Hydra vs Fireball

ShadowHeart wrote: 1 day ago

vued wrote: 1 day ago

Vs. DClone you want

Meteor since the fire on the Ground stops his regen.

Hydra stops his regen too. With all 18

Hydra heads shooting it basically forms a continuous stream of firebolts, and since every time a firebolt hits it stops his regen for 8 frames, he basically doesn't regen at all as long as he doesn't run around and

Dodge too many firebolts (with the

Meteor you have a similar issue too - you need him to stay in place). Trust me, I've killed dclone easily with a pure

Hydra sorc without any kind of PMH. (my primary dclone killer throughout ladder season 12 was a

Hydra sorc)

Are the 8 frames similar to poison? I.e. 8 frames online, only 1 frame offline?

vued wrote: 1 day ago

Are the 8 frames similar to poison? I.e. 8 frames online, only 1 frame offline?

Yes, it's exactly like that. Poison works like a negative regen, and in online games, any damage dealth to a target halts both poison tick and regen on it for 8 frames (the frame on which the damage took place plus 7 frames after).

For this reason you technically don't need PMH, OW or poison in online games to halt regen vs dclone and ubers, as long as you can keep a damage rate of 8 fpa or faster.

And yes, offline is a different story (regen is only paused for that single frame when the damage is applied in offline games).