NERF ‘EM - New OP Defender Trend

Onslaught, Bullseye & Serpent are 3 examples of the ridiculous new way that Defenders are made. To put it simply, if skill can’t prevent you from taking unavoidable damage from these defenders, then it makes absolutely no sense for them to be made this way. The unavoidable damage makes you lose rounds in BG’s no matter how well you play.
Onslaught has a new version of unblockable and a reverse control that trigger when he throws a special, and to make it worse somehow, they are active at the same time… which in other words means that you’ll be losing that round because there’s nothing you can do once these overpowered abilities trigger.
Bullseye, if you fight him slow & well enough to avoid the overpowered intercept ability after he gains 1 bar of power… will throw his special into your block and do unavoidable damage that can guarantee your loss if you put any other defender down for your opponent that isn’t one of these new defenders.
Serpent and Photon can trigger unblockable and undexable specials which the community has complained enough about already for obvious reasons.

Now for those who say ‘just use a counter’… the fact that the new defenders are made with only a few certain champions that are able to fully counter them is a terrible and boring formula to make defenders with. What player wants to use the same 3-4 counters for the same defender over and over again because the other 200+ characters have no chance of winning the fight without inevitably losing half of your health.

Kabam is so out of touch with the community for thinking that players would find this new formula fun. Whales are the only players who have all these OP defenders instantly and put F2P & low spenders at a huge disadvantage in the main mode in the game… BG’s. If Kabam cared about community feedback… they’d nerf these unfair defenders and stop making defenders like this.

Comments

Cdjcdkj

Hey OP, I agree on some of these things.

We are aware that we've been going a little hard on the 5/5 Defenders lately and do plan to tone it down in the future. Unfortunately, we had some catching up to do with the Attackers we've released over the years without any Defenders to match, especially in certain classes.

Defenders are an important addition to the game. It may seem "out of touch" with what the average player wants, but ask any Game Dev and they will tell you, more often than not what the player wants and what they/the game needs is usually wildly different.

Internally and looking forward, over the last month or so we've already adjusted some of our plans for a number of upcoming Champions so that they weren't as strong on Defense. This isn't to say there won't be any 5/5 Defenders coming your way in the future, but you can expect fewer than what you've seen in the last few months.

Your out of touch most player don't want to fight a new difficult defenders every month or two not to mention removing dex ability and willpower isn't fair to the player

Pandingo

Honestly. It's an unpopular opinion but they have a point. We received a SLEW of great attackers and saw the same three defenders over and over and over. We will learn these defenders eventually. Maybe tone down bullseye a bit. And maybe create a few answers. And MAYBE don't release them all at once next time. Give us a couple months to adjust hahahaha. For now I just ban the ones I don't like and honest to God I usually ban attackers anyway. As for war. It definitely needs tuning. Either limit dupes of 'premier defenders' or benefit diversity so much that it actually would hurt to have multiple copies on the field

DarkNightRise

Hey OP, I agree on some of these things.

We are aware that we've been going a little hard on the 5/5 Defenders lately and do plan to tone it down in the future. Unfortunately, we had some catching up to do with the Attackers we've released over the years without any Defenders to match, especially in certain classes.

Defenders are an important addition to the game. It may seem "out of touch" with what the average player wants, but ask any Game Dev and they will tell you, more often than not what the player wants and what they/the game needs is usually wildly different.

Internally and looking forward, over the last month or so we've already adjusted some of our plans for a number of upcoming Champions so that they weren't as strong on Defense. This isn't to say there won't be any 5/5 Defenders coming your way in the future, but you can expect fewer than what you've seen in the last few months.
Your out of touch most player don't want to fight a new difficult defenders every month or two not to mention removing dex ability and willpower isn't fair to the player

Yeah I believe for now there are already too nany champs. Kabam should focus on fixing bugs and only release 1 new champ per month. But of course we all know they want money and never gonna do it