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Well, despite the fact that I love the still rather fresh Air Guitar Emote of the Highlander, I wonder how people see him those days.
I guess at the medium skill level and in Dominion, he still is a force to be reckoned with. But in duels, specially higher level tournament play, I deem he has fallen into pretty much a victims role.
I won't be going into balance stuff and details because we already had some very nice threads discussing this guy. I am more interested in like the "public opinion" of one of my personal favorite characters in the game. I mean I even think about switching to Vikings next Season simply due to the awesomeness of the Highlander, despite regularly feeling the need to bite my non-existant keyboard due to his slowness and vulnerability against Assassins and able Shugoki Turtles.
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He's pretty good, especially in dominion. Elmination, meh. I don't trust myself with him enough to take him into tournaments. Right now that celtic curse is still getting the **** spammed out of it so people just expect it to happen right off the bat. Has a good set of mix up abilities and turtle potential is above average considering he can counter attack in every direction.
looks badass, plays well and I never get tired of him. Very fun to play as.
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I like to play him. I'm just average though, but he can be good in the right hands. His low health pool means you can't make any mistakes.
"CC cancel" works on everyone except experienced players. His mixups and feints are on the slow side and if your opponent pressures you better be good defensively.
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I enjoy playing him, but in my opinion he's just average, at best.
Hilariously weak, almost crippled against a good, even decent Shugoki 1v1.
Against a good team in 4v4 I think he's downright useless. He can hold his own in almost any 1v1 situation, maybe even 1v2. But against ganks, or just a good team up, he's worthless.
He doesn't have the health to trade, and he has no attacks he can deploy fast enough to fend off attackers. He has no defensive abilities he can use fast enough to deter counter attacks. You can only block, dodge and parry until Revenge pops, but even then you're still to slow to fend of multiple attackers. OF stance is completely out of the question.
Regular defensive attacks are also too slow and/or complete parry bait.
Overall, he's just too damn slow. Not enough health, or even damage to do any meaningful trades most of the time. He's a turtle basically, just without any useful turtle mechanics or traits.
Compared to the Gladiator, who is just a full on powerhouse, I'm starting to think someone in the developers office, not necessarily Roman, but someone, seriously loves Roman stereotype fighters. Both Cent and Glad were released, and then immediately started dominating the field. Highlander and Shinobi are both objectively weaker characters.
Someone in the character design department has watched Gladiator too many times.
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In my opinion hes too slow, no dodge attack and a slow dodge to begin with. It could be just me but against light spammy assassins he's pretty useless.
My kensei wrecks him and he's arguably the one of the weakest heroes in game. The only time I have trouble with HL is when he turtles or there are two of them.
He definitely needs a buff before I use him again. I feel helpless even against just decent assassins. I used LB pre buff and even he didn't feel as weak as HL is now. Maybe with top tier gear he isn't bad.
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Reduce the stamina cost on Offensive lights. Honestly considering Offensive doesn't offer a whole hell of a lot damage wise, make most of the attacks cost less stamina. You're meant to feint half the moves anyway.Originally Posted by felor_metlock Go to original post
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Originally Posted by Herbstlicht Go to original post
Seems to be doing fine in the above-average circles, thank you.
