Spacing and strikers inconsistency on full display.

djr17

I know it's been noted before, but the Omega Red fight in the new SQ is a great visualization of the inconsistency of determining if your champ is close to the defender or not when using a striker.

When you use a striker here, you are no longer near the defender and therefore the heal is replaced with degen, but you still gain spores as if you are right next to him.

So, just a refresher to everyone, when it comes to spacing and strikers, counting as near or far from the defender while using a striker depends entirely on whether or not the spacing hurts you.

MCOCHazza

I believe the proximity tech when it comes to strikers is a bit strange. This could be totally wrong as I don’t have access to any of the code or tech that kabam uses, I’m just speculating based on experience.

I think abilities that trigger based on the attacker’s proximity being near the defender won’t trigger, as the attacker stands still during the striker (and for the purpose of understanding, the striker makes the defender separate from the attacker). This is why attacker focused proximity triggers fail (e.g. omega’s spores on offense), as the attacker is not close to the defender. This works the same with close encounters, as the wording on the node shows that it’s dependent on the attacker’s proximity to the defender - it’s looking for if the ATTACKER is close to the defender, not if the defender is close to the attacker. A small but subtle difference. As the striker separates the two, the degen triggers.

But, abilities that trigger from the defender’s proximity work, as the striker is effectively an extension of the attacker. So omega’s spores on defense, and nodes that work from the defender’s proximity to the attacker, will still trigger.

This seems really unintuitive and confusing but the best way I can describe it is like this. The striker is like an extension of the attacker, but is not itself the attacker. So abilities that trigger from the attacker don’t extend further than the attacker. But defender-oriented proximity triggers will still trigger as it thinks the extension is the attacker. I wish I could explain better but I can’t think of a good analogy haha.