What makes Future Ant-Man a great champion?

I am starting to reach the stage where it is harder and harder for me to learn about new champions and think about why I would need it over the 60 already existing top 10 champions of each class.

Not bagging on FAM, but I really want to know why everyone seems to be jumping on the FAM hype train.

Reading his kit, he seems just like any number of champions where you stack debuffs on the opponent -> SP2 -> Profit.

Aside from the unavoidable damage from Power Detonation, is there something I am not seeing here? Is it more about the playstyle flow, with combo loop + special loop + AI manipulation all just working in harmony?

Side Note: My point of view is more about using the champion. So the Glancing stuff is nice utility, but since the point is not to get hit when you're using the champion, it is not strictly that enticing to me. Sersi also has a similar access to Glancing and big SP2 from stacking buffs, but she remains unranked for me.

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FiiNCH

A mixture of:

- great AI manipulation and power control
- Fantastic damage that doesn’t take long to ramp up at all
- Awesome utility at high sig
- He’s also a great defender in the right scenarios

You can often get through a fight without the defender ever throwing a special.

noclutch

He can disable 3rd power bar at will.
Has Armor ups on intercept.

First character to control his own powerbar

Furrymoosen

At max sig especially he is a solid champ for some biohazard and hazard shift nodes because if it’s bleed or incinerate he should be outhealing any damage he takes. He’s also got flexibility when it comes to which special you want to throw, even if you’ve gained too much power, which is a brand new and fairly nice mechanic.
FAM’s glance is different than Sersi’s. His directly applies to his utility, accessing his damage and altering the AI’s behavior, whereas hers is more of a safety net for survivability.

BitterSteel

At max sig especially he is a solid champ for some biohazard and hazard shift nodes because if it’s bleed or incinerate he should be outhealing any damage he takes. He’s also got flexibility when it comes to which special you want to throw, even if you’ve gained too much power, which is a brand new and fairly nice mechanic.
FAM’s glance is different than Sersi’s. His directly applies to his utility and accessing his damage, whereas hers is more of a safety net for survivability.

Sersi’s glancing actually comes in handy a lot. Since it’s -100% AAR, anything that happens when the opponent hits you cannot trigger.

This can apply to things as small as Valkyrie not gaining a combo, so she won’t start hitting hard on block. But it can also be as impactful as countering masochism or conflictor.

Since the parry occurs while the opponent glances, they have -100% AAR for the shrug off, and therefore cannot shrug your parry. So sersi can get consistent parries - all you need to do is charge heavy.

It’s a fun bit of utility applying to anything that occurs in the same frame as the opponent hitting you/your block

Sachhyam257

First character to control his own powerbar

May I remind you that Purgatory exists, lol. She can drain her own power with her second medium during demonic rage.

Emilia90

He shrugs incinerate and bleed 90% faster at max sig and heals from them after, his overall sustainability is super high and he can take a lot of blocked and direct hits right now despite being bugged, his 10% damage cap can also help on offense on certain nodes and he’s killing it in EOP for me, his damage is easy to ramp up and repeatedly fire off, you can control your specials, you can basically control the AI and his passive ability in surging swarm makes it so the opponent will go for your intercepts 95% of the time.

IvarTheBoneless

First character to control his own powerbar
May I remind you that Purgatory exists, lol. She can drain her own power with her second medium during demonic rage.

Fine then, first good characted to control their own power.

/jk

Kenlinz

Theres a lot of good champs but FAM takes the cake as of right now imo simply because my r4 6* sig 169 (for now) absolutely murders 90% of any class champion. The only thing i dont like is his initial bio that says what he can and cant do they screwed up and he has been bugged from the get go noone other than maybe the creators themselves have played him how he is written out so heres the problem, he does have 100 ability acc he doesny have the 40% or 50% whatever its called and now they are actually (balancing) him which means nerffing him but since it domt work anyway he gets a buff which is lazy creating and whoever made this champion shoukd he fired but we all know how kabam is. They take ur stuff and when u weite in ab it nothing is ever done. Example my game got hacked noone but ke has the password or email account they took my 1500 units and 6.5 some odd gold i s been in constant contact answered all the questions at least 6 times now and keep receiving the same exact email ab them being sorry and heres what i need to do and that whatever i bought will be taken away. But as i said nothing was bought from my account using units or gold it was there i got kicked off the error message says someone has logged onto hour account from a different device which cant happen i went back into my account within 1-2 minutes and all was gone oh including whoever done this hack reset my masteries so i had to grid arena with no parry no dexterixy until i had enough units to put my mastery back like i had it now tell me who other than an admin an do something like that so quick and zero out all my gold and units. I e never used a mod or third party anything and i have 2 accounts that are linked together but only the kabam id account got hit not the google. Plz help with that. Ps fam is great lol

