Silver surfer...the biggest disappointment of 2019
CodeOmega
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Let’s break this character down. Overall the best thing he has going for him is his amazing prestige. If you’re not in a top ally, you probably don’t care too much. Overall if you play him well and rotate the buffs, his damage output is mediocre. He is not suicide friendly at all, but his immunities to shock and incinerate allow him to take on freezer burn and shock nodes. He is definitely no god, (probably a high demigod) using Seatin’s tier list. The problem with this champ is that he just causes disappointment after all the hype surrounding him. People have wanted Ss in game since it’s release, and being teased again and again and getting this mediocre champion was not an exciting prospect. Overall, not a bad champ. The expectations just didn’t live up to the final product.
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Now sure, it's entirely possible some people wouldn't be satisfied unless Silver Surfer were game breaking, but as it is this is another Sentry situation.
Sorry to hear that your are disappointed in the Silver Surfer Champion. While we understand that everybody has expectations for every new Character that is added, we are not going to be able to live up to the expectations for everybody. Every Character is somebody's favourite, and we always do our best to make Characters that everybody can be excited about, but will not be able to hit that mark for everybody.
Different Characters and their Kits will appeal to different players, some will be more useful to people in certain progression points than others.
We didn't mean to "hype" him, and I don't think we really did. He's been a part of the Story all year long, and has shown up as part of it.
Anyway it's not the end of the world either way. It is what it is.
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/172402/silver-surfer-champion-review/p1?new=1
fyi nobody liked Corvus when he initially came out either lol not saying Surfer is that level, just a funny observation.
If they were all god tier, there wouldn't be a god tier (technically)
But Silver Surfer is a huge fan favorite, and he has been teased for a year now.
Kabam has learned the art of developing characters who are nuanced and have depth in their playstyle. The developers have gone on record as saying nobody has figured out how to tap into the true potential of Doc Ock and Elsa Bloodstone yet.
Hopefully Silver Surfer falls in that category.
From my math, at 5/65 sig 200, he gets around 3700 extra attack total from his furies, with SP3 aptitude buff active. That's the equivalent of one decent RNG Hyperion heavy. Need to get those numbers up, those are rookie numbers.
Imagine when the planet eater arrives.
The devs don't deliberately aim champions to be "god tier" or "meme tier." They aim them all at the same general level of overall performance. Circumstantially, no champion ever lands on the bullseye, and they don't spend time trying to make any of them perfect. Any champion that lands within a radius of tolerance around the bullseye is "close enough" and they move on. It would be nice if that radius was a bit smaller, but that's neither here nor there.
No one decides that Sentry is going to be weak and Blade is going to be strong. They decide that Blade and Sentry are going to be different from the previously existing champs, and sometimes those differences work out better than others. But they can't, and really shouldn't, be putting their fingers on the scales to make the champs that "should be" god tier into more powerful champs than everything else. It is hard enough putting every champion in the same zip code.
You say "If you can give a viable reason why this is the case I would love to hear it, and game balancing isn't it because you can balance the game and still do the characters justice and if the game was balanced every champ would be exactly the same power level." But that is the only answer the game devs can possibly give you, because how game developers "balance" games is not anything remotely resembling what you seem to be implying. There is no other answer, so if that answer can't satisfy you, no answer can.