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So, I present to you a retooled Kang. (Based upon a Rank 5/50 4-Star Champion; Sig Level 99)
BASE STATISTICS:
Hit Points: 15,660
Attack: 1148
Crit Rate: 598
Crit Damage: 703
Armor: 273
Block Proficiency: 3556
Energy Resistance: 0
Physical Resistance: 0
Crit Resistance: 0
Signature Ability - 40th Century Upgrades:
Kang draws upon the mighty technology of his base of operations in the 40th century to fuel his conquests!
Developer's Note: Kang's armor is supposed to be able to stop a nuclear blast at point blank range. If it can stop that, it can also stop the unstoppable! Agains
ABILITIES:
Developer's Note: Kang has a quick temper and is easily pushed into a fight. That makes Taunting him more effective, which also increases the duration. This is going to make it harder for him to keep his Power Meter at full strength if you're fighting against him (which will be good for you), but it's also going to diminish the power of your Attacks if you're using him offensively, so watch out!
Developer's Note: Kang's force field can shield him from 50% of the damage he receives, effectively doubling his lifespan. Against opponents that rely upon Shock damage, like Doctor Doom or Electro, they actually recharge his force field instead of dealing damage to it, or to Kang himself!
Developer's Note: Kang's ability to travel through time is central to his power, and that had to be fairly reflected in his power set! This gives him some control over the flow of battle. Watch out for unleashing two back-to-back Specials against him! You might hit him with the first one and then he manages to evade the second, reversing the damage you just dealt to him!
When activated, for the entire fight, all of Kang's Medium hits deal an additional 229.6 Energy Damage for each Persistent Charge consumed.
Developer's Note: The more battles Kang wins, the more powerful he can become! Store up these charges and unleash them upon a tough opponent!
Developer's Note: This is half of the value of Kang's old Signature Ability added into the base kit. Virtually all of Kang's "powers" come from his battle armor, so it felt appropriate to grant him at least half of that in the base kit.
Developer's Note: Kang's ability to travel through time is central to his power, and that had to be fairly reflected in his power set! This gives him some control over the flow of battle. Watch out for unleashing two back-to-back Specials against him! You might hit him with the first one and then he manages to evade the second, reversing the damage you just dealt to him!
SPECIAL ATTACKS:
Special 1 - Concussive Bolt – A concussive blast from the fingertips of Kang's gauntlets leave opponents in a daze.
- 100% chance to Stun for 2.4 seconds.
Special 2 - E.M.P. Cannon – Kang's Time-Ship blasts his opponent back to the future from a remote location using an electromagnetic pulse cannon.- 100% chance to drain up to 100% of the target's max Power.
- 100% chance to Stun for 2.4 seconds.
Special 3 - Drone Assault – Kang deploys a swarm of robotic drones from the future to seek and destroy his target.SYNERGIES:
PREVIOUS REVISIONS (minus Champions that Kabam has already revised):
As with all of my Champion reworks, I invite constructive feedback. I tried to incorporate a wider array of Kang's canonical powers without overwhelming the build. He's got fewer abilities to activate than Champions like Warlock, believe it or not.
This process isn't possible without additional eyes and thoughts from the community. Please feel free to review and suggest improvements! I am specifically inviting feedback from contributors like @Magrailothos, @Bajan_Samurai, @DrZola, @Whododo872, and @HeroBoltsy, though I welcome feedback from all.
Thanks, and best wishes!
Aside from that, though, I like the incorporation of Slow into Kang's abilities. I honestly don't know much about Kang, but that definitely seems logical to me. This is a nice way to represent a character's rashness and recklessness, ability-wise. I like it, but 20% seems a little small, for the amount of Taunting characters we have right now. I can only think of Stark Spider-Man and Emma Frost as having Taunt, although I could be wrong. Please correct me if so. I assume this works similarly to Invisible Woman's Force Field mechanic? I like the incorporation of using Shock damage to recharge the Force Field, that's a nice touch. Landing a Heavy is a nice, controllable way to get Shock into the kit, while also allowing you to avoid inflicting it on Kang-Kang or similar matchups. And the Pre-Fight ability is probably going to be Kang's main source of damage, I think... If I have this right, each Persistent Charge is going to give Kang burst damage on his Mediums equivalent to about 77% of his Shock debuffs. That doesn't seem like a lot at first, but if you can build it up, it's going to add up quick. For instance, if there are 10 enemies in a quest before the boss, and you use Kang for every fight before the boss, you'll have 10 Persistent Charges, and therefore you'll be doing 10x229=2290 (which is roughly equivalent to 15% of Kang's max HP) Energy Damage per Medium. Any enemy of a comparable health pool will be down in a few Parries, and it should greatly expedite enemies with higher health pools. That seems perhaps a little unbalanced if there are too many enemies on a path (perhaps a cap at, say, 10 Persistent Charges would be nice?) but given that it's only one fight per quest, it shouldn't be that bad. I see here the "Passive" denotation for Kang's Armor... no Armor Up Buff confirmed, then?
Temporal Divergence is a fascinating ability. On the one hand, I love the idea of "rewinding" damage like with Magik's Limbo in a more controllable manner, but... is it just me, or is there no Evade in Kang's kit? Perhaps something like "Whenever Kang successfully uses the Dexterity Mastery against a hit of a Special Attack..." would be clearer, since I don't see Evade in Kang's abilities. The idea is great, though - perhaps you could block the first few hits of, say, Doctor Strange's SP2, and then evade the final hit, which would trigger Temporal Divergence and heal back all of the block damage you took? That would be very, very nice for sustainability. Great ability, just a little clarification would be nice. These seem the same as Kang's current Specials, although they're alright as-is because of the overhaul to the rest of the kit. Perhaps the Special One could trigger Temporal Divergence, given that it's still a pretty basic Special Attack? Just a thought. Generally nice synergies, some broadly useful (Claire Voyant+Kang+Dead Nick Fury = +40% Attack against Villains?! Nice.), and some a little more niche (liking the love for Bishop over there). Nothing strictly necessary, but all certainly nice to have. Good synergies overall, I think.
As for this rework of Kang as a whole, I certainly like it. It's a little on the simpler side, in my opinion, to some of our recent champions, but there is a certain beauty in that simplicity. I like the idea of massive burst damage, but once a quest... something that just occurred to me, though, is that it might be more work than it's worth if Kang doesn't hit hard enough in the fights building up to a boss. Maybe a mechanic where you could choose how many PC's to spend in addition to a PC cap would be nice, but I'm not overly familiar with whether these damage numbers are considered "good" or "bad" in the first place, so maybe it's fine. Temporal Divergence is great, and the recharge of the Force Field and Taunt Vulnerabilities are simple but well thought out representations of the character and his technologies. Very nicely done, as always, @Bodhizen ! Stay safe and healthy, everyone.
Largely I'm with @HeroBoltsy on his feedback. I'm less worried about the prefight ability being over-powerful, if you consider how Aegon, Cull Obsidian or Morningstar can ramp to before reaching the boss. It could cap at six charges, if necessary.
I like the Taunt vulnerability - perhaps it should punish the opponent though; like when you Taunt Annihilus?
Rewind is a very powerful ability - I like it, but given how skilled many players are at dodging attacks, maybe there should be a cooldown period? Or they'll never take any damage from specials! Or alternately, Kang would be an ideal candidate for a phase mechanic like Ghost; but would probably have to sacrifice something like his force field for it, to avoid being imbalanced.
I'm not sure I agree with you on the Temporal Divergence ability, though, since it only works when you successfully "evade" a Special Attack. If your opponent doesn't throw any, you can't evade any, and if your opponent saves up for SP3 (which you cannot evade), then Kang would not get to use it at all.
As for the phase mechanic, do you feel that might make Kang too similar to Invisible Woman if that were added into the kit?
