Kasumi needs a BUFF!!!!

[buchanant]

Started trying Kasumi today. Holy cow is she stupid awful. Out of range of people shooting at me. Any time I'm in range, I'm seriously out damaged. The abilities take too long to activate before dieing with too long a cool down. No real movement powers. No defense. What the heck is the point of this character? It NEEDS more range!

[Starrbomba]

i want her ult to posses the enemy and have them be an ai that attacks thier own team

[76561198868728870]

You probably don't play it right...lol.

kasumi plays around corners, as she can melt anyone. She doesn't need reload item, so she can get wrecker and flank the tank on objective. she's not a duelist though.

Also she's not (really) about abilities. q is useless. the escape ability is decent, but you have to keep it for defense...

Ult is similar to brand from league of legends and some other characters from other games; it's not a zhin, or koga 1 ult=1 kill concept. Its strength is the possibility to multiply the damage by it spreading from 1 enemy to another. And frankly, it's the only 'skill expression' in her kit, besides positioning and game awareness (which affects all champs).

You can find great success with her just by holding left click. If she gets more power transferred into q, then they'll gut her damage, and she'll end up like moji probably, a support. It's frankly the only 'noob-friendly' support.

Also worth noting...she's most effective at medium range, to abuse the aim and dodge enemy shots. You're either playing her wrong, as I said, or underestimating how big the difference is between most flanker's theoretical damage in mid range, and the practical one (reduced by missing shots, gun spread, range etc).

EDIT: you want 10% lifesteal - 7% speed - anti shield item (I think wrecker is called, unless they have none of the tanks with shields) - max hp increase.
lifesteal maxing first, but buy whatever you can from the list on each back...

Can replace anti shield with whatever from the survival line (cc resist, anti damage from main hand weapon).

[Thane Krios]

Begin fight with right click, you want to have quiclky 5 malediction charge.
Do not hesitate to run with her, she is not a strong duelist at all

[mike from breaking bad]

kasumi is fine you're just bad lol

[buchanant]

Oh really? Ok, let's get into this. First off, let me address the second part. Yes, I'm bad. I'm absolutely horrible at this game. But, there is a difference at being bad with a half way decent character and being bad with a gimped character.

Alright, let's look at this: She has the lowest damage of all of the flanks. She has no defensive powers and no dodges. Her abilities are also not instant. By the time her abilities are activated, she's dead. That makes them nearly useless. Her one damage ability is only slightly better than her normal attack. So, throw out all of her abilities. The only thing she has going for her is a scan hit box that is arguably easier to target than anything else. However, if the enemy is using terrain it misses.

So, let's put her in team death match. Who's she going to beat head to head? No one. She's dead last. Have to be at medium-close range to do damage. No instant movement abilities. She's a sitting duck and the only way she's going to kill anything is if the enemy is ignoring her.

Goes up against a flank, I cant think of another flank that wont kill her easily.

Goes up against a front liner, dont make me laugh.

Goes up against a damage, out damaged by a wide margain.

Goes up against a support, maybe on a good day she might get a couple kills, but she's going to die a lot doing it.

That puts her dead last among ALL of the champions. She needs a buff badly.

[Korda Wolf]

you don't even have to aim when shooting with her that is why she has a low range takes zero skill to play her get bent and your buff complaints fall on def ears because hi rez don't give a ♥♥♥♥ all they care about is lining their pockets with money

[buchanant]

Lol, yeah, that's why every team I have ever joined has said she's the worst. You got out voted.

[Thane Krios]

Originally posted by buchanant:

Lol, yeah, that's why every team I have ever joined has said she's the worst. You got out voted.

If she is op, you see her every game, yes she is not op at all

[atomaweapon]

Originally posted by mike from breaking bad:

kasumi is fine you're just bad lol

Not really - shes borderline useless. They nerfed her into the ground. You're outdamanged outranged and out classed in almost every aspect.

