My “worries” about the Overseer

Now I’m going to start off by saying I don’t think the Overseer is a dud or a great champ, I can’t make that judgment yet. However this thread is here to outline my major worries about the champion.

First off the bat he looks like a defensive champ. Whilst I have nothing against defensive champions and know that defenders are still good in their own ways (look at Thing, i love him yet he is primarily a defensive champion). This is a worry to me as it’s seems he might become an another annoying defender that kabam seem to be adding lots of recently (Apoc, Dragon Man, Spider Ham etc) and will just make the AW situation that little bit harder, something lots of players DONT want right now. This isn’t to say he has no offensive abilities, he has lots, it’s just that nobody really wants more annoying defenders do they?

Secondly, sort of a tie in between the previous point and the next one, he has tons of different abilities which seem to work well with lots of newer nodes. Hard knock life (and all the other disorient-based nodes) pair well with his personal disorient abilities. I’m not saying don’t make disorient champions, I think the mechanic is cool and new stuff is always great, but he has other abilities that seem to become more annoying as you look into which champions/nodes have recently been circulating. Another example is his physical burst damage. Whilst there have been lots of champions and nodes over the past year or so which have energy resistance factored in one way or another (Sorcerer, Guardian, nodes like the one on 7.1 gwenperion I can’t remember it’s exact name) there are less interactions to reduce physical damage taken. I think this is both good and bad. It could be a nice nod to how the Maestro “oversees” the contest and thus tailors his traits in a way to counter that.

Finally, my main worry about the champion, is his seemingly random utilities. His abilities don’t seem to have a strict structure, he has 2 modes which only really interact within themselves and don’t seem to change his other abilities in the slightest. Additionally his little pieces of utility just feel as if they were chosen out of a hat. He has auto block, nullify immunity, taunt, special concussion, regen, fury, physical damage and more, yet it all seems slightly random and unrelated to one another. The taunt is special in a way, the overseer wants his opponent gaining power so I can see why they introduced this, however it also begs the question, why not have flat out power control like Doom? Why give the taunt a cool down? Why not have a she-hulk like ability where the furies covert to special throwing chance? They had many options but they seemed to take the one that made the least sense (also the one that seems the laziest). Same with the special concussion. Why special attack exclusive? Why not let it synergise with the disorient to get a full AAR? In its current state it hardly works with the disorient at all which kind of annoys me.

Overall it seemed like the ideas were there but there was just so much more they could do for the champion to make him seem like less of a “this champion will be an annoying defender so we can punish war players further” rather than a “this champion has lots of utility which when they operate together, creates a fun and interactive offensive champ”. It would only be tiny changes needed, just worries me about the future of champion development is all.