People need to stop whining and complaining, this is nowhere near Absman last season, before they changed him for the 2 round….almost laughable to read what some are writing.
Learn to dex his sp1, pretty easy…
I would disagree because absman didnt cripple damage and had a quit out option for the regen so it could be brute forced even if not soloed for the majority of people.
No one would say absman specials are hard to dex compared to onslaught and brute forcing onslaught for all but the herc objective is almost impossible without being very, very expensive.
Crippling damage is not an issue. Warlock's Armor ability and Power Shield + Crit Me with Your Best Shot nodes has been used before in EOP type content.
All difficult content essentially limits your damage in some fashion, whether it be by protection nodes or just relatively by making the health pools astronomical.
Why is Absorbing Man fight more unfair than Onslaught? Because Onslaught can be solo'd by Iron Patriot, while Absorbing Man could not.
Onslaught can theoretically be beaten by any champion that doesn't place a 'Shock, Incinerate, Plasma, or Coldsnap' (so that means > 90% of champions are viable). There is nothing intrinsically in the fight that prevents any champion from solo'ing Onslaught.
AbsMan couldn't be solo'd without either (1) Champion that can control the regen, (2) Champion that can outdamage the regen. All other champions had to rely on Method (3) 'Quit fight before regen kicks in' approach, which is definitively not a solo. So the number of viable champions is limited, and there were intrinsic nodes/abilities in the fight that prevent any champion from beating Onslaught without relying on a mandatory quit-revive approach.
Tl;dr: With enough practice, any champion that avoids energy debuffs can beat Onslaught through skill while non-ideal champions can't solo Absorbing Man (the original one at least)
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All difficult content essentially limits your damage in some fashion, whether it be by protection nodes or just relatively by making the health pools astronomical.
Why is Absorbing Man fight more unfair than Onslaught? Because Onslaught can be solo'd by Iron Patriot, while Absorbing Man could not.
Onslaught can theoretically be beaten by any champion that doesn't place a 'Shock, Incinerate, Plasma, or Coldsnap' (so that means > 90% of champions are viable). There is nothing intrinsically in the fight that prevents any champion from solo'ing Onslaught.
AbsMan couldn't be solo'd without either (1) Champion that can control the regen, (2) Champion that can outdamage the regen. All other champions had to rely on Method (3) 'Quit fight before regen kicks in' approach, which is definitively not a solo. So the number of viable champions is limited, and there were intrinsic nodes/abilities in the fight that prevent any champion from beating Onslaught without relying on a mandatory quit-revive approach.
Tl;dr: With enough practice, any champion that avoids energy debuffs can beat Onslaught through skill while non-ideal champions can't solo Absorbing Man (the original one at least)