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firefly113
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Gravitar is a step in the right direction for difficulty, but as many have mentioned the difficulty feels cheapened with the one shot mechanics in place. A rampage villain could be made to be difficult without necessarily including things such as random targeting and brutal damage numbers.
This is a suggestion for a rampage villain, and why I feel this would be a strong rampage villain without throwing in bounds of discouragement as well.
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Rampage Villain suggestion
Kazimir (Inspired by Zangeif)
The presence of Red Winter in Millenium City has always been a threat, but it wasn't until very recently that the group had attracted the attention of a large and powerful man by the name of Kazimir. This giant of a man had brought his strength to the city to prove to Red Winter that he is just as strong as they, and worthy of being a part of their group.
The city wasn't prepared for the chaos this overzealous russian commited. After having strapped a massive missile to his back and bringing his strength in full bear, the city had performed a calling to all available heroes to stop this danger to the city. Now it's up to all of the city's most experienced Champions to stop him.
Kazimir fights with several Might oriented attacks and has brutal knockback. He also has a small selection of signature attacks.
Power Stomp: Kazimir lifts a foot and strikes the earth with it with such force that a powerful shockwave pulses out from him. The shockwave has different effects depending on whether a character is in the air or not. This attack deals reduced damage the further away a character is from Kazimir.
Characters on the ground are knocked back a short distance and stunned for a short period of time. They also take devastating crushing and moderate sonic damage.
Characters in the air (jumping or not) are not knocked back or stunned and only receive the sonic portion of the damage. Their travel powers are immediately disabled, and they take additional sonic damage if travel powers are disabled in this fashion.
Persistant Fury: Kazimir deals additional damage the longer his attention is focused on a single target. Every 10 seconds, if Kazimir is attacking the same target as before, his damage against that target is increased by 20% to a max of 100%. This ability resets if Kazimir changes to a different target.
The Greatest Threat from Beyond: Kazimir absolutely despises being pelted by ranged attackers. Ranged attacks generate great additional threat against Kazimir if they are more than 20ft away from him. Also when struck by a ranged attack, Kazimir's damage is increased by 15% against any character who produced additional threat in this fashion. This passive effect also grants kazimir good damage resistance.
Missile Strike: Every 10 minutes, Kazimir launches the missile from his back. Nine locations are marked on the surface. Every 5 seconds, one of these marked locations are removed, until two remain. The missile strikes one of these two locations, instantly defeating any Champions at the impact point and dealing reduced damage depending on their distance from impact. Kazimir loads up another missile in 5 minutes if one isn't one his back.
This boss introduces unique mechanics which involves the group getting involved in ways such as threat management (as the tank will eventually be crushed by the weight of the villain's attacks if they hold threat for too long) as well as knowledge (a ranged champion who is also a tank could use the 20ft threat adjustment to generate additional threat where needed, or should be aware to shoot him within 20ft so he doesn't go fury mode on them). The added missile strike ability forces the group to pay attention to their surroundings as a missile strike could decimate a group who isn't paying attention to the markers on the map.
This overall makes the fight involving and challenging, requiring careful management of threat, etc. to hop scotch the boss around. The AoEs involved in the fight will deal damage to the whole group, but deals reduced damage if characters are further away. Meanwhile, ranged characters have to stay close to prevent attracting too much attention, which brings them closer to the AoE, and thus forces them as well as melee characters to get away as needed. This combined with reasonably strong knock back and a sturdy hide would make this particular villain a reasonable threat to a prepared group.
I'd imagine a good tank would know to keep Kazimir closer to the missile impact points as well so he doesn't wind up stomping in a point which forces a squishy to choose between his foot and the missile dropping from the sky.
This was merely an example of what I'd like to see for future Rampage villains. They don't have to be one shot wonders, but they should introduce unique fighting styles the likes of which forces the group to stay on their toes and take all factors into account.
This is a suggestion for a rampage villain, and why I feel this would be a strong rampage villain without throwing in bounds of discouragement as well.
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Rampage Villain suggestion
Kazimir (Inspired by Zangeif)
The presence of Red Winter in Millenium City has always been a threat, but it wasn't until very recently that the group had attracted the attention of a large and powerful man by the name of Kazimir. This giant of a man had brought his strength to the city to prove to Red Winter that he is just as strong as they, and worthy of being a part of their group.