Once again, thanks so much for the feedback! I'm definitely going to polish Kang up! I haven't played her yet, but I really think that she's a lot closer to what the original Storm should be in terms of her power kit. It was just nifty to see some similarities there.
Thanks, gents, and best wishes!
BASE STATISTICS:
Hit Points: 15,660
Attack: 1148
Crit Rate: 598
Crit Damage: 703
Armor: 273
Block Proficiency: 3556
Energy Resistance: 0
Physical Resistance: 0
Crit Resistance: 0
Signature Ability - 40th Century Upgrades:
Kang draws upon the mighty technology of his base of operations in the 40th century to fuel his conquests!
Developer's Note: Kang's armor is supposed to be able to stop a nuclear blast at point blank range. If it can stop that, it can also stop the unstoppable!
ABILITIES:
Developer's Note: Kang has a quick temper and is easily pushed into a fight. That makes Taunting him more effective, which also increases the duration. This is going to make it harder for him to keep his Power Meter at full strength if you're fighting against him (which will be good for you), but it's also going to diminish the power of your Attacks if you're using him offensively, so watch out!
Developer's Note: Kang's force field can shield him from 50% of the damage he receives, effectively doubling his lifespan. Against opponents that rely upon Shock damage, like Doctor Doom or Electro, they actually recharge his force field instead of dealing damage to it, or to Kang himself!
When activated, for the entire fight, all of Kang's Medium hits deal an additional 229.6 Energy Damage for each Persistent Charge consumed.
Developer's Note: The more battles Kang wins, the more powerful he can become! Store up these charges and unleash them upon a tough opponent!
Developer's Note: This is half of the value of Kang's old Signature Ability added into the base kit. Virtually all of Kang's "powers" come from his battle armor, so it felt appropriate to grant him at least half of that in the base kit. As this is a Passive Armor Up Buff, it cannot be stolen, broken or shattered.
Developer's Note: Kang's ability to travel through time is central to his power, and that had to be fairly reflected in his power set! This gives him some control over the flow of battle. Watch out for unleashing two back-to-back Specials against him! You might hit him with the first one and then he manages to evade the second, reversing the damage you just dealt to him!
SPECIAL ATTACKS:
Special 1 - Concussive Bolt – A concussive blast from the fingertips of Kang's gauntlets leave opponents in a daze.
- 100% chance to Stun for 2.4 seconds.
Special 2 - E.M.P. Cannon – Kang's Time-Ship blasts his opponent back to the future from a remote location using an electromagnetic pulse cannon.- 100% chance to drain up to 100% of the target's max Power.
- 100% chance to Stun for 2.4 seconds.
Special 3 - Drone Assault – Kang deploys a swarm of robotic drones from the future to seek and destroy his target.SYNERGIES:
PREVIOUS REVISIONS (minus Champions that Kabam has already revised):
As with all of my Champion reworks, I invite constructive feedback. This process isn't possible without additional eyes and thoughts from the community. Thank you to both @HeroBoltsy and @Magrailothos for their feedback!
Thanks, and best wishes!
For example, I was originally going to leave the Neuro-Kinetic Battle Armor alone. The wording from Kang's original hadn't been changed (to designate it as a Passive buff or an Armor Up buff, and I thought that was clear enough that it wasn't a buff of any kind - it was just additional armor rating), and I was going to leave it alone so that it would not provide any benefit when fighting against Champions like Havok (since Armor Up buffs negate Plasma Detonation), but then I realized... He's a Tech Champ. Havok is a Mutant. It would definitely be appropriate to have as an Armor Up buff (that could not be stolen, broken, shattered, etc... just like Dr. Doom's Armor).
As for your original question... Is there someone (other than Howard the Duck, because I'm still trying to figure out what I'd do with him) that you'd like to see reworked? I'd really like to target the "worst" Champions (meme tier), but if there's someone you really want to see, I'm open to the challenge.
Best wishes!
I present to you a first draft rework of Joe Fixit! (Based upon a Rank 5/50 4-Star Champion; Sig Level 99)
BASE STATISTICS:
Hit Points: 16,876
Attack: 1171
Crit Rate: 326
Crit Damage: 500
Armor: 353
Block Proficiency: 2546
Energy Resistance: 0
Physical Resistance: 0
Crit Resistance: 0
Signature Ability - Double Down:
Mr. Fixit knows how to play the tables and swing the odds in his favor.
Developer's Note: Not much has changed about Joe Fixit’s Signature Ability, except that he gets the benefits of all of the poker suits when he’s almost down for the count. This gives him one last chance to turn the tables and crush his opponent.
ABILITIES:
Blackjack Table (Passive): Joe Fixit has two card-counters active at the start of the fight, both showing zero.
- HIT!: This counter tracks how many hits on Joe Fixit’s Combo Meter, advancing by one for each hit on the Combo meter up to 10. At 11 hits, and each successive hit, it will advance in the following order: Jack, Queen, King, and Ace. Upon the 14th hit, the counter will hold on Ace for 12.0 seconds, at which time, the counter will reset back to 2 and advance again in similar fashion.
- HIT ME!: This counter tracks how many times Joe Fixit has been hit during the fight, advancing by one for each hit on the Combo meter up to 10. At 11 hits, and each successive hit, it will advance in the following order: Jack, Queen, King, and Ace. Upon the 14th hit, the counter will hold on Ace for 12.0 seconds, at which time, the counter will reset back to 2 and advance again in similar fashion.
- For each number showing on the HIT! Counter, Joe Fixit’s Block Penetration is increased by +50. While a Jack is showing, Joe’s next hit is Unblockable. While a Queen is showing, Joe’s next successful hit is a guaranteed Critical Hit. While a King is showing, Joe’s next hit inflicts a Heal Block debuff that lasts for 8.0 seconds. While an Ace is showing, Joe Fixit gains a Passive True Strike Buff.
- For each number showing on the HIT ME! Counter, Joe Fixit gains +35.3 Physical Resistance. While a Jack is showing, Joe’s Auto-Blocks the next hit, which does not trigger Parry. While a Queen is showing, a successful hit on Joe inflicts a Power Lock Debuff on his opponent that lasts for 4.0 seconds. While a King is showing, a successful hit on Joe inflicts a Stagger Debuff on his opponent that lasts for 6.5 seconds. While an Ace is showing, Joe has a 100% chance to Purify any Debuff on him.
- Blackjack!: If a 10, Jack, Queen, or King is showing on either counter, and an Ace is showing on the other, Joe Fixit may dodge back and hold Block for 1.5 seconds to activate Blackjack! for 12.0 seconds. Both card counters reset to 0. While under the effect of Blackjack!, Joe Fixit’s Special Attacks are Unblockable, and all Basic Attacks have a 100% chance to glance. Glancing Hits cannot be Critical, deal 50% reduced damage, and suffer -100% Offensive Ability Accuracy.
Gambler’s Ruin (Passive): At the beginning of the fight, and whenever he lands a Heavy Attack, Joe gains a random poker suit and lets loose with different aspects of the gamma irradiated gangster he is.Developer's Note: Joe Fixit needed some additional features to round him out as a Champion, and the use of the card suits naturally came to a game of Blackjack. While this means that some of his abilities are in flux, as a new “hand” gets dealt every now and again, Joe Fixit can become a pretty monstrous opponent when the cards finally come up as Blackjack!
- Clubs: Joe isn’t some dumb brute, and he’s smart enough to take advantage of anyone who thinks he is, granting 40.82 Critical Rating for each hit of his combo meter. Additionally, his opponent’s Block Proficiency is reduced by 10%. While Blackjack! is active, Joe Fixit gains a Passive Combo Shield.
- Diamonds: He may not be as big as the Hulk, but you still won’t like him when he’s angry. Joe gains +10 Attack Rating for each 1% of his max Health he has lost during the fight (including Health that has been recovered), to a maximum of +1000 Attack Rating. While Blackjack! is active, Joe Fixit gains a Passive Fury Buff, increasing his Attack Rating by 8%.
