Who are Febuary Buff Champs ?

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As a community we need to realize that there isn’t a set schedule for when they announce things for the next month. Sometimes we get two weeks notice, sometimes it’s practically same day. There’s no pattern. And that’s okay! We’ll get the information when we get it.

If I had to guess, I’d say we’re likely to find out about next month’s champs during this week, shortly after the winner of the vote is announced. January is a fairly dry month in the Contest, so they’re probably just trying to string out exciting announcements.

Shadowstrike

Something that was pointed out that made a lot of sense was the fact that they were probably delaying the announcement until after the Summoner Choice wraps up and as we are approaching the deadline, I wouldn't be surprised if they make the formal announcement sometime this week on the social medias

Shadowstrike

As a community we need to realize that there isn’t a set schedule for when they announce things for the next month. Sometimes we get two weeks notice, sometimes it’s practically same day. There’s no pattern. And that’s okay! We’ll get the information when we get it.

If I had to guess, I’d say we’re likely to find out about next month’s champs during this week, shortly after the winner of the vote is announced. January is a fairly dry month in the Contest, so they’re probably just trying to string out exciting announcements.

Everybody just really really really wants that list with all of the Champions they have planned to be buffed for the year and the only thing that sucks is I'm pretty sure if it ever got out, it'll never be to anyone's satisfaction.

FluffyPigMonster

As a community we need to realize that there isn’t a set schedule for when they announce things for the next month. Sometimes we get two weeks notice, sometimes it’s practically same day. There’s no pattern. And that’s okay! We’ll get the information when we get it.

If I had to guess, I’d say we’re likely to find out about next month’s champs during this week, shortly after the winner of the vote is announced. January is a fairly dry month in the Contest, so they’re probably just trying to string out exciting announcements.
Everybody just really really really wants that list with all of the Champions they have planned to be buffed for the year and the only thing that sucks is I'm pretty sure if it ever got out, it'll never be to anyone's satisfaction.

My list:

All the champs that need buffs, please buff.

Thanks!

Lovek

They planned buff champs for every months. they already know who are next.

Steel_Ball_Run

Nothing wrong with original daredevil so leave him alone. You will have to work to max signature him to fully use his auto evade mechanism on projectile attacks. Even his 40% block reduction combo with parry is just good to get almost zero or zero damage. Don’t touch him!!

As a proud owner of a sig 140 6* OG DD, playing with him is like watching an oiled up monkey try to climb a water slide

Shadowstrike

As a community we need to realize that there isn’t a set schedule for when they announce things for the next month. Sometimes we get two weeks notice, sometimes it’s practically same day. There’s no pattern. And that’s okay! We’ll get the information when we get it.

If I had to guess, I’d say we’re likely to find out about next month’s champs during this week, shortly after the winner of the vote is announced. January is a fairly dry month in the Contest, so they’re probably just trying to string out exciting announcements.
Everybody just really really really wants that list with all of the Champions they have planned to be buffed for the year and the only thing that sucks is I'm pretty sure if it ever got out, it'll never be to anyone's satisfaction.
My list:

All the champs that need buffs, please buff.

Thanks!

I'm not satisfied with that list.. 😜

The_Sentry06

They planned buff champs for every months. they already know who are next.

And? They already know what content they are releasing 3 months down the line. Doesn't mean they'll tell us what it is just like that. They'll tell us when they see fit.

The wait is excrutiating for sure. Buffs (and the potential new solo competitive mode) are the only reason I'm excited for monthly updates given the current state of things but at the end of the day, it doesn't change much if they tell us now or we find out 1 day before the update drops.

Chobbly

They planned buff champs for every months. they already know who are next.
And? They already know what content they are releasing 3 months down the line. Doesn't mean they'll tell us what it is just like that. They'll tell us when they see fit.

