Superior Iron Man Buff Thoughts
J0eySn0w
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I’ve been testing the champ since his buff at 6r3. Pulled him from the Titan crystal, continue my testing and I’m wondering if I should take him up or not. The other Cosmic alternatives are duped Gamora, Vox, DKG, and unduped Adam Warlock. I’m making this post to share my observations and to welcome others to broaden my knowledge and understanding of the character.
My overall feelings about SIM as of now are:
- I’d start by saying, I appreciate the efforts that the team put into this champ. Thank you. Buff champs are always appreciated and has its own taste or appeal of the game.
- Damage: he has it, up there with the best…definitely in the top 10% for sure if not higher.
- Regen and Willpower: I’m not quite sure how I feel, would say not sold on that. Probably would have been happy if they gave him Ultron kind of regen and left his willpower alone. Took him into incursions and I didn’t see annything special about his sustainability. I didn’t have buff cornucopia, but it felt my other champs without regen were more sustainable than him due to their full benefits from willpower healing. I may have test him more on this.
- Immunity & Resistance: All of the Comics the past 4 years have some form of immunities or resistances. And he follows the pattern which is good. Despite his Willpower lowered he seems to do just fine where I tested him.
- Additional Utility: His buffs have additional ability accuracy making him viable for dealing with glancing and 100% neutralize. So where others have outright nullify immunity, he has that just like Vox. He can also block non-contact attacks through his heavy via Superior Instinct Buff. In those matchups, you have to manage one heavy attack to unlock that. My only concern with additional utility is that 12/16 Cosmic champs past 4 years have at least one (pseudo) way of handling either Miss, Evade, or Autoblock. SIM doesn’t follow that pattern. Would have been nice if he followed suit, an unblockable special would have been nice.
- Lastly, he has ZERO defensive value. I mean NIL! Couldn’t they have at least let his buffs triggered on attacker’s Medium and Light intercepts and combo-enders, just like on attack? Im not sure if Buffed champs are up for rebalance but Kabam please re-consider this when he’s up for discussion.
Well, this is my take on the champ. I’d appreciate other inputs and thoughts. Thanks for reading.
My overall feelings about SIM as of now are:
- I’d start by saying, I appreciate the efforts that the team put into this champ. Thank you. Buff champs are always appreciated and has its own taste or appeal of the game.
- Damage: he has it, up there with the best…definitely in the top 10% for sure if not higher.
- Regen and Willpower: I’m not quite sure how I feel, would say not sold on that. Probably would have been happy if they gave him Ultron kind of regen and left his willpower alone. Took him into incursions and I didn’t see annything special about his sustainability. I didn’t have buff cornucopia, but it felt my other champs without regen were more sustainable than him due to their full benefits from willpower healing. I may have test him more on this.
- Immunity & Resistance: All of the Comics the past 4 years have some form of immunities or resistances. And he follows the pattern which is good. Despite his Willpower lowered he seems to do just fine where I tested him.
- Additional Utility: His buffs have additional ability accuracy making him viable for dealing with glancing and 100% neutralize. So where others have outright nullify immunity, he has that just like Vox. He can also block non-contact attacks through his heavy via Superior Instinct Buff. In those matchups, you have to manage one heavy attack to unlock that. My only concern with additional utility is that 12/16 Cosmic champs past 4 years have at least one (pseudo) way of handling either Miss, Evade, or Autoblock. SIM doesn’t follow that pattern. Would have been nice if he followed suit, an unblockable special would have been nice.
- Lastly, he has ZERO defensive value. I mean NIL! Couldn’t they have at least let his buffs triggered on attacker’s Medium and Light intercepts and combo-enders, just like on attack? Im not sure if Buffed champs are up for rebalance but Kabam please re-consider this when he’s up for discussion.
Well, this is my take on the champ. I’d appreciate other inputs and thoughts. Thanks for reading.
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With these buffs, on defense he can be viable with armor up buff for instance, nodes like armor assault, chitinous thorns, electric defense, etc.
With regen, enhanced recovery, reinvigorated (unblockable/fury), etc.
With other node combination that prevent nullify and heal reversal, he’s at least viable. It’s up to you the player to know when to use him.
Secondly, having his regen like Ultron means he’s not going to have regen as a buff. That could be replace with something else, either undermine, vigilance, true strike, true focus, etc. then his willpower will be return to normal. Anyway, it doesn’t matter, as long as regen is to offer sustainability, as long as he has that either with normal willpower or not. So far, I personally haven’t seen his sustainability yet. But like I said I will test further and ask for others to provide more observations.
Not a must have champ