#7

Liked:

  1. Ambra: She has been my favorite from day 1, before I even got to try her in the CTT. Her abilities fit well with my game style and there’s just something about her… I don’t know, but she’s amazing.

  2. Oscar Mike: I didn’t get to play him much in the Beta since everyone and their mother was playing him. I could have speed-locked him but I didn’t want to take him away from someone trying out the game. Once the game releases though, I plan to give him some love. I was always more of a soldier player in Borderlands and Mike’s playstyle feels similar to that.

  3. Galilea: I saw gameplay footage of her and thought she looked interesting. Decided to try her out after unlocking her and fell in love. She does feel a little strong at the moment, but I love the way she handles and her voice actress is phenomenal.

Disliked:

  1. Galilea: Loved to play her, hated to play against her, especially since I mostly played healers. Give her a healer of her own and she’s basically unstoppable (assuming the player behind her knows what they’re doing).

  2. Shayne & Aurox: Freakin’ pull/stun! I hated fighting him so much, killed me so many times. Somebody needs to teach this brat some banners.

  3. Rath: A bad Rath is basically a free kill but a good Rath? Urg. If he gets the jump on you, good luck getting out of there alive. Not as annoying as the previous two, but he had me cursing his very existence on a few occasions.

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#8

Favourites:

1.ISIC: Great skills that work well with each other,great range,great damage,great survivability, one of the best AOE stuns in the game(that isn’t an ult/ult supported) that doubles as a great traversal/escape tool, and most of all, great lines with each one putting a smile on my face, even when I’m in a ■■■■■■ game with ■■■■■■ team mates I don’t mind it as much because I get to listen to ISIC.

2.Kleese: very strategic, extremely good support if his team knows his abilities, charged laser that absolutely rocks(I wonder if they nerf it-please no!) being able to take down a shield AND a chunk of life with one fully charged shot, has very interesting traversal,only character that can actually support turrets and minions and one of the few(if not only) characters able to hold a line by himself almost indefinitely with the enemy team having to either send 3 people his way(that he MIGHT not handle) or do a huge,coordinated spike of damage. His lines are also priceless, ISIC has better ones because every one of them is good, while Kleese has a couple “neutral” ones.

I just wish I was able to use that legendary battery I got just before the beta ended, +105 shield,+1 shard/sec and 8 seconds of overshield every time your shield gets back to full(I mean,come on!That means that he basically gets an overshield every time he gets hit after he loses it if he stands in his wards!How awesome is that?!)

3.Reyna: Incredible “clutch moment” saviour, great heal that is always protected by an initial overshield that guarantees that the heal stays, team damage buff that even tanks have to be wary of,multi-use ultimate and “here’s a shield for my favourite so-and-so”.

4.Galilea- besides me having a thing for armor clad babes with shields and longswords, I think out of all the brawlers she has the best long-term survivability. Ranged stun ideal for initiating,chasing down and escaping plus a team beneficent damage amplifier

Dislikes: hard to choose,because I don’t mind most characters individually,it’s more team compositions that I don’t like to play against.

1.Marquis- like all snipers he’s annoying and if he’s good you really have to remember that he’s there all the time and even then he often sends you hiding and makes you recall with half health “just to be safe”.

2.Rath - only because of his knock up paired with exploiting the endless melee juggling and only on meltdown/paradise because it allows him to come up unexpected.

3.Montana.- He’s not much of a threat on his own, but with Miko he’s a real pain, plus even without Miko it takes forever to kill him,even with Kleeses overcharged headshots/crtis

4.Reyna - for all the reasons mentioned why I love her. Makes it hard to wear down enemy hp,can deny you some kills you thought were certain and has great survivability as long as she’s not alone.

I haven’t played Toby yet(PC),never got around to trying Thorn,Deande,Attikus and Mellka plus after playing each character once-twice I focused on ISIC and Kleese with occasional Reyna and Galilea, because I kinda wanted the wins in those games when my team was all low level ,and to assure that win I had to take someone I know & like.

#9

Likes (no particular order)

Galilea- She’s still really good, loved being on the front lines with the shield while still having the stun and melee damage to get kills.

Mellka- Unlocked her near the end and only got a couple games in with her, but in all of them I got 20+ kills, which doesn’t really happen to me much with other characters, so that kind of made her an instant standout.

