Psylocke, the world's loudest and immobile assassin

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I could care less about you whining about her 1-shot combo. At least you have to aim the entire thing, be close, and hope not a single regen or heal gets thrown at the target as you start the combo. No, I don't care about your favorite youtuber/twitchtv personality.

Why does Psylocke's kit seem so incredibly lackluster compared to a huge majority of the duelist (DPS) cast?

Punisher has a hook, a smokebomb, a (broken) turret and can switch between long-range and close-range pressure (shotgun better than psylocke btw) and ultimate you can freely control.

Winter Soldier has 275hp, gets shield every ability they use. They have a hook (stuns), a uppercut (stuns), and an ultimate you can freely control, while also being repeatable.

A large majority of the cast (especially anything that dives) have access to huge traversing abilities that allow you to both enter a fight from afar or escape. As well they often have wall climbing, or double jumping available to them. Even a damn rat (Rocket) healer has the ability to wallclimb (combined with other mobility).

So it's clear the devs aren't strangers to mobility. And yet, Psylocke only has two dashes and a measly 3 sec stealth. Trying to navigate to get to ambush/flank positions is annoying and often limiting unless you want to make noise and waste a (long cd) dash.

That's another thing. My goodness, Psylocke makes so much damn noise. Entering stealth, exiting stealth. This almost borderlines on OW1's initial Sombra release, the world's loudest hacker assassin. Announcing her stealth and unstealth with a giant megaphone.

It's almost impossible to sneak up on anyone with a pair of ears as Psylocke. And a single regen/heal just cancels her combo unless she wants to all-in with another dash in which case she is going to die after that exchange if the team is literally paying attention.

Then to top it off we have Psylocke's ultimate. Okay, super flashy and makes her psuedo invulnerable. For starters, you can't even control who you are attacking, and sometimes you can literally be chasing someone down with it but it refuses to attack them despite them clearly being in the circle. I don't know why this got nerfed, when it was already so easy to counter. Just, literally don't panic, heal, and stand near your team. I think this is literally the only ultimate currently in the game that gets weaker if there are multiple targets in it, which is insane.

TL;DR - Buff psylocke, idc about your favorite youtube/twitchtv personality or your high-rank resume. She's slow, lacks mobility, and literally has an ultimate that gets weaker with more targets in it, and has no control over who it targets.

Honorable mention as well:

The crosshair misalignment with shots the closer targets are is really annoying. It's absolutely bonkers that they made a close-ranged ranged character and didn't seem to think about fixing the crosshair misalignment with shots.

[HighLanderPony]

I believe you aren't here to be right, bc you aren't, you're just here to argue and have the last say, lol

[Oni-Lyrics]

reading the replies its all but confirmed that op is just trolling and point farming

[HighLanderPony]

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reading the replies its all but confirmed that op is just trolling and point farming

Your wisdom is vast.

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No, it's obvious that you don't play enough or you would have realized that her ultimate can not pick and choose who to target unlike any other ultimate, and unlike other ultimates it's literally weaker if you target more people with it.

It's not about picking and choosing people, for people within the ult will get attacked, and she prioritizes certain characters, particularly the first one she attacks. It's an amazing Ult, and far from being the worst, and was so good that they had to make it so that walls could deflect it coming into season 1.

That Ultimate on top of her kit is why she's so powerful, because of her ability to get in, whether through a dash, or invisible mode, along with literally no start up on her ultimate.

Scarlet Witch's ult is truly terrible due to the nature of how it is, since it requires her to be open to attack, deducts her speed by 35%, and she has to wait for a 4sec startup before it even lands vs Psylocke.

Go and pick Scarlet Witch and try to land her ultimate, and you'll see where a truly "bad" ultimate lies in and "if" you somehow to try to say that Psylocke's ultimate is worse than Scarlet Witches...that's 100% how I'll know that you have no idea how to play this game.

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Psylocke lacks basic mobility of a flanking character, namely climbing walls or double jumping (to access some areas more easily). For most of the maps, this is okay since there are easy to access flanks. For some others, you have to go completely around some large obstacle to get to where you need to flank, all because you can't double jump (or wallclimb). It's incredibly annoying.

She doesn't need double jumping because her two dashes can be used to get to higher ground. Have you seriously not played or watched any competitive Psylocke players, or you're just trapped in your forbidden hole of low level thinking?

For example, Magik is a flanker, she NEEDS to get in close, she has one legitimate dash (which has a long cooldown), and two small warps which can't even traverse a 2nd level platform. Pyslocke has two dashes, that allow her to do this, and "if" she had a double jump she would be insane, considering she also have an invisible.

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Instead you have to give up one of her dashes, which are long cooldowns unless you are shooting stuff (in which case you are no longer going to surprise anyone).

Of course you have to use one of her dashes, that's the entire point, giving her abilities to literally traverse multiple floors with NO COOLDOWNS would make her stupid.

The Top-500 Ranks data, she's one of the most dominant characters in the game (these are the best of the best playing. Not mediocre players like myself, and for you...a lowbie), and she's literally ranked at the Top of the Tier List every single time, even this season, with the nerfing of Hawkeye and Hela, she's only stronger now.

