Notes for Creating Claire Voyant for the Boss Rush

natewagz419 · March 2020

StarFighter0717 said:
Hello, for those of you who don't know me already - I am one of the subreddit moderators, mod on many youtube streams & I'm a cohost on a podcast called Podcast of Champions (MCoC).

Claire Voyant is my fight. I chose to give her the nodes of Empowered Immunity, Mighty Charge, Matador, Safeguard & one of her unique nodes - curse of death.

This fight is meant to be a slow one. It’s meant to be a fight where the champion you bring in changes the fight, but doesn’t purely disclude the vast majority of champs. It will be a bit of a test of skill as Mighty Charge will be a pain, but I’ve tried to ease that with the ability to be able to control when specials can be used with the increased power you can feed her. It’s meant to be a fight that you can beat with anyone, but that the champ you bring should change the feel slightly.

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Safeguard is put into place there for the purpose of slowing the fight down - I did debate between a few other options, but the goal of it was to limit some champ's abilities to steamroll the fight. Going with safeguard over something like rage does mean that there's less of an effect of the unblockable to deal with and keeps people from picking champs who can just deal heavy damage as quick as possible to not deal with the unblockable. Safeguard also then allows mighty charge to be the main annoyance in the fight.

Empowered immunity is on to help the fight along, Claire as a defender does tend to stay in her curse of blood mode, so if the attacker brings in a champ who is a bleeder then anytime you try to bleed her you can give her more power via the debuff's failure to apply. It opens a door that you could very easily push her to an sp3 if you forget about the power gain. But if you leverage that ability to give her enough power to her next special, it'll allow you to use that as an opening to play around mighty charge.

Mighty charge should drop any other debuffs off when she rushes at the opponent for 30% of her a power bar per debuff while she has less then 20 charges** (Not entirely sure that that is currently happening, but she does gain 30% of a bar of power per debuff stack that gets charged off it seems). With mighty charge as well, if you do try to parry her medium dash attacks, she will be debuff immune, so the failed stun will give her about 30-34% of a bar of power. On top of that it your parry would otherwise apply debuffs, those can also be converted into power for her as well.

Matador was added both for the slight satisfaction of pairing matador with mighty charge, and to play with baiting specials more as you can make the fight one where she gains more power. Claire will be getting power while you don't, unless she throws a special attack, then the thrown special attack will give the player a bar of power.

Curse of Death is a unique node for claire that lets her gain a death touch charge permamently after reaching 20 clairevoyant charges. This means that if you do reach 20 of these, she will get a small regen at the end of the fight & be immune to dying for 4 seconds. You can plan on this activating if you are going the route of using more debuffs for power or bringing a bleed immune, and do remember that it will extend the fight. As long as you make sure to not get back to 20 charges before she goes down, it won't stop the fight from ending completely.

The added power gain is meant to give the player an opening with the mighty charge node, but it does also mean that baiting specials in this fight are rewarded & the empowered immunity is meant to help with this further so you can feed more power in quicker.
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Power Plays & such

Bringing a champion in that will allow you to give her more power will ultimately make the fight a bit easier due to getting her to throw more specials + thusly being able to punish them & even throw your own specials.

For empowered immunity power gains (30% of a bar per debuff, (+4% max when < 20 charges):
trying to parry her charge will give some, but high block proficiency or a champ that will also try to apply a debuff at the same time can increase that amount of power + mean for less chip damage.
trying to bleed her - champs who apply bleeds throughout combo hits and block hits will make for a slightly dangerous play if you aren't able to control when they get applied.

for her own she’ll gain 4% of max power and a charge every-time the following happens
when she fails to apply a bleed to you due to immunity or an immunity purifies an effect (sp1/heavy will be 3 times of the 4%)
when buff immunity is up and you proc a buff
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Highlighted Counters:

champs with high non-bleed damage over time effects - these will fall off during mighty charge, but DoT is a nice way to get around that safeguard and make the fight a bit shorter. Nebula is one I will bring up, just be wary of parrying a mighty charge. Human torch with nova flame activated should be able to burn right through.
champs who apply bleed on hit but don't rely on it's damage as much - these champs will be able to bait specials a little easier throughout the fight once you get going with playing around mighty charge. AA is not so much one of these, blade or someone like a Claire herself
Champs with high block proficiency + ability to apply debuffs on block/parry
BEARDOOOOO should be an interesting one here. he does try to apply more debuffs on parry with certain class types with him.
Blade should also do pretty well, if one does bring dormmammu as well that would be increasing that.
Sidenotes
quake should also be able to do the fight - as long as you are skilled with her dex-the-living-lights-out-of-everything playstyle
Champs who shrug debuffs or reduce their duration don't quite count towards claire's natural 4% power gain
if you run assassin that can have a chance to bypass safeguard in the last 18% health. Similarly, if you bring in a ability accuracy reduction champ, they can also get around it
Maybe don't try these specifically, but I can't stop you:
Essentially champs who rely on burst damage, but they should be able to do this fight.
ghost. disclaimer - Ghost should be able to do this fight, but the question is should she. This fight is designed in a way that will hinder her due to safeguard and mighty charge, but is still able to okay around it. She just won’t go through Claire like butter like she does much elsewhere
corvus - corvus does have armor break on block + should also be able to do this fight, but he not get his full normal benefits

Theoretically most champs can do this fight, but selected champs can change the landscape of it by the amount of power gain that can & will happen. She is the last fight, & I do think leftovers will be fine for her - just make sure to keep in mind how your champion may gain more power - if they’re bleed immune she will get more power off a sp1 & heavies, if they have debuffs on parry of other then stun - she will get more power from them while charging, if you parry her mighty charge will give her a bit more power.

