Wohoo
Another Bleeding based character.
People who follows me likely know I have a sweet spot for Bleeders, if we are talking about Laura(X-23) and excluding the rest of them.
Well Blade is actually one of the better new characters this season.
There is one thing that really shines with Blade and makes him be almost viable. His Primary attack.It reminds me a lot of Thanes great primary attack. A character that can be focused heavily on it. Well he is not as versatile or just plainly strong as Thane's Primary. But its a great finisher and a dangerous counter.
His Primary attack his is third move, which is very unusual as almost all got their first move as primary and few their second. That don't really matter just an observation, anyway it has Fatal Blow. Which means it will kill any character under 35% max health. This is of course really, relly good for a primary attack. As he will do this attack in any type of counter, follow up helping team mates if he got coordination mechanics on him etc. A huge chance to kill people. Thane also has fatal blow on his so they are very similar. But instead having Thanes amber mechanic that took time to build up, Blade got incapacitation which is a debuff that might stun them when their turn start,,,Thane also had a stun after 3 attack so...very similar. (like most characters Blade is a redo of X(Thane) and Y, were Y then is Wolverine I guess).
Well its great on Thane and great on Blade. Blade is also a Scrapper so he can attack with his class bonus with it. This is really good, say an enemy got 50% hp. Attack them with another attack and then following up with the primer after lowering them to 35%, really effective.
Blade also got self coordination like a few othe characters e.g Star-Lord this will make him at any time attack enemies who attack him or the team or follow up on attacks by the team. So in all a huge chance to constantly kill people.
And thats pretty much it if I would sum up Blade it would be really good passive in combo with primary attack.
And then a lot of meh abilities.
His other passive makes him immune to disoriented which is really good as its one of the best debuffs and used by the most used item the cube. But then he is also immune to mind control while a strong debuff completely unseen in the game so its not the best passive but ok. Well it do makes him really good vs Morbius.
And then comes the bleeeeding passive. Dodge chance vs target who are bleeding so he needs a bleeding them to be at his best, gg. Wont ever be good.
His first attack deals 3 bleeding stacks right away which si great but its the only thing it does and it does low damage so hardly a good skill.
Then he has to attack a bleeding target with his second ability to gain a unique self buff so he can even use his ultimate. Which for that matter sucks it jut boost his stats and remove debuffs etc.
So he has some kind of half ass ultimate which he cant he safely use...that just really sucks.
To make him be effective you need another bleeding based character to go before him and bleed them up hoping hey wont have mystic etc nor that they wont remove their turn.
Without going into to much on Blade its clear he is yet another character who won't be good as bleeding is shit.
SO back to my previous point, he got a great primary attack. Thats it, a good passive in conjunction with his primary and an ok passive immunity defense.
