Lose Yourself to the Abyss!

Summoner!

Since The Contest began, an extreme danger has lurked around every corner, ready to prey on those seeking a true challenge…

First, The Realm of Legends was created by the Collector, with the intention that no Summoner would pass through it. The days grew into months before the first Legend of The Contest was able to claim victory over the Realm. Now, this relic of the early days of The Contest plays its role as a test of strength against the one-armed Assassin.

Then, seeking to trivialize his brother’s accomplishment, The Grandmaster created the Labyrinth of Legends to test the skill of the Summoners of The Battlerealm. His determination to break the Summoner’s spirit was met by our Summoners determination to best the Grandmaster’s game.

Now, a dark presence, formerly unknown to all, has opened up their corner of the Battlerealm. Dare to delve into this pocket of despair and dread, where hope goes to die.

Welcome to The Abyss of Legends!

The Abyss of Legends is the hardest content ever seen in The Contest.

This is the new Everest of content in the game. With each addition such as Realm, Labyrinth, and now the Abyss, the intention is to create content that Summoners will grow into in the coming months and years, and not content that can be fully explored in an afternoon.

When Realm of Legends was introduced, it was several months before all of the secrets and tools were uncovered to beat it. This is our goal for The Abyss.

Doesn’t sound so bad? I like your optimism. Shame it won’t do any good here.

Firstly, to enter the Abyss, you must have earned the Cavalier designation. If you have not yet been able to complete Act 6, Chapter 1, The Abyss is being locked away for your own safety.

Like the Labyrinth, The Abyss has an extensive, twisting map, with multiple paths and a locked camera, preventing you from scouting ahead. Unlike Labyrinth’s 2 Global Buffs, Abyss has 7.

Bear in mind, Summoner, the “Mark of the Labyrinth” buff contained multiple smaller effects encapsulated in one single buff. The Abyss breaks all of these effects into different buffs to allow the space to better describe them.

Additionally, many of your encounters will introduce new abilities to Champions that you are not familiar with. Be sure to read up on these every time you come across an encounter.
Rewards

Besides the standard Completion and Mastery rewards, the Abyss has 5 Abyssal Chests scattered throughout. Once claimed the chest will not respawn. Though these are rare, each one contains great treasures.

Legends of the Abyss

The first 20 to 100% explore the Abyss will receive a duped 6* Thanos (2x 6-Star Thanos).
The first 300 to 100% explore the Abyss will earn a Legends title.
The first 300 to 100% explore the Abyss will also receive a 5* Kang & a 6-Star Awakening Gem Crystal.
The first 300 will also get Legends points, as detailed in the Legends Leaderboard section below.

Yes, you read that correctly - first to Explore. Unlike our event quest Legends Runs, where the best times in a given window receive Legends titles and rewards, Abyss Legends are first-come, first-served.

We will be periodically (after the first few weeks, about once a month) checking to see who completed Abyss, review their play, and award Legends.

Abyss of Legends - Legends Points
#1 -300 Points
Top 20 - 250 Points
Top 100 - 100 Points
Top 200 - 75 Points
Top 300 - 50 Points

Our Vow

Let it be known, Summoner, that using any nefarious exploits, cheats, or other manners of manipulation will not be tolerated in The Abyss, and will be dealt with swiftly.

All those that make their way through the Abyss will be reviewed to ensure their legitimacy before any Legends prizes are awarded.

The Abyss does not deal in second chances, and will banish forever those who would attempt to break its rules.
The wait is almost over…
The long awaited, and fabled follow up, to the Labyrinth of Legends will be here on January 22nd at 10AM PST.

Heed these words, Summoner! The Abyss is not a challenge to be trifled with. We do not expect anyone to conquer the challenge any time soon. You will fail multiple times, but you can use those first attempts to acquaint yourself with the challenge ahead before you commit to taking on the darkness of The Abyss of Legends!

Comments

Theoncomingstorm

Sooo, what are we calling this thing? Abyss or AOL? Not like anyone else is using the second option.

BigPoppaCBONE

The damage cap is annoying as well for a limited amount of hits and the biggest healthpools we’ve ever seen punishes skill and rewards a big wallet
If you're not ready to do this yet, come back when you've built out/up your Roster! This content isn't going anywhere!

New champs or old champs won’t make that damage cap bigger.

Werewrym

Excited for the next "impossible" challenge, but I was really hoping to see the damage cap removed. I imagine it wouldn't be that difficult to limit Proxima on a per fight basis rather than slapping on a global node. Glad to see limber removed though.

Greywarden

Don't know if the team will be allowed to answer this, but here it goes anyway.

While testing the Abyss fights, have you found most of them to be able to be one-shotted by any champion, without the unstoppable/unblockable node triggering?

Don't need to specify who or how. The intention is to have an idea of whether it is possible, which is what I think is something most player's are afraid off

This ^ understood this is supposed to be the toughest content out there but if you have a hit cap on each fight everybody will just see this as a money grab ESPECIALLY considering you created ramp up champs like Aegon and 2099 that will be dead before they're even decently ramped up, 2099 moreso. What's the point of creating champs that excel in long fights but then punishing them for having a long fight lol?