Playing around this is remembering the mighty charge - intercepting a charge will end with you taking damage, partying it will give power, blocking will give chip damage. Skills like managing power, baiting specials & something referred to as reparrying will help this fight along for you.

I will try to keep note of the best options for her - below are some of my personal ones.

I personally have used cap iw the most solely because playing with that much power in a fight is fairly entertaining, nebula is also fairly good if you can Time a non-mighty charged dash for a parry. I think Human torch will melt her, but I don’t personally have him higher then a 3*.

Let me know how fighting her goes if you get past her compatriots; or send me photos of nose boops from taking her sp3’s on Twitter (@StarfighterMcoc)

(i am not used to formatting here lol)

Great fight design @StarfighterMcoc 💪

Monto_Carlos28 · March 2020

UmbertoDelRio said:
I used quake and didn't get a chance to appreciate your design lol.

While we're at that, is quake supposed to completely shut off mighty charge?

Ikr, definitely the easiest fight!

Xigro · March 2020

Omega Red works great! Staying close and baiting heavies deals a lot of damage by death field (bypassing safeguard)

SidDDragon · March 2020

I saw safeguard and decided to bring omega...he took her down easy but overall its a good fight,makes people think about the champs to bring for the fight..imo passive effects will be helpful in the fight like imiw plasma or champs which do extra damage from their attacks like invisible woman,red hulk..

RU11011 · March 2020

This was a very fun fight! I enjoyed it way more than the Emma Frost and Rogue (I just suck at playing those two, those fights were pretty fun as well)
I used mainly Torch and Cap IW. As soon as I saw a mystic, I knew who to bring.

TheToxicCactus · March 2020

@StarFighter0717 Thank god u chose safeguard over rage, I wouldve 💩 myself

Btw the reparry method works very well against mighty charge if anyones having trouble w/ it

DonDudu2809 · March 2020

Ghost is actually good here because she can shrug off the bleeds on l1 and keep going even against the safeguard. The mighty charge isn't that bad because if you have ghost awakened you would want to take a couple of hits trough phase anyway.

StarFighter0717 · March 2020

Yeah, she still works well for it but it’s not as much of a cutting their health into smithereens fight as ghost ones can be with the amount of debuffs one could get for furies.

Sw0rdMaster · March 2020

Xigro said:
Omega Red works great! Staying close and baiting heavies deals a lot of damage by death field (bypassing safeguard)

The same. I used OR and she went down pretty quick

Stingerbk · March 2020

StarFighter0717 said:
Hello, for those of you who don't know me already - I am one of the subreddit moderators, mod on many youtube streams & I'm a cohost on a podcast called Podcast of Champions (MCoC).

Claire Voyant is my fight. I chose to give her the nodes of Empowered Immunity, Mighty Charge, Matador, Safeguard & one of her unique nodes - curse of death.

This fight is meant to be a slow one. It’s meant to be a fight where the champion you bring in changes the fight, but doesn’t purely disclude the vast majority of champs. It will be a bit of a test of skill as Mighty Charge will be a pain, but I’ve tried to ease that with the ability to be able to control when specials can be used with the increased power you can feed her. It’s meant to be a fight that you can beat with anyone, but that the champ you bring should change the feel slightly.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Safeguard is put into place there for the purpose of slowing the fight down - I did debate between a few other options, but the goal of it was to limit some champ's abilities to steamroll the fight. Going with safeguard over something like rage does mean that there's less of an effect of the unblockable to deal with and keeps people from picking champs who can just deal heavy damage as quick as possible to not deal with the unblockable. Safeguard also then allows mighty charge to be the main annoyance in the fight.

Empowered immunity is on to help the fight along, Claire as a defender does tend to stay in her curse of blood mode, so if the attacker brings in a champ who is a bleeder then anytime you try to bleed her you can give her more power via the debuff's failure to apply. It opens a door that you could very easily push her to an sp3 if you forget about the power gain. But if you leverage that ability to give her enough power to her next special, it'll allow you to use that as an opening to play around mighty charge.

Mighty charge should drop any other debuffs off when she rushes at the opponent for 30% of her a power bar per debuff while she has less then 20 charges** (Not entirely sure that that is currently happening, but she does gain 30% of a bar of power per debuff stack that gets charged off it seems). With mighty charge as well, if you do try to parry her medium dash attacks, she will be debuff immune, so the failed stun will give her about 30-34% of a bar of power. On top of that it your parry would otherwise apply debuffs, those can also be converted into power for her as well.

