What happened to my boy Cyclops?

EdisonLaw · August 10

I heard people were really excited about his buff when he was re released in May, but now I see nobody talking about him ever since he entered the titan. Did he fall off already? Do people regret voting for him? What happened?

CheeseMaster482 · August 10

Fell off a little bit. Still at the top in terms of damage which everyone knows is the best metric.

Herbal_Taxman · August 10

Bro is on a milk carton. He will probably shine in some Everest content at some point but there’s nothing for him to do in regular game modes.

SirGamesBond · August 10

Herbal_Taxman said:
Bro is on a milk carton. He will probably shine in some Everest content at some point but there’s nothing for him to do in regular game modes.

I used my 5* to do 90's mutants carina challange.
He did great.
Don't have him as 7* tho.

peixemacaco · August 10

After the buff I only saw Cyclops 2 times against someone on BG

EdisonLaw said:

I heard people were really excited about his buff when he was re released in May, but now I see nobody talking about him ever since he entered the titan. Did he fall off already? Do people regret voting for him? What happened?

Dr. Strange sent a spell on him
😈

Justice for Stephen

PT_99 · August 10

I think the constant need of intercepting jittery funky goofy out of control AI might be somewhat responsible for it,

Because it's not fun when AI doesn't do what you want it to do 5 times in a row.

Herbal_Taxman · August 10

SirGamesBond said:

Herbal_Taxman said:
Bro is on a milk carton. He will probably shine in some Everest content at some point but there’s nothing for him to do in regular game modes.
I used my 5* to do 80's mutants carina challnge.
He did great.
Don't have him as 7* tho.

Not really the Everest content I was thinking of, but sure I guess?

TheMostHated1 · August 10

He lowkey fell off icl

SirGamesBond · August 10

Herbal_Taxman said:

SirGamesBond said:

Herbal_Taxman said:
Bro is on a milk carton. He will probably shine in some Everest content at some point but there’s nothing for him to do in regular game modes.
I used my 5* to do 90's mutants carina challange.
He did great.
Don't have him as 7* tho.
Not really the Everest content I was thinking of, but sure I guess?

He was helpful...haha

I get that he's not that 'effective'(redclops pun not intended) in BGs because of his ramp takes time but I want to add that he felt smoother to play. He was putting out numbers. Couldn't do special spam cycle cuz of the global node.

Defintily a helpful champ if a newbie pulls him early.

EdisonLaw · August 10

Herbal_Taxman said:

SirGamesBond said:

Herbal_Taxman said:
Bro is on a milk carton. He will probably shine in some Everest content at some point but there’s nothing for him to do in regular game modes.
I used my 5* to do 80's mutants carina challnge.
He did great.
Don't have him as 7* tho.
Not really the Everest content I was thinking of, but sure I guess?

In everest content there will still be damage caps, and Cyke doesn’t really have any ways to bypass it

Bigfoot33 · August 10

So we get story content 2x a year, even though they cut the amount of paths in half.

We get thrown massive piece of content that most players don't care to do.

We get damage cap restrictions, so that handicaps him and some others.

He's not quite fast enough for battlegrounds.

He doesn't bring much to the table outside of damage.

Ercarret · August 10

I think there are a few things that hold him back. One is that a fair bit of his utility is hidden behind a high-sig requirement. I think that "Stores damage taken from bleeds and physical thorns damage as Adrenaline" ability can be quite useful (especially if it interacts with the Double Edge bleed), but it only ever becomes truly relevant at high sig levels.

The other thing is that the Mutant class has recently gotten very competitive. Between Onslaught, Dazzler and Jean Grey (and potentially Cassandra Nova now), it's hard for Mr. Eyes-Go-Pew-Pew to find his own niche. Especially, as mentioned above, a big part of his utility is hidden behind a high-sig requirement. It's hard to justify pumping him up to sig 200 when you've got three other god-tier Mutant champs that you could use those stones on instead.

The last thing is that there simply hasn't been all that much for him to do since his release. While he does have some abilities that are tailored towards questing, his potential damage is so high that I mainly see him as a endgame content kind of champ. Even if he is a questing champ, there hasn't really been any quests for him to do. We'll see what happens when 9.3 drops.

The only place where I've used him recently was against Bullseye in Wheel of Fate. While he got through that fight in the end, him being unawakened nonetheless really hurt his survivability in that fight. So it basically always comes back to the fact that he relies pretty heavily on his sig ability while at the same time being in a class with at least three other champs that are better than him and that also soak up both awakening gems and sig stones.

ItsClobberinTime · August 10

Unless they give him the same exact mechanic as Nico where adrenaline doesn't decay he will stay mid. The damage is fine but he has very little utility, he can do Spider Woman and Photon kinda but what else is there? He sucks for Attuma without sig 200.

captain_rogers · August 10

CheeseMaster482 said:
Fell off a little bit. Still at the top in terms of damage which everyone knows is the best metric.

So, damage fodder?

EdisonLaw · August 10

ItsClobberinTime said:
Unless they give him the same exact mechanic as Nico where adrenaline doesn't decay he will stay mid. The damage is fine but he has very little utility, he can do Spider Woman and Photon kinda but what else is there? He sucks for Attuma without sig 200.

Is cyclops still subject to rebalancing?

WednesdayLength · August 10

EdisonLaw said:

ItsClobberinTime said:
Unless they give him the same exact mechanic as Nico where adrenaline doesn't decay he will stay mid. The damage is fine but he has very little utility, he can do Spider Woman and Photon kinda but what else is there? He sucks for Attuma without sig 200.
Is cyclops still subject to rebalancing?

Yes but I struggle to see him getting much if anything

ItsClobberinTime · August 10

EdisonLaw said:

ItsClobberinTime said:
Unless they give him the same exact mechanic as Nico where adrenaline doesn't decay he will stay mid. The damage is fine but he has very little utility, he can do Spider Woman and Photon kinda but what else is there? He sucks for Attuma without sig 200.
Is cyclops still subject to rebalancing?

He is, and although I want to be very optimistic about it I don't see them making any big changes such as making his stores adrenaline stay as is permanently. In a perfect world, that's how they buff him but we're talking about Kabam so.

DrWooper · August 10

I just don't like how he doesn't walk and just stands there, it makes intercepting much harder

Herbal_Taxman · August 10

This. I find him irritating to play because of his no-walk policy and the boredom of building 20 charges against this AI.

What happened to my boy Cyclops?

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