WOOF. Solvarch, for what it’s designed to do, is a nasty, nasty kit

I know the Eidols haven’t necessarily landed for a chunk of people, and the last two were not easy/cheap to get, but at the same time, they haven’t been game breaking kits, either, so no one has to feel left out.

They are certainly kits that players do not have to have in order to do anything.

But if you do have them, you see there are some funky little things they can do that make them interesting and fun to play, for what they are. Kinda niche, kinda fun. Just a little different.

Solvarch, man. That kit is not going to change the game at all. You can counter it easily — any armor-breaking Cosmic, physical damage dealer…straight in the bin.

But.

Man, if you mess around and try to take that kit with Energy damage OF ANY KIND?!

LOLOLOL

What a nasty kit design for that specific thing.

I have just been messing around with it in various matchups and it is just kinda funny.

Any kind of Energy damage against that kit is LOL.

But again, you don’t need it and you’re not missing out.

It’s just a fun, interesting, niche kit and I wanted to say so if a Kabam person was reading the forums.

Comments

World Eater

More punishing than fighting torch with an energy damage Champ?

Tairique_turay0

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.

ItsClobberinTime

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.

Because nobody in ROL has energy damage on basic attacks, you're basically using him in the matchups where he doesn't work. It's like using Sinister against a robot or someone with degen resistance and then sayin Sinister is BAD lol.

When you use him against a mutant, or someone with energy damage on basic attacks he's is VERY good, I did that Storm in 1:15 at r1. He can do the same to Onslaught, Jean, Capt. Britain, Sinister, Cassandra, Dust, Apoc + anyone with energy damage on basics like Zola Maw and Shuri. Bullseye and Spider Woman definitely a big no because he has no way to keep his damage up, but for everything else I mentioned he will be great as long as you know how to use him.

BigPoppaCBONE

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.

Yeah, his basic attacks and special attack hits are so low, I wondered if they messed up the attack increase from his energize. Even with Armor penetration stat focus, they're lower than expected for his supposed attack rating.

However, ROL is a terrible place to figure out what he can do unless you're trying to figure out how to wring performance out of him in bad matchups. He's going to look trash in almost every fight.

He's for weak energy damage/mutants/both in a fight.

GilbertoJunior

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.
Yeah, his basic attacks and special attack hits are so low, I wondered if they messed up the attack increase from his energize. Even with Armor penetration stat focus, they're lower than expected for his supposed attack rating.

However, ROL is a terrible place to figure out what he can do unless you're trying to figure out how to wring performance out of him in bad matchups. He's going to look trash in almost every fight.

He's for weak energy damage/mutants/both in a fight.

They could have changed or added for his Awakening to gain energy resistence and you would heal back 40-80% of the damage prevented based on sig level

ESF

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.
Because nobody in ROL has energy damage on basic attacks, you're basically using him in the matchups where he doesn't work. It's like using Sinister against a robot or someone with degen resistance and then sayin Sinister is BAD lol.

When you use him against a mutant, or someone with energy damage on basic attacks he's is VERY good, I did that Storm in 1:15 at r1. He can do the same to Onslaught, Jean, Capt. Britain, Sinister, Cassandra, Dust, Apoc + anyone with energy damage on basics like Zola Maw and Shuri. Bullseye and Spider Woman definitely a big no because he has no way to keep his damage up, but for everything else I mentioned he will be great as long as you know how to use him.

Yep. He’s sneaky-effective against Zola

Tairique_turay0

@ItsClobberinTime I know what matchups he’s meant for bro… but there’s no way a 7* R3 should be taking 2 minutes for ROL fights. He’s not even fast for energy damage fights!! took 1 minute 37 seconds on storm in ROL. He sucks bro. Truly disappointing. Without fighting an energy damage mutant… he has one of the worst damage outputs in MCOC. That’s on 4.

ESF

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.
Yeah, his basic attacks and special attack hits are so low, I wondered if they messed up the attack increase from his energize. Even with Armor penetration stat focus, they're lower than expected for his supposed attack rating.

However, ROL is a terrible place to figure out what he can do unless you're trying to figure out how to wring performance out of him in bad matchups. He's going to look trash in almost every fight.

He's for weak energy damage/mutants/both in a fight.

They could have changed or added for his Awakening to gain energy resistence and you would heal back 40-80% of the damage prevented based on sig level

This is something I think they could look at — you can kinda overwhelm his Energy Resistance/Healing when he’s on defense, and I don’t know if that is intended or not. I honestly don’t know how effective they intend the kit to be on defense against Energy damage, so it’s hard to tell.

GilbertoJunior

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.
Yeah, his basic attacks and special attack hits are so low, I wondered if they messed up the attack increase from his energize. Even with Armor penetration stat focus, they're lower than expected for his supposed attack rating.

However, ROL is a terrible place to figure out what he can do unless you're trying to figure out how to wring performance out of him in bad matchups. He's going to look trash in almost every fight.

He's for weak energy damage/mutants/both in a fight.

They could have changed or added for his Awakening to gain energy resistence and you would heal back 40-80% of the damage prevented based on sig level
This is something I think they could look at — you can kinda overwhelm his Energy Resistance/Healing when he’s on defense, and I don’t know if that is intended or not. I honestly don’t know how effective they intend the kit to be on defense against Energy damage, so it’s hard to tell.

Considering he throws back energy damage against non cosmics i could see why it wouldn't be as good on defense

Tairique_turay0

@BigPoppaCBONE

Yeah bro, I know ROL isn’t ideal for him and what he’s supposed to do… but a 7* R3 shouldn’t take more than 2 minutes on every ROL fight apart from one… that’s just ridiculous. His damage is literally horrendous. He’s only above decent for mutants with energy damage. He’s got some of the worst damage in the game outside of energy damage mutants…. it’s just bad bro.

