A2: damage boost equal to the value of the shield?

So, Wixwell hydra teams will do a trillion damage again? Expect a nerf asap.

Kind of a Weird Kit.

good old shield nerf

probably doing this fusion because hFW Banner Lords have been problematic and temu nekhret will be good for quintus, I think

initial thought ... worthless. 

Must have for this alone, at least until it's nerfed...

I don't remember the exact wording/mechanic of the the last nerf to shield damage, but are we sure it would not already cover this new toon?

....not that I have any intention of going back to a manual time-intensive Hydra comp....just way too much going on in the game now. 

Lemme double check. 

I'd guess yes, but even without shield hijinks I likely think I'll be doing this fusion just for hFW alone.

So there's a few things with the wording of skills I hope we can get clarified.

1. Does his A3 put itself on cooldown when it triggers automatically or will he just keep doing it over and over with each champion's turn? Also for "HP Lower than 100%" does this include Destroyed HP? Because HP can be "full" to the Destroyed part

2. His A1 says Counterattack, Teamup and Instantly Activates Skill, does the Teamup include Cardiel and Ronda? For Instantly Activates Skill or Counterattack, would it trigger from Taras (when paired with Marichka)

Lastly, it does seem a bit odd he's a Defense "Type" Champion but his Aura gives HP Boost... I know the "Type" of Champ doesn't always match their multiplier stat, anyone know if his damage will be based on HP?

1) no to cooldown on auto trigger

i'd assumed destroyed hp = yes

2) I think yes, but this is trickier

shrug to the last bit, will find out when we get there it seems

The bit about A3 not going on cooldown for auto trigger makes me want him a lot more, I think. 

Someone in our Cluster mentioned the Relic that strips all your buffs at the end of every turn. I wonder how that works with his A3. My guess is team order, because if that works in the awesome way it would mean:

Turn ends, buffs removed THEN Titus does 3 buffs + 40% TM Fill... which would be insane in a lot of content especially the TM fill

That would be very interesting.  I think I have two of that otherwise useless Relic.    

I would guess that it would not proc in situations where there is Detroyed Max HP because the Toons Max HP has actually been reduced so if they have full health at the new Max HP, then thay have full health.

I say this because that is how Rotos' passive works. Once you have destroyed a chunk of his HP, his passive procs almost every time you hit him because his Max HP has been recalculated.

Looks meh, not that it matters. After the last titan event, the coalition event and the fusion so recently there is no way in hell i am doing another fusion so soon.

Any word on the shield interaction with Hydra?

Same thing came up in another thread yesterday.

As of now no, was hoping we'd see test vids come out but it seems that's becoming a thing of the past. 

Apparently broken with growing shield teams.

This feels like familiar ground...

broozer made vid showing insane damage with no books masteries or awakenings

bsically just like the old wixwell shield to create crazy damage 

Tyrakus makes it look even MORE obvious how hard this champ is gonna get nerfed... There's 0.00001% chance this isn't nerfed somehow... 

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oh and to be clear, when they come out and say "Uhhh there was a glitch with the uh mulitpliers... yeah the multipliers.... so anyway, we fixed that and now it scales correctly" don't be fooled. That is a Nerf.

EDIT: Also if the argument is gonna be "Hydra is less of a focus, Chimera is what matters" here's Bronko

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