The Kaegon Necropolis hard path experience
So against my better judgment, I decided to do both hardest paths in Necro with a combination of Kate and Aegon. I’ll just post some highlights here instead of the usual complete breakdown, but this path was simultaneously way better and way worse than I expected it to be
Team:
R5 ascended Kate, R5 ascended Aegon, R2 7* Chavez, R4 Juggs, Heimdall
Odin: I ramped Aegon here with 2 revives. A great fight to ramp him on, and there’s not much to watch for but the inverted controls. I got to a 500+ combo on my first attempt which was cool. Finished the last 50% off with Chavez by using the hemidall method. If you bait an sp3, you’ll never have to bait a heavy again so this fight was a breeze
Claire: Almost a solo? I got clipped right away my first attempt and had to revive, but I took her all the way down with Kate that attempt. Very tricky Kate fight with the inversion, but I’m happy with the outcome
Shang: I hate this fight. There’s so much to keep track of between the inversion and his strikes (and he’ll cleanse your debuffs and apply slow to you). Imo worst fight on this path and I just Aegon smashed my way through in 5 revives 😭
Silver Centurion: Went super well with Aegon cause he just held block one attempt for minutes on end and I was able to take off 40+ percent of his health. Only like 2-3 revives
Stryfe: People were telling me this fight was hard, and it was tricky to control, but it’s actually super fun. I think it took like 3 revives with Kate? The path node is super annoying which I’ll get to later, but with managing your tracking on him, I was able to get 3 coldsnap up and manage the fight well. My main problem here was once again not having health potions, but he’s actually pretty fun. If you take the miss effect for yourself, it’s usually not good cause he gains charges, but it doesn’t matter much with Kate. I used the miss a lot to keep my own effects paused. Wouldn’t recommend Aegon smashing nearly as much for this one
Galan: I thought America Chavez would be great for this, but the stupid miss node made it so hard. I’m sure there is some strategy with her, but I was getting frustrated cause of how slow her heavies were (to count for the miss combo). I could’ve played her regularly maybe, but I figured I’d just Aegon smash through it. Took maybe 5 revives but I didn’t spend very long on this fight which was nice
Sandman: Not really anything special about this fight, but I got so insanely lucky with the AI here. Took Aegon back in and pushed him to sp3, and he didn’t throw it for a looong time. I got to multiple sp3’s, and then tanked his sp3 with heimdall and ended up taking off 80% or so in one go
Shocker: The last major highlight on this path because wow, he sucks. I tried Kate here and I just couldn’t manage the untouchable mode with the reduced stun + his sp1 animation making it hard to punish him. Just used Aegon and about 3-4 revives. Definitely should be able to make a dent with Kate my next 2 attempts without this node though
General path fights I didn’t mention: Each took around 1-4 revives, but they weren’t particularly hard on their own. I just didn’t have health potions and the reverse controls on the first path makes every fight worse than it actually is
I also used my 1-2 gem on Guilly 2099! Not my first choice, but she’ll be so good for the jubilee path that I had to, and I don’t really want to Aegon smash that path. She’ll be my counter for Jubilee, Diablo, SC, and Kitty which is great, and I’ll use Kate for mostly everything else
I think the grand total of revives was 55 or so. No team revives used at all, just solo ones. I’m now revive broke and need to gather more before the last 2 paths. This was a good ceiling for me to see what the most expensive path would probably look like, so I’ll be budgeting around 45 revives per path for the last 2
TLDR;
- Inverted controls suck and Untouchable sucks too
- Aegon smash is good and Kate smash is also good
- Around 55 revives used total
- Guilly 2099 is rank 2 now
- Heimdall saved my ass so many times
- I have a burning hatred for Shang Chi now
- Kate and Aegon combination worked surprisingly great for me, but I probably won’t do it again