Why is highlander in the game | Forums

[Kahuf1]

Hi there, HL is my main and i love his playstyle. Everybody agree he need some buff. Someone tell he need just stats buff like HP, stamina, other times. Someone tell he need some more moves and combination.

My opinion is here:
1. He need some HP + stamina buff + earlier supperior armour on heavy
2. Make him MORE TECHNICAL FIGHTER (give him one or more points bottom)
- Give offensive light stun effect
- Offensive light consume less Stamina
- Offensive light drain stamina from enemy
- Be able to feint offensive side heavy to offensive top light
- Give him some new feature to change turtle meta. IDEA: HL do heavy attack. Enemy defent (not parry) that. HL have like 150ms window to press GB to do some kind of shoulder bash move. He can continue with some light (maybe guaranted), heavy, or can enter to offensive stance.

Give this turtle destroyer to all heros with huge weapon. It make sence cause 2handed weapon on heavy swing get weapon udner attackers back and defenders weapon is out of "prepared stance" so why dont jump by feets by shoulder to enemy try to make unstable enemy? BTW 2 handed weapons guys IS big enought to do that.

[The_B0G_]

I've been playing HL more than all other classes for the last three months and he definitely needs a buff, like someone else said, hes in the same spot he was in when he released, getting used to him only helped people defend against him, it didn't really help people who play as him nearly as much.

To be a really good HL right now you need to be really good at crushing counters. Besides that, every opener is a defensive light, Celtic curse is good but against defensive players it's parried a LOT because it's obvious and the most used attack in his arsenal.

I think his kit could work without changing attack speeds, but the other numbers need to be adjusted, for instance he has the ability to trade with hyper armor heavies but if someone is spamming light attacks you still get interrupted. Even when you do trade its not worth it most of the time due to his small health pool. I personally only try to trade to finish off opponents.

Another thing is his stamina usage, its hard to finish off even an assassin without taking a break in your attacks, sure if you don't use feint and he misses every block, dodge, and parry, you can; but if not you have to give up your pressure and let your stamina recharge, basically resetting the fight and giving them a chance to reset.

For such a technical fighter with such great mixup/feint potential he uses far too much stamina when feinting.

A small health buff and stamina cost reduction for feinting moves and heavies would do a lot of good in my opinion. He's not far off from being balanced and a great hero, he just needs those rough edges to be smoothed out.

[PDXGorechild]

He's actually quite good. But to be quite good, he requires you to be at least good. Ideally very good. If you're not good - try playing Shaman and just rolling your face across the controller/keyboard.

[The_B0G_]

He's actually quite good. But to be quite good, he requires you to be at least good. Ideally very good. If you're not good - try playing Shaman and just rolling your face across the controller/keyboard.

I brought this up in another HL thread, you can see really good HL's but any time you do, like you said the player himself is a really good player, and that player is without a doubt much better with nearly any other character besides the worst ones in the roster.

That means he isn't balanced. No one gets stomped in a match and says, "screw this, I'm getting my HL!" lol if anything it's the opposite.

[PDXGorechild]

I brought this up in another HL thread, you can see really good HL's but any time you do, like you said the player himself is a really good player, and that player is without a doubt much better with nearly any other character besides the worst ones in the roster.

That means he isn't balanced. No one gets stomped in a match and says, "screw this, I'm getting my HL!" lol if anything it's the opposite.

Hence why I said "Quite good". I've mained Zerk since release so know all about the pain of playing an under powered character. Highlander defo needs a bit of love, but his kit is still a lot better than a lot of the original characters who deserve to be prioritised.

I say keep his awkward, slow playstyle and just boost his numbers a bit. Definitely a bit more health, being as he's pretty huge and slow, maybe some more damage to justify that final fantasy-esque hunk of metal he hauls around.

Other than that I love the character. Great style, fun to fight, and you don't see too many of them. So you know you're in for a good ruck when you see a high level highlander who's bothered to dedicate the time to him.

We need those classes that are hard to play with steep learning curves. It makes it more fun being good at it.

[The_B0G_]

Hence why I said "Quite good". I've mained Zerk since release so know all about the pain of playing an under powered character. Highlander defo needs a bit of love, but his kit is still a lot better than a lot of the original characters who deserve to be prioritised.

I say keep his awkward, slow playstyle and just boost his numbers a bit. Definitely a bit more health, being as he's pretty huge and slow, maybe some more damage to justify that final fantasy-esque hunk of metal he hauls around.

Other than that I love the character. Great style, fun to fight, and you don't see too many of them. So you know you're in for a good ruck when you see a high level highlander who's bothered to dedicate the time to him.

We need those classes that are hard to play with steep learning curves. It makes it more fun being good at it.

Totally agree.

[Hormly]

Because studies had shown that the game was only 70% manly, and they needed a character to bring the remaining 30%