Blade is the worst 7* in the game
Sachhyam257
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(We're ignoring thanos/deadpool/any 7* trophy champ here)
Let's talk about blade on his own. His synergy partners (ghost rider, dorm/mephi) are dead weight on offense, so you'd never bring them along in any realistic questing situation. Not to mention bgs or aw/gauntlet style content where you're limited to just 1 or 3 champs.
Blade's ideal matchups would be dimensional beings, which make up 14/270 champs. In these matchups, he's a good counter: his dmg is decent (at best) and he shuts down abilities pretty well. However, 5/14 of those champs are bleed immune, with fam being a partial bleed immune champ, making it 6/14. So, there are 8 champs blade counters on his own (chavez, galan, magik, mephi, purg, spot, cow, and hood) where he'll be at full potential dmg-wise. From that lot, you'd almost never see purg/magik on defense (changes if they release 6* magik though), and hood is a pretty easy fight with or without blade. That leaves spot, chavez, galan, cow, and mephisto (these are good defenders, I will admit). So, he has 5 effective matchups at full potential.
Aside from those 5 matchups, blade is on his own and will be without the danger sense bonus. He'll be a regular bleed reliant low-dmg champ with no utility. His regen from the sig is nice on paper; saves potions, but in practice it has lost its value. If you are using that regen in bgs, you've already lost the round. It works for questing, but I'd rather take other skill champs with better dmg and utility over the regen and abysmal dmg that blade offers (might be okay for AQ at best). His debuff duration reduction is a low-value ability with barely any practical use.
Reiterating for the nth time: his dmg is not up to par at all, it's legitimately a joke. In 256/270 matchups, his dmg is pathetic, I'd argue that it is among the lowest of any current 7* (even when he can bleed the opponent). <- Let's not even talk about how toothless he'll be in any bleed immune situation when it's already poor enough.
He obviously has no defensive use, and as established here, he barely offers any offensive value. The only situation I see where his value increases is when/if kabam release a 6* magik. Even then, he only gains 1 more viable matchup.
The fact that he doesn't trigger danger sense against the only vampire in the game, morbius, is crime alone tbh.
He was finally added as a 6* not too long ago, yet I've never seen anyone talk about him (aside from youtubers who ranked him up because of nostalgia/ exclusivity), so why was he added to the 7* pool? Even after excluding broken/top tier skill champs like kate, kingpin, valk, zemo, monke and fury (and exclusives 7*s like moleman and massacre); they could have still added stealthy/bwdo/misty in over him. I wouldn't mind seeing him get buffed soon, if that was the intention; like they did with ironman, luke, and red skull recently. He'd be a bad pull from a basic, much less a titan. The only other 7* that is comparably as bad on their own is red goblin, even then his synergy partner odin is actually worth bringing along.
What prompted me to make this post was another thread here talking about the worst titan crystal. I can't believe ppl were saying blade is a SOLID pull, like stop lying to yourselves lmao. Textbook nostalgia bait champ that you say is solid until you actually pull them. Would anyone rank up a champ that can only do like 5 matchups on their own?
Let's talk about blade on his own. His synergy partners (ghost rider, dorm/mephi) are dead weight on offense, so you'd never bring them along in any realistic questing situation. Not to mention bgs or aw/gauntlet style content where you're limited to just 1 or 3 champs.
Blade's ideal matchups would be dimensional beings, which make up 14/270 champs. In these matchups, he's a good counter: his dmg is decent (at best) and he shuts down abilities pretty well. However, 5/14 of those champs are bleed immune, with fam being a partial bleed immune champ, making it 6/14. So, there are 8 champs blade counters on his own (chavez, galan, magik, mephi, purg, spot, cow, and hood) where he'll be at full potential dmg-wise. From that lot, you'd almost never see purg/magik on defense (changes if they release 6* magik though), and hood is a pretty easy fight with or without blade. That leaves spot, chavez, galan, cow, and mephisto (these are good defenders, I will admit). So, he has 5 effective matchups at full potential.