The city wasn't prepared for the chaos this overzealous russian commited. After having strapped a massive missile to his back and bringing his strength in full bear, the city had performed a calling to all available heroes to stop this danger to the city. Now it's up to all of the city's most experienced Champions to stop him.
Kazimir fights with several Might oriented attacks and has brutal knockback. He also has a small selection of signature attacks.
Power Stomp: Kazimir lifts a foot and strikes the earth with it with such force that a powerful shockwave pulses out from him. The shockwave has different effects depending on whether a character is in the air or not. This attack deals reduced damage the further away a character is from Kazimir.
Characters on the ground are knocked back a short distance and stunned for a short period of time. They also take devastating crushing and moderate sonic damage.
Characters in the air (jumping or not) are not knocked back or stunned and only receive the sonic portion of the damage. Their travel powers are immediately disabled, and they take additional sonic damage if travel powers are disabled in this fashion.
Persistant Fury: Kazimir deals additional damage the longer his attention is focused on a single target. Every 10 seconds, if Kazimir is attacking the same target as before, his damage against that target is increased by 20% to a max of 100%. This ability resets if Kazimir changes to a different target.
The Greatest Threat from Beyond: Kazimir absolutely despises being pelted by ranged attackers. Ranged attacks generate great additional threat against Kazimir if they are more than 20ft away from him. Also when struck by a ranged attack, Kazimir's damage is increased by 15% against any character who produced additional threat in this fashion. This passive effect also grants kazimir good damage resistance.
Missile Strike: Every 10 minutes, Kazimir launches the missile from his back. Nine locations are marked on the surface. Every 5 seconds, one of these marked locations are removed, until two remain. The missile strikes one of these two locations, instantly defeating any Champions at the impact point and dealing reduced damage depending on their distance from impact. Kazimir loads up another missile in 5 minutes if one isn't one his back.
This boss introduces unique mechanics which involves the group getting involved in ways such as threat management (as the tank will eventually be crushed by the weight of the villain's attacks if they hold threat for too long) as well as knowledge (a ranged champion who is also a tank could use the 20ft threat adjustment to generate additional threat where needed, or should be aware to shoot him within 20ft so he doesn't go fury mode on them). The added missile strike ability forces the group to pay attention to their surroundings as a missile strike could decimate a group who isn't paying attention to the markers on the map.
This overall makes the fight involving and challenging, requiring careful management of threat, etc. to hop scotch the boss around. The AoEs involved in the fight will deal damage to the whole group, but deals reduced damage if characters are further away. Meanwhile, ranged characters have to stay close to prevent attracting too much attention, which brings them closer to the AoE, and thus forces them as well as melee characters to get away as needed. This combined with reasonably strong knock back and a sturdy hide would make this particular villain a reasonable threat to a prepared group.
I'd imagine a good tank would know to keep Kazimir closer to the missile impact points as well so he doesn't wind up stomping in a point which forces a squishy to choose between his foot and the missile dropping from the sky.
This was merely an example of what I'd like to see for future Rampage villains. They don't have to be one shot wonders, but they should introduce unique fighting styles the likes of which forces the group to stay on their toes and take all factors into account.
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But the time for creating your own villains is over. There are enough existing ultra-powered villains in the Champions lore to use anyway.
My personal suggestion: Kazan.*
Powers/Tactics:
Kazan's powers involve control of earth, rock, and lava. He can create earthquakes over large or small areas, and cause pockets of lava to rise up and burst out of the ground and burn his enemies. He can also make stone "flow" like lava to imprison his enemies or move out of his way and create tunnels he can walk through. With his knowledge of geology, Kazan realizes his powers may pose a danger to millions of people. If he uses them too much, or in the wrong place, and triggers an actual earthquake or volcanic eruption, the death toll could be enormous. At first this bothered him a little, but at this point he no longer really cares. He won't go out of his way to cause a disaster (after all, he might get hurt), but he won't hold back because of the possibility.