- Hearts: Joe triggers his accelerated healing ability, granting 118.2 health recovery every second. While Blackjack! is active, Joe Fixit cannot be Heal Blocked.
- Spades: Mr. Fixit is morally ambiguous at best and knows how to make his punches count. Each attack has a 15% chance to give the opponent a Concussion, reducing their Ability Accuracy by 90% for 5.0 seconds. While Blackjack! is active, opponents with a Concussion gain 10% less Power from all sources.
Gamma-Irradiated Metabolism (Passive): Joe Fixit does not take damage from Poison effects. Whenever Joe Fixit has a Poison effect active on him, he gains a Passive Cruelty buff for the duration of the Poison, increasing his Critical Damage rating by 583.Developer's Note: The original Gambler’s Ruin ability was a really neat idea, but it wasn’t very strong, and it was what Joe Fixit was essentially built around. So, it’s been beefed up a bit to provide a bit more “oomph” to the ability set that Joe Fixit can call upon. This ability is further enhanced when Joe Fixit activates Blackjack!
Developer's Note: The way this ability has been worded still grants Joe Fixit “Poison immunity”, but instead of Poison failing to trigger, Joe can gain health by having an active Poison effect upon him if he has the Willpower Mastery, and he also gains a Cruelty buff as a retaliation to some fool’s attempt to poison him!
SPECIAL ATTACKS:
Special 1 - Place Your Bets – First Mr. Fixit introduces you to his forehead, then he introduces you to one of his Chicago Typewriters. What a nice fellow.
- 60% chance per hit to inflict Bleed, dealing 585.5 Direct Damage over 4.0 seconds.
Special 2 - Shorten the Odds – With a stomp of his foot and a slap of his hands, Mr. Fixit sends two boulders slamming into his opponent’s head at high speed.Developer's Note: The chance to trigger Bleed has been changed to it triggering per hit (there are 5 hits with the Tommy Gun), and the amount that each Bleed inflicts has been increased! Instead of dealing 421.26 total Bleed damage, it has been increased to a potential 2927.5. Huge difference!
- 100% chance to Stun for 3.4 seconds.
Special 3 - The House Always Wins – Joe Fixit lets loose a massive barrage from his twin Tommy Guns, then beats his opponent to a messy pulp with them. Never bet against the house.Developer's Note: The Bleed damage hasn’t changed… Except for when Blackjack! is active. Blackjack! will give you a much needed boost to this attack!
SYNERGIES:
PREVIOUS REVISIONS (minus Champions that Kabam has already revised):
As with all of my Champion reworks, I invite constructive feedback. This rebuild is an attempt to boost Joe Fixit’s value as an attacker. He was pretty weak before, but I think that with this kit, he could really see some increased action outside the Arena!
This process isn't possible without additional eyes and thoughts from the community. Please feel free to review and suggest improvements! I am specifically inviting feedback from contributors like @Magrailothos, @Bajan_Samurai, @DrZola, @Whododo872, and @HeroBoltsy, though I welcome feedback from all.
Thanks, and best wishes!
Not sure if Hit Me is registering all hits (even if blocked) or only when he's actually struck? The former would be much more useful when you're playing with him; plus as a defender, you could push him past the Ace if you wanted.
I like the Blackjack ability, all round. Maybe not 100% Glancing, though. Glancing is a really powerful defense - I'd top it at maybe 66%. Generally good, except for Diamonds which relies on you losing Health to achieve anything. And it doesn't even benefit you at all if you're beaten up in a previous fight.
If you want to borrow just one idea from my rework (here), I suggested that this Attack bonus built up over time rather than with Health lost. So the Attack bonus builds up from whenever Diamonds is activated - more useful if it's your main suit; a bit less so with Gamblers Ruin.
Also, that Passive 8% Fury? Make it at least 15%, plus I'd make it a buff for the occasional opponent with Caustic Temper. Youu can easily avoid triggering it if you're going to be punished for buffs. Nice tweak. SP1 - actually Joe already has the chance to inflict 5 Bleed debuffs. It's one of the few good things about him.
SP3 - nice increase with Blackjack, without being disproportionate. This is the only new synergy; pretty fun and I like it.
Really interesting take on how to work some of the Gambling/playing cards motifs into his power set. Some ideas I wish I'd thought of!
Do let me know what you think of my version (here) some time!
Hit Me! only registers successful hits. Blocked hits would be registered only if an ability specifically states that it registers blocked hits as hits. But, I can write it to clarify. Basically, I don't want opponents to push Joe Fixit into the Ace, because the Ace lasts for a specified amount of time, not a specified amount of hits. You only get credit for a solid strike, not a blocked one.
With regard to the Glancing, it only affects Basic Attacks and lasts for 12 seconds before you have to work back up into it. Triggering Blackjack! requires a bit of good timing on your part. You can't trigger it when two Aces are up, so you have it trigger it when one Ace is up and the other is within a 4-hit window (10, J, Q, or K). That means you either have to take a bunch of solid hits to be on an Ace in Hit Me! while you smack your opponent around (and potentially interrupt a Combo) to trigger Ace in Hit!, or vice versa. It's a bit tricky to activate, so the 100% chance was something I thought was a fair trade off. You'd have to be really skilled and have great timing to trigger Blackjack! more than once in a while.
Does that change your thoughts on the matter? So, here's where the thought process was for Diamonds... You could easily trigger Hearts to regain Health. Diamonds is going to reward you for having taken damage in the fight. Getting beat down in an easier fight just to (potentially) start a fight with a high Diamonds rating would be a neat hack, but it would also come across as cheating/cheese. If you want a stronger Attack Rating (and bear in mind, these are stats for a 4-star Rank 5 Champion), you're going to have to work for it in that fight, not in build-up fights. There's no intention for Joe Fixit to ramp up his Attack rating to be nearly the equal of a 5-star Rank 5 Champion in successive fights (and those variable ratings means that he can be readjusted to be stronger as a 5-star!).
So... Take some damage, rely on Heavy Attacks to trigger Gambler's Ruin to trigger Hearts (if it's not already active at the start of the fight), regenerate some of that back, then rely on Heavy Attacks to get to Diamonds... (Unless you manage to have both Hearts and Diamonds up for 15 seconds with Double Down). You can ramp up your damage with a bit of luck and skill combined.
As for that Passive Fury... Joe Fixit can attain an Attack Rating of 1171 before any other modifiers. Then you get to add in potentially +1000 Attack Rating for a total of 2171 (as a 4-star, Rank 5 Champion). Granted, it would take a pretty long fight (or a pretty gutted Joe Fixit) to pull that off. Now add in an additional 8% for an Attack Rating of 2344.68. That's almost as good as a lot of 5-star 5/65 Champions. Granted, Joe Fixit cannot sustain that (nor should he), but a 15% Fury would push his Attack Rating potentially up to 2496.65, which is actually better than some 5-star 5/65 Champions. I thought I was pushing it as-is with the 8% Fury. Sure, it's only for the duration of the Blackjack!, but still...
Do you still feel the same way after looking at it like that? Thank you! I like making this more interesting and effective than just straight-up Immunities (which are nice, in and of themselves, but kind of boring). Yes, this is true that Special 1 could already inflict 5 Bleeds, but all 5 Bleeds only inflicted 421.56 damage in total over 4.0 seconds. This specifically specifies that each hit can trigger a Bleed that deals 585.5 damage per Bleed. That's far more damage, which Joe really needs.
Thanks for the praise on Special 3. In my mind, the pummeling is going to do way more damage before the Bleed is inflicted as well, but there's not a really good way to spell that out. Thank you! I always check to see which characters that the Champions encounter, in canon, to form Synergies. I know I only added the one, but I was hoping that people would think it would be fun! I'm going to do a review of it right now.
I look forward to discussing this rework with you further, @Magrailothos, before publishing a polished version!
