Post by Apocalypse on Sept 11, 2016 3:07:04 GMT -8
10th September Tier List Revision:
This will be mainly to clear the backlog of revision from previous patches.
July Major Patch
Jiho (Ardor 3rd legend release) S rating
Felix (Thunder 3rd legend release) S- rating
Elua (New Light Long-Passer) A+ ratings
Saramir (A+ > A+) and Alice (S- > S-) retains their ratings
18th August Patch:
Kyoko (New Ardor striker) A- ratings
Cashlove (New Thunder passer) A- ratings
Elise & Freyja retains their previous ratings
31st August Patch:
Hamerus (New Dark assist) A ratings
Orses (A- > S-)
Dynames (A+ > A+)
11th September Patch:
Altair (New Thunder defender) S- ratings
Edward (B > A+)
Nute (A > A)
Vivid fear (A+ > S-)
Other Revisions:
Shura (S- > S for PvP)
This will be mainly to clear the backlog of revision from previous patches.
July Major Patch
Jiho (Ardor 3rd legend release) S rating
- Offensive and Defensive totems in one
- Not fully defensive, nor fully offensive; hence not as specialized as Duran
- In addition, one of her passives is close to useless where she reduces line action speed when being attacked twice for only 3 mins
Hence, lacks the "must-have" rating
Felix (Thunder 3rd legend release) S- rating
- A metatron-like legend
- Recovers team lost hp by 30% and team AB by 5% when critted upon.
- Most likely the next metatron when EE
4th August Patch:
Jade Rakshasa (New WW defender) A+ ratings
- Anael of the whirlwind element
- Lacks EE, given similar ratings to other anael-like players
Elua (New Light Long-Passer) A+ ratings
- Provides HP/damage reduction line totem
- Silk-like self HP recovery
Saramir (A+ > A+) and Alice (S- > S-) retains their ratings
- The improvement to Saramir skills upon EE is minor.
- Alice has become much better due to only 3 stacks needed for her crit rate/reflex TEAM debuff.
However, her innate weakness of low reflex and lack of damage doesn't exactly make her worthy of S rating.
She also doesn't provide HP/DR or other buffs to goalkeeper
Kyoko (New Ardor striker) A- ratings
- Ratings are derived from comparison with Beatrice
- Lacks EE and weaker passives compared to Beatrice; thus A- ratings
- Provides 60% reflex line totem (3 stacks of 20%) with an action
- Provides 20% team critical rate totem with an action
- Mainly a midline player for PvP; usefulness in PvE is mainly against Irre GK.
Elise & Freyja retains their previous ratings
- Their EE skills are not much of an improvement from their Evolved skills.
31st August Patch:
Hamerus (New Dark assist) A ratings
- Penetration Power buff active pass
- Provides only 10% critical rate on first pass
- Key feature is her defense debuff which makes people consider replacing veronica with her for OHKO strikers such as leventor
However, compared to veronica, she doesn't provides reflex buff and veronica starting critical rate buff is already 30% - Comparing her to luka, lacks the speed totems, lower or equal initial critical rate buff for first 2 shots
- Lacks EE
Orses (A- > S-)
- Provides up to 60% critical rate debuff on enemy frontline (3 stacks of 20%)
- Provides up to 60% reflex line totem (3 stacks of 20%) for enemy back or frontline
- Perfect defender AI for Kirin with silk ace; S ratings if used with Kirin striker
Dynames (A+ > A+)
- His EE is another nerf the passive and buff the same passive again upon EE.
- Basically no improvement upon EE from previous evolved state (before EE was introduced)
Not the current evolved state
11th September Patch:
Altair (New Thunder defender) S- ratings
- 20% Damage reduction / Critical rate buff Line totem
- 15% Penetration Power debuff / 30% critical resistance buff line totem
- One of the few penetration power debuff totems out there, useful for backline
Edward (B > A+)
- 25% reflex buff after balancing
- Up to 67.5% steal + reflex buff line totem (4.5% per 3 mins)
- Edward gained huge reflexes and now provides a reflex line buff
- The longer the match goes on, the stronger the reflex buff, up to 92.5% for edward alone
- This balancing is anticipated to make CoT 5-9 very hard.
Nute (A > A)
- Minor buffs to her skills upon EE
- Retains her previous ratings
Vivid fear (A+ > S-)
Gained 20% action speed and reflexes self buff upon EEVivid fear passive is 20% action speed and reflex buff line totem- 5% gain to her bloodsucking line totem
- Interesting part is, now her bloodsucking line totem can stack with Zibroi and other Aura of Bloodsucking passive
New bloodsucking totem era incoming? Perhaps
Other Revisions:
- Ability to crit in PvP is very important in strikers these days, with the exception of Sharr
- Shura is undoubted the best assist in helping the striker to crit
- However, Shura might not be used as much due to her position in a 3 man frontline being usurped by Elaine and Silla
Elaine needed for the inflicted damage increase in the current meta
Silla for her DR ace for Angela
Milky Way (A+ > S-)
- Mechanics change where match starting action bar is added onto milky way passive (music start) resulted in her ratings increase
- When used in backline, she is likely to move before enemy frontline
- Provides attack power buff for striker as a frontline totem also
Active is also useful for striker in frontline