My thoughts on Arcade so far

EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★
edited June 7 in General Discussion
Arcade, the newest tech champion added to the contest. He has a lot of debuffs, he has immunities from pre fight ability similar to Scorpion, he’s fun, and is generally very safe to play, with his autoblock, his enhanced armor rating thanks to arcade tokens, etc, which also makes him a very powerful defender. His damage seems ok but there are champs even from this year who have worse damage, so it’s fine. He doesn’t seem like he’s made for BGs attack though, his primary use there is for defense. His animations are top tier though so I’ll praise them for that

However my biggest problem with him is that even with all of this, he still cannot counter many of the big mutant defenders. For ex, Onslaught. His debuffs (bleed, incinerate and shock) will make Onslaught stack a ton of neuroshocks, and he isn’t neuroshock immune. Havok, his debuffs fuel Havok’s plasma and he lacks armor ups to prevent plasma detonations. Iceman, he isn’t coldsnap immune. Bishop, etc. Arcade is however good for Domino because of his first prefight.

Overall I think Arcade is still gonna have a use in mcoc either as a questing champion, a war attacker, a defender, etc. His immunities and pre fights are still useful and his damage is ok.

What are your thoughts?

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  • GrO_ot78GrO_ot78 Member Posts: 688 ★★★
    Max sig Angela 🧨💥🔥 him and his auto-block 👌
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★

    I don't understand how he--a HUMAN-- can have so many immunities that other champs don't have but should. I know it's just a game, but just wanted to vocalize that thought.

    He must have been eating a ton of organic fruits and veggies, and take his multi-vitamins daily lol

    He may have hidden technology inside of himself that makes him immune?
  • VaniteliaVanitelia Member Posts: 452 ★★★
    He'll find a place in the game. I won't be purchasing the bundle. Learned my lesson from Spider Punk (not spending cash on a champ because their animations are top tier). Unless you get backed into a corner, he's not much to worry about. The main cosmic attackers have a good time with him, even with the EQ nodes.
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★
    Vanitelia said:

    He'll find a place in the game. I won't be purchasing the bundle. Learned my lesson from Spider Punk (not spending cash on a champ because their animations are top tier). Unless you get backed into a corner, he's not much to worry about. The main cosmic attackers have a good time with him, even with the EQ nodes.

    I might be getting him because of animations though, and as I said, he seems fun
  • PriyabrataPriyabrata Member Posts: 1,242 ★★★★
    edited June 7
    I get that not all characters need / have to be top of their class, counter 3 dozen champs or be game breaking but man I really wish arcade had better damage.

    He's so unique with his animations and vibe , sometimes when I look at champs with SUCH COOL DESIGNS , I just wish they were more potent. That's not to say he won't have his uses but champs like this no matter how unique they're they'll slip into obscurity with time for most of the community. And I hate that.

    Can you imagine how much thought and effort goes into making a champ so unique to make him stand out in a game that has been going on for nearly 10 years and with 200+ other characters?
    I genuinely feel champs with such unique designs deserve to be appreciated by the community.


  • BringPopcornBringPopcorn Member Posts: 4,626 ★★★★★
    edited June 7
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  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★

    I get that not all characters need / have to be top of their class, counter 3 dozen champs or be game breaking but man I really wish arcade had better damage.

    He's so unique with his animations and vibe , sometimes when I look at champs with SUCH COOL DESIGNS , I just wish they were more potent. That's not to say he won't have his uses but champs like this no matter how unique they're they'll slip into obscurity with time for most of the community. And I hate that.

    Can you imagine how much thought and effort goes into making a champ so unique to make him stand out in a game that has been going on for nearly 10 years and with 200+ other characters?
    I genuinely feel champs with such unique designs deserve to be appreciated by the community.

    His damage is ok
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★
    Emilia90 said:

    Mediocre damage for the amount of ramp needed, nice utility and decent defensive potential, but imo another miss on the damage front. Honestly getting annoyed with most champs this year being kneecapped damage wise.

    By this time last year we had champs like Abs, Cassie, FAM, Kate, Adam, and Dani who can all do tons more damage and still remain extremely meta relevant battlegrounds/questing champs. Other than a few champs like Prowler, Dust, and maybe WT, I’m disappointed by the damage output this year

    To be fair, their damage is usable at least, they aren’t meme tier
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★


    Finally got Arcade from the arena
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★
    edited June 14


    Here are his stats. They are pretty average. Except his great block proficiency which is 73%. Compared to other champions, Kate Bishop has a 70% block proficiency, Dr Doom has 69% and Captain America OG has 76%. 3 percent less. With max parry mastery, you can get perfect parries. Great!
  • LifeswickedLifeswicked Member Posts: 182 ★★
    Arcade is trash what a waste of money it was buying him pre release I was hoping for a killer defender but nope he's garbage
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★
    edited June 14

