Mystique Character Discussion
jonzer
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In this discussion, I want to hear what abilities/synergies you guys think a Mystique champion.
This popped in my head, but since she can be anybody she would be able to pass through any class or champion gate in the game. what do you think?
This popped in my head, but since she can be anybody she would be able to pass through any class or champion gate in the game. what do you think?
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Copying buffs is a good one
We also hear that she could copy buffs/abilities of the other Champion, but that isn't very true to the source material. While we do have the ability to take some creative liberties here, that one personally just doesn't seem right to me... Besides, Rogue already does that in the Mutant Class!
I'm very interested to hear how you like to see Mystique work in-game.
Other things I think would be good for her kit and true to her powers while not being difficult to implement would be increased physical resistance, psychic immunity, a small amount of regen, poison resistance (Not immunity), either critical resistance or critical immunity (she uses her powers to move her vital organs around so she can't be critically injured from gunshots to the heart or head, so crit resistance or immunity would be a neat reflection of that), and a camouflage ability that works similar to Hood's invisibility where she has X amount of chance to have an attack miss (This can be on a cooldown or even be a prefight ability [Say you can either activate camouflage, psychic immunity, or critical immunity depending on the fight]).
This would be amazing especially if you turn into a 5* Scarlet witch? After the time limit expires she would turn back into Mystique.
Like for example if she's fighting a skill champ, she'd gain skill champ abilities like shrugging off debuffs or a chance to bleed the opponent
Or like if she's fighting a mystic champ, she'd gain mystic champ abilities such as nullify and power lock.
Then winning against a champ of that class, she'd keep these champ abilities as a persistent charge/ pre fight ability which she can then activate in later fights.
So say mystic champs give her mystic abilities such as a 10% for hits to place a stagger on the opponent and special attacks giving her nullify abilities. Winning that fight gives her a pre fight ability for the next fight. So if the next opponent is a cosmic champ like Hyperion or something, she can activate her mystic abilities before she would fight him and make the fight easier.
Kind of just an initial thought might be kind of confusing but I think this could be pretty unique to the character.
A Super-Skrull that can actually copy other powers, I could understand...
Keeping in mind Miike's comment I will focus on the idea of "light loading" on Mistique's side.
"Copying" feature would in fact turn into a Morningstar's "soul eating" similar functionality that would allow her to have persistent charges. At the start of a path she would be able to steal all the positive buffs a mutant adversary would activate on himself and place back on the adversary any negative debuffs she would have. For instance, fighting with X-23 when X-23 would gain "regenerate" that buff would be removed from X-23 and applied to Mistique. If X-23 would inflict a bleed that bleed would be removed and placed back onto X-23. Of course this should be triggered by a specific action - for instance a heavy or an intercept.
So initially she can only "copy" adversaries of the same class. If she has a second enemy from another class (let's say science) at the end of the fight, if she wins she would also have "copy-ing type" abilities over "science" enemies. And for future science encounters she should remove buffs from enemies and place back the debuffs (as explained above). Maybe also a set of missions during the second fight will allow her to copy "science" before winning the fight. For instance 3 successful heavies would turn the copy ability on.
This will allow her to have a "construction over time" against all classes, basically making her more powerful after a set of fights not just one.
In a realistic term, fury would definitely be physical strength and mystique can shapeshift anyone including their physical attributes (mainly this)
She should have :
This would allow her to do some bleed, poison damage if her opponent can do it.
She could even store some abilities over fights making her more and more powerful !
Other than that as others have also mentioned I’d suggest to have her “just” turn into the enemy she is facing, which should already be loaded.
Just my thought on it!
(I'm referring to when she's an AI controlled opponent in a quest .. not used by the player)
You can make her hand to shape-shift and form different weapons like pistols, swords etc.
I mean for heavy attack she makes a knife.
For block she makes a shield.
Her special attacks can have different kind of weapons.
She could possibly have the best looking animations in the whole game.
She can look like Wolverine, also have his claws but can't copy his accelerated healing abilities.
She can look like Cyclops, but can't shoot his beam.
She can look like Magneto, but can't control metals.
She can look like Professor X, but can't have his powers.