A Delicious 8.4 Cheese Platter

I figured I could share some of the cheesiest paths and fights I've found in 8.4.

First up: Miles Morales cheeses through the 8.4.1 path that starts with Gambit (and is great for the America Chavez boss as well). What makes this path tricky is that all specials are unblockable all the time. Luckily, Miles just...doesn't care. Every special - along the entire path - will miss him 100%.

Unless you do what I did and accidentally pull of a well-timed block against one of the specials. That's the only time he will not try to make an attack miss.

He also makes the America Chavez boss a cakewalk since she can throw as many unblockable SP2s at you as she wants. Just a small PSA, though: striker hits grant you extra fury buffs to fuel the Rising Sun node.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6LgG5Hah8M

Next up: Bullseye in turn dominates 8.4.5 Miles Morales in 15 seconds. He works for the entire path. This does require some decent AI cooperation but as long as the defender puts up their block after you get a 15-hit combo and doesn't charge at you, you'll end the fight really quickly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owPhAhCoVa4

After this, we have Spidey Supreme doing Spidey Supreme stuff in 8.4.4. This level of cheese only really works against Old Man Logan on the path since he has insanely many buffs, but I might try to do a showcase later of the rest of the path. It should still be interesting, but I haven't tried it out yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk2e_qqfL2g

And finally, we have Vox completely ignoring everything that's annoying with the 8.4.4 Deadly Precision path. The crux of the path is that the defender has a 90% chance to evade basic attacks unless you have a precision effect of some kind on you. You could just intercept the opponent in order to get a precision passive that way, but there's also a node that gives you a teeny tiny precision each time you gain a cruelty buff. Luckily for Vox, he gains a cruelty buff on his first light attack. You can shut down the entire path with one light attack. It works for the entire path, and Vox is additionally poison immune, which helps a lot against some of the defenders.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3U9ojry3hJU

If you know of more cheese in 8.4, feel free to share!

Comments

HoadyOZ

8.4.2 CGR path. Rintrah cheeses every fight except StormX and Sersi, which Abs Man will one shot in Magma form by baiting out and dexing their sp1s. Rintrah cheeses the Icarus boss as well. Don’t throw specials, bait the sp1.

Magrailothos

Bookmarking this...😉

Jack2634

Shangchi can cheese everything. MLLLM , MLLM, heavy, relic (ur unblockable to relic will always hit). Then repeat the combo again. Basically permanent lock the opponent down.

captain_rogers

Same with Gambit. 7* gambit + 6* gambit relic can completely stun lock.

willrun4adonut

Shangchi can cheese everything. MLLLM , MLLM, heavy, relic (ur unblockable to relic will always hit). Then repeat the combo again. Basically permanent lock the opponent down.

I never thought of the unblockable extending to the relic. Thanks

JLordVileJ

Shangchi can cheese everything. MLLLM , MLLM, heavy, relic (ur unblockable to relic will always hit). Then repeat the combo again. Basically permanent lock the opponent down.

OMIGOD I HAVE 7 STAR SHANG, DOES THID WORK FOR GLYKAN? Thx 4 the info btw

raviXsharma

Shangchi can cheese everything. MLLLM , MLLM, heavy, relic (ur unblockable to relic will always hit). Then repeat the combo again. Basically permanent lock the opponent down.
OMIGOD I HAVE 7 STAR SHANG, DOES THID WORK FOR GLYKAN? Thx 4 the info btw

Nope, even parry wont work on him. You'll take damage. The only way to win is punish his special and heavy

captaincush

8.4.2 Black Cat boss cheesed by Ebony Maw, she can't hit him, just charged heavy while she was whiffing mid-combo and drop some SP2s once power built up. Took like 5 minutes with a 7r1, but very easy.

8.4.3 Emma Frost is basically the same as Black Cat, all hits are guaranteed crits so she can never hit Maw

Cap_Murica

Same with Gambit. 7* gambit + 6* gambit relic can completely stun lock.

I might actually consider taking mine to R2 since I have pulled this guy so many times....😐

Ortoun

8.4.1 agent venom path, horseman Toad wrecks and he is great for aegon boss also. Immune to regen rate modification so the petrifies are just more willpower healing, regen on sp1 to get rid of the pierce, and just MM aegon into oblivion.

