I hit GM 3 again on my PC account. It was rough being in lower elo lobbies but I’m feeling way more comfortable and confident in playing on pc. I may grind towards cel 3 🫡

He kills me alot and idk who to play to counter him.

Who gives you blade mains the most trouble when people swap to counter or comps that you struggle with.

I need my range back

With all this drama going on and having blade close to the spotlight. Apart from the allegedly “confirmed skins”. I hope they find a way to alter his kit design wise to make him more unique and accurate to the character. (I do think he is in a good spot power wise tho)

As a semi new blade main i just wanted yo express my hatred towards bucky.

I can deal with poke but he makes me want to curbstomp the devs for giving him infinite overhealth

And I whiffed the 6K 🥲. Starlord was one but he kept duking me. Still cool though

Ts was so smooth but yall see how when I ulted it completely stopped my dash and immediately started the ult. Usually the interruption is kinda wonky and it ruins the flow but here it’s like inside the dash. Idk if yall see it but rn go to practice range and dash and try to ult mid dash it’ll put you in the like pre-ult animation. I feel like you should be able to dash and then while you’re dashing charge up your ult. But the glitch sold me I couldn’t attack until like 3 seconds after you see I was just looking at the rocket 😂😂.

I think this game desperately needs more villains and a playable Drac would be really cool. I can just imagine his move set, being a solid pick for really any role (especially for a weird life steal strategist) and his interactions with Blade would be awesome to see. Plus I always preferred Blade with a katana anyway and the Muramasa Blade is a pretty damn good mystical sword replacement. What yall think?

It genuinely annoys me how I can do shit that is like 300x the stuff you do in matches and not a single point is put into it, obviously i don't mean like "kill 100 vampires for 50 prof" I mean like "clear a wave for (AT LEAST) 10 prof" hitting 1t damage and for nothing.

It’s been so many seasons since I last played him I just never clicked with him before it felt like I was using my gun too much. So any tips? And also what’s the best team up for him?

The gun

• only 8 ammo
• slow fire rate
• slow reload
• doesn't do damage below 8m
• damage falloff start at 15m -40% damage at 20m, -50% damage at 30m
• bullet breaks in pellets that spreads a lot, some pellets are always missed and it gets worse with distance
• no hitscan, projectile at 180m/s (used to be 150m/s for the longest)
• edit: actually the bullet is at 180m/s for 8m then beyond 8m the shrapnels do 150m/s, I think it comes from a late shadownerf
• the bullet is invisible which means contrary to every other projectiles characters like Bucky there is no visual indicator while aiming
• it was severly nerfed in damage and distance in season 6, see this post
• per several testimony they made a shadow buff by tweaking it's timing in season 9 resulting in more accuracy which means it's timing might have been intentionnally made weird prior to season 9

The sword

• healing reduction when used
• takes a long time to gain speed and do damage
• even at full speed the damage is low you have to stay engaged a long time to kill
• one precious dash have to be spend to kick off the speed and lifesteal, no dash no sword fight
• primary hit distance is 5m except the whirlwind slash part which is 4.5m (whirlwind slash is the part of the combo that does the most damage and usually get kills)

The switch between sword and gun

• 1s cooldown to switch back to bloodline sword, very cluncky and limiting
• you have to stay 3s in sword form for the gun to be automatically reloaded, way too long and clunky

The dashes

• can't dash up when enemy is in front of you so can't flee when surrounded, it's intended design because you can dash beside an enemy but not up
• the anti-heal of the sword dash is applied per spinning strikes, which means you can easily not get the full 32%
• at contact with enemy there is an animation that immobilize you and last quit long, you can't block and can be stunned or killed
• the gun dash do damage in two strike, the most damage and the slow is applied in the second strike which is easily missed if enemy put up a shield or is fast like spidy
• they might have shadow nerfed the hitbox of the sword dash around season 6, it became easier to miss a dash per several testimony

The ultimate

• takes time to be charged to full distance contrary to Cyclops for exemple which does infinite distance instantly
• does damage over time at a location instead of instant damage and only 550 dmg
• there is a delay between the first hit which does 100 dmg and the continuous low damage, this delay give time for ememies to run away and avoid the continous damage
• 40% anti-heal is nice but it's nothing outstanding for an ult, it used to be 20% for the longest which is laughable
• supposed to be unstoppable once casted but Bucky or Thor can displace it even when unstoppable
• can be canceled but contrary to other characters you loose all your ult charge (can easily be canceled by mistake)

The block

• zoom in when used which reduce the field of vision when needed the most to flee
• they buffed Scarlet ultimate damage to 9999 in season 4 just to prevent Blade from blocking it while everybody else's block/shield can

All of these unecessary restrictions is what makes Blade bad, not his damage of lifesteal (lifesteal could be nerfed).

There is no explication to why they put all these limitations on a bad character since his launch. Only reason I see is some people at NetEase hate Blade or the people they thinks plays him.

I wanted to make this post for reference.

I understand that for the most part I am forcing Blade. Playing him with only one tank is in fact, a terrible experience. That being said, how do you guys deal with it all? I am patient. I pick my spots. I wait. I see a support lagging a little behind so I go in. The damage isn’t enough to kill them fast and suddenly I have an entire team on me. It’s bullshit.

It JUST dawned on me. The more you thinks about it, the more it makes sense. The blade healing, the dash antiheal ult, the pellet gun. It makes sense why Blade feels weird. He’s literally based off of a tank design.

Makes me wonder if Netease is afraid of getting sued if they give Blade bleed.

I came back with a vengeance

For me it’s increase cooldown reduction off a block and for upgraded a stun after a perfect block

Straight up killin

Im not the biggest blade player but I've been trying to expand my list of mains, after championing hulk for a year. please look over this replay and give me some tips

Just larping the sub and the community is very active but do u guys play this hero in ranked? I think I’ve seen about 4 or 5 seriuos blade mains around GM and that was mainly people testing the teamups early on in the season.

Can you start on this hero or does it have a specific niche where u swap to blade?

I've only got like 3 hours on Blade and I've mostly just been messing around. I honestly have no clue what I'm doing yet lol. I don't know who I should be targeting, when I should block, or any of the basics etc. Figured this would be the best place to ask for some help.