How do you rate Jessica as a BGs defender? And do you think ascenscion/r5 can help?
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So she's obviously not Photon or Maestro level, but where do you rate her compared to the typical annoying defenders (Korg, Thing, Domino, Attuma, KM etc)
The second part of the question regarding ascenscion/r5 is because the more health she has the longer the fight goes (and the more combat power rate meaning more specials to stall). She gets more annoying as the fight is stalled.
She gets nuked if they have a counter but there arent *that* many slow or cleanse champs, but almost everyone runs AA so it's a bit of a gray area to me.
The second part of the question regarding ascenscion/r5 is because the more health she has the longer the fight goes (and the more combat power rate meaning more specials to stall). She gets more annoying as the fight is stalled.
She gets nuked if they have a counter but there arent *that* many slow or cleanse champs, but almost everyone runs AA so it's a bit of a gray area to me.
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She’s so tanky because of her Resistance buffs. Elevating her status through ascension accentuates her innate tankiness. Then you might want to bring the most obvious counters for her otherwise you’ll get timeout most of the time.
While Photon is a viable choice due to her versatility, the decision depends on your priorities, whether you want a solid defender or a champion who can also excel as an attacker in BGs. If u r kind of competitive in bgs then I’d say u should consider ascending Jessica after Photon.
To be clear, I already have Photon at r5 ascended.
I was looking into Jessica as an option for
my next defensive investment, but I also have mephisto and thing as choices too. (Both are r4 sig 200)
She requires them to draft a direct counter, but many of those counters are already in decks. But, it can also take a counter away from a different champ you draft (looking at you AA)
I don't have photon though.
Another thing I think of when ascending champs is if they are available as a 7 star (or I think they will be soon).
So I ascended both of my trophies (jessica and wpn x, OG vision is next) because I am unlikely to get them as a 7 anytime soon
Champs like herc and doom are also unlikely to be available as 7s, so they also got ascended.
Definitely worth it I think
The forcing a counter is a good point but like you said a lot of the counters she forces are already ran in decks, but that could still mean preventing them from drafting another attacker or defender that they would have
Curious, do you think she forces a counter better than Thing, Mephisto, and Fury? Or has less counters than them.
Looking to ascend either one of those or Jess
thing: while is an amazing defender, has many more counters (except in certain metas he is a real pita)
meph: amazing defender, but has several counters now. Not to mention, 7* mystics imo are a better investment.
Fury: great two way champ, but except in few metas, has the most number of counters, since you can actually fight him with anyone, and good play.
EDIT: Imo Fury is probably the best to ascend, since he is such a great two way champ, as are each and every one of these champs. I just feel like Jess is a niche defender that, in BGs requires either Valk, Cheeith, Shang or AA. But a case can be made for each of these champs. All of them are good
As for Mephisto, he has counters but a lot less than any other mystic defender as you ideally want an incinerate immune. The science class has nukes that take the whole mystic class but its only torch thats incinerate immune. Also hes unique in that hes the only mystic that can’t be nuked in 1 hit.
I do have a duped R1 maw though that ive been debating ranking over mephisto regarding your point about prioritizing the 7 star mystics
Mephisto is harder to blitz and takes a different counter than most other annoying defenders... not worth the ascension though
regarding Maw, ive seen enough great footage from KamMcoc, and DLL to warrant that he is a great two way champ too. Just attach the GR relic and he is really good.
Ive never actually tried it so idk how tricky it is to get the extra degens from sp2 into falter as his special has a bit of a delay. Also missing the GR relic as a 5 or 6 star rarity. Got a ton of unopened 4star relic crystals though if the 4 star still works
The 4* should work. I havent tested it out myself, i should though.
the idea is to heavy at the start and throw sp2 when falter is up, for the most part.
If so then yeah I should’ve included him. Overall though I think mephisto is the better defender over Kindred as without an incinerate immune he stalls a lot longer