Big problems with intimidate.

Johnnoooooo

Anyone else having issues with intimidate.? So I've been using gladiator at R2 for a long time, and he's been reliable for me, however, I took him to R3 at the beginning of this month around the update time.
I've found now that intimidate is not working at all, in fact it's working more like a taunt, in the way that, if they have a special 1 ready with an intimidate on them, they will almost certainly intercept your dash in with said special.. even msd uploaded a photon fight where the same happens.. the normal, heavy to apply the intimidate, dash back so they hold block, but when you dash in, they nearly always light intercept you or as you dash back after the 4 hit into block they throw their special mid dash back.. kabam have built an amazing champ but you Make the ai o bad that he's no fun as his kit is countered.. what's the point?? Please kabam fix intimidate

JLordVileJ

Bro intimidate makes ai more aggressive than if I taunted them.
Me : *Uses hulkling
Me : heavies, applies intimidate, dashes back, whiffs lights
Them : Just keeps attacking.
Me : Keeps whiffing lights.
Them : Keeps attacking and throwing specials.
Me : OK then let me just play normally
Them : Gets just under 3 bars of power and won't throw a special for a bit over a minute
Me : ...

Matty_Ice

I have multiple video clips of intimidating defenders with gladiator and them responding with special intercepts when I dash in to hit their block. It’s beyond infuriating that the AI can completely ruin a champ like that.

The only champ intimidate has worked reliable for me has been mantis.

Logan00

The majority of the times it doesn't work

captain_rogers

It's the same on the opposite side.

I stopped using ham on bg attack cuz guess what, Opponents never throws special when taunt is active. Mantis is very risky as well cuz her infuriate and intimidate never works. The only champ who has working infuriate imo is herc, somehow he is unaffected by these ai issues, atleast for me.

Deacon

captain_rogers said:

It's the same on the opposite side.

I stopped using ham on bg attack cuz guess what, Opponents never throws special when taunt is active. Mantis is very risky as well cuz her infuriate and intimidate never works. The only champ who has working infuriate imo is herc, somehow he is unaffected by these ai issues, atleast for me.

THIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Deacon

although for me .. Hercules is also suspect ... it does and it doesn't ... but neither champion with those effects have them work properly 100% of the time .. it's literally a toss up most times.

Matty_Ice

Deacon said:

although for me .. Hercules is also suspect ... it does and it doesn't ... but neither champion with those effects have them work properly 100% of the time .. it's literally a toss up most times.

Not working 100% of the time is annoying, but manageable. But that had better work 90%-95% of the time. Anything below that becomes so unpredictable that you can’t really play the champ as designed.