As for Diamonds, I still think an Attack boost that relies on you being beaten up isn't a valuable ability. It should be triggered on something else that drives his rage; whether it's combo meter, critical hits inflicted, or just plain time spent fighting (Gamora and Thor have time-related Fury benefits).
That 8% Fury of yours will be converted to a flat value; so it won't multiply the Diamonds boost as well. These things always add, not multiply. But even if it were, it's still not excessive even if my suggestion brought him up to 2500 Attack.
Joe isn't supposed to out-brawl Green Hulk, but let's look at his numbers: Green Hulk starts with 1227 Attack at 5/50, and his Sig grants up to +2400 based on lost health. That's (sustainably) a total of 3627 Attack.
Then add in his Attack Fury (+490) and a dose of Hulk Smash (+1350); and he can reach an Attack rating of 5467 for short periods...
Or consider a more recent (admittedly glass cannon) champion, Stealth Spidey, at 5/50:
Base attack 1294
Passive Fury 1941 (up to 2523 if Awakened)
Total Attack (very easy to sustain) 3235 (up to 3817 if Awakened)
That's with a Critical Rating very easy to sustain at over 8000!
Given that (aside from brief periods if Awakened) Joe can only do either a high critical rating or a high Attack rating, I don't think you have to worry about Joe's Fury boost (8%, 15% or more) being imbalanced!
I'm not excited about the concept of raising Attack Rating based upon Critical Hits. Joe Fixit has a 14% chance to land a Critical Hit, so it would be of limited utility unless the Clubs suit is also active. I also don't want to base too much upon the Combo Meter. The Blackjack Table ability and the Clubs suit were already based upon the Combo Meter. As for "time on task", I don't find that to be a particularly interesting or creative solution here, even if it's something that's been incorporated into other Champion kits. Fair enough. You've convinced me on this point. Thank you, good sir.
Still, that's the reason why the fairly useless Fatigue is switched straight to Enervate, which is a more useful offensive ability. The chance to proc was unchanged at 14%. In a five-hit combo, that means you'll land at least one debuff about 54% of the time.
Also, do check the current abilities before suggesting mine are overpowered: you suggest that my version of Joe's Spades crit rate boost is too high? It's actually been mildly nerfed (from 38 to 32) against all but XL opponents.
Joe's regeneration is another example of this - is mine really too weak? -The current Joe regenerates 15% of his total health per minute. My version regenerates 18% (19.6% when Max Sig and a bit more when Attacking) whilst your version regenerates a fairly stonking 42% of his base health per minute. By comparison, Old Man Logan regenerates a mere 30% of his health per minute; and King Groot regenerates a mere 25% of Total Health when Awakened, at max Sig. I'd suggest yours needs toned down; although, yes, possibly mine could go up a bit, too.
As for Skill champs, the idea was to help Joe, not hinder him. If he's defending, I'd expect Joe to be attacked by Skill champs. He'll therefore take a hit to his Attack; so would benefit from a Black suit. He's also stacking the deck to avoid Diamonds because so many Skill champs shrug off debuffs now.
For the synergies, since synergies only activate on offense, it's safe to assume most of these champs will benefit from masteries and/or other synergies; or even sometimes nodes. So Abomination and Rhino will almost always have a higher crit rate than 'base' by using Precision, and by being paired with Hulk or Spider-Gwen. And Rhino won't just get Unstoppable on Dash, but also when activating the Unfazed Mastery, or on a node like Mighty Charge, Chaos, or Aspect of War.
I do plan to take another look and yes, I will take some of your other suggestions on board like resistance to Weakness and Fatigue. The Warlock virus thing didn't really make sense either. So, I'll try power my version up a bit; but I'll keep my approach to suits - I like your card-counting/Blackjack system; but actually I want playing Joe to feel different in different suits (there's no point us both taking the same approach, anyway! 😉). When he gains a second suit (rather than boosting his current suit) it makes playing him more similar all the time - I'd rather it felt like having four different champs. I'll take a look at powering it up, though.
This is my first rework, so this could be a bit much, and values could be waaay off. I would really need to be hands-on to properly test this, but alas, that is not an option. Any feedback is greatly, greatly appreciated.
Anyway, Black Panther (Civil War) is a dud. He does nothing on offence and the majority of players beat him with ease on defence. With this rework, I wanted to retain his defensive side and give it a slight boost, but not too much. I really wanted to focus on offence and give him a ton of utility and damage, but hopefully not too much. One other goal I had for this rework was to make him suicide friendly, even on defence, without actually having any immunities.
Base Stats (Based on Rank 5 Level 65):
HP: 36,885
Attack: 2301
Critical Rating: 628 (23%)
Critical Damage Rating: 922 (200.1%)
Armour: 472 (18%)
Block Proficiency: 3823 (64%)
Energy Resistance: 0
Physical Resistance: 0
Critical Resistance: 0
Note: Not much change here. I’ve increased his crit damage for a bit more base damage. He’s gained some armour, bringing it into line with Killmonger’s. Their armours are both vibranium, wouldn’t make sense for Black Panther not to have any. He’s also wearing a suit of armour. In case that wasn’t immediately obvious.
Kinetic Charge:
-Black Panther begins the fight with one permanent passive Kinetic Charge
While this charge is active, Black Panther will reflect all contact stuns onto the opponent, lasting for the same duration as the stun that would’ve been applied. Cannot interrupt special attacks
While this charge is active, Black Panther will take no damage from the recoil mastery
Reflects 40% of the damage inflicted into his block back to the opponent
If knocked down, this kinetic charge is removed for 10 seconds
Note: This ability is an amalgamation of Killmonger and Captain America’s Vibranium related abilities. Black Panther isn’t too tough a defender these days so I wanted to boost him slightly in that department with the permanent stun reflect, but with the ability to shut it down. Considering the suit absorbs kinetic energy, it felt fitting that he wouldn’t take recoil damage, and makes him the only other champion besides Magik that can bypass it in his base kit without synergies
Passive:
The Heart-Shaped Herb allows the Black Panther to shrug off debuffs, excluding stun, 40% faster and they are 40% less potent
Black Panther is immune to mental manipulation, such as inverted controls.
Note: This can allow Black Panther to get a fairly substantial heal with suicides, about 7.8% per minute, as well as dealing with incoming debuffs a bit better. He isn’t going to be viable for nodes such as biohazard but should be a good option for nodes such as bleed or incinerate. His healing ability is fairly significant, but it is not close to champs like Wolverine or Old Man Logan, nor should it be.
The exclusion of stun from this ability is purely beneficial, creating standard regular stuns on offence and making him more threatening on defence.
Basic Attacks:
Black Panther’s claw attacks (Light 1,2 and Medium 2) inflict bleed with an 80% chance, dealing 460.2 damage over 12 seconds. Maximum: 10
If the opponent is immune to bleed, these attacks instead inflict an armour break with an 80% chance, reducing armour by 300 for 12 seconds. Maximum: 10
Note: Can you believe Black Panther currently only inflicts bleed only his SP1. Crazy, I know. These bleeds/armour breaks should increase his damage a fair bit but will play a much larger role later on. Should also give him decent synergy with the despair mastery
Panther Strike:
Intercepting the opponent with a basic attack grants Black Panther True Accuracy, allowing Black Panther to bypass evade, auto-block and miss for 8 seconds
Performing this attack places a vulnerability debuff on the opponent increasing critical damage rating by 1864 for the duration of the attack
Note: I believe skilled gameplay should always be rewarded. This isn’t going to make him an amazing evade/auto-block counter, but it’s there if you need it. We’ll let Killmonger keep the evade/auto-block counter crown. Miss counter is always useful while the vulnerability helps this attack pack a real punch, especially with fury or armour shattered up
Heavy Attacks:
Black Panther’s heavy attacks cannot be evaded
Note: Just in case your rubbish at intercepting and have no other evade countering options
Special Attack 1:
Refreshes all active bleeds/armour breaks on the opponent and pauses their duration for 4 seconds
Note: This special can be used to ramp up your bleeds or armour breaks in preparation for your special 2
Special Attack 2:
The first hit of this attack pauses the duration of all bleed and armour breaks on the opponent for the duration of the special attack
If the opponent is bleeding, the final hit of this attack converts all active bleed effects into a passive internal bleed, dealing 2301 damage for each bleed converted in this way. The duration of this internal bleed is increased by 2.5 seconds per bleed converted. While this internal bleed is active, Black Panther gains a passive Fury, increasing attack by 3,451. Max stack of Fury: 1
If the opponent is armour broken, the final hit of this attack converts all active armour breaks into a passive armour shattered, reducing armour by 400 for each armour break converted in this way. The duration of this armour shattered is increased by 2 seconds per armour break converted.