Matador was added both for the slight satisfaction of pairing matador with mighty charge, and to play with baiting specials more as you can make the fight one where she gains more power. Claire will be getting power while you don't, unless she throws a special attack, then the thrown special attack will give the player a bar of power.

Curse of Death is a unique node for claire that lets her gain a death touch charge permamently after reaching 20 clairevoyant charges. This means that if you do reach 20 of these, she will get a small regen at the end of the fight & be immune to dying for 4 seconds. You can plan on this activating if you are going the route of using more debuffs for power or bringing a bleed immune, and do remember that it will extend the fight. As long as you make sure to not get back to 20 charges before she goes down, it won't stop the fight from ending completely.

The added power gain is meant to give the player an opening with the mighty charge node, but it does also mean that baiting specials in this fight are rewarded & the empowered immunity is meant to help with this further so you can feed more power in quicker.
----
Power Plays & such

Bringing a champion in that will allow you to give her more power will ultimately make the fight a bit easier due to getting her to throw more specials + thusly being able to punish them & even throw your own specials.

For empowered immunity power gains (30% of a bar per debuff, (+4% max when < 20 charges):
trying to parry her charge will give some, but high block proficiency or a champ that will also try to apply a debuff at the same time can increase that amount of power + mean for less chip damage.
trying to bleed her - champs who apply bleeds throughout combo hits and block hits will make for a slightly dangerous play if you aren't able to control when they get applied.

for her own she’ll gain 4% of max power and a charge every-time the following happens
when she fails to apply a bleed to you due to immunity or an immunity purifies an effect (sp1/heavy will be 3 times of the 4%)
when buff immunity is up and you proc a buff
---

Highlighted Counters:

champs with high non-bleed damage over time effects - these will fall off during mighty charge, but DoT is a nice way to get around that safeguard and make the fight a bit shorter. Nebula is one I will bring up, just be wary of parrying a mighty charge. Human torch with nova flame activated should be able to burn right through.
champs who apply bleed on hit but don't rely on it's damage as much - these champs will be able to bait specials a little easier throughout the fight once you get going with playing around mighty charge. AA is not so much one of these, blade or someone like a Claire herself
Champs with high block proficiency + ability to apply debuffs on block/parry
BEARDOOOOO should be an interesting one here. he does try to apply more debuffs on parry with certain class types with him.
Blade should also do pretty well, if one does bring dormmammu as well that would be increasing that.
Sidenotes
quake should also be able to do the fight - as long as you are skilled with her dex-the-living-lights-out-of-everything playstyle
Champs who shrug debuffs or reduce their duration don't quite count towards claire's natural 4% power gain
if you run assassin that can have a chance to bypass safeguard in the last 18% health. Similarly, if you bring in a ability accuracy reduction champ, they can also get around it
Maybe don't try these specifically, but I can't stop you:
Essentially champs who rely on burst damage, but they should be able to do this fight.
ghost. disclaimer - Ghost should be able to do this fight, but the question is should she. This fight is designed in a way that will hinder her due to safeguard and mighty charge, but is still able to okay around it. She just won’t go through Claire like butter like she does much elsewhere
corvus - corvus does have armor break on block + should also be able to do this fight, but he not get his full normal benefits

Theoretically most champs can do this fight, but selected champs can change the landscape of it by the amount of power gain that can & will happen. She is the last fight, & I do think leftovers will be fine for her - just make sure to keep in mind how your champion may gain more power - if they’re bleed immune she will get more power off a sp1 & heavies, if they have debuffs on parry of other then stun - she will get more power from them while charging, if you parry her mighty charge will give her a bit more power.

Playing around this is remembering the mighty charge - intercepting a charge will end with you taking damage, partying it will give power, blocking will give chip damage. Skills like managing power, baiting specials & something referred to as reparrying will help this fight along for you.

I will try to keep note of the best options for her - below are some of my personal ones.

I personally have used cap iw the most solely because playing with that much power in a fight is fairly entertaining, nebula is also fairly good if you can Time a non-mighty charged dash for a parry. I think Human torch will melt her, but I don’t personally have him higher then a 3*.

Let me know how fighting her goes if you get past her compatriots; or send me photos of nose boops from taking her sp3’s on Twitter (@StarfighterMcoc)

(i am not used to formatting here lol)

Well I didn't read all these long notes, I just quaked her to oblivion, easiest fight honestly.

Bugmat78 · March 2020

Nice fight @StarFighter0717 . I did a one-shot with my 5/65 Domino (rhulk synergy) - used the incinerate as DOT and the bleed from sp2 (both to bypass safeguard) in addition to the normal combos. Also chose to push her to sp2 for baiting vs the unavoidable bleed damage from her sp1.

GroundedWisdom · March 2020

I'm just doing the Cat Arena to take HT to R4 before I fully run through. I did a test run. First few Fights were fun.

Notes for Creating Claire Voyant for the Boss Rush

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