Gamora Spotlight

https://playcontestofchampions.com/champion-spotlight-gamora/

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A 100-second cooldown of the Godslayer Strike will make it borderline useless in most fights. It's a good ability, but not "too good to use twice in a fight" good. It won't win you the fight.

Having her counter ~~auto-block~~ at 10 buffs is also strange. The buff-reliant utility concept works for Angela because it's really easy to reach 3 or 4 buffs, but 10 buffs with Gamora? It'll become easier as the fight goes on but it feels like you'll be without that mechanic for quite some time while you build them up. An ~~auto-block~~ counter is not something you want to be without for that long, I think.

Edit: It should be Miss, not Auto-Block. My bad.

It would have been nice if you got some buff or another by using the Heavy, I think. That would make building them up smoother. But we'll see, I guess. I don't have any experience with Gamora whatsoever since I haven't ever pulled her in any rarity over 3 or maybe 4* (and don't have those ranked up), so I don't really know how good she is at building buffs. If she builds them like crazy, maybe it'll work.

But yeah, hiding a true strike behind her SP3 is weak. I guess Kabam finally listened to all of our whining about "too much True Focus in the game!"?

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Bugmat78

That sp3 thing is eerily similar to spiderman 2099 slow being held behind an sp3. Sounds very impractical.

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GroundedWisdom

Why do they even try if every Buff is "not good enough"?

slacker

I thought the point of 2 buffs a month was to allow for more in depth and to avoid “less desirable buffs” and have “better quality buffs”. Gamora needed a moderate update, not just a tune up IMO.

Ahh well. Gamora remains rank 1.
The true strike refresh and miss counter sound pretty good to me. Faster buff duration increase (40 instead of 60 seconds), not sig reliant anymore. Certainly much more than Ronin/Nova got.
Heavy attacking every 9 seconds or losing every single piece of utility and all your damage is a one track ticket to the bench for me.
She also get increase her buffs duration over time so it's not so 9s/heavy, imo the max duration should be her default
14.4 seconds is not much of an improvement…

Still much better than 12s and have to dash back, hold block everytime.......

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SwarmOfRavens

I see Gamora gets to be the "buff" that weighs down the next featured. Not an easy job that one but someone has to do it

Noise72

I mean wow what a forgettable buff. Can't believe this makes up 1/2 of the months buffs now.

I disagree. I think the being immune to miss and her true strike will add some utility to her. She already hits hard as is, just needed a way to get there faster and stay there. I think this buff is exactly what she needed.

_wasabi_

Very underwhelming for the toughest woman in the galaxy!
I am very disappointed ;/

SwarmOfRavens

I mean wow what a forgettable buff. Can't believe this makes up 1/2 of the months buffs now.
I disagree. I think the being immune to miss and her true strike will add some utility to her. She already hits hard as is, just needed a way to get there faster and stay there. I think this buff is exactly what she needed.
How good is a miss counter after 30 hits that you need to heavy counter every 9-14 seconds, or a true strike after Sp3?

I can think of 10 better counters off the top of my head, more if I checked

Worst part about building to her miss counter is that you'd need to frequently heavy to maintain buffs along the way.

Imagine missing one of the many hits in her heavy and eating a special while trying to build her up, yea not inspiring at all.

Miss counter pretty much requires stupefy to even be safe and is dead in the water in any stun immune/limber match ups.

Noise72

I mean wow what a forgettable buff. Can't believe this makes up 1/2 of the months buffs now.
I disagree. I think the being immune to miss and her true strike will add some utility to her. She already hits hard as is, just needed a way to get there faster and stay there. I think this buff is exactly what she needed.
How good is a miss counter after 30 hits that you need to heavy counter every 9-14 seconds, or a true strike after Sp3?

I can think of 10 better counters off the top of my head, more if I checked

Better than not having it at all. A lot of people don't have every single champ unlocked, or ranked. Just because there is a better counter out there doesn't make these buffs useless.

Stellar

Really don't see the improvement with this buff...
Ok her actual signature will now be directly in her kit but she still have roughly the sale chance to get buffs (35% instead of 30%), the buffs have the same duration of 9 seconds and you still gave to use heavy to refresh them.

The only good add-on is the ability to counter miss but you have to get at least 10 buffs and continually refresh them to keep that ability... Getting 10 buff take time, even with +5% chance, and the moment you get those buffs you will be either dead (will still have to deal with miss until you can counter it) or the fight will nearly be over.

This buff of Gamora is... well not useless as her sig ability in now inside her kit, but a great disappointment. i just got her duped as a 6 stars and was waiting for the buff to decide whether she could be ranked up or not...she will stay Rank 1 until she get another (a third) decent buff.

GroundedWisdom

Why do they even try if every Buff is "not good enough"?
Because different people find different buffs bad. Some complain about all or most, some are more realistic and don’t only see bad things about the buffs that truly seem flawed.

I think I’ve only said that Ronin, Hood, Nova and Gamora were bad buffs. I’ve since changed my mind about Ronin.

