Deep Dive: Ruby Thursday

https://youtu.be/DyHiaq1-Eyk?si=kQ8bfuFj-vGU6z8x

New tech dual threat, thoughts?

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She looks really fun and useful for a lot of annoying mutants and definetely a bit scary on defense. Gorr, Scream, Vox and Super-Skrull stocks are about to shoot through the roofs. To my knowledge they're the only four characters with undermine in their kit. I'm pretty sure this confirms as well, we will get another cosmic later this year with undermine that will basically shut her down even harder. Sell the disease, then sell the cure will continue on. Overall I'm fairly excited.

Flavyjay

She seems to be punishing newer cosmics only undermine can work for her... But I really like her animations and looks 🔥🔥 I'm a huge fan

ItsClobberinTime

She looks crazy I think I finally have some hope, first things first, attack:

209k burst, Jean was already down to 50% purely from the instant ruptures tho

And organic circuitry wasn't even fully close to expiring meaning that 209k burst can go even higher, meaning she might even be able to punch a full rank above.

Reverse control immunity which is obviously huge, and she can't land crits which will be great for the likes of Britain and Sinister, but we know she's mainly meant for Jean Cassandra Gentle and Onslaught. Only downside I can see so far is no aar immunity so Domino is a big no but that's about it.

Utility and damage both great, I think she's very easily going to replace either Maker or Bastion in my deck.

Defense: she looks like a 4 but she will be a 4.5 on any meta with power gain, on paper it doesn't sound too bad but I think it will be for a few reasons.

Hulkling is instant death no matter what.
She lowers your combat power rate a good amount as is.
Every single time she throws sp1 she gets autoblock and the only thing that works to counter it is undermine (sig 200 Super Skrull incoming ig).
If she's max sig you have to be very careful with parry while her organic circuitry is active cause if she hits you and the block wasn't well timed you take damage.
Unblockable sp2 looks like a pain in the ass to dex no thanks.

Anyways I'm excited for her, looks like they did her justice and we aren't getting another Blue Assvel.

BattleWarriar

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943820#Comment_2943820

Lots of great points, she looks awesome.

A couple notes, she's not immune to reverse controls, she's only immune to delirium. The burst damage maxes out at 30 seconds, including the time it's paused during specials. So it may not be able to increase in damage as much as initially thought

ItsClobberinTime

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943847#Comment_2943847

I see, thanks for clearing that up I didn’t pay attention closely to those two things just mostly at what I saw. We’ll find out soon as I suppose then once we get to use her, not sure how long that passive was up for on the deep dive but I hope the damage can go a little higher. Regardless I definitely think she’s going to have an impact on the meta, she’s going to force you to add cosmics to your deck that normally you wouldn’t use because Galan is ass Hulkling is ass DP is ass Serpent is ass and even Karolina won’t be a nuke because that autoblock slows you down a ton. I myself am planning on taking my Super Skrull to sig 200 purely because of her, he’s already r4 so

lucianxvs

she seems really cool, I'd like to pull her when she gets added to the titan

Magrailothos

Just considering a few more attacking options: as far as I can see from DLL's Deep Dive with context, Ruby's Autoblock (unlike Peni's) isn't immune to ability accuracy reduction, so there's another very solid cosmic attacker choice: Angela.

Non-cosmic champs who have access to AAR, too: Black Widow, Ronin, etc. I'm sure AlisonEdits will showcase Ronin, if he does. Heck, Mister Sinister is a mutant, but I don't see why his 100% concussion won't work.

Also, whilst he's primarily a defender, Attuma completely ignores (actually benefits from) these Tech champions who reduce the ability accuracy of either True Accuracy or Stun. He's a great option for Red Skull, so I don't see why he won't work for Ruby.

peixemacaco

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/413461/deep-dive-ruby-thursday

Yeah, dual threat...

And after I saw a comics page with arrows coming from her head, I don't see it.

Hope on Special 3 (not on this video)

IronMonger2

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2943787#Comment_2943787

they'll probally give Stellar Doom Undermine if she becomes an common enough defender.