Negasonic Teenage Warhead - Am I missing something?
Chikel
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So I picked her up From a Titan, leveled her up then to ROL and she feels.... underwhelming.
No big numbers - red or yellow, zero immunities (Which is absurd in this stage of the game) and her precog feels disconnected from the rest of hers meagre abilities. Adds nothing to her damage or rotation. I stopped using it as I couldn't see the point. It seems to exist mostly as a Kate or Elsa counter (Who aren't difficult defenders) and to be mildly annoying on defense.
So does she need dupe, am I playing her wrong? (Cycling sp1 & 2) or is she just plain mid.
I like this girl and I really hope I'm just a stereotypical parent forever complaining that teenagers nowadays can't do anything because so far all I feel is disappointment.
No big numbers - red or yellow, zero immunities (Which is absurd in this stage of the game) and her precog feels disconnected from the rest of hers meagre abilities. Adds nothing to her damage or rotation. I stopped using it as I couldn't see the point. It seems to exist mostly as a Kate or Elsa counter (Who aren't difficult defenders) and to be mildly annoying on defense.
So does she need dupe, am I playing her wrong? (Cycling sp1 & 2) or is she just plain mid.
I like this girl and I really hope I'm just a stereotypical parent forever complaining that teenagers nowadays can't do anything because so far all I feel is disappointment.
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She takes a lot of skill defenders as she doesn’t make physical contact and her incinerates are passive. She’s not as fast as someone like Sunspot but she finishes fights at full health for me ~70 seconds consistently.
Shes good if you dont care about BGs.
If BGs is your main priority then wait on ranking her until we hear from Kabam on her rebalance period, as how it stands now the damage is just too mediocre to be viable in BGs where time is often the deciding factor.
The dupe helps a lot but her playstyle completely falls apart when the AI is passive /has long specials as her incinerates will just fall off and the only way to refresh them is to get back to the sp1
Firstly, all that damage is PATHETIC a 6* r5 ascended is ticking for barley 2k after 1 Sp2??? And we're going along with it? A 7*r3 negasonic would tick for barely 3k after just an Sp2 which is supposed to be where her damage comes from. AT 40 STACKS SHE'S BARELY TICKING FOR 5K,THIS IS A RANK 3 7* CHAMPION BY THE WAY. Is this where we're going with 7* champions. Her release opened my eyes because this is just unacceptable. She needs A LOT more potency for her rebalance but y'all aren't speaking to much on it so kabam will think she's okay and not rebalance her.
Secondly, her incinerates fall off too fast, there's no way to manage them consistently without losing huge chunks when going for the s2 they only pause for 1 second and don't pause during long specials meaning you have to play somewhat aggressively because you can't have them fall off. You cannot do back to back s2's because a large chunk of MEANINGLESS incinerates will fall off(they're meaningless because they practically do no damage).
She needs an offensive tune up stat.
A way to manage her incinerates so they last longer and can be consistently kept so it will be easy to hit the 40 stacks without having them fall off
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY MORE POTENT INCINERATES.
I do think she offers a lot of utility as far as countering skills go and those do not need to be touched on.
If there is a node that increases ability accuracy, then she can be bled by skills
Just because someone thinks her damage needs a tune up, doesnt mean they want a huge dps change. Youre acting as if theres no options in between.
If you cant even accept that then why even comment on the thread?
An overwhelming majority of players have commented on her needing a damage increase, and look at the other champs in 2024 with all having mid or bad damage like her. If you think theres no problem with that, then youre part of the problem
That being said, she’s the only champion to not apply a single debuff, even her parry is passive which is her best utility. All her attacks are non-contact as well. Her evade when charging heavy gives her an easy opening and can be used as intercept if the defender is dashing at you. She has a crazy high base crit chance (40%) and Her damage is actually pretty good if you have her at R2 or higher. I think she’s one of the champs that doesn’t punch up very well. Overall I think she’s a good champion but I wouldn’t mind seeing a small tune up to her with the rebalancing.
Some improvement in damage and survivability due to very low health and no damage mitigation. And some really usefulness with her sp3 for long form contents.
Damage isn’t everything. She has all non contacts, and is the only champion so far to inflict only passive debuffs. She can take 98% of the skill class, like Killmonger, Korg, Attuma, Mole Man, Nick, Bullseye, etc.
Do I want a damage buff for her? Sure it would be nice, but having that much versatility makes her relevant. Plus she is a good defender
I've personally been assigning her in War to stomp through Bullseye on Conflictor with nothing but success.
Her damage is definitely underwhelming for bgs, But if kabam is going to tune her damage up, they most likely have to remove some of her utilities from the kit. Or she will end up like Nimrod, Every other skill champ most likey start to get incenerate immunity. Skill lanes (that second wind lane in aw) start to have random incenerate immunity nodes (Look at path 6 mutant path in aw how it punishes shock mainly to counter nimrod cheese).
You either have a awesome skill counter who's medioce in bgs, Or a good bg skill class counter who is nerfed indirectly in any other mode.
I really want her to get a buff. I just think in kabam pov, they aren't going to buff champs unless they suck plainly like sable.