As one of many Imp players, I totally agree with these changes for him and Z-Mech, they're still good currently but not as much, they just die too fast and even faster with the TTK changes they made many months ago, and add the fact Z-Mech gets heavily focused, even more focused than a loaded up Space Station with a Co-Star. Imp Barely has a chance to fight back unless the enemy is caught by surprise now or uses that RoF Exploit (Which is.. honeslty quite bad, your aim goes everywhere while moving and you have to stand still to land most of your shots if used) and Z-Mech... Literally a 350 damage sponge, who's only purpose was to work as an objective bomb that worked 30% of the time.. Still don't know why that 1 damage nerf to Imp that no one even asked for.. Though being honest, they won't be adding Damage Drop Off any time soon, It would be nice though really but.. They even removed it from Sunflower's Sunbeam, the only ability that had Damage Drop Off now doesn't which is.. a weird choice.
And being honest, Centripedal Force is one of the most useless upgrades he has.. and its for 4 points....... Why?, Its just as useless as Uppercut on Nightcap which actually makes you lose some of that Fung-Fu damage by knocking them in the air, you basically would become a suicide Impkata to get some use out of it right now and get nothing unless Ripcord
Also how about reworking Mech Hunter instead? Make it based on Vanquishes, Reward Imp for getting Vanquishes by himself instead of just dealing damage.. And hopefully get rid of that invincibility bug he sometimes has when calling the Mech too.. You're glad it exists whenever it happens to you but get quite annoyed when you're on the opposite end of it happening on that 15 Hp Imp...
@Norman_27816The devs didn't nerf Imp's damage by 1... Do you ever read the patch notes? They nerfed his damage by .45, from 4.95 to 4.5. This was needed because he vanquished Sunflowers and Cacti too easily by himself. Not a lot of players understand this, but Imp greatly excels at flanking. He is still a really strong flanker especially up against Sunflower and Cactus, but this damage nerf buffs the characters that somewhat counter him. Imp easily shuts down Sunflower because he can catch her in a Gravity Grenade and land all the free crits on her and the Sunflower player gets vanquished within 3 1/2 seconds. Imp easily shuts down Cactus because most of the time she's usually scoping in, making it easier for Imp to land crits on. If she gets out of Gravity Grenade and starts to run away, don't sprint after her! She's basically vanquished because she is away from the fight and the zombies aren't worrying about her high-damage weapon.
@Joseph2004045 Oh yeah, he can handle Sunflower and Cactus pretty easy, because thats what EVERY SINGLE close range DPS should do. You asked @Norman_27816 if he reads the patch notes, and i ask you: do you even know what a flanking close range character is made for?
Taking out Snipers and Supports are Imp and Super Brainz's main role in close quarters, with or without anyone protecting them.
And by the way, Sunflower and Cactus can kill Imp in close range now becouse of how bad he is, stop complaining and get real.
@GutmanScaSunflower and Cactus can vanquish Imp, but he should get them really low and vanquish them without getting vanquished in 1 on 1 fights.
@GutmanScaA close-range flanking character isn't supposed to win every 1v1. That's why they nerfed Imp's damage. He was simply too good at shutting down Sunflowers and Cacti on his own. This just gives Cactus players a little more time to react to what is damaging them. This change doesn't really affect 1 on 1 fights against Sunflower because of Gravity Grenade and all of the free crits.
