🧪 Early information on the May 2023 HOTM -- Suzuna [Part of The Beta Beat V56]

No, Elradir receives the ailments, and she just reflect the damage back.

This heroes does not receives the ailment, and the attacking hero receives it.

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Being better than Balur and Klaern means she´s the best blue hotm in a year lol, I think that´s about it though.

Yes the fast speed is nice.
Heal 3 means it´s an extremely small niche (basically limited to defense tank).
The heal is very weak.
As tank there is zero pressure for the opponents. There is no damage, no overheal, nothing. That´s a tile dump.
The reflect is fun but well not a game changer.

maybe we´ll see her as a poor mans blue tank option, but at least she´s not going to get nerfed lol…

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Reflect status ailments on 3 allies for a fast Hotm! Helps me out since im missing Ferdinand

Maybe, she has way more value on offence.

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I don’t like heal-3 heroes, but this one is at least fast. Also status reflection is not something that is readily available (both Hawthorn and Furndinand are awfully hard to get) so not a bad idea to have easier way to it. Actually, I praise SGG a lot for this decision. Certainly better than another “increased defense against fire” type of filler.

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I wish SG would stop with splash healers, I’ve never leveled one, don’t think will start now

This is great, I hope they won’t nerf it before release. A fast cleanser and reflector, plus healing and immunity against fiends. She is an all-around supporting hero. Probably the best ice HOTM since Glenda.

I wouldn’t mind getting this HOTM. Just need to bring another healer or hero that heals all (Aramis, etc etc ). She could be worse, much worse. Balur comes to mind.

If they nerf her even by a small but, she is likely to join Balur and Klaern :wink:

Only to nearby… So you need a second healer (and maybe a second cleanser) on the team, and it takes space for shooters.
Priority cleanse is a benefit, but it is good really only against buff blockers.

Only for herself. Balur at least can protect the whole team (yep, I know that if I have to compare a hero with Balur it means the hero is really meh )

Just what I said…

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Really? Priority cleanse, ailment reflect, fast 600 health boost healing and she’s as bad as klaern and balur just because she heals 3?

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Really.
Heal-3 is useful mainly for def tank, to increase survivability, and you ususally have a second healer (or even a resurrector) on a def team anyway.
But she - outside of healing - does nothing to be a good tank, her skill is too passive, she only reacts to enemy actions. And even does not have tanky stats.
On attack support hero should help the whole team, not only neigbours. Because you don’t want your supporters to take too many team slots instead of shooters.
Two and half years ago was a similar (but purple) HOTM called Zulag.
she was 2 tile slower (average) but had a bit bigger heal and gave big def buff and minion shield. For a short period some people had her as a tank (it was en era of purple tank domination). But soon they got better heroes for this spot and she was forgotten. Now you can sometimes meet her on wars, in weaker defences, when the alliance has coordinated purple tank.
Do you expect her to replace currently used blue tanks?
And I even don’t think about M&M or Waterpipe, but even tanks for lower-tier players, like Frosth, Aegir, c-Magni or CB Richard?

If you are using HOTMs as tank, you’re doing it wrong. If tank is not suitable, why not flank to protect the wing heroes. Generally I am speaking on both offence and defence and I would want a HOTM to be more offence oriented. Priority cleanse is going to be so much more important in the future. The new springvale hero archie is an improved AOE el nadaha, even if P cleanse is to three it helps a lot
Also, Klaern and balur are so S1 barebones, they don’t even feel like HOTMs. To compare Suzana to those two is quite unfair because at least she does extra things that benefits your team. P cleanse and ailment reflect are skills that are not easily found on a conventional healer, let alone on a HOTM.
This is an acceptable standard for a HOTM

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Totally agree with you. Current META only valued heroes that protect all or hit all. But at fast, this HoTM offer great value to 3 heroes, and if you want her to affect all allies, you’ll need to make her average to be fair

OK, we can agree to disagree :wink:
I don’t think she is a bad hero, but I don’t expect that she will see much use - just because she helps only neigbours. You just can quite easily find heroes, who will have the same effect, but to all.
On war def, with the domination of blue tanks, she cannot be used as flank.
Maybe she can work on raid def, in double formation, but who really cares about raid def?
Priority cleanse is really needed only against buff blockers, but cSonya can give you the same effect - remove buff block before you give any buffs and also on fast speed.
The only good skill is the ailments reflect, but with 3 turn period (which means only 2 enemy turns) it is difficult to time it, especially as her other effects (heal, cleanse) usually cannot wait.

In short, I think she is a quite good hero, but it is very difficult to use her full potential. So not sure if she will win a competition for telescopes with easier to use heroes.

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She does give an easy access for players to ailment reflect and p cleanse. That’s what imo what HOTMs are supposed to do in the first place, give a trial run of unique skills.

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As I said, we can agree to disagree. The future will tell.
Anywway, I will not be chasing her.

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The problem for me with heal/protect-3 heroes when attacking, they always kinda feel like “I really hate those other two jerks on my attack team and wish they would just die” (which can often happen if you don’t commit to bringing more healing/buff/etc for the cannon fodder outside the Special Ones Umbrella).

So the question can then become “do I really wanna level this up as a tank?”

:man_shrugging:

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The problem with having a decent roster is that i no longer need average to mediocre hotms. So… Good news i suppose.

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I believe make her heals all will make her quite popular even she doesn’t boost health or has some amazing buff.

This may be an ignorant question but against which heroes would status reflection be useful? I suppose Alfrike and all mana controllers. Any others?

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