And to be clear, I am not expecting any champion to become broken. That’s why I am not saying “why hasn’t gamora been given CGR damage, along with permanent buffs on every hit and also 100% AAR and miss, evade counter etc”

Miles’ buff doesn’t look like it’ll catapult him to the top of his class, but there’s a reason I’m not saying his buff is bad, and that’s because it looks like his kit is well designed, usable and fun. Gamora is not, timers like this for champions is not a good mechanic, especially when if you don’t hit your mark you lose all your damage, and all your utility. Forcing a player to heavy between 9-14 seconds is not fun gameplay, it’s stressful and bad design for me.

If a champion is well designed, cool, that’s all good with me. Whatever level they end up being I don’t mind as long as their kit functions and makes sense, while being fun to use. That’s why I actually love the DDHK buff, I awakened him on my mini account as a 6* with my abyss gem. His damage isn’t the best, but he’s a lot of fun. God tier doesn’t matter to me, what does matter, is buffs that don’t just half heartedly change a couple things about an already mediocre champ and expect anything to change with how they’re used.

This buff hasn’t changed any of the core issues with Gamora, it’s just added some utility on top of her flawed mechanic.

People have complained about every buff besides Colossus from what I've seen.

GroundedWisdom

The objective is to improve them from their current standing. Not to be Top Tier viable, or End-Game friendly. Not all buffs result in a perfect all-round.

whatitdobayb

Kabams law of equal exchange

For every attempt at good make sure to find a way to screw it up.

Its a buff nonetheless, but won’t entice anyone to pick her up. So in reality, it’s a failure.

Stellar

People have complained about every buff besides Colossus from what I've seen.

Diablo's buff is a nice one and no one complain about it.
VenomPool, King Groot, Bishop, Ultron, War machine, Crossbone had all some good Buffs !
Even Black Panther and Mister fanstatic and Ducky Duck had nice buffs
Ok Vulture is not so good.

GroundedWisdom

People have complained about every buff besides Colossus from what I've seen.
Diablo's buff is a nice one and no one complain about it.
VenomPool, King Groot, Bishop, Ultron, War machine, Crossbone had all some good Buffs !
Even Black Panther and Mister fanstatic and Ducky Duck had nice buffs
Ok Vulture is not so good.

After the fact, sure. People have come to like those buffs. To my memory, there has been a complaint about just about every one, save for Colossus since word spread fast that he was Top Tier. Opinions are welcome, no argument about that. Some are premature. Not to mention it's just ingracious that they put effort into making these Champs more useful to those that end up pulling them than they were before, only to be met with constant "Not good enough."comments. The objective isn't to make people choose them over other Champs. Not expressly.

Magrailothos

This buff is fine. I'm sure future guardian synergies (or even prefights) will further improve her utility....

This buff is okay. Makes her a bit better Unawakened. And she could be a useful robot counter with Nebula synergy, if you don't have Magneto, Magneto, Medusa, or, well, Nebula.

I wish I was optimistic about future GOTG synergies. Gamora has three useful/desirable synergies, none with the other Guardians who just get the most basic 'Armour' and 'Perfect Block' synergies.

It doesn't bode well for anyone who fancies putting the GOTG together as a useful team...

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GroundedWisdom

The objective is to improve them from their current standing. Not to be Top Tier viable, or End-Game friendly. Not all buffs result in a perfect all-round.
And again, you’re missing my point. I’m not saying gamora needs to be top tier viable, or end game friendly. I’m saying she hasn’t had her issues addressed.

Do you think she’s any less stressful to play after the buff than today?

The purpose of these buffs is to make them somewhat more useful for the people who happen to pull them. She's not stressful to play at all, really. She has a bit more utility than she did. Which is reasonable. Again, the expectation may not be to make them all End-Game viable, but that's the comparison being made, from the perspective of people who are looking at End-Game content, through End-Game goggles.

GroundedWisdom

The change may be minimal, but that's reasonable. They're not all going to be significant changes, as per their objectives. One rework, one small values change. That's the goal.

BuffBeast

Woah, thats a whole lotta supposed damage for some impractical utility

GroundedWisdom

The change may be minimal, but that's reasonable. They're not all going to be significant changes, as per their objectives. One rework, one small values change. That's the goal.
Small values doesn’t have to mean insignificant. Angela had a value buff and she’s one of the top cosmic champs in the game with an incredibly unique and fun ability set.

See. There's the comparison. People are comparing them to other buffs and not how they worked before. I was even surprised she was being buffed. She wasn't the top of my list for needs.

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GroundedWisdom

You literally just gave examples of the misconceptions I outlined.

ChaosMax1012

All kabam really needed to do imo is add an infuriate debuff to her and she’s good.

Tedders

If they changed her heavy animations and give it more reach it would fix some of her play style issues, make her sp1 animation her heavy.....

GroundedWisdom

You literally just gave examples of the misconceptions I outlined.
Could you explain how?

Does it really need explanation? I talked about the comparison game and how it's a losing one. I talked about how people are comparing it to their own content and not how useful the Champ was before solely. They're not all going to be significant changes.