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Outside the box rank ups
Zippy_halligan
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What are some interesting or different rank ups people have done and why? Curious to see what kind of champs people like to rank outside of the normal top few of each class
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I have no reason. Except he's fun to play, albeit slightly useless.
I also have an r5 Carnage but Carnage is decent and I love his animations.
He just completely shuts down the opponent's power gain as long as they don't have any power gain buffs or passive power gain. With Cap on the team (and assuming he's awakened), it normally just takes 7 seconds to go into overdrive after which opponents gain 90% less power and you more or less control the fight completely unless it really drags on and you end up losing your overdrive. But even then, you can go for an SP3 to place a degen debuff that, in addition to obviously dealing damage, also shuts down opponent power gain by 90% for 20 seconds further. If you throw that right as you're about to leave overdrive, you have a nice window to build up your battery again. Especially with your SP1s.
With your heavy attacks, you place a stun for 1,5 seconds for 10% battery. If you have CGR on your team, you gain a 20% fury buff for 10 seconds. With almost 4K increased attack rating while in Overdrive, that's a pretty spicy buff.
The SP2, meanwhile, cannot trigger evade and gains a huge critical rating boost before placing a massive armor break reducing armor rating by 3150 for 15 seconds, or 30 seconds if you have at least 10% battery left.
Some other bits and bobs of utility:
* He automatically places a heal block whenever the opponent gains a regen buff.
* He gains a regen himself when he falls below 15% health. How big the regen is depends on how much battery he has left when it activates, but it can heal up to 11,300 health.
* He power drains the opponent when they reach 3 bars of power and places a power lock debuff on them for X amount of seconds (depending on sig level).
All in all, he's one of the champs I currently have the most fun with.
Shortened buff duration with Mojo is a unique ability, and comes in really handy, especially with all the nodes/new champions that block nullify or stagger.
Surfer can armor break without needing to touch the opponent, and the phase gives a handy opening to knock down the defender when needed. Kind of a hard champion to master since there are various timers to keep track of, but he constantly surprises me.
Routine farming is always a party with her.
I wont argue he is better than void. Void is one of my favorite champs.
But I ranked up YJ few months ago and have been preaching him every since. YJ has a huge bag of utility that makes him useful in so many scenarios.
YJ has the third highest energy resistance in game, just below max sig guardian, and max sig mordo (when blocking)...... on base. No sig dependancy at all.
He has incredibly high base physical resistance that gives him great block prof and general tankiness.
He has an inbuilt heal reduction which is nice to have.
L2 petrify which counters high healing and powergain (to a degree)
On demand slow, albeit it is a short one.
good heavy reach making him great for heavy intercepts.
No need for any synergy, or sig. Great out of the box.
These make him such a good war and content option. His hits are good (not amazing, but good), and he crits fairly often, so his dps is actually very good.
Examples ive used him on. In t2 wars.
Havok plasma detonate tickles.
Profx does next to nothing to him.
EMP mod tickles.
Aarkus coldsnap heals him.
Doom shock heals him.
he can take apoc anywhere (except boss), since beams do next to nothing to him.
HT incinerates tickle.
Ive been hit in the corner vs r3 thing on stunnng reflection and still won taking 30+ hits to the face.
Ive taken out r3 sassy on regen mini like it is nothing,
Soloed doom bosses with him.
Power snack great counter with long L2 petrify.
Decent footloose counter.
great buffet counter.
Great survivability in longer fights.
Ive used him a lot, and my alliance is still surprised when i use him in fights that require good specialized counters. YJ does it all.
My YJ is only sig20. And has changed my war gameplay. Thats why, im a huge fan.
Dr. Zola
Thanks for the write-up, @pseudosane!
KG: I know he's getting a buff but I did this a while ago without ever thinking he was going to. Had i posted this last month everyone would agree its outside the box.
Cap: Wanna know something about this rank up? I never once duped him till he was already at sig 200. I'll let yall do the math there.