Balance Update - Dani Moonstar and Lady Deathstrike

Hey all,

Balance Team here again with an update on the latest round of Champions up for review, Dani Moonstar and Lady Deathstrike.

Dani Moonstar

Dani Moonstar was designed to be primarily Attacker focused, with some minor defensive threats to play around. Her combo of Marked and Slow passives, as well as the brand new Neuroshock DOT was targeted at annoying Skill defenders as well as characters who utilize “cheat death” mechanics. In her general day to day matchups, we’re happy with what we’re seeing, as her Damage and overall win rate have landed in a healthy spot in comparison to other comparable Mutant attackers. However, her performance against a defending Nick Fury is showing to be lower than we targeted, especially in comparison to other popular counters in the Battlerealm. With this in mind, we are looking to upgrade her effectiveness in this matchup, with her Neuroshocks as an area of interest. More info to come!

Lady Deathstrike

Lady Deathstrike joined the contest as a mutant slayer with some sneaky defensive tendencies. While her utility is focused on mutants (heal block, unstoppable prevention, unblockable prevention, and face blocking specials), on attack she has become a really strong generalist with impressive win rates against champions of every class. That being said, there was initial concern about the way she scales off of armor and not base attack. We investigated her scaling at different future ranks and wanted to see if it fell in line with comparables in both damage and class, which it did! Her lower rarities are substantially stronger than her counterparts, which was intended as a fun part of her design (so keep bullying gauntlet Weapon X with the 3*).

All of that being said, we will be tuning down her synergy with Sentinel giving him extremely strong cowardice potency the same way that we tuned down Shocker’s synergy with Spider-man (Symbiote). Otherwise Lady Deathstrike will be staying as is!

Shocker

While working on Shocker’s buff we uncovered a bug in which his damage was scaling improperly. Because of the scope of the fix we are sadly pushing back his rebalance to December where he will be accompanying Red Skull. Sandman will be releasing on schedule, so look forward to destroying those Sugar Pill defenders in the meantime!

What’s Next

Changes incoming! Dani Moonstar and Lady Deathstrike’s timeline will look like:
41.3 (November) + 42.0 (December) Beta builds
42.1 (January): Full release with changes