Ercarret

Hm, I made a long comment responding to each of you that sadly got sent to the deep dark abyss that is moderation because I made a small edit, so I'll just say that I'm really happy for all of your cheesy suggestions. I appreciate them all!

Jack2634

Shangchi can cheese everything. MLLLM , MLLM, heavy, relic (ur unblockable to relic will always hit). Then repeat the combo again. Basically permanent lock the opponent down.
OMIGOD I HAVE 7 STAR SHANG, DOES THID WORK FOR GLYKAN? Thx 4 the info btw

sadly no. But he can do more than 90% of 8.4 @JLordVileJ

Cap_Murica

Smoked 8.4.1 Aegon boss with StormX. Use SP3 only. He'll never go Unstoppable.

Cap_Murica

Delicious Ronan cheese platter for 8.4.1 HTD boss.

ThePredator1001

8.4.2 the path that starts with Mordo is cheesed with Sandman. You take some damage at the beginning but just get to sp2 and the decelerates apply a crazy amount of petrifies, so they will power drain and kill them selves hitting into your block thanks to the heal reversal. It’s very satisfying

Ercarret

Hahaha, nice! I found that Aegon fight pretty tricky myself. I think I got him down by the skin of my teeth with Spidey Supreme, but I didn't understand why it was so difficult at the time. It took a few re-reads of the nodes to understand what I was struggling with.

It was really odd to be able to completely and utterly cheese the WoW Gauntlet Aegon with Spidey and then struggle with him in 8.4.

I think I actually got the Duck down with Spidey Supreme as well.

Ercarret

Shangchi can cheese everything. MLLLM , MLLM, heavy, relic (ur unblockable to relic will always hit). Then repeat the combo again. Basically permanent lock the opponent down.

Oh my god, I tried it and it actually works.

Ercarret

8.4.2 the path that starts with Mordo is cheesed with Sandman. You take some damage at the beginning but just get to sp2 and the decelerates apply a crazy amount of petrifies, so they will power drain and kill them selves hitting into your block thanks to the heal reversal. It’s very satisfying

Ah, yes, I would imagine so! I used Mr. Fantastic there. He does pretty much the same thing (but slower). Unfortunately I only had an r3 6* so it took quite a while to actually get them down, but he got through it all.

Cap_Murica

8.4.2 the path that starts with Mordo is cheesed with Sandman. You take some damage at the beginning but just get to sp2 and the decelerates apply a crazy amount of petrifies, so they will power drain and kill them selves hitting into your block thanks to the heal reversal. It’s very satisfying

That's good to know. My Sandman is R5 ascended.

JLordVileJ

Thx

Magrailothos

My turn to share some delicious cheese.

Reading the path in 8.4.5 that starts with Warlock, it was pretty clear that it was made for Mordo. On this path, each time you get a Fury, you also gain an Intensify buff, increasing the Potency of all future buffs by 25%

Mordo can gain insane numbers of Fury buffs by charging a Heavy attack. He also regularly gains strong Power Gain buffs (with eight Intensify buffs, that's a free SP3 each time...) and if he's low on health, each SP3 grants him Regeneration buffs (hello, full yellow bar).

I took in Mordo at both 7*1/25 and 6* 3/45.
I literally never needed the 7*.

Mordo is so broken on this path, it's just crazy
😁🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀🧀😁

Slig

I just did that one this morning with Howard the Duck who also destroys it.

phillgreen

Cant remember which path but they gain furies while you stand too close.

Many fury buffs that arent passive?

Ronan worked brilliant...until SPX, then it was sad face.

Ortoun

Cant remember which path but they gain furies while you stand too close.

Many fury buffs that arent passive?

Ronan worked brilliant...until SPX, then it was sad face.

Spx isn't really the issue on that path as she doesn't glance specials, Sersi is the one you have to be careful of, but even so both are doable with Ronan.

Ortoun

8.4.4 torch path, 4 star or higher black panther relic with the get a cruelty when an evade fails rune makes it really easy to ignore the evade and will work on any skill champ. Dex once then just attack as normal, you'll build precisions on every hit.