SentryPillow

@Kabam Miike This seems cheap. First of all, even in the lab of legends, most 3 million health pool fights take about 250 hits with the hardest hitters. Now you’re going to double or triple those health pools, and that’s going to take most champs over 600 hits. The damage cap also prevents most high damage champs from finishing fights quickly

solmyrair

This’ll be great as well as rewards are fair..

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SentryPillow

@Agentk it doesn’t. No matter how high you build your roster (until much higher ranked 6* come) you can’t do this without spending multiple revives

Nemsa_M4n

Seems like the typical kabam nonsense. What's the point of making ramp up champs if you cant use them to their full potential by implementing damage caps. Pffft!

Forgotten2

No exclusive champion?
Like RoL had cyclops rhino and ronan
LoL had the ultron
Was hoping abyss had someone too

TheTalents

The locked camera is not cool at all and is such a turn off. I will not even attempt until a map is created with all the nodes enemies will have.

ECOMA

Yea I'm gonna pass on this for the time being if a fight is impossible to solo I'll lose interest.

The 240 ish hit cap isnt gonna fly here

XSquad

Can we bring more than 5 champs? please...

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TheTalents

Also 3.3 million health pools are not fun, especially with a damage cap. Also, Kabam Mike confirmed that it will be more than that so I will likely do completion and 0 exploration. I don't have time for 3.3 million health pool fights smh.

Justapilgrim

Guys need to remember that it wasn't easy to deal with the enrage timer at the time LoL was released. There were no T5B in existence and you had to make up for it with attack synergies. It wasn't until you could r5 a 5* that you could use a champ without having an attack synergy crutch.

I don't know what the challenge rating is for an r3 6* or an r4 6*, but if you want to solo some of these fights, that might be what is needed. LoL was super difficult and very expensive for most until Aegon was released. Then LoL became pretty easy and could be done with relatively minimal revives. I'm sure this new challenge will be the same. Expensive at first and then easier as we all figure it out and can rank champions up higher.

To get around the skirmish charges, you can find other sources for damage. Debuffs are one source. Reverse healing is another. Reflecting damage is another. There are a lot of other ways you can damage your opponent besides hitting them, and I'm sure you're going to have to think outside the box.

For anyone thinking Quake is going to conquer this, Brand #7 will kill you. They will lose skirmish and warfare charges if you don't hit them every 8 seconds.

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XSquad

No exclusive champion?
Like RoL had cyclops rhino and ronan
LoL had the ultron
Was hoping abyss had someone too

Yeah like a 5 star joe fixit

RoninMan

I would say most players don’t want to go into content knowing 100% they’ll have to revive at least once per fight. Unless the path is 1-2 champions then the premise that you’ll need revives is a huge turn off. Coupled with the fact you’ve frozen the map again is even more of a turn off. The Abyss is incredible though. You need 6* R4 to gun for 6* R3 rewards. Always one step forward and 4 steps back.

Snizzbar

No exclusive champion?
Like RoL had cyclops rhino and ronan
LoL had the ultron
Was hoping abyss had someone too
Yeah like a 5 star joe fixit

Or a 7* Groot 😳

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NOOOOOOOOPEEEEE

This does confirm 1 thing. Act 6 legends champ will not be Thanos. That means it could be Maestro the last of the OG Bosses of the Contest to not get a Trophy Champ variant

ECOMA

This does confirm 1 thing. Act 6 legends champ will not be Thanos. That means it could be Maestro the last of the OG Bosses of the Contest to not get a Trophy Champ variant

Wasnt that confirmed by the gifting event already?

Lvernon15

This does confirm 1 thing. Act 6 legends champ will not be Thanos. That means it could be Maestro the last of the OG Bosses of the Contest to not get a Trophy Champ variant
Wasnt that confirmed by the gifting event already?

There was 6* kang not thanos

1stClass333

Why would you make content where no matter how good you play you’re going to die and have to revive? You couldn’t add a feature where we could gain back charges or pause them? It’s just 240 hits (tops) and boom they go unstoppable, unblockable and one shot you?

I can’t say I’m not disappointed.

Colinwhitworth69

So only 240 hits before instant death? With the largest health pools ever?

Bye bye Aegon, SL and most likely G99
Where does 240 hits come from? I re-read the announcement and am not sure what you mean. Just curious.

Nevermind I figured it out. Challenger rating for 5/65 is 120, so that means you get 240 Skirmish and Warfare charges before the defender goes unstoppable and unblockable. 240 charges = 240 hits.

BungSmuggler

Are all of the Brand of the Abyss going to be active every fight? Or will they stack as the quest goes on?

Jaded

Damage cap, locked map, 240 hit combo tops. This is just ridiculous. Plus no skill way to solo any of these fights with any current champ available. Typical kabam.

Nojokejaym

This probably will be completed in the first day or at least First week, money always wins.

SarcasticTaurus

This probably will be completed in the first day or at least First week, money always wins.

This has always been a "pay to win" lol

This may be free to download but to make it, you must pay... either in all day time, or bank account.