**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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I'll pull for Kitty. She looks fun and all, but it's friggin' Kitty. Been hoping for her arrival since I started playing mcoc. Probably a good time for her to come in, with the animation team being on fire.
1. Her phase mechanic is a new concept. Meaning dashing towards the defender while the defender is activating a special attack is not a common tactic, but with Pryde you cause damage every time the defender misses. So you have to teach yourself to trust her phase because it lasts pretty long TBT.
2. Not only does her miss cause damage, but vs ROL WS it causes SIGNIFICANT damage. On his SP2 every miss caused 2300 (approx) burst damage. Doing the math, a 6* R3 will do about 8k damage per miss while she phases (give or take with masteries/etc). I believe that’s significant.
3. She's suicide friendly in that if you activate a special while you’re phased you take no recoil damage. You actually heal from the double edge and liquid courage while phases but I don’t think it’s long enough to really be a factor. The no recoil (5% health) is huge though. It’s like iHulk almost. If you’re not phased you eat 5%.
4. Once ramped up her damage is impressive. I took down ROL WS in about 160-170 hits in the beginning while learning her. When ramped she was doing 80-90k sp2s as a 5* R3. That’s legit.
5. Her ramp up takes some time though. vs incinerate immune it’s going to diminish her damage output.
6. Her dash in when phased will teach you how to I get better at intercepting. Meaning, like Tigra and such, she’ll make you a better player overall. Vs DDHK and OG DD you may not be successful since they can bypass miss.
I’m still learning her, but I will say that as an attacker she has some positives that are unique. But like Tigra types - there is a skill level involved with her. Recognizing specials, and just trusting her mechanic. It’s really good, just counter intuitive to what we are used to from traditional gameplay.
I’ll mess with her some more but this is my initial impression.
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Kitty-counter. That just rolls off the tongue.
It’s possible yes, but mine is only a sig 20, so she can get even more power gain here and cycle specials way more easily
As you can see, when the opponent can’t miss its pretty incredible
I'm talking about Kabam rethinking True Focus being overly used. Also, if nerfing her is wrong since people have spent on getting her, why is nerfing Ghost and Quake fine? Again, this isn't towards you since you're keeping it as a last ditch thing which I feel shouldn't come to it, but in general.
The point of the comment you replied to was purely that there'd be a huge backlash. I was more pointing the hypocrisy that PlayerSlasher thinks this should be nerfed because it's Overpowered, but Quake and Ghost are fine.
If this was OP and I thought this was OP, and it was causing as many issues as true focus is, then maybe I'd say it's the lesser of two evils to nerf Kitty. But really, there's literally no reason to nerf Kitty, which is why I was pointing it out to PS.
Basically, to answer your question. I don't think nerfing Kitty is inherently wrong as a principle, just that it's absolutely not necessary right now. She's not as OP as ghost and quake are. And nerfing a champion, while made more annoying if people have spent, shouldn't dictate if a champion got nerfed. Also, yes nerfing ghost and quake would be bad, 100%.
I don't want to derail a thread only meant to showcase Kitty, so feel free to PM me about it if you like, or reply here and I'll PM you, but I don't want to take up anymore of a thread with this out of respect for Fin.
Yeah don't want to derail this either.
Anyways, I feel that Kitty is definitely a top tier champ with or without True Focus and it has been shown. I do feel she's broken with True Focus if duped, but even without she's a solid champ who has defensive uses as well.
Doesn't need to be nerfed, unless Kabam start spamming True Focus everywhere and even then I'd say that True Focus should be reduced because without that, the champs that avoid Miss in general aren't too many to consider the ability alone to be as broken as it could be.
Kitty is a ton of fun so far though, I've been messing around with my R4 5*, nearly soloed all the fights in a path of the Shang Chi challenge! She is crazy good, even without true focus being there.
Just a lot of block damage.
And who has access to that debuff? The other new champ, Nimrod. Coincidence...?
Also, there's an older champ who might be pretty darned effective with one of his Synergies:
Let Kitty stack up the Prowess, knock her down, and completely ruin her with one SP2...