Armour Shattered reduces the ability accuracy of robots by 100% and reduces power rate by 50%
Note: This where Black Panther’s damage, and some utility, is coming from. Notice that it doesn’t say that he can’t stack more bleeds/armour breaks. This should give Black Panther the damage he deserves, as well as recognising his technological prowess against robots.
The Armour Shattered isn’t as powerful as Aarkus’s or Medusa’s, but it’s still damn powerful and should have more uptime than Aarkus’s. He won’t gain the fury from it either, so while there could a potential 7000 armour break reduction if you build up a further 10 armour breaks, this only gives him slightly more damage than Gwenpool with her armour break
One other thing to note is that all of these effects and his kinetic charge are passive. This is to make sure mystics aren’t as effective against him. Black Panther has resistance to mystical attacks in the comics so I wanted to incorporate that here without overblowing it.
The pause on the first hit stops your bleeds or armour breaks falling off during your special. Thanks Squirrel Girl for that inspiration.
Special Attack 3:
100% chance to paralyze for 3 seconds, reducing regeneration and power rate by 100%
Places a vulnerability debuff on the opponent for 15 seconds, increasing critical damage rating by 932
Note: I don’t expect this attack to be used in a standard rotation but it could be used as a panic button if everything else fails
Signature Ability: King Of The Dead
Once per fight, when Black Panther would be knocked out in a fight, he gains a passive indestructible for (2) to (5) seconds. While this indestructible is active, Black Panther’s suit stores the damage that would be inflicted to him and reflects it onto the opponent. The damage reflected in this way cannot exceed 10,000.
Note: Move over Hela, there’s a new Aspect of Chaos King in town. Ever hate when your about to kill an opponent and you get hit and die when they’re at 1 percent? Well not anymore. Not as long as Hela’s but has the damage reflect. I did consider making this like Luke Cage’s, but this felt more fitting for the King Of The Dead. Plus, no danger of mystics getting you here
Synergies:
First off, the one with Killmonger would have to be removed. That would completely break the character, and possibly the one with Sabretooth. I’ll create a new synergy with Killmonger here but I’ll leave the rest
Leaders Of Wakanda: Black Panther (Civil War), Killmonger, Black Panther
Black Panther (Civil War): SP1 grants 2 Counterpunch Charges
Killmonger: +30% attack while True Strike is active
Black Panther: If the opponent is immune to bleed, instead inflict an armour break, reducing armour by 300 for 12 seconds
My Queen: Black Panther (Civil War), Storm, Storm (Pyramid X)
Black Panther (Civil War): Heavy attacks inflict shock, dealing 100% of attack over 5 seconds
Storm: Special Attacks are unblockable and generate no power in the opponent
Storm (Pyramid X): Gain passive unblockable at 3 prowess instead of 6
Illuminati: Black Panther (Civil war), Iron Man, Mister Fantastic, Namor, Doctor Strange, Black Bolt
Black Panther (Civil war): The duration of stuns Black Panther inflicts cannot be reduced
Iron Man: Arc Overload also triggers at 50%
Mister Fantastic: Gain a passive unstoppable for 0.5 seconds while charging a heavy attack
Namor: Regeneration from special attacks increased to 2%
Doctor Strange: Activating SP3 triggers all blessings for 9 seconds
Black Bolt: Special Attacks now have a 100% chance to inflict stun and armour break
Get This Man A Shield: Black Panther (Civil War), Captain America (Infinity War), Captain America, Captain America (WWII)
Black Panther (Civil War): +10% chance to perfect block
Captain America (Infinity War): Well-Timed Blocks place a fatigue debuff on the opponent, reducing critical rating by 10% for 3 seconds
Captain America: Well-Timed Blocks grant a fury buff, increasing attack by 50% for 15 seconds
Captain America (WWII): All attacks gain +50% attack while the opponent is
stunned
White Wolf: Black Panther (Civil War), Winter Soldier
Black Panther (Civil War): Increase Critical resistance by 0.25% for each hit in the combo meter. Maximum: 100 hits
Winter Soldier: Each Special attack inflicts an armour break, reducing armour 8 for each hit in the combo meter. Maximum: 100 hits
Skill Domination: Black Panther (Civil War), Hawkeye, Black Panther
Skill Champions deal +15-25% bleed damage
Nemesis: Black Panther (Civil War), Winter Soldier, Killmonger
All champions gain +4-6% attack
Romance: Black Panther (Civil War), Storm, Storm (Pyramid X)
All Champions gain +3-5% power gain
And there we have it, my first rework. I wanted to bring him in at around the same power level as Blade is in our current meta, which if my values are alright, then hopefully this is. I don’t think he’s would topple Fury or Aegon to be the best skill, but Black Panther should be up there. Now obviously the movie version of this character doesn’t have all of these abilities, so maybe they would suit a new Black Panther better? I don’t know. But as I said before, any feedback on any area is welcomed with open arms. Thanks for reading ~ Rocky
Thanks @Meebleton for the peer review
Please watch JoJo
Also very good rework, speaking from a completely impartial standpoint. Hopefully the Devs take a look at this. If not I will eat their firstborn.
Ps. For legal reasons that's a joke, please don't remove my post mods
Assuming that the abilities trigger equally (as a baseline average), Old Man Logan heals 120% of his Health over 4 minutes. Joe Fixit heals 42% of his Health over 4 minutes (before his Signature Ability is accounted for, because it only triggers 25% of the time). Wolverine (X-23) heals 324% of her Health over 4 minutes. Wolverine heals 230.4% of his Health over 4 minutes (before his Signature Ability is accounted for). By comparison, your rework of Joe Fixit heals 18% of his Health over 4 minutes (because it only triggers 25% of the time). Yes, my version heals a lot more Health than the original Joe Fixit, but far less than even Old Man Logan. Thanks so much for the discussion! I think it's productive for the both of us.
Mr Fixit. Not at the top of anyone's 'must rank up' list, for many reasons. Despite that, he's a frequent rent-a-villain for Kabam in Event quests; so it's not surprising even they've recognised he needs to go on the buff list.
Joe's damage output is extremely poor, and given that's he's still actually the Hulk, it's surprisingly dependent on bleed effects.
His basic ability set (Suits) grants him some fairly unsubstantial abilities:
- Hearts gives a very slow, if reliable regen. It was about half the speed of Old Man Logan's (before he got buffed), so not exactly a source of enormous recovery (15% of his health, per minute). It's okay, but would be nice if it were better
- Diamonds gives a fairly modest Attack boost; but, like Green Hulk, it requires you to lose health to gain the benefits. This isn't a remotely useful ability for a skilled player, who can avoid getting hit.
- Clubs gives you loads of debuffs, half of which (Fatigue) achieve very little aside from triggering the opponent's Willpower. The weakness has it's uses, I suppose; but again, neither is really helpful for a skilled player as they're strictly defensive debuffs, and only benefit offensively if you're getting hit.
