Who are u gonna be voting for
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Who are u gonna be voting for 226 votes
#Hulkbuster
47%
108 votes
#Ironman
16%
38 votes
#Daredevil
21%
48 votes
#Abomination
1%
3 votes
#Black panther
7%
16 votes
#Kamala khan
5%
13 votes
0
Comments
Hulkbuster or Abom are likely defensive buffs and we'd only be hurting ourselves. How many have Abom anyway?
Black Panther will likely depend on his bleeds and the game has tons of bleed champs anyway, and they're limited in the current meta.
The remaining 3 remaining are likely to get attack buffs. Iron man probably being the safest bet there since IMIW is already a defender and Daredevil could have some interesting utility too.
Don't vote for Hulkbuster cause of the memes. He's not going to be an attacker, just be a pain on defense and that costs everyone potions.
HB procs armor. DD evades projectiles. Evade is more annoying than armor on a defender. There are a lot more avenues available to make DD more annoying than HB.
Second, consider Colossus. The same thing was said about him: he's a tank, the devs are just going to make him more tanky, no one will want to play an even more lumbering tank. But in fact, they significantly upped his damage, keying off the fact that his original design did have damage increases with armor stacks on specials. They greatly expanded that for Colossus. Hulkbuster has a similar design: he armor breaks on specials. There is at least a significant chance that the developers follow a similar pattern, increasing HB's damage to expand on the very limited damage avenues he currently has.
In fact, every revamp I can think of significantly increased the champion's offensive firepower, or the champion's ability to attack more effectively. This is true both for champions you'd expect to get more damage like She-Hulk and Red Hulk, but also champions you'd consider more defensive like Luke Cage. In fact, Venom is tagged a defensive champ and he deals plenty of damage.
I believe the devs will make Hulkbuster more "defensive" in the sense the game uses the term and the tag. He will have more damage mitigation. But damage mitigation is not the most important thing that determines what makes strong defenders. Offensive counter-attack ability is what makes strong defenders. Hard to evade animations or attacks, evasion or other mechanics that cause attackers to miss, strike back damage or other passive damage abilities, and mechanics like auto-block all make champions into strong defenders even if they don't make the champion "defensive."
Bottom line: I believe whether they buff DD or HB (or any of the others) they will try to enhance both their defensive abilities and their offense, and I think HB is more likely to get damage mitigation that helps players on attack and DD is more likely to get enhanced evasion which is more likely to help as a defender than an attacker.
Plus, It really doesn't seem like people gonna vote for Abom anyway lol.
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Also I have him so I want him buffed, but I have most of the list so I really don't mind who gets buffed, but top priority is HB
These days the true Mid tier is moving to a places where the quest for 6* will start out weighing the quest for 5*. Once you have a team of god tier 5* you tend to start weighing do I save for 6* for future planning because resource availability is a challenge for those levels.
Now think of the fact that this buff is going to hit in 6months after selection if we are lucky at current pace. Will you really care about a 5* that is buffed in 6 months or will you personally be to the place where unless they are god tier defender or attacker all 5* will stay at r3 with some moving to r4 but never r5.
What's more, when you look at the list of all Defensive:tanks, the newer the champion is, the more likely it is the champion will be a useful attacker. Emma, Sentinel, and Thing are all (relatively) newer champions. And both Hulk and Venom are older champs that received champion updates. The defensive tanks that aren't strong attackers tend to be the older and not updated ones. Which again suggests that new or updated Defensive tanks are more likely to be useful attackers than not. There's arguably only one of those at the moment: Korg.
But since there are none
#GoHulkbuster