Rona... Is she overpowered? Is she underpowered?
Personally, I think she's just a bit on the overpowered side if she goes down the weapon path.
My main gripe about weapon Rona is the weapon ratio for Red Mist, 175%. Y'know, the terrifying spinny thing. To me, that's just insane. That high of a weapon ratio means that ability will HURT late game.
My other problem with Rona is the cooldowns. Buy a Clockwork and she'll be using Red Mist and Foesplitter every 6 seconds. Plus, like Ardan, the cooldown for Foesplitter decreases by 1 second with every basic attack.
I think that all of the damage-dealing heroes can choose to build either weapon or crystal with relative success, but the fact that the weapon ratio for Red Mist is 75% higher than the crystal ratio makes completely overshadows Crystal Rona. Yeah, there's a 200% crystal ratio on Into The Fray's rupture damage, but there's little chance you'll be able to consistenly damage enemies with the rupture.
My suggestions : Nerf the weapon ratio for red mist, and increase Foesplitter's cooldown.
Maybe it's just the heroes I play with or just me, but right now, unless you focus on her first, Rona seems to deal way too much damage in teamfights. What do you guys think?
I don't feel like she's overpowered simply because of how rarely I see her used amongst SA & pinnacle players. I almost never see her used in ranked & only occasionally in casual. Players up here tend to bandwagon any overpowered hero, & the Rona bandwagon hasn't happened yet, so yeah lol.
Her ultimate is pretty good, but it makes her a really easy target & it's easy to avoid if she doesn't have shiversteel. Even if she does get one, it takes away from the gold she could be spending on her much needed offense. She can also be pretty easy to gun down, & there's a nerf on her basic attack damage. Most Rona players choose serpent mask, which only gives her 72 damage after the reduction to 80%... Which is pretty weak imo. I can throw a serp mask on glaive & get much better results than a serp mask on Rona. A serpent mask only adds 157 WP damage to the 475 crystal on her maxed out ultimate... Not bad, & most rona's have 2 masks by the time the time they max the ult, but once you factor in armor & shield the damage really isn't that bad.
On the bright side, she hits fast & has some pretty high health & decent armor & shield. Into the fray allows for an escape or slow & foesplitter allows for a good rush. Overall though, I just don't feel like she can come up with enough damage even with her ultimate, and I feel like she's too easy of a target.
I will note that she is probably much more successful in pretty good than in simply amazing, so keep using her!
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I don't feel like she's overpowered simply because of how rarely I see her used amongst SA & pinnacle players. I almost never see her used in ranked & only occasionally in casual. Players up here tend to bandwagon any overpowered hero, & the Rona bandwagon hasn't happened yet, so yeah lol.
Her ultimate is pretty good, but it makes her a really easy target & it's easy to avoid if she doesn't have shiversteel. Even if she does get one, it takes away from the gold she could be spending on her much needed offense. She can also be pretty easy to gun down, & there's a nerf on her basic attack damage. Most Rona players choose serpent mask, which only gives her 72 damage after the reduction to 80%... Which is pretty weak imo. I can throw a serp mask on glaive & get much better results than a serp mask on Rona. A serpent mask only adds 157 WP damage to the 475 crystal on her maxed out ultimate... Not bad, & most rona's have 2 masks by the time the time they max the ult, but once you factor in armor & shield the damage really isn't that bad.
On the bright side, she hits fast & has some pretty high health & decent armor & shield. Into the fray allows for an escape or slow & foesplitter allows for a good rush. Overall though, I just don't feel like she can come up with enough damage even with her ultimate, and I feel like she's too easy of a target.
I will note that she is probably much more successful in pretty good than in simply amazing, so keep using her!
Hmm... Well, I wouldn't really know. I haven't been playing Vainglory since the dawn of time like some people. xD
If weapon Rona isn't overpowered, though, what does that make crystal Rona? Is she underpowered or borderline, in your opinion?
definetly underpowered... too much counters ageinst her. a stun can shut your ult down pretty fast and you need to be close to someone to actually hurt them. although if youre playing with her smart and good like shinkaigen (vainglorious player) you can win with her team fights. still its better to not choose her
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The only thing you should be scared of is the ult. The rest of her abilities do nothing and she can be kited easily by ANY ranged hero (except SAW, but he can kill her easily with his abilities).
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The only thing you should be scared of is the ult. The rest of her abilities do nothing and she can be kited easily by ANY ranged hero (except SAW, but he can kill her easily with his abilities).
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