Iceman ice armor not working properly
Verguld
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If you get hit with specials that have a long pause like Miles Morales L1 or Kingpin L1. Ice armor doesn't stay up for the whole special. It goes away after the first hit and you take way morr damage then you should.
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@Primmer79 is correct. I've had him for almost a year and do not ever recall the ice armor lasting for multiple hit special attacks.
Not all...Spider-man s2 for instance.
It should be for one hit. I guess it's different for certain champs...?
^Spot on. If you slow down the video, you can see that the first few hits of the sp1 knock Iceman down to 96% health. Since each of those individual hits damaged him for less than 5% of his max health, they wouldn't have been able to shatter the Ice Armor.
The last hit of the special happened to crit and took him down from 96% health to 91%; it would've been more damage had the Ice Armor not capped the damage at 5% before shattering.
Tl;dr: If Iceman would take more than 5% max health damage from a single source, Ice Armor will cap that damage at 5% health before shattering. Special attacks may not break his Ice Armor if the individual hits that make up the attack don't do more than 5% of his max health as damage. Hope this helps clear things up!
I believe because this is because it is considered a single source (his SP3) so the damage, while the Ice Armor is up, is only 5%. Since you have no chance to evade or block an SP3, the entire animation is considered a single source, regardless of the number of hits.
Just my assumption. I was testing it.