The AW Game Changer: Blade
Angelicsign
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Everybody talk about Blade, and with GR synergy, all villains are like a balloon on blade.
A lot of debate to buff,nerf, don’t do anything to him. Just want to shoutout my point of view here, where in fact I want to recognize Kabam’s effort on this.
After Blade got introduced, in AW def, the mystic world, now we see more diverse champs being put as miniboss and boss. Like instead of the usual mephisto magik dorm jugg modok which also dominently mystic class, nowadays I see a lot of other classes like medusa hyperion iceman spidey.
On the other hand, the attk, atleast I will need to spectate, plan my roster before going instead of the best 3 champs.
But other than that, I do still feel that trinity is a little overpower, which makes them always the first group of choice for all events.
A lot of debate to buff,nerf, don’t do anything to him. Just want to shoutout my point of view here, where in fact I want to recognize Kabam’s effort on this.
After Blade got introduced, in AW def, the mystic world, now we see more diverse champs being put as miniboss and boss. Like instead of the usual mephisto magik dorm jugg modok which also dominently mystic class, nowadays I see a lot of other classes like medusa hyperion iceman spidey.
On the other hand, the attk, atleast I will need to spectate, plan my roster before going instead of the best 3 champs.
But other than that, I do still feel that trinity is a little overpower, which makes them always the first group of choice for all events.
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It would make him a Gulk that can heal and bleed, which is still a really good champ.
That's not true really. There are only 6 mystics that are actually dimensional beings. GR synergy is what makes blade better. And icing on the cake is provided by sparky. Honestly without danger sense blade is Demi god tier I feel. Only the danger sense that makes him better.
...and all of the difficult mystic defenders are dimensional beings outside of Juggernaut. The rest are diversity defenders so don’t really matter for the conversation. He would still be a top AW and AQ attacker without GR synergy because he has advantage on hard defenders and has regen/power gain/damage over time.
If you bleed, he gets power gain, if he heals he loses power, if he doesn't trigger special or heal, he has reduced debuff effects.
More dynamic use of the power meter like this please.
Danger Sense is akin to shock damage or frostbite really. Which work on pretty much everyone. Now add autoblock with parry. Blade is no longer OP but right on course with future champions.
I never said he's not one of the top. But he becomes better with GR as he gets danger sense for all villains which is a huge number as compared to the mystic dimensional beings when he's all alone. And you sound as if only the Mystics are the real defenders. He maybe among games top 10 when he's alone I would say but becomes top 5 when with GR. There is a definite difference that you can't overlook.
I’m not sure whose comments you are responding to, but it’s not mine. Clearly he’s one of the top, you never said otherwise but you did downgrade him to “demi god” (subjective) which I don’t agree with. You’re misreading, I’m saying he’s still a hard counter to dimensional beings/mystic defense without synergy, but with GR synergy he is a hard counter to even more valuable defenders leaving only a few that he doesn’t excel against.
My whole stance is that the GR synergy makes too large of a difference and moves him from great to necessary in wars, which is the problem. Kabam stated the reason for the 12.0 champ nerfs was that they couldn’t make content that was difficult both with and without them. Look at the AW map and new defenders now and tell me the same isn’t happening for the “trinity”.
But it’s all been covered ad nauseam, no need to get into it all again.