Thing Torch Synergy ➡️ Base Kit?

ItsClobberinTime

Yes yes I'm still taking my copium lol with that out of the way though, does anyone else think this synergy should be base kit?

I don't see how a change like this one would make him absolutely broken. It would have an impact on defense sure but he still wouldn't be close to being as dangerous as the top 5 defenders currently in the game. As for offense, sure it would help him ramp up quicker but that's kinda the main reason he sucks so much nowadays unless you're running that one synergy. His damage is not bad at all it's the amount of ramp required to get to that damage (which yes really good damage nowadays but still nothing broken).
He wouldn't even be close to Hulk level of speed and damage with a change like this one, hell even if you made the full Fantastic Four synergy team base kit, it still takes roughly 40-50 secs for the 7* to take down a BGs sized health pool.
@Kabam Miike I'm begging you sir, look at my name, I also voted for Ruby please help a brother out 🥲

Emilia90

Seconding this. Would be a great addition for him

I remember running the full team for fun sometimes and hitting like a truck, but with battlegrounds + other champs that can do it without synergies, I kinda just stopped playing him.

ItsClobberinTime

Emilia90 said:

Seconding this. Would be a great addition for him

I remember running the full team for fun sometimes and hitting like a truck, but with battlegrounds + other champs that can do it without synergies, I kinda just stopped playing him.

He definitely hits like a truck once he's fully ramped:

Over 100k in basic attacks in 10 secs (that one was full synergy team btw), the damage is definitely there it's just a shame that it takes him so long to ramp up without synergies.
I kinda understand why they did it back then, a champ dishing out that much damage in under 50 secs back then would not have been healthy for the game but now? I mean we have Scorpion Silk Hulk Titania, he wouldn't even be as quick as any of these with the Torch synergy being base-kit alone, for him to be that fast they'd have to make the full Fantastic Four synergy team base kit which might be a little too much.

EdisonLaw

There are a lot of champions like this whose synergies should be in their base kit, and this Thing synergy is one of those.

Other examples include Agent Venom with the trinity, Symbiote Spiderman with Red Goblin, Champion with Titania, Cable and Wolverine with Apoc, erc.

ThePredator1001

I agree, maybe next time there’s no champs needing rebalance, instead of buffing a champion kabam could take a couple champs that are heavily synergy reliant and merge them into their kit. Starting with Thing since there’s a lot of unhappy campers who pulled him from the Titan Crystal.

EdisonLaw

@ThePredator1001 He is a decent dual threat but nowhere near the best

ItsClobberinTime

ThePredator1001 said:

I agree, maybe next time there’s no champs needing rebalance, instead of buffing a champion kabam could take a couple champs that are heavily synergy reliant and merge them into their kit. Starting with Thing since there’s a lot of unhappy campers who pulled him from the Titan Crystal.

Indeed, and he's quite literally useless for most game content unless he's sig 200 which makes it even worse. Requiring awakening is bad enough but this guy requires sig 200.

ItsClobberinTime

EdisonLaw said:

@ThePredator1001 He is a decent dual threat but nowhere near the best

He's not dual threat, at least not the 7*. In order for him to be dual threat he needs sig 200 which right now is quite literally impossible so he's just a useless champ with good damage that requires a whole minute of ramp up to get his damage.