Personality/Motivation:
Kazan's transformation into a superhuman affected his mind, taking what little interest he had in helping people (which was mainly just a "side effect" of wanting to become famous for finding the first reliable earthquake prediction method) and shredding it. Now he's out to enrich himself and have a good time. His tendency to ignore or disobey authority figures, which prevented him from becoming a major figure in academic circles in his old life, has gotten worse. Now he actively hates authority and wants to tear it all down; he often goes out of his way to destroy government buildings, attack cops, and the like.
Appearance:
Kazan is a Japanese man in his late thirties, with close-cropped black hair and a neat goatee. He wears a suit of dark blue armor, highlighted by bands of dark brown and circles of reddish-orange on his chest. His gloves and boots have a flame motif, emphasizing his powers over lava.
*Drawing on the left copied from Champions Worldwide. All rights to HERO Games.
The Doctor on the PDB
Fahrenheit on the PDB
The villain I've listed here is just an example of said mechanics, by paying attention to the situation. There's one shot present if you're not careful, but it's avoidable.
See what I mean?
Mechanics and numbers talk? Eeeww... getitawaygetitawaygetitaway!!!
The Doctor on the PDB
Fahrenheit on the PDB
Even better? A debuffer/stunner/ccer. It'd be even funnier if they had challenging strikes on a power, just to screw with the tanks. Less one shot, more collaboration to overcome the boss' tactics. Totally.
RIP Caine
Dr. Demogard Rampage!
After his defeat on Monster Island, Demogard has taken station up in the West Side Genetics lab to put a nefarious plan into action; he will use finely-balanced samples of Draysha, Teleiosaur DNA, and Roin'esh DNA to transform himself into the ultimate VIPER bio-weapon! The lab's staff, who were forcefully evicted by VIPER, advise that heroes probably will not arrive soon enough to completely stop the process, but they might be able to alter the results of Demogard's little experiment.
The whole schtick behind this rampage is a Risk VS. Reward system. It takes place inside the old Genetics/Science crafting building in west side (the one with the huge green vat in the middle). Four scientists are working at the control panels at the top of the vat, while Demogard himself has been submerged in the vat, preparing his body to be modified by the genetic cocktail that's about to mutate him into the potential pinnacle of perfection.
Phase 1:
Right off the bat after entering the building, a timer begins counting down from 1 minute. Here, the heroes can choose to fiight/distract any number of the scientists working on Demogard. The scientists will not fight back if attacked, but they do have a lot of health (to the point it takes a good few seconds for 5 people to beat one down.) The scientists each offer a decent amount of XP on death, but there is most certainly a consequence for all this.
At any time (or after all the scientists are dead) a player can hit a button at the bottom of the vat to attempt to disable to mutation vat. Jokes on you, however, because Demogard has rewired the failsafe in the vat to mutate him anyway! Depending on how many scientists you distracted from regulating his serum levels, it also might've been a very bad idea on Demogard's part. Unregulated mutagens of three different origins cannot do a body good.
Phase 2:
When the timer runs out or when the failsafe is activated, the alarm sounds. All the remaining scientists high-tail it out of there, and the vat explodes, revealing mutant Demogard! Only, depending on how many scientists you managed to kill, the battle will vary in style and difficulty.
0 scientists dead: Perfect Demogard.
Success! You are too late to stop me, heroes. The true face of VIPER has emerged!
Appearance - Completely humanoid in size and shape, save for green, glowing eyes.
Perfect Demogard is actually the easiest of his forms. Perfect Demogard is a might/beam character with rather fast movement speed; a pro at locking down prey, and throwing foes across the room. He can dish out a great beating up-close very quickly, and can also fire very powerful beams from afar. His big weakness, however, is that he doesn't have a lot of wide-area AoE's and is notably weaker when fighting at range. If you've either got a good tank or have a team that can switch aggro rapidly, Perfect Demogard isn't hard at all.
1 scientist dead: Serpent Demogard.
What? This isn't right! I was to maintain my appearance! No matter, this is merely a snag. It might not be perfect, but this will certainly do for crushing you pests!
Appearance - Large (roughly grond-sized), black dinosaur guy. Large radioactive spikes glow green on his body and jut out from his limbs.
Demogard's form here is probably most reminiscent of fighting Teleiosaurus. Much like her, Demogard has a big focus on causing huge damage in close-quarters in all directions, and extremely powerful cones. Serpent Demogard is slower than his perfect form, but doesn't need nearly as much speed thanks to his larger size.
