Why isn't Shathra a Serpent counter

Shathra has all burst damage which serpent reduces by 60%. With Serpent not getting rebalanced I thought we were getting some Serepent counters and now they are wasting mystic releases like this. I am telling you the next mystic and the next one also won't counter Serpent. What a joke that kabam is playing with us.

Comments

Nemesis_17

Because serpent counters mystic attackers better than the majority or science champs.

Buttehrs

Because she's not a hard full counter. Doesn't mean we won't get one sooner or later.

EdisonLaw

She is a counter but isn’t a hard counter. She does have atrophy and power steal to control power gain and be able to spam specials to control his culforce.

WednesdayLength

Yall need to decide if you're mad at new champs being counters to hard champs or mad that new champs aren't counters to hard champs, you can't be both

Bendy

If anything she soft counters him

ItsClobberinTime

At the cost of timing out, no thanks if I want to time out I'll just use Kindred who's easier to use lmao.

EdisonLaw

Galan, Maestro also

EdisonLaw

Shathra to me feels like the more damaging, attacker version of Kindred

Nojokejaym

When she’s out we will know how good she is for him

Zuro

Well I mean when the hard champs aren't getting nerfed, it's obvious people would want more counters to them at least

Nemesis_17

Eh they just have some mystic immunities but the majority of their counters are still mystic.

Lokx

To be fair, not every champ that will be released is for battlegrounds in mind. She may suck in bg but may have some anti-serpent uses in later contents (e.g story, special event quests, monthly quest etc)

Ayden_noah1

After all the complaints about tthe Serpernt rebalance. Shathra should have been a Serpent counter. They "Shathra the bed" on this one.

Emilia90

But serpent is only a huge problem in bg lmao. If you can take your time I’d just bring Chavez and Kushala and do it, the issue is that he stalls for way too long outside of that

ItsClobberinTime

If only her damage wasn't burst, although it could be that it isn't burst and it's dot that only triggers while she's throwing a special. If it is dot and not burst then there might be some hope, we will see tomorrow or whenever her deep dive drops.

ItsClobberinTime

Sigh how many more times are we going to do this same dance on the forums lol all the attackers this year are **** for BGs except for two.
I'm genuinely sick of this "not every champ" comment, that has literally been the case the whole year things need to change.

NONYABIZZ

Shatra and the other guy seem like good attackers. Can't say too much until they come in the game but I'm hoping the rest of the champions released this year are BG focused or strong attackers in general that don't take 50 years to ramp. Praying that dazzler meets these criterias 😁

EdisonLaw

I just rewatched it, it looks more like Longshot’s sp2

ItsClobberinTime

Dazzler and Spiral should both be beasts on attack I hope they don't absolutely gut them and we receive more "trash for BGs good for everything else" champs cause I'm seriously sick of those.

EdisonLaw

True but Maestro's buffs eventually become passives, so he's eventually safe against most mystics.

EdisonLaw

I see that reference lol

ItsClobberinTime

Yeah it's weird cause when you see a burst of damage you don't normally see multiple red numbers pop up like that, in the video those red numbers are popping up every second which leads me to believe it might be dot and not burst.
If it is dot then she could potentially be THE best Serpent counter, she won't be able to deal the death immunity or the pierce bs and all that but the power steal and atrophy will alleviate a lot of the bs Serpent has. More than Chavez or Kushala, we'll see I suppose, looks promising if it's dot but I don't want to make up my mind just yet cause that has led to disappointment most of this year.

PT_99

Because it will benefit players

Lokx

How does the contradict my point?

You literally said every attacker this year EXCEPT for two are for bg. Meaning it goes with my point, not all are made for bg in mind.

Also just because a champ works for battleground doesn’t mean the team intended purpose for the champ was battleground.

MCOCHazza

Don’t worry, spiral and (possibly) clea will probably do a decent job

EdisonLaw

Well it looks like she is a much better counter than I realized after watching the deep dive

mbrace

I would think that her atrophy alone would make her a decent counter, similar to Kindred.

ItsClobberinTime

Because I can very easily use the same argument against you, not every champ has to suck for BGs which has been the case for most of the year.

Lokx

Ok? Not every champ sucks for battleground this year. Your statement makes no difference to what i said.

Not every champ needs to be bg in mind and as for this year and every year since battlegrounds release has had a hand full of champs that are decent or great for bg. So there are no cases of a single year where all champs sucked for battleground.

ItsClobberinTime

You see any of them in nearly every deck the way you see Hulkling and other meta relevant ones in nearly every deck? Cause I haven't seen that many White Tigers and Prowlers and they're the best we've had this year. What does that tell you?

The reason that argument makes no sense is because that has already been the case this year. When you say "not every champ has to be BGs focused" you're making it sound like most champs this year have been BGs focused which they haven't. The last strong attacker for BGs that truly became meta relevant was Kushala and that was 9 months ago, we haven't had a single strong attackers that became meta relevant this year not even White Tiger and Prowler, they're good sure but they're not that good.

Also, you say every year has had a handful of champs that are good in BGs yet out of the 16 new releases this year, only 2 are decent attackers and even then they're not even close to being meta relevant. How are you going to tell me that not all champs should be BGs focused when out of 16 only 2 are good? Especially compared to the 8 good ones we got in 2023 and the 9 good ones we got in 2022. We're 9 months into 2024 and we're not even close to half the amount of good attackers we received in 2022 and 2023, if you can't see how that's a bad thing I don't know what to tell you, get well soon I guess.