The Grand Inquisitor - Kit Idea
August 18, 2020 7:41PM
edited August 2020
Dark Side, Attacker, Empire
Basic - Inquisitor's Blow - Deal Physical damage to target enemy with a 70% chance to remove 25% of their turn meter. This attack deals +15% damage for each other living Empire ally.
Special - Imperial Attack - Cooldown 4 - Grant all allies Potency Up for 2 turns and Empire allies gain 15% turn meter. Then, call all Empire allies to assist, dealing 20% less damage.
Special - Spinning Blades - Cooldown 3 - Deal Physical damage to target enemy and dispel all buffs on them. If no buffs were dispelled, deal damage again. Then, The Grand Inquisitor gains 50% turn meter and Speed Up for 2 turns.
Unique - Dark Agent - The Grand Inquisitor has +100% counter chance and +50% critical damage [ZETA: He also gains 10% (stacking, max 30%) critical chance and critical damage when he uses an ability during his turn. When he scores a critical hit, he gains Critical Damage Up for 1 turn and 15% turn meter, which is doubled if he does this during his turn]
Basic - Inquisitor's Blow - Deal Physical damage to target enemy with a 70% chance to remove 25% of their turn meter. This attack deals +15% damage for each other living Empire ally.
Special - Imperial Attack - Cooldown 4 - Grant all allies Potency Up for 2 turns and Empire allies gain 15% turn meter. Then, call all Empire allies to assist, dealing 20% less damage.
Special - Spinning Blades - Cooldown 3 - Deal Physical damage to target enemy and dispel all buffs on them. If no buffs were dispelled, deal damage again. Then, The Grand Inquisitor gains 50% turn meter and Speed Up for 2 turns.
Unique - Dark Agent - The Grand Inquisitor has +100% counter chance and +50% critical damage [ZETA: He also gains 10% (stacking, max 30%) critical chance and critical damage when he uses an ability during his turn. When he scores a critical hit, he gains Critical Damage Up for 1 turn and 15% turn meter, which is doubled if he does this during his turn]
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Suggestion: "Deal Physical damage to target enemy and remove 20% Turn Meter from them. This attack deals 15% more damage for each active Empire ally"
Overall, this is just a nice ability. I will say thou that the empire faction really needs a cleanser, and this ability doesn't do that much for a 4 turn cooldown. Maybe add a cleanse for empire allies?
But even without that, this is a nice ability.
This is where we start to get into problems. Specifically, the turn meter gain. If we include the turn meter gain from the unique, inquisitor can gain 110% Turn meter from this ability (2x30 due to critical hits and 50% from the ability itself). Which is way too much. Emperor Palpatine lead exists as well and even if the inquisitor himself has no debuffs (nice touch there, btw), he can still participate in the train. With his own ridiculous turn meter gain you practically have a infinite loop going on. The speed up on top of this doesn't help either.
There are few things you could do (such as reduce the turn meter gain), but what I'm going to suggest is something different. I suggest this:
'Deal Physical damage to target enemy and dispel all buffs from them. If no buffs where dispelled, attack target enemy again and remove all turn meter from them, which can't be Evaded or Resisted. This attack can't be Countered.'
The reason for this is simple: Kanan Jarus. His zeta allows him to gain Foresight, and then gain 100% Turn Meter when he loses foresight (or the other ally). Obviously, evading the first attack means no buffs where dispelled. So this becomes once again a nice duality between these 2. (Not to mention the ability becomes more balanced overall)
I've already mentioned the turn meter train. But another thing that really bothers me is that Critical Damage is mentioned 3 times!!! Why???!!!! I personally already conciser it a problem in the design if a stat is mentioned twice in a kit (except for leads and payouts) so 3 times in the same ability is overkill for me. Add that to the counterattack problem (which is the fact his turn meter train is so high, he totally out speeds enemies and thus almost never gives them a chance to attack him) and you get a pretty broken ability. It's not that difficult to fix thou. You just need to limit the turn meter gain to out of his turn and make the critical damage a single stacking bonus. I suggest this:
'The Grand Inquisitor has +30% Critical Chance, +100% Counter Chance, and gains 15% Turn Meter whenever he attacks out of turn. [Zeta: Whenever the Grand Inquisitor scores a Critical Hit, he gains +10% Critical Damage (stacking) until the end of battle.]'
Simple, yet powerful. Especially in multi part battles.
These are my thoughts, feedback, and suggestions to your idea. Overall it's pretty good. I think he would work really well under a Krennic lead actually (since both are very critical Hit heavy). I actually did a rework idea for Krennic quite a while ago. Check it out, if you're interested: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/205324/director-krennic-rework-idea
Keep up the good work either way.
No problem. I always like to help.
There is a lot you can do actually. You could look at the Tuskens. They are one of the few factions that can't even make a full team yet. A lot of the old Galactic Republic Jedi are in need of a rework. Or you could make IG-11 (from the mandalorian), we can definitely use another Light Side bounty hunter.
I myself have done a lot of rework and kit idea's over the years. Finding inspiration is always one of the hardest parts, but there are quite a few possibilities if you're looking for them. These are just a few at the top of my hat. It is quite similar, but they are different. Luke gains Critical damage at the start of his turn, while this one gains it whenever he scores a critical hit. This means that Luke's is quite consistent with no way to really speed it up or slow it down other than making him go faster. But Inquisitor's stacks up every time he attacks, counters and double attacks included and all. But critical hit immunity and critical avoidance can slow his down or prevent it outright.
Also, luke's reset after every encounter while the one I suggested lasts the entire battle. I'll admit I didn't think of luke's during my suggestion, but they are different enough that it doesn't matter
You can go multiple ways. You can fully focus on the bounty hunter droid, fully focus on the nurse droid, or make a mixture. It's a fan kit idea, so you have the freedom to do what you want. I made a kit idea of the mixed, but after some feedback also made a version more focused on the former bounty hunter droid. (both versions can be found here, if you're interested: https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/233146/ig-11-kit-idea). All are possible.