Deep Dive: The Destroyer

EdisonLaw

https://youtu.be/LDyKpFrA2bs?si=Z1RfTtenemxrJbtv

Post your thoughts here
My first thought, he looks like a mystic Nimrod and I want him

Darkraw346

A Mystic Nimrod, why is that?

He gains 50% reduction to all forms of dmg as long as the opponent have any 5 buffs active right? That's sick

His immunities r lacking

Ortoun

Whats up with obnoxious defenders recently. This month looks particularly bad. And with runestones behind paragauntlet, I'm not looking forward to this month.

EdisonLaw

@Darkraw346 He gains charges faster against buffs like how Nimrod gains charges faster against mutants, he can remove some buffs like how Nimrod removes prowess, they also both have big sp2 attacks

EdisonLaw

Also, any counters to bring against him?

Ortoun

Silk, titania, quicksilver, spidey2099 seem like the best, you want lots of non damaging debuffs and/or wither it looks like.

ThatGuyYouSaw235

EdisonLaw said:

Also, any counters to bring against him?

it might possibly, quite possibly, doom time

EdisonLaw

Ortoun said:

Silk, titania, quicksilver, spidey2099 seem like the best, you want lots of non damaging debuffs and/or wither it looks like.

I think the newly buffed Luke Cage should work

BigBlueOx

Unstoppable and immune to slow… fun

Marcus_TBD

Scorpion seems like a solid counter

ItsClobberinTime

He looks like he's gonna be really really fun to use, the special spam and power gain look really fun to me for some reason.

As for defense, now I have a reason to rank up Red Guardian so that's cool too.

EdisonLaw

So they are using the “destroy buff” mechanic to get around nullify immunity?

EdisonLaw

Also here’s his official page

https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/the-destroyer/

Colinwhitworth69

BigBlueOx said:

Unstoppable and immune to slow… fun

Valkyrie?

altavista

Colinwhitworth69 said:

BigBlueOx said:

Unstoppable and immune to slow… fun

Valkyrie?

“ When the Opponent gains a Buff while attacking the Destroyer’s Block, Destroy one of their newest Buffs and replace it with a Rubble Buff.”

Will have to see how Valkyrie interacts with that, but at the very least have to pay attention to combo count when attacking the block.

The spotlight mentions Grit as a way around this - so Chee’lth seems like an intended option

Ortoun

They specifically counter Valk by destroying buffs gained when hitting into his block, so doable, but not as easily as you would hope

altavista

EdisonLaw said:

So they are using the “destroy buff” mechanic to get around nullify immunity?

I feel like Kabam is getting a little too precious with their programming now. We’ve barely seen the maturation of Neutralize (and Neutralize immune), and now they are already introducing some non-nullify buff removal and rubble replacement mechanic. There will probably be some weird unforeseen interaction that will spring out of this.

CyborgNinja135

altavista said:

EdisonLaw said:

So they are using the “destroy buff” mechanic to get around nullify immunity?

I feel like Kabam is getting a little too precious with their programming now. We’ve barely seen the maturation of Neutralize (and Neutralize immune), and now they are already introducing some non-nullify buff removal and rubble replacement mechanic. There will probably be some weird unforeseen interaction that will spring out of this.

In a way, increased AA is a pseudo neutralize immunity. For example Vox has 300% buff AA so he is able to bypass it, and I believe there are no fights in the game where buff AAR goes above 300%. I imagine Longshot can also achieve a similar effect with his 300% base AA.

Photon is outright immune to neutralize with her sig and Overseer is immune to it as well with Spidey Supreme on the team. Would be nice to get more champs immune to it tho

mbrace

Luke Cage will wreck him, but I still want him.

Crcrcrc

That instant rupture from the sig is gonna make him totally impossible to fight considering the rest of his kit.

13579rebel_

Crcrcrc said:

That instant rupture from the sig is gonna make him totally impossible to fight considering the rest of his kit.

Scorp will work fine

EdisonLaw

@altavista he is bleed immune. Decelerate should still work, like Baron Zemo or Sandman

Nightheart

So he's immune to slow I can think of Cap Beardo I believe he removes unstoppable provided he has a kinetic charge

Nightheart

Human torch of course will work for him being a mystic and all but if I know anything about kabam they might add a node to prevent him from getting nuked in EQ

EdisonLaw

Alright, we figured out counters, how strong do you think he is on attack?

PT_99

Kinda like doom, get to sp3 then sp2 spam 😘

captain_rogers

What is the name of the node where you need 3 buffs to deal damage? This guy will be a hell on that node

captain_rogers

Nightheart said:

So he's immune to slow I can think of Cap Beardo I believe he removes unstoppable provided he has a kinetic charge

He sadly removes only unstoppable buffs, and that too via Nullify

Ruwqiersa

altavista said:

EdisonLaw said:

So they are using the “destroy buff” mechanic to get around nullify immunity?

I feel like Kabam is getting a little too precious with their programming now. We’ve barely seen the maturation of Neutralize (and Neutralize immune), and now they are already introducing some non-nullify buff removal and rubble replacement mechanic. There will probably be some weird unforeseen interaction that will spring out of this.

We already had non nullify buff removal. What do you think venompool sp1 does?

Ruwqiersa

Btw his unstoppable is not even that scary guys. Its like rhino unstoppable with a cooldown. Either just parry his mediums or heavy bait. Or you can still use decelerate, chielth or stryfe type of champions.

AcidBurn404

Bro he is poison immune...Why? I need to use ibom!!!!!!!!!!!