Well there is no skilling around Serpent since you can’t dex him unless you nullify his true focus. Bullseye, if you don’t have a bleed immune, even if you dex his specials you’ll still take bleed dmg
You know what’s crazy… is how stubborn they are to tweak any 2024 champs. They are all perfect on target champs per our balancing team… but then let’s think of this in term ls of 2023 champs. Shuri would have never been buffed into relevance, who cares if her kit wasn’t practical.
Shuri was designed as a long form content high damage champion, she wasn't hitting that so she was rebalanced. It's got nothing to do with the year she was buffed
She was soloing Abyss fights prebuff just fine as designed, it was stressful but it worked. She had 0 value outside of that… like Northstar who I’m sure we will be told is perfectly balanced. The year she was balanced had everything to do with her getting balanced. Her initial design would have made her a top 5 attacker in 2024
Well there is no skilling around Serpent since you can’t dex him unless you nullify his true focus. Bullseye, if you don’t have a bleed immune, even if you dex his specials you’ll still take bleed dmg
Serpent I’ll definitely give you. Defenders requiring immunities isn’t new though. Morningstar bleeds you on contact, Iceman inflicts coldsnap at the start of the fight, Hulkbuster inflicts shock when you crit against him etc. I think this is just the cycle of this game: release a champion with not a lot of counters at the time, everybody complains that there are no counters. Time passes, people figure out better counters + more counters are released. Champion isn’t considered a hard defender anymore. Remember when Dormammu was considered an unfair defender?
I call this an “arms race” in champ design. I remember many years ago when the term bandied about was “god tier” when a new champ was released. And they were rare. But now, it seems every other champ can have that label attached to it. When every new champ description goes on for pages describing an endless amount of skills and powers, to me, that’s getting excessive. When every second special is unblockable, that’s getting excessive. I think my biggest beef is the growing preponderance of champs that damage you just for existing in the battle with them.
I still find champs like Dormammu irritating for it (every time a buff explores, you take unavoidable damage), and Magik (you take degen damage practically every time she crosses a bar of power). Void at least you have a short buffer time to remove the upcoming degen about to be applied to you.
But these new ones? I can’t say I’m impressed with the increasing prevalence of unblockables, unstoppables, incessant power gains and unavoidable damage over time effects.
Especially irritating are some of the regen effects given to champs like Gorr and Hulkling. At one point, Wolverine’s healing was special. But these guys are getting multiple high level regens that can take a champ from almost defeated back to full health in sometimes very little time at all.
In the early days champs didn’t need highly specific counters to fight. Dexterity, parry, smart play was all you really needed.
I get that the “meta” of the game has changed. I just don’t like it very much.
Enchantress is just plain stupid. And, the rebalance... even more stupid. "She's fine.... people are figuring out how to play around her." Whatever.
It's ridiculous in AW most the opponents my ally is facing have half the nodes filled with 7* R2/3 Enchantress. Especially on boss island. Skill, schmill. Enchantress in AW and BG (and often Arenas) is just entirely insane. WHICH IS WHY EVERYONE IS PUTTING HER IN AS DEFENDER. She's super-beast. Just dumb
Enchantress is just plain stupid. And, the rebalance... even more stupid. "She's fine.... people are figuring out how to play around her." Whatever.
It's ridiculous in AW most the opponents my ally is facing have half the nodes filled with 7* R2/3 Enchantress. Especially on boss island. Skill, schmill. Enchantress in AW and BG (and often Arenas) is just entirely insane. WHICH IS WHY EVERYONE IS PUTTING HER IN AS DEFENDER. She's super-beast. Just dumb
Surprise: If the opponents are placing duped Enchantress, you get more points even diying 3 times againt her.
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I still find champs like Dormammu irritating for it (every time a buff explores, you take unavoidable damage), and Magik (you take degen damage practically every time she crosses a bar of power). Void at least you have a short buffer time to remove the upcoming degen about to be applied to you.
But these new ones? I can’t say I’m impressed with the increasing prevalence of unblockables, unstoppables, incessant power gains and unavoidable damage over time effects.
Especially irritating are some of the regen effects given to champs like Gorr and Hulkling. At one point, Wolverine’s healing was special. But these guys are getting multiple high level regens that can take a champ from almost defeated back to full health in sometimes very little time at all.
In the early days champs didn’t need highly specific counters to fight. Dexterity, parry, smart play was all you really needed.
I get that the “meta” of the game has changed. I just don’t like it very much.
It's ridiculous in AW most the opponents my ally is facing have half the nodes filled with 7* R2/3 Enchantress. Especially on boss island. Skill, schmill. Enchantress in AW and BG (and often Arenas) is just entirely insane. WHICH IS WHY EVERYONE IS PUTTING HER IN AS DEFENDER. She's super-beast. Just dumb