fully upgraded with the relic, 14 damage and -12 attack on a 3 speed attack with 0 CD? it literally says “this entire match is a 3v2 now”
I get that it’s countered by a bunch of stuff, but when the entire meta seems to be balanced around countering her and samuro, maybe you should do something about it? it sucks for comps that actually use the attack stat
IDK what you mean, she sucks badly. She’s literally D tier. As you climb the ranks, she falls off fast. Comps that attack are worthless anyway, all the good mercs either deal damage without attacks and/or have speed reductions.
I see her less everyday ,she is only a must build free to play unit nothing more .
Not even all comps with Samuro run her now .
“comps that attack are worthless anyway”
cool, half the mercs in the game are just completely useless then, good balancing
I use xyrella samuro varden combo.
They work nice together but I’ve seen other combos using samuro(w/o Xyr) that are stronger, and still other setups that are much much stronger. There are many team comps that I usually see; some just totally destroy the xyrella^sam setup… I think is too early to balance pvp as of yet. There’s no real need.
I mean, it’s true. Taunt exists, attackers take retribution damage, and they don’t have a clear stat advantage over other mercs. The only merc in the top 20 that is played for their attack is the Lich King, and that’s because he slows down the entire enemy team permanently.
it’s just clear that it’s a balancing issue then, this whole stuff is why I quit LoL and other games, some stuff (even though not strong in the overall meta!) is just painfully strong in a specific aspect, and it just means I basically cannot have any fun, even at low rankings with team comps that I find fun or enjoyable
guess I’ll just wait for a multiplayer game where melee is good (so never)
That’s kinda like saying we don’t need cops because all the violent criminals are arrested and sent to prison anyway.
Well we need cops to send the violent criminals to prison. However, attack comps falls off naturally because they’re objectively worse, not cause Xyrella is there to shut them down and that them to Mercenaries jail.
I respectfully disagree. While I do think that Blizzard overvalued the value of Attacking in general, it is still strong when doing critical damage, or when avoiding retaliation damage. I think that, in a world without Xyrella, Attacking Mercs would still have some fringe utility for those two purposes. However, if your niche meta role can be blown out by a hard counter like Xy, well, I think it’s the combination of the two factors really. So not “it’s just Xy” and not what you said, but instead because of Xy AND Attacking is generally underpowered.
We’re both right, since Xyrella is non-existent at high ranks, yet so are attacking comps. Therefore, at low ranks, Xyrella is what destroys attacking comps. However, at high ranks where teams are fine-tuned to the extreme, attacking comps just can’t get a meta foothold due to their drawbacks. Even if they became meta, we would just bust out Xyrella and Taunts and send them down to D tier again.
I’d like attacking and deathblows to be viable in PvP.
Her A1 is one of the strongest in the game, but the rest of her kit is pretty bad, and she is pretty squishy. Not to mention that the current meta does not have many characters that hit with direct attacks.
She’s useful against Samuro but most viable PvP builds don’t do damage by attacking. A fire combo would eat Xyr up.
Her strongest usage is early PvE bounties before players get more Mercs, but she is hardly over powered, and in fact she is easily countered.
Ahh yes,
Strengths: F2p. Weaknesses: Dies to money.
Gacha in a nutshell, is it not?
Unlike a typical gatcha, money is near useless in mercenaries. You get coins, but you can’t even choose the merc you want coins for unless it’s a special offer, and you still need to Level 30 and Task 7 the merc. Xyrella doesn’t die to money, she dies to the grind.
Because I don’t currently own Diablo, I’ll once again respectfully disagree.
Your disagreement is irrelevant, because you are wrong. The time to level a Merc’s skills is significantly more than the time saved by buying his coins. The playing field will level as players who didn’t drops large chunks of money on this badly QC tested mode get the cards others over-payed for.
I currently have all available Mercs, haven’t spent a dime of IRL money, and am thoroughly enjoying the game and PvP.
Xyrellia + Samuro aren’t meta and don’t exist above 6.7,8k rating, where the actual meta begins to show its ugly head, which is slow setups, build around Diablo’s fire stomp. Here and there you can see Natalie and Vol’Jin, but it’s rare. It’s all LK, Varden, Cairne and Diablo. I’m amazed people aren’t crying about it, because it’s literally in every setup above a certain rating.
Uhm, what now? You can’t be more wrong, when all HS streamers universally agree that the mod is blatant P2W to a point where even they can’t keep up. You need between 40-60h in order to farm for any 500 coins mercs and another 30-40h to get their skills to a competative level (not even maxed). If I didn’t spend 12k saved gold on packs, I wouldn’t be at 8k rating right now, because I’d have like 1 meta merc, if any at all.
i quit but yea thats all i did.
she keeps samuro alive which is like just healing him each time he attacks, which is right after.
and a big taunt can just heal her.