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

Alrulz

If you watch KT1’s video with Massacre, you will see that on numerous occasions DPX does get his unstoppable, but doesn’t interrupt the heavy attack.

I was just wondering if the opponent would be able to get the L3 off. I think it’s likely, but am just throwing it out as a possibility

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LeNoirFaineant

If you watch KT1’s video with Massacre, you will see that on numerous occasions DPX does get his unstoppable, but doesn’t interrupt the heavy attack.

I was just wondering if the opponent would be able to get the L3 off. I think it’s likely, but am just throwing it out as a possibility

Maybe it's a function of the mighty charge before he really gets his dash going because I don't think it would work with regular unstoppable. Could be wrong. But regardless all attacks are unblockable which would include all specials so there is no way it would work. You can't chain heavies if they aren't power locked (or in this case unable to use specials).

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Patchie93

People keep saying 240 hits but that's only playing perfectly with intercepts.
Every blocked hit or time you get hit takes a charge away. So even if you assume you parry after every combo that cuts you down to only 200 hits

ECOMA

People keep saying 240 hits but that's only playing perfectly with intercepts.
Every blocked hit or time you get hit takes a charge away. So even if you assume you parry after every combo that cuts you down to only 200 hits

Look at vii its like brute force but removes charges faster if you arent aggressive.

So you gotta perfect intercept every 8 seconds entire fight. Without blocking ever to hit that. Man this sounds brutal

RandomGladiator

Интересно сколько будет минимальный рейтинг противника

Doomsfist79

If Guillotine 2099 starts the fight with a 100 hit combo meter, how will this interact with the number of Skirmish charges on the opponent? If this were to instantly remove 100 Skirmish charges from the opponent, Guillotine 2099 would be pretty much unusable.

Can someone clear this up please?

Same for aegon after 2 fights pretty much.. but think it would be the hits you do for the actual encounter and not how many are on your carried over meter..

Derman789

Lagacy has already made a good video talking about the unfairness of 3 random t5cc, in which he made his suggestions for how to fix it. There is one other key issue with 3 random t5cc, currently the cap is 2, if you get 3 of the same class one will go into to overflow and in the situation when you have no good 6* or even none of the class as a 6* of that class, one t5cc will be wasted, surely this cant be seen as fair kabam?

Snizzbar

Интересно сколько будет минимальный рейтинг противника

If LoL Red Hulk is 160k and Maestro is 300k, then would 350-600k be a reasonable guess?
Could every fight be harder than the Maestro, PI-wise?

benshb

Lagacy has already made a good video talking about the unfairness of 3 random t5cc, in which he made his suggestions for how to fix it. There is one other key issue with 3 random t5cc, currently the cap is 2, if you get 3 of the same class one will go into to overflow and in the situation when you have no good 6* or even none of the class as a 6* of that class, one t5cc will be wasted, surely this cant be seen as fair kabam?

How about just don't open them all at once? People are stacking up on T4C and T4C shards for the exact same reason

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Shreddnesss

hmmmm, this seems weird...as a player that has every piece of content 100% done at the moment so I consider myself as "endgame" player...however I still can't see any way how I'm prepared for a content like this...so the question is..what's the point of releasing a content that nobody should be able to do now ? why not releasing it when at least some players are prepared ? not just an wallet unitsman players ?

Lvernon15

hmmmm, this seems weird...as a player that has every piece of content 100% done at the moment so I consider myself as "endgame" player...however I still can't see any way how I'm prepared for a content like this...so the question is..what's the point of releasing a content that nobody should be able to do now ? why not releasing it when at least some players are prepared ? not just an wallet unitsman players ?

Yeah, and releasing rewards relevant for now and only a few months in the future, it doesn’t make much sense if they’re saying it will take pretty much everyone apart from the top of the top (whales) years to explore, why are there rewards that won’t be anything special in years

Nah01

A. I know they go unblockable/unstoppable. So does DPX (unblockable + mighty charge)

B. Most people in this thread agree 240 is the right number

C. Regardless of the actual number, the question I had was would you be able to lock them in the corner, or would the opponent be able to throw an L3 between hits? Since DPX doesn’t use specials
B. I dont agree because the logic doesnt fit. 2nd enrage timer in LOL has twice the duration than 1st. Kabam is technically replacing time with hits so it should go 120->240 = 360 hits in total

We heard you. You stated your opinion loud and clear. Now stop. It becomes annoying.

