6 years ago

Am I missing something with Nihilus?

I just fought an arena team with Palp lead, Nihilus, Sion, DRevan, and BSF.

Short story is I landed fear on Nihilus, so he loses a turn. Then his turn comes around again, he uses Drain Force. (I had CBM or Ferocity on everybody so it worked on everybody. Then his very next turn he annihilates. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s only 7 cooldowns removed, not 8. One for his lost turn, then 5 for Drain Force plus the one for the turn he used Drain Force. Annihilate’s cooldown is 8. So, what am I missing?

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Mephisto_style
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
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JakeMcLain
6 years ago
"Crazylazyguy;c-1936287" wrote:
"Veskasa1;c-1936119" wrote:
But the first (missed) turn the CD goes to 7, the next turn it goes to 6. Then minus 5 cause drain force, so it's at 1. Next turn it's at zero, so ready to use (and he does).

That's how cooldown works, is it not? Look at Sabine's special (with CD 2), you can use that every other turn.

Your math doesn't add up. You remove CD when his turn ends and then when his next turn comes, you remove CD again. It's not how the mechanic works.

My math is fine, I'm (probably) just wrong about CD reduction: I figured it was at start of turn (since 3 turns are started) and othertwise is difficult to get to 8.

CD reduction at end is logical, othertwise DN CD increase would be very useless :-)

Your explanation of double DN is very likely what happened with the CD reduction at end.
Rxkehell
6 years ago
I was thinking something is wrong with him. There is a guy in my shard you runs ep, dn, sion, nasty and threwn and he is top 5. His dn is annihilating my whole team in no time if I don't kill him first. I'm sure there is a bug cuz he annihilates tooooo fast.
VeritasInfinite
6 years ago
"Mercury88;c-1936467" wrote:
Could be that on his 1 basic turn he took he dispelled a buff off of someone like sith trooper.

His basic buff-removal doesn’t effect the cooldown of Annihilate, it only effects Drain Force.
VeritasInfinite
6 years ago
"Dryff;c-1936184" wrote:
One thing to look out for is Traya using the Isolate ability. Even if she can't apply Isolate (because of CBM) she can still reduce cooldowns by 1.

I use this on my Arena team to Annihilate against DR teams the EXACT same way you described.

Traya was not in the team I listed in the first post.
VeritasInfinite
6 years ago
Any other thoughts on this? It still doesn’t make sense to me.