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Why you should vote for Loki
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Over the next few days we will have the opportunity to vote on Winter Soldier (I respect the attempt) Black Widow (who already has two other powerful variants, plus BW would likely be an evade based defender) and then the obvious main headliners, GR and Loki.
Now I’m not going to argue against Ghost Rider being a solid pick. I get that he looks awesome, has great comic book lore, and even though we already have two other Ghost Riders in the game (one of whom is a mystic that would likely clear the exact same content), none of these are relevant counter arguments. Nobody is going to say “Hey let’s have LESS Hercules and Hyperion attackers!” Because these champs are fun.
But… buffing Loki would give Kabam the opportunity to undo a lot of the damage that has been caused by the overpowered and annoying defenders amongst the Cosmic, Mutant, AND mystic classes. Think about a champion that we have used in niche situations to take down horrible bosses in story content just because of his abilitiy to weaponize the nonsense of the AI right back against it. I think it’s especially important considering the fact that Loki is so directly paired with the Serpent and Enchantress (two of the most controversial champions that have EVER been released).
One of the things that make these new defenders so difficult to CONTROL is the fact that power and buff stealing has never been given a modernized overhaul mechanic.
Rogue had the chance of being the first OG character with the ability to rip the annoying buffs and passives off of the faces of her opponents last year but she lost. Doctor strange actually lost before she did. Now we have the opportunity to request the literal “God of Stories” who could easily have access to ability accuracy reduction, stagger, frost and coldsnap immunity, and most importantly the ability to steal UNIQUE buffs… so once again we’re being asked to vote between the sure thing (Ghost rider becoming the next purgatory, a top 12 mystic attacker with strong DoT and a bunch of immunities) which is fair.
Or maybe we can take more of a risk and actually vote for a champion that would be designed to take a complicated defender and for once give the player the ability to control them, bending them to our will, ignoring the unblockable-unstoppable-unphasable-unavoidable nonsense that has plagued the champ deck for the last 2 years. I guess we’ll see what happens next.
Now I’m not going to argue against Ghost Rider being a solid pick. I get that he looks awesome, has great comic book lore, and even though we already have two other Ghost Riders in the game (one of whom is a mystic that would likely clear the exact same content), none of these are relevant counter arguments. Nobody is going to say “Hey let’s have LESS Hercules and Hyperion attackers!” Because these champs are fun.
But… buffing Loki would give Kabam the opportunity to undo a lot of the damage that has been caused by the overpowered and annoying defenders amongst the Cosmic, Mutant, AND mystic classes. Think about a champion that we have used in niche situations to take down horrible bosses in story content just because of his abilitiy to weaponize the nonsense of the AI right back against it. I think it’s especially important considering the fact that Loki is so directly paired with the Serpent and Enchantress (two of the most controversial champions that have EVER been released).
One of the things that make these new defenders so difficult to CONTROL is the fact that power and buff stealing has never been given a modernized overhaul mechanic.
Rogue had the chance of being the first OG character with the ability to rip the annoying buffs and passives off of the faces of her opponents last year but she lost. Doctor strange actually lost before she did. Now we have the opportunity to request the literal “God of Stories” who could easily have access to ability accuracy reduction, stagger, frost and coldsnap immunity, and most importantly the ability to steal UNIQUE buffs… so once again we’re being asked to vote between the sure thing (Ghost rider becoming the next purgatory, a top 12 mystic attacker with strong DoT and a bunch of immunities) which is fair.
Or maybe we can take more of a risk and actually vote for a champion that would be designed to take a complicated defender and for once give the player the ability to control them, bending them to our will, ignoring the unblockable-unstoppable-unphasable-unavoidable nonsense that has plagued the champ deck for the last 2 years. I guess we’ll see what happens next.
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Literally the first punching bag for everyone's new rank-up.
He deserves some love....
Sorry
Ghost Rider judgement says Loki isnt worthy
Johnny Blaze.
Dr. Zola
I just think that Buff Stealing is super unique, compared to the likely fateseals that Ghost Rider would get.
Based on Kabam's historic behavior for Reworks, they usually miss the mark when a champion is already decent to good (and Ghost Rider is a pretty good champion, just a little clunky and underpowered), but deliver when it is a pretty basic champion (like Cyclops, who had nothing going for him in the original kit). For example, in the Guillotine vs Antman argument, Guillotine won and got reworked into a champion that wasn't that much different. Comparatively, even though Antman's buff ended up average, his kit is still vastly more interesting than it originally was.
Buff Stealing is not any more OP than Buff Immunity. I can see Kabam adding some restrictions (maybe stack limits). His SP2 damage as a percentage of Max health is arguably more powerful, so I could see Kabam changing it so the damage level interacts with the amount of buffs stolen.
He's already a better champ then gr, just try fighting maxed 7* serpent with 4* Loki and gr. Ghost rider needs a lot more changes to be playable with bg focus game shifted to. And I'm not sure if gr would end up a good champ
Now winter soldier could end up as a good skill attacker I personally need, and he deserves it the most for sure
We have a Ghost Rider legion