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Please be aware, there is a known issue with Saga badging when observing the AW map.
The team have found the source of the issue and will be updating with our next build.
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to help them to get Blade from Titan twice. For you and all Blade supporters. I'm asking sincerely.
-regen
-AAR
-debuff duration shrug
1. regen - not needed in 2024 as EQ and story content isn’t what it was in 2017. the game has really changed and everyone has all bits of utility covered multiple times over, and story content is shorter.
regen has 0 zero use in BGs (if you’re regenning in a match you’ve lost).
2. AAR - relevant in only a few matches at most and he’s outshined by champs who do it much better.
3. shrug faster - really cool mechanic in 2017, unviable now. there’s million champs that can deal with bebuffs that wasn’t available then. and if we’re spending a minute in BGs to get to 3 bars so we can shrug debuffs we’ve already lost.
blade’s cool and brings back a lot of memories but let’s stop pretending it’s 2017 all over again. lol, even his successors like corvus and ghost are barely relevant.
To everyone who thinks Blade is a decent champion. 7* champion kills Winter Solider in 160 hits.
they should load up auntmai and filter from 2015-2017 only. of course he was great, they're just forgetting about every other champ the last 6 years.
And this is 7* level 1 duck for comparison (Blade is level 25). I can't understand how people defending him.
Blade’s AAR is actually useful. It can be used to shut down abilities like Limbo or Mephisto’s Aura or even Fantman’s armor ups and glancing. That can change any matchup
go back and look at the champs. compared to blade, all of them were useless. remember that 2017 was the year of 12.0, blade was a breakthrough in utility, most champs were basic, and the good ones you see weren't buffed back then.
2015:
notable champs:
magik: great atttacker but no active regen, no debuff management, and no AAR.
all the OG gods were nerfed and not available as a 5*.
ultron: people brought him for his regen in AQ, but he was called pillow hands for a reason
wolverine: regen for AQ.
2016:
x23: regen for AQ
ghost rider: regen for AQ
voodoo: regen, AAR. very good.
hyperion: very good. regen, good attack.
2017:
gwenpool: AAR, no regen, no debuff mitigation.
AA: AAR, but no regen and very hit or miss in war back then because of hidden tiles. regained a ton of value after defenders became visible years later.
iceman: great at the time but didn't rival blade
stark spidey: great at the time
medusa: meta defender
mephisto/morningstar/modok: meta defenders that blade ran through.
in 2017 the attackers that really stood out and had good use in many areas of the game, not just AQ, were blade, stark spidey, magik, voodoo, hyperion, iceman, and mayyybe AA.
that's it, it was a really small pool. if you still think blade's "great" today, you're looking at things using the old perspective.
blade was made irrelevant in 2018 when corvus, ghost, and omega took over. it's so silly to think he's still "good". i mean he's alright but they added 150 more champs that do everything better. it's not 2017 anymore lol.
-cheers
This is a 6* r3 Blade. And I goofed at one point, took a couple hits, and got power drained. I run 5/5 deep wounds as part of my standard mastery loadout. Notice that your bleed damage percentage is only 10%, but mine is 29%? And how my hit counter is substantially higher, but my fight time is only a little bit slower despite there being a huge difference in the stats of our champions?
That’s deep wounds. Higher bleed uptime means more power gain, which means more sp2 spamming. Blade’s sp2 is I believe 10 hits, and I threw a *lot* of specials.
Oh, and for the record, his regen absolutely isn’t useless in content because it makes him recoil friendly. I decided to push up through Rhino using recoils for every fight to see what that would look like.
My Blade is only sig 20, so healing was not super efficient and I was still trying to do these fights with speed in mind. So I hovered around 30-40% health, enough to sustain chip damage in relevant content.
Final note is that the difference in attack between an r3 6* and an r2 7* is about a 66% increase. So if you’re curious how Blade would scale from my results to an r2 7*, use that plus the benefits from stat focus (I’d likely recommend crit chance to maximize bleeds on sp2), and generally higher base stats.
Blade is not what he used to be in the meta. To try to claim otherwise would be ridiculous on its face. But to say he has no damage or utility and that he’s a “worthless” champion is equally laughable. He’s very solid. Do I want him out of a Titan? No, not in particular. Would I want him from a basic? Yeah, absolutely. Which means he’s gotta go through the Titan, because that’s how it works for now.
I think part of the implicit assumption on mine and other commenters is that BG and AW are the only places where having a specific champ matters.
If you look at act 8 exploration, for example, that can be done with basically any champ as long as you can match class to nodes and you have relics equipped. BG and AW are high leverage, complex matchups where you want specific champs.
And if a Titan is the most valuable / rarest reward related to champ acquisition, then you’d like to pull someone who matters in the places where specific champs matter the most.