The Greatest Healer? Or Is It All Situational?

Battleborn Battleborn Competitive Multiplayer Discussion
#41

Yes, I get what you mean with everything. But with Alani, the lore challenge “Time Blurs in the Depths”, you need to heal 800 health in a single use of Wellspring, 50 times. Because of it being a challenge, it shows me that it doesn’t exactly do 800 health on 1 try. So that’s why I said “stack”

“At any time” meant that Miko can heal at anytime, which means the healing beam doesn’t have a cooldown. I said Miko was good because it can heal itself with Biosynthesis, but this skill has a cooldown. But, if you choose Heal Thyself on the 2nd augment, it can “heal thyself” without a cooldown. I understand that he is a close range healer but don’t forget about Fungus Among Us, which doesn’t have him have to stay next to you, breathing down your neck as it heals you. Mike can throw its hat mushroom thing and then try to fight off using his kunai.

Ambra, not so sure but whatever, she has life drain and junk (she can actually use her Staff of Radiance to heal others similar to the way Miko and the healing beam)

(lol i don’t even know what miko is)
I meant I don’t know if Miko even has a gender or anything since it refers to itself in-game as “we”

#42

Heal thyself is only active with biosynthesis

#43

I gotta give it to Miko because he’s the only healer that has a reliable Slow/Stun skill.

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#44

[quote=“x3n0matt, post:41, topic:1544395, full:true”]Because of it being a challenge, it shows me that it doesn’t exactly do 800 health on 1 try. So that’s why I said “stack”
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The hardest part about that challenge isn’t making Wellspring strong enough that it will heal more than 800; it’s having an ally with more than 800 damage taken so that it will actually heal for the full amount since an ability can’t heal someone for more damage than they’ve taken. At level 3, full Osmosis Wellspring will heal 852 if you take the right helix; if you don’t take any of the +heal helices, you’ll get there by level 6.

Time Blurs in the Depths is a lore challenge designed to get you to heal allies at low health, not a challenge concerned with maxing out Wellspring.

Have you even played Alani or are you just drawing conclusions based upon what you read on lore challenges?

Also, Miko don’t have a gender. They’re a plural entity. At best, it’s like trying to ask what gender the human race is; at worst, it’s like trying to ask what gender an asexually reproducing fungus is (since, you know, that’s what Miko actually are).

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#45

You KNOW that robot. :slight_smile:

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#46

As far as ease of use versus effectiveness, Miko take the cake. They aren’t overly difficult to learn and do their job of healing damn bloody well.

After that, things get a tad bit more complicated.
Because the rest of the support characters also fill other roles. Reyna loses potential when paired with Kelvin, cause of his negative shield recharge.
Kleese loses support potential when paired with more than one Eldrid. Rift networks can’t restore shields if none are there.
But then, they both also fill roles that Miko can’t as well.
Ambra pairs with everyone, but single target healing isn’t very viable. She’s great at topping a team off, but saving individuals requires her to become aggressive and no longer rescue them via “support” but rather as a pusher.

And then we had our wonderful break down of Alani who has the highest potential of healing, but also requires far more practice to actually be an effective team healer.

So, my vote is Miko is the greatest healer due to his ease of use, and being very effective.

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