Always a favorite video of mine. She looks like my kind of champ. Not sure any more than IM or CapSam both of whom I’ve already invested in and floating champs aren’t always good for my timing but I’ll definitely be testing her out. Thanks for making these.
As a player who just came back to the game after setting it down for a few years this is so needed. I appreciate you taking the time to throughly discuss Ironheart's kit.
'Hard Counter' was certainly a strong word and that's not fair. She has a lot of counter-play for cosmic's without Armour Break access is a better way to put it. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, I've said before I like the counter-play mechanics being introduced. Shake the wheel up slightly, change the pace of what makes champions tick. Helps the game evolve. For (current) Gladiator though, yeah I see her countering his efficiency in a number of ways: her DoT immunity, him having no access to armour breaks, bulwark to help against him hitting into blocks, the physical vulnerability cutting through his Confidence gains, Lowering opponent AA when hitting into block - if I understand this right does this not shut down his Unblockable when super confident? Will he do fine? Probably, he's certainly not the best Cosmic to use against her, lol. Can't wait until she's released to confirm my suspicions: that the team has done a great job.
Kinda surprised she got rupture instead of plasma. Not complaining in the slightest just thought a tech with selectable damage types would have got plasma instead lol. Other than that, I am really excited for her, and I am really excited for Dusts deep dive and your videos explaining it with contexts.
But at that point what's the purpose of plasma? It doesn't actually have benefits beyond ignoring incinerate resistance, and she already has the option of rupture to fill that need. It would give her a bit more power specifically against an opponent with incinerate immunity and physical resistance at the same time, but you'd also lose the relic benefits. I think this was the correct choice of two debuffs for her.
It seems like she was made as a direct counter for Onslaught? OAR should shutdown his neuroshocks through block so you can block both his sp1 & sp2 (also countering reverse controls)?
I wouldn't call her a hard counter, but she certainly helps. The neuroshocks through block have an extra flat chance, so they'll still get through sometimes (I'd have to test to confirm), and she's metal so she can't shake those or the ones from crits, but she'll still mitigate his threats decently well, yeah
@Daddylonglegs93 Okay. That makes sense. Let us know once you've had the chance to test her against Onslaught. I'm very curious to see how she'll do. Thanks DLL.
Does ironhearts -100% OAAR work on someone like bullseyes instant-bleed-on-block? Im also guessing that it would stop the parry mastery from gettung shrugged off from kingpin, but not bullseyes evade shrug off?
Good questions! Correct, incorrect, correct haha. It should stop Bullseye's bleeds, yes. It won't stop KP's purify because it occurs on a delay (but will catch masochism). And Bullseye's shrug is immune to AAR in the first place, but then also triggers on you attacking him rather than when you parry, so wouldn't apply in either sense there.
Flat ability accuracy modifications come after other modifications, so his effects would still have a 50% chance to get through her block, I'm fairly sure. But it'd help.
