these 50 pct reduced damage skills are pretty overpowered… I could see 25 pct maybe… but taking a hit from 250 to 125 or 1200 to 600… is kind of overpowered.
Using crouch takes up your turn, basically giving your opponent a free turn.
If it is stopping less than a whole turn’s damage - and a 25% reduction would only stop a total of 75% of a turn’s damage, or 100% if the opponent was slower than the croucher - then it’s not worth using.
I rarely use crouch even at a 50% over 3 turn damage reduction because the alternative skill is usually more helpful to winning.
4 turns if you’re faster.
Incredibly strong in PVP.
That’s when you use Wind Buffet or Death Grip to swap them out.
There is also a new ability like Cleanse, but it removes buffs and debuffs from enemies. Can’t remember what it’s called or which pets have it. But that would be a good counter.
Ravenous Prideling, and it’s called Disruption. People have also been using to see which ‘Boss’ buffs they can dispel.
That said, there are certain abilities that bypass Crouch’s reduction. Like anything that deals damage based on a % of the enemy’s health, Explosion, and a few others I can’t think of off the top of my head at the moment.
it’s what i’ve seen in the last week or so becoming the new meta. like 2/3 of the people i face have some + 50 pct defense pet… it’s annoying.
Hmm - well Amayita’s ideas sound good.
Along those lines, how about:
Bllodfeaster Larva with Drain Blood, then Stampede and Horn gore to negate the damage, or
Baa’l with Murder the Innocent and Nether Gate?