Against Buffs
QQ99
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Guys, i am newbie. I have a 2 quick questions:
1. How does one fight with opponents who come loaded with buffs like steroids? ( unfair advantage)
2. Also what to do when the opponent fills his special 1,2 and 3 very quickly? is there a way to counter it/delay it etc?
1. How does one fight with opponents who come loaded with buffs like steroids? ( unfair advantage)
2. Also what to do when the opponent fills his special 1,2 and 3 very quickly? is there a way to counter it/delay it etc?
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1. Use mystic champions who are really good with nullify/buff countrol ro counter them.
2. Use champions who with power control like tech or mystic or science champions and try your best to bait their specials.
3. Also YouTube has lots of guides, its a great place to learn stuff from especially if you're a newbie.
So we can legitimately nullify a buff through a mystic champ?
1. Nullify them. There’s an ability called nullify that can remove buffs from your opponent.
2. Prevent them from taking effect. There are two main ways to prevent a buff from even happening. The first one is called stagger: it is itself an effect you can place on a target and when a buff is triggered the stagger “eats it” and causes it to go away. The other is neutralize, which is an ability accuracy reduction debuff. The short story there is most effects have a certain chance to happen. When something seems like it always just happens, it usually just has a 100% chance to happen (or more). Neutralize can reduce that chance, potentially all the way to zero. Think of neutralize as a kind of misfire. The champ pulls the trigger on a buff, but the bullet doesn’t fire.
3. Counteract its effects. Many buffs do things for which there are counter effects that don’t directly touch the buff, they just mitigate the effects of the buff. For example a champion might have a buff that continuously gives the champ power. To counter this, you could use a champion that can place the petrify effect on them. Petrify acts to reduce power gain. In some cases petrify is so strong it doesn’t just stop power gain, it can actually reverse it, so all power gain buffs *remove* power instead of adding it.
MCOC is a ten year old game with lots of details that have evolved over time. It will take time to learn all the ways things work, and which things counter which things. That’s part of the fun of the game: even for players like me that have been playing for nine years or more, there’s always something new to learn. But you don’t have to know it all to be able to play the game.
For new players there’s a new resource recently added on the official website: a glossary of common terms and definitions of things on the game. It is here: https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/glossary/
I would recommend perusing this first to learn what things are and the basics of how they work. It won’t tell you all the specifics, but it is a decent starting point.
I also have a FAQ on combat mechanics. It’s a bit dated, but also a decent starting point for the basics of how things work. It’s here: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/176360/frequently-asked-questions-about-combat-and-combat-mechanics
SO its at a granular level where based on who you face, you need to place a champ that counters their strengths.
What to do if my opponent is reaching Special 1,2 and 3 super fast and fires it with a message " Too Late"
If that fails ghost with hood can phase through sp 3 and iceman can eat it while only losing 5% health (with armor buff)
SO I have come across fighters during Act 4 and 5, where they v quickly gain three bars of power shown on their bottom screen and uses it to make an unstoppable attack. I cant defend or move. Its like a movie scene
We’ve all had the experience of running through an entire path only to reach the boss and realize he’s unkillable because we forgot to bring something that will kill him and have to start over.
PS: possibly the most important lesson to learn: energy is cheaper than revives. If you get stuck, don’t be afraid to exit and start over. Don’t spend all your units on revives to keep trying over and over to kill something. Units are valuable. Spending them all to just bang your head against a brick wall hoping it will fall over is a huge mistake. We’ve all made that one also: it’s an expensive one to learn not to do. Try to only do content that requires at most one or two revives tops. If you’re spending more than that, remember it will only get higher and harder from there. Take your time and build the skills and roster necessary to climb up the ladder without having to spend increasing amounts on content completion. It will eventually get too expensive to continue.
Anyway, when you have a problem on a fight or fights, let people know what map (I.e. act 5.2.3), which fight, what are the nodes, and who did you bring. All those details are important to understanding what the problem might be.
I am on Act 5. And i feel the level has just gone up all of a sudden.
I got Wiccan and vox , both 5 star yesterday and isopryne will come tomorrow.( 5 Star). They will play along a 5 star moonstar and rintrah and a 6 star hit monkey.
1. So revives need to be used v wisefully. Understood.
2. Units are valuable. Check. ( I have wasted then , more than once, check)
3. Nodes are vital to read. but, what are nodes and where can i find them?
I see a Gwenpool in there and a Scarlet Witch. If I tap on the Gwenpool, I can see her abilities, and also any nodes on her:
Under nodes, we can see there's not much there. A champion boost (more attack and health) and the node that unlocks special three attacks (champs don't get to use that on defense unless it is unlocked by this node). Let's go see Scarlet Witch:
Ah. We can see here that on top of those other two nodes, which everyone has on this map, Scarlet Witch has a linked node: a node whose effects come from another champ on the map and are bestowed on this defender. The node is called breakthrough, and it gives Scarlet Witch a very large armor boost, making her take less damage. Notice also that there are special mechanics: every time you hit her, that armor boost drops in value. So the more you hit her, the less she resists that damage. You can "break through" her armor.
This is a very simple node. As you climb higher, they can get increasingly more complex, and increasingly more tricky to counter.