Behold the power of a 7* r4 Dracula vs LoL star lord:
I saw Seatin post videos about his Labyrinth speedrun, but a new challenger is on the horizon (me) and he never saw it coming.
It took him ~11 mins but Goatcula just did it in sub 7 mins!
Okay, jokes aside, this is me pretty much maximizing dracula's dmg output. I could boost up and throw on cides, which would make it slightly faster, but it would only increase his basic and special hit dmg as the degen only scales with base attack.
I did still manage to increase his degen dmg during the fight with a lil trick using the ghost rider relic and his sp3:
Essentially, the way dracula works is that he inflicts his passive degen at the start of the fight and it scales with his base attack only (not even mastery or class adv/disadv attack rating modification affect it). The ghost rider relic gives him a vicious passive increasing dot potency and a degen vulnerability increasing degen potency. Match made in heaven right? Well, it's not that simple. It does not increase his degen dmg as his degen is inflicted at the start of the fight, before the relic can be used. The trick to get around it using his sp3, where he reapplies the degen and resets its timer. So if you activate the relic before sp3, you can inflict a more potent passive degen.
How potent you ask? Base drac degen does 458 per tick at r4. Degen after the GR relic sp3 trick does 590 per tick. Which around a 29% dmg increase.
Even WITH this cheeky increase, his dmg is just subpar. I get he's made for shorter fights, but its still not good enough in those fights to warrant use anywhere and in any game mode.
He's hyper focused on countering dthanos, but even then there are faster champions for it. He's got no immunities aside from heal block, which is very very niche. The only utility he has is fear, slow, nullify, and regen. His regen and slow are very good, his fear is okayish (not super relevant, but good to have), and finally his nullify is great but its only on his special hits and nullify immune fights comes around from time to time.
Even the fury stealing thing he has is cool but it only lasts for the duration of the special and it can't affect his degen dmg, only his special hit dmg. It's soooo underwhelming. Him applying bleed when failing evade and unstoppable with his slow is great, but again the dmg is very underwhelming.
The frustrating thing is that he does take dthanos, maestro, serpent, and dark phoenix. He does dthanos and maestro well, but its not fast enough for bgs and he doesn't have much going on elsewhere in his kit to take those defenders in AW nodes (also again, the degen doesn't scale with boosts which is AW bread and butter).
For serp and dphoenix, he has slow for dphoenix's unstoppable and his degen being a passive dot gets around their safeguard and resistances, so his dmg functions as consistently as it does in general matches. Which is great, but as established a billion times in this post, he's slow as hell. He's consistent enough to get around the 1 min mark, but very difficult to get anything under that at all. Fine, 1 min for serp and dphoenix is pretty good right? Nah, I sold y'all a dream. He doesn't do them in 1 min cuz he has NO WAY OF COUNTERING THEIR IMMORTALITY AND REGEN. That basically means he can't take these fights at all.
He can do zola and yelena too, but AGAIN HE'S NOT FAST ENOUGH for bgs and he doesn't have the facilities to take them in other modes with his lack of immunities and other rpg utility.
There's something in his kit for sure, but this dude is a hot mess. Literally everyone agrees on this, it's a fact- a universal truth at this point. I r4d him cuz I like his playstyle, his animations, and I think there's potential in his kit. He just needs more dmg and some extra relevant utility for defenders/ nodes. He can't JUST be a dthanos counter. He desperately needs re-evaluating.
Tldr; dracula bad, buff pls
