No real hope for the Grandmaster?
Usagicassidy
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I've been studying countless videos, trying to get a grasp of how the Grandmaster fight would be. And I also know that perhaps I'll have to do a few practices before I really even start to get it down.
But that means going through THE REST of 6.4.6 just to get to him. And I am doing *terribly*
I farmed a TON of revives for Grandmaster so that I would be good and ready when the time came that I thought I could actually beat him. But they're all going to start expiring soon and I'm not going to be able to farm the revives in the future so I was banking on being able to do it over the next couple of days.
What am I doing wrong? How am I already this dead and I'm not even close to him yet? How do you effectively kill champs like Annihilus and Vision Arkus who have long evaded me. Even simple champs I know how to defeat are moving like freaking lightning.
But that means going through THE REST of 6.4.6 just to get to him. And I am doing *terribly*
I farmed a TON of revives for Grandmaster so that I would be good and ready when the time came that I thought I could actually beat him. But they're all going to start expiring soon and I'm not going to be able to farm the revives in the future so I was banking on being able to do it over the next couple of days.
What am I doing wrong? How am I already this dead and I'm not even close to him yet? How do you effectively kill champs like Annihilus and Vision Arkus who have long evaded me. Even simple champs I know how to defeat are moving like freaking lightning.
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I never even got to have him throw his special not even once so I could practice/get a feel for it.
I honestly feel like this is a fight I'm going to have to practice a lot - I just have to spend 30 minutes fighting even getting to him. Oh well.
My plan is to just practice while I rebuild my stash and farm units. And like GW said above, a lot of the fight is intercepting,which I'm not the best at
But thanks for the encouragement!
I’m trying to practice a bit to get a handle on him but I’m not even getting past the first 10 seconds of a fight. They ban dexterity and light hits and it’s just over for me.
And of course with the revive farming method disappearing I really was hoping this was my chance.
I know most would say I have way too stacked of a roster and everyone else did it with much less. But I’m just not that good you guys. But literally the rest of act 6 didn’t feel too bad to me. Heck I did most of 6.3 and 6.4 in a day.
You build greentokens by light intercepting him.
Then you have to work yourself through the bans.
Let the first ban be mediums. Then parry then dex. After the sp1 he is wounded.
But really you can‘t fight the GM like normal fight and with only 40 revives this doesn‘t look like you will made it.
But move on. You are in the fight now. Learn and understand. Maybe you still can get it done
PS: 99,9% of the players who have beaten the GM got wrecked in their first attempt.
You asked how can you intercept without dex? In my case I only tried to intercept when he was very far away from me and started to dash in. The intercepts aren’t mandatory in the first phase, but you deal extra damage if you are able to intercept, so don’t worry too much about it
These videos are from guys who are really good. They make following the prompts look easy.
When I’m actually in the fight, everything’s happening so fast - it’s not that I don’t understand it, it’s that I’m just not getting it right. Either I blunder or I try to not do what’s restricted and get attacked hard by him. I just wanna keep practicing but I don’t want to start using revives/units until I feel like I actually know what I’m doing.
I don’t think I’ve ever dashed back and then just “hit”. Without trying to rush in or parry or anything like that.
Honestly, even Anihilus and Arkus are giving me so much grief on these nodes. Anihilus obliterated my Doom. Nobody obliterates my Doom he’s like the easiest champion to defeat people.
Claire make sure you only do 4 hit combos on the path so she stays in her bleed immunity mode and only use SP2 as she health steals. I Used her a lot.
Vision Arkus is a pain I agree. I herc’d him. Same for Carnage. Used claire for CMM. And kitty periodically.
The GM. Yeah it sucks and you have to practice. Both the path to minimize reviving and the GM to get used to him. The challenge is most of the videos out there are pretty old. I do think with the current AI that kabam says is unchanged, the GM is way more aggressive than in any video I have seen. I got into a rhythm in his first phase of trying to leave parry until last. That way I could attack him with heavies and medium attacks to push him and give myself space for when he launched the SP1. That was the hardest part for me. I wanted him as far away as possible so I could have as long a window as possible to dex the SP1. The 3 after were easy if I got the first part down. I used Herc A ton and once I got the GM wounded the first time the damage was crazy so it gave me hope. My final attempt came when I got the GM wounded my first try. That is when I pushed through. It was still long. Revived 23 times about 1100 units on potions and got it right enough to get it done. But I practiced the path like 15-20 times and the GM like 10 times before I committed to the kill.
BUT I do have all of the characters that you mentioned on your team besides Tigra so I’m gonna try a few times. I only *just* pulled Emma tho as a 5* so the only thing she’d do is be on the roster for Kitty.
And I agree about him seeming WAY more aggressive than any video I’ve seen.
He’s definitely more manageable. But with his “aggressive” mode and this ridiculously fast AI that they “swear” isn’t any different - I can’t even evade his basic attacks when he goes in to attack me. Any other champion I can swipe swipe swipe back to evade but with him I’m always taking like the 4th and 5th hit. I hate him.
After loosing my Claire with about 50% health on him left I tried Sunspot but he still used the obliterated debuffs on me and was unstoppable throughout the fight so he KO’d me and I only clipped a little bit of his health off. Jesus he feels harder than most of the bosses in 6.3
But how did you apply the damage over time effects portion of the grandmaster with Hercules?
He's so aggressive I haven't even had a Special 1 activity yet. I have yet to get him to launch a special at me.
Are you getting all 3 tactics banned? Does not matter what order you do them in for phase one. Light attacks, parry and dex. But once you get one of them banned you can’t do it again
Or you will get a blunder. Too many of those and he goes to the SP3 and you’re dead. Once all 3 are banned he gets his bar of power and will launch his special. You have to dex the beam as it’s unblockable. Then I each shot of the 3 part requires either a block, dex or to get hit by it. Then he gets wounded and then the real damage happens.
There are a ton of videos out there about the 3 phases, his specials and what occurs and what you need to do.
Also this path is a joke to Sunspot+200% power boost.
Aarkush can easily be taken with doom, same goes for Annihilus.
Get a clear idea abt GM’s all phases from Jason Voorches YT channel, before going into the fight.
Some champs that will help u to defeat gm with ease-
Kitty or *Kitty+tigra synergy (Best against GM so far, IMO)
Doom
Juggernaut
Herc
Ultron
Warlock
Apocalypse
Prof X
Nf
Bwcv not bad
Or any champs with high Crit dmg.
Bringing a white magneto for Annihilus and Aarkus is probably smart too.
Or you will get a blunder.
Does it ban them in the order you’re doing them? So if I start by parrying him a few times, it’ll ban parry. If I do 5 hit combo a couple times, I’ll ban light attacks. Then I can dex medium dex medium until he gains the bar and throws the special?