Tech Class lacking?
Childish_Almino
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I think it’s not a hot take to state that the tech class is falling behind compared to the other classes. Science and Cosmic are most definitely the strongest and mystics have some powerhouses or make up with utility. Mutants and Skill have some lacking as well but still carry their weights, even with great defenders.
The tech class most definitely has fun champs which I quite enjoy, but most of them aren’t nearly as diverse in strength as in the other classes. Double Immunity isn’t as crazy as it used to be and some mutants even counter techs for some reason. Especially with the 7* Tech roster it falls behind and none seem like a perfect R3 unless you personally love the champ. Also with how good the cosmic roster is, they even successfully counter the amazing tech defenders with each having a hard counter or more.
Maybe it’s just me, what do y’all think about it?
The tech class most definitely has fun champs which I quite enjoy, but most of them aren’t nearly as diverse in strength as in the other classes. Double Immunity isn’t as crazy as it used to be and some mutants even counter techs for some reason. Especially with the 7* Tech roster it falls behind and none seem like a perfect R3 unless you personally love the champ. Also with how good the cosmic roster is, they even successfully counter the amazing tech defenders with each having a hard counter or more.
Maybe it’s just me, what do y’all think about it?
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shuri ? Guardian? Ironman? Shocker? Hulkbuster? Red skull? All these champs are either quite niche or need high sig. starky spidy is the only tech 7* who I consider even being close to great, but he is locked behind a very tough event as well.
New tech champs since 7* launch are mid as well. LDS, Ironheart, Prowler, Arcade all r good, but none are exciting.
At this point even a 7* nimrod or FAM won't be exciting or something, lol.
Guardian, shuri, shocker, iron man are not niche and are extremely versitile. The only thing stopping shuri is shock immune really, but that immunity is niche as well compared to the entirety of the champ pool. Also, while i don’t have much experience to comment on shocker. The other champs do not need their awakening for their damage.
Iron hear doesn’t have much damage but i’m tired of people looking past her utility and focusing on just her damage which might not be crazy like ham or onslaught but can still be a great questing champ.
Fam would be great, but again not at doom or hulkling or scorpion level. I mean we all can agree doom hulkling and scorp would be the last 7*s to appear and be very surprised if we see em in next titan crystal. FAM, He can be in next titan crystal and be a very well balanced champ.
1: Invalidate. Prowess is basically restricted to only mutants and the occasional node.
2: Armor up buffs. The base ability of increasing armor isn’t very useful and its utility is, again, only really good for some mutants and the occasional node like dress code.
3: Heal block. Regen is more widespread than prowess but it’s still basically a dead ability in the many non-regen matchups.
4: Power control like power drain/burn or special lock. This is by far the most relevant thing techs can do but ironically we’re seeing it show up less and less. Arcade, Prowler, and Ironheart have limited/specific power control while champs like Shocker, LDS, and Shuri have none at all. Doesn’t help that Kabam seems less afraid to make counters to these abilities nowadays.
Whereas lots of champs these days seem to be getting diverse toolkits designed for usage in all sorts of matchups techs still seem to be stuck in a weird place where Kabam seems insistent on making them duller and duller scalpels besides a few standouts like FAM and Shuri. Arcade and Ironheart seemed to be trying to buck the trend by having more generically useful abilities but Ironheart hasn’t captured the same general usage someone like Scorpion has while Arcade just seems a bit undertuned. Kabam just needs to start giving techs the wider suite of abilities you’d think they’d get from technology anyways. That and maybe some extra damage.
Happy too see how far Science has come!!
They should do something similar for Tech
Shame.
@Childish_Almino you're deffo right matey, the 7*tech class in particular is seriously lacking. Shame deathless vision couldn’t sort it out. Ironheart is fun but hardly a force and although I love guardian, I have both at r2 and they’re mid compared to my other 7*s.
Saying that, for me, mutant and tech are the two poorest classes at the mo. My 7* mutant roster is poor, people will throw sunspot at me but if you don’t crit, that sp2 doesn’t cut the mustard.
but...
at the moment i am super happy with my 7* warlock and my 7* lady D.
yes i have a bunch that i kinda like but are not sure if they are worth ranking but warlock and lady d are both hectic
1: Ironheart reduces OAA by 150% against mutants while she has 5+ repulsor debuffs, letting her parry without triggering daunted. Dust’s parries automatically glance, so she gets to do the same thing without the (admittedly light) setup. Note that bc Onslaught is dumb Ironheart can’t fully prevent his sp1 effects through block so the extra AAR isn’t really an advantage.
2: Ironheart has reversed controls immunity while her armor up buff is active. However, Dust has the psychic shielding tag which means she’s immune to Onslaught’s reverse controls on sp2 as well.
3: both have heavy emphasis on physical damage that Onslaught can’t reduce or punish.
4: Dust is not metal and can thus remove neuroshocks by dashing back unlike Ironheart.
5: In war, Onslaught is pretty common on hazard shift nodes. Dust has more immunities and thus better play into these scenarios.
Basically techs stay losing, Kabam’s non-tech champions are better Onslaught counters than the techs they make for that explicit purpose.
Had a chance again when she was up for a tune-up, but they dropped the ball again.
We are already complaining of every cosmic champion nowadays being immune to nullify, neutralize, stagger or fateseal which are STAPLES IN THE ONLY CLASS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO SUFFER AGAINST. Kabam is bypassing staples of the game such as masteries and class relationships. Magneto was the only understandable exception because of the nature of his powers now we've gotten a science champion with unshruggable debuffs and you want tech to counter cosmic too???