Omega Red striker interaction

Has anyone else noticed that spores fall off while a striker is active? It sort of makes sense because OR is not technically near the opponent then, but it basically makes it worthless to use them on him.

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SkyLord7000

It’s weird because striker close logic is very inconsistent in the game

Pikolu

It’s weird because striker close logic is very inconsistent in the game

The main thing I don't like about it is when you're fighting OR, the striker counts as being close to him.

Darkness275

Has anyone else noticed that spores fall off while a striker is active? It sort of makes sense because OR is not technically near the opponent then, but it basically makes it worthless to use them on him.

This is consistent across the game and always benefits the defender.

If the defender has an "aura"/"proximity" effect, we are impacted by it when we use our strikers as if there's no distance between us at all. However if we have a similar effect and throw a striker, our benefit acts as though there's distance between us.

Pikolu

I brought this up to the devs, so we may or may not see a resolution to it in the coming months

Darkness275

I brought this up to the devs, so we may or may not see a resolution to it in the coming months

Nice! Thanks.

Emilia90

Strikers are all over the place. You can add tactical charges and rock stacks with them, but can’t take korg’s rock stacks away. Future ant-man’s power detonation timer works based off whether or not he’s landing hits, and the striker seems to work here and it can activate the detonation. Aarkus’s armor break countdown just doesn’t show up when the striker gets activated.

I swear that Herc’s immortality used to be paused when using the striker a couple updates ago, but it doesn’t do that now

ItsClobberinTime

Really hope they change it soon, he's always been one of my favorite champs but ever since the mutant class started getting banger after banger Omega Red just kinda started fading into obscurity to the point you don't really see him being used anymore unless there's a bleed node or someone's running suicides. That small relic change would help him so much.

MCOCHazza

It’s weird because striker close logic is very inconsistent in the game
The main thing I don't like about it is when you're fighting OR, the striker counts as being close to him.

Yeah this. He should be still applying them or at least stay at the same amount when using the striker :’(

Magrailothos

If you've got an ability like Life Steal, it stops working on striker attacks.

GMAX77

Use your heavy attack prior to launching the striker. This has worked well for me in many situations, especially the Mr.Sinister relic. The heavy places a degen which keeps spores from falling off.

Bel

Just adding my +1 to this, it is almost purposefully biased towards the defender.

Use herc and activate your striker your immortality ticks down as you're not attacking anymore.
But use herc pre-immortality and activate striker next to a damaging aura (OR, Vision Ark etc) and you take damage while the striker is in effect.

It's stupid.

Ortoun

Use your heavy attack prior to launching the striker. This has worked well for me in many situations, especially the Mr.Sinister relic. The heavy places a degen which keeps spores from falling off.

Yeah. That works, but it means that using the striker to make an opening to heavy isn't worth it. But that is kind of beside the point, it's inconsistent as to whether you are considered near or far, hitting the opponent or not, to the point where you can't tell how it will interact with various abilities with out trying every single interaction.