Ag ag ag. This is another Rescue character. Anyone who have talked to me or read my anything I ever wrote even about any other game or move or females in general. Knows that I hate Rescue. I despise how meaningless she is, 100% defense, Does nothing. Just makes the match take longer time to lose.
Falcon....is the new Rescue. He got no offensive moves really. While all his moves are attacks. they do zero damage mor or less but gives great boost to the team (except the third ability which is just useless.
We can start with the third. Its Falcon's only move that does not buff the team. Its a stun + exhausted(cant get extra turns) attack. SO thats shit. Everyone is stun immune and if they aren't they got ton of removal. Stun has become almost absolute something I been analyzing and predicting for months (since last year right?). Exhaust is actually a great debuff but most will remove it. SO its only good vs the agent. And he still deals like almost zero damage. So its spending 1 turn of Falcon to prevent the agent to be able to use Quick action that is pretty much what this move does. I have used it like once. The second move is great actually and the ultimate is ok, I don't know when this third would be prioritized really.
Don't get, me wrong now. Falcon is not as bad as Rescue hes actually quite better then her but he is still a bad character (shes very, very bad). What works for Falcon is that he gives offensive oriented buffs. Buff that makes the team deal more damage. While he himself practically does nothing, the only thing he do is buffing the team. The Agent and the other character has to stand for the damage. It still better then doing nothing and just healing.
Before I go into what his moves do then - I just want to say dam he is so ugly. I know that they made Falcon fugly in the movie. But oh god his sprite in Marvel Avengers Alliance is hideous.
His first move is an Angel combo. Buffing people and giving the other 2 1 turn each while he loses the next turn. Its a combo if Angels 1th and second move. But As Angels second move has Quick action its actually just exactly the same as Angels move but Angel got other options as well. Bottom line is that its a very unimaginative design.
And well a bad move really. What happens if Falcon is left alive last? Well he won't do anything. This is the fundamental problem with Angel and of course Rescue as well. Leave them for last and they cant win.
This move cost him a turn. But Falcon can be played pretty efficient with his second move. This one gives the cyclops buff that everyone gets a counter. This will make him counter with his first move which will buff without him losing a turn. There is pretty much no reason to use his first move. Giving everyone counter is better and then often buffing them anyway.
He also gains nimble (wasp move) so he will avoid a lot + it has wild shoot so it misses a lot....yep It deals zero dmg. Have I mentioned Falcon alone cant do anything.
I mentioned Cyclops before with the counter ability (combat awareness) another character that has that is Beast, which as the original user of that but no one plays him. Another original Beast ability was the Epiphany that the next attack is critical this is what Falcons ultimate gives everyone.
SO...hes just a freaking combo of Angel x Beast.
2 really weak characters.
His passive makes all allies take lower damage at over 80% life so like the first hit. But more importantly it comes again as a 100% support character ability and its useless when hes alone.
Bottom line is that one removal e.g a scroll and just like Rescue all what he has done is removed.
0/10
Gamora
SO apparently not only Jennifer turns green when angry but also Elektra.
The Gamora design is so boring and bad. Really? Just copy Elektra and make her green that is what it seems like.
I am not a huge cosmic marvel reader but I do like Gamora. I like Thanos a lot so that is probably why.
I do agree that Gamora is an assassin type of character. So to give her some kind of assassinate attack is fine. But really playdom, just take Elektra's passive right of and then you also take Elektra's ultimate right of. Yeah not gonna cut it.
There are a bunch of characters with fatal blow (kill target if its left with 30% or less hp after the attack damage). And Elektra's ultimate original was a copy from Laura (X-23) where Elektras was the same but with Stealth. We already had Satana with a vampiric fatal blow attack and Archangel with just a fatal attack (so that was 100% just like Laura). Then my favorite is Thane with his Fatal blow on his primary attack so he can counter with it and coordinate with it etc. Thats a very strong ability to have + it has an interesting other debuff as well.