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Genyl

if we die and revive, will the skirmish charges be reset?

I feel the best way to preparw for this is to stack a massive amounts of units. As we are still far away of getting r3s. what is the challenge rating of a r3 btw?

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Seraphion

The 240 cap is just a cheap way to end the fight very early. They didnt had a better idea. So they just went "you lose".

Its like the collector in 5.2 but for every single champ.
I bet they will still be able to evade Nick F Ghost etc.
The locked camera and damage cap sucks as well.
+ the rewards look okay but the "extra spice" is missing imo

At least they didnt bring limber back

XSquad

more rewards that shows lack of T2A. This is even less than LOL gave. wth

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Super_Omar_8888

"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."

Please keep this sentence in mind y'all, the things we need to be able to do this(whatever they are) will be introduced to the game later on. That's why they don't expect anyone to complete it very early.

Mcord11758

With a little time to digest my biggest concern is that there is nothing creative about the information that has been released. This is the Everest, I would have expected more than 240 hits and you auto die. Nothing creative or enhancing game experience about that, it’s just lazy and lacks anything special. 1% chance to evade? See lol. Not hitting opponent for x time causes something bad? See brute force. Locked camera.....

I guess we wait to see the encounter nodes but on it’s surface, as the new Everest, very little new ideas here. Would have expected more. Lol was much more of a shift when compared to rol

DrBruceWayne

My personal view is that, based on the announced information, the Abyss has 5 paths, all with chests on them.

This means that Kabam did indeed listen to feedback about LOL that subsequent clears we’re underwhelming (completion runs #2-6) and shifted some of the exploration rewards out to chests to alleviate that concern.

So upon completion, we are looking at 1 additional t5b, t2a, 20 Sig stones, 5* crystal etc. Each subsequent completion run will also award the “additional” rewards up to the final exploration run.

@xNig Sorry if someone corrected you already, but the chest is on a random path and can only be claimed once, it doesn't respawn after that.

BigPoppaCBONE

"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."

Please keep this sentence in mind y'all, the things we need to be able to do this(whatever they are) will be introduced to the game later on. That's why they don't expect anyone to complete it very early.

They aren’t introducing a champ or mastery that can move the camera, increase their CR, or ignore damage caps. The abilities introduced that disregard health pools or can cause massive damage get nerfed with the damage cap.
Realm of Legends was peak good challenge creation Kabam for me. LoL is trash and AoL, so far, is looking the same.

Gamer

My personal view is that, based on the announced information, the Abyss has 5 paths, all with chests on them.

This means that Kabam did indeed listen to feedback about LOL that subsequent clears we’re underwhelming (completion runs #2-6) and shifted some of the exploration rewards out to chests to alleviate that concern.

So upon completion, we are looking at 1 additional t5b, t2a, 20 Sig stones, 5* crystal etc. Each subsequent completion run will also award the “additional” rewards up to the final exploration run.
@xNig Sorry if someone corrected you already, but the chest is on a random path and can only be claimed once, it doesn't respawn after that.

Well ther said ther is 5 defrinds chest so he rigth

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xNig

My personal view is that, based on the announced information, the Abyss has 5 paths, all with chests on them.

This means that Kabam did indeed listen to feedback about LOL that subsequent clears we’re underwhelming (completion runs #2-6) and shifted some of the exploration rewards out to chests to alleviate that concern.

So upon completion, we are looking at 1 additional t5b, t2a, 20 Sig stones, 5* crystal etc. Each subsequent completion run will also award the “additional” rewards up to the final exploration run.
@xNig Sorry if someone corrected you already, but the chest is on a random path and can only be claimed once, it doesn't respawn after that.

It’s 5 chests on fixed paths that won’t respawn after being claimed.