Don’t go for Sentry. He is terrible. Stars have to align for even a decent amount of damage. You have to get 140 combo to get the 5 RWs, then you have to have the power bars ready when you get to a 30% chance to change to the correct state to fire the special. It’s ridiculous. I fought WS for 100 straight hits without being notified I triggered a state. And his sig ability at 40 as a 5* is he has to have more than 75% health to retain the RWs! Garbage champ. Don’t try for him. Go with Void or Hulk.
Passive: State of Mind
- Sentry starts the fight in Unyielding Fortitude and changes to the next State for every 10 Hits in a Combo. When Sentry loses his Combo, he reverts to Unyielding Fortitude.
- Unyielding Fortitude: 100% chance on entering this State, Sentry cannot lose his Combo. Remains until Sentry changes States.
- Overpowering Light: 30% chance on entering this State, Sentry's Special 1 Attack Damage is increased by 842.8 per Reality Warp and is Unblockable. Remains until Sentry changes States.
- Steadfast Approach: 30% chance on entering this State, Sentry's Heavy Attack Damage is increased by 842.8 per Reality Warp. In addition, he gains 100% chance to Perfect Block. Remains until Sentry changes States.
- Absolute Strength: 30% chance on entering this State, Sentry's Special 2 Attack Damage is increased by 842.8 per Reality Warp and is Unblockable. Remains until Sentry changes States.
- After Absolute Strength, Sentry restarts State of Mind, entering Unyielding Fortitude.
There seems to be a lot of confusion, and I'm going to see if we can get the Spotlight updated so this is clearer.
Every 10 hits in a combo, Sentry will change Modes, and then has a 30% chance to activate the bonus from that Mode. After 10 more hits, he will change Modes again, and have a 30% chance of activating the new Bonus, but will lose the bonus from the previous mode whether or not he has gained the new bonus.
But your updated statement effectively says you have 100% chance to switch modes, but only 30% to get the buff. Which means a 70% chance to lose a buff and have no positive attributes....which means I want nothing to do with this champ.
Which is it?
That’s exactly what it is. That part is clear, as much as none of us want to believe it, that’s the case. You will always change states with every 10 hits, you will only have a 30% chance of getting the bonuses of that state once you’re in it.
Your other point about indestructible is still a big ? for me though, considering Mike said it doesn’t prevent Sentry from taking SP3 damage. That makes no sense to me.
i have him 5* r3..
yes, he switch states every 10 hits (****!) and lost his buff
after sp3, he regen only 1 charge... (****!)
i mean.... 30% is very very very **** just sux man, i had a very long fight now, 100+ hits and only have buff 1 time....
Don’t go for Sentry. He is terrible. Stars have to align for even a decent amount of damage. You have to get 140 combo to get the 5 RWs, then you have to have the power bars ready when you get to a 30% chance to change to the correct state to fire the special. It’s ridiculous. I fought WS for 100 straight hits without being notified I triggered a state. And his sig ability at 40 as a 5* is he has to have more than 75% health to retain the RWs! Garbage champ. Don’t try for him. Go with Void or Hulk.
I can kinda understand sentry not being that great....
However....
The synergy with void should be better. Semtry by himself can understandably not be too powerful as it is only 1 half. It would make perfect sense to need both to unlock his full potential.
But
Whilst his synergy with void looks good it does not appear to be good enough for this to be the case.
That's not at all how the sentry works. He and the void are equally powerful. The void just doesn't have the morality holding it back. Has nothing to do with them being 1 half.
I can kinda understand sentry not being that great....
However....
The synergy with void should be better. Semtry by himself can understandably not be too powerful as it is only 1 half. It would make perfect sense to need both to unlock his full potential.
But
Whilst his synergy with void looks good it does not appear to be good enough for this to be the case.
That's not at all how the sentry works. He and the void are equally powerful. The void just doesn't have the morality holding it back. Has nothing to do with them being 1 half.
Actually it does.....
I kinda understand wat you are saying but......
The power comes at a cost..... yes sentry has morality holding him back whereas void does not.... every good sentry does void needs to balance it....
Sentry could not exist without void and void could not exist withput sentry.... they are infact 1 in the same....
Wat i was getting at is the fact that void exists as sentry is too powerful and great power comes at a cost (in this case the cost is void) so both need to exist for the power....
