I Think Northstar Needs a Buff
Jethua
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But I don’t know what that buff should be. What do you think?
I Think Northstar Needs a Buff 90 votes
Yes, he needs a buff
67%
61 votes
No, he is good as is
32%
29 votes
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He was designed for Everest content, he doesn't do it the best but he can do it. I think that's what they were aiming for in the first place. If his damage was pathetic for example or inconsistent for what he was designed for, then he would definitely need one.
Basically he's less terrible than the other champs who NEED some kind of tune up and we know that's good enough for kabam.
He's not getting touched
I like his kit on paper but i find it very difficult to make him work when a few nodes are in play. Not totally a fan of the variable timing of stuff in his kit like slow.. its 10s to start but add 2s per momentum.. just make it 15 to 18s and be done with it.. easier to manage.
Didn't really make a difference in these fights but carry over of momentum would be logical and helpful for long form content.
I do wish he had some uses short form in BG. We should be able to ramp up momentum "quickly" for fast rotations as befitting a speedster.. and let it fall off quicker (Sp2/sp1s). Have a long form rotation using SP3 with higher ceiling which you can maintain for very long/indefinite periods using SP3s between sp1s.
He's fun to play but ultimately for me very unsatisfying at the moment unless you get everything right in the node combos you want him to work on.
Arcade at least can be an ok defender and has some utility, Patriot is alright but needs the dupe and sigs, Leader can reverse power gain and regeneration very well so he’s good for meta mystic and power gain defenders
Even though Northstar was designed for long fights, you can tune him for shorter fights by launching an SP2 near power to cash in on the speed burst and you'd be able to throw in two SP1s to KO the opponent. The problem is that it feels slow and you'll need the AI to co-operate with an intercept so that the SP2 can trigger Speed Burst.
I'd honestly suggest just giving Northstar a slight say +7.5% - +10% Power Rate boost when he doesn't have his Speed Burst. This will round off Northstar in both short and long fights as he'll be able to reach his Specials faster when he's off of Speed Burst.
I'd also mention that allowing Northstar to trigger a Speed Burst via a Special Intercept will help him to make him feel more fluid and give him an easier way to trigger Speed Burst.
When completing a fight, Northstar places a Cross-Fight Speed Boost on himself for each Momentum Charge he ended the fight with. When entering another fight, Northstar consumes all of his Speed Boosts to reduce the cooldown of Speed Burst by 1.2 seconds and gain 2.2% (or something similar) of his max power for each Speed Boost charge.
Giving him persistent Momentum would make Northstar very broken considering he has bonkers damage when he is fully ramped up, if they were to do it I'd predict they'd have to slightly nerf Momentum or split the Momentum bonuses over more charges.
we have NORTHSTAR in champions list??
damn, never knwon of!!
Do y'all even listen to the Livestream when they talk about "The AIMS of the new champions"
Northstar was not designed to be a battlegrounds champion and that's totally okay.
Y'all need to let the must be a BG champ down a lil bit. They've stated SEVERALLY that he is not supposed to be used in battlegrounds. This isn't applicable to the rest of the mid attackers this year and I'm not excusing kabam for lackluster BG champs, just specifically him.