Silver Sable… What Happened?
Suros_moon
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Ive been lucky enough with my titan pulls that I cant really be disappointed with any outcome for a while (I got onslaught back to back followed by serpent back to back a few weeks ago), so I didnt have high expectations for my small opening over the weekend.
That being said, after acquiring silver sable and starting from a zero-knowledge perspective (hadn't seen any discussions on her), I was shocked. I did my usual series of champion tests and benchmarked her across a spectrum of game modes both ideal and not. Having done that, I can confidently say that she is the worst champion in the 7 star pool. I don’t take pleasure in saying it and I also don’t do so lightly. I have tested the so called “nothing pulls” and each one of them brings far more to the table than this “champion”.
Her kit is poorly constructed such that even discerning the intended play style is hard to do. Her debuff upkeep shows that the lessons learned from shuri were not cataloged as the same mistake was made in limiting her ability to refresh the one source of DPS she has. Her only options for refreshing are sp2/3 but the sp2 is forced to interact with a mine in order to work. This means at minimum you have to sp1 into sp2 just to BEGIN the ramp up process, which leads into the next issue.
Her DPS… wow. It is horrible. Now, terrible DPS isn’t necessarily the end all be all of a champion but here’s the issue: Sable is a ramp champion naturally hindered by barriers to accessing damage who ALSO has no utility save for a disorient/miss counter on heavy (and ONLY the heavy), who ALSO has no defensive value, who ALSO actively suffers from her awakened ability because gaining that many buffs means she cant fight mystics in addition to already being naturally disadvantaged against mutants.
Sable is not a niche champion who needs her “moment”. She is a rare example of a champion who excels at precisely 0 aspects of the game. She likely would have passed for mediocre (maybe) in 2018, but releasing her into the current landscape of champions in this state defies belief. At present, an unduped thing, purely due to his immunities has a stronger case for value added to a roster than does silver sable.
She needs a series of VERY clever small changes to make her playable and closer to a full rework in order to make her resemble anything approaching relevant
That being said, after acquiring silver sable and starting from a zero-knowledge perspective (hadn't seen any discussions on her), I was shocked. I did my usual series of champion tests and benchmarked her across a spectrum of game modes both ideal and not. Having done that, I can confidently say that she is the worst champion in the 7 star pool. I don’t take pleasure in saying it and I also don’t do so lightly. I have tested the so called “nothing pulls” and each one of them brings far more to the table than this “champion”.
Her kit is poorly constructed such that even discerning the intended play style is hard to do. Her debuff upkeep shows that the lessons learned from shuri were not cataloged as the same mistake was made in limiting her ability to refresh the one source of DPS she has. Her only options for refreshing are sp2/3 but the sp2 is forced to interact with a mine in order to work. This means at minimum you have to sp1 into sp2 just to BEGIN the ramp up process, which leads into the next issue.
Her DPS… wow. It is horrible. Now, terrible DPS isn’t necessarily the end all be all of a champion but here’s the issue: Sable is a ramp champion naturally hindered by barriers to accessing damage who ALSO has no utility save for a disorient/miss counter on heavy (and ONLY the heavy), who ALSO has no defensive value, who ALSO actively suffers from her awakened ability because gaining that many buffs means she cant fight mystics in addition to already being naturally disadvantaged against mutants.
Sable is not a niche champion who needs her “moment”. She is a rare example of a champion who excels at precisely 0 aspects of the game. She likely would have passed for mediocre (maybe) in 2018, but releasing her into the current landscape of champions in this state defies belief. At present, an unduped thing, purely due to his immunities has a stronger case for value added to a roster than does silver sable.
She needs a series of VERY clever small changes to make her playable and closer to a full rework in order to make her resemble anything approaching relevant
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Something absolutely hilarious is that she has a 4/5 offensive damage stat from Kabam. They’re trolling us at this point
Why Kabam is afraid of 2.5 damage dealer?
Thanks for the write up, she does literally nothing in this game, I actually think her disorient and tracking is pretty useful, but it’s not when the overall champ doesn’t perform.
Ebony Maw was supposed to be very good creation by Kabam Broccoli 🥦, he even said the ability was changed to make him less OP (he isn't bad but not the OP level he was originally supposed to be).
Sorry to bring up another topic.. OP, Silver Sable buff is slated for release Jan 2025.. Aside from what you mentioned, do you believe she needs buff or rework?
just wondering out loud.