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Champion Spotlight - Sentry [Updated: Added 5-Star Stats]
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Did I say he doesn't need buffed? No. I said they don't buff Champs that soon, and there is a range of Champs that have different strengths. Meaning they're not all OP.
I suspect there will be a synergy there too. It would have to be an incredibly powerful synergy, more than we've seen before, to make him worth anything. Something like 12% attack and 12% crit rate increase at a minimum before he became worth having.
I hope they give him some love there though. The bad thing would be relying on a synergy to have a useful champ. As it stands right now Sentry is just horrible.
“ In addition, his situational Regeneration on Special 3 will help mitigate damage taken from Recoil.“
Since when did L3 given recoil damage? Thought it was just L1 & L2
In fact, im not, i did 'understand correct' the first time, but is just an examle how other people would read it, and an exapmle how this spolitght is missleading.
A lot of people understoot the way i describe, even a few youtubers.
The resources used to get and rank my Sentry didn't hurt me but I get your point. A bad pull at a critical time can be devastating. That's what blows my mind when people defend Sentry or try and shift blame. Sentry is not just a bad champ he's absolutely useless. He doesn't shine in any part of the game. Even if you have a 5* r4 most of the time you would be better off using a 4* r5 if not all the time. Kabam should be embarrassed for missing a great opportunity. All their work developing Sentry has been a detriment to the game.
Cruelty is cit damage. Guessing you mean precision? Running a couple crit synergies would be more effective than lesser precision and you would still have the points for something useful.
It's probably a wise idea to get to know a Champ before rolling for them and Ranking them. That's one of the problems. People generally get anxious to try for them sight-unseen because they want them as fast as possible. However, there's usually a number of sources for information on Champs as soon as they are out, and in some cases before. We can't blame the Champ if we don't look before we leap.
Look at Carnage, Green Goblin and now Sentry.
At least Green Goblin is somewhat unpredictable in AW defense. Can't say the same for the other two.
My argument tho'. Sentry's mechanics has good potential. Increase his %. Problem solved.
Hey now that's not true, you can throw a remote without batteries and it does more damage than sentry
I did check out the spotlight before he was released. Kabam said he was great for long fights. Made him sound like he was a science version of starlord. And then in the monthly quests they said he was one of the most power contestants ever and the collector didn’t know what to do with him. So tell me how I was supposed to know he would be the worst champ in the game from that?
Been thinking about this myself. I do not believe that list is exhaustive. Because I think in terms of role-based and not ability-based capability, I think there are some roles for which that list isn't fully descriptive. Aside from ignoring AWD usefulness, there are some other interesting abilities. I would argue that Agent Venom, while not a top tier champion, is moderately useful while lacking those features. His ability to shrug off debuffs makes him situationally interesting. Quake is also an interesting and useful champion while lacking those features. And the grandmother of all situationally useful champions, Guillotine, also seems to demonstrate usefulness outside of that list, even though she does have some regeneration when awakened. She's situationally useful unawakened without those abilities. I'd probably put Yellowjacket and Cap WWII on that list as well.
We can, of course, debate what "high damage output" is, but I think champions not known specifically for being high damage output can still be useful while lacking the other abilities on the list. What they all seem to have in common is an interesting or unique ability that makes them suitable for use in more than an extremely limited set of encounters. Guillotine might be queen of heal reversal, but she's also a competent attacker outside of that realm. Yellowjacket's sting is at least somewhat useful everywhere, and thus makes him an above average attacker almost everywhere. And while blocking is not as valued these days, Cap WWII's strong block means he has value with any player that has trouble blocking certain champion's attacks. He can be sustainable in some cases because of that.
Still haven't found the useful niche for Sentry yet, though.
Perhaps, but if a champion is fun to play for a large majority of players, the fact that top tier players might not appreciate that would be largely irrelevant to a game development team. This falls under the category of not everything must be considered good by everyone.
Well, to be frank I knew something was terribly wrong when I read Kabam was recommending suicides for a champion who by their own description gets most of his damage output from non-scaling special attack damage buffs.
Lol...yeah definitely a dud. We need a digital lemon law.
I can't blame the champ if I spend resources on him before shooting for him, because relative to the vast majority of players of the game I'm essentially an expert. If I spent a hundred thousand shards on Sentry, that's my bad.
However, this attitude ironically hurts the vast majority of casual players who don't necessarily care about or need the top performing champions and are perfectly willing to shoot for champions based on who they are and what they look like, as long as they are at least reasonable in their performance.
We're not talking about people who think Elektra and Yellowjacket suck because they aren't Iceman and Blade. And we're not talking about people who think Sentry should be the strongest champion in the Marvel-verse. We're talking about players who would be perfectly fine with Captain Marvel and Storm who got someone significantly less useful in my opinion than every champion in the underdog boss rush. None of these players are likely represented in this thread, but they were impacted by Sentry's apparent lack of purpose in a way that can't be trivially dismissed by arguing they should have known better.
Well said man.
To be more specific, I wasn't trying to brush off the feedback or opinions. I was speaking more to the use of Resources without knowledge of the Champ.