New Character - Ghost Rider 2099 (Zero Cochrane) 4*

JoeHandle

Strong offense, terrible defense = just fine.

GR99 will be nerfed in the same update that nerfs Shang, mThor, Darkveil, Hotpool ....

Daredevil217

Is he bad on defense? I thought people with 400k health pools were getting destroyed by him.

Wolvie171

In the alliance event, he decimated my 550 Colossus in a matter of turns. I blinked and almost missed it

Edit: Or whatever level a 550 is when boosted. Health pool included

JoeHandle

@Daredevil217 said:
Is he bad on defense? I thought people with 400k health pools were getting destroyed by him.

Having played through the GR99 PvP, having seen a couple of people running GR99 troll teams in the Pter PvP, and now seeing GR99 show up on nodes in the Mephisto boss event ... that has not been my experience.

Similar to fighting mThor, I lost once, and ridiculously quickly, when fighting GR99 + Iron May and the AI gave itself a cascade in GR99's colors.

Other than that, he's been no trouble at all. Fight with passives, don't hoover up AP, think about what you're doing. If you expect to lazily run the same team the same way all the time, you deserve to take a whippin' now and again! He's new ... shock of the new ... people will adjust.

EDIT to add ... in the boss event, on the nodes GR99 appears on, he is almost always tanking all of his colors, and that's a **** move

WhiteBomber

He is a niche character with very specific needs who is easy to shut down as soon as you know what's going on.

He's surely going to get worse on ascension (if only because his own health will stop the passive), let the poor man have his day in the sun! Shouldn't there be at least 1 viable GhostRider, even if it's the lame one?

entrailbucket

@JoeHandle said:
Strong offense, terrible defense = just fine.

GR99 will be nerfed in the same update that nerfs Shang, mThor, Darkveil, Hotpool ....

I don't think he's terrible on defense at all.

He's taking giant chunks out of your health every turn if THEIR team comp is set up properly. Seems like people don't want to use health packs, I bet they'll skip him.

entrailbucket

@JoeHandle said:

@entrailbucket said:

@JoeHandle said:
Strong offense, terrible defense = just fine.

GR99 will be nerfed in the same update that nerfs Shang, mThor, Darkveil, Hotpool ....

I don't think he's terrible on defense at all.

He's taking giant chunks out of your health every turn if your team comp is set up improperly. Seems like people don't want to use health packs, I bet they'll skip him.

Fixed that.

I meant the defensive team comp!

OGAlphateam

@WhiteBomber said:
He is a niche character with very specific needs who is easy to shut down as soon as you know what's going on.

What is going on? I don’t understand why he face melts me. He one shotted a character on his first turn.

turbomoose

His power is broken, it says if a character has more health than him do 18% damage

He got Jean to below his health and still did the same damage next turn

If that’s the intention then the wording for that purple power needs to be amended to “at the start of the fight if the opponent has more health then do % damage for the entire fight “

entrailbucket

@turbomoose said:
His power is broken, it says if a character has more health than him do 18% damage

He got Jean to below his health and still did the same damage next turn

If that’s the intention then the wording for that purple power needs to be amended to “at the start of the fight if the opponent has more health then do % damage for the entire fight “

It fires if any character on the enemy team has more health than him, not just the current target.

entrailbucket

@JoeHandle said:

@entrailbucket said:

@JoeHandle said:

@entrailbucket said:

@JoeHandle said:
Strong offense, terrible defense = just fine.

GR99 will be nerfed in the same update that nerfs Shang, mThor, Darkveil, Hotpool ....

I don't think he's terrible on defense at all.

He's taking giant chunks out of your health every turn if your team comp is set up improperly. Seems like people don't want to use health packs, I bet they'll skip him.

Fixed that.

I meant the defensive team comp!

Sure, but you used 'your' twice in a sentence w/o establishing that a different second person entity was being referenced. The second 'your' should have been a 'their', or the bit structured differently to address two different second persons.

And now that it's degenerated to grammar critique, the thread is over

Yeah, I see it now. Oh well!

I've been dancing around the issue, but who is this guy's best partner? Someone said they've seen him with Iron May. Are there other good choices? Does she boost his percentage damage?

turbomoose

@entrailbucket said:

@turbomoose said:
His power is broken, it says if a character has more health than him do 18% damage

He got Jean to below his health and still did the same damage next turn

If that’s the intention then the wording for that purple power needs to be amended to “at the start of the fight if the opponent has more health then do % damage for the entire fight “

It fires if any character on the enemy team has more health than him, not just the current target.