    Arcade is trash what a waste of money it was buying him pre release I was hoping for a killer defender but nope he's garbage

    Nah he's a pretty good defender. You don't want him to throw heavies or use the sp1, rather bait the SP2. Because if he uses either, he places a poison gas cloud, which grants him Arcade tokens even if you're immune, and if he gains a lot of them, he gets an autoblock passive, which the only way to bypass it is to throw a heavy. Also his specials aren't the easiest to avoid. In addition he shuts down true accuracy, true strike and true sense on defense
  • UltragamerUltragamer Member Posts: 565 ★★★
    EdisonLaw said:

    Arcade is trash what a waste of money it was buying him pre release I was hoping for a killer defender but nope he's garbage

    Nah he's a pretty good defender. You don't want him to throw heavies or use the sp1, rather bait the SP2. Because if he uses either, he places a poison gas cloud, which grants him Arcade tokens even if you're immune, and if he gains a lot of them, he gets an autoblock passive, which the only way to bypass it is to throw a heavy. Also his specials aren't the easiest to avoid. In addition he shuts down true accuracy, true strike and true sense on defense
    Already faced him in bgs only reason I didn’t lose was cause I had hulkling ready to go
  • Rayven5220Rayven5220 Member Posts: 2,091 ★★★★★
    All I can say so far is in EQ I went in clueless as to how this guy works, didn't read nodes, haven't seen any videos and I got wrecked.
    He actually cost me 2 revives, lol

    I haven't spent a revive in EQ in ages.
    Maybe next time I'll give his abilities a read. 😬
  • captain_rogerscaptain_rogers Member Posts: 8,345 ★★★★★
    edited June 14

    All I can say so far is in EQ I went in clueless as to how this guy works, didn't read nodes, haven't seen any videos and I got wrecked.
    He actually cost me 2 revives, lol

    I haven't spent a revive in EQ in ages.
    Maybe next time I'll give his abilities a read. 😬

    You don't need to read anything. Just use a champ who depends on parry heavy gameplay style and you'll do just fine.
  • jcphillips7jcphillips7 Member Posts: 1,394 ★★★★

    All I can say so far is in EQ I went in clueless as to how this guy works, didn't read nodes, haven't seen any videos and I got wrecked.
    He actually cost me 2 revives, lol

    I haven't spent a revive in EQ in ages.
    Maybe next time I'll give his abilities a read. 😬

    Yea, I've got an Arcade boss fight in T2 war today that I've got to take. Not sure How I'm going to go about it with Vox, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
  • Rayven5220Rayven5220 Member Posts: 2,091 ★★★★★

    All I can say so far is in EQ I went in clueless as to how this guy works, didn't read nodes, haven't seen any videos and I got wrecked.
    He actually cost me 2 revives, lol

    I haven't spent a revive in EQ in ages.
    Maybe next time I'll give his abilities a read. 😬

    Yea, I've got an Arcade boss fight in T2 war today that I've got to take. Not sure How I'm going to go about it with Vox, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
    I'm so glad I'm not in high tier wars, lol

    Good luck!
  • jcphillips7jcphillips7 Member Posts: 1,394 ★★★★

    All I can say so far is in EQ I went in clueless as to how this guy works, didn't read nodes, haven't seen any videos and I got wrecked.
    He actually cost me 2 revives, lol

    I haven't spent a revive in EQ in ages.
    Maybe next time I'll give his abilities a read. 😬

    Yea, I've got an Arcade boss fight in T2 war today that I've got to take. Not sure How I'm going to go about it with Vox, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it.
    I'm so glad I'm not in high tier wars, lol

    Good luck!
    Got him down to 2% before my degens expired and he used a sp3 on me. Not too shabby given I'd only practiced against him once in EQ last night and that was without the AW nodes.
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★
    Anyone having trouble fighting him in the duels for this week?
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★
    It’s been over a month, what do people think of him now?
  • ItsClobberinTimeItsClobberinTime Member Posts: 5,432 ★★★★★
    EdisonLaw said:

    It’s been over a month, what do people think of him now?

    BGs strictly? Useless garbage, maybe a decent defender but useless garbage for the most part.
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★

    EdisonLaw said:

    It’s been over a month, what do people think of him now?

    BGs strictly? Useless garbage, maybe a decent defender but useless garbage for the most part.
    He’s still fun though, but I would like to see his DOT get a bit more potency
  • Emilia90Emilia90 Member Posts: 3,381 ★★★★★
    EdisonLaw said:

    It’s been over a month, what do people think of him now?

    His dot is laughably undertuned. Very cool kit concept and animations though
  • EdisonLawEdisonLaw Member Posts: 6,463 ★★★★★
    Emilia90 said:

    EdisonLaw said:

    It’s been over a month, what do people think of him now?

    His dot is laughably undertuned. Very cool kit concept and animations though
    Is it worse than sable?
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