Tashiji
Yellow Sparx
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#2046 Posted: 17:28:11 10/03/2013
Personally, I don't think Hex is overrated at all. Yes, the skull servant has its flaws, but if you're depending solely on that for your wins, you're playing her wrong. The truth is, Bone Crafter is a very competent and defensively solid path even without the servant. The bone shields and skull rain are both solid attacks, she can stave off ranged and melee offense easily for the most part, and she can alternate between skull rain (very long range) and skull servant (medium range heavy) at will. She's versatile and effective with or without the servant, and can utilize all of her other attacks while the servant is active. The servant is just the thing that breaks her; there's no fair way to allow a solid character like BC Hex to deal 280 damage, rapid-fire blasts without creating one of the best characters in the game.
I know a lot of people forget they have other attacks once they get the servant, and that's why we hear a lot of noise about Hex being overrated, but if you use every attack you're given, there's no way a character like Trigger Happy stands a chance. You don't even need the skull servant to lay a beating on him. Regular S1 Bone Crafter is taking that fight more often than not. Gill Grunt is certainly a threat to Hex, as you say, but we're talking about a character that many would argue belongs in A-tier as it is, and an A taking down an S is if anything commonplace depending on elemental and strategic advantages. If anything, I feel we're rating Hex correctly and underrating Gill Grunt.
As for Eye Brawl, speed isn't really his issue in PVP. Both forms use the remote eye as their primary attack; Eye for an Eye to kill, and Eye Brawler to force the opposition closer. Speed is no more an issue for Eye Brawl than it is for Ignitor, because they do the same thing, and the tactic forces the enemy to close the gap themselves or be defeated by the remote eye. Yes, he's a big target, but he the defenses to back it up, more so than virtually any other Giant thanks to his strategy. Mini-eyes are easy to kill, yes, but on Eye for an Eye, they spawn so rapidly that if you aren't a character like Eruptor, who is a very worthy A-tier character and the game's AoE champ, the option to destroy them like that is simply unavailable to you. He's not the best character in the game, but he deserves his spot in S, no question.
Chop Chop, though, is ghastly-cheap. His shield blocks virtually everything and unleashes 75-damage, long-range, wide-area blasts when it absorbs a certain amount of damage. His Wow Pow does 60, enables him to travel quickly, and stuns repeatedly. He doesn't really have a weakness, even to Magic characters. A solid case could be made for S2 Chop Chop as the best PVP character in the game, regardless of element, and there are only a few other names in that discussion.
So, all three are excellent characters, but if you want a PVP Undead who truly takes all comers and doesn't suffer from his elemental weakness at all, pick Chop Chop.
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