If they are not 2 halves (for wantmof a better phrase) then explain how sentry cannot kill the void without killing himself?
Void is essentially a physical manifestation of a second personality within sentry from the serum that created sentry
Just saying how i think that if sentrys power comes at the cost of also belng the void then same should apply....
We can only have the full power of thensemtry if we also have the void.....
(Lets wait and see wat voids synergy with sentry is)
I can kinda understand sentry not being that great....
However....
The synergy with void should be better. Semtry by himself can understandably not be too powerful as it is only 1 half. It would make perfect sense to need both to unlock his full potential.
But
Whilst his synergy with void looks good it does not appear to be good enough for this to be the case.
That's not at all how the sentry works. He and the void are equally powerful. The void just doesn't have the morality holding it back. Has nothing to do with them being 1 half.
Actually it does.....
I kinda understand wat you are saying but......
The power comes at a cost..... yes sentry has morality holding him back whereas void does not.... every good sentry does void needs to balance it....
Sentry could not exist without void and void could not exist withput sentry.... they are infact 1 in the same....
Wat i was getting at is the fact that void exists as sentry is too powerful and great power comes at a cost (in this case the cost is void) so both need to exist for the power....
If they are not 2 halves (for wantmof a better phrase) then explain how sentry cannot kill the void without killing himself?
Void is essentially a physical manifestation of a second personality within sentry from the serum that created sentry
Check up on the history. Void is gone. Sentry is still around so they can exist without the other. Also you just said it. Sentry is powerful, with or without the void and vice versa
FYI there’s a few YouTube videos and a thread that show sentry hits about as hard as Luke Cage. The dissatisfaction and disappointment level is pretty high for folks who got him and duped him as a 5* .
Although the Sentry returned to life once more, courtesy of the Apocalypse Twins and the Death Seed, the Void was confirmed to indeed have perished, as he grew weary of the constant circle of getting incinerated and reformed and eventually passed on into the White Hot Room
Sentry is already a dissapointment. R4/55 killing Winter Soldier in 450+ hits? That's an absolute joke. Phoenix is hitting way harder! Considering she's a wet nuddle, that's not good.
I only suggesting something that one could hold onto a little....
Hoping that the void has a good synergy that would make sentry great....
Cus if they cam make someone so powerful so bad i am waiting to see how terrible thanos infinty is going to be.....
The 30% chance to trigger should scale up based on combo...starts at 30% then goes up 5% every ten hit combo. Did Kabam think of this? No. The states don’t trigger and you have to hold onto your power bars waiting to see if it will. Bad concept and design. They should revise him and throw us a bone.
Jeeeeezus, how can they make one of the strongest guys in Marvel so weak! I got him as a 5 and used a gem to awaken to sig 80...using him in AQ right now and he is trash. Either he is broken or needs to be reworked. So disappointed.
I believe Sentry passive ability is broken and bugged. No where in Sentry sig description does it’s say that you lose state change every 10 hits. I have been using him for the last 4 hrs. I notice that when I enter a state change say “Overpowering Light” the way I read the sig description is that I should stay in this state until I change states to either “Steadfast Approach” or “Absolute Strength”. This is not how it’s working. Instead I enter “Overpowering Light” state and then lose “Overpowering Light” when I hit a increment of 10 in my combo meter. I understand every 10 hits makes Sentry have a 30% chance to change states but if he doesn’t change states then I shouldn’t lose the current state I’m in. I’m not losing my combo either. I understand losing my combo would revert Sentry back to “Unyielding Fortitude” this is not the issue/bug I am describing. @Kabam Miike please have the Game team investigate Sentry state changes being lost at increments of 10 hits in a combo without losing combo.
I believe Sentry passive ability is broken and bugged. No where in Sentry sig description does it’s say that you lose state change every 10 hits. I have been using him for the last 4 hrs. I notice that when I enter a state change say “Overpowering Light” the way I read the sig description is that I should stay in this state until I change states to either “Steadfast Approach” or “Absolute Strength”. This is not how it’s working. Instead I enter “Overpowering Light” state and then lose “Overpowering Light” when I hit a increment of 10 in my combo meter. I understand every 10 hits makes Sentry have a 30% chance to change states but if he doesn’t change states then I shouldn’t lose the current state I’m in. I’m not losing my combo either. I understand losing my combo would revert Sentry back to “Unyielding Fortitude” this is not the issue/bug I am describing. @Kabam Miike please have the Game team investigate Sentry state changes being lost at increments of 10 hits in a combo without losing combo.
