Fighting Gladiator is horrible

Madman_marvin

I’m not saying he’s too hard. He’s not. The pace of fighting him is just bad. It’s clunky. It’s like the whole fight is in sand.

SirGamesBond

I used ascended quake.
Such nostalgia, Much fun.

ahmynuts

I'm usually one of the first to push back on posts like this because most of the time it could be a kit interaction like with Spot blocking a lot for example.

But for this one, holy sh*t it's so bad. Doing the runs of tier 9 was torture. It wasn't even hard. Gladiator just has the worst AI this game has ever seen. I even tried infuriating him and it was still really weird

TheGame84

I used the Agent Venom trinity. AV had him down in about 28 seconds.

MrSakuragi

TheGame84 said:

I used the Agent Venom trinity. AV had him down in about 28 seconds.

Works for EQ, not in the SQ with only selecting 1 champ to use.

ahmynuts

MrSakuragi said:

TheGame84 said:

I used the Agent Venom trinity. AV had him down in about 28 seconds.

Works for EQ, not in the SQ with only selecting 1 champ to use.

We definitely should have specified we were talking about the tier 9 boss

GroundedWisdom

I didn't have the same experience.

Adv

Who did you guys use for tech?

JustWantTheRewards

The AI is genuinely miserable. I'm usually the last person to complain about AI issues, but this Gladiator fight has him acting so sporadic.

Siliyo

JustWantTheRewards said:

The AI is genuinely miserable. I'm usually the last person to complain about AI issues, but this Gladiator fight has him acting so sporadic.

I found it frustrating. Tier 9 Gladiator is supposed to be aggressive yet he was so passive

Skinnye

I had no good tech champs so I just used my 7* War Machine. Tbh a lot of techs work. Imo you should push him to sp2 and dex the attacks instead of waiting for the sp1 unstoppable to end

ahmynuts

Adv said:

Who did you guys use for tech?

I used idoom. Worked well enough

RonSwanson

Adv said:

Who did you guys use for tech?

Ultron did pretty good

MrSakuragi

Adv said:

Who did you guys use for tech?

Warlock

Sachhyam257

Adv said:

Who did you guys use for tech?

I had him melting with 30+ ruptures using Lady D. AI did cooperate well though, can still solo him regardless.

Drake2078

Do you get anything for soloing him?

willrun4adonut

Can anyone upload a tech video? I'm having the most difficult time and can't find anyone. I have all but Deathstrike to choose from.

Blax999

Soloed him with Peni, I have trouble to dex the last hit of spe2 with her but with shield + incinerate immune I succeeded with an R3. Had to give it a couple of tries though.

Blax999

And for the AI, he's very weird. I didn't play him but he makes me think about Nimrod (when I play him), he's not moving forward the opponent by himself.

Jack2634

i got 5 solos with jugg . Don't let him throw a sp1 and the fight became really fast and easy

Polygon

The tech objective is more of a grind than DLX

Darkness275

He's not actually a good defender so just keep pushing him to SP2 and it becomes so much smoother.

Axew

Siliyo said:

JustWantTheRewards said:

The AI is genuinely miserable. I'm usually the last person to complain about AI issues, but this Gladiator fight has him acting so sporadic.

I found it frustrating. Tier 9 Gladiator is supposed to be aggressive yet he was so passive

Exactly. He keeps walking towards me and waiting instead of dashing, then randomly throwing a heavy. It’s completely unpredictable. I can’t imagine what his AI is like without the aggressive node.

ascendance

His move set isn't even hard to counter, but why does he have an aggressive node on when the AI is clearly passive? That wasted so much time

NextWeek

I have already cleared all 15 objectives with a r4 5* magik un ascended 6*r2 peni unawakened and 6*r3 hype awakened and had no issues. I just didn’t really block, and the sp2 is relatively easy to dex

Go_To

NextWeek said:

I have already cleared all 15 objectives with a r4 5* magik un ascended 6*r2 peni unawakened and 6*r3 hype awakened and had no issues. I just didn’t really block, and the sp2 is really easy to dex

How? how did you get all the entries. Or am i missing something here

MrSakuragi

Go_To said:

NextWeek said:

I have already cleared all 15 objectives with a r4 5* magik un ascended 6*r2 peni unawakened and 6*r3 hype awakened and had no issues. I just didn’t really block, and the sp2 is really easy to dex

How? how did you get all the entries. Or am i missing something here

Tier 9 Gladiator does not have an entry cost

Giantwalrus56

Once I got the sp2 timing down with Ultron, it was pretty simple. Aside from him floating there not moving like he was in some kind of trance. Not sure there's a weirder AI out there

o_o

My best tech so far has been Hulkbuster. The stun on HB’s sp1 gives you time to dash over and push Gladiator to his sp2.

o_o

Giantwalrus56 said:

Once I got the sp2 timing down with Ultron, it was pretty simple. Aside from him floating there not moving like he was in some kind of trance. Not sure there's a weirder AI out there

Was just going to say this. The floating / drifting is weird and frankly the whole fight is just really irritating

GroundedWisdom

He loves to surprise you with that L1, that's for sure.