Caldarius- I’m still kind of learning Caldarius, but he’s a lot of fun to play. I really like being so fast and getting kills with him is really gratifying. Also since he’s kind of hard to play, it makes me feel like a badass when I get a good k/d with him.

Thorn- She’s crazy good. Again, I loved being able to move so fast, and she was so much fun because she could play as both a sniper-ish role and an AoE damage dealer, and she had the movement speed to switch between the two roles quickly.

Reyna- This one was a big surprise to me because I usually hate support characters. I really like the combination of her pistol, gauntlet, and homing shot, and how you could use them all together. The shield was an added bonus, and I like that I didn’t really have to spend time healing or anything.

Dislikes

Marquis- He always shoots me when I’m not paying attention to him. Come on and fight me head on, ■■■■■.

Shayne & Aurox- Had a lot of health, so it took a while to take down there health, but most takes are kind of stuck there when they get in trouble. Shayne/Aurox, on the other hand, could just dip out with invisibility and then come back with another fat health bar.

Orendi- She’s just always there hitting me with her stupid little magic balls, and that big ass pillar. When there’s one player in particular that’s annoying me in a match, it tends to be Orendi.

Ambra- ■■■■ you, Ambra. ■■■■ your stupid little heal beam.

#10

LIKED

  • Shayne and Aurox: This is a character I didn’t really expect to be one of my top characters. I went into the game expecting other characters to pull me in their direction, but I spent most of the Beta stuck on S&A.

  • Orendi: I liked her from the beginning. I actually do a bit poorly with her in PvP but extraordinarily good with her in PvE. She’s definitely my PvE character of choice.

DISLIKE

  • Marquis: He likes to be funny and try to pick me off without me noticing. Most of the time I notice, and I want to punch 'em…but he’s nowhere near punching range. Also how can anybody not notice their shields dropping in two shots and their health slashed on the 3rd shot?

  • Galilea: Even post-nerf she seemed to bring fear to the hearts of teams. A well supported Galilea is near impossible to kill. Her strongest feature is her versatility and skill-set. She literally does EVERYTHING. She’s a great defender, above average attacker, she has the easiest stun to land, most annoying Silence ability, life-steal, retreat options, literally everything. Only thing I can see countering her is a Ranged character with Ranged CC.

  • Ambra: I wouldn’t mind her being insanely hard to kill, if her damage output was lowered a few more notches. Only time I could kill an Ambra was after another team member whittled her down and procc’d her Flame Shield and I would chase and kill. (Or be the one who whittled her down and have a team mate chase and kill a fleeing Ambra).

#11

Likes:

  • Galliea: She is my teams go-to for locking down minion lanes in Meltdown. Her ability to block damage with her shield and the ability to amp everyone’s damage is great.

  • Thorn: The combination of her Bliss to slow others while speeding myself up is awesome. High mobility and annoying hit and run mechanics are so much fun.

  • Deande: Nothing is more fun than cloaking and sending my decoy out to distract others while I set up behind them. And the helix option that gives her a ‘back-stab’ effect makes me feel like a real rogue.

Dislike:

  • Ambra: I think the only minor tweak needed is her over shield and her attack that auto-locks. I just feel she is alittle to powerful.

  • Oscar Mike: I only disliked OM because I feel that he is under-powered. At no point do I feel threatened by OM regardless of my character choice.

#12

Liked

  1. Reyna- fun support, alot of what she lacks at first can be gained through her helix. while I’ll admit she isn’t the best character she is my favorite to play. also has cool taunts.

  2. Miko- Another support I played alot of, really good healer, teammates were grateful, got carpel tunnel from holding the heal button to long though. He’s a better support than reyna IMO, but I still had the most fun on reyna.

Disliked playing against-

  1. Miko- I found myself hoping in general that the other team didn’t have a support, but especially hoping they didn’t have a miko because then our team would likely have a significant advantage.

  2. Montana- alone I wasn’t to concerned of him on the enemy team, but I found myself hoping the enemy team didn’t have a miko/ montana combo. Not that their is anything wrong with that strategy balance wise but It’s way easier to fight a team that doesn’t work together

#13

I got to play with Deande only about twice, and I loved that cloak ability. Can’t imagine how much fun you could have using her and Oscar Mike together with well coordinated attacks on lonely wanderers. Stealth buddies, behind enemy lines :smile:

#14

Don’t forget Shayne! You’d have a whole stealth squad!