Its not that the game cant have more fatal blow based attacks, its that she has the exact same move as War(suited x-23) and Electra (-minus internal bleeding which never made any sense, really indifferent to put bleed on a character that dies.). For example their is a bunch of different passive effects with avoidance mechanics, these are similar but different. So that works fine, for example Loki avoidance and counters. Fantomex give everyone avoidance, Domino avoids and give everyone higher critical chance and so on.
So first they just took Elektra's passive 100% very, very boring. Then its just Elektra's ultimate as well. Really bad done.
The thing is that they have to be creative. Do something new.
IF I had done it I would give Gamora a weak AoE attack with Fatal Blow a type of spinning blade attack that could kill everyone that would be unique first attack with Fatal Blow that affects more then 1 but the programmers etc would not have to create a new mechanic just a reuse of the same but in a new way.
This is just 100% copy paste and its so blatantly done.
That being said, Gamora's ultimate is her real issue and well her other passive too. (PvP strength wise, shes boring regardless of how strong she is of course)
Its not that Gamora is weak shes actually kind of a mediocre decent character. Its just hat like with Falcon shes not power creeping at all. OK Falcon is a much worse case and as mentioned the warrior 3 standalone are super weak. So like I said at the stat all the 5 new characters this seasons are surprisingly weak (excluding the specific team of Hogun + Fandral).
First of all her passive sounds cool, you cannot miss. It gives everyone true strike on all attacks so no abilites can miss. But you still can!
As with all sure to hit attacks they can still mis avoidance characters or the CUBE. What this means is that in this game Marvel Avengers Alliance pretty much all misses that happens are because of the Cube. That is why I always advocate to ignore accuracy and evasion, you always need to have some basic value or else you will of course miss and with no evasion people with critical you all the time. But after a certain value you practically never miss except then from Cube or when attacking Loki etc.
Sounds good in Theory but it does nothing more or less. It do counters characters like Fandral and Mr Fantastic with their distraction (accuracy decrease debuff) spam.
Her ultimate is really utter crap. I often say, a good move should do damage + some kind of debuff and why I always denounce that Thor is a good character. Well Gamora is the otehr way, no damage only debuff and not even good debuffs. One of them is Despair prevent healing and resurrect effect not so important when she already has a fatal blow. Just like with Archangel it becomes Redundant, with Thane he at least can do it as a Quick action towards someone. Archangel with his A-iso actually can give all enemies nanoplauge that is worth ur while a great debuff despair is a decent one.
It also gives cower a 20% chance that the attack will fizzle. Not a very good debuff. Just compare it to disoriented which is a great debuff it makes them not just fizzle but hit an ally instead and it has the whooping chance of 50% to happen. Really Cower is utter shit compared to disoriented . Only reason cower was created was clearly to have it as a passive for Dr.Doom and there it makes sense as having something at 50% each turn from start is to strong so 20% a good number in line with avoidance effects.
When you think about it Cower with Dr.Doom is just like Fantomex misdirection same effect and both is 20% chance.
But Gamora..having to use 1 turn to put it one the enemy and they can remove it righ away. Horrible.
So its a shitty move. Really shitty.
Worst thing,..... its not even subtle. This is one of those abilities one would assume should be just a subtle unblockable move but it is not.
SO not only is it generally bad but it can be blocked by tanks and it triggers counters.
Putting 2 mediocre debuffs out there on everyone to get massive countered as shes a tactician too.
Really one of the worst ultimate in the game by far.
Her redeeming qualities are that its generally good to have an assassin attack and she does damage with it so she can kill someone at 40% at least.
Her second attack gives everyone mangle which can prevent a lot of abilities to be used so t hats actually strong.
It also triggers doom which her first moves put on a target. Not super good actually because Doom always get trigger eventually (if removed it triggers). That is not very meaningful.
But vs Blaster she can first doom the blaster and then mangle everyone and triggering the doom effect then its pretty good.
Shes a character with a good 3 third move and 2 decent moves and 1 decent passive. Pretty good stats. But she has no ultimate. (And a useless passive, I am just ignoring that it exists)
2/10 super unoriginal and a mediocre pvp cahracter which wont get buffed in like a year at least. I do not recommend buying her thats for sure.
I really hope Playdom will buff her ultimate add + 1-2 debuffs and make it subtle.
