Predictions on Hood Rebuff

After the release of KG and VP reworks, both of which look solid, is there reason to hope the Hood rebuff finally gets it right?

Does he get the sweet blend of damage and utility Hood owners hoped he would have?

Honestly, even though I’m hoping for a solid buff, I’d be disappointed if he were suddenly one of the best in game. As a character, he’s not that central to the Marvel Universe—but this isn’t the MU, so anything goes.

I suppose it’s all over but the reveal in about 6 hours.

Dr. Zola

Comments

SpideyFunko

this is the value buff, right? So I’m not expecting too much from it

The_Sentry06

Hopefully it's better than Nova's, Ronin's and Ebony Maw's buff.

IronGladiator22

Probably just a numbers buff. I was one of the few people who really enjoyed his old buff bullet mechanics, but they are probably not coming back. Hopefully they can try to do that for another character

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ChaosMax1012

Absolutely loved it. Shame, was really fun to play but players judged him too early.

The_Sentry06

Venompool got the overhaul right?
and King Groot got what seems like a moderate update but it can be the case of a tune-up.
So, Hood gets a tune-up or moderate update.

SpideyFunko

the problem was it wasn’t hood. He already had perfectly good mechanics in place and then they scrapped them all for a shiny new bullets mechanic. And of course the heal was “bugged”.

I’m very glad they reversed it and hope it never happens again

The_Sentry06

The bullets mechanic was also bugged. People kept testing him in the first fight of Rol or Lol and were like "Wow, amazing damage" without realising that he was able to get more bullets than intended or that he would be practically useless in the next fights unless there was a buff heavy matchup.

ChaosMax1012

Never had the chance to rank him up and see what content he could do. Just wish i had more time to play around with him post buff. Got some crazy numbers at r1

ItsDamien

As long as there is no persistent charge bullet mechanic, his fate seal stays (I'm certain that will happen), and his miss mechanic is in a good place, that's the minimum I can ask for.

So essentially... just buff his damage. That's all.

BitterSteel

You're one hell of a broken record about this aren't you lol.

-Firstly, the kit was bugged and he was way more powerful than he was intended to be, he would have been a lot worse when he was fixed

-Secondly, it's absolutely, totally and utterly not about the kit he was given. The uproar was nerfing one part of a champion, a reason people ranked him up, and removing it. Thereby making a champion who may have been specifically ranked up for that fate seal, useless in that regard.

-Thirdly, allowing that sort of precedent just because he was good, means that should kabam decide to do it again and miss the mark, you've taken a champions utility away and given them some damage but nowhere near enough to offset the loss of utility. Think if Gladiator Hulk lost his face me ability and was given a 30% fury, who cares? It's not enough to use him.

-Lastly, players did not "judge too early", they saw a great piece of utility removed in favour of damage (which is not better than utility in end game content), and it was incredibly obvious that regardless of the damage, it is not a good thing to have where you could rank up a champion and have their utility taken away. I have a R3 Psylocke who i love using for her power control, if she got an update where Kabam said ok we've doubled her burst damage but we thought that was too powerful so we took away her enervate, I would be pretty angry. I didn't rank her up to do burst damage, I ranked her for power control. This sort of thing says to players, don't rank anyone but the best champs in the game or your less good champs may be upgraded and changed so they're no longer useful for what you ranked them up for. Don't rank Psylocke for power control, rank Doom, he won't be buffed.

Raichu626

There is likely no value buff this month. The current buff schedule doesn't differentiate between value only and moderate buffs, no-one ever said there had to be a value-only buff each month.

DrZola

It would be interesting to see whether they can blend the buffed Hood (with some reduction in the ridiculous damage) with the old utility beast Hood. I got the impression that’s the approach they wanted to try, but perhaps they gave up.

Dr. Zola

ItsDamien

Most people loved the the bugged version of Hood. It seems all those people have forgotten the uproar they caused when the regen was fixed. They didn't want the intended version of Hood, they wanted the bugged version and there was no way in hell that was going to stay.

That Hood was not good for anyone, and not good for the game.

ŁŤÇ

And Quake is? Or Ghost? Magneto may be the only elite champ that is relevant from a Comics standpoint.

Hera1d_of_Ga1actus

Lol if he was such a good champ then why was nobody using him. His buff was great but everyone decided, before the buff even came out, that it was too much of a big change for a champ that I doubt a majority of people even use

ItsDamien

The reason most people didn't use him was because his damage is lacking. Not because he didn't have good utility. Same reason most people won't use Dormammu, his utility is great, his damage is lacking.

DrZola

Fair points, and I probably wouldn’t have as many issues with obscure characters being great if the game ensured champs like Hulk, Iron Man, Doctor Strange were highly useful and desirable champs.

But I do have an awakened 6* Hood, so I’m not without skin in the game. If he falls into the “useful but not amazing” tier I can live with it.

Dr. Zola

DrZola

So I’m going to go out on a limb here and say Hood will be amazing post-buff.

How so? Return of the Hex ability, 100% miss when invisible, some version of the bullets without the persistent charges, reliable stagger, buffed attack and perhaps a new synergy.

And he rides in on a real rainbow unicorn.

Dr. Zola

TheLegend27

Botched first attempt and then many months later we finally get the buff? Not to mention this second time around for his buff is taking up yet another one of the 3 spots for this month. It'll be a bit disappointing if his buff is just a numbers update after all this waiting.

DrZola

100% agree. Which is why I have hope it will be terrific.

Hope that’s likely to be dashed in less than an hour.

Dr. Zola

ItsDamien

I wonder if we'll get his spotlight today or whether they'll hold out due to fear.

Diplodocus

I am not sure but it looks like the tendency of kabam is to make characters which are at the center of the marvel universe to be dud and popularize the unknown characters. I know these characters were introduced early in the game so they are not so good but even when the rework happens these characters rarely get a chance. In the start I didn't like this policy but overtime I think it is a better approach as we are able to know more new characters and attach our feelings with them.

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No_oneuk

If they've learned their lesson from last time the ONLY thing they'll do is increase the damage value numbers of his abilities.

We will find out in 20 minutes anyways.

The_Sentry06

The buff out. It's basically the old buff but with fate seal on sp2.

TrashyPanda

One of the cases where a champ really does just need damage.

I did like the first-two miss mechanic, though I missed the 90% miss on projectiles. It wouldn't hurt to have some decent regen/recoil-mitigation, since he's often run with Ghost, but I don't expect it.