ItsClobberinTime

@ItsClobberinTime I know what matchups he’s meant for bro… but there’s no way a 7* R3 should be taking 2 minutes for ROL fights. He’s not even fast for energy damage fights!! took 1 minute 37 seconds on storm in ROL. He sucks bro. Truly disappointing. Without fighting an energy damage mutant… he has one of the worst damage outputs in MCOC. That’s on 4.

You're playing him wrong cause that doesn't make sense, how does it take you longer than me when I have a r1 and you have a r3?

Like I said, you're not playing him efficiently. The damage output isn't great but he spama so many specials back to back it adds up. If you use him for non mutant/energy basic attack matchups yes he's ass but if you use him for those specifically he's decent.

The only thing that needs to be buffed is the energy damage regen, it should be about 75%-80% not 50% cause at 50% he still gets nuked by Galan and BRB and can't stay aggressive enough against Onslaught and other mutants, but everything else is fine when you use him where you're supposed to use him.

Tairique_turay0

@ItsClobberinTime

Lmao i’m sorry… but bro… 1 minute 25 for 1 fight out of the entire ROL path is still bad.. even for a R1. Try your rank 1 against the other fights and it will be a 5-6 minute fight.

His damage is terrible. I literally played him accurately. You get the armour ups, then you get the 10 energise. He’s got some of the worst damage in game outside of his SP3. Super disappointing for me, but i’m glad you like him. I wish I did. He looks awesome. It’s so nasty to watch his bulky, XL giant metal bull looking a55 do around 1k-2k damage per hit. It’s lame,

ItsClobberinTime

@ItsClobberinTime

Lmao i’m sorry… but bro… 1 minute 25 for 1 fight out of the entire ROL path is still bad.. even for a R1. Try your rank 1 against the other fights and it will be a 5-6 minute fight.

His damage is terrible. I literally played him accurately. You get the armour ups, then you get the 10 energise. He’s got some of the worst damage in game. Super disappointing for me, but i’m glad you like him. I wish I did. He looks awesome. It’s so nasty to watch his bulky, XL giant metal bull looking a55 do around 1k-2k damage per hit. It’s lame,

I didn't say he isn't ass for the rest because he is, but I also explained to you that that's like using Sinister against a robot and saying Sinister is bad. You literally have a r4 sig 200 Patriot whose only use is nuking Photon, you should know this better than anyone else lol. Solvarch is good for mutants and champs with energy damage on basic attacks, there's only one of these in RoL, no Onslaught Jean Cassandra Capt. Britain Sinister Dust Apoc Zola Maw Shuri or any of his target matchups of course he's going to suck.

You did not play him effectively, why did mine take 1:25 at r1 while yours took 1:35 at r3? I didn't have boosts or synergies or suicides, makes absolutely zero sense should've been a 50 sec fight for you at r3 you're doing something wrong. Watch Nick136 video on how to use him cause in a lot of matchups you can just skip the sp1 and start with sp2 instead.

ItsClobberinTime

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.
Because nobody in ROL has energy damage on basic attacks, you're basically using him in the matchups where he doesn't work. It's like using Sinister against a robot or someone with degen resistance and then sayin Sinister is BAD lol.

When you use him against a mutant, or someone with energy damage on basic attacks he's is VERY good, I did that Storm in 1:15 at r1. He can do the same to Onslaught, Jean, Capt. Britain, Sinister, Cassandra, Dust, Apoc + anyone with energy damage on basics like Zola Maw and Shuri. Bullseye and Spider Woman definitely a big no because he has no way to keep his damage up, but for everything else I mentioned he will be great as long as you know how to use him.
Yep. He’s sneaky-effective against Zola

Yeah wish we had access to the testing map or a mode with every champ in the game so we can test this out but yeah he should be decent for Zola since you can parry him. And since he spams multiple sp1s cause of the energize and you regen 50% of it you can safely just block all his sp1s and always stay at max core charges.

ESF

@World Eater not even close. Solvarch is BAD. Mine is 7* R3 and can’t finish any ROL fight in under 2 minutes but storm.
Because nobody in ROL has energy damage on basic attacks, you're basically using him in the matchups where he doesn't work. It's like using Sinister against a robot or someone with degen resistance and then sayin Sinister is BAD lol.

When you use him against a mutant, or someone with energy damage on basic attacks he's is VERY good, I did that Storm in 1:15 at r1. He can do the same to Onslaught, Jean, Capt. Britain, Sinister, Cassandra, Dust, Apoc + anyone with energy damage on basics like Zola Maw and Shuri. Bullseye and Spider Woman definitely a big no because he has no way to keep his damage up, but for everything else I mentioned he will be great as long as you know how to use him.
Yep. He’s sneaky-effective against Zola
Yeah wish we had access to the testing map or a mode with every champ in the game so we can test this out but yeah he should be decent for Zola since you can parry him. And since he spams multiple sp1s cause of the energize and you regen 50% of it you can safely just block all his sp1s and always stay at max core charges.

You nailed it. That’s exactly how it goes.

ESF

More punishing than fighting torch with an energy damage Champ?

I went back and looked at a couple of things, and honestly, just keeping it real: Torch is 1 of 1. That kit is just beyond what Solvarch is. Just being honest.

That being said: There’s some sneaky stuff you can do with Solvarch — the SP3 is an absolute nuke when you have a lot of Reverb and Armor Ups active — and for me personally, I never turn down anything that’s sneaky-good against Photon, who is one of my weakest matchups