Patch Notes 4.5-A

[Lucas1999]

@Nugget

The second Season of Patch will begin on Friday December 16th at 11:30 AM CST and will run for 31 days. This season features 15 new Heroes, spanning 4 Franchises:

• DuckTales
• Frozen
• Sleeping Beauty
• Cinderella

Interesting new Franchises joining, where again 1 is going to be hard, 1 is going to be easy and 1 is going to be mid for me!

@Nugget

With 33 Heroes added to the Patch System, you’ll now be able to reach Patch Power 5!

Only of course if you buy Patch essence, cause otherwise you won’t ever have enough

@Nugget

We will also be reducing Zeus’ damage from his white skill. We know that he has been frustrating to counter for a long time.

There goes one of the best heroes…
And it isn’t true that he is hard to counter. You just need to have your Reflect-game right

@Nugget

Agent P will be an event exclusive hero available from the Arena Token Crate

Poor Agent P…

@Musketeer

remove his energy steal from his red skill, by the end he will be as annoying as always, stealing all energy from all enemies and stunning them 24/7

Now that I think of it, reducing his damage might make countering him even less easy, cause Reflect will work worse, and he keeps his energy steal. So wrong move both for defense and using Zeus in offense. So bad in every way.

[Bluebandit93]

@Nugget

Don’t forget that your Patch Power directly controls the max Patch Level your Heroes can achieve. To increase your Patch Power you need to gain Patch Levels across all of your Patchable Heroes.

Nugget can you please clarify this?
The way I am reading it is that you can only level up a hero to Patch Level 2 if all Patchable heroes are level 1?

Also, is the Patch Powers included in hero filters?
Or could the team add a different filter for Patch Powers specifically?

If I am looking for “Invisible” I probably don’t want to have heroes be included that I don’t have the Patch Power unlocked?
Similarly, could the filter be specified for Memory Disks, Patch Powers and Red Skills to be included / excluded.

Also on filters, can you add a filter for non-maxed red skills?

[Lucas1999]

@Nugget

We will also be reducing Zeus’ damage from his white skill. We know that he has been frustrating to counter for a long time.

To come back to this, I have a great example of today’s CW with a line-up that contains Zeus, but where he is not the big problem:

With my Shego I can one-shot Zeus and Sisu out right away. Baymax can follow with more difficulty, but the real problem of this line-up is Tron. He is way too strong here having gained the reflect, while taking away my reflect game.

So if a hero needs a nerf, it is Tron with his disk!

[Musketeer]

@Lucas1999

So if a hero needs a nerf, it is Tron with his disk!

Yeah, definitely not. What needs to happen is PB fixing Joy’s red skill.

Also, even now, you can use Madam Mim.

[Nala_CMXLVIII]

Zeus isn’t hard to counter whatsoever…what are you talking about?

Nerfing Zeus is about the dumbest thing I’ve heard.

Seems to me, the people who complain about Zeus haven’t yet learned that there are about 10 different toons who counter him, which include at least 4 different methods.

I suggest if you must do anything with Zeus, to remove his “stun” disable accompanying white skill.

[Musketeer]

@Nala_CMXLVIII

Zeus isn’t hard to counter whatsoever…

There is nothing against energy stealing. His damage was counterable.

And this freely allows Zeus to his white skill every second.
Of course, pb didn’t changed that, and as Lucas mentioned, reflect will be less effective now on him.

[KillingDead6]

Zeus isn’t hard to counter. How about instead you let heroes still move when someone uses their white skill. That way people wont have to sit through their heroes not moving just because someone is spamming their white skill freely

[Lucas1999]

@Musketeer

Also, even now, you can use Madam Mim.

Tried that, but the stun that the hex should provide didn’t work

So maybe the nerf Tron needs is getting some evasion or tenacity away from him, so he actually gets that stun

[Musketeer]

@Lucas1999

So maybe the nerf Tron needs is getting some evasion or tenacity away from him, so he actually gets that stun

1. He has none
2. Pb never changes badges

[Krahime]

Zeus doesn’t need to be nerfed, because he’s easy to counter, putting a Mary on him prevents him from using his white ability, using doctor draker you manage to reduce Zeus’s initial damage and thus there are several Zeus counters. the argument presented by the Perblue company is not viable and logical to nerf Zeus, I totally disapprove of their decision, all it does is divide the game community.

[Musketeer]

@Krahime

a Mary

And Hatter exists too.

@Krahime

to reduce Zeus’s initial damage

His damage isn’t a problem, but energy steal.

[ALDT]

@Krahime

because he’s easy to counter, putting a Mary on him prevents him from using his white ability

Imagine if their team had a Mad Hatter, Hex (at beginning of wave) will be actually useless 'cause his Red Skill

[Phal]

While I agree that Zeus is perfectly counterable, he IS extremely overused so nerfing a bit doesn’t seem such a bad idea
But yes damage was the wrong nerf, he just needed his energy steal tuned down a bit. Heck he’s become even more spammy since the Hercules collection

[Krahime]

you can use doctor drake and fix the problem , if it bothers his red ability so much, lower the steal of wick and debuff a bit

[LilRubyKinz]

@Phal

While I agree that Zeus is perfectly counterable, he IS extremely overused so nerfing a bit doesn’t seem such a bad idea

This is exactly the thing, Zeus isn’t impossible to beat or anything but since his release, gameplay has honestly been so stale because every team is exactly the same. No one has any reason to use anyone else. I think that it’s a necessary step to revitalize the game, he’s just got too much power.

[Sra_Malevola]

Okay, thanks!

[Musketeer]

@Krahime

drake

Drakken.(?)

@Krahime

bothers his red ability so much, lower the steal of wick and debuff a bit

Yes, his red skill needs nerf. Not damage.

[Hangry_Panda]

At comparable levels and power, Zeus is 100 times easier to defeat than new Baymax. You can boost up armor with Shank, but Zeus has several counters that has been around for much longer. I’m not saying Zeus doesn’t need a nerf (he is very powerful, but so is Shego and others at top of tier chart), but the new Baymax is crazy. The new Baymax is blocking (low level players) friendships and normal and elite campaigns now that new Baymax is way stronger than other heroes at comparable levels.

[Musketeer]

@Hangry_Panda

Shank

You sound like she is the only counter against him

Which is far from the truth.

@Hangry_Panda

but Zeus has several counters that has been around for much longer

And none of them help against energy steal, so what will happen after 10s?

[Hangry_Panda]

Also, I’m willing to bet Baymax change in usage in the last few months have been higher % than Zeus’s change. As soon as more people invest into Baymax, he’ll be used as nearly as much as Zeus. I’m seeing lots of Baymax in use and the only people (like me) who aren’t using Baymax are ones that doesn’t have the money or resources to spend on him (yet).