Rank up 5 star R4 Hyperion or wait...?

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• Disgruntled_User_123 Member Posts: 1,094 ★★★

  April 2020

  Rank up 5 star R4 HYPERION + awakening

  It really depends on what content you are wanting to complete. I can tell you that waiting for champs may take months or even years (even Seatin waited months for Aegon despite his abundant crystal openings).
  
  I’m a big believer in the principle that an elite rank 5 champ is a game changer. You have that with Hyperion. No one will fault you if you wait but... if a Rank 5 Hyperion can take you to the next level of progression in your gameplay, rank him up.
  
  My first 5 Star to Rank 5 was Aegon. I was holding out for Blade because I naively thought Blade was the better champion due to his regeneration. I was also not comfortable holding a long combo and I was scared I was too unskilled to play Aegon. However, I ended up taking Aegon to Rank 5 and I haven’t once regretted it. He has cleared so much content for me (got me the Cavalier title basically singlehandedly) and his combo dynamic has made me a much more skilled player. I still don’t have Blade almost 7 months later but I have completed and explored so much content with Aegon (which has enabled me to take other champions to Rank 5). Hyperion is an awesome champion, in my opinion and experience, use what you have to further your progression in the game.

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• RouROu Member Posts: 9 ★

  April 2020

  Disgruntled_User_123 said:

  It really depends on what content you are wanting to complete. I can tell you that waiting for champs may take months or even years (even Seatin waited months for Aegon despite his abundant crystal openings).
  
  I’m a big believer in the principle that an elite rank 5 champ is a game changer. You have that with Hyperion. No one will fault you if you wait but... if a Rank 5 Hyperion can take you to the next level of progression in your gameplay, rank him up.
  
  My first 5 Star to Rank 5 was Aegon. I was holding out for Blade because I naively thought Blade was the better champion due to his regeneration. I was also not comfortable holding a long combo and I was scared I was too unskilled to play Aegon. However, I ended up taking Aegon to Rank 5 and I haven’t once regretted it. He has cleared so much content for me (got me the Cavalier title basically singlehandedly) and his combo dynamic has made me a much more skilled player. I still don’t have Blade almost 7 months later but I have completed and explored so much content with Aegon (which has enabled me to take other champions to Rank 5). Hyperion is an awesome champion, in my opinion and experience, use what you have to further your progression in the game.

  Yea thats the main thing, "WAITING" i think i've been trying to get corvus for so long now i almost want to give up. And just recently i pulled a 5 star domino and shes sitting at 5R3. So talking to people here and there telling me to wait for corvus, and some telling me to rank up domino instead first, so im pretty much stuck with so many ideas in my head. HOwever Thanks for your detailed input

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• Hammerbro_64 Member Posts: 7,463 ★★★★★

  April 2020

  Rank up 5 star R4 HYPERION + awakening

  Hyperion is so worth it I cant even describe how much better he is with his sig and only 20 levels (since he doesn’t require high sig since it scales so poorly-from 65-75% increased buff duration; sig20 is 70%)
  
  On top of his abilities which I am sure you are already aware of, including the fact that his dupe makes his furies last long enough to not play ridiculously aggressive to get any decent damage off, he is incredibly versatile due to his animations and power gain. For instance, in fights like Electro, you can just avoid getting hit until power gain takes you to L1, then just intercept his dash with that and only the first hit will do any sort of damage to you. It will also do DoT in the form of incinerate, which is valuable in being a DoT that’s not many are immune to.
  
  After awakening him, he gains access to his best damage cycle if you will. On shorter fights, go with parry medium heavy parry medium heavy intercept five hit combo L2, and if it stuns and they don’t have a ton of power, heavy 5hit L2 again, and if it stuns and they have a lot of power, just do two heavies to get more fury.
  
  If it’s a longer fight, build to L3 first so you get a big damage boost in the cosmic charges, plus infinite power gain, allowing you to chain more L2s.
  
  One final thing, a big part of playing him well is pacing your combos, so if you want to say, throw a special two and you are already in a combo, but you doubt you will reach it, slow down your combo and power gain will kick in and potentially make up the difference.
  
  If you didn’t feel like reading all that, definitely go ahead and use it on Hype. He is definitely worth it and is my favorite currently.

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• RouROu Member Posts: 9 ★

  April 2020

  Hammerbro_64 said:

  Hyperion is so worth it I cant even describe how much better he is with his sig and only 20 levels (since he doesn’t require high sig since it scales so poorly-from 65-75% increased buff duration; sig20 is 70%)
  
  On top of his abilities which I am sure you are already aware of, including the fact that his dupe makes his furies last long enough to not play ridiculously aggressive to get any decent damage off, he is incredibly versatile due to his animations and power gain. For instance, in fights like Electro, you can just avoid getting hit until power gain takes you to L1, then just intercept his dash with that and only the first hit will do any sort of damage to you. It will also do DoT in the form of incinerate, which is valuable in being a DoT that’s not many are immune to.
  
  After awakening him, he gains access to his best damage cycle if you will. On shorter fights, go with parry medium heavy parry medium heavy intercept five hit combo L2, and if it stuns and they don’t have a ton of power, heavy 5hit L2 again, and if it stuns and they have a lot of power, just do two heavies to get more fury.
  
  If it’s a longer fight, build to L3 first so you get a big damage boost in the cosmic charges, plus infinite power gain, allowing you to chain more L2s.
  
  One final thing, a big part of playing him well is pacing your combos, so if you want to say, throw a special two and you are already in a combo, but you doubt you will reach it, slow down your combo and power gain will kick in and potentially make up the difference.
  
  If you didn’t feel like reading all that, definitely go ahead and use it on Hype. He is definitely worth it and is my favorite currently.

  wow thanks! appreciate all the details! yea im actually just started learning how to play hyperion ....

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