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Evasion needs to be reworked when dealing with special attacks
Synthwave
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So I've encountered this a few times now while using bots like G1 Bee. I was using him in AM against Prowl on the power gain unless melee'd lane, and naturally Prowl got to sp2 (because his sig level is absurdly high and needs to be tweaked) but I was prepared to dodge it.
So Prowl whips out the shotgun, I get ready to backstep when all of the sudden...Bee's evasion kicks in and he backsteps for me. Now, normally this would be a good thing to have happen, but what Bee didn't account for was that Prowl's shotgun is a double-barrel one. So while Bee was taking that millisecond to celebrate his successful evade (which was also long enough for him to see the look of horror appearing on my face) he took the other barrel right to the face. And at the AM level we're running, even with a fully forged r5 bot, that's an instant KO.
TL;DR - Prowl's sp2 needs crackerjack timing to dodge and if the AI is suddenly taking over your bot and doing a move for you, it throws off your timing big time. So here's two possible solutions that Kabam could implement:
1. If evasion is going to take place during the use of an sp1 or sp2, it should dodge the whole sequence of the special, not just a hit here and there.
OR
2. Evasion should not trigger during any specials and let the player do all the dodging.
I'm honestly happy with either, but this randomly evade here an there business has got to go.
Thoughts on this? Am I the only one experiencing this?
So Prowl whips out the shotgun, I get ready to backstep when all of the sudden...Bee's evasion kicks in and he backsteps for me. Now, normally this would be a good thing to have happen, but what Bee didn't account for was that Prowl's shotgun is a double-barrel one. So while Bee was taking that millisecond to celebrate his successful evade (which was also long enough for him to see the look of horror appearing on my face) he took the other barrel right to the face. And at the AM level we're running, even with a fully forged r5 bot, that's an instant KO.
TL;DR - Prowl's sp2 needs crackerjack timing to dodge and if the AI is suddenly taking over your bot and doing a move for you, it throws off your timing big time. So here's two possible solutions that Kabam could implement:
1. If evasion is going to take place during the use of an sp1 or sp2, it should dodge the whole sequence of the special, not just a hit here and there.
OR
2. Evasion should not trigger during any specials and let the player do all the dodging.
I'm honestly happy with either, but this randomly evade here an there business has got to go.
Thoughts on this? Am I the only one experiencing this?
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Evasion is not a beneficial skill on offense. I would estimate it leaves you open to easy counterattacks 75% of the time it triggers, and is a liability for this exact reason.
If you have lightning quick reflexes you can make evasion work for you, but you have to be ready in the same way you are constantly aware when fighting the evasion mod on expert difficulty.