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!

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Seatin

What's the stance on Abyss of Legends and mercs?

Are hundreds of legit grinders going to lose out on Legends rewards to the same Mercs that run half the endgame Whale accounts or are Kabam actually going to put their foot down on this one?

Cheers

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BigPoppaCBONE

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.
If you're not ready for the hardest content in the Game, we're not forcing you. We've tossed every challenge from Labyrinth, and many more into this. Some will never beat it, and others will take years.

There are ways to make harder content and people have been very clear about the challenges that most like trying to rise to, but if you keep picking the ones that the majority hates, don’t be salty when people end up annoyed.

There’s aspects to LoL that make it stupid and annoying to finish. A high rank and sig Aegon didn’t change that, he just makes it somewhat easier to put up with.

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Nojokejaym

This probably will be completed in the first day or at least First week, money always wins.
Maybe not. I've come across fights that you literally cannot beat without the right counter, a good example is the 6.3.1 Medusa boss.

In this game money always wins some way somehow, if you can’t get pass medusa just buy a bunch or crystals until you get the champ that can.

Daddrieda

LeNoirFaineant

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.
No, but higher Ranks/Rarities will make the Challenger Rating higher, and new abilities will make encounters easier to Manager.

Remember when Labyrinth was released? No Champion like Aegon existed. His existence shows that progress and new abilities can make Content more manageable.
so basically just wait 2 years for an RNG chance at the champion you release to tackle it?
It might be 3 or 4. This is not going to be easy, and as we said at the very beginning, this is a challenge for our Summoners to grow into.

The rewards will seem pretty underwhelming by then...

Denta89

In 3-4 years, no one will need this rewards. Good job for plan this useless content for the most player.

ECOMA

@Kabam Miike you and the others were only talking about that health pool but never about the defenders attack...

Can you give us a hint about that? Great that there is no limber but I fear that the attack rating would be that enormous that parry block dmg would kill r5/r2 Champs before the 240 hit cap could even be reached 😅

Honestly if you still rely that heavily.on parry rhis prob isnt for you

Munrolm02

RIP to the people that clear the abyss with 98% coverage, And then have to go through all over again just to find that little route you missed with the camera locked

Mhd20034

I wonder if caiw will be any good since you can use heavies and sp2 only same with colossus

Noob29

There have been caps on things from time to time in this game. The damage cap is definitely an annoyance but an argument can be made for one given the damage output for certain champs (although 85k is a bit on the low side given the hinting of Boss Hps). I can't understand basically a hit cap. What's the goal here? It really only seems to be forcing players to revive regardless of how well they play. If a player is playing so well they can stay alive long enough to defeat a boss and the nodes, why does it seem like they are being punished for being good?

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Lvernon15

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.
No, but higher Ranks/Rarities will make the Challenger Rating higher, and new abilities will make encounters easier to Manager.

Remember when Labyrinth was released? No Champion like Aegon existed. His existence shows that progress and new abilities can make Content more manageable.
so basically just wait 2 years for an RNG chance at the champion you release to tackle it?
It might be 3 or 4. This is not going to be easy, and as we said at the very beginning, this is a challenge for our Summoners to grow into.

You say things like this, but if it’s that difficult and bs and requires rank 4 or 5 6 stars without mega stacks of revives the rewards will hardly be worth the effort, the value of rewards drop over time, and if you think this isn’t possible with r5s and r3 6 stars then the rewards will be somewhat invalidated by the time we can do it

VanillaCoke

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!
How does a limited amount of hits reward skill
I didn't say it did. This is not meant to be Content that most will be able to beat right now. You're gonna need to rank up your Champions, and might need to grow that Roster.

Skill is important, but your knowledge of Champions, and breadth of Roster is going to matter a lot.

You sound real stupid right now Miike. Knowledge of champions and breadth of roster applies to things like Variant 2 and Variant 3. Certain champions and a heck of a lot of revives got people through LoL until Aegon came into the scene. Skill is certainly not as important it should be.

Lvernon15

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

Bye bye Aegon, SL and most likely G99
I think that's 480 hits buddy

No, 2x120 is 240

Zuko_ILC

For the hardest content ever seen the rewards are pretty weak. Need to increase t2a and t5b at least.

T-DeAdLY-J

All I wanna know is, based on early predictions for now.

Does Ægon seem like the best champion for the Abyss?

Lvernon15

All I wanna know is, based on early predictions for now.

Does Ægon seem like the best champion for the Abyss?

Quake seems like the only champ capeable of a solo, but it’d be near impossible, stealth spidey and crazy intercepts could as well, the best general options are appearing to be ghost with minimal hits aegon with the furies from getting hit and potentially a few others who hit hard in low hits

Uppercut

Will Kabam finally enforce account sharing policy for the Abyss to prevent paid mercs from clearing this end game content? (Or somehow punish these outsourced legend runs and 100% explorations)

10or_Strong

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.

Seems off to me, why would a top 20 reward be better than a top 300 that offers a 5* and 6* awakening gem crystal? It should be the other way around and it would be more logical

If you get the top 20, you would also get the top 300 rewards, too, correct? They will get the Legend title that is part of the top 300 rewards, so I'd assume they'd get the rest as well.

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Taiphoon_zero

Ok so Abyss is on great but let me make something very clear , today the rewards looks great but in 3 4 years they will look like a joke, why so lame rewards, look what happened to LOL rewards, today u get better rewards for finishing variant 4 , eq or side quests I have to say if we getting a content that most probably needs a few years to prepare and a rank 4 or 5 6 star to stand a chance which is fine I get long term content , then put those tier 3 alphas in, give some spice to this content that can stand relevant for years to come, 98% of the community will not finish anytime soon but by the time u will be able to finish , monthly quest or act 6 or 7 will have better rewards then abyss, and LAbirinth is a great example u get better rewards from monthly quests or side quests then LOL

T-DeAdLY-J

All I wanna know is, based on early predictions for now.

Does Ægon seem like the best champion for the Abyss?
Quake seems like the only champ capeable of a solo, but it’d be near impossible, stealth spidey and crazy intercepts could as well, the best general options are appearing to be ghost with minimal hits aegon with the furies from getting hit and potentially a few others who hit hard in low hits

Interesting. Kinda made my G2099 useless because you can't ramp her. So, 240 hits with a 5/65 right? So, if I die 4 times with Ægon, I still carry over the combo and get 999 hits. Correct e if I'm wrong. I use a translator.

Aomine_Daiki10

You guys are not even getting the main idea here. The fights are not just going to be tough but they will feature new champs that are annoying. Imagine fighting a thing or annihilus. For people that plan on taking on it I hope the champs there are more of the old ones

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Kabam Miike

What's the stance on Abyss of Legends and mercs?

Are hundreds of legit grinders going to lose out on Legends rewards to the same Mercs that run half the endgame Whale accounts or are Kabam actually going to put their foot down on this one?

Cheers

As you know, we can't discuss what actions we take, or how we find players that are using nefarious means to beat content, but we're always working to improve them.

The short answer is that we're aware that some might try and use Mercs, and we will not hestitate to Ban those players permanently.