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Rank 5 starscream, and stars cream in general
KittenPrime
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Ok so I’ve got my 3rd T3 blue horse spark, which is going on stars cream. Does anyone have any R5 Forge 0 starscreams to show me? And how is starboy in general? I know he’s great with nullifies and what not but how is he.. special damage? Overall damage?
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I think his sp1 and sp3 in particular need something more. His sp1 needs the same chance to nullify buffs as his basic ranged shots do and his sp3 needs to either:
a. nullify up to 10 buffs for 50% less instant shock damage than the current shock damage given for 5 buffs
or
b. keep it at 5 buffs nullified but do more non-nullifying damage in general.
Starscream's sp3 is the only tac sp3 that will punish you by doing almost no damage if there's no buffs present on the enemy. That just seems wrong to me.
OG has permanent armor break, Magnus will break armor and deal up to 4 stacks of burn, Megatron will deal shock that can be permanently fused, and Dinobot can heal and receives a huge timed crit rate buff.
All those things can be very useful on any single bot in the game. But if Starscream fights a bot that has almost no buffs that stick around for any amount of time (Windblade, Kickback, Hot Rod, etc.) then his sp3 is totally worthless.
One other thing I'd like to see is a mechanic similar to Galvatron's where the last medium hit of a combo can deal nullification damage instead of crit damage by removing one buff. Having to rely strictly on Starscream's ranged attacks gives him less utility, so adding one chance to nullify from a medium melee combo would be nice.
But yeah, I think he could do with some tweaking.
Okay, yeah sp3 is trash against opponents like Ash Ketchum who can’t get buffs.. rating out of ten? I do fancy his sp2 a bit
I can agree that he needs some tweaking. I use Starscream in the Arenas and to me he seems to be missing a little something. I often feel like like I have to do a bit more work to win with him when compared to other bots.
Even Dinobot is better than Starscream with the right synergies
Damn.. poor screamer
Starscream kicks butt when it comes to bots with stuff to nullify. However, without that, he hits pretty wimpy.
I agree with others about fixing his SP3. It does suck and does next to no damage if there's nothing to nullify. The animation is one of the coolest, but its lacking and doesn't make sense to do no damage if there's no nullify. Kind of like Ramjet who does a burst of machine gun fire followed by 4 missiles before ramming the target--the machine gun and missiles do almost no damage, but its still cool to watch.
An easy fix for Screamer's SP3 is this: If the target has up to the 5 buffs to nullify keep as is where damage is concerned, if no buffs are there to be nullified, have his cluster bombs instead inflict up to 5 (but a min. of 1) bursts of instant Burn damage (instead of null ray instant Shocks) that do the same amount of damage as the nullify would do. And to give it a little more edge, I'd say add in a 50% chance to Stun (for 2-3 seconds) plus 10% to that chance per instant shock and/or burn that affected the target.
He has some great synergies though, I'll give him that.
Forge him into another 4* tactician asap.
He’s not going on my A team, already have 2 tacticians there haha. He’ll get a place on my B team though! Bludgeon Ironhide Windblade Soundwave Starscream
Hmm, Megatron + Starscream is a powerful, powerful combo. What's your A team?
OG Prime, OG Megatron, Windblade, Ironhide, Ratchet or Bludgeon
og prime and ratchet says it all...