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What's with the Doctor Strange hate?!
Mr_Otter
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I'm seriously asking! He's been getting hit since late last year! He got a blow when leadership was removed a while back and with V13 he isn't even worthy of Sorcerer Supreme! Heck he isn't worthy to take Voodoo's cape to the dry cleaners anymore! (Yeah insert rant about if characters scaled like in comics most would be useless but COME ON!)
I know I've talked smack about Hyperion being OP but DS was actually legit! Sure he had passive power but it was on par with the active power gains of the attacker! And he didn't have power gains from attacking or getting hit! His counter was Magik, Vision, Hawkeye, Voodoo, and ANYONE with a physical attack as he had -20% Physical Resistance! His block was good, he healed sometimes, and had terrible damage save L2 attack cycle! Now there are many ways I see him being decent
•8 second cycles
•Increased block and energy resist on blue
•Increased Crit damage/rate on orange
•Reduced enemy power gain and specials heal up to 50% more health based on damage (can't steal more than you by for) on Pink
• minus 15% physical resist all the time! (It used to be minus 20%)
Granted I realize the blanket physical damage is a hinderence but compared to Thor and Witch who were actually brought into line at "powerful but not too far over the line" and Widow who was dialed back into a niche role so CB and GP could shine through!
Doc Strange was reduced lower than OML (at least he can swing for damage)
I know I've talked smack about Hyperion being OP but DS was actually legit! Sure he had passive power but it was on par with the active power gains of the attacker! And he didn't have power gains from attacking or getting hit! His counter was Magik, Vision, Hawkeye, Voodoo, and ANYONE with a physical attack as he had -20% Physical Resistance! His block was good, he healed sometimes, and had terrible damage save L2 attack cycle! Now there are many ways I see him being decent
•8 second cycles
•Increased block and energy resist on blue
•Increased Crit damage/rate on orange
•Reduced enemy power gain and specials heal up to 50% more health based on damage (can't steal more than you by for) on Pink
• minus 15% physical resist all the time! (It used to be minus 20%)
Granted I realize the blanket physical damage is a hinderence but compared to Thor and Witch who were actually brought into line at "powerful but not too far over the line" and Widow who was dialed back into a niche role so CB and GP could shine through!
Doc Strange was reduced lower than OML (at least he can swing for damage)
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Kabam we need a balanced game!
Couldn't say it better byself. You left a pretty decent compromise for the devs. Granted, there was nothing wrong with him before 12.0. It wasn't SW OP. DS was all skill for the most part. You only got better the more you played around with him and got certain armor breaks on time for extra health gain. More than just that, he was fun to play with.
Kabam needed to dial him back a TOUCH. But he's just not the sorcerer supreme he was at all. Compared to his counterpart Mordo, DS is a ****.
I haven't given up on DS though. I keep blindly telling my alliance mates to hang on, there's no way Kabam would let him be this worthless for long
That would be a significant observation, if he was the only champion you rarely saw. If, at the highest levels of AQ and AW, you don't see him often among many other champions you don't see often, that wouldn't be a balance-worthy observation. That's irrespective of how often you saw him before, because that was the entire point of rebalancing him.
Personally I think they hit him way too hard in 12.0, and probably undershot a little in 12.0.1, but that's neither here nor there. The data they would be collecting is how he is used (or not used) across the entire playerbase, not just among the absolute top min/maxers. And given he was the second highest scoring repeat basic in the arenas a short while ago, the demand for him suggests to me he's not as reviled across the entire playerbase as he is on the forums.
He's just a dumpster champ now, sorry. He doesn't belong past R3 anymore.
Hard to collect data when no one uses him anymore...
I'd say R4 but as a whole the statement is very sad but also very true. They need to find a happy medium between what he once was and what he is now.
Can kabam nerf you please
What would capping Loas to 50 do?
Nah, R4 is the point where you should typically start actually using champs to beat whatever it is you're doing, unless you're so far progressed that R4 is the minimum for your champs. But seeing as how t4b's are valuable all the way to the top, I don't see very many people being that well off. R3 is just arena fodder, and that's all Strange is now for the mass majority.
He was once a great champ, now he's a great paper weight. RIP strange. You will be missed in all of our journeys.