Wong should be the first "tune up" since introducing champion balancing
buddy_LEE
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So I really think Wong is a cool champion, is very fun to play and I love how he works, there is a problem though... He seems to be in a sort of no man's land in the game.
1.) Wong is a ramp up champion and is great when ramped but this makes him not great for normal questing as fights are over before you can take advantage of his regen and utility such as energy damage mitigation.
2.) As a ramp champion he is very powerful when ramped in a fight but not to the point where he would be a good option for something like abyss or any future everest content
3) his buff control through sp3 is far too short to actually be useful until he is ramped up all the way at which point the fight would be over and couldn't effectively control any buffs
In conclusion even though I really enjoy playing this champ and kabam did a great job making a cool champion, he just won't be used and enjoyed unless he is being forced by someone like myself that finds him as cool as I do.
He is standing on a line between being an effective champion for normal content or being a beast for everest content and I hope a "tune" would have him step into one side or the other to give him a solid place in the game
1.) Wong is a ramp up champion and is great when ramped but this makes him not great for normal questing as fights are over before you can take advantage of his regen and utility such as energy damage mitigation.
2.) As a ramp champion he is very powerful when ramped in a fight but not to the point where he would be a good option for something like abyss or any future everest content
3) his buff control through sp3 is far too short to actually be useful until he is ramped up all the way at which point the fight would be over and couldn't effectively control any buffs
In conclusion even though I really enjoy playing this champ and kabam did a great job making a cool champion, he just won't be used and enjoyed unless he is being forced by someone like myself that finds him as cool as I do.
He is standing on a line between being an effective champion for normal content or being a beast for everest content and I hope a "tune" would have him step into one side or the other to give him a solid place in the game
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My thoughts would be to keep the same strength of 3 and make it 2. It still would take a while but it would certainly feel better , and should be an easy change to scale.
A stagger, similar to Jane F, on the sp1 or heavy would be nice. Maybe even a nullify on sp1?…. Not totally necessary, as I know he “punishes buffs” other ways, but this wouldn’t rule him out for any power gain fights , and would help gain power / ramp faster when using MD especially.
Sp2 is his bread and butter when ramped so leave that be.
Sp3 fate seal could be 20-30 Seconds and that wouldn’t break him either. Make it 10 seconds … and then 5 seconds for each spell active.
He’s a great champ , with no real purpose as is. I agree. Tune him up!
Not derailing, because this kit isn’t eligible for a tune-up, but that’s exactly what I see with Super-Skrull. I am pointing it out here only because it’s hopefully a design theory that Kabam can address moving forward: It’s totally fine if a character is like Aegon, where you know you need the long combo and for the persistent charges to build for the long fights, or to be like an Archangel, where if it bleeds and can be poisoned, it’s gonna die quick and in a hurry.
But it’s rough to be a kit like what is described in the OP, or like Mr. Sinister or Super-Skrull, kits like that, where they are somewhere in this No Man’s Land where people won’t use them.
I just think the designers work so hard on these, it really is something that could be more defined, and hopefully a potential tuneup for Wong will be the start
Fun? Sure, I actually do enjoy the playstyle.
Useful/practical (especially when compared to other champs of the same class who do the same thing)? Nah
would love to be able to use Wong in meaningful content (Act 7, maybe Act 8, AOL). He is fun to play, has great animations and style, and the kit is quite good. Unfortunately, hard to find a place for him in the current meta.