Jabari Panther and Sandman buffs confirmed!

From the latest MCOC Tweet, Jabari Panther and Sandman will be buffed and be able to be ascended!

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Kabam since you have showed you are open to buffing 7* champs when adding them to the ascencion pool. Could you consider buffing me and adding me to the ascencion pool pleasssssssse?

WednesdayLength

I already made this post with the same screenshots, which are mine lmao, but yeah it's exciting

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926200#Comment_2926200

Kabam already made a post with basically the same screenshots too lol

EdisonLaw

Jabari is a fine champ to me, not bad, not great, but I’d see why they’d want to buff her

Sandman, just fix his issues that the rebalancing didn’t and make him a bit faster

Mysterio

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926203#Comment_2926203

A small but potent buff would be making it so you apply the heavy boost effect on the first hit of a heavy rather than the second, than you can cancel into a special attack and gain the bonus heavy damage for when the opponent is rooted.

WednesdayLength

Buff details. Jabari is gonna be nuts and sandman is mostly defensive but means he can use more heavy attacks while unstable

Mysterio

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926208#Comment_2926208

Bit of a shame Sandman seems to just get a ton of resistance buffs when he clearly needed more offensive buffs. Jabari is looking good though!

CheeseMaster482

They made sand goat defense fodder as expected. At least the Aarkus buff will be insane. I've been testing out my rank 3 and he hits harder than my rank 3 Adam with 3 furies. Once ramped his rotation is just spam sp1 and his buff will literally pause his abilities with sp1. Everyone will bandwagon on the Aarkus hype.

TotemCorruption

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926208#Comment_2926208

Jabari is not gonna be "nuts".

ahmynuts

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926208#Comment_2926208

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926212#Comment_2926212

You called?

SummonerNR

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926200#Comment_2926200

as Nutz already pointed out, I actually saw Kabam's ANNOUNCEMENT Post on Forums here, earlier timestamp than yours, with those exact same Pics.

(your screenshots just have the extra Twitter by-line stuff around it, but the graphics themselves are already-posted Kabam's)

Crawfords

pls buff Mr Negative too kabam, make his ramp up faster and ignore unfazed mastery T_T

Kabam (Osaurus) Rex

I think we're overlooking what an extra Heavy Attack can do for Sandman's DPS, tbh

Mysterio

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926228#Comment_2926228

Wait did I missread a note? I only see resistance up. If he can do an extra heavy attack that is big!

Tairique_turay0

My first 2 ascension confirmed. So happy with the first official ascendable pool 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Revan0607

#BuffDaredevilHellsKitchen if Deadpool X-Force, Yondu, Luke Cage, Thor Jane Foster, Thor Rags, Ebony Maw can get a second buff, and Gamora get 3 buffs and now Sandman getting a second buff, Daredevil Hell’s Kitchen can get a second buff

WednesdayLength

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926209#Comment_2926209

He can now use more heavy attacks while unstable, which will make his short fight damage output a lot stronger

WednesdayLength

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926212#Comment_2926212

She's already very good, now she's gonna be even better and not reliant on parrying

WednesdayLength

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926226#Comment_2926226

Im not that bothered, but considering that people constantly complained when they had to go to Instagram to vote for they're rework poll i think it's a fair shake to say that some people wouldnt see it if it wasnt on the forums. I checked and literally couldn't see the post before either of the 2 posts about it.

Iwas more just joking because it's funny seeing screenshots from my phone posted by someone else, it ain't that deep

WednesdayLength

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926231#Comment_2926231

Literally just spamming

WednesdayLength

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926229#Comment_2926229

He uses less resistance when knocking the opponent down during unstable, meaning more heavy attacks per unstable

EdisonLaw

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926230#Comment_2926230

Hopefully with an ascended Patriot, he gets more attention as a skill nuke. He’s already heavily underrated by the community

Tairique_turay0

@Crawfords Yeah, Mr Negative really needed a buff. His ramp is wayyy too slow and there’s no payoff for it, because his degen damage is so garbage. His animations are so smooth and fire… so it’s a shame they don’t tune up the ONE champ who mainly needs it. I guess he’s staying trash.

Herbal_Taxman

This whole thing is a huge W for the people obsessed with mid champs. Congrats, boys.

Tairique_turay0

@Herbal_Taxman Thanks bro! It’s a big day for us mid champ enjoyers 🤪🔥🤪🔥🤪🔥🤪🔥🤪🔥🤪🔥

SummonerNR

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926239#Comment_2926239

Yep, and forgot that when Kabam is creating a Post (like their Ascension Skill/Science Pool announcement) here in Forums, it gets the Time based on when it was created, not when actually POSTED here.

So even though earlier stamp, might not have been up here at first when you posted your “Ascension Update” one. But this one (not sure why it's getting more traction, referencing the champs being Buffed, instead of Classes/Champs in pool) used same screen grabs.

But I read that as implying they're your actual Class/Champ graphics.

and then Tairiq now using the same ones too. The original (non-tweeting surrounding junk) graphics are literally right up here in Kabam's post.

ThePredator1001

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926228#Comment_2926228

TLDR: I think that extra heavy will increase the his unstable burst damage by about 50% per cycle.

I think people won’t understand how big that is until they see people testing out the buff. I just did a quick test with my R3 sandman at max ramp each heavy attack while unstable was increasing the burst damage by about 18k, the first burst was 18k and the fourth burst was 71k. Total burst was about 179k. If that fifth burst scales the same it would be about 89k and total burst would be 268k. Thats a roughly 50% increase to the burst damage on every cycle.

My only concern is the bullet point about increase resistance ups lost when hit/block. Currently you can bait a dash attack then charge your heavy to go invincible and start your heavy spam. I hope you can still get 5 heavies off after taking a hit while charging heavy.

peixemacaco

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2926200#Comment_2926200

So...

Admiral Charleston had his Justice done!

Someone lazy copied his thread from Reddit too

Searmenis

The trash pool is getting even trashier. Great.

GilbertoJunior

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High Evo should have got a Buff,got realy sad when they annouced him with Punk and after half of character that were show later got good tune ups,even worst now that Jabari and Sandman got surprise tune up