[rowenic22dwp]

theres a load of crappy opinions in here so let me tell you what you do with kasumi

priority items are ult charge, DR, and movement. HP item is bad on like half the roster

first and third talents are best, ignore the trap one its too inconsistent

get in trouble use escape then jump and cancel it, do not use it at 5% hp and expect to live idk why i see people do that. with 3rd talent you can use it to stall for quite some time

savage tear has way more autoaim than her right click abuse it with healing card, 950 healing at 5 stacks, dont initiate with it use surrounded by fear card at 5 instead

put traps around blind spots and chill for an easy 1v1

her ult is 100% ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up the disarm wins team fights and a single savage tear with damage card can one/two shot a squishy usually, this is all ability damage so DR does nothing

she absolutely is not terrible anymore and is favoured vs aim dependent or mobile champs remember that this is an androxus/willow meta

[rowenic22dwp]

Originally posted by atomaweapon:

Not really - shes borderline useless. They nerfed her into the ground. You're outdamanged outranged and out classed in almost every aspect.

see you have to check before you listen to opinions like this. i check this guys profile and hes literally never played a single match with kasumi. his only played flank is skye and hes pretty bad with her

[Lechuza the Scoot]

Every time someone uses a kasumi, doesn't matter if its on my team or the enemy, it sucks. Like, IT SUCKS.

I too think it could use some buffs, cuz as of now, it's just sad.

[KillerFrost11692]

Originally posted by buchanant:

Started trying Kasumi today. Holy cow is she stupid awful. Out of range of people shooting at me. Any time I'm in range, I'm seriously out damaged. The abilities take too long to activate before dieing with too long a cool down. No real movement powers. No defense. What the heck is the point of this character? It NEEDS more range!

I can totally disagree. She doesn't need a buff it seems like to me she might even be stronger or those people are using some kind of damage hack. Not only is she killing with the ease of about three or four shots she can do it from a long range which I found out the hard way yesterday.

[Kat]

I dont think she needs a buff, maybe a slight rework. She does have some counters; however, she can easily melt tanks and most squishies . Play her a bit more until you get how Kasumi works. It took me a while to learn how to play her, but now I cant get enough of her. It takes some getting used to her cause her mechanics are so different from other champions.

Here's the LOADOUT I use, feel free to try it out:
-Sudden Death 2
-Betrayal 4
-Essence Drain 5
-Unseen Eyes 2
-Unwilling Victim 2.
Items: liferip is a must for your first item imo, other good items on her are nimble, chronos, armor plating and maybe moral boost or wrecker (if you want to focus a shielded tank).
Use your ult to put stacks on people, preferably on tanks, then focus the squishies when the stacks spread. The more stacks a target has, the more damage you do. I'm not an expert but I usually shoot once, use my savage tears, then finish them with 3-4 shots. Also, her "Body and Soul" ability, you can use it to engage or disengage. Dont place her body right in the open for the whole team to shoot at you ofc.

Talents: I usually use Empowered curse or the 3rd talent.

Advice: In the main menu under Champions, read her abilities in "Advance" next to her talent descriptions and practice her a bit in the firing range, then do 1-2 training matches before using her against real people. I did this with champions I want to learn that took me extra time to get the mechanics, such as imani, caspian, and vatu, etc. If you are not sure what loadout to try, check out the website called "PaladinsGuru."

[atomaweapon]

Originally posted by Kat:

I dont think she needs a buff, maybe a slight rework. She does have some counters; however, she can easily melt tanks and most squishies . Play her a bit more until you get how Kasumi works. It took me a while to learn how to play her, but now I cant get enough of her. It takes some getting used to her cause her mechanics are so different from other champions.

Here's the LOADOUT I use, feel free to try it out:
-Sudden Death 2
-Betrayal 4
-Essence Drain 5
-Unseen Eyes 2
-Unwilling Victim 2.
Items: liferip is a must for your first item imo, other good items on her are nimble, chronos, armor plating and maybe moral boost or wrecker (if you want to focus a shielded tank).
Use your ult to put stacks on people, preferably on tanks, then focus the squishies when the stacks spread. The more stacks a target has, the more damage you do. I'm not an expert but I usually shoot once, use my savage tears, then finish them with 3-4 shots. Also, her "Body and Soul" ability, you can use it to engage or disengage. Dont place her body right in the open for the whole team to shoot at you ofc.

Talents: I usually use Empowered curse or the 3rd talent.

Advice: In the main menu under Champions, read her abilities in "Advance" next to her talent descriptions and practice her a bit in the firing range, then do 1-2 training matches before using her against real people. I did this with champions I want to learn that took me extra time to get the mechanics, such as imani, caspian, and vatu, etc. If you are not sure what loadout to try, check out the website called "PaladinsGuru."

ive bplayed her for about 5 hours and she is almost useless now. like two hits kill her - was literally just two shotted by a jenos- . her escape is a joke. her damage is so low to be a tickle. she can't really flank because she can be easily countered. half her kit is useless Why would you need traps unless youre stationary?

I get she was broken upon release but my god just remove her from the game at this point.