reduce her damage to 13 or 10, make her transparent instead of invisible except in casting shadows and when standing still, make her take double damage in shadow sneak, and reduce her health to 50. also increase her reload time and reduce her clip size. that way she will OBJECTIVELY be a fair and balanced character.
if you think she is fine the way she is, then you are ABSOLUTELY one of the scum that abuse her overpowered damage and mobility.
the game BADLY needs damage drop-off.
Oh how I wish I could downvote here. Night cap as a character is only so good in the hands of the person playing her. I hate to say it, but in the case of what you're suggesting, get good.
Nightcap has been nerfed for the past few balance patches. If you aren’t being ironic or making a joke, what you’re trying to suggest is total annihilation of this character. There would be absolutely no use or incentive to play Nightcap if PopCap did what you’ve described in this post.
- Almost halve her damage
- Increase the time it takes to reload
- Reduce her clip size
- Reduce her already low health
- Make her transparent instead of invisible, even though you can still see the dust particles left by an invisible Nightcap
Nightcap is by far the chunkiest of the small characters (she’s much wider and somewhat taller than Imp and Acorn), and she’s already seen nerfs to Casting Shadows and Fung Fu, along with the nerfs to Parkour and Fleet Footed (one of which was justified). None of the changes you’ve listed will be better for the game or the character, it would just make Nightcap an incredibly unfun and ridiculous character to play.
The only justifiable nerf is reducing her damage, and that would come with the addition of damage dropoff, which would stop sniping from all characters except the actual sniper classes. I honestly find it hard to believe that this post is not be a joke, because with these changes Nightcap would serve absolutely no purpose in the game. You’re asking to nerf a decently good plant, whose already been nerfed in almost every balance update, when the game is in a heavily Zombie-favored meta right now.
She is meant to be a glass cannon and a stealthy assassin, with a high damage output but also having the lowest health in the game. I can agree that dealing with a team of Nightcaps gets annoying but at that point you might as well pull out Super Brainz or Electric Slide and just down them all in an instant.
Learn the matchup and find a counter. If they tend to stay at the back of the group, flank and take them out. If they play aggressive, get the jump and take them out before they take you out.
She’s balanced.
@DoomEternalHypeDouble damage while invisible?! 50 hp?!? Clearly you are mad at a nightcap main, cause this is totally unreasonable! Boi with 50 hp and receiving double damage, it would get basically one shot by EVERYTHING 🤣 and this is disclosing the damage nerf, transparency nerf, reload nerf, and clip size nerf!
See, Nightcap is still a very annoying character to some players, I am included. But I can't do anything in ranked battle arena without being vanquished very quickly. I have learnt to counter them and I know that every zombie has at least one counter to get away from her attacks or deal damage while avoiding her attacks. If Nightcap gets nerfed further, she is going to have to be buffed in other ways. 🙂
Even ignoring everything else, 50 health is far too low for any character. Imp was 50 for a time in GW2 but was too easy to take out, even with splash damage at that low amount of health.
Nightcap can indeed be annoying at times, but I've also sniped a ton of them as Deadbeard and accidentally vanquished some while they sneaked around invisible and got caught in my attacks. I really don't think they a nerf at all, much less all this at once.
@Iron_Guard8 LOL I get caught in those situations all the time. I'm shadow sneaking and I just happen to jump up in a Dreadbeards line of sight as he's taking a shot i'm like WTF! lol
@ShinobicapI saw you in a Preserve Pastures match earlier tonight. Your team had a few Nightcaps sneaking around our back line! :P
