There are very few healers who do also damage. First that comes to my mind is Odile.
She heals all allies for 475 boosted HP. If we look that on a 4000 HP hero (usual number with Lego troops), Odile’s health is equal to 12% of that 4000 HP. Slug helas for 50%.
Odile’s dance hits random enemies for 300-500 dmg, depending on allies’ ATT. Slug does 1600 per dodge on the same hero with chance at dodging 45%, equal on 90% on defense (little conspiracy here we all have experienced). Meaning an AOE hero almost certainly dies for missing the target. Two-three dodge on your AOE hero are very likely to happen and then bam-bam, gone. On the top of everything else Slug does.
So your heroes get punished once with dodge, which is enough punishment alone to miss your hero’s special that could save your butt and then your hero gets punished second time and simply dies. Apparently one punishment is not enough.
Now put this Slug hero in between 4 more OP heroes and watch the fun. I’m sorry but Slug is OP to be a single hero on Defense, let alone among 4 more OP heroes. She can simply do it all - heal, buff high % dodge, huge damage on dodge, Mega Minion, perfect for her class. It’s just insane…
Okay, expressed my friendly opinion, now back to lurking in the topic
This makes the most sense. A healer should be a hero that provides support to keep a team alive. The mega minions play into that as well. But the idea that the dodge buffs does so much damage means that Sludgus isn’t really a healer. It’s almost like we’re looking at an updated version of Telluria upon her first release.
SG can and should make important adjustments before release – and we know they can and do because they have, for instance, nerfed some seasonal heroes and HotM from their Beta versions to their release versions.
(… go ahead and read that last sentence again and try to understand why those are the heroes that “need” nerfing, other than keeping the divide between “blue collar” and “premium” heroes ever wider?)
And of course Sludgus was changed on release as well, though it’s debatable “Sticky Surface” becoming “big ol’ heal” is a lateral move, or a buff, or what… but certainly at that time the damage-per-dodge could have been lowered to something less insane, and SG deliberately chose not to.
Agreed. Sludgus, Bearnadette and Rothbart together in one defense is really where the fun ends. If any of these three heroes casts their skill, it’s basically lost (if you aren’t protected with immunity or something else against Rothbart ofc). Bearnadette is actually some kind of balanced, since she is very slow but still… if she fires, you can leave the match.
Yeah, they seem to have been good at pegging back several seasonal heroes and the majority of HotMs. It’s other heroes that seem to have been left unbalanced.
and the simple argument is that sanity might be better tested in beta.
Things get complicated when heroes are released and people invest tokens and both won and purchased gems to pull for them.
A clear argument is that ‘balance’ should have been achieved before this point.
Yeah, part of my point is that SG seems to demonstrate a knack for nerfing-before-release heroes that really don’t rationally need nerfs,
while choosing to NOT sanity-adjust before release some heroes that pretty egregiously merit it… and just instead barf them out for general consumption
Any chance you can upload your vid on YouTube or the like and share your link? A few alliance mates can’t replicate your findings against Sluggo (not Margaret/Iniri).
Thanks!
Edit: Roughly 55 hits from elves against Sluggo and zero dodges. Something seems off.
A team-mate of mine attacked a team with Sludges. Sludges was defeated at 10:30 minutes. That’s a long time, but it proves he can be deafeated with a strong team.
Just got attacked by this team and any other teams that easy beat me are always with Elves so for anyone who has them, Sludgus is not as OP as it seems.
Honestly, they are all deluded bigots - have no patience for any of them and their repeated biased BS - spouting all the crap they can, and even then the crap they spout doesn’t prove their point at all, at times it even strengthens the point she’s busted.
Fully agree. Leveled her to 90 +25 and decided to do some testing before speaking, with her my avg cups raised from ~3300 to permanent ~3700-3800… Definitely deserves at least minor nerf.
