Shocker MASSIVE nerf

Hey @Kabam Miike can we know why the big nerf to shocker wasn't announced or posted anywhere? I love the champion and taked him to max level, now there is a lot of fights like red skull or maestro that he can't take anymore

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Pikolu

Hey guys, this isn't a nerf to shocker, but a fix to how glancing works in general. Glancing has been incorrectly calculating the attack of the opponent since January and should be cutting the attack of the champion in half when hit. This meant that anyone who gains attack from somewhere on hit, was not having their attack cut in half correctly.

Basically the easiest way to show this is glancing before was doing (1000/2) + 100000

Now it does (1000 + 100000)/2

Shocker is also fine for armor opponents because shocker wasn't changed, only glancing.

Herbal_Taxman

Any other major revelations you want to share with us?

IlociaM97

What about the interaction whit armor and armor rating?

Pikolu

Has he always worked that way and you're just now noticing? Because shocker wasn't changed at all, and neither was armor, so his interaction with armor should be the same as it always has been.

Denic_2580

Damage is also reduced with armor opponents. Posted screenshots upper.

iDestroyerZ

Nothing to see here, i got confused with his abilities

World Eater

Can you please add that to the 40,000 page MCoC encyclopedia and operations manual ?

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SnoopTheFool1

I just took my shocker to rank 2. This is diabolical the way you guys are able to go about changing things in the game. Like this is ridiculous. No message, no notes, no anything.

Pandingo

Is this why shocker has been hitting lighter? I noticed he used to wreck stuff but now he's just ok. Ugh. How did I miss that?

Bugmat78

Damn - went from cheese to melted buttermilk

EdisonLaw

@Kabam Miike can you respond pls?

Nemesis_17

Emilia90

I fought a guy in battlegrounds just now that confidently selected shocker when I placed maestro. Poor guy got cooked

Lifeswicked

Shocker was my 2nd r3 and I've invested sig stones in him. I'm not happy about this nerf and want the ability to rank him down

Nemesis_17

So is this confirmed to be intentional? I have an r2 shocker and a big reason I took him up was to have another maestro counter. Idk if I’d rank him down at r2 but to those who have him r3 like the post above mine it’s incredibly unfair. I think RDTs would be deserved.

JT_Supreme

Rip those that ranked him up

Pikolu

Yes, it is 100% intentional that she should have never worked for the Maestro.

Dab_west

shocker before this change could definitely take red skull, so if he cant now, they changed his interaction with armours

Emilia90

Was this in the patchnotes/mentioned anywhere? It seems like everyone was unaware of this fix and I think they should’ve said this somewhere

Nemesis_17

That’s a big L. Even if it was unintentional why not just let it be. He was by no means game breaking it just added an extra layer of utility to his kit that you can’t find elsewhere. Also why wait so damn long to change it?

GlazzyBear

"Shocker cannot land critical hits, but all his attacks reduce the Opponent's Armor Rating by his Critical Rating"

Unless they changed something about this ability, he can still take on armored opponents with his 2500-3000+ crit rating

startropics

damn it, took him to r2.

ItsClobberinTime

I guess I really am the king of bad luck

I pull Thing twice in a row and then a champion I r4 ascended losses a lot of value because Kabam decided not to say a damn word before changing something... I was laughing about the Thing situation, but I'm not laughing anymore this is just messed up.

Herbal_Taxman

Whether you call it an intentional, unpublished nerf, or you classify it as another champ introduced 12 months ago who was bugged the whole time and is now fixed, it sucks. Lots of us have invested resources in good faith based on the information available to us. And now those investments are worth less.

Pikolu

It was a live fix that happened last Friday. Didn't need the client to be updated so not hot fix but will be on the patch notes of the may update.

DNA3000

It sounds like it wasn't Shocker that was changed, but the mechanics of glancing that were changed and Shocker is just the most obvious example. If that's the case, they can't just "let it be" because such bugs will have all sorts of downstream problems if left unchecked.

dannyrotten

So you’re saying this is official and there’s no issues? Pardon my naivety but are you representing kabam? Didn’t see it in your bio. Pardon if I missed it.

I used shocker in 8.4 and normal 250k heavy were basically halved. No glance nodes on the path.

Pikolu

I am a forum guardian and don't officially represent kabam, but I do talk with the devs a lot and share insights of conversations there with y'all to help shed light on situations like this.

startropics

i wouldn't have ranked him if i knew he was like this. a r2 isn't exactly cheap, can we get shocker specific rankdown tickets? i know people will say it's a change to the mechanics and unrelated to shocker specifically, which is true, but this probably affects him the most?

what do we do now?