Ercarret

and he’s killing it in EOP for me

Which fights do you use him for in EOP? It would be fun to test him out there.

bm3epps

Regen when he takes a hit that would be take more than 10% health.

Squirrelguy

Theres a lot of good champs but FAM takes the cake as of right now imo simply because my r4 6* sig 169 (for now) absolutely murders 90% of any class champion. The only thing i dont like is his initial bio that says what he can and cant do they screwed up and he has been bugged from the get go noone other than maybe the creators themselves have played him how he is written out so heres the problem, he does have 100 ability acc he doesny have the 40% or 50% whatever its called and now they are actually (balancing) him which means nerffing him but since it domt work anyway he gets a buff which is lazy creating and whoever made this champion shoukd he fired but we all know how kabam is. They take ur stuff and when u weite in ab it nothing is ever done. Example my game got hacked noone but ke has the password or email account they took my 1500 units and 6.5 some odd gold i s been in constant contact answered all the questions at least 6 times now and keep receiving the same exact email ab them being sorry and heres what i need to do and that whatever i bought will be taken away. But as i said nothing was bought from my account using units or gold it was there i got kicked off the error message says someone has logged onto hour account from a different device which cant happen i went back into my account within 1-2 minutes and all was gone oh including whoever done this hack reset my masteries so i had to grid arena with no parry no dexterixy until i had enough units to put my mastery back like i had it now tell me who other than an admin an do something like that so quick and zero out all my gold and units. I e never used a mod or third party anything and i have 2 accounts that are linked together but only the kabam id account got hit not the google. Plz help with that. Ps fam is great lol

I think my brain just automatically self-rebooted halfway through that and I didnt read the rest. "You've got to do better" - Sam Wilson in a spangly wingsuit.

FAM seems relatively simple, but let me hit some highlights:

Sig ability that provides regen buffs and reduces duration of bleed and incinerate. it also reduces a hit that goes over 10% of his max health to 10% and gives a regen buff after for up to 50% of the damage.
10% base glance unless they have a pierce effect.
40% passive power drain with the EPD
PD passive allows for the Disintegration debuff (solid) and instant DisInts that essentially no champ can counter, which deals direct damage and reduces combat power rate.
Stacking armor up buffs are easily accessible, increase glancing by 6% each, you can keep 5 permanently, pause during special attacks, and can turn passive if they fail to trigger or are traditionally removed.
With 6+ armors (so three quick intercepts) you gain surging swarm, which gives you +60% attack, doubles EPD expiry, makes the opponent more aggressive (easier to intercept and control), and stuns the opponent on a combo ender (has saved my little ant butt several times already, and is not based on RNG).
Has the option to selectively disable sp3, which is incredible for BGs and a variety of situations. Also, 4th L is non-contact.
SP1 applies DisInt even into block, and the final hit drains .15 power bars per DisInt debuff on the opponent.
SP2 hits do +180% attack (roughly) in instant DisInt while PD is active, +100% potency for each active DisInt debuff. Aka mega damage.
SP3 gain 10 armor buffs and inflict a 60 sec Disint.

The only thing he is lacking in is a breadth of synergies. He has a lot of unique (or rare) utilities, really solid damage, is a pain as a defender for a variety of abilities, can gain buffs, can cause debuffs, can power control, can control the defender's aggressiveness, looks cool (personally, but he's certainly no Mojo), is a newer champ that most people haven't gotten used to fighting, deals with some specifically pesky defenders.......should I say more?

ReignkingTW

I think my brain just automatically self-rebooted halfway through that and I didnt read the rest. "You've got to do better" - Sam Wilson in a spangly wingsuit.

Same!