Count Nefaria should turn off unfazed
Priyabrata
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To begin champs invalidating certain masteries is absolutely nothing new,( serpent, photon, onslaught)which is why it annoys me that Nefaria(one of the champs that needs it the most ) doesn't do it. Count's evade is such a crucial part of his kit that it can make or break the matchup.
Nodes that prevent evade? That's fine no champ should counter everything, but not knowing if the opponent has a certain mastery active is just a huge fudgin gamble.
Some of you might try to argue that there's other champs that get affected by this as well (Spunk, Kate )
BUT
- Spunk and Kate inflict passive stuns on the opponent and Kate doesn't even need her evade for damage
NEFARIA NEEDS HIS EVADE, it's a crucial mechanic so either
- give him a passive stun on evade
- make him turn off the unfazed mastery
- give him an alternate pathway to build up that doesn't involve evading
Nodes that prevent evade? That's fine no champ should counter everything, but not knowing if the opponent has a certain mastery active is just a huge fudgin gamble.
Some of you might try to argue that there's other champs that get affected by this as well (Spunk, Kate )
BUT
- Spunk and Kate inflict passive stuns on the opponent and Kate doesn't even need her evade for damage
NEFARIA NEEDS HIS EVADE, it's a crucial mechanic so either
- give him a passive stun on evade
- make him turn off the unfazed mastery
- give him an alternate pathway to build up that doesn't involve evading
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Every time he's going to evade, there will be danger of enemy's unstoppable mastery 🤣
When a simple mastery can hammer down whole hero.
Check negase video, he explain problem with unfazed mastery clearly
All I'm saying is, from a design principle, they want unfazed mastery to counter nefaria and not the other way around. So it's unlikely they'll do anything about it.
Better yet, they should just delete that mastery entirely. Sickos running it in BGs have tormented me for ages.
It's clear that they've changed their approach for newer champs and rebalance this year. It's good for the long term as if they keep escalating strength of champs they'll end up cornering themselves. This means they'll have to tank some aspects of some champs, create some bottlenecks, and so on. It sucks to see sometimes when they overdo it (sable), but it is necessary for game balance.
Talking about bottlenecks, sinister is insanely good after the buff, but there is the inequity bottleneck in his kit making him slower in bgs. He'll still get those fights done pretty much everywhere, but he won't be putting up the fastest scores in bgs. That's the only catch, kinda like with nefa here. There was an outcry for that too, but it died down (like this one probably will, after ppl get over their shiny new toy and move on to a shinier newer toy).
Furthermore, spunk and kate having the stun makes sense. They need to fire off their heavies to refresh their debuffs/ passives. That is not the case with elsa, negs, bullseye and nefa. The evade is core to all of their gameplay/ kits, but the passive stun isn't. Again, it makes sense for him to not have the passive stun in his kit. A passive stun is a pretty big utility on its own, and he has already got a boatload of that.
Also, unfazed doesn't fully counter evade. It gives the opponent a 1 sec unstoppable buff upon encountering an evade. It only really hinders nefa's basic attack evade (parry evade). You can still evade the last hit of specials, just don't dash in immediately after (like nagase does in the video).
His evade won't work in matchups where the opponent has any form of evade counter, and it will be tricky for any matchup involving unstoppables. It comes with the territory of having that parry evade.
It is what it is.