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  1. #1

    Highlander buffs!

    So I am curious as to how people feel about the Highlander buffs in season 5. I personally think they are crisp and he is kept heavily in check with the parry changes so he won’t just be spamming lights.

    For the folks that couldn’t find the stuff (like me before I saw New Recruits comment on Kenzo’s video on youtube)

    Damage Changes
    - Balors Might's damage is increased from 30 to 40
    - Defensive Form side heavy opener is increased from 25 to 35
    - Defensive Form side heavy finisher is increased from 30 to 35
    - Defensive From top heavy opener/finisher is increased from 40 to 45

    Celtic Curse Changes
    - Can Fast Flow top Celtic Curse into Offensive Form
    - Celtic Curse's side cancels can switch targets

    Offensive Form Changes
    - The stamina cool down when entering, emoting, and dodging, in Offensive Form, preventing stamina from regenerating for a period of time, has been removed
    - Balors Might's stamina cost went from 30 to 24
    - Caber Toss forward movement increased
    - Caber Toss tracking increased
    - Offensive Form forward dodge is increased by .25m
    - Reduced Fomorian Kick's knockback distance (Balors Might after kick should land more consistently)

    General Changes
    - Defensive Form second light recovery decreased from 1100ms to 800ms (prevents a free GB if your second light was blocked)
    - Removed Highlander's dodge + Fomorian Kick loop
    - Highlander's execution, "No Mercy", correctly executes at 2200ms (when the character's arm is cut off)
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  2. #2
    This is amazing. hands down. Im really excited.


    Finally, I can fear a HL... though I still need to learn the timing on dodging the kick into throw.
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  3. #3

    Highlander zone attack

    I’d like to see a change in highlanders zone attack. It’s hard to use in pvp and even vs little soldiers. He like to curve to the left and it is super slow. I’d like to see something like a zone attack with orochi, aramusha or warden. A big 2 handed swing sounds ideal 😝
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    I'm disappointed with the Highlander Update

    I was so excited for the buffs, then I realized they weren't fixing his biggest issue. They just tried to cover it up, and that issue is his speed. He is one of the slowest characters, if not the slowest in game while running. This makes it difficult to chase down people as they know that I cannot catch them (Bots know this too, which makes me think that it is definitely an issue).

    Highlander is so easily parried and blocked because he is slow and predictable. I know that now you can cancel the top celtic curse but when I go up for it usually people back off at the right time or jump in for an attack before I can even finish spinning right or left. So trying to cancel into something is very difficult to do when playing against an aggressive player.

    His other big flaw in my opinion is that he can be guard-broken in the middle of a celtic curse. Why is that a mechanic in this game, because whenever I try to GB another character that is starting an animation, it just pushes me back like we both did a GB at the same time and then I get hit from the attack. I've also been GB a couple of times while connecting on a celtic curse and the damage doesn't go through because of it. I am looking at my blade in the opponents body and they GB me.

    I think it would have been better if they tweaked his damage a bit, not as much as they did and gave him more movement speed and buffed his attack speed. My main problem now is making blocks. Highlander is so slow that I cannot shift from side to side to make blocks against characters that chain fast.

    I am frustrated to say that in my opinion they did nothing to make the Highlander better, and that I do not have fun playing him anymore. Ubisoft has ruined my experience playing this game like so many others. The reworks for the other characters were amazing, and then there is Highlander.. where I don't even make an impact anymore in games. I played on Ps4 for 6 months and had a great time once I got the feel of him, another month on PC now, and the new Highlander just doesn't feel right to me.
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  5. #5
    Need to make him slower or nerf his dmg long range with high dmg. He deserves to be slow
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  6. #6
    Bah why buff? He just kills with 3 Hits and has his HA to keep his Hits hit you. Even the long range is annoying if you just want to dodge away from something thats longer than you your range to dodge
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    Originally Posted by teddy0teddy Go to original post
    So I am curious as to how people feel about the Highlander buffs in season 5. I personally think they are crisp and he is kept heavily in check with the parry changes so he won’t just be spamming lights.