He's guaranteed to change states every 10 hits. The ability within that state only has a 30% chance to process. So every 10 hits on your combo meter he will change states, from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 then back to 1.
Agree that’s how I read his passive sig ability to work. Unfortunately the way it’s working is if you don’t change states to the next level at intervals of 10 hits you revert back to state 1. That’s not posted in his sig ability. In fact it says the opposite “You will remain in this state until the next state change” so if there isn’t a state change I shouldn’t revert back to state 1. That’s how Sentry sig is currently working when I use him.
THIS IS AN EXTENSION OF MY PREVIOUS REVIEW TO ADD TO MY PERSONAL THOUGHT ON THE CHARACTER, AS AN EXTREMELY EXPERIENCED PLAYER. PLEASE READ TOWARDS THE BOTTOM TO SEE MY EDITS:
I have never complained about any character but Sentry is absolute garbage.
It's crazy to me that KABAM would make an average character in the marvel universe like blade so OP but one of earth's MIGHTIEST HEROES, the level of superman for comparison sake so terrible!
I have him at 4/55 and am quite disappointed. A 3/30 SL can down WS quicker than him. What's wrong with the picture? Let me explain.
1. The reality warp percentages of 30% is bogus. A character like him should be at 100% simply because he's so complex to use. Timing is everything and it's already tough to line up his bonuses with the correct phase. Against WS, sure it may be easy. But against nodes like Bane, Buffet, etc.. in regular event quests, that is EXTREMELY challenging. The users should benefit much more from the skill it takes to play him. At least with SL, keeping a combo is decently challenging but you are rewarded for keeping your streak.
2. His regular attacks are just too abysmally weak. He barely crits. The reality warp should kick in WAY EARLIER than 40 hits! The reward the player gains from the additional streak is so shabby, that feature is impractical to players who are playing hard content or AW. It should be 10 hits, given the average duration of quests/aw fights. If kabam was building a character for LOL, sure, make it 40, but make sure the reality warps are actually decently strong to make it worth it for the user. Alternatively, he also needs to have the ability to build more than 5 reality warps if it's not 100% guaranteed to activate. 10 hit combos with 10 max reality warp would make him somewhat relevant. Even then, the crappy odds would make him just very average.
3. His regen needs to be revamped. As one of the best regeneration champions in the marvel universe, it's unruly to give him such a crappy dose of regeneration. Even a wolvie at 4/40 regens more than him. To keep the comparison alive, Blade's regen is almost nerf-worthy yet Sentry's regen is miniscule compared to ALL other regen champs. Even Phoenix's regen is better than his. EWW. Kabam fails to realize that he's not a mystic champ. Getting to L3 takes a long time in an average fight. Being a science, the pay off should be much higher! After all, he's such a powerful figure in the Marvel universe! He's the king of cellular regeneration. His regen should be up to par as that of wolvie - at least.
4. Somehow, kabam needs to buff up this character in general to stay somewhat consistent to the comics world. You can't throw a god-tier champ like blade who's average in the realm of superheroes but completely trash a LEGENDARY champ such as sentry. This character is easily a top 5 champ in the Marvels universe.
I can pinpoint so many atrocities about this character but it would take me several pages to elaborate. I'm a fairly skilled player and trust me, we are not rewarded for properly using his complex style of game play.
He's no luke cage or Spider-gwen. He's a legitimate powerhouse in the marvel universe and kabam should do him a little bit of justice, at the very least.
1. Now, it's time to attach numbers to his damage output. I tested my signature 60 Sentry 4/55 on winter soldier. I popped in a 10% boost to mitigate class disadvantage to get consistent data. It took me 405 HITS TO DOWN WS!!!!! That's worst than 90% of characters. Kabam wanted to build a LOL worthy science champ and have completely DROPPED THE BALL. I went on to fight captain marvel and almost fell asleep. He needed 350 to down her. The reality warps are a major bust! The 40 hit combo are also INSANE. He's practically useless in regular fights.
