fun.

Most champions have a payoff for good gameplay. Not Electro: his champion design actively punishes you for being a good player. Electro's static shock does nothing for an advanced player who is good at not getting hit. If you block or parry your opponents attacks, they take... almost zero shock damage. Electro's Signature (which is pure Offense, boosting his Critical Rating) is based on the Power he and his opponent have: so, if you play well and bait out your opponent's Special attacks, you lose half your bonus Critical rating.

I think you could argue there are very few champions who need a rework more than Electro (the classic Captains America& Marvel spring to mind...).

I know some champs were designed to be defenders, but actually Electro isn't one of them.
Look at his crit rating, his health, his Sig ability: he's designed to be used on Attack. He just doesn't actually work for it, any more. When he was introduced, he was a glass cannon who was decent on defense. Now he's a low-damage nothing on Attack, and a Speedbump on defense.

Playing against Electro isn't particularly fun, but there are plenty of ways to deal with it. Playing with Electro is even less fun.

Hopefully Kabam might get around to fixing that, one day.

DUHveed

I’d love to see him get a tune up and work similarly to Ibom where he gets personal shock effects on himself. He takes no damage from shock and gets an attack boost if he’s shocked. You could give him some Spider-verse utility to shut down evade somehow since he’s a Spider-Man villain

FrostGiantLord

To be honest, Electro is just one of those champs with a really interesting and unique concept, only to be ruined by poor execution and balancing. Hope Kabam fixes him one day, but he's probably the least of Kabam's priorities right now. (Btw this is my 1000th post!)

Snizzbar

I forget he's even in the game. Which is a shame as he's a great character with what should be some pretty good abilities and potential for awesome visual effects.

Ashacekar

That poor bald guy does atleast something at this age, let's not take that away from him.

Mohammad07

What I mean is it’s kinda ridiculous that I don’t get hit at all during a fight and still lose 70% of my champions health through static damage

I always feel like Electro is punishing me for playing the game.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a hard fight at all. Electro is actually one of the easiest characters to defeat, but it always feel so bad to lose that much health for basically no reason.

I know that only attacks that make direct contact with him do this, but then again, the vast majority of attacks fall in this criteria.

And what makes it worse is that the damage you take is based on the damage you hit him with, so bursting him down or grinding him out will result in the same thing

I can’t be the only one who thinks this?

Shock immune champs shouldn't be affected by static damage.

FrostGiantLord

What I mean is it’s kinda ridiculous that I don’t get hit at all during a fight and still lose 70% of my champions health through static damage

I always feel like Electro is punishing me for playing the game.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a hard fight at all. Electro is actually one of the easiest characters to defeat, but it always feel so bad to lose that much health for basically no reason.

I know that only attacks that make direct contact with him do this, but then again, the vast majority of attacks fall in this criteria.

And what makes it worse is that the damage you take is based on the damage you hit him with, so bursting him down or grinding him out will result in the same thing

I can’t be the only one who thinks this?
Shock immune champs shouldn't be affected by static damage.

I get your point. However, countering Electro is such a niche category that no one would want to invest the resources required to rank up an Electro counter.

AverageDesi

zero shock damage.

Ortoun

I’d love to see him get a tune up and work similarly to Ibom where he gets personal shock effects on himself. He takes no damage from shock and gets an attack boost if he’s shocked. You could give him some Spider-verse utility to shut down evade somehow since he’s a Spider-Man villain

He has all of that except the evade counter as part of his base kit or as a synergy already. Spider Supreme basically makes him shock ibom.

A_Fungi

This is why I took my 6 star to R4

A_Fungi

What I mean is it’s kinda ridiculous that I don’t get hit at all during a fight and still lose 70% of my champions health through static damage

I always feel like Electro is punishing me for playing the game.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a hard fight at all. Electro is actually one of the easiest characters to defeat, but it always feel so bad to lose that much health for basically no reason.

I know that only attacks that make direct contact with him do this, but then again, the vast majority of attacks fall in this criteria.

And what makes it worse is that the damage you take is based on the damage you hit him with, so bursting him down or grinding him out will result in the same thing

I can’t be the only one who thinks this?
Shock immune champs shouldn't be affected by static damage.
I get your point. However, countering Electro is such a niche category that no one would want to invest the resources required to rank up an Electro counter.

yeah, Who would rank

Falcon, Kingpin, Crossbones, Black Cat, AA, Kingpin, Namor.. Just a bunch of garbage champs...

Magrailothos

zero shock damage.

LOL.

Sure, it's static shock. My point isn't the type of damage; it's that your opponent only suffers the damage if you let them hit you. If you dodge or parry the attack, they take less damage than if they'd hit you.

Which seems really backwards: his abilities are less useful, the better you play with him.

Something like this would actually reward you for using him effectively on attack:

When struck by a contact attack, Electro inflicts a burst of Shock damage equal to 25% of the damage that was inflicted
When he successfully blocks a contact attack, Electro inflicts a burst of Shock damage equal to 35% of the damage that was prevented by blocking
This rises to 55% of the damage prevented on a well-timed block.

Here's the full rework idea with more details: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2366535/#Comment_2366535

Shivacrux

Use duped kitty

UnOriginal

I'll be honest i dont know how i remembered him in this thread

At least i can say now that i probably shouldve put him instead of rhino
(I'd still buff captain america adove all of them)