#15

Liked to play,

1. Rath - Fast and nimble, really nice to sneak up on mf’s. If you play your cards right you won’t even need to resort to his ult to melt people’s faces off. Exceptional on Meltdown, really easy to control both lanes at the same time.

2. Benedict - My favorite to play Incursion with, good dmg output and control wide areas with. Can get into the gist of things quickly with glide and then retreat far far away when needed.

3. Galilea - My backup char. Good all around and able to adapt to all situations and teams.

Disliked playing against,

1. Caldarious - COME BACK HERE YOU LITTLE S***.

2. Marquis - Mostly because apart from a few selected few, most players i faced that used Marquis only used them to take potshots and steal easy kills on their team mates, very few used them correctly to the advantage of their respective team.

#16

Liked:

  1. Galilea - My favorite character over the course of the beta, there’s been plenty of discussion about her so no need to guess why

  2. Deande - By far my favorite of the stealth characters, only got to use her for a little bit though

  3. Rath - Out of the starters available Rath was easily my favorite, I dropped him later on, but he was great in the beginning, also I loved playing against Rath as Galilea, so many easy kills

  4. Melka - A character I wish I had played more with in PvP, I used her several times in story mode and loved her abilities and play style

Dislike:

  1. Shayne and Aurox- These guys seriously pissed me off at times, that Fetch ability is pretty unfair but the most annoying thing was it’s health, a stealth based character should not have 2000 health

  2. Kelvin - Didn’t really hate him but I found his Sublimate ability pretty annoying for running away, made it hard to finish him when used by a decent player

  3. Oscar Mike - Solely because of the 1 Incursion Match I played were we lost our sentry early and managed to come back and tie the game, then with 1 minute left he stealths, runs to our sentry, and drops his damn ulty on our sentry doing just enough to give them the win

#17

Liked:

Reyna: Always enjoyed the support characters and the ability to provide shields and mark targets was really fun. Was great going against a Galiea and marking her then watching as my team melted her down.

Miko: Again love that support that I can provide with this guy. Running around healing people and throwing mushrooms was fun. Though sucked when people ran away when I tried healing them, though I know i did this a few times as well.

Kelvin: Ice and water has always been my favorite powers so a ice golem that eats people was a must play and I loved him so much.

Benedict: Was really great flying in the air raining down rockets on people. Though man running out of rockets was such a buzz kill.

Thorn: Always loved bow characters and she didn’t disappoint, though hard to charge up and hit with her bow sometimes for the most part she was really fun to play.

Dislike:

Galiea: Ugh hated when someone played her, that healing and damage just made her so ridiculous

Ambar: Loved playing her hated going against her. Damn your life stealing sunpot healing piece of s**t with an overshield when things get rough.

Rath: Swear this guy has stealth sometimes, pops outta nowhere and destroys me before I know what is happening.

Blodur: Man is he annoying. I swear every time there was a Boldur on the other team he was unkillable

#18

Heh.
“Whats your favorite car to drive?”
“STEAMROLLER!”
@AsherTalos aww finally somebody mad about Boldur power :smiley: was it me? WAS IT?

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#19

That guy was rough. Lot of shield power and the overshield/dash to get away made him really hard to pin down and kill. Think the one time I killed him was on Ambra when he was blocking attacks in front and I sun beamed him down from behind

#20

But cant remember the name? Dang, because i never saw a single Boldur :frowning: which is no surprise, Dwarves always get the short end of the stick but still manage to beat people to death with it.

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#21

???

He felt like one of the more powerful characters in the game to me. Also, he is one of the best options for sweeping minions, so it is understandable if he is not the best at Battleborn v Battleborn

#22

Liked:

Galilea: She’s broken, but when I’m using her I have to admit it’s pretty fun. Being able to switch between agressive/tank roles as well as having access to stun/silence/healing/range it’s nuts.

Orendi: I’m honestly not really that good at Orendi, but spamming out nukes it’s great fun when it goes right, and it’s awesome to punish melee characters. The helix mutations that augment her cooldowns are great fun to abuse too, and you can get an almost non-stop cycle of spells going if you’re clever.