2. I tested him against dorm. UTTER TRASH. Dorms degen was so strong that I didn't even have time to hit Special 3 for a 10% regeneration. Mind you to get that 10%, I had to fight through a blockade of degen. Again, maybe if he was a mystic, the concept would have been semi-conceivable. Even then, it would be a bust.
3. I tested him against magik. He did even worst! Because there's no way to counter magik, I have to hit her 30+ times to get to an L3. By then, Sentry is almost dead. The regen is so pathetic, it adds 0 value to the matchup. No power control/no regen/no power gain to L3 means a quick death against Magik. But keep in mind he's suppose to shine there.
4. I put on recoil as Kabam suggested. As everyone knows, recoil takes about 5% of your max health per special attack. The regen is broken for a few reasons. For starters, it consumes a reality warp. It takes 40 hits to gain an additional reality warp. It takes about 30ish to hit L3. What does that mean? In a regular fight you most likely won't even have time to build your reality warps quick enough to benefit from the regen. WHAT A JOKE! Kabam encourages recoil, but 30% of your attacks won't benefit from the reality warp and will actually lose a reality warp per regen. Essentially, your regeneration only covers 2 special attacks of recoil, per fight on average, where the bonus statistically won't even trigger. A lot of risk, almost no reward.
OVERALL, Too many things are broken with Sentry to give an accurate picture. Sentry is the perfect champion to shine in the science class and bring much needed relevancy to an already horrendous class (science) I believe the intentions of that champion was to make him LOL worthy. Kabam has missed that mark by a WIDE margin. A player of his caliber should sit amongst the SL, Sparky's, Blade, GP, etc.
The character spotlight represented very misleading inaccurate information and players who spent shards should honestly be reimbursed. This is the biggest bust in the world of MCOC that I've witnessed.
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i have him 5* r3..
yes, he switch states every 10 hits (****!) and lost his buff
after sp3, he regen only 1 charge... (****!)
i mean.... 30% is very very very **** just sux man, i had a very long fight now, 100+ hits and only have buff 1 time....
this!!!!! 100% correct
you guys really need to fix this guy
yea right?
That's not at all how the sentry works. He and the void are equally powerful. The void just doesn't have the morality holding it back. Has nothing to do with them being 1 half.
Actually it does.....
I kinda understand wat you are saying but......
The power comes at a cost..... yes sentry has morality holding him back whereas void does not.... every good sentry does void needs to balance it....
Sentry could not exist without void and void could not exist withput sentry.... they are infact 1 in the same....
Wat i was getting at is the fact that void exists as sentry is too powerful and great power comes at a cost (in this case the cost is void) so both need to exist for the power....
If they are not 2 halves (for wantmof a better phrase) then explain how sentry cannot kill the void without killing himself?
Void is essentially a physical manifestation of a second personality within sentry from the serum that created sentry
Just saying how i think that if sentrys power comes at the cost of also belng the void then same should apply....
We can only have the full power of thensemtry if we also have the void.....
(Lets wait and see wat voids synergy with sentry is)
Check up on the history. Void is gone. Sentry is still around so they can exist without the other. Also you just said it. Sentry is powerful, with or without the void and vice versa
hes worse than cable. i hope kabam finds a bug with him if not he useless for offense and defense
He needs a buff. Immadiately.
Hoping that the void has a good synergy that would make sentry great....
Cus if they cam make someone so powerful so bad i am waiting to see how terrible thanos infinty is going to be.....
They tested him the same way they beta test new content in the game : they didn't
100+ hits and no special ability proc? Why release such a strong hero and make him such ****! 600 hits on LOL WS...just shameful
He's guaranteed to change states every 10 hits. The ability within that state only has a 30% chance to process. So every 10 hits on your combo meter he will change states, from 1 to 2 to 3 to 4 then back to 1.
I have never complained about any character but Sentry is absolute garbage.
It's crazy to me that KABAM would make an average character in the marvel universe like blade so OP but one of earth's MIGHTIEST HEROES, the level of superman for comparison sake so terrible!
I have him at 4/55 and am quite disappointed. A 3/30 SL can down WS quicker than him. What's wrong with the picture? Let me explain.
1. The reality warp percentages of 30% is bogus. A character like him should be at 100% simply because he's so complex to use. Timing is everything and it's already tough to line up his bonuses with the correct phase. Against WS, sure it may be easy. But against nodes like Bane, Buffet, etc.. in regular event quests, that is EXTREMELY challenging. The users should benefit much more from the skill it takes to play him. At least with SL, keeping a combo is decently challenging but you are rewarded for keeping your streak.