- Spades at least gives you a decent crit rate boost; although the effectiveness of this is limited by Diminishing Returns, and particularly by Joe's low Critical Damage Rating. Still there's no actual cap at present; and Joe has loads of hits on his SP1 and SP3, so this is probably his best current suit
As well as his weak skill set, Joe's base SP3 damage is incredibly feeble. Seriously: many champions have a more damaging SP1! It does cause a fairly decent bleed (if your opponent bleeds), but only very slightly more than an equal-rank Hawkeye does on his SP1.So Joe has weak abilities, poor damage, and isn't available as a 6*. Surely that demands a rework! Thus, here's my adjusted Joe Fixit, aiming to (a) keep him recognisably the same character; (b) make him at least a little useful to a questing team; but (c) without giving him access to glass-cannon levels of damage. Some modifications following feedback from @Bodhizen (thanks!).
Stats for a 4* 5/50
Health - 16,888
Attack - 1202
Passive - Gamma Resilience: Joe is immune to poison; and reduces the potency of Weakness, Exhaustion, and Fatigue debuffs by 90%.
Gambler's Ruin:
At the beginning of the fight, and whenever he lands a Heavy attack, Joe gains a Poker suit, and lets loose a different aspect of the gamma-powered gangster he is. The odds of each suit are equal, except when fighting Skill champions; when cunning Joe stacks the deck, reducing the chance of drawing Diamonds by half.
- Hearts: Joe digs down deep to activate his Gamma-powered regeneration; passively healing for 3546 health per minute. He still loves to inflict pain though; and surges of adrenaline boost his regeneration by 50% for 5 seconds whenever he inflicts a critical hit.
- Diamonds: Joe gets defensive, using careful jabs and blows to weaken his opponent. Each successful basic attack has a 17% chance (increased to 23% on a Critical hit) to inflict a Vulnerability or Enervate debuff for eight seconds.
- Clubs: Joe may not be as big as the Green Hulk, but he's still got plenty of Gamma-fuelled anger to punish his opponents. Every second that Clubs is active, his Attack rises by 8.4, to a maximum bonus of 840. Against XL opponents, Joe gains these benefits 30% faster.
- Spades: Joe focuses his rage to icy cold, gaining +32 critical rating per hit on his combo meter. Against XL opponents, Joe gains +44 critical rating instead. Maximum benefit at 60 hits.
I've switched Joe's benefits around to make Red suits essentially defensive and Black suits mostly offensive; which will tie into subsequent changes to his Special attacks. Hopefully the Enervate and Vulnerability effects will be a lot more useful than Fatigue/Weakness; but Joe knows to avoid using them against debuff-shrugging Skill champs. I also thought it might be interesting to give him a bit of a boost against the biggest opponents, as someone who can take them on at the same size- When attacking a Vulnerable opponent, increase Joe's Critical Damage Rating by 280 and decrease their Block Proficiency by 12.5% per stack*.
- When Attacking an enervated Opponent, reduce their Defensive power gain by 20% per stack* (*max stacks 4).
Signature - They call me Mister Fixit
Once Awakened, Joe Fixit gains additional benefits (below) depending on the suit he has activated.
Additionally, the first time he drops below 20% Health in a fight (or if he starts there) he has a 50% chance to activate each Inactive Suit for ten seconds, before dropping back to just one. Additional suits trigger simultaneously.
- Hearts - Joe's passive healing accelerates, boosting his health gain by 30%; which increases to a 45% boost when he drops below 20% health. His healing ability also now reduces the potency of all bleed debuffs by 45%.
- Diamonds - Joe's easy to underestimate as a dumb brute; but uses his sharp intellect to avoid triggering his opponent's defenses. Joe reduces his opponents defensive ability accuracy by 0.55% per hit of his combo meter. This ability is reduced by half when fighting Skill champions. Maximum benefit at a combo of 60.
- Clubs - Getting angrier faster than ever, Joe gains the benefits of Clubs 20% faster than usual. Additionally, whenever either he or his opponent activates a special attack, Joe has a 60% chance to trigger a Fury buff, granting +400 Attack for eight seconds. This buff does not stack.
- Spades - Each critical hit has a 60% chance to gain +600 Critical Damage Rating.
The nature of Joe's signature has changed; as it now provides benefits to enhance his existing poker suit, rather than gaining a second one. Each of these Awakened benefits is meant to build on his pre-existing Gambler's Ruin abilities, and should make fighting with Joe feel quite different in his different suits.Special attacks
Special-1: This machine-gun attack can inflict up to four stacks of bleed; 60% chance to inflict each, for 450 direct damage over six seconds.
Special-2: If Joe is utilising a black suit (Clubs or Spades), he has a 100% chance to inflict Stun for 2.5s. In a red suit, he has a 100% chance to inflict Armour Break (-500 for 8s).
Special-3: This brutal attack inflicts Bleed (2844 Damage over six seconds). There are additional effects dependent on which suit is active:
- Diamonds: Joe's battered opponent has an 80% chance to suffer a Power Leak Debuff (losing 40% of total Power over six seconds).
- Hearts: Joe's adrenaline surges to new levels, increasing his base healing rate by 100% for twelve seconds. Critical hits do not increase healing during this time, but instead pause the timer for two seconds.
- Clubs: Bleed potency increases by 40%.
- Spades: 80% chance to inflict Concussion (-70% Ability Accuracy for twelve seconds).
I've slightly reduced Joe's stacks of bleeds on SP1, and the intensity on his SP3 bleed; so he gets less benefit from Deep Wounds. As payoff, I'd expect a modest boost to his base SP3 damage.Synergies
Abomination/Rhino - Forgotten Villains (Unique Synergy, does not stack):
- Joe becomes Unstoppable on Dash attacks
- Rhino - when Unstoppable, gain +250 Critical Rating, and Critical hits have a 70% chance to inflict Armour Break (-400/5s)
- Abomination - Special Attacks have a 75% chance to inflict Poison (Intensity as if Abomination were bleeding) if the opponent has three or fewer poison stacks
Hulk - Because I'm better than you! (Unique Synergy, does not stack):- Hulk's Fury effects gain +33% Potency
- Joe gains +120 to his Critical Rating and Critical Damage Rating
Other synergies: unchanged.----------------------------
Abilities he has stay the same. Chance to gain armor when attacking increases to 15%. Sig increases armor duration by a flat 4 seconds. For every passive armor up plus 30% attack and special damage. Sp1 stun for 2.2 seconds. Gain 4 armor buffs. Sp2 is unblockable. Drain 60% of max power. Sp3 power drains 85% of max power. If drained all the way power lock for 10 seconds.
BASE STATISTICS:
Hit Points: 16,876
Attack: 1171
Crit Rate: 326
Crit Damage: 500
Armor: 353
Block Proficiency: 2546
Energy Resistance: 0
Physical Resistance: 0
Crit Resistance: 0
Signature Ability - Double Down:
Mr. Fixit knows how to play the tables and swing the odds in his favor.
Developer's Note: Not much has changed about Joe Fixit’s Signature Ability, except that he gets the benefits of all of the poker suits when he’s almost down for the count. This gives him one last chance to turn the tables and crush his opponent.
ABILITIES:
Blackjack Table (Passive): Joe Fixit has two card-counters active at the start of the fight, both showing zero.
- HIT!: This counter tracks how many hits on Joe Fixit’s Combo Meter, advancing by one for each hit on the Combo meter up to 10. At 11 hits, and each successive hit, it will advance in the following order: Jack, Queen, King, and Ace. Upon the 14th hit, the counter will hold on Ace for 12.0 seconds, at which time, the counter will reset back to 2 and advance again in similar fashion.
- HIT ME!: This counter tracks how many times Joe Fixit has been successfully hit during the fight, advancing by one for each hit on the Combo meter up to 10. At 11 hits, and each successive hit, it will advance in the following order: Jack, Queen, King, and Ace. Upon the 14th hit, the counter will hold on Ace for 12.0 seconds, at which time, the counter will reset back to 2 and advance again in similar fashion.
