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Guarranteed S-tier in 1v1s while stil remaining quite strong in 4s.
The fact that Raider still has his dash GB however is absolutely ridiculous. He got a safer and much better soft feint game than Kensei (making Kensei basically an obsolete Vanguard) plus increased damage across the board and didn't get any kind of nerf to counter balance that. Instant S-tier material.
The fact they let him soft feint his zone into a GB should be reason enough to remove dash GB. But soft feint GB from any heavy or zone, plus 500ms stunning tap, plus variable input timing of stunning tap soft feint from zone, plus increased damage across the board, plus hyper armour on all heavies ...
Not only will Raider be a much better Kensei than Kensei, he will be a hard counter to most other S tiers now like Vortiger, Warden and Conq and will give Zerker a run for his money.
Dash GB needs to go and he'll be fine (except for that 22 damage light, lol!). You cannot have all of that and still keep the dash GB. It's just crazy.
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Raider will be S tier in 1v1. And even more of a pub stomper in 4's. Might even be a better team fighter than Kensei because he can actually harass someone's stamina game and setup GB easier with his new soft feint GB's from literally any heavy or zone. The damage buffs he got were highly not needed. Speeding his attacks up and giving him armor was already good enough. He got one nerf to compensate for his ludicrous power gain in lew of stampede being interruptable. Which means stampede won't be brain dead anymore in 4's. But it has no impact in duels.
And because Raider maintains his dash GB he's going to roll any other duelist hero. He might even be able to out trade and give zerk a run for his money. Like, I get that Raider has always been "the grappler" hero in spirit. But there are much healthier ways they can implement this. Dash GB/CGB is broken on principal. If the devs leave it alone come mid season patch I will genuinely be surprised. At least they had the game sense to fix LB's OOL game before releasing his rework into the wild. The fact that they had the foresight to avoid that but not see how bad dodge GB is just plain mind boggling to me.
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From reading the notes, it seems to me like he won't be another incessant 1-move spammer, just overall strong. What I'm worried most about is all that hyperarmor on heavies. I mean... how do you trade with 40 damage? You don't, that's how. It's gonna be forcing players into heavy defense, and although bashes circumvent the armor, you're still very much going to be mindful of that dodge-GB, or at least you should be.
Well, I'll note that I'm very glad they didn't make his Stunning Tap softfeint 400ms, because that would have been ludicrous.
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I would not have word it better.Originally Posted by Vakris_One Go to original post
I was like Whaaat ? And, whaat ? All long during the Raider demo in the den lol
I said to myself i wanted to give him a shot after his rework a while ago. But now i am afraid to do so. Looking at him now, what would be the point for me to play my other heroes ? What my poor Valk and Musha or even Kensei can do against him? I wonder. Raider feels like a Monster on steroids right now.
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