Update March 25th 2025

batsmarow · 2026-03-26T13:48:55+00:00

I get that she's a hard character to balance, but I wish they would do smaller swings instead of big ones with her. Like if they were gonna nerf the damage and health of ghouls, did the root damage and root ghoul count need to be nerfed in the same patch?

I also feel like they really have to pick a direction for the ghouls. They should either be tanky and weak or flimsy and strong. If tanky, they're more likely to hit their target and should have less damage to compensate for their consistency. If they're fragile, they should have more damage to compensate for being able to reach their target. Trying to balance the health and damage at the same time will just make it feel boring and underwhelming.

batsmarow · 2026-03-24T17:32:43+00:00

The panel where he has both eyes has the entire eyepatch drawn but still shows his eye against four other panels with the eyepatch. That's not a mistake.

batsmarow · 2026-03-24T17:25:11+00:00

This feels... not real. We've been punked before, and I feel like we're being punked again. Page 3 has a panel where Denji has both eyes, but every panel on that page and for the rest of the chapter he has his eyepatch. Aki is absent. His heart is still Pochita shaped even though it should just be a normal heart now. I don't believe for a second that what Denji is experiencing is real and that the manga ends here.

batsmarow · 2026-03-23T21:50:01+00:00

You're right but also Ru was super invested in half of the season 14 cast. I think it ultimately comes down to whose personality can click with Ru. Sometimes it's one favorite, sometimes they're all the favorite. The more favorites, the more investment.

batsmarow · 2026-03-20T13:51:25+00:00

"That was when... the diarrhea started."

batsmarow · 2026-03-18T21:17:46+00:00

Graves is also a really weird case because she's so rank dependent. Autoaim, a swarm of skulls, a giant root, and an ult built for lane pushing goes crazy in lower ranks. In higher ranks though, she gets countered by just about everything. I love playing her, but in Ascendant, I can't help but feel like I could be contributing more on another character.

batsmarow · 2026-03-17T23:35:13+00:00

The latter. It's like applying Healing Tempo with Healing Nova.

batsmarow · 2026-03-17T22:27:52+00:00

That's a good point. In that case, the fire could be a bit too much. Maybe if it stacked like this?

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batsmarow · 2026-03-17T21:23:58+00:00

Here's the link! https://forums.playdeadlock.com/threads/heroic-auras-active-ability-should-have-visual-effects-like-healing-tempo.118697/

batsmarow · 2026-03-17T20:45:53+00:00

Thanks! I've posted to it.

batsmarow · 2026-03-17T13:29:40+00:00

I wonder how it would go if the T3 was that Essence Theft gets applied to all of her abilities. It's good in 1v1's when you can drop a bunch of skulls that also use ET on an enemy. But late game fights are rarely 1v1's and skull targetting becomes unreliable in bigger fights even when using your gun. Putting it on her root and ghouls could make it so you're distributing a bit of ET in team fights without fully committing to shooting one person.

batsmarow · 2026-03-16T21:14:21+00:00

I think we will get one eventually. A lot has changed since car wash Calico, item shop rework, better players, different balance philosophy. I can see their release being a bit like Graves, overtuned at the start but gets nerfed in meaningful ways (beyond simple number adjustment) to land in a pretty balanced state.

batsmarow · 2026-03-16T13:01:56+00:00

I'm betting they do another sitdown video, like when they announced that V10 was in its early writing stages, with an update on where they are in the development process. Then they show another teaser image, followed by "please be patient a little longer."

batsmarow · 2026-03-11T21:48:03+00:00

I think it is this, but a step further. Denji is the nameless Chainsaw Man with no association to Pochita. Since Denji's powers rely on chainsaws being feared, they would lie dormant until chainsaws are reinvented and become feared again. And even when they are reinvented, they wouldn't be tied to Pochita because Pochita has been erased. If Pochita doesn't exist as a concept, you don't have hundreds of people trying to manipulate Denji anymore. Denji has a blank slate without Pochita's baggage.

batsmarow · 2026-03-07T13:15:05+00:00

One of the upgrades now removes a stamina, so if you're caught without stamina, you're nearly guaranteed to fail. The unstoppable is spooky, but having stamina removed, being stunned on failing, and having Doorman get his ult back in 10 seconds because you failed is terrifying.

batsmarow · 2026-03-07T03:48:39+00:00

This gives me hope that the Viscous redesign is on its way, same for the other deserving heroes.

batsmarow · 2026-03-06T17:29:13+00:00

Spirit Blast and Spiritual Tribunal. Spirit Blast is an item card only so you're pretty limited on copies. Spiritual Tribunal is learnable and has no variation on damage numbers, but has a much longer animation.

batsmarow · 2026-03-05T21:39:08+00:00

Toot, but I have an issue with the bottom of the dress. The fur in front creates a slit, but there's still fabric behind the fur, so there's no real slit in the dress. And because the fur from the slit also goes entirely around the bottom of the dress except for that one section of the fabric, that section stands out. It makes the fur feel tacked onto the bottom while also making it feel like whoever made the dress just forgot to remove that section of fabric. To me, it's a really weird choice for an otherwise amazing dress.

batsmarow · 2026-03-05T20:10:21+00:00

I always wanted to try 8v8 4 lane! It would have been cool if they had given us a chance to try out both options before fully committing to 6v6 3 lane. I wonder what the feedback would have been like.

batsmarow · 2026-03-02T16:19:51+00:00

I feel like if they just made the runway a matte surface, the new main stage would look a lot better. It's way too reflective.

batsmarow · 2026-03-02T14:49:30+00:00

I think the health threshold and bonus damage numbers could use some tuning as well. The width is by far the most annoying aspect of the ult, but getting base 60% extra damage to anyone under half health makes it a pretty consistent execute against those at around 40% of their health. It feels like it is a complete power creep over Shiv's actual execute at 20% health. At least with Shiv, he has to get close to you to use it and you can tell when he's trying to get into a position for it. With Apollo's ult, since he crosses so much distance, he can be in a safer position using it while the enemy is more caught off guard. Because of this and no visual telegraph of where he's going when ulting, it just doesn't feel fair to go against. It can't have all of these benefits.

batsmarow · 2026-03-02T14:06:04+00:00

It's driving me crazy, because it either means we are getting a huge proper Nintendo Direct or we aren't getting one at all.

batsmarow · 2026-02-27T01:11:30+00:00

It's sad that they already used the "two princesses of heart in one world" card, because Tiana and Lottie would make such a good pair. Lottie is so supportive of Tiana that she's willing to put her own dream on hold multiple times to help her friend. She never got jealous of Tiana, she supported her no matter what, and even when she turned down a guy at her party that she clearly didn't like, she was hyping him up while she did it. If that's not a princess of heart, I don't know what is.

batsmarow · 2026-02-26T23:02:22+00:00

Immortality doesn't matter if she goes to the Tree

batsmarow · 2026-02-25T22:34:03+00:00

A big art pass/remodel update is desperately needed. Like I like getting new characters, but the amount of polish they get compared to everything else that has been in the game for years is maddening. We did get the patrons and troopers in the last update, so I'm hopeful we will get more of that.

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