**Mastery Loadouts**
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Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
We have not set an end-date for the new period, but we will update this banner when we have more information.
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I suppose it is a matter of perspective. All of these new champions is forcing me to develop better combat skills, as I see it. True: if you bring a totally mismatched champion into a fight you could be so disadvantaged that your skills aren't enough, but I don't see any fight as being entirely impossible to win on skill. It is just that a lot more of them require a much higher level of skill.
When people say skill is less important in the game, I think it is really that certain skills are less dominant in the game, and they aren't being replaced by other skills. If you think "skill" is synonymous with "parry" then skill is less important now than before. But if you think skill includes intercept, skill is just as important. And with some fights, like say Modok or IMIW, the *timing* of when you do something is just as critical as what you do, like heavy-countering IMIW. I'm at best a 50/50 heavy counterer against IMIW, but that's a valid skill based way to fight him. The fact that he auto-blocks doesn't matter if you use unblockable attacks, and heavy attacks have been unblockable since forever. It is just that they weren't as important earlier as they are now.
Whether they should be changing the effectiveness of tactics as quickly as they are is a separate question, but they are changing in ways that most of the time have skill components to countering.
Intercepting is becoming the most important skill in MCOC. We're getting nodes that reduce our champions' block proficiency to 0, even Blade struggles against such nodes if he doesn't intercept. Intercepting takes time and practice to learn, no one solos a 4/55+ Dormammu boss with Magik without practicing for months. Labyrinth of Legends EX Red Hulk and EX Star Lord are the best opponents to practice intercepting against, low energy cost and their AI is similar to game modes like Uncollected Event Quests, Act 5, and Alliance War.
Way to spoil how players limit AW deaths in tier 1 AW
And I don't think it did so suddenly either. Intercepting was starting to creep into the game as an important skill since before Dave made his intercept video. I don't think intercepting became suddenly necessary, I think intercepting became increasingly valuable while block/parry became less useful, and most of the players only noticed when a critical threshold was reached where block/parry decreased to the point where it wasn't enough, and players had to suddenly jump to a tactic that wasn't practiced at all. But I think long before players thought it became necessary, it was becoming increasingly valuable in stages.
There isnt any auto block champs in ROL or LOL. And heavy intercept is not hard at all
Really SW? what tier are you fighting in? Id love to see a video of you soloing a 67000 medusa boss with SW in tier 1-3.
Domino is the only new champ that is a bit ridiculous...but she too can be countered with skill.
Keep up with whom? If you mean the people who are playing a lot more than you, then yes, if you play a lot less than them, you won't keep up with them. That's actually a good thing. If someone who only plays for a little while could keep up with the players playing longer and spending more, the game would be entirely pointless.
What you have to be is satisfied with the progress you can make, given the time you put in. My guess is that my progress is a lot more than yours, and you aren't catching up with me. Conversely, I'm not one of the top players in the game, and I'm never catching up with them. There's nothing wrong with that. If you're only willing to play basketball if you can beat Michael Jordan, and only willing to play golf if you can "catch up" to Tiger Woods, then the odds are pretty good you'll never be happy playing any game or sport.
Maybe try and read the original post. It was never about AW. Thanks for playing though.
Idk, catching tiger woods these days doesn’t require much.
Now the bugs and everything on kabams side I will totally rally against and call out for what it is, until they are at an acceptable level.
Just mainly those who “think” and “feel” that they’re skilled while the content hands them a hard lesson to tell them they’re not. Lol
I wish more people understood this. I've played games where I was sitting at the top. There's no there, there. You have to literally invent ways to entertain yourself when you're there, because no game company has the resources to dangle shiny things in front of their top players constantly. You play at your own pace, you set your own goals, and you take pride in achieving them on your own terms. If you do, you'll be a lot happier. There's no shame in not being a top players in a game that has no end built into it. In fact, having things you can't do yet because you're not ready yet is a luxury that many players seem all too willing to toss aside.
I once said that grinding and spending your way to the top of a game is like trying to race your way to the end of your vacation. It might make sense at the time, but it is going to look really silly when you finally get there.
Everything in this game is about choice. Time vs money is probably the biggest one. What I don't get is why people think they are entitled to complete all content? If you can't complete something it's because you don't have a specific champ. So all champs should be able to defeat, even solo all bosses? Where is the skill in that? Being a decent generic fighter is just one aspect of skill. As others have mentioned, being able to adapt, use a different strategy, actually research champs abilities or search the forum, reddit, FB and so on to learn how others counter, besides the obvious champs. If you don't succeed, then maybe you need to get better. Maybe, based on your skill level, you would benefit from one of the obvious champs you might not have. Then guess what, you don't complete something. Oh my God. What a f'ing nightmare. (if I could only type like Marissa tormei sounds).
Master and Uncollected are that difficult for a reason. So not everyone can finish it. Or they can if they throw enough units at it. You know, being in that business of making money and all. Or you put in the time to earn more units, or earn that new champ or practice with your existing champs. Oh, you have a job. Shocking. Like nobody else that plays this game has a time consuming job, family or life in general. Guess it comes down to that choice thing. Where do you choose to spend your time? It's all about choice. And you choose to take the time to post and complain. Go figure.
That's why there's KillMonger Proxima CrossBones Eleketra BlackWidow all of those champs can bypass autoblock and not run out of time
Well they nerfed BW too when they nerfed OG Thor and SW so there's that.
One thing I really don't get is after they nerfed OG Thor they then turned around and gave Medusa his old skill set and then some. Why is more than 2 armor break stacks too OP for Thor but it's fine for Medusa?
A comment like this tells me you don't understand how old thor worked
I didn’t even know how he worked, mainly because I pulled him as a brand new 4* a year after his nerf