Either way, I’ll have to find a team of 3*s to beat him or chain stun him until he’s down to zero in the next few rounds as he will be level 450+

qandols

An alliance member had this setup that seems to work well to counter him. Okoye, Grocket and Gorr with omnipotent city support. Have 2* TU and 2* all ap and start by if possible matching TU. Watch enemy team melt away.

JoeHandle

@entrailbucket said:

@JoeHandle said:

@entrailbucket said:

@JoeHandle said:

@entrailbucket said:

@JoeHandle said:
Strong offense, terrible defense = just fine.

GR99 will be nerfed in the same update that nerfs Shang, mThor, Darkveil, Hotpool ....

I don't think he's terrible on defense at all.

He's taking giant chunks out of your health every turn if your team comp is set up improperly. Seems like people don't want to use health packs, I bet they'll skip him.

Fixed that.

I meant the defensive team comp!

Sure, but you used 'your' twice in a sentence w/o establishing that a different second person entity was being referenced. The second 'your' should have been a 'their', or the bit structured differently to address two different second persons.

And now that it's degenerated to grammar critique, the thread is over

Yeah, I see it now. Oh well!

I've been dancing around the issue, but who is this guy's best partner? Someone said they've seen him with Iron May. Are there other good choices? Does she boost his percentage damage?

Yes, she does, obscenely so.

bluewolf

This is somewhat conditional with boosts etc but in the current rounds I’m hitting him with boosted ascended Rocket, 5Mephisto and (basically any 5) and easily taking him out.

If I saw a GR99 with 3-4 May I might just use Chasm and a boosted 5 or something similar.

He’s not going to be a meta defense problem or anything, but could punch up on offense pretty well.

DAZ0273

@turbomoose said:

@entrailbucket said:

@turbomoose said:
His power is broken, it says if a character has more health than him do 18% damage

He got Jean to below his health and still did the same damage next turn

If that’s the intention then the wording for that purple power needs to be amended to “at the start of the fight if the opponent has more health then do % damage for the entire fight “

It fires if any character on the enemy team has more health than him, not just the current target.

Either way, I’ll have to find a team of 3*s to beat him or chain stun him until he’s down to zero in the next few rounds as he will be level 450+

I used Dr. Strange to stun him ASAP and then just concentrated on killing him as soon as possible.

Jinx

Who do you team him with?

DAZ0273

@Jinx said:
Who do you team him with?

I was using a variety including BRB, Phoenix, Apocalypse and Deadpool for a bunch of reasons - Apoc and BRB have synergy in producing shields and Strange powers up blue, Phoenix comes back from dead and Deadpool can punish his damage with black and stun on red.

sambrookjm

@DAZ0273 said:

@Jinx said:
Who do you team him with?

I was using a variety including BRB, Phoenix, Apocalypse and Deadpool for a bunch of reasons - Apoc and BRB have synergy in producing shields and Strange powers up blue, Phoenix comes back from dead and Deadpool can punish his damage with black and stun on red.

I tried Apocalypse, Jean Grey, and Jubilee since she also resurrects in one of his nodes in the PvE. One GR2099 Saw and Claw and a lovely cascade later, my LVL 490 Apoc was down (113K damage) and Jean Grey was at about 28K. Jubilee died once, but came back and ended the match with "Game Over" when she had about 13K health left over.

entrailbucket

@bluewolf said:
This is somewhat conditional with boosts etc but in the current rounds I’m hitting him with boosted ascended Rocket, 5Mephisto and (basically any 5) and easily taking him out.

If I saw a GR99 with 3-4 May I might just use Chasm and a boosted 5 or something similar.

He’s not going to be a meta defense problem or anything, but could punch up on offense pretty well.

I do wonder about this. He's not going to be a problem on defense as a 4* -- you can basically oneshot him with match damage before he does anything (but you probably will need to do that).

As a 5* he's going to have enough health that you can't do that, and he's potentially going to be tanking too. I don't know if you'll want to use him while boosted, but I could see 450ish GR99 being a problem with the right teammates. It's just so much damage!