Budget Player Cadet wrote: Yeah, honestly, Psylocke's blue is just so bad that it's hard to even get your head around. At first, stealing up to 19AP seems decent. Hell, even attached to a 10-AP price tag and a 2-turn countdown. But let's think about it for a moment. Why is AP steal good? Well, it gives you resources, and it robs the enemy of resources. Two problems. 1. Robbing the enemy of resources is meaningless if the enemy has no use for those resources. If I'm running Patch/Cap/Daken, for instance, and the opponent uses bewilder on me, 9/10 times it's going to hit purple. I don't care if I lose my purple with that team; it's AP I can never use anyways. She could have stolen my red AP or my blue AP or my Green AP... But by the time Bewilder comes online, I almost always have had time to, yanno, spend it. On skills I want to use. And if not, then there's hardly going to be enough there to justify stealing 19 of it. 2. Giving me resources is meaningless if I have no use for those resources. This gets into the metagame a bit, but... The fact that I picked a team up there that has no active purple skill? Not a coincidence. The fact is that with almost any solid team you pick, purple is going to be a dead color. There are almost no active purple skills, and all of the characters with active purple skills are either somewhere between mediocre and terrible (Loki, Falcon, GSBW, Daredevil) or incredibly difficult to get (Deadpool, Fury). Name me a solid or top-tier 3* team, and the dead color is almost always going to be purple. And you're probably not running purple either, for exactly the same reason! Indeed, this is the paradox inherent in Bewilder - the more likely you are to snag a certain color, the less likely it is that anyone on your team can do anything with it. In the 2* range you at least mitigate this problem; there, the "rare color" is usually Black, and Psylocke has an awesome black. But in the 3* range, where you'll usually be using the character? No. This theory is borne out again and again in practice. This would make the skill hard to use even without the minimum 2-turn counter. With the countdown, the enemy can explicitly seek out purple, or any other color they think can protect their most important colors, to cockblock you. Almost every time I use the skill, I spend 10 AP and get nothing in return. Bewilder could be a decent skill. But the restriction of "color with most AP", which would seem to make it get the most bang for its buck, in reality just makes it completely unplayable on a fundamental level. And I don't just mean "bad now", I mean "bad regardless of what they do". Like, what if they add a whole bunch of really decent purple passives? Well, simple - the meta would shift, and suddenly yellow would be the "weak" color. The color that's rare. The color that most teams don't cover. There is no good way around this. Not without the balance between powers being far, far better than they are now.
dfields3710 wrote: I love using Psylocke 5/3/5. Her red can half an enemy life in an instant. Her blue is best with another ap stealer like hood keeping all the enemies ap down enough so you can get the most useful colors. Her black helps her end in dealing 1000+ match damage with 1000+ attack tile damage quickly dropping a lot of enemies. She also helps my PvP climb with her low-cost, mild damage abilities. Making matches end quicker.
Lanko8 wrote: I think Psylocke, Punisher and Sentry really need some big changes because of how much the game changed and the power of new characters being released. Until they do that, they could make some quality of life changes since they are pretty easy and fast to do. Psylocke --> Don't cap her . Black Panther, Iron Fist and Gamora don't have a cap and their attack tiles are better. Daken and Blade do it passively without a cap as well. Her should at least let me choose a color, since i need to collect 10 Blue (pretty much 4 matches) and still wait 2-3 turns. Her needs more damage, after all we have Blade's purple that scales with attack tiles and IF always have one on board for free AND for more damage. Punisher ---> Can he get the Beast treatment and have his not destroy friendly special tiles? Really annoying when you destroy your own Molotov or the other attack tiles... His attack tiles also need some boost since the health changes, the same for his
Lanko8 wrote: Punisher ---> Can he get the Beast treatment and have his not destroy friendly special tiles? Really annoying when you destroy your own Molotov or the other attack tiles... His attack tiles also need some boost since the health changes, the same for his
Budget Player Cadet wrote: And then there's her blue. I have written ESSAYS about why Bewilder is the worst skill in the game.
808SpicyToro wrote: My vote still goes to Deadpool's Black, aka, "Oh, you want to use Whales? Well let me just jump in front of this Righteous Uppercut first!"