Her special 1 doesnt even have an ability attached to it. Its fair to say thats she at the very least has had minimal effort put into her kit
It is the old guillotine kit that got a nice value update. You might not have had the chance to play OG guilly before her rework, but some people did prefer her before her update rather than after her update. I, for one, really like her old kit and the insane regen you can get from her awakened ability too. I imagine she is going to be insane in BGs, especially because no one is immune to degen. She looks like a really solid and underrated champion right now.
They DID go out of their way to harp on how different she would be
Where did you hear that? If anything they harped that it would be similar to her kit with a more modern approach to creating it. If you take "more modern approach" and extrapolate that to mean "vastly different", then that is your own dang fault.
Sure I already pointed out that this quote is obviously overplaying how different this champ would be kitties but here are a few more:
"If were to just guillotine with a new skin, that would kind of fall flat" "These are going to have, not a completely new kit, but we would be taking a kit and creating something unique" "We want to make sure there are some call backs but what we settled on was a Remix of the champion"
That's a whole lot of sentences which could have said: We will be giving value updates to the original guillotine. There is nothing unique or special about value tune ups. A "call back" is like a cute nod to the original. Kind of like how Guillotine 2099 places debuts on basic hits and has massive damage sp3 capability. A shot for shot remake on a newer camera is not a "call back" its the same champ with 3 numbers being edited. Ill grant you it didn't need to be a ground up rework, that doesn't mean you get to extend the fury duration on Ms marvel and claim she's not a reskin of captain marvel
This very much feels like "nod to old kit", "something unique", and "not a reskin".
I personally can't wait to get her and add her to my BGs deck, she will probably do very well there.
I agree insofar as the literal definition of not having the exact same kit word for word. I disagree in terms of how this is "similar to how guillotine 2099 is not just a reskin". If there is a ladder extending from reskin to rework this is literally the rung right above reskin which makes it far more accurate to refer to it as such than anything even in the same universe as what guillotine 2099 is to Guillotine. Like I said, if tomorrow, kabam announced how, Similar to photon and Captain marvel MCU, Ms Marvel and Captain Marvel were going to be altered to no longer be reskins of each other, then, what they meant by that, is that one would have an increased crit rating and fury duration, you would be completely correct in calling them out for misleading you, because the comparison they invoked is MASSIVELY disproportionate to the changes they actually instated
I will admit, I don't understand why you have a problem with it. They never promised a rework. A rework is literally taking old guillotine and making her into the current guillotine. A modern approach to creating a kit would be taking what is there and improving upon it.
Guillotines damage is heavily reliant on RNG and bleeds. Cool let's change that to be a degen to be more versatile, increase her crit rate and guarantee degens on the crits.
Hey her sp3 kills all ramp she has, so once she uses it, the fight is basically over for her. Cool let's change that so she only gets rid of half of the souls.
It is much better than Ms Marvel to OG Cap Marvel. That is a reskin.
Deathless guillotine is basically the buffed (not reworked) version of the old guillotine kit which IS something a lot of people wanted and asked for.
My problem is as follows: By comparing the differences that deathless Guillotine has with the original to the differences from 2099 to the original you give the player base a rough threshold of how different these champs should shape out to be. It literally takes 12 more seconds to scroll through her description than it does her original counterpart. Now, even tempering your expectations reasonably, to use that comparison to describe the VALUE changes that this character represents is misleading.
I cant tell if you actually read what I wrote about captain marvel so Ill say it again: If kabam announced that they were going to make Ms Marvel and Captain Marvel No longer reskins of each other then pointed at Photon and Captain Marvel MCU saying “similar to how those two arent just reskins of each other” then rolled out the changes and it turned out that what they meant is that they gave Ms Marvel 3 bonus seconds on her fury and higher chance to proc it you would be completely in the right to call them out for deceptively comparing the magnitude of these changes to Photon and Captain Marvel MCU.
How on earth does this even approach the universe that Guillotine 2099 and Guillotine represent relative to one another? Seriously is it just because we are using champions that this is muddied? If I said, look at the sun and Saturn: Im gonna make something thats similar to how those two planetary bodies are not that close to each other. I then put a ring on Saturn. You're right in staying “its not where Saturn is exactly” but dead wrong in trying to justify claims that invoking the sun was a fair way to set expectations and thus imply that Im somehow in the wrong for not expecting something far off from what we received, ESPECIALLY when you had several chances to express exactly what this was with language they had literally specifically created for this type of change: “A tune up”. “A value change”. Not “like how guillotine 2099 is not a reskin of guillotine”
So, Deathless Guillotine is not a reskin of OG Guillotine. A reskin would imply that both champions carry the exact same abilities with the only differences coming through value changes in amounts, duration, or potency. You keep mentioning Ms. Marvel and OG CM which is a good example of this. However, this definition does not apply to Deathless Guillotine and the OG version.
Their abilities are very similar. In fact, for the most part, the abilities are straight from OG Guillotine. But, there are changes that make this more than a tuneup. For example, she now inflicts Degeneration instead of Bleed. She will always infect a Degeneration on Critical Hits. And she only consumes half of her Souls off the SP3 (rounded down). These changes come with tuned up versions of the original Guillotine abilities and some new base stats.
I know these changes are small but just because it's a rung above a reskin does not mean it automatically can be categorized as one. In my opinion, there is enough difference to warrant Deathless Guillotine being her own thing. If anything, your example does not fit because it's not purely value changes.
Heres a fun question: If i took OG captain america and made the fatigue debuff he places on block last 1 second longer than before then colored him black and white would you feel more comfortable telling your alliance:
a) A reskin of OG cap is coming to the contest
Or
b) You know cap Infinity war? A champ based on cap is coming but, like how Cap Infinity war is different from Og cap, he’s not the same champion!
If you seriously say b then I think I see where the problem is for us
I always like pre-buff Guilly; and I'm not too disappointed (or surprised) in the Nameless version. As a pure damage champ, she might be not too bad. However something that would be great to consider if she's eligible for the rebalance program is her SP1.
Given that Kabam decided to make her Mystic rather than Superior ( which is a decision I agree with), it would be great if she had some kind of interaction with buffs; either an SP1 Nullify or SP1 gains Attack/Unblockable if the opponent is carrying buffs.
Just logged into my game, checked my roster, saw Deathless Guillotine and almost died of laughter. Oh wow is she terrible. I mean like come on Kabam, really??? the guy who designed her on the livestream said she wasn't a long fight champ but she isnt even a short fight champ. She's a reskin of pre buff guillotine and is absolutely unusable for anyone that gets her. Grinding for 7* nothing.
She just doesn’t have typical mystic “nullify” abilities. Her degen and healing actually look viable.
Nah idc, Thanos is where the interesting stuff will be at... also, Gully was already a Nameless champion tho unplayable, I hope the other Deathless champs won't be the same Nameless champs like Vision and Hyperion... it's boring, they have the chance to expend this idea to other champs, say... Psycho man. It'll be boring to see the same champs
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a) A reskin of OG cap is coming to the contest
Or
b) You know cap Infinity war? A champ based on cap is coming but, like how Cap Infinity war is different from Og cap, he’s not the same champion!
If you seriously say b then I think I see where the problem is for us
However something that would be great to consider if she's eligible for the rebalance program is her SP1.
Given that Kabam decided to make her Mystic rather than Superior ( which is a decision I agree with), it would be great if she had some kind of interaction with buffs; either an SP1 Nullify or SP1 gains Attack/Unblockable if the opponent is carrying buffs.