Onslaught rebalance?
Repto23
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Could someone please inform me of when we will know if Onslaught is going to get rebalanced. I pulled him as a 7* from act 8 and took him to r3 before realizing we haven’t been told if he is safe yet 😬
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To add to the champs @Emilia90 mantioned: Red Guardian, Tigra, Chavez, Juggs, FAM, Mysterio, Warlock, Ironheart, Starky can also can do that fight with full health. If they nerf him on defense he's going to lose most of his value.
The problem is, you're going to get unavoidable damage most of the times + crush messes up with your rotation + non parryable by most. He just has a lot in his kit. There should be a way to prevent his neuroshocks, like apply x effect (cowardice/heal block/suppression) and he removes a neuroshock (like dust remove sand on incen/plasma). This reduces his value a little, but still he will be a very annoying (probably best mutant if not for kitty) in the game .
Onslaught is intended to be a great defender, I agree. But he just isn't a healthy defender. The closest champ I can think who inflicts unavoidable damage is terrax, but you can play around him by maintaining distance.
Champs are meant to be either countered by skill or counters. Onslaught can't be countered with neither. Can't use metals.Non metals can remove his neuroshock one at a time, good. But again there are other bs mechanics to deal with.
Or the least, Metal champs should be allowed to purify debuffs as well (but that goes against his character powers). So the best way is to apply a effect, remove/shut down neursochoks. Like Maestro vulnerable to soul barb or Dust vulnerable to incenerate.
Cowardice would be a good idea. Only 5 champs inflict it (Nimmy, OS, Infamous Ironman, Psychoboy, Cap Sam). It won't reduce his defensive value by a mile or something. Nimrod ain't a ideal option too since you have actually bait a special first(you may get some neuroshocks before that).
He is just too punishing, Even bullseye has few champs who shut all his mechanics completely. Onslaught don't have any.
I've used all of these already (except Ironheart don't have her) and you almost never get more than two neuros on you per five hit combo. If you're doing four hits dashing back and light intercepting the whole fight you're constantly purifying neuros and the damage is minimal (certainly not enough to warrant a nerf) the problem is people aren't used to fighting him this way and instead they choose to try to nuke him down in 30 secs. You have to be patient when you fight Onslaught, you only lose a ton of health when you're extremely aggressive and get more neuros on you than purify them.
You need to be constantly dashing back after every combo to keep the neuro damage under control. If you're not doing this yes the damage is ridiculous and none of the champs I mentioned will work but if you do, it's 100% doable.
Btw for RG, it's right here first fight in this video:
Video nobody bothered watching cause they're still stuck on the Titania Hulk hype train lmao
@captain_rogers watch the first fight and look at the neuro damage, barely any damage cause he was constantly dashing back and light intercepting. You need to adapt your playstyle to his abilities, that's all there is to Onslaught really.
Especially you @captain_rogers, you'll pull him soon bro!
Red guardian is cool, Definitely top 10 science and quite OP champ for Bgs.
Problem is, even if I pull him and rank him up, I have to learn how to fight him cuz can't ban him when I have one 😔
I'm getting better at dexing the sp1, but nowhere near great at it yet. 😬
And half the time I end up forgetting not to start by carrying, so that doesn't help matters.