Asajj Ventriss AI
March 20, 2016 6:28PM
edited March 2016
Asajj has a very potent kit. High life steal, stun, self buffing passive with turn meter gain, debuff, and aoe that resets on kill.
The problem with using her is that the AI does not come close to using her correctly. Her debuff/heal is used way out of context and is her first priority move. She often uses it to heal herself and remove no buff at all, or she uses it to remove a buff of no consequence. With her speed being as low as it is any wasted move is essentially a loss.
Please fix this. Remove the AI instruction that prompts her to cast this at low Heath. She has the highest life steal in the game and should not be using her debuff to self heal. If you can code Daka to not heal until reserect you can code this. Also prioritize debuffing importance. For example: if enemy target is at low health let her aoe have priority over debuff. Or just remove the heal from the debuff and make it an attack much like QGJ. Her life steal makes it redundant.
Please look into this. You fixed her kit but her AI remains heavily flawed.
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The problem with using her is that the AI does not come close to using her correctly. Her debuff/heal is used way out of context and is her first priority move. She often uses it to heal herself and remove no buff at all, or she uses it to remove a buff of no consequence. With her speed being as low as it is any wasted move is essentially a loss.
Please fix this. Remove the AI instruction that prompts her to cast this at low Heath. She has the highest life steal in the game and should not be using her debuff to self heal. If you can code Daka to not heal until reserect you can code this. Also prioritize debuffing importance. For example: if enemy target is at low health let her aoe have priority over debuff. Or just remove the heal from the debuff and make it an attack much like QGJ. Her life steal makes it redundant.
Please look into this. You fixed her kit but her AI remains heavily flawed.
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Side note: the devs have never changed the AI for any hero. So I imagine they aren't going to do so.
Why? Because if you want to use Asajj you also have to farm a viable defensive hero. In fact almost all squads aren't viable even slightly on defense, so farming an entirely new squad(s) is how they get more money.
Want an example? I'm currently farming about 8-10 different heroes for a defensive squad.
If they did that she would be a good defensive toon
They changed the AI for Talia. Removing the prompt to heal when she was at low Heath. If it's flawed deeply like it is now they can do it and should for Ventriss.
Asajj (l), dooku, daka, Royal guard, and 5th (assist hero or sidious) is an extremely viable team on offense. I have little trouble picking apart QGJ or dooku teams (dooku, Rey, the bug, RG the most challenging) but her AI makes it vulnerable and a target on defense.
Ahsoka was only fixed because of her popularity and the attention her thread got. Ventriss should not be left in this state.
I run full ns team and would love to see this
Edit.. Doing both seems reasonable
All they need to do is fix the order of ability use and several heroes who are totally useless on defense (Yoda especially) would be epic beasts on defense. Imagine if Assaj led with her AoE. In this meta 98% of the time somebody has died by her turn, and most of the time her buffed AoE would kill someone afted her party's first four turns. I mean who do you go for in the first round between her, Rey, FOTP, Daka and IG88?!
I couldn't agree more. The inconsequential buff removal and self healing having first priority is what is concerning. It cripples her.
I've just built this stun team. Looked fun on paper
It's not rocket surgery.
For fitth honestly a high damage assist person probably best.
She is great with her variety of skills, it must be tough to have her decide on her multitude of moves via AI.
Most toons only get 2 usable skills, and sometimes they are just attacks like GS or Sid. Probably 10000x easier to AI for those types of toons versus the multifunctional Ventress. Sometimes you DO want her to remove one little bothersome buff instead of do a move(like a taunt) but she always does it to one person having fortitude. Arg.
I could see that working for her, could even remove the auto 60% heal and add grant turn meter. Would round out her kit and fix the AI at same time.
Long live the Nightsisters!
Ventress user here suffering a huge drop in ranks when I leave her on defense in the arena. She is slow so she can get buffed up and then launch her killer aoe, it's awesome since she get's healed up with it. BUT, on defense it sucks, if she luckily survives the first round of fire, completely wastes her first turn by using her debuff special just because someome has the casual "evasion up" or sth like that. As soon as she dies the fight is over. I've even seen Daka rez her only to use the debuff after that instead of striking.
It's sad to see the nice kit that she has get wasted by stupid AI. Enemies take advantage of that.
Please fix her and make her competitive on defense!
My moment of glory...I slayed the whale I been chasing for 2 months ended like this.
My assajj vs whales leaia are the last 2 left both with a sliver of health...next hit wins..enemy leaias turn though so I am gonna lose like I always do to this guy right?? Nope leaia goes stealth as last person alive when 1 single hit would have won...yay I won??
I thought you were going to say that instead of either toon landing a killing blow, you each dodged each other's hits until time ran out.