The wait is excrutiating for sure. Buffs (and the potential new solo competitive mode) are the only reason I'm excited for monthly updates given the current state of things but at the end of the day, it doesn't change much if they tell us now or we find out 1 day before the update drops.

I’m waiting to see what happens next month. Hoping for an Iron Fist, Daredevil (Classic) or Elektra buff given the Feb event being Hell’s Kitchen.

There is one perhaps unintentional upswing to a delay on buff news - we don’t waste resources upgrading soon to be buffed champs until we’ve actually got to play with their kits and can determine for ourselves whether it’s a good buff or not. I’m often tempted to rank up champs based on the previews but it’s a habit I’ve managed to stop.

Lovek

And ?
what Can be wrong to tell us in advance the list?

Lpoo

since it's a Hell's kitchen event, it'd be nice if they buffed IF and gave og DD some tweaks
It's be happy with those, both need work. IF is a meme champ and OG DD has a kit that could fit on the back of a postage stamp.

Really hoping next month is a good one.
IF is good with the Shang-chi synergy, but needs to shine on his own. I recently r5d my og DD because of nostalgia (he got me through a lot of content as a duped 4* back in the day) and also because I love the character - if they ever decide to buff him, they better not touch is awakened ability!

Keep the sig ability and add something to it like a purify chance at different sig levels

Daddrieda

Well I think daredevil classic is alright in the hand of a skilled player that don’t have much of an option to clear in some content and can take advantage of his auto evade mechanism even if the fights drags on.

J0eySn0w

seriously. i am tired with kabam..
game bugs
Communication problems
silence always

all that tired me and wanted to defintively stop playing
Did you seriously think that just because you tagged them that they would tell you who the buffed champions are instead of doing whatever they have planned?

It's pretty clear that they will tell us who is getting buffed when they decide to.

My opinion is no I don’t think they should always response by telling us what we want to hear. But I’d like a response that shows they’ve heard us or care especially for threads and issues with a lot of traction indicating that the community is concern. One typical example is AI behavior we been experiencing yet silence. So with this one, they can quickly stop by and tell us we’ll get the announcement soon, they’re excited about it and hopefully we’ll be too when we get it. They can go to the extent and say, we should feel free to speculate and guess they enjoy watching us to speculate.
That to me is communication, silence is too but bad communication in cases like these imo.

NastyPhish

I think they should stop buffing champs. They’ve proven time and time again that they focus more on buffing them defensively than offensively.

Polygon

Hopefully someone from the featured crystal cause the sub-feats not looking that good rn

BitterSteel

I think they should stop buffing champs. They’ve proven time and time again that they focus more on buffing them defensively than offensively.

If anyone from kabam is reading this please do not take this as an indication of what the community at large thinks. This is demonstrably wrong.

There has been 0, none, and nada buffs that have only made a champion worse for defence. Some buffs have made them slightly worse to fight, but not significantly worse, and furthermore, the overwhelming majority of buffs have focussed on offence.

Seriously, go through each buff right now and try and tell me which one made them worse on defence by focussing on an ability to specifically make them worse on defence.

P2099 was already a bad defender, his buff was designed for offence. Bishop was only made worse for defence because they removed a silly part of his kit anyway that killed you on offence, terrax already had his rock field, Ebony maw had his degen (an offensive as well as defensive ability) tuned up slightly, Joe Fixit had one small part of his kit added to make him a little more annoying on defence. But all of them had tune ups or abilities added to largely make them better on offence, the massive majority of their abilities from the buffs are offensive.

You can’t argue any of those were designed to make them worse on defence. What you’re seeing is by making champions better on offence, sometimes abilities are tuned or added that then make them better on defence. But for all of them, they are sufficiently better on offence that it really doesn’t matter to even get a little annoyed about champions being harder on defence, let alone think the program should stop because of it. If you could win awards for overreactions, I think your post would win it.

Wicket329

I think they should stop buffing champs. They’ve proven time and time again that they focus more on buffing them defensively than offensively.

