No rebalance for Serpent is actually a good thing
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Rather than them spending time trying to figure out how to make up for nerfing him on defense attack wise, its better if they just focus on the rebalance for champs that actually need it like Negasonic or Sable.
2024 has been filled with dud attackers, rather than them trying to nerf the good defenders, its better the champs that are lacking in attack get the attention. Negasonic has the utility for skill defenders, but what good is it, if the damage is so abysmally low that she times out and does the fights a lot slower than non intended counters?
2024 has been filled with dud attackers, rather than them trying to nerf the good defenders, its better the champs that are lacking in attack get the attention. Negasonic has the utility for skill defenders, but what good is it, if the damage is so abysmally low that she times out and does the fights a lot slower than non intended counters?
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A simple search on the forums would reveal several threads complaining about Negasonic.
She was overhyped to us as this "big bad skill class destroyer" when in reality she hits like a tooth pick.
In fact there may have even been more threads on Negasonic than there were Serpent. Im not saying im in full support with the decision to leave Serpent untouched, what im saying is it can be seen as a Silver Lining because if they take away the 1 or 2 good defenders, then whats left of 2024? A bunch of weak attackers and overhyped utility ones?
It would be bold of us to assume that will be the case, nothing they've done this year so far points at that being the case. Furthermore Negasonic Arcade and the rest of champs who need a damage bump are already hitting the target which was 3-3.5/5, I really don't see any of them getting buffed other than Sable.
And layoffs, no one knows which departments got affected by this. QA, PR, HR,....
Ironheart - energy resistance via sig instead of block prof. Better ways to refresh/pause her debuffs.
Destroyer - even a mild buff like getting 15 charges per hit of sp1 would be great, he already had the damage.
Negasonic - perfect champ, Just bump the incenerate numbers (not gonna happen).
Prowler - cowardice or heal block debuff instead of incenerate.
Serpent is a different beast though, most people focus on the power gain, but he’s immortal has a fat regen big resistances, one of the largest health pools in the game etc. it’s a big list for that character.
Enchantress seems like a dud now but a few have pointed out her as a tactic defender in the current meta looks like some impossible fights. (Her going unstable during heavies, any power gain node)
I’m a little lost with some of the new champs designs. When spider punk was released I questioned all of the up down inputs, I still haven’t had the opportunity to play him and now we have enchantress with MANY up down inputs. I wish they would have gave this new direction in champ design more time to sit with the player base before saying “THIS IS A SUCCESS LETS DO MORE.”
I am curious to see how many of these crazy defenders show up in future content
I definitely remember watching a Simula67 video that @ItsClobberinTime recommended of r3 iron heart taking out a "RANK 5" photon in BG in 80 secs while he called her underrated. Where did they get the good on defense narrative from?. Also I've seen countless creators saying negasonics damage is fine. "NOTE: THEY ALL HAD HER AT R3". They do not directly take feedback from them( well some of them at least). CC are the voice of the community, they're who we watch for reviews on these champions, if they think a champion is okay even tho they're OBVIOUSLY underwhelming welp....
If I have alot to do and want to get things over with ASAP and 3 little random people are telling me I didn't do something well even tho I've already done it and someone with a respectable opinion who alot of people listen to tells me "it's okay as is" I'm obviously going to listen to the person.
For the serpent, I'm guessing kabam already figured with photon how used to her we are now and think we'll adapt the same way with serpent. We did complain about photon because she was the first, and it was also a good year for champions so we let it slide, now more viruses have emerged and kabam is expecting us to get used to it AS USUAL
I would rather have someone that does meta rankups and places high in BGs circuit give their takes on new released champs. Im sure the majority would agree