2 Dracula kit omissions

1) Resurrection is a huge part of Dracula lore. Seemed weird to me that Undying got revamped the same month of his release, yet isn’t a part of his kit. Instead, what would be cool is if he was “resurrected” after you win another fight on a quest. Kind of like Odin sleep. Die with Drac. Win your next fight, then the fight after that, he’s alive again. Maybe % of health at resurrection increases with sig.

2) vampire blood is toxic, so a poison or toxin DOT anytime he’s bleeding. A lot of the science class is poison immune, so wouldn’t really affect counters to him defensively.

Additional: why is his MD halved? Just because? Also, would be nice if he could steal precision n cruelty too,

Comments

GilbertoJunior

i also want to add Frank not having shock or Incinarate interactions when thats whats powering his life suport engine, some resistence would be good to help with will power healing since he doesn't have way to midgate the damage he takes during Unstoppable

WednesdayLength

It's honestly one of those times where its less about whether it makes lore sense to add and more about what benefit it would actually give him. He already seems really strong with a lot of very powerful utility with a few methods of sustainability (regen and his phase), so giving him even more access to that would likely mean getting rid of some of his damage or utility.

Like obviously having undying would benefit him in terms of giving him a way of cheating death, but it's about target match ups and what hes intended to do and I just can't setme much of a reason for him to have what is now likely to be a fairly strong piece of survivability

WednesdayLength

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2885229#Comment_2885229

Doeshe not gain more adrenaline when unstoppable?

GilbertoJunior

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2885246#Comment_2885246

"When struck by a Basic Attack while Unstoppable, or when Shocked, Frank gains a non-stacking Rage Debuff for 20 seconds. With Rage, Frank’s Basic Attack hits Passively convert a flat 10% more Adrenaline to Health."

Not realy much specialy compared to like,100% less damage from shocks and Incinarate effects or gaining adrenaline in more ways

But let's see how he does

ahmynuts

For Dracula, the designer did openly say he trimmed alot of bloat out of the kit and really stremlined it to do one specific thing. So I understand not having a bunch more misc abilities there

ShashankGupta

@BowTieJohn @GilbertoJunior you guys haven't updated champions for 2025 thread

BowTieJohn

I had meant to do this week as the new update will be live this week. Thanks you for the tag!

EdisonLaw

He's not meant to follow the lore, but rather how he performs in game. It's the same reason why Cassandra Nova is not reverse control immune or why Maker can be bled

ShoNuff29

speaking of which, Dracula is also supposed to have mind control lol

BigPoppaCBONE

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2885261#Comment_2885261

I'd trade the degen, Slow, Nullify and weird Fury steal and Power Steal for one or two more lore accurately vampiric abilities.

Capricious

Dracula needs multiple major changes

Psychic shielding/poison immunity
Undying should be a part of his base kit. Immortality should be added to his awakened. HE’s DRACULA!
Permanently regens missing health from his base degeneration.
His base health and damage should be increased… a lot
Dracula should be immune to the inequity and weakness masteries. Otherwise Kabam should just completely overhaul his sig (I’m not against that choice)
Dracula should steal more buff types during special attacks but fury’s AND vicious buffs should stay for x duration.
While Dracula has a fury buff he should deal rupture instead of bleed.

This would help his survivability a lot and give him more options on defense but honestly. His damage still would be modest. Maybe if they scaled his rupture (or current bleeds) to deep wounds but reversed the triggering effect (a defender having more health means they will lose 1% from a passive bleed) so once they lose let’s say 70% of their health the bleeds become weaker but THEN you could finish them off with an SP3 or a dire degen combo. (I would take that over points 4 and 7)