She's also one of the few characters who has a 50%+ winrate, despite being quite popular of a pick (many are below 50%).

Again, all Data, and information goes against every single thing that you're saying...but of course...only you know how Psylocke plays like, and let's listen to an individual who doesn't understand how to use her absolutely powerful advantages to showcase the monster that she's been.

[Cursememe]

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Vinnolo a écrit :

she is one of the safest divers in the game, with one of the easiest ultimates to use, cant have it all on a single character

Safest? That's not accurate at all.

Spiderman (and Venom) are much safer, with Venom being super bulky. Spiderman can kill faster than her while having multiple escapes, while also having an easier (and stronger) ultimate. Spiderman's ultimate doesn't get weaker with more targets.

Spiderman is safer but with way less kill potential while psylocke can sneak around have a lot of safe dive tools have the ammo capacity to pick off the backline, have a very strong ult. It is kind of fair to give her less mobility to get to the frontline because if she was as mobile as spiderman she would feel borderline unfair lol

[OMEGA]

VoiD a écrit :

Honestly feels like an ultbot, her ult is great, everything else is quite terrible, she might just have the weakest assassin burst in the game.

Even spiderman weaving web shots + punches canceling animations seem to have a better burst, many tanks have better burst, and let's not forget magik can cancel her spin into dash into an attack, into a "melee" attack to instantly erase anyone at full target, all of that is pretty much a single attack that doesn't require much aiming. She also has far more staying power.

her ult is a lot weaker now

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VoiD a écrit :

Honestly feels like an ultbot, her ult is great, everything else is quite terrible, she might just have the weakest assassin burst in the game.

Even spiderman weaving web shots + punches canceling animations seem to have a better burst, many tanks have better burst, and let's not forget magik can cancel her spin into dash into an attack, into a "melee" attack to instantly erase anyone at full target, all of that is pretty much a single attack that doesn't require much aiming. She also has far more staying power.

her ult is a lot weaker now

Watch out bro. Don't say that around here. People have their heads in the ground refusing to think critically.

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Safest? That's not accurate at all.

Spiderman (and Venom) are much safer, with Venom being super bulky. Spiderman can kill faster than her while having multiple escapes, while also having an easier (and stronger) ultimate. Spiderman's ultimate doesn't get weaker with more targets.

Spiderman is safer but with way less kill potential while psylocke can sneak around have a lot of safe dive tools have the ammo capacity to pick off the backline, have a very strong ult. It is kind of fair to give her less mobility to get to the frontline because if she was as mobile as spiderman she would feel borderline unfair lol

Sneak around? How dude. Psylocke makes insane noise, going in and out of stealth. Footsteps. I can never sneak up on a healer because as soon as I go stealth they are already looking.

Meanwhile Spiderman basically makes no noise until he's already comboing someone.

As well, I am not asking for her to be as mobile as spiderman. I just want her to be able to climb walls or at least double jump so we can more easily access flank routes since that's what we're supposed to be doing.

I also want to mention Storm's insane winrate right now and insane cleave damage. And yet, she literally has Psylocke's ultimate but it's better. It hits multiple targets at once, moves three times faster than Psylocke's ultimate, and charges much quicker. I guess people are just butthurt about being combo'd by Psylocke so easily that they just bury their head into the ground and realize this character is missing key things in her kit.

A lot of the cast's kits are insane, they have access to so much. Psylocke on the other hand barely has half the kit as the rest of the game's cast. It's insane.

[ButtahNips]

Not every DPS does the same thing. Psyloche is a flanker. Her literal job is to get behind the enemy and kill the healers. Punisher for ex is designed to fire from behind tanks and help push the objective (or defend with turret for ex)

[ButtahNips]

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OMEGA a écrit :

her ult is a lot weaker now

Watch out bro. Don't say that around here. People have their heads in the ground refusing to think critically.

Cursememe a écrit :

Spiderman is safer but with way less kill potential while psylocke can sneak around have a lot of safe dive tools have the ammo capacity to pick off the backline, have a very strong ult. It is kind of fair to give her less mobility to get to the frontline because if she was as mobile as spiderman she would feel borderline unfair lol

Sneak around? How dude. Psylocke makes insane noise, going in and out of stealth. Footsteps. I can never sneak up on a healer because as soon as I go stealth they are already looking.

Meanwhile Spiderman basically makes no noise until he's already comboing someone.

As well, I am not asking for her to be as mobile as spiderman. I just want her to be able to climb walls or at least double jump so we can more easily access flank routes since that's what we're supposed to be doing.

I also want to mention Storm's insane winrate right now and insane cleave damage. And yet, she literally has Psylocke's ultimate but it's better. It hits multiple targets at once, moves three times faster than Psylocke's ultimate, and charges much quicker. I guess people are just butthurt about being combo'd by Psylocke so easily that they just bury their head into the ground and realize this character is missing key things in her kit.

A lot of the cast's kits are insane, they have access to so much. Psylocke on the other hand barely has half the kit as the rest of the game's cast. It's insane.

I do agree there's a handful of characters (squirrel girl) that have like... 3 abilities and it's really disappointing when you look at most of the rest of the cast with a LOT of depth to them.