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Which Bot has the best Signature in the game?
Vinod_7991
Posts: 61
This is a poll and discussion on which is the best signature in the game, and why does it beat the others. I’ve suggested few of the best one’s in the game. Do add in comments in case any opinion is out for the box.
Which Bot has the best Signature in the game? 36 votes
OG Prime’s ‘BREACH’
11%
4 votes
Scorponok’s ‘REGENERATIVE TOXIN’
5%
2 votes
Megatronus’s ‘RELIC OF OBEDIENCE’
11%
4 votes
Prowl’s ‘GOOD COP’
8%
3 votes
Wheeljack’s ‘FORCE SHIELD’
22%
8 votes
Cheetor’s ‘FERAL STRIKE’
11%
4 votes
Jetfire’s ‘DAMAGE CONTROL’
0%
OG Megatron’s ‘NO MERCY’
22%
8 votes
Thundercracker’s ‘ASCENSION’
5%
2 votes
MV1 Prime’s ‘I’LL TAKE YOU ALL ON’
2%
1 vote
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Comments
Close runner ups are TC, WJ, Trounous, Scorp, Prowl, Jetfire and G1 bee.
Also the "best" signature could depend on the ability itself, or how useful it is to the bot who goes from unawakened to awakened
for those who aspire to be ninjas, any defensive sig would be rarely used and therefore you can argue they're less "useful"? that being said, i'm sure many top AM players have been saved by them
one sig imo that is used in every fight and throughout the fight, with high reliable and versatility, is prowl's power gain, which takes him from a good bot to a top bot
also, a few other sigs that are not on this list but have high utility include: grindor, windblade, bonecrusher, drift, scout bee... whilst none of these sigs are op in any way (well... scout bee's sig maybe a little op), but they help in every fight and throughout the fight, i'd personally put them above some of the sigs listed above (eg. my mv1 triggers his sig like twice a month, and he's on my spotlight / AM / raid starting lineup)
JF’s Damage Control shouldn’t even be on this list imo. The healing is too trivial and may consume too many Charges if you’re not careful, not to mention in order to fully utilize it, you gotta change the gameplay style to Galvatron’s
Enemies. I would recommend having a look at InightSkies video on MegatronVSPrimal.
Bots where high sig is really meaningful : OGP, Prowl, scout bee, tronus, necro, maybe cracker, scorp, WJ, bludgeon
Bots who are good unduped and the sig doesn't matter a huge amount : windblade, drift, shockwave, MV1,
Just shooting from the hip, probably forgot a bunch...
That said, I picked Cheetor’s feral strike. He gets to bypass all armor and shields and can evade attack while feral.
They go from mediocre at best to extremely effective.
There can only be one
I would agree with two out of three of these. Tac Megatron is still great even without his sig. His sig just makes him better.
Just 100k? What about Bludgeon? I was told he can do a 220k hit in his S1... 😏
you were supposed to pick prime
Sorry, I thought this poll was “best Signature in the game”, not “most overrated Signature in the game”
The same can go for many sigs though.
OG Prime: Requires armor break AND a critical hit, otherwise its useless.
Scorponok: Requires 1) venom charges, 2) be below 75% health, and 3) take non-special damage.
Megatronus: Relies on a % chance to activate and while it does prevent (de)buff activation and weakens future (de)buffs, bots that don't rely on (de)buffs are largely unaffected.
Prowl: Requires charging melee buffs which can take up to 5 seconds and the power gained can be easily mitigated or prevented entirely.
Wheeljack: Requires him to get hurt and can easily be bypassed with damaging debuffs.
Jetfire: Requires him to 1) get injured to below 75% health, 2) block, 3) have energy charges stored up. I really can't understand why this is even on the list when there are so many other sigs better than this. Damage that gets through his block (that isn't deflected) can easily mitigate the amount healed and abilities of bots (like Shockwave) that block healing prevent this sig from happening completely.
OG Megatron: Relies on 1) a fused debuff to be in place, 2) a % chance to activate and requires a successful melee attack. If it activates, the buff stolen is 100% randomly selected instead of the one with the strongest effect, the buff with the most active uses (like 6 melee buffs vs. 1 power gain or 3 armor buffs) or (if OG Megs is ever updated) a buff selected by the player.
Thundercracker: Requires 5 sig levels to even have a 1% chance of working to purify, otherwise requiring 5 successful melee attacks.
MV1 Prime: Requires suffering 80% damage to his health, lasts for only 7 seconds, and can happen only once per fight and can be prevented by sigs such as from Megatronus or Cheetor that prevent buffs/abilities from being activated.
Cheetor: Happens passively without requiring the player having to do anything or meet any conditions or suffer injury, he just has to gain a bar of power which is something every player of every bot can do relatively easily and quickly. Doing this provides:
1) Boost to crit rate, nothing special on its own but this gives his melee attacks chance to bleed which causes damage AND reduces rate of power gain. An effect that doesn't require preconditions to work.
2) Attacks ignore armor, shields, and evasion. Possibly the only ability in the game to affect melee and ranged attacks while other bots can only do one of these three bypasses at a time. This is like having Windblade's SP2, G1 Bumblebee's Shield Break and Hot Rod's Deceleration all in one ability!
3) Attacks do not trigger enemy abilities for 4 seconds. The only other sig that comes close to this is Megatronus' Relic of Obedience and that requires a % chance to activate and only applies to buffs and debuffs, not specifically to 'abilities' which includes buffs, debuffs, sigs, etc.
4) 25% chance to evade melee attacks. Again a passive effect not requiring Cheetor to do anything or get hurt or debuffed to activate.
**Count all these together, and count #2 as 3 separate abilities, and you have Cheetor's sig activating up to 6 different abilities all at once--depending on how you look at it--that are offensive, defensive and utility focused! No one else has a sig that can do so many different things, do those things without requiring any conditions to be met other than getting a bar of power, and things that put enemies
One More Thing: There are other bots with better sigs on here than some bots on this list. Waspinator's sig is to come back from the dead! That merits being on here for that alone, and then regaining up to 20% health--no other bot goes into a match with upto 120% health. Mirage has a sig, like Cheetor, that has multiple effects including unblockable attacks and nearly doubling his attack value. Nemesis Prime has a sig that heals him each time he does a special attack. Ramjet's sig can potentially double the damage of his specials and make him immune to stuns. Ultra Magnus' sig gives him physical resistance and/or nearly doubling his Attack value.
Then OGM, then Tronus.
Honourable mentions to Grimlock, Prowl, Hound and Starscream for being truly tranformed by their sig abilities.
Hmmm... yeah. Probably this. I mean, it’s a freakin’ free revive.
If its most broken sig then it would probably be Prowls for him basically being a half Megatronus half Thundercracker if you sidestep without getting hit for the whole fight