Of all of the skill buffs, the only champion that was made substantially more difficult to deal with as a defender is DDHK because he got a very powerful tenacity mechanic.

For science, it would be Joe Fix-It, Spider-Gwen and *maybe* Miles. Tougher fight if you are trying to use specials, easier if you’re content with basic attacks. However, all three of them benefited far more offensively.

Bishop and Magneto are genuinely tough defenders now on the right nodes. But again, they’re new offensive capabilities blow that out of the water.

Hulkbuster if you aren’t prepared can cause problems. Punisher 2099 is a pain on kinetic transference or other nodes that punish you for blocking, but he always was. War Machine now gives you a bunch of willpower healing on his sp1.

I can’t think of any Cosmic champs who are harder to deal with now than they were prebuff. Terrax is pretty much the same. Venompool is actually easier because now he can’t randomly go unstoppable or get an electro-like damage reflect.

Maw and Guillotine are trickier defenders now. Maw just hits harder, and Guillotine’s Pain Split can be irritating. That’s really about it.

So I really don’t know where you’re getting the idea that these buffs are defensively based. Of every buff, I think the two trickiest to fight against have been Bishop and Joe Fix-It, but both have fairly readily available counters and means of counter play.

Wicket329

Seems like @BitterSteel and I went at the same idea at the same time, but you beat me to it.

BitterSteel

Seems like @BitterSteel and I went at the same idea at the same time, but you beat me to it.

You know what they say about great minds

The thing is, it’s inevitable that when you make a champ better, some will get harder to fight on defence. I feel it’s a pretty small price to pay for an incredible buff program that is my main excitement each month

Wicket329

Seems like @BitterSteel and I went at the same idea at the same time, but you beat me to it.
You know what they say about great minds

The thing is, it’s inevitable that when you make a champ better, some will get harder to fight on defence. I feel it’s a pretty small price to pay for an incredible buff program that is my main excitement each month

Agreed. My favorite thing about this game is getting to play with new champs and experiment with new mechanics. Unfortunately, there’s no way of knowing when I’ll pull a newly released champ other than “probably not soon.” It’s why I love the buff program. I’ve got more champions than I don’t at this stage, so it gives me actually decent odds at a new toy to play with each month.

Raichu626

Bishop was only made worse for defence because they removed a silly part of his kit anyway that killed you on offence

Specifically disagree with Bishop. I'm not sure if the unblockable was already part of his 0 bar ability, but he definitely got the ability to gain prowess on hit instead of just block, making the unblockable way harder to avoid at high sig, and he got that ridiculous incinerate aura on sp1. And his overload not only no longer kills him but deals massive damage to opponents, making a the tech champs reliant on shock or incinerate deathtraps against him.

He got a lot more than just that suicide ability being removed.

BitterSteel

Bishop was only made worse for defence because they removed a silly part of his kit anyway that killed you on offence
Specifically disagree with Bishop. I'm not sure if the unblockable was already part of his 0 bar ability, but he definitely got the ability to gain prowess on hit instead of just block, making the unblockable way harder to avoid at high sig, and he got that ridiculous incinerate aura on sp1. And his overload not only no longer kills him but deals massive damage to opponents, making a the tech champs reliant on shock or incinerate deathtraps against him.

He got a lot more than just that suicide ability being removed.

Agreed on the prowess being added on hit, that can be a pain but tech champs don't give him any.

He already had unblockable specials, so while there's a new interaction with the prowess since they're easier to proc, the unblockable was already there.

The incinerate aura isn't that bad to be honest. The incinerate doesn't do much damage and you can avoid it anyway, and it's better than energy damage through block as you can bring an incinerate champion or ghost. I prefer dealing with this than the energy damage through block.

So really it's just the prowess being on hit now and the power overload doing damage to specific avoidable debuffs.

Texas_11

I just need the buff announced. It's literally the only thing I look forward to every month.