- For each number showing on the HIT! Counter, Joe Fixit’s Block Penetration is increased by +50. While a Jack is showing, Joe’s next hit is Unblockable. While a Queen is showing, Joe’s next successful hit is a guaranteed Critical Hit. While a King is showing, Joe’s next hit inflicts a Heal Block debuff that lasts for 8.0 seconds. While an Ace is showing, Joe Fixit gains a Passive True Strike Buff.
- For each number showing on the HIT ME! Counter, Joe Fixit gains +35.3 Physical Resistance. While a Jack is showing, Joe’s Auto-Blocks the next hit, which does not trigger Parry. While a Queen is showing, a successful hit on Joe inflicts a Power Lock Debuff on his opponent that lasts for 4.0 seconds. While a King is showing, a successful hit on Joe inflicts a Stagger Debuff on his opponent that lasts for 6.5 seconds. While an Ace is showing, Joe has a 100% chance to Purify any Debuff on him.
- Blackjack!: If a 10, Jack, Queen, or King is showing on either counter, and an Ace is showing on the other, Joe Fixit may dodge back and hold Block for 1.5 seconds to activate Blackjack! for 12.0 seconds. Both card counters reset to 0. While under the effect of Blackjack!, Joe Fixit’s Special Attacks are Unblockable, and all Basic Attacks have a 100% chance to glance. Glancing Hits cannot be Critical, deal 50% reduced damage, and suffer -100% Offensive Ability Accuracy.
Gambler’s Ruin (Passive): At the beginning of the fight, and whenever he lands a Heavy Attack, Joe gains a random poker suit and lets loose with different aspects of the gamma irradiated gangster he is.Developer's Note: Joe Fixit needed some additional features to round him out as a Champion, and the use of the card suits naturally came to a game of Blackjack. While this means that some of his abilities are in flux, as a new “hand” gets dealt every now and again, Joe Fixit can become a pretty monstrous opponent when the cards finally come up as Blackjack!
- Clubs: Joe isn’t some dumb brute, and he’s smart enough to take advantage of anyone who thinks he is, granting 40.82 Critical Rating for each hit of his combo meter. Additionally, his opponent’s Block Proficiency is reduced by 10%. While Blackjack! is active, Joe Fixit gains a Passive Combo Shield.
- Diamonds: He may not be as big as the Hulk, but you still won’t like him when he’s angry. Joe gains +10 Attack Rating every time that he (or his opponent) lands a hit, to a maximum of +1000 Attack Rating. Every time Joe Fixit's opponent activates a Special Attack, Joe Fixit becomes enraged and gains an additional +878.25 Attack Rating for 4.0 seconds. While Blackjack! is active, Joe Fixit gains a Passive Fury Buff, increasing his Attack Rating by 15%.
- Hearts: Joe triggers his accelerated healing ability, granting 118.2 health recovery every second. While Blackjack! is active, Joe Fixit cannot be Heal Blocked.
- Spades: Mr. Fixit is morally ambiguous at best and knows how to make his punches count. Each attack has a 15% chance to give the opponent a Concussion, reducing their Ability Accuracy by 90% for 5.0 seconds. While Blackjack! is active, opponents with a Concussion gain 10% less Power from all sources.
Gamma-Irradiated Metabolism (Passive): Joe Fixit does not take damage from Poison effects. Whenever Joe Fixit has a Poison effect active on him, he gains a Passive Cruelty buff for the duration of the Poison, increasing his Critical Damage rating by 583.Developer's Note: The original Gambler’s Ruin ability was a really neat idea, but it wasn’t very strong, and it was what Joe Fixit was essentially built around. So, it’s been beefed up a bit to provide a bit more “oomph” to the ability set that Joe Fixit can call upon. This ability is further enhanced when Joe Fixit activates Blackjack!
Developer's Note: The way this ability has been worded still grants Joe Fixit “Poison immunity”, but instead of Poison failing to trigger, Joe can gain health by having an active Poison effect upon him if he has the Willpower Mastery, and he also gains a Cruelty buff as a retaliation to some fool’s attempt to poison him!
SPECIAL ATTACKS:
Special 1 - Place Your Bets – First Mr. Fixit introduces you to his forehead, then he introduces you to one of his Chicago Typewriters. What a nice fellow.
- 60% chance per hit to inflict Bleed, dealing 585.5 Direct Damage over 4.0 seconds.
Special 2 - Shorten the Odds – With a stomp of his foot and a slap of his hands, Mr. Fixit sends two boulders slamming into his opponent’s head at high speed.Developer's Note: The chance to trigger Bleed has been changed to it triggering per hit (there are 5 hits with the Tommy Gun), and the amount that each Bleed inflicts has been increased! Instead of dealing 421.26 total Bleed damage, it has been increased to a potential 2927.5. Huge difference!
- 100% chance to Stun for 3.4 seconds.
- If Joe Fixit fails to land a hit with this attack, he becomes Unstoppable for 1.2 seconds.
Special 3 - The House Always Wins – Joe Fixit lets loose a massive barrage from his twin Tommy Guns, then beats his opponent to a messy pulp with them. Never bet against the house.Developer's Note: The Bleed damage hasn’t changed… Except for when Blackjack! is active. Blackjack! will give you a much needed boost to this attack!
SYNERGIES:
PREVIOUS REVISIONS (minus Champions that Kabam has already revised):
As with all of my Champion reworks, I invite constructive feedback. This rebuild is an attempt to boost Joe Fixit’s value as an attacker. He was pretty weak before, but I think that with this kit, he could really see some increased action outside the Arena! A huge shout out to @Magrailothos for the feedback in improving this Champion's kit!
Thanks, and best wishes!
I present to you a first draft rework of Magneto (Marvel NOW!)! (Based upon a Rank 5/50 4-Star Champion; Sig Level 99)
BASE STATISTICS:
Hit Points: 15,660
Attack: 1148
Crit Rate: 598
Crit Damage: 703
Armor: 273
Block Proficiency: 3556
Energy Resistance: 0
Physical Resistance: 0
Crit Resistance: 0
Signature Ability - Master of Magnetism:
Magneto's X-gene plays an important role in mediating tactile perception to any planet's electromagnetic field.
ABILITIES:
Culmination (Passive): While defending the final node in a Quest, Alliance Quest, or Alliance War, Magneto automatically generates 1 Magnetic Charge every 15.0 seconds. While he is at or above 10 Magnetic Charges, he gains +20% Attack Rating and +20% Power Gain Rate. This Ability cannot be affected by Ability Accuracy reduction.
Geomagnetic Link (Passive): Magneto gains 1 Magnetic Charge each time he successfully lands a Heavy Attack. He also gains 3 Magnetic Charges every time he successfully lands a Special Attack.
Magnetic Attacks (Passive): Magneto’s attacks deal Energy Damage instead of Physical Damage.
Metal Manipulation (Passive): Enemies reliant on metal (including those that wield metal swords or staves) suffer 60% reduced Ability Accuracy throughout the entire fight.
Developer's Note: Being the Master of Magnetism, it’s silly that Magneto cannot keep up his Ability Accuracy reduction throughout the entire fight, and that there’s no clear indication on how frequently Magneto’s Magnetism ability reactivates. Furthermore, there are several Champions that use metal weapons (but are not tagged Metal Champions) like Blade, Drax, or Psylocke; this Ability will target those Champions, regardless of whether they have the Metal tag or not.
Special Attacks: Magneto can Dash Back and hold Block for 1.2 seconds to consume one Magnetic Charge. Magnetic charges consumed in this way activate a secondary ability on the next Special Attack. Magneto cannot consume another Magnetic Charge in this fashion until he has activated a Special Attack.
Telepathic Resistance (Passive): Magneto has trained himself extensively for fighting telepaths, and is resistant to telepathic attack. This is augmented with the aid of his helmet. Magneto is immune to Reversed Controls. Furthermore, he gains a 5% chance to Evade Telepathic Attacks, such as Emma Frost’s Special Attacks, Psylocke’s Special Attacks, and any hits from Psylocke’s Psychic Knife.