2 scientists dead: Abominable Demogard
What... Have you done!? This will not go unpunished!!
Appearance - Medium/large-size humanoid (About Therakiel sized). Notable for having a right arm that appears to be warped and largely consistent of Roin'esh like flesh.
Abominable Demogard, though smaller than his Serpent Form, is certainly more formidable. He's also the exact opposite to his last two forms in terms of tactics: Far ranged combat. This is good for him, because Abominable Demogard moves very slowly and unoften.
3 scientists dead: Beast Demogard
YOU WILL PAY DEARLY FOR THIS.
Appearance - Large (Kigatilik-Sized) Quadruped, covered in strange lumps, tendrils, and the remnants of Demogard's old body on the beast's back. The head and shoulders area is nothing more than a huge row of teeth.
This mess is a pure-melee monster. It charges enemies extremely quickly, attacks viciously, and has some rather dangerous mechanics. Beast Demogard gains extra damage temporarily whenever he is forced to switch aggro between characters.
All Scientists Dead: Columnar Demogard
Help...
Appearance - The big vat in the middle of the room is now replaced with this huge column of tendrils and lumps, once known as Demogard. 4 tentacles have uprooted around the base of this column. A close look at the main column and you can see a small bit of the remains of the doctor.
Completely stationary, constantly summoning pets, and extremely high in defense - get ready for the fight of a lifetime.
After beating any of those Demogard forms, he dies/faints/whateverthehell and will give the players involved some Questionite. The base amount of questionite you receive from Demogard increases by 200 for each scientist you got rid of (so if you fought Columnar Demogard the first time, you'll get 2300 Q. The minimum amount you can get from Columnar is 1100 Q.) If you defeat all 5 of Demogard's forms over the course of separate runs, you can get a perk and maybe like some sort of amazing unlock i dont knwo
you must help GROND in a fight against MECHA-GROND who has the same powers as Grond plus Lazers, missiles and more!!
I support "Sell Z-store items individually" & Japan Zone
My only critique here would be that for PUGs it would be quite difficult to actually come to a conclusion which of the forms they would like to fight once they are in the Alert.
The Doctor on the PDB
Fahrenheit on the PDB
Lonzo the Clown- An insane clown with extreme strength and insanity as a result of genetic mutation given to him by the government in an attempt to create a super soldier, which obviously didn't go very well. He would look like a generic clown but with a bulkier body and a patched and tattered costume.
Moves:
Airhorn- Blows airhorn to call 1-2 clown minions onto you. They would carry bats and they would be moderately easy to kill.
Gas rocket- Lonzo would get a purple rocket launcher from his back and then he would fire harmless confetti out of it as a warning for the real shot which he fires short after, which is loaded with gas. If it hits you the gases would gradually damage for for around 10-15 seconds.
Sleepy time- Lonzo would get out a yellow grenade, then a target would appear on the ground marking where the grenade would land. On hit the grenade would release a blue gas that would put your character to sleep. Lonzo would then get out his large mallet to hit you. The hit of the mallet would be almost fatal, yet the move would be rare.
Explosive pie- He would throw a normal pie at you as a warning shot to tell you to block, because he would throw an explosive pie short after.
Sleepy Time's mallet could do something like 90%+500 HP, it'd kill most non-tank chars, and even leave them in a VERY, VERY precarious position. Make that mallet a stun attack, but force him to redirect aggro after that.
Also...idea for Explosive Pie, have the pie filling be an extremely strong root/hold (the pie filling explodes after 5-10 seconds), while spawning a pie-filling object on the character. The object can be targeted by others, and damage to the object also causes damage to the pie-filling hold. The strength of the hold will pretty much require someone to help out on the object to escape in time, even with your Break Free damage powers.
EDIT: Found this while searching other stuff, didn't see how necro it was.
He would shift the cars and other interactive objects around him to turn into robots and control them.
KIGATILIK
Summon dogs often, not only when they die close to him like now. They go after the player with less agro first.
His AoE around random target attack has its range increase to 100' around the random target, and all hit get Super held like the Teleiosaurus hold.
TELEIOSAURUS
Breath kills all who stand in front of her including tank(too easy to survive it atm).
