Review Archangel
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I don’t run suicides so here are mine.
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I strongly disagree, Archangels used very frequently in act 6 exploration for his AAR/heal block. Don’t overlook the number of champs that arent immune , theyre will be far more uses of AA than there will be for Namor whose more niche
I struggled getting through (Canadian Difficulty) Diss track/Buffet Longshot with my 5/65 champs (haven't gone for debuff-heavy options, I guess).
Took Archangel (4*, 5/50): wrecked him, and Mojo, too. Would love to have him as a 5*/6*.
Currently trying to 100% 5.2.6..destroying everything on the path to the collector.. Crazy helpful as everyone stays topped up and helps save resources
Also heard he's great for some nodes in act 6
On my main 5/65 AA did a load of work all the way through act 6.
He’s one of my most used champs, I have periods where I focus on others but always come back to him, he punches well, well above his rank. Frequent boss killer in EQ.
That trend to underrate Domino is literally entertaining 🤣
Now she is not even a top5 Mutant 🤯
If they are not immune to bleed or poison, then parry- heavy - watch them die while you smile gleefully. As you get used to using him, it becomes easier to punish heavies with your own to save block damage/against stun immune.
If poison immune he can still put in work, just takes longer. He can't apply neuros to poison immune champs.
If bleed immune use someone else. He can only apply poisons to bleed immune via sp3 but if you're willing for a looooong slow fight, why not.
If facing someone who can purify posions eg Red Hulk you can apply neuro via sp3.
If they're double immune then really really don't use him it's gonna be a boring boring long fight with a bunch of grey immunes popping up every half second.
The damage from neuros is crazy, he's great for 5.3 with the attack reduction due to his damage output, the fights don't seem as long, but thats not all it can do:
With enough neuros depending on sig level he can shut down so much at 100% AAR both defensive and offensive abilities and even some nodes like no retreat, masochism, caltrops, spite, unblockable finale, biohazard. I'm sure there are more but I don't know all he can shut down.
Magik's limbo doesn't proc, Voids debuffs can fail, Hela's indestructible, DP's power gain, Modok's autoblock, Mojo's strange Mojo stuff, spiderverse evades - if buffet is there, Venom isn't reliable, AA is. I've recently just learnt he can shut off the debuff transfer from Mr Sinister's sp1.
He is good for lifecycle too, the bleed and poison are DOT but neuros are passive and still do damage. When at low health, parry, heavy to knockdown then the neuros kill them at 1% health.
Bypass Safeguard with DOT, he's good for Diss Track but careful not to turn all your debuffs into passive neuros. Also great for bleed, posion vulnerability since you'll be applying a lot of those.
Duped sig 1 = shuts down regen with 1 neuro. Even undupe, keep up posion and they reduce healing by 30%. With despair mastery the amount of debuffs he applies should shut off regen anyway.
Neuros expiry can give you an opening to push them to another special if thats easiet to evade or transfer bane as they stun on expiry but sometimes I've been trying to bait sp and they get stunned and bane is about to be transferred so don't push them to nearly an sp3 and bait.
With some practise you can use him against Thing to control rock stacks, but be prepared for a long fight, and I wouldn't recommend it but it can be done.
His heavy timed right can be used against Mordos astral evade even though mordo is immune to AAR (so is AA, parry Black Widow all you want).
He's a mutant champ and can place bleeds on Elsa Bloodstone, she's a piece of cake with him.
Be careful of champs/nodes that are immune to AAR. While you can neuro another AA to death you can't shut down his nodes etc. While usually that isn't much of a problem, but if you have an AA on biohazard, and you try and use your own, you'll die.
He also doesn't rely on synergies so only needs one spot on the team. He can work with or without suicides, while he has no immunity himself, except to AAR, he doesn't rely on his specials to access his damage and utility. Often he might not be the best choice for the boss but he sure can clear the path leaving you with 4 other close to full health champs for your boss kill.
He was my first 5/65 sig 110 before Domino, Cap IW, Sunspot and I absolutely love him, but like most champs he has his weaknesses. There's probably a lot more that I've missed but hope it helps.
Heavy spam, he wrecked most of Variant 2 for me. In particular, the poison and bleed vulnerable paths. Took care of a lot of the YJ bosses including the final with encroaching stun. The stun as neuros expire also give you windows to push YJ to sp2, which I find much easier to evade.
He is so good even with a weakness debuff in V3 he has his uses.