2. His regular attacks are just too abysmally weak. He barely crits. The reality warp should kick in WAY EARLIER than 40 hits! The reward the player gains from the additional streak is so shabby, that feature is impractical to players who are playing hard content or AW. It should be 10 hits, given the average duration of quests/aw fights. If kabam was building a character for LOL, sure, make it 40, but make sure the reality warps are actually decently strong to make it worth it for the user. Alternatively, he also needs to have the ability to build more than 5 reality warps if it's not 100% guaranteed to activate. 10 hit combos with 10 max reality warp would make him somewhat relevant. Even then, the crappy odds would make him just very average.
3. His regen needs to be revamped. As one of the best regeneration champions in the marvel universe, it's unruly to give him such a crappy dose of regeneration. Even a wolvie at 4/40 regens more than him. To keep the comparison alive, Blade's regen is almost nerf-worthy yet Sentry's regen is miniscule compared to ALL other regen champs. Even Phoenix's regen is better than his. EWW. Kabam fails to realize that he's not a mystic champ. Getting to L3 takes a long time in an average fight. Being a science, the pay off should be much higher! After all, he's such a powerful figure in the Marvel universe! He's the king of cellular regeneration. His regen should be up to par as that of wolvie - at least.
4. Somehow, kabam needs to buff up this character in general to stay somewhat consistent to the comics world. You can't throw a god-tier champ like blade who's average in the realm of superheroes but completely trash a LEGENDARY champ such as sentry. This character is easily a top 5 champ in the Marvels universe.
I can pinpoint so many atrocities about this character but it would take me several pages to elaborate. I'm a fairly skilled player and trust me, we are not rewarded for properly using his complex style of game play.
He's no luke cage or Spider-gwen. He's a legitimate powerhouse in the marvel universe and kabam should do him a little bit of justice, at the very least.
1. Now, it's time to attach numbers to his damage output. I tested my signature 60 Sentry 4/55 on winter soldier. I popped in a 10% boost to mitigate class disadvantage to get consistent data. It took me 405 HITS TO DOWN WS!!!!! That's worst than 90% of characters. Kabam wanted to build a LOL worthy science champ and have completely DROPPED THE BALL. I went on to fight captain marvel and almost fell asleep. He needed 350 to down her. The reality warps are a major bust! The 40 hit combo are also INSANE. He's practically useless in regular fights.
2. I tested him against dorm. UTTER TRASH. Dorms degen was so strong that I didn't even have time to hit Special 3 for a 10% regeneration. Mind you to get that 10%, I had to fight through a blockade of degen. Again, maybe if he was a mystic, the concept would have been semi-conceivable. Even then, it would be a bust.
3. I tested him against magik. He did even worst! Because there's no way to counter magik, I have to hit her 30+ times to get to an L3. By then, Sentry is almost dead. The regen is so pathetic, it adds 0 value to the matchup. No power control/no regen/no power gain to L3 means a quick death against Magik. But keep in mind he's suppose to shine there.
4. I put on recoil as Kabam suggested. As everyone knows, recoil takes about 5% of your max health per special attack. The regen is broken for a few reasons. For starters, it consumes a reality warp. It takes 40 hits to gain an additional reality warp. It takes about 30ish to hit L3. What does that mean? In a regular fight you most likely won't even have time to build your reality warps quick enough to benefit from the regen. WHAT A JOKE! Kabam encourages recoil, but 30% of your attacks won't benefit from the reality warp and will actually lose a reality warp per regen. Essentially, your regeneration only covers 2 special attacks of recoil, per fight on average, where the bonus statistically won't even trigger. A lot of risk, almost no reward.
OVERALL, Too many things are broken with Sentry to give an accurate picture. Sentry is the perfect champion to shine in the science class and bring much needed relevancy to an already horrendous class (science) I believe the intentions of that champion was to make him LOL worthy. Kabam has missed that mark by a WIDE margin. A player of his caliber should sit amongst the SL, Sparky's, Blade, GP, etc.
The character spotlight represented very misleading inaccurate information and players who spent shards should honestly be reimbursed. This is the biggest bust in the world of MCOC that I've witnessed.