Kabam playing with my emotions!

I'm hoping they surprise us with 3 buffs this month.

ThatGuyYouSaw235

I think they should stop buffing champs. They’ve proven time and time again that they focus more on buffing them defensively than offensively.
If anyone from kabam is reading this please do not take this as an indication of what the community at large thinks. This is demonstrably wrong.

There has been 0, none, and nada buffs that have only made a champion worse for defence. Some buffs have made them slightly worse to fight, but not significantly worse, and furthermore, the overwhelming majority of buffs have focussed on offence.

Seriously, go through each buff right now and try and tell me which one made them worse on defence by focussing on an ability to specifically make them worse on defence.

P2099 was already a bad defender, his buff was designed for offence. Bishop was only made worse for defence because they removed a silly part of his kit anyway that killed you on offence, terrax already had his rock field, Ebony maw had his degen (an offensive as well as defensive ability) tuned up slightly, Joe Fixit had one small part of his kit added to make him a little more annoying on defence. But all of them had tune ups or abilities added to largely make them better on offence, the massive majority of their abilities from the buffs are offensive.

You can’t argue any of those were designed to make them worse on defence. What you’re seeing is by making champions better on offence, sometimes abilities are tuned or added that then make them better on defence. But for all of them, they are sufficiently better on offence that it really doesn’t matter to even get a little annoyed about champions being harder on defence, let alone think the program should stop because of it. If you could win awards for overreactions, I think your post would win it.

They didn't tune Maw's degen slightly. They tuned it through the roof.

GrassKnuckles

I’ve been doing some leaking myself and I’ve heard of a Doom buff

Shadowstrike

I think they should stop buffing champs. They’ve proven time and time again that they focus more on buffing them defensively than offensively.
If anyone from kabam is reading this please do not take this as an indication of what the community at large thinks. This is demonstrably wrong.

There has been 0, none, and nada buffs that have only made a champion worse for defence. Some buffs have made them slightly worse to fight, but not significantly worse, and furthermore, the overwhelming majority of buffs have focussed on offence.

Seriously, go through each buff right now and try and tell me which one made them worse on defence by focussing on an ability to specifically make them worse on defence.

P2099 was already a bad defender, his buff was designed for offence. Bishop was only made worse for defence because they removed a silly part of his kit anyway that killed you on offence, terrax already had his rock field, Ebony maw had his degen (an offensive as well as defensive ability) tuned up slightly, Joe Fixit had one small part of his kit added to make him a little more annoying on defence. But all of them had tune ups or abilities added to largely make them better on offence, the massive majority of their abilities from the buffs are offensive.

You can’t argue any of those were designed to make them worse on defence. What you’re seeing is by making champions better on offence, sometimes abilities are tuned or added that then make them better on defence. But for all of them, they are sufficiently better on offence that it really doesn’t matter to even get a little annoyed about champions being harder on defence, let alone think the program should stop because of it. If you could win awards for overreactions, I think your post would win it.
They didn't tune Maw's degen slightly. They tuned it through the roof.

Ironically still not to the level Kabam Broccoli initially made him to be.

Shadowstrike

I’ve been doing some leaking myself and I’ve heard of a Doom buff

Better be some vfx like Cap cause that man's numbers don't need to move in either direction.

The_Sentry06

I just need the buff announced. It's literally the only thing I look forward to every month.

Kabam playing with my emotions!

I'm hoping they surprise us with 3 buffs this month.

Yes pls.

Lovek

it's fun when they announced "more communication, more visibility" good job ! we saw it !

THUNDERBIL

since it's a Hell's kitchen event, it'd be nice if they buffed IF and gave og DD some tweaks

Add Electra to that too. I wish we see an insanely op Ability accuracy manipulator Electra. She is among those champions who were op but with the increasing complexity of the game became dull.
Iceman, Electra, DS, SW, WS, X-23 and GR, they need justice.