SPECIAL ATTACKS:
Developer's Note: Special Attack animations have been changed to create a visual distinction between Magneto and Magneto (Marvel NOW!).
Special 1 - Electromagnetic Rays – Magneto fires off three rapid pulses of electromagnetic energy at his opponent, blasting through their defenses!
- 100% chance per successful hit to inflict an Armor Break Debuff, each one removing 1 Armor Up Buff and reducing Armor Rating by 803.6 for 8.0 seconds.
- This attack Power Drains 20% of the Opponent’s current Power, even if the attack doesn’t make contact with the Opponent. Against Robot Champions, this attack Power Burns instead, dealing damage proportionate to the amount lost.
- When Magnetically Charged: This attack gains +574 Attack Rating and +492.1 Critical Rating.
Special 2 - Shrapnel Cyclone – Sharp fragments are pulled from the surrounding environment and formed into a vortex around Magneto’s opponent, shredding them.- 95% chance to inflict Bleed, dealing 2410.8 Direct Damage over 10.0 seconds.
- 100% chance to inflict Heal Block, preventing the target from recovering Health for 10.0 seconds.
- When Magnetically Charged: This attack is Unblockable.
Special 3 - Iron Manipulation – Tearing metal beams from the environment, Magneto pins his opponent to the opposing wall of the Arena. He then draws all of the iron out of their body and into the palm of his hand, shooting the iron ball he just formed back at his opponent like a bullet straight to the chest!SYNERGIES:
PREVIOUS REVISIONS (minus Champions that Kabam has already revised):
As with all of my Champion reworks, I invite constructive feedback! Please feel free to tag me in any response that you give with constructive feedback.
This rebuild makes some pretty significant tweaks to Magneto (Marvel NOW!) to make him feel different in how he plays compared to the original Magneto. The Bleeds that used to be a part of his base kit on Special Attacks are now accomplished via Synergy. He also incorporates more of the canonical Magneto’s powers into his kit. The Magnetic Charges are a mechanic that I used for an old rework of Magneto that I did in 2018 (and I feel that I could do a better job today), but have a very different feel in their usage. In the base kit, they can be used to give Magneto an extra boost on Special Attacks, and once the new Signature Ability is activated, they can grant him some pretty significant defensive capabilities as well, including a counter to Quake (since Magneto can canonically use a planet’s magnetic field to create or calm earthquakes)! However, it also makes Magneto a bit more vulnerable to Quake as well, as she can increase the Aftershock scale to burn through Magneto's Magnetic Counters.
He also gains a mostly unused mechanic in Culmination that makes him more attractive as a boss in Alliance War, or more dangerous as an end-boss in any Quest (The Champion also has special traits if he’s an end-boss). I felt that it was important to make Magneto more of a badass if you have to fight your way to get to him. I’d thought about possibly increasing his value as a last-node defender if you had to fight through several other Mutants to get to him, but I thought that might have been overkill on this build, particularly with all the Mutant-centric Synergies he has.
If I get around to a new rework on the classic Magneto, I think I would do some other things differently, but I definitely wanted to change around the Special Attacks on this build so that he wasn’t just a reskin of the original Magneto. There are also some clarifications in this build, including his hits being Energy-based and his immunity to Reversed Controls. There’s an added bonus versus Telepaths in his kit based upon his canonical training against Telepaths like Professor X and Jean Grey. This will become more valuable as more Telepaths are added to the game (as I assume will eventually happen).
As always, I hope that you enjoy this rebuild, and that Kabam will eventually give these rebuilds a look in the hopes that they may spark some interest in revisiting other older Champions.
Lastly, this process isn't possible without additional eyes and thoughts from the community. Please feel free to review and suggest improvements! I am specifically inviting feedback from contributors like @Magrailothos, @Bajan_Samurai, @DrZola, @Whododo872, and @HeroBoltsy, though I welcome feedback from all.
Thanks, and best wishes!
SENTRY
3rd revision
BASE STATS AND ABILITIES
Stats based on 4 Star, Rank 5, Level 50, Signature Level 99HP: 15660
Attack: 1324
Critical Rate: 440
Critical Damage: 703
Armor: 273
Block Proficiency: 3556
Energy Resistance: 500
Physical Resistance: 223
Critical Resistance: 0
Base Abilities: Incinerate, Dark Sting, Fury, Regeneration
Passive:
• With the power of a million exploding suns, Sentry takes no damage from Coldsnap, Frostbite, and Incinerate effects. Also, each Incinerate grants Sentry +5% increased Attack Rating.
Passive: Combo Completion
• When health is below 70% after completing a 40-hit Combo, Sentry regenerates 1566 Health over 3 seconds
Passive: Reality Warp
• At the start of a fight and after every 40 Hits in a Combo, Sentry gains a Reality Warp. Reality Warps stack up to 5 max. Reality Warps are used as a multiplier for his abilities.
Passive: State of Mind
• Sentry starts the fight in Unyielding Fortitude and changes to the next State for every 10 Hits in a Combo. When Sentry loses his Combo, he reverts to Unyielding Fortitude.
• Unyielding Fortitude: 100% chance on entering this State, Sentry cannot lose his Combo. Remains until Sentry changes States. In addition, each hit has 30% chance to shrug-off a Debuff. Each Reality Warp increases the chance by 10%
• Overpowering Light: 100% chance on entering this State, Sentry’s Special 1 Attack Damage is increased by 926.8 per Reality Warp and is Unblockable. In addition, each beam hit burns 13% of the target's max Power and inflicts Direct Damage proportionate to the amount lost. Remains until Sentry changes States.
• Steadfast Approach: 100% chance on entering this State, Sentry’s Heavy Attack Damage is increased by 926.8 per Reality Warp. In addition, he gains 100% chance to Perfect Block. Remains until Sentry changes States.
• Absolute Strength: 100% chance on entering this State, Sentry’s Special 2 Attack Damage is increased by 926.8 per Reality Warp and is Unblockable. In addition, he gains 100% chance to inflict a Vulnerability Debuff based on the number of Reality Warps. When attacking a Vulnerable opponent, increase Critical Damage Rating by 266.45 and decrease their Block Proficiency by 50%. Vulnerability Debuffs are purified when entering a new State of Mind. After Absolute Strength, Sentry restarts State of Mind, entering Unyielding Fortitude.
Heavy Attacks:
• 70% chance to Armor Break, removing an enemy Armor Up per hit and applying 666.67 Armor Rating reduction for 10 seconds. This effect gains +6% Ability Accuracy for each Reality Warp.
Special Attacks:
Special 1: Light Blast – Sentry punches his opponent before unleashing a Light-based Energy blast.
• Each beam hit has a 100% chance to inflict an Incinerate when in a State of Mind other than Overpowering Light, each dealing 529.6 Energy Damage over 5 seconds. This effect also removes Perfect Block Chance and reduces Block Proficiency by 50% while it's active.
Special 2: Soaring Strike – Sentry leads with an uppercut then loops around for a flying double punch.
• Gains a Fury Passive for each Reality Warp increasing Attack Rating by 331 for 20 seconds.
Special 3: Channel the Void – Sentry transforms into the Void, creating a black hole that consumes the opponent.
• Inflicts 1 Dark Sting, lasting for 15 seconds. An opponent with Dark Sting suffers 1059.2 damage when activating a Special Attack. After lasting its full duration, stuns the opponent for 2 seconds. Each Reality Warp increases duration by 0.2 seconds.
Signature Ability: Molecular Reformation – Reality Warps persist from fight to fight and Sentry has a chance to gain Indestructible when he loses a Combo.
• When Sentry loses his Combo, he has a 100% chance to become Indestructible for 0.5 seconds per Reality Warp.
• Reality Warps persist with Sentry from the previous fight.