Aside from those 5 matchups, blade is on his own and will be without the danger sense bonus. He'll be a regular bleed reliant low-dmg champ with no utility. His regen from the sig is nice on paper; saves potions, but in practice it has lost its value. If you are using that regen in bgs, you've already lost the round. It works for questing, but I'd rather take other skill champs with better dmg and utility over the regen and abysmal dmg that blade offers (might be okay for AQ at best). His debuff duration reduction is a low-value ability with barely any practical use.
Reiterating for the nth time: his dmg is not up to par at all, it's legitimately a joke. In 256/270 matchups, his dmg is pathetic, I'd argue that it is among the lowest of any current 7* (even when he can bleed the opponent). <- Let's not even talk about how toothless he'll be in any bleed immune situation when it's already poor enough.
He obviously has no defensive use, and as established here, he barely offers any offensive value. The only situation I see where his value increases is when/if kabam release a 6* magik. Even then, he only gains 1 more viable matchup.
The fact that he doesn't trigger danger sense against the only vampire in the game, morbius, is crime alone tbh.
He was finally added as a 6* not too long ago, yet I've never seen anyone talk about him (aside from youtubers who ranked him up because of nostalgia/ exclusivity), so why was he added to the 7* pool? Even after excluding broken/top tier skill champs like kate, kingpin, valk, zemo, monke and fury (and exclusives 7*s like moleman and massacre); they could have still added stealthy/bwdo/misty in over him. I wouldn't mind seeing him get buffed soon, if that was the intention; like they did with ironman, luke, and red skull recently. He'd be a bad pull from a basic, much less a titan. The only other 7* that is comparably as bad on their own is red goblin, even then his synergy partner odin is actually worth bringing along.
What prompted me to make this post was another thread here talking about the worst titan crystal. I can't believe ppl were saying blade is a SOLID pull, like stop lying to yourselves lmao. Textbook nostalgia bait champ that you say is solid until you actually pull them. Would anyone rank up a champ that can only do like 5 matchups on their own?
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But even then Blade isn’t bad, he can still counter those dimensional beings and has some ok damage outside. He still has that regen which is super useful in questing and is rare in the skill class. A minor tuneup however would make him top tier again
1. Whenever the opponent is bleed immune, gain a Fury and/or cruelty passive to make up for the damage
2. Signature ability increases the range of Danger sense to villains and mystics
3. Regen in base kit (maybe too op)?
4. Crits inflict Bleed
5. On Sp3, gain a Vicious passive
He has ZERO value as a champion rn. Some people are so delusional they'll actually try to sell you on the idea that although blade counters like 6 champs those champs are meta defenders and hence blade is good.
NO DUMAHH I'm not putting blade in my roster for 5 of those matchups. There's other champs that can do those matchups AND MORE and are dual threats.
What makes you think I'll waste a spot on him?
FAM? Hulkling can do it, plus any autoblock champs, plus he's had massive damage on base and he's a dual threat
Mephisto? Be honest when did you last see a mephisto on someone's deck and even if that's the case HT is can take him + almost all mystics + any energy damage matchups , people are considering Him outdated what makes you think they'll put Blade in lmao
Chavez? - Literally any good science can wreck her and we have no shortage of those
Galan? - isn't considered a hard defender anymore let's not kid ourselves, any buff counters that not nullify or fate seal can deal with him.
Mr Green Cow?- again science champs are superior, scorp, Red guardian, Titania, Silk, Archangel and lots more.
Spot? I'll agree he's a strong one for that but why? Why would I bring blade of all the insane skill characters to deal with spot?
Gain 3 regen, 2 fury, 2 precision, 2 powergain Buffs and watch everything bleed/degen and spam sp3 again and again.
Yes bit of build-up but once he's set, he's monster.
- Blade can't do **** in bleed immune matchups, VTD still can apply degen.
- You can equip Venom relic for VTD to increase his damage, no such option for blade.
- VTD is a monster in incursions and AQ. Blade suck even there.
- Blade is easily the worst champ excluding trophies.
But both are pretty much useless. Like 90% of time both are just resting on the roster at r1 lvl 1.