incursions rng god roll means i cant win

symbiote incursions when all i can use is symbiote-guy

i get a boss on zone 10 with:

regen when i dash back

weakness when i stay too close

special attack purifies all debuffs (cant do DOT) (this is symbiote path so its unavoidable that i do bleed)

1 debuff every 7 seconds is removed and gives power gain

finally every bar of power gained increases combat power rate by 5% for the rest of the battle

basically all i can do is get him down to 50% in a battle then i cant get him lower because hes regening when i dash back because he has an sp2 every 2 seconds (its knull so i cant let him use sp1 or he gets unblockable, and his sp2 means i need to dash back) which makes a loop keeping him at 50% hp where he cant go any lower

WHY the DUCK is it possible for a softlock against winning by pure rng? what is even the point if its possible ill get to a zone and- oh no! the game doesn't care how good i am! i've just lost because why not!

game designers really don't be designing basic game design. they forgot their brains

Comments

willrun4adonut

Here's an impossible

Zone 94 Hulkling - right back at you (debuffs disappear when knocked down), evade for 8 seconds when knocked down, power sting when opponent gains a bar of power, rapid metabolism, some Regen node that I forgot.

Your fight is actually very doable especially on zone 10. Increasing combat power rate is very beneficial for symbiote as it makes him get to sp2 faster when you dash back. It also allows him to stack armor breaks on faster. I don't know why the Regen is a problem. You can definitely outdamage it even if you don't have despair. The Regen when you dash back shouldn't stack of I remember the node right.

You can also let him throw a sp1. Just be throwing your own special when Knull's corruption activates and he won't go unblockable or unstoppable

Cheebeeson

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2897096#Comment_2897096

it was the enemy with all the combat power rate, not me. so knull gains tons of power. i let him throw sp2 because i can dex that but sp1 i have to tank 3 hits to block which i couldn't regen fast enough due to his increased damage (the node where you permanently gain increased combat power rate by 5% with a bunch of other buffs that includes damage per bar of power gained)

and for that i'd rather he lose 2 bars of power instead of 1

the regen becomes an issue when half of the fight becomes him throwing specials and me having to dex to avoid his massive damage buildup by the time i get him down to 50%. he gains a par of power in like 4 hits plus a chunk of power per bleed every 7 seconds, while wiping off the bleeds so im not even doing damage while hes busy throwing every special in existence

if i dont dex i take too much damage through block from the damage node (5% power rate and damage and stuff)

if i do dex he gains regen

i cant do enough damage in 7 hits before he already has an sp2 due to his power gain which i have to dex, even when i throw my sp2.

or if i try his sp1, i take too much damage through block which i cant regen fast enough to survive more than about 5 special 1s and still dont deal anywhere near enough damage since he gets a bar of power in about 2 hits if i stack a bleed proc in those 2 hits, about 4 hits otherwise

ahmynuts

This is not a softlock. Read Steve's prefights

willrun4adonut

I know it's the enemy who gains the combat power rate. You basically gain it too as you just dash back. It sounds like you're need to understand Steve more. It's not softlock or even hard locked as ahmynuts said.

Record the fight and we can tell you what you're doing wrong and how to fix it

WednesdayLength

Im struggling to even see how this is a difficult node combo, are you using all of his pre fights?

BattleWarriar

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2897096#Comment_2897096

Off topic but I'm confused on how the hulkling is impossible. There's so many mystics that would wreck that fight

willrun4adonut

@BattleWarriar he's not. I got him down. But you can only use symbiote Steve (no mystics). Look at the attack value too and health. Since you're also using Steve, no power drain for prowess against Hulkling, so he's constantly throwing specials. Also, since Steve nullifies on light hits, Hulking constantly gets his indestructible as a passive. He also Regens like crazy, which you have to nullify (look at HP), but then again, he'll get the indestructible.

DNA3000

I got one of those “impossible” combos, and worse it was in room 28 so restart would have been painful. It was, among other things, never back down on a Sauron. So he regens if you dash back, but goes unblockable and kills you if you don’t. You can’t lower his regen rate and he’s immune to poison (which would have probably been the play in the OPs case even with the special purify). You can’t power steal to prevent specials. I thought this was a roadblock, but then I figured out if you go hard and MM for furies, and just don’t dash back, you can do the fight in one revive.

There’s a few suck combos, but I’m not aware of a genuinely impossible one. Impossible itemless, but not impossible with minimal resources. For the rewards, this was reasonable.

WednesdayLength

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2897236#Comment_2897236

Ah yes, all this mystics you can use in the symbiote sector

Tarrkid

I got a nearly impossible one on Node 10 (I think — maybe I'm just dumb and missing something obvious). The boss is Storm Pyramid X, but one of the nodes is "Do Not Disturb - 1", increasing her ability accuracy by 100%, so she has 160% chance to glance all incoming attacks. She also has "Polka Dot Power (Debuff)", so I don't gain power until she has a debuff, but I never put on any debuffs because every hit glances. A few revives and I've only chipped her down to 490,000 of 550,000 total health.

DNA3000

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2897252#Comment_2897252

I tried to avoid Hulkling whenever possible, because it’s not that he’s impossible, he’s just super annoying. Now, if it also has power gain or one of those combat power escalation nodes, then he goes from annoying to soul (and potentially revive) sucking. I had one of those and the fight lastest so long that at the end I was hitting like twice and giving him a full bar of power. Not impossible, but possibly a war crime.