How to dismantle SENTINEL
Ok folks today I’m talking about Sentinels. A champion who is probably gonna end up being a royal pain in Alliance War and potentially the same in Alliance Quest.
First we have to “analyze” what makes them so hard to fight. The Analyze mechanic means that MLLLM combos betray you and so do multi-hitting specials and heavy attacks and blocking. Every repeated action increases the enemy sentinels Armor, Crit Resist, and Attack with no way to reverse this. At 100% Analyze the effects of the special attacks will activate through blocking (think Yondu’s Arrow) meaning the L1 is your friend but the L2 (multiple incinerates) is your death.
Now I’m gonna toss some numbers at you so if you don’t like that and wanna know who to use skip this and read below.
5/65 5* (unduped) Sentinel
•Armor Flat is 664 (24.9%)
Each analyze is another 12.68 up to a total flat increase of 1268 (bringing the armor up to almsot 75%)
•Each analyze is 16.94 Critical Resist up to 100 Analyze for 1694. For perspective 5/50 NC in swashbuckling has around only 1200-1300 critical Rating. The only ones I can immediately recognize to break through the critical Resistance are Karnak (who when focused has a total 4500) and Angela (each Precision are 2000 and she can stack 2 of them).
•Each analyze increases Sentinel’s attack by 1/100th it’s base attack. As it stacks up to 100 it can double its attack
COUNTER: the only innate counter I can find at this time is Angela. Her class allows her to slow down the Analyze build. Her monstrous Critical Rating after even 1 Precision is enough to break through the Resistance with some left over and the second Precision is just icing. Her massive fury help her make the most of her sometimes strained crit rate.
Close to 3 use L2, use L1, then swap between L1 and L2 as preferred trying to keep at least 1 Precision at all times.
CHECKS: because many champions have attributes that allow them to be effective let’s get right to it
Hyperion. Class advantage. L3 to get those cosmic charges. Maybe heavy a few times and spam L1 for the boosted incinerate. L2 is illadvised due to the massive armor.
Phoenix: Class Advantage. Despite her being seen as bad she’s not a bad champion. It’ll take some getting used to to manage her fury but a heavy attack or two and you’ll build enough Phoenix charges to have enough fury. L1 to get rid of the excess Phoenix charges and 1 fury. Keep her above 5 and she’ll be able to hit with her base attack each hit through incinerate (base attack around 1200 would mean her combo would do 7200 as she hits 6 times due to her second medium)
Stark Spider (Duped): High Attack with poise, crit rating phenomenal (when Duped) and the shocks are outstanding.
Honorable mentions include: •Voodoo/Vision with power burn to ignore absurd armor and crit resist plus not worrying about that L2.
•Thor (Ragnorok) (Duped): Shock Damage please!
•literally anyone not reliant on crits or bleed/poison.
This excludes Star Lord due to his crits being the main damage source however you might get lucky with a massive shock but it’ll be a long fight.
