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Wait.. Cull Obsidian can't heavy counter Zola?
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I realized I had never tried, so just did a practice fight to try it out.. with his upcoming tune up and release as a 7, he was probably who I was most excited about.. sure, he can parry Zola, but in many situations where it really matters in competitive modes like AW you can't usually parry stun Zola anyway based on placement
Realizing this just sucked a lot of the excitement out of his release for me.. so this is huge if he is intended to be marketed as a Zola counter.. his dash back needs to be fixed to match most other XL champs.. and yes, fix his damn block proficiency...pretty please, with sugar.. thank you:)
Realizing this just sucked a lot of the excitement out of his release for me.. so this is huge if he is intended to be marketed as a Zola counter.. his dash back needs to be fixed to match most other XL champs.. and yes, fix his damn block proficiency...pretty please, with sugar.. thank you:)
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But while not all XL champs have the reach to connect afterwards.. almost all of them can clear the heavy with one dex.. Culls dash back seems shallow for an XL I think
But it's pretty clear to the community he *could* have been a great counter attacker
As for BGs, not really the only metas that would hurt Cull are fully stun immune metas and those are extremely rare. Purify or cleanse metas he will still be able to do as long as you can reparry.
I'm not saying I want him to be overpowered, but I wanted him to be viable in AW? Yes, there are 300 champs to use in AW, but the topic is using Cull? As a character to be excited about the tune up/release
And if they don't fix his block proficiency won't he be useless in BGs too? Where health actually matters or am I wrong?
Sorry, not trying to be argumentative, but I was pretty excited about him and the lack of heavy counter against a defender we all had in mind for him, plus no tune up to block proficiency just feels disappointing
I don't mean to be argumentative either but I think it's pretty clear at this point that AW is not a relevant game mode, or at the very least not as relevant as it was which is why we had Big Thing season in the first place. Very few people play in the higher leagues even with radiance being added as an incentive. I'm aware they buffed him so he could start with charges in war too but the buff itself I think was focused mainly on BGs which is where Zola's causing trouble the most.
If you can parry and reparry no, also you have to keep in mind stat focus is a thing now and I'm 100% sure statcast relics will allow you to give him even more block proficiency to the point where that will no longer he an issue unless you're straight up fighting on stun immune nodes.
Not for me personally, for one I think changing his animations to make it work would be too much work, and second I don't think he should be allowed to cook Zola everywhere in 35 secs because again that would kill a lot of the defensive value Zola currently has. Look how long after Bullseye was released it took for us to get Gentle, Cull would essentially be what Gentle is for Bullseye if he was able to do what you're asking for and Zola's too new to already be getting counters that shut him down everywhere with zero skill involved but that might just be me.
even with that it still low
"Because he doesn't need it" even when he released that was a problem and you are the first person all those years i see saying that
most XL have a way to midgate or reduce the damage they take,Cull solo special block effect is parry non contact, it's a good effect but doesn't make up for the bad damage reduction
if his Thanos buffs increase block proficiency then it wouldn't be a problem since it's his core mechanic but It doesn't soo the damage on block still a problem
Even with a Parry the damage reduction ins't as much as it should
The whole reason he was never used back in the day is literally because of his garbage block proficiency....