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There is no such thing as “best champion in the game”
Knightarthus
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Each situation calls for certain champion especially with end of game content. For example SL for long fights where no utility is included. Magik for power control. Hyperion for quick damage and so on.
You need a collection of at least 10 certain champions to have the “best in the game”.
You need a collection of at least 10 certain champions to have the “best in the game”.
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It is when unknowledgeable players *ask* who is the best champion in the game that there's a problem. Because there is no one champion that is best at everything, they can get the wrong idea when they are told who is "best" before they learn who is even "good."
Back in the day, "best" was essentially "best at dealing damage" because most content was doable with a variety of champions, making the singular worst case scenario Labyrinth of Legends, which generally requires maximum damage output to minimize the cost to beat (the enrage timers make any other strategy other than maximum damage per second mostly meaningless). Which basically put Star Lord alone at the top of the heap. But as the general content got harder with things like Act 5 and the special events and now uncollected difficulty, LoL isn't the only focus of the end game. Other champions like Voodoo and Iceman and Archangel started to share the spotlight with Star Lord.
I think Blade attracts a lot of interest because while he is not necessarily the best at anything, he has fewer bad matchups than other champions and even his worst matchups are not bad. And I think that follows the pattern of Iceman being considered one of the best previously: not chosen for being the best at something, but for being always at least pretty good everywhere. Blade is never bad, and that means he has a lot more upside potential when facing future endgame content, on top of also being very good at the currently very difficult stuff.
Heck, I took three shots at him originally, and I'm saving to try for him in February. I don't know if he is the best champion, I just know I want him more than any other champion currently.
Well said.
By that measure, I'd say Spark is better than Blade then. Spark definitely has fewer bad matchups than Blade.
Ice Phoenix's cold snap deals about 11k of damage. The only way you only have a tiny amount of health back with all of your 4* champs is either all of your 4* champs are weaker skill champs (the class disadvantage makes that closer to 15k of damage) or all of your 4* champions are 4/40s.
My 3.1 team ended up being 4/55 Iceman, 5/50 Daredevil, 4/40 Agent Venom, 5/50 Ghost Rider, and 5/50 Dormammu. GR and Dormammu were mostly for clearing to Ice Phoenix, and Iceman, Daredevil, and AV mostly worked on Ice Phoenix herself. I'm sad to say my Ice Phoenix skills are not the greatest, but 5/50 Daredevil got some decent damage in as long as I could keep up my intercepts. Because he survives cold snap with so little damage I ended up using some boosts for the fight, but since he buys you out of having to perfectly dodge special one he isn't a bad choice.
My absolute best Ice Phoenix run used zero potions and it was Agent Venom that finished her off (Iceman did about half, Daredevil did about a quarter). If I had the skills to play that well every time, a team of random 3/45s would have been enough to take her out.
Blade's useful and has great utility, but my gosh, people. A stacked Colossus runs through him, no matter what anyone says, because the bottom line for me is if Blade can't bleed 'em and they aren't Mystic or villains, you got some problems.
You aren't the best in the game if you can't power drain/power lock. Just my opinion. I use my 5/50 OG Vision, and I can use that character anywhere against anyone.
I say it a lot, but there's a reason that double immune, power controlling, heal blocking, power gaining monster isn't in the five-star pool
Then something wrong on my end. Cause I was using 5/50 Blade, Gwenpool, Magik and Hyperion. All went down to 1%. And that was with 3 boosts on. 20% health, 20% attack and 15% health/attack. My 4/55 Storm only took about 40% damage.
I'm totally not scared they are gonna nerf it -- why would I be? They literally created this character to help break up all of the Mystic Wars.
It isn't the "haves" and "have-nots." I have him. There are other characters who are just as effective, depending on what you are trying to accomplish and who you are facing.
I mean, seriously. If anything needs to be nerfed in this game, it's Mystic Dispersion -- and everyone knows it.
If they aren't gonna nerf Magik, Voodoo, and Ghost Rider, the Dormammus and Mephistos of the game running under Mystic Dispersion, why would anybody be scared they are gonna nerf Blade?
This game is all about counters. Magik and Voodoo and the Mystics have been running wild for too long, and now that Blade is about ready to tear through all this Mystic Dispersion ****, people who don't have him say he is OP?
Not flying in my book, but maybe that's just me
You aren't good enough at using blade
All mystics with 5/5 MD are bad matchups against spark