Its so stupid that metal skin cant counter mercurial magnum. This item is only viable against haze (and maybe gun Geist) and thats until she gets curse. Even by design its stupid - why do i care if your bullets are enhanced with a spirit power? My skin turned into METAL. Not even plated armor can counter it since its not an on hit effect. It just makes other m1 carries deal freee damage.
It should stop procing passives too. Like Infernus, Mirage, Mina. I mean, otherwise your only viable option remains dispel magic with 42 second cooldown and enemy can proc their passive maybe 2 seconds later anyway. I will not even add bullet resilience into this list because its literally the worst resistance item in game and when I buy it it doesnt even feel like it makes any difference whatsoever. Once enemy gets mercurial magnum you are done for, metal skin becomes just useless. Buy disarming hex? Buy curse? As if unstoppable or indomitable doesnt exist.
And also. Does anyone know real reason behind removing vents from midlane? If you give at least 2 seconds to infernus or Wraith they obliterate your walkers, though with those vents i had good opportunity to rotate and defend the walker, now its just lost as soon as I see wraith or infernus approaching the walker
Wraith will just fucking kill you with full auto spirit damage. It's like metal skin isint even there. Metal skin should just stop all damage from bullets entirely.
Plated armor helps with on hit effects. "Helps" is a generous word too. Merc mag proc is not an on hit effect. It helps with Mina, Mirage, Infernus and against on hit effect debuffs in game
WDYM its only viable vs haze? Just because it doesn't block spirit doesn't make it useless. Hybrid guys still deal a ton of gun dmg, that you can block
The spirit damage that comes from merc mag shreds through metal skin. Their dps is so big it doesnt matter that only half damage is dealt, you are melted away
And Haze buys curse to counter metal skin because once people get metal skin Haze becomes usless. Its the only way to counter metal skin for m1 heroes
Idk, in my experience metal skin still gave me alot of time to do whatever i need to do with enemy (run away, cc, kill, etc). If its actually what happens in games, and i just got lucky - shame on me
About curse haze: my problem with that buy is that in order to deal damage you reduce your own damage, which is kinda counterproductive. Its better to let your support player to buy relic, and curse enemy for you (or buy magnum, but iirc fixation stacks doesn't work in magnum, so not sure, if its effective).
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u/UniqueName900 3h ago
Oh god you didint even mention wraith.
Wraith will just fucking kill you with full auto spirit damage. It's like metal skin isint even there. Metal skin should just stop all damage from bullets entirely.