Reyna: Sheilding a friendly across the map to save them from damage and win a 1v1 is sooo much more rewarding than simply healing the crap out of one player. I feel like I’m always useful on Reyna. Soaking up enemy shields, healing up/rescuing team-mates and marking enemy players for death, which is amazing for punishing the massively out of position assassin characters that were all around in the beta. I’m not sure how competitively viable she is compared to a traditional healer, but she’s certainly lots of fun.

Disliked:

Galilea: Just because I saw her so much. Also, just how silly the 1v1 fights turned out. I did run into some hillarious situations where we would both throw and be stunned by each others shields at the same time. lol

Ambra: Incredibly frustrating to pin down, unless you hard focus her with multiple stuns/mark her for death she can use her speed and overshield passive to escape stupid situations. Her lock on firing mode is super lame to use and play against, I’d love to see changes that nerf the lock on mode, maybe that place more emphasis on melee or something.

Miko: The only thing that bothers me about Miko is just how much it forces me to use Galilea. I don’t think there are enough characters (or I just haven’t used them yet) that can interact with/block healing. It felt like every game I didn’t choose Galilea to counter a healer I was just putting my team at a massive disadvantage. Again though, this could just be because I’m new to the game.

#23

I’d lean towards @rsquires82 in this argument, as I didn’t think he did much damage, but he was very good at hit and run, and keeping sustained damage. The grenade with napalm was the real killer blow for any enemy in problems though. I loved going stealth behind them and waiting for runners, then bang. At level 10 with the ULT using slow down, very easy to get kills then. Group pushes, you stealth behind them, drop ULT, hurts them, slows them, wait to see is in trouble, grenade, then shoot like hell at anyone else or get out of there. Brilliant team player for this reason. And when you could see your team mate having a fight with someone, stealth, run up to them and SURPRISE M****** F****** :wink:

#24

@dwarfurious Eh it was probably me! :wink: I was pretty hard to kill!

As for favorites in order:

Boldur: You know you’ve played too much Boldur when your answer to every problem is bashing your body into the opponent until they give up. Also, Bears.

Phoebe: Oh my lovely sword mistress, don’t you ever change. Dodge dodge stab. Dodge dodge Stab

Reyna: You get a shield, and YOU get a shield, SHIELDS FOR EVERYONE!!

Dislikes, in order!:

Ghalt: This guy, I never unlocked him so I’m uncertain of which helix gives it to him. But the moment he gets the 3 chain, chain pull. I would almost set down my controller. Because there was nothing but death waiting me.

Marquis: Stop. Picking. This guy. Too many moments of slim victory have been cut short by the familiar sounds of a cane-sniper round making its way into my skull. Always from nowhere. (I do get the supreme satisfaction of sprinting up to sniper perch and Boulderdashing him into my team from time to time. But still!)

Ambra: The bloody passive shield. Baits me every. Single. Time. Does this make her OP? No. Does it make me look like a noob who has no awareness? Definitely >.>

Waiting for May 3rd.

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#25

Liked: Orendi, the little blur of chaos. Also, Ashly Burch. Chaining spells = fun. Being useful both against minions and against players = double fun. Being easy to squish when you’re playing against her controlled by a player unfamiliar with Nullify = megafun.

Shayne, the gender-suspect teen detective. After my fifth death with no scores I was all “how do I play this character?!”, after three matches I was all “take that, you camping bandersnatch!” at enemy Marquis players.

ISIC, the Handsome Jack As A Claptrap. DIE, MEATBAGS. A walking torrent of gunfire, and awesome at countering Ambra, Miko, Oscar and anyone else who thinks the splash damage of Omega Strike will not kill them faster than they can kill it back.

Dislike: Benedict. Hella hard to shoot down when he’s in the air, and surprisingly sturdy, too!

Aaand that’s about it. Had a bit of a hate-on for Ambra at first, then realized how to kill her efficiently. Still died a lot, but in an honest way.

#26

Favorites to Play
• Montana - Always fun. Always tanky. pew pew
• Mellka - Run, spike, canister, shoot. So chaotic and fun to play, with natural health regen!
• Oscar Mike - Honestly, I like Whiskey better, but I know that Mike is the better choice. Takes me back to CoD :wink:

Least favorites to Play
• Ghalt - Ugh. Such a disappointment to me. I wanted him to feel like Stitches in Heroes of the Storm.
• Marquis - Not my style

Least favorites to See (enemy team)
• Marquis - STOP HITTING MY TINY MONTANA HEAD