Okay, I don’t have a lot of experience with Warriors (I only play with Bellona and Nike), but why people say Nike is boring? Because her kit relies on her 2? Because she doesn’t deal a lot of damage?
Yeah, that’s true. But is that a bad thing? She becomes basically unkillable in her ult, can soak a lot of damage and can disrupt the enemy team with her leap and with Rend.
I honestly don’t understand why people say she’s boring. I’d like to hear some opinions.
(Also, check out my Nike builds please, I need feedback.)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Smite/comments/asd5u3/unpopular_opinion_nike/
Passive - Something that only works late game and bring 0 bonus to you until it is (at least 1 part) fully charged. Ugh, boring.
Skill 1 - Rend - It brings a decent damage, however, it requires good aim and predictions to hit all the 2 or 3 hit and for what? A disarm? And if your enemy is a Tyr? So, a lot of efforts for almost nothing.
Skill 2 - Plan of Action - A good passive but bad active. The HP5 is nice to keep Nike alive since she has 0 healing, however, the active is just a button you must press to try to make her Rend "less ineffective".
Skill 3 - Valiant Leap - Hard CC, nice, BUUUTT, the jump is extremely slow and you have to waste Plan of Action to make it worth, but if you waste your plan of action now, you won't be able to hit the third hit of Rend which mean less damage. Don't forget that your cooldowns are high and this is your escape, so jump in a wrong moment into the enemy team is road to death.
Skill 4 - Sentinel of Zeus - Ah, the best skill in the entire kit, capable to make you the tankiest warrior and probably the tankiest god. Very good, the only skill that's fun to use.
As you see, in her kit there are a lot of problems and it forces you to play safe early game 'cause all these skills have a RIDICULOUS long cooldowns. So you are not able to win ANY matchup on solo. Yeah you can't die, but also can't kill. Also late game, making some cooldowns you make your kit less problematic but you are an AMBULANT MEAT SHIELD. You don't have enough CC's or damage or whatever to force enemy fight with you or see you as threat (besides the ulti).
Now the big question: DOES IT WORTH? Leave your entire early/mid game for only late game? and plus, now with the totem of ku, how will you fight for it? Nike is like a Geb solo, leave your game to late game, but as you can see hi-rez is forcing people play with something more early/mid (like most part of other warriors) to stop these solos where nobody fights until late game.
I don't even need to mention that sometimes there isn't late game, due snowball/surrenders. Without late game, you are not even useful for your team.
About other modes outside conquest it is even worst 'cause you tend to be bullied until late game and again, sometimes this late game never comes (like in joust where you hardly ever gets level 20/finish all your items) or is too fast (like the "Arena Late game")
Plan of Action: Other gods have self-buffs...think of 2 of Loki's abilities, Vanish and Aimed Strike. Thing with those abilities is that they're tied to follow-up basics. That's fine, because they're not making themselves dependent on another ability. However, this one instead enhances effects of whichever ability you use immediately after activating this, and this is a problem.
Rend: Wanted to point out Plan first, because there's a big, big issue with this. Although it offers knockback immunity, it can be immediately shut down with a stun, or a majority of its usefulness with a root. That's pretty much all of her damage potential, and when stunned, immediately kills 2 of her abilities, both of which are regular abilities. That's bad. Combine that with a long CD, and now she's only got a cleave basic or a relatively boring (and slow) leap.
Valiant Leap: Too slow when not buffed by Plan. Knockup is great, though. But it's almost never worth it to use Plan with Leap, making it usually an escape, or a relocation ability to then ult, or to try to peel for a teammate.
Solutions:
An added condition could be that if she gets hit by any CC, her movement when channeling Rend is slowed by X%.
That's why I think IF you change Plan, giving her some added offensive function would be better. Just my opinion, though.
Maybe I like her because she’s like a Support outside of the duo lane lol.
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I'll answer you in details, but first I need to open it on a PC.Done. Hope you are happy now!
Obrigado :)
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