Champion Spotlight - Black Widow (Claire Voyant)


About Black Widow (Claire Voyant):
Claire Voyant was a spirit medium who communicated with the dead through supernatural means. Killed by a client in a job gone wrong, Voyant is sent to Hell where Satan gives her the ability to kill with a single touch, sending her back to Earth to avenge her own death. After avenging her murder, Voyant returns to Satan who, no longer content to wait for evil souls to die a natural death, charges her with bringing more souls to him.
Black Widow’s (Claire Voyant) Mechanics:
Claire is focused on cycling through her different curses throughout the fight to always stay one step ahead of the Opponent. Each of Claire’s 3 curses are associated with different utility, Curse of Blood is focused on Regeneration, Curse of Plague is focused on Power Control and Curse of Hellfire is focused on damage. By ending a combo with a light attack Claire can switch her active curse, allowing her to adjust her utility set on the fly throughout any given fight. Additionally, each curse comes with a matching immunity making her great at completely bypassing Bleed, Poison and Incinerate effects.
BASE STATS & ABILITIES
* All stats based on 4-Star, Rank 5, Level 50, Signature Level 99
Health: 14368 |
Attack: 1441 |
MAX PI: |
WITHOUT SIGNATURE: 3892 WITH SIGNATURE (99): 4807 |
HEALTH: 28807 |
ATTACK: 2888 |
MAX PI: |
WITHOUT SIGNATURE: 7824 WITH SIGNATURE (200): 10620 |
Character Class: Mystic
Basic Abilities: Basic Abilities: Power Steal, Regeneration, Nullify, Death Touch
STRENGTHS
- Immunities
- Claire’s ability to switch her active immunity makes her extremely valuable against many Opponents and nodes. This also allows her to synergize with the Double Edge and Liquid Courage Masteries very well, since she can have both of them purified within a single combo.
- Fighting Opponents Who are Immune
- While playing as Claire, it’s very valuable to play against an Opponent who is immune to her Debuffs because it allows her to gain Clairvoyance charges and power at an extremely rapid rate. This also works very well in matchups on Stun immune nodes, since each Parry will also give her a charge and power!
- Power Control and Sustainability
- Claire’s ability to Power Steal granted through the Curse of Plague allows her to keep the Opponent’s power under control for most of any given fight, additionally switching back to Curse of Blood allows her to heal back any chip damage she might have taken during the fight!
- Opponents Who Aren’t Immune
- Claire really needs her Clairvoyance charges to hit her true potential, Opponent’s who aren’t immune to one of her 3 different Debuffs can be annoying to fight since building those charges will be much more difficult.
- Power Sting
- Claire relies on throwing a high number of Special Attacks. If suffering from Power Sting, Claire will take a ton of damage when activating Special Attacks and will have to stop her loop until the effect has fallen off.
- Evasion Champions or anyone that prevents a full 5 hit combo
- Claire needs to finish a full 5 hit combo ending with a Light Attack in order to switch to her next curse. Any Champions who can prevent this from happening will lock her into a single curse and shut down a lot of her best utility.
Abilities:
Clairvoyance Charge - Passive
- Claire starts with 3 charges. Each time she or her Opponent are immune to any effect, or an immunity Purifies a pre-existing effect, she gains 1 charge and 4% of her max Power. Charges stack up to 20.
- If the Opponent has 1 or more Buffs, landing or receiving a Light or Medium attack consumes a charge and Nullifies 1 of their Buffs.
Curse of the Black Widow:
- Claire has 3 types of curses, each providing her with a different immunity, however, only 1 curse can be active at a time.
- By default the Curse of Blood is active. Landing a fourth Light Attack casts the next curse in the following order.
- Curse of Blood: Bleed Immunity
- Curse of Plague: Poison immunity.
- Curse of Hellfire: Incinerate immunity.
SPECIAL ATTACKS
Special Attack 1 - Curse of Damnation
|
Special Attack 2 - Wrath of the Widow
|
Special Attack 3 - Soul Reaver
|
Signature Ability - Death Immunity:
|
SYNERGY BONUSES
Guilty Souls - Self-Synergy - 2-Stars and higher - Unique Synergy
- All Champions: Gain +10% Attack when fighting against Villain Opponents.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
Spider’s Bite - with Black Widow - 3-Stars and higher - Unique Synergy
- Black Widow (Claire Voyant): While Death Touch is active, all attacks reduce the Opponent’s chance of triggering their abilities by 50%.
- Black Widow: Activating a special attack grants a Fury Buff increasing Attack Rating by 20% for 6 seconds.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
Fire and Forget - with Human Torch, Sunspot & Mephisto - 4-Stars and higher - Unique Synergy
- Whenever the Opponent is immune to Incinerate, they’re inflicted with a Slow Debuff for 8 seconds reducing the Ability Accuracy of Unstoppable and Evade effects by 100%. This Debuff does not stack and will not trigger if the Opponent has natural Class advantage.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
A Spell A Day Keeps The Doctor Away - with Doctor Strange - 4-Stars and higher - Unique Synergy
- The final hit of Special 2 has a 50% chance to inflict Stun for 2 seconds.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
Judgement Day - with Ghost Rider - 5-Stars and higher - Unique Synergy
- All Champions reduce the duration of the Opponent's Buffs by 30%.
- Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate Synergies.
RECOMMENDED MASTERIES
Liquid Courage
- Claire is immune to Poison effects while her Curse of Plague is active, allowing her to negate the negative effects of Liquid Courage.
Double Edge
- Claire begins each fight with Curse of Blood active. This Curse grants immunity to Bleed effects, which allows her to ignore the negative effects of Double Edge.
Mystic Dispersion
- Claire has a very consistent and easy to access Nullify making Mystic Dispersion a great way to build power extremely quickly.
Recovery
- When using Lifesteal, the Recovery mastery allows Claire to heal for even more!
13
Comments
ah yes
enslaved death
Her base attack is 1441. Wasp at 5/50 has a base attack of 1384. Rocket Raccoon has 1373. This is the new highest base attack in the game. That's a very good sign. She seems very straightforward and practical to play, has a lot of solid utility, and overall looks like a very nice general questing champion. I'm excited.
As you are aware, there are 2 nodes in the game that relate to 'instant death' (maybe more but I don't remember them right now).
I don't remember their names but I remember the MEANING of their descriptions;
1) Opponent gains a Death Touch for X seconds after launching their special attack. When they touch you even if you're blocking the hit, you are dead.
2) Opponent's SP3 will instantly knock you out.
Will this new champ's Sig ability helps her to survive these nodes?
It won't be the same case as CG's guaranteed crit hit VS. cannot be critical node where the latter will always triumph, right?