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Power control – clear winner?
billygovols
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Who do you all like most for power control?
Prowl seems like he's the best to me but I could be swayed to believe Kickback, Shockwave or Rhinox might have the advantage.
Prowl seems like he's the best to me but I could be swayed to believe Kickback, Shockwave or Rhinox might have the advantage.
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Because not only you can inflict power debuffs but also consume the buffs on opponents and convert them into your own power.
He also consumes power debuff on him, another plus for him.
I fought various Megatronus who I've prevented from ever getting a single bar of special thanks to Shockwave.
KB is not even close to either shock or prowl, the power leak is too slow. And Nox is unreliable, he is a great bot overall but again if its just down to power control he's got nothing on shock or prowl.
If you use Barricade and Grindor together they work well. Barricade can power lock early and then save up for SP2 and steal their power.
1 - Amount of Power Drain:
Purely looking at the ceiling, the answer here is Shockwave. Whether it’s with his Basic Ranged, Heavy, SP1, or SP3, once you get above 5 charge stacks he is able to drain anywhere from 1.5 bars to a full 3 (and have it go beyond that as you deliver more hits). With the right synergy and execution, I’ve reached as many as 20 charge stacks — 3 stacks is enough to drain a single bar as a notable.
2 - Ease of Build Up/Activation to their Power Control “Move”:
This is a tie IMO between Prowl and Shocky. As mentioned above, Prowl can reach SP1 (his Power Drain move) without having to land any hits. However, Shocky can reach any of his Power Drain moves by simply blocking a basic ranged (does so without taking any health loss I might add). It boils down to fight style on this one. If you prefer to simply dance vs being comfortable blocking ranged which I acknowledge as being counterintuitive for many players.
3 - Variety of Methods available to inflict Power Drain:
Shocky here because he can do it 4 ways (Basic Ranged, Heavy, SP1, & SP3). This allows for a higher usage rate among more fighting styles.
For those that know me, you know Shocky is my boy and someone I always tout. I may be biased but also have the experience with all 3 bots mentioned so far (Kb, Prowl, & Shocky).
SP3? How does this tie into the Power Control though? This sounds more like Power Gain.
True but this doesn’t seem at all practical. I mean even with his passive Power Gain, when you reach SP3 the enemy will have some level of power bar built up so Power Locking at that point is still leaving yourself open to a risky situation. I guess if you “dance” the entire time it’s feasible.
Someone must have edited my message LOL. that's supposed to say sp1...
But yes sp3 still locks the power bar hahah
You had it right in your comment man. I was quoting @SkBirdman — I’m genuinely curious too. He usually has some elite level tips.
Prowl's power drain is cool, but I prefer building up for his SP2 and wrecking bots that way. I can play him using his SP1 to control power, but playing that way, I think Mirage is the best for that--my Mirage has 60% chance for each ranged attack to drain 7.2% power and pouring more salt on that wound, all that damage gets 100% armor penetration, so that's kinda hard to top.
Well Rhinox does keep bots from gaining power, so he would certainly qualify as a power control bot. But he is not nearly as good as a Prowl or Shockwave.