Vault of the Variants Side Quest confusion: Heavy not removing defender's Protection

TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 4,054 ★★★★★
edited June 27 in General Discussion
https://youtu.be/aKdsSLE7Xes?si=8t72BfhyZ4xvEe3w




I read through these nodes thoroughly, and still hesitated to post just in case I missed something. If I did, can somebody please point out what I missed?

Doesn't the node say Heavy attacks will remove Protection, or am I mistaken?

In this fight, I used back to back heavies, yet neither of them were removed. I did this fight twice. In the other, the defender started with 2 Protection buffs, but the node doesn't mention that defender will start with that many, or gain any from a timer or an action. So why did it gain an extra protection buff?

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  • TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 4,054 ★★★★★
    edited June 27
    spiderknight616 said:

    He has two protection passives. One is removed by heavy, the other is disabled during your Specials

    The heavy didn't remove the protection though. And why didn't the node mention the passives?
  • TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 4,054 ★★★★★
    Herbal_Taxman said:

    Something is up with this fight, I agree. Don’t know if it’s bugged or just confusing but the fight didn’t behave as the nodes would imply.

    Very confusing. I don't want to do this content if it's going to be like this.
  • smdam38smdam38 Member Posts: 2,303 ★★★★
    Exactly. If it’s not working like it’s supposed to, that’s a loss for this company.

    It’s really not hard for a company this big.
    Try harder.
  • MrSakuragiMrSakuragi Member Posts: 6,707 ★★★★★
    Who are you using? You need to have prowess before you use you special, some champs gain it during their special which won’t work.
  • UnyonfaceUnyonface Member Posts: 684 ★★★
    Dust works great
  • TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 4,054 ★★★★★
    MrSakuragi said:

    Who are you using? You need to have prowess before you use you special, some champs gain it during their special which won’t work.

    OG Storm..the queen of prowess. Watch the video though. The node is Ebb and Flow-Heavy. It says heavy attacks will remove Protection. But when I used heavies, they didn't remove the protection.
  • willrun4adonutwillrun4adonut Member Posts: 6,734 ★★★★★
    edited June 27
    Terminatrix said:

    MrSakuragi said:

    Who are you using? You need to have prowess before you use you special, some champs gain it during their special which won’t work.

    OG Storm..the queen of prowess. Watch the video though. The node is Ebb and Flow-Heavy. It says heavy attacks will remove Protection. But when I used heavies, they didn't remove the protection.
    That second protection (that isn't being removed from the heavy) is from special conniseir in your video. It will disappear when you launch a special with storm.
  • Cap_MuricaCap_Murica Member Posts: 706 ★★★★
    Smoked him with OG Storm. Build up to SP2, throw heavy, wait for GR's special and then launch SP2.
  • MrSakuragiMrSakuragi Member Posts: 6,707 ★★★★★
    Terminatrix said:

    MrSakuragi said:

    Who are you using? You need to have prowess before you use you special, some champs gain it during their special which won’t work.

    OG Storm..the queen of prowess. Watch the video though. The node is Ebb and Flow-Heavy. It says heavy attacks will remove Protection. But when I used heavies, they didn't remove the protection.
    It removed the first protection from the heavy. The second one will go away when you launch a special with prowess. You can’t remove both of them with heavies.
  • phillgreenphillgreen Member Posts: 4,641 ★★★★★
    I had problems with it too, bishop didn't care for such things however.
  • Average_DesiAverage_Desi Member Posts: 2,695 ★★★★★
    edited June 27

    This should make it clear. There are two protection passives

    One for heavy
    One for specials with prowess.

    Hope that helps
  • Bugmat78Bugmat78 Member Posts: 2,611 ★★★★★
    edited June 27
    I used Bishop but yeah it's not a great set of nodes, giving him 2 protections every 12(?) seconds plus the unblockable after 10 hits. THe most annoying fight so far in this month's SQ.
  • TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 4,054 ★★★★★
    edited June 27
    Why doesn't the node mention that there will be a protection passive in addition to the protection buff? Why did it leave that part out?
  • Average_DesiAverage_Desi Member Posts: 2,695 ★★★★★
    Terminatrix said:

    Why doesn't the node mention that there will be a protection passive in addition to the protection buff? Why did it leave that part out?

    That's the first node. Special Connoisseur
  • TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 4,054 ★★★★★
    edited June 27
    Average_Desi said:

    Terminatrix said:

    Why doesn't the node mention that there will be a protection passive in addition to the protection buff? Why did it leave that part out?

    That's the first node. Special Connoisseur
    Where does it say that? I don't see anything about a protection passive.


  • Average_DesiAverage_Desi Member Posts: 2,695 ★★★★★
    Terminatrix said:

    Average_Desi said:

    Terminatrix said:

    Why doesn't the node mention that there will be a protection passive in addition to the protection buff? Why did it leave that part out?

    That's the first node. Special Connoisseur
    Where does it say that? I don't see anything about a protection passive.


    "90% reduced damage" . That is the one indicated by the protection. When you throw a special with a special , that protection will disappear
  • Lost____oneLost____one Member Posts: 48 ★
    The protection does not disappear if the defender blocks the special, he then goes unblockable and combos you.
  • Sunstar19Sunstar19 Member Posts: 327 ★★
    OG Storm with prowess does a wonderful job. Wait until you have 2 bars then throw heavy to get rid of first protection. Then launch special which will get rid of second protection. No issues with the fight for me
  • Fit_Fun9329Fit_Fun9329 Member Posts: 2,337 ★★★★★
    Terminatrix said:

    Average_Desi said:

    Terminatrix said:

    Why doesn't the node mention that there will be a protection passive in addition to the protection buff? Why did it leave that part out?

    That's the first node. Special Connoisseur
    Where does it say that? I don't see anything about a protection passive.


    At this point you must be trolling 😅
  • RiderofHellRiderofHell Member Posts: 4,800 ★★★★★
    Isn't this the same GR fight from 2 side quests ago? Lmao!. Lazy design if you ask me.
  • TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 4,054 ★★★★★
    Fit_Fun9329 said:

    Terminatrix said:

    Average_Desi said:

    Terminatrix said:

    Why doesn't the node mention that there will be a protection passive in addition to the protection buff? Why did it leave that part out?

    That's the first node. Special Connoisseur
    Where does it say that? I don't see anything about a protection passive.


    At this point you must be trolling 😅
    Lmao I swear I'm not. Just confused bc when I've seen a passsive anything before, the node would mention there would be that passive. So this just threw me off 😂
  • TerminatrixTerminatrix Member Posts: 4,054 ★★★★★
    Lawd have mercy thank y'all for trying to help 😂
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