The damage check on her regen is a lot higher, no more soloing it.
You get the idea. The COSMICS don't get any love but from a few stubborn players who kill them just for fun now. Bring them back to kill us all.
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
This was awesome while it lasted
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Gadget Star
The sum of Multifarian human technology in the far east generally sums to a massive salvo of raw materials, and plenty of industry to make use of them - however, the key to designing truly autonomous AI escapes them, and that is why they have gone on a conquest to unlock this secret.
Enter Gadget Star, a young supergenius from the Multifarian east. He has used his dimension-crossing armor, the HexaGear, to arrive at Monster Island and attempt to take over Bureau 17, gaining access to both the key to automate his own armor, and millions of dollars in robotic weaponry. His advanced armor will not be easy to best, but with the combined forces of the greatest heroes the earth has to offer, we certainly are fit to at least put up a fight!
Gadget Star's gimmick is honestly kind of similar to Demogard's. Both utilize different forms that fight differently, but the big difference here is that Gadget Star just cycles through all his forms as the fight progresses, while Demogard retains one the whole way through. Thus, the battle against Gadget Star is much like fighting 6 consecutive bosses, each with comparatively low hitpoints.
The battle takes place on a large, platform-like boat/submarine off the shore from the B17 encampment. A large, square trough is in the middle, surrounded by walls upon which invincible anti-air turrets are equipped. Gadget Star, himself, stands smugly on the submarine's top platform, holding a cube in his hand. A short speech later, and he throws down the cube, forming his robot on the ground below. He hops into the cockpit, and the battle proceeds.
Gadget Star's HexaGear has six forms, which he largely chooses at random. However, he always starts with his KnightGear.
KnightGear
This large, grey, bipedal armor is HexaGear's first form. It should be no surprise that it isn't that challenging to take down, either, as it does not have that many strong or fatal area-of-effect attacks.
As stated before, his other 5 forms always come after KnightGear and are randomly selected.
RhinoGear
A quadrupedal (use wolf skeleton/animations) green armor. RhinoGear specializes in melee rushes for his primary attack and uses highly-prepared homing missiles and lasers to hit auxiliary targets.
SawGear
A large, circular, blue armor. SawGear moves slowly and deploys pets that serve to slow his foes down. This is all to prepare them for his approach, though, because this armor is constantly spinning, causing it to do extreme damage to all targets in melee range.
BlastGear
Appearing as a huge red turret, BlastGear is directly rooted to the ground and completely immobile. Unfortunately, it doesn't need to move, thanks to its maximal range and extremely deadly attacks.
ThrashGear
Appearing as a yellow upper-torso and a serpentine lower body, ThrashGear specializes on widespread destruction using cone attacks, both in melee and at range. ThrashGear is very mobile, and uses this mobility to maximize the areas it hits.
PanicGear
Appearing as a floating, purple geometrical structure (similar to teleios' perfection of mind), PanicGear is the most technical and unorthodox of the HexaGear's forms. Most of its time in battle is spent trying to distance itself from enemies, but he will stop frequently to use his attacks.
Six defeats later, and Gadget Star's HexaGear blows up in his face. Rather badly singed, he makes his unceremonious last ditch attempt at an escape, only to realize he's stuck inside a gigantic arena with no exit. UNTIL helicopters show up to contain the situation, and the alert ends.
Other Mechanics
Respawning - In this alert, it is entirely possible to respawn after 'recovering' from death. However, it takes a few seconds to get back in, and doing so will warn the other players, as it causes each of the remaining players in the combat zone to take up to 1/3rd their remaining health in damage (the more people on the battlefield, though, the less each individual sustains in damage). In addition, only one ally can re-enter the combat zone per 10 seconds.
Giga-Cazulon
Finally, the Qularr have succeeded in using their size-changing ray to cultivate the mighty Cazulon; a serpentine monster that towers over the Millennium City skyline. His mighty size and power make him a dangerous foe, and he threatens to level the entirety of downtown! Stop him, before the damage becomes too great!
I don't have attacks planned out for this guy; he'll probably use some sort of variable might and tail-swipe attacks, maybe a huge plasma cone of death breath. My time is a bit short here, so I'll write down the interesting mechanics for this one: