Why is sentry a cosmic champ
Normax_X
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Just curious about the reasoning behind it but for a science champion the primary way to swap his phases is with 20 buffs. Besides his absurd ramp, this already puts him lower than half the science champs whose main targets are mystic matchups. I know you can switch them to passives but they still need to apply to you before swapping them, making him suffer against the following matchups:
Rintrah - Neutralize
Purgatory - Neutralize
Wiccan - Neutralize
Mojo - Atrophy
Shathra - Atrophy
Destroyer - Protection & Damage back
Spiderman Supreme - Constant miss
Wong (with blue spell) - Constant unstoppable
Just MD in general if anything starts falling off
I feel like he could've been done differently but tbh i dont think it wouldve affected his popularity lol
Rintrah - Neutralize
Purgatory - Neutralize
Wiccan - Neutralize
Mojo - Atrophy
Shathra - Atrophy
Destroyer - Protection & Damage back
Spiderman Supreme - Constant miss
Wong (with blue spell) - Constant unstoppable
Just MD in general if anything starts falling off
I feel like he could've been done differently but tbh i dont think it wouldve affected his popularity lol
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he was a science experiment
There's a reason no one used northstar for mutant challenge, instead used champs like sinister and even wags who aren't made for long form content, Similarly no one used Enchantress for cull's worthy challenge (I believe she has that tag or God tag right?) And even used champs like titania who again, not made for long form content.
Now people will use someone like spiderham over sentry although piggy wasn't made for long form content. I believe the problem comes when a champ performs mid in an area where he's supposed to perform good, so mid even the champs outside the scope of said content outperforns them. That's the case with sentry, midstar and midchantress.
So, making sentinel get passives in first place instead of buffs, or atleast giving him immunity to neutralize and buff duration reduction, would have made him more viable in everest content. And reducing his ramp won't make him viable for short fights/bgs either unless they say something like he'll start with 5 warps in bg matches which will be too OP.
I even think you’re falling into this trap a bit. if you want Sentry to be a better in Everest content, there’s barely any reason to ask Kabam to protect him from atrophy and neutralize. The only champs in Necro with those abilities (that I’m aware of) are the aforementioned Wiccan, Tigra, and Purgatory. Tigra doesn’t count because her neutralize is only on hit, so it’s 2 whole fights that are problem. I’d like if he were immune to those things, but I wouldn’t ask for that because it’d make him better in Everest content, it barely would. I’d ask Kabam to boost his damage further since it seemed too low to reliably solo.
Even if in actuality ramping Stryfe/Sentry is quicker than ramping Aegon, it doesn’t “feel” that way when mistake prone players are having to revive spam.