    For the folks that couldn’t find the stuff (like me before I saw New Recruits comment on Kenzo’s video on youtube)

    Damage Changes
    - Balors Might's damage is increased from 30 to 40
    - Defensive Form side heavy opener is increased from 25 to 35
    - Defensive Form side heavy finisher is increased from 30 to 35
    - Defensive From top heavy opener/finisher is increased from 40 to 45

    Celtic Curse Changes
    - Can Fast Flow top Celtic Curse into Offensive Form
    - Celtic Curse's side cancels can switch targets

    Offensive Form Changes
    - The stamina cool down when entering, emoting, and dodging, in Offensive Form, preventing stamina from regenerating for a period of time, has been removed
    - Balors Might's stamina cost went from 30 to 24
    - Caber Toss forward movement increased
    - Caber Toss tracking increased
    - Offensive Form forward dodge is increased by .25m
    - Reduced Fomorian Kick's knockback distance (Balors Might after kick should land more consistently)

    General Changes
    - Defensive Form second light recovery decreased from 1100ms to 800ms (prevents a free GB if your second light was blocked)
    - Removed Highlander's dodge + Fomorian Kick loop
    - Highlander's execution, "No Mercy", correctly executes at 2200ms (when the character's arm is cut off)
    1. HIghlander have got buff in 2017 crazy buff in for honor history heroes big crazy buff highlander not need buff
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    Originally Posted by TheCross118 Go to original post
    I was so excited for the buffs, then I realized they weren't fixing his biggest issue. They just tried to cover it up, and that issue is his speed. He is one of the slowest characters, if not the slowest in game while running. This makes it difficult to chase down people as they know that I cannot catch them (Bots know this too, which makes me think that it is definitely an issue).

    Highlander is so easily parried and blocked because he is slow and predictable. I know that now you can cancel the top celtic curse but when I go up for it usually people back off at the right time or jump in for an attack before I can even finish spinning right or left. So trying to cancel into something is very difficult to do when playing against an aggressive player.

    His other big flaw in my opinion is that he can be guard-broken in the middle of a celtic curse. Why is that a mechanic in this game, because whenever I try to GB another character that is starting an animation, it just pushes me back like we both did a GB at the same time and then I get hit from the attack. I've also been GB a couple of times while connecting on a celtic curse and the damage doesn't go through because of it. I am looking at my blade in the opponents body and they GB me.

    I think it would have been better if they tweaked his damage a bit, not as much as they did and gave him more movement speed and buffed his attack speed. My main problem now is making blocks. Highlander is so slow that I cannot shift from side to side to make blocks against characters that chain fast.

    I am frustrated to say that in my opinion they did nothing to make the Highlander better, and that I do not have fun playing him anymore. Ubisoft has ruined my experience playing this game like so many others. The reworks for the other characters were amazing, and then there is Highlander.. where I don't even make an impact anymore in games. I played on Ps4 for 6 months and had a great time once I got the feel of him, another month on PC now, and the new Highlander just doesn't feel right to me.

    For Celtic Curse, you can not Spam many times since the opponent will learn it quite fast. You can launch celtic curse from Balors Might, then hard feint into celtic curse. Opponent who try to parry or dodge the Balors Might will get hit from Hard Feint of Celtic Curse.

    If Opponent like to Parry your Celtic Curse, you can do mind games by do the Celtic Curse into Fomorian Kick or light Attack. they can parry the Fomorian Kick. if they like to Dodge, then you can do Celtic Curse cancel to left or right.

    Please be noted, Celtic Curse right is 500 and left is 600, by combine this, the opponent who like dodging also can be confused.

    The combination of Celtic Curse:
    1. Celtic into Fomorian Kick (if they like to parry)
    2. Celtic into Caber toss
    3. Celtic into Balors Might
    4. Celtic Soft Feint of combination 1,2,3
    5. Celtic into Light Attack
    6. Celtic into Top
    7. Celtic Into Left/Right
    8. Celtic into Cancel Left/Right
    9. Celtic into Balors Might, heavy cancel and Celtic Curse again (If they like to Parry and Dodge)
    10. Celtic Curse, heavy feint then Celtic Curse again.

    By looking at this Celtic Curse, play around with your opponent and combine it smartly. They will get confused and destroyed.
    Because the Hit damage from Celtic Curse is so high, compared to what they can hit you from light attack or parry attack.

    In Dominion, i also often to fight opponent only from Defensive stance to Combination of Celtic Curse and win a lot.
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