Ahsoka Ta-slow
I figured with all the buffing going around for this small patch tomorrow, can't hurt to remind you guys that one of the quicker heroes in Star Wars is the third slowest. I mean Tarkin is even faster....we know you know, you know you know, the ghost of old Ben knows. How is her speed still a thing. If it's balancing, take out some damage, who knows. I'm all for every hero being "viable" and useful, and I'll always support a Jawa being as powerful as Vader in a turn based game...but her speed is an issue. Being so slow she should hit like a truck, but she doesn't. Waiting for her to go last only to see mediocre damage doesn't make sense...
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She could be a cool attrition based character if she was in the 130-140 speed range and her special triggered regardless of crit. Probably move meter bonus on evade to her passive and just put the passive hp bonus directly into her health pool as well.
At first glance her abilies look "good" until it's broken down just as you said, then she's actually really disappointing. She has all these abilities that need a proc, or additional modifiers to be active...and when they are active it only brings her to "average". Out of everyone currently in the game I'd say this is the hero they missed on the most.
I mean, she has an ability called "quick steps" and evasion has a role in her playstyle, yet...she is molasses.
She is unusable, even with QGJ as leader she is still too slow, is weak as a kitten and her abilities are extremely weak.
Precisely. She also needs to hit harder and her second skills needs to actually heal once in a while.
And the strangest ability is her +%HP. I'm sure the plan strategically was making players decide if they should focus her or her teammates. The idea is cool, but poorly executed because of her speed / dmg. With proper balancing of her damage / speed, it could create quite the dynamic for focus with her in a party.
The decision should go something like this for players:
"Well Ahsoka hits hard and has all that HP, do I try to burn her down so she can't do much damage to me, or do I focus on her teammates effectively *damaging* both her and her teammates, but I have to take what she can dish out in the meantime."
But currently it's
"I can completely ignore her because she isn't a threat to me at ALL, and by the time I get to her after killing everyone else that HP bonus will be useless and gone and I can one shot her."
Ya she is super slow.
But yes, Snips needs a lot of help and her being slow as a brick is disappointing to fans of the show.
And to be honest, I've only seen a bit of The Clone Wars long long ago, so I don't have the biggest attachment to her as far as lore or characters go (compared to most), but even I know she isn't being portrayed correctly in this game. I can't imagine how disappointed hardcore fans of the show were when she was revealed as a character. I was attracted to her skillset from the start as it seemed unique, but is severely (and sadly) underpowered so I left her behind. If she was even remotely viable I'd give her some resources in farming.
It's funny because my nephews play Infinity and I was reading the description of Ahsoka there: "Headstrong Padawan hero with lightning-fast dual Lightsabers™." I would imagine there is a big giant cheat sheet that game developers have that at least give a sense of continuity when they use heroes from franchises lol.
Barriss actually has a pretty odd kit as well as far as the show goes but at least shes a top tier GW leader and has a place in arena bulk based squads. Snips is both wrong and bad.
If you get bored you might want to try the Clone Wars back again. It picks up steam as it goes (season 1 is the weakest by far) and the entire series is on Netflix now.
Oh it's on my list of things to watch
Any one of these issues would negate a hero being used in the arena but she has 3 factors reducing her use:
1. Really, really low speed. Reduces overall damage.
2. Doesn't hit has hard as many other heroes, even at 7* gear 8
3. Is a Jedi and inherits the anti-Jedi weaknesses.
She definitely needs a rework.
It'd be great to get input from you two on this thread: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/14568/a-call-for-an-ahsoka-tano-rework#latest