More than just support?

Battleborn Ambra
#1

I actually think she’s one of the stronger characters I play despite the nerf, I feel I can say that she’s not just support as cough a Master of Ambra cough.

No but seriously if you know how to utilise sunspots right (especially when near death with the consume sunspot for health mutagen) and unlock her better mutagens you can dominate most characters besides perhaps Galilea and Rath in one on one.
Her secondary melee attack is not something to be ignored, the extra damage from her heat bar will easily half (if not more) an unshielded characters health and with the mutagen that turns this into a ranged weapon you can use this to pick off enemies from afar, which makes her excellent support as well.
Her staff slam mutagen is somewhat useful if you are being overwhelmed, it usually wipes shields and throws off characters (or AI) who are getting too close, although in order to activate that mutagen you have to ignore one of her stronger abilities (up to 100% solar wind extra damage based on proximity to characters) so it’s a difficult choice, it depends on how badly you wanna be pushing forward or whether you are okay with being a support on PvP (I prefer the first option).
And if worst comes to worst there is always her 20% health over shield, it’s saved me countless times.
I can’t say I played her in the beta unfortunately, although if she was even stronger I wish I had, I will say that my PvP K/D ratio has been excellent with her, and my assists tend to be higher due to her support abilities.
I’d say she’s weakest when it comes to facing characters with stun abilities, because it often means you have little time to health steal or place sunspots for quick health, and getting away from these characters can be impossible. Her ultimate (Y) ability tends to be quite useless on PvP unless you can find a way to pin enemies in the AoE due to the delay on the actual strike.
I’ve not really experienced the issues with her that other people have, as I see it she is certainly capable of pulling her weight on PvP and excels in PvE.

I’m probably not the best at giving direct tips about how to use her; she’s not what I’d call a simple character, but I would suggest that you give her a chance at more than just support, in modes like Meltdown you can really dominate one of the lanes as Ambra if you use her aggressively (in my experience).

Ambra needs Rebalanced
#2

I agree with you, for the most part. Not entirely sure you can dominate 1v1 to all chars in all hands, but played correctly she can 1v1 a lot.
Bouldor is the bane of my existence though. Just cant seem to do enough before he becomes immune (which whats the cooldown on that ability? It seems to pop alot).

In pvp I use our ultimate to push or control an area. It may not get kills (well it does when I use it because there is so much action I’m hoping it goes unnoticed), but it is great when used to make people change where they are standing. You can also throw it behind people (shhh be stealthy about it) and then start using the ranged staff attack to lower health and panic them back into it.

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#3

You’ve just did it !

And your advice are very good… :slight_smile: I am going to play her now :slight_smile:

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