Defender Potency
kenadroid
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Am I the only one who feels like the recent champs have so much defender potency that it kinda ruins the fun out of the game? It's not straight up challenging more of punishing at this point.
Photon, Onslaught have mastery shutdowns and annoying abilities that ticks your health.
Bullseye, need I explain more
Enchantress, the moment AI decides not to play with intercepts to get rid of spell, you lose a massive chunk of your health.
Serpent with 20+ defensive abilities like especially the pierce passive that'll hurt your block from his undexable sp attack.
But that's just me.
Photon, Onslaught have mastery shutdowns and annoying abilities that ticks your health.
Bullseye, need I explain more
Enchantress, the moment AI decides not to play with intercepts to get rid of spell, you lose a massive chunk of your health.
Serpent with 20+ defensive abilities like especially the pierce passive that'll hurt your block from his undexable sp attack.
But that's just me.
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Honestly between overtuned defenders, undertuned attackers, horrendous AI, all focus going to deals, lack of communication, horrible Deathless champs that take over a year to complete, lack of consistent content and rewards updates… this game been on a steady downward spiral for me. Deathless Thanos is really all I’m waiting for and he’s gonna be what makes me stay or quit this game cause the amount of grind and his price is unheard of so if he’s not the most busted champ in the game OFFENSIVELY then I’m out. Even Maestro sucks cause he only serves 1 purpose. I haven’t been happy all year. Literally just sticking it out for Thanos
Old defenders used to be challenging, not unfair. U got korg whose loophole is dealing light attacks. Or thing where you just gotta manage rock stacks. Not shoddy 3 stacks of power gain with serpent
Photon: Mantis, Black Cat, Stark Spidey, KP, Crossbones, Zemo, Hulkling, CGR, and lots of others nuke her so fast. She’s not hard if you know how to manage her
Onslaught: Any champ works for him. FAM, Hulkling, Silk, Hulk, Titania, Red Guardian, Juggs, Starky. Just don’t parry him
Enchantress: Any champ works again. The AI does suck but any good science dunks on her in a general meta
Only one I agree with is serpent. Bullseye has a ton of counters now too
Also @Heruzu369 if you actually played your best you wouldn’t have died. Bullseye isn’t some impossible defender, go watch some vids. Not surprised to see you complaining about some stuff though
With photon I can push her into pure light at strategic times, I don’t need a counter for that. With onslaught I can dash back and remove a neuroshock, I dont need a counter for that. Against enchantress I can remove her spells with anyone.
Tf do I do against bullseye or serpent without a counter? Bullseye is gracious enough to give me 8 hits before he completely removes the ability for me to hit him and says “you must eat damage.” Serpent allows a massive 4 hits before he gains a bar of power and after a few specials thrown does as a much block damage as bullseye, while simultaneously being 3x tankier and having ridiculous power gain.
Defenders have gotten too good, and they have far too much of an impact on every meta. When the best strategy in every bg match is to draft a defender with unavoidable damage, draft the counters to those champs, and pray your opponent doesn’t do the same, something is messed up.