Gwenpool nerf
DaMunk
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If I read the notes correctly you nerfed her heavy from a 50% chance to a 5% chance to cause a bleed because it creates an exploit. I understand the reason to eliminate exploits but if I'm understanding things correctly that nerf basically ruins her heavy. Not only that it's freaking lazy as f%$%. Heaven forbid you change her animation or timing. Took something unique and broke it. You should have completely changed it into something else worth the risk of using a heavy. All that said it my understanding you are going from 50% to 5. It clearly states 50% in her description. So much for not silently nerfing a champ
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Reducing this significantly is a clear nerf.
The only way your opponent is able to get out of that corner is to throw a Special attack. Now, where this exploitable loop came in, is if Gwenpool had placed an Enervate on the opponent, and continuously applied a bleed through the use of her heavy in the corner, then Enervate would reapply every time it expired, permanently locking the opponent's power, never allowing them to throw a special attack, or even stand up and get out of the corner.
This was the smallest possible change we could make to Gwenpool, and addresses one of the smallest use cases for her attacks. So it was either this, or rework her Enervate, which is arguably much much more important to most players and her core gameplay kit.
You should be issuing rank down tickets to all who have her.
Miike, why not change it so that it's a 5% chance *if Enervate is already active* ?
P.S. I don't have Gwen Pool as a 4* or 5* so I really don't care lol
If they do...it will only be a rank down ticket that is only capable of ranking down Gwenpool....they have stated that any further rank down tickets would be character specific.....would you really rank her down?
Took you 20 seconds to come up with something better than kabam. Good job man
Since my last comment went into forum purgatory, I'm reposting this.
Miike, you do know this is how Magik works with her Sp2, to power lock opponents and keep them against a wall. By this logic, she should be nerfed too. I am MOST definitely not calling for her to be nerfed, just pointing out the similarity. She also cannot Enervate a bleed-immune opponent and you yourself state that this is "one of her smallest use of her attacks". So why make this change in the first place?
I am usually not one to complain, but changes like these is the reason why I have little faith in Kabam and will not be spending money in this game anytime soon. We had major changes made to champs before in the debacle that was 12.0, and this feels like a variant of that. Why make a champ so desirable for people to invest so much time and resources to obtain and rank up, when later down they make subtle or big changes in their gameplay that made them desirable in the first place?
I was never a big spender, but haven't spent any money on the game since 12.0. I was willing to do so if there was a killer deal on Cyber Monday, but after this change to a "small use to her atrack" (to paraphrase Miike) to a top tier champ, I've changed my mind. Bad move Kabam. Bad move.
And that corner exploit wasn't even that good anyways. I saw a video of 4* r5 GP vs RoL WS, it took 600+ hits. So basically useless in AQ/AW etc.
People are acting like they nerfed AA's heavy. Now if his bleed % is reduced to 5 on heavies, that would be a problem.