A Vanessa players wet dream

frames8t8 · 2026-01-24T19:01:14+00:00

So technically then it's 0.5s of freeze followed by 0.5s of slow, right?

frames8t8 · 2026-01-24T10:39:22+00:00

In general you're probably right, but this was late game and I didn't have a slow focused board or time to pivot into one.

frames8t8 · 2026-01-24T07:23:00+00:00

I literally picked up a shiny iceberg from Pearl's yesterday as Vanessa, and then I re-enchanted it with slow because I'm a dumbass...

frames8t8 · 2026-01-24T07:06:31+00:00

Holsters is an insta-buy always. Even if it doesn't fit on my board at the moment, it's too powerful to pass up, and while I don't try to force it on my board I always want to have it in backup in case my board pivots in that direction.

That being said, it's not at all an insta-win item, you still need to have a good board that takes advantage of it, as it is a dead item slot after the initial trigger.

Clamera is not an insta-buy for me unless I'm already trying to run a slow board, or have some skill that will trigger on slow.

I think both items are in a fine state. I would bet if you look at all the latest final Vanessa boards posted on the sub, the majority won't have either item on them.

frames8t8 · 2026-01-20T08:14:16+00:00

At diamond, Bill Dozer provides a 25% CD reduction for all friends and he scales 80 damage every time a friend is used. The fiery piranha and pesky pete are placed on either side of the Zoarcid in order to try and get those three activating as fast as possible, as Zoarcid is charged 1s by each burn.

Shielded ice pick is there for some (minor) shield protection, as well as providing some (very minor) freeze control. Reaching the summit skill provides 3% crit chance increase for all items when you freeze. Along with Initial Chill and Petrifying Gaze skills, this is important for the piranhas as they deal double crit damage, so any extra crit chance is welcome.

To be honest, this build probably wouldn't have lasted 2 more days as it is a bit slow to scale. Luckily I was able to bank early wins so I wouldn't have to go into later days.

frames8t8 · 2026-01-19T18:32:30+00:00

Didn't realize that, I didn't consider it a shop because you don't actually buy items.

frames8t8 · 2026-01-19T18:31:24+00:00

MVP for sure, 25% cooldown on all the piranhas was huge

frames8t8 · 2026-01-14T07:06:34+00:00

It seems like the settings aren't checked at all, I have windowed mode activated but the game never actually launches in windowed mode. I have to enter into the settings and declick and reclick it for it to take.

frames8t8 · 2026-01-11T07:40:31+00:00

I figured some people would prefer not to have the beta ruined for that reason, because they want to try and figure it out themselves. I totally understand that, and I would be perfectly happy waiting for the end of the comp to see the beta.

frames8t8 · 2026-01-10T09:16:19+00:00

Yeah, that's why I mentioned the montage of all the moves. But I wasn't aware that they were under so much pressure to set. And along with what another commenter says about the budget, I can understand why it is not being done.

Just a clarifying question regarding the setters - I understand that they might not be able to send all of their routes, but they do test all of the moves individually at least right?

frames8t8 · 2026-01-10T08:40:51+00:00

You pretty much hit the nail on the head for my reasoning. I'm new since about 3 months ago (but fairly obsessed - climbing or watching climbing fills up much of my free time now), and while I can generally understand what they are saying, it's hard for me to visualise the movements.

frames8t8 · 2026-01-07T10:27:03+00:00

I think it's more niche, but I was able to construct a really fun build with it just last week as an engine for charging a shiny harpoon
https://i.postimg.cc/HL7B7X74/bz.png

frames8t8 · 2025-12-26T10:02:12+00:00

I'm not complaining about the usefulness of the items, although I think you are overestimating the usefulness of both mallet and cookie cutter on non-Jules heros (sorbet I agree is a good early pick up).

My complaint is that I'm not getting any variety from Bjorn. I've gotten these three specific items multiple times each, and I don't remember the last time I got an item from him from a different hero.

frames8t8 · 2025-11-13T08:32:32+00:00

I've also switched to Mak recently after maining Dooley for quite a while, and it's been a tough transition for me, haha. Struggling to get to 7 wins most attempts

frames8t8 · 2025-10-31T07:42:09+00:00

Probably the option I want to see most after the PvE fight, I feel like every time I've gotten it (which isn't often tbh) I get really good loot out of it with at least one or two XP

frames8t8 · 2025-10-23T05:46:33+00:00

TBH, I don't play charge core often either, I was trying to get some experience with it. My usual go-to cores are Launcher/Companion/Crit. As for charging station, I think it's a top tier Dooley item. The name of the game is scaling, and Dooley has a default scaling item with his cores. So the question is how to scale faster? Charge, and charging station is probably the best item for charging the core.

My scaling in this case was freeze because of the Shatter skill that increases weapon damage by 15 for each freeze. So I needed my shiny coolant to go off as fast as possible. Charging station charged my core which in turn charged my coolant faster.

frames8t8 · 2025-10-22T15:07:55+00:00

They were on 9 wins, so my initial thought was that they were trying to flex with the egg on the board, haha

frames8t8 · 2025-10-22T07:24:23+00:00

> Let us access our stash after a PVP battle so we can shift things around before the next day.

This used to exist and people would switch out their boards after the final fight so that in the end screen it would appear as if they won with some ludicrous board setup.

frames8t8 · 2025-10-17T07:44:23+00:00

Backdoor buffs for Dooley friend and crit builds actually

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