Athena VS Nisha

[Techmancer25]

So I'll be playing solo, and I can't decide between Nisha and Athena. Which one is better for solo?

[Recursion]

Probably Nisha, athena has a ton of group bonuses.

[Maddie Gaming]

Athena has a shield that can block bullets a whole bunch of skills that can let her shield-tank. Additionally, a properly built Athena can deal a good amount of damage between guns, melee, and DoTs.

Nisha, while she can be tanky, it requires a lot of investment into one of her trees to shine (And even then, you still need to take damage first). Outside that one skill tree, she has only two defensive skills (One of which requires a kill) but a ton of DPS skills.

That said, I suggest you look here[thepresequel.com] and decide for yourself.

[Gom]

Both work pretty well for solo. Athena is more of a well rounder who shines at close to midrange combat. Nisha is really good at shooting stuff super fast and just slaughter everything with hipfire.

[Techmancer25]

I think I'll just try them both out in the starting area. I like Nisha's damage better, but her skill sounds kind of annoying to me. I find my aim good enough that I don't think itll help me as much as some of the others. Athena's skill, on the other hand, is amazing. And I really like melee characters. *Cough cough Krieg cough cough*. Thanks for the input.

[Spartan]

Originally posted by Techmancer25:

I think I'll just try them both out in the starting area. I like Nisha's damage better, but her skill sounds kind of annoying to me. I find my aim good enough that I don't think itll help me as much as some of the others. Athena's skill, on the other hand, is amazing. And I really like melee characters. *Cough cough Krieg cough cough*. Thanks for the input.

Nisha's ability to spam constant critical hits at high speed becomes so silly the game basically plays itself. We're talking almost 100% critical hits with a Vladof weapon just by holding down the trigger. I played through the game as Athena first which was a nice challenge and there were a few tough parts that I struggled through, especially against some bosses, but with Nisha...we're talking a difficulty level that's easier than easy mode. There's almost no challenge with her, she's that unstoppable.

I only played NVHM so far, so I don't know how things scale after that but Nisha is by far the easiest trip through the game. Like, there's zero stress so far, unlike Athena where I felt very vulnerable if my shield wasn't up.

[Techmancer25]

Huh. I do like the game to not be "press f to win," so thanks for your input. Is the season pass worth it, in your opinion?

[Spartan]

Originally posted by Techmancer25:

Huh. I do like the game to not be "press f to win," so thanks for your input. Is the season pass worth it, in your opinion?

IMO I'm not sure. I just started playing a week ago and really only focused on Athena, Claptrap, and Nisha so I didn't have too much time with the game outside of the main story quests.

I would have preferred campaign DLCs like how Borderlands 2 did their DLC instead of 2 extra characters and a challenge map in Pre-Sequel but that's just me. We did just get a campaign DLC though that's supposed to be bigger than Tiny Tina's DLC for BL2, but I'm not touching it until I've caught up with all the other content first.

If you're unsure, just wait for the Steam Spring or Summer sales that are coming up, I'm sure it will go on sale again.

[Techmancer25]

Cool. I'm buying with keys I bought from a friend for a discount, so I'm only paying 40$ for the normal game anyway, so I might as well pick up the pass. Thanks.

[zverozvero]

Nisha is same '1-action to kill all' in UVH as she was at TVH. Only 'trouble' she gets is Kill skills (like 5 of them) are needed to demolish everything in a blink, so you must land a kill first, or use half of Action skill to land that kill and then finish everything aiming 'with hands'. And short vulnerability period, when kill skills expired and action skill is on cd.

They both have melee trees so to speak, and both have builds to squash big targets like no tomorrow. Nishas squasher naturaly sticks in nearly any build - cant avoid it even if deliberately try to. But melee is bit subpar. Athenas malestrom can easily stack 300+ on bigger targets and goes to 500-999 on raid-boss in seconds, but it takes some proper equipement (which aint legendary aswell, but harder to get than Nishas). Her melee tree is more interesting, and better for melee, however.