Characters Devs thoughts on replacing Graveyard Shift Valentines healblock with inverse polarity?

[universeflash@gmail.]

I thought about this during chat last night.
I believe Graveyard Shift could use some love.
We also need more units with inverse polarity and ones who wouldn't be too problematic to be given it or cause clear cases of power creep.
Functionally nothing would really change.

Against fighters whose sustain comes from signatures and not regens graveyard shift would be much better against.
she already is played as a psuedo counter to such fighters though not nearly as an effectively as you'd think since her activation conditions require a teammate or enemies death to reach which isn't easy at all and high risk at times.

against fighters whose sustain came mainly from regen nothing changes at all as the regen would've been blocked by curse in most cases.
unless if they were unlucky enough to have inverse applied whilst already benefiting from regen stacks.

Overall this would be a cool debuff to have on one of the better valentine palettes whose niche as an situational antiheal\meh buff counter exists.
it wouldn't be game warping as someone still has to die for graveyard shift to gain inverse and she is still a natural silver fighter at the end of the day.

 

[crownd]

gotta love whow no time to die got people thinking about inv.polarity

 

[universeflash@gmail.]

gotta love whow no time to die got people thinking about inv.polarity

I'm not sure nttd would be affected as much here as its a regen source of heal and the curse component makes it so stacks wouldn't be gained unless they were already on the fighter.

Mmmhh thinking about it if the duration for the inverse lasts long enough some people may think of having a graveyard on the back end as a counter then switching back and forth with her and their primary fighter whenever an enemy has too many stacks of regen in order to punish them with the inverse polarity.
if that becomes too problematic devs could make it so the inverse polarity debuff gets removed upon graveyard shifts tag out and or death.

Honestly nttd is quite annoying in general and this edge case would mostly effect black dahlia's more so then any other fighter as very few fighters really get enough regen stacks for the inverse polarity to hit that hard and again in this case you're still picking a silver unit explicitly to counter this regen spam and it would still require you to be on either the losing end or winning end as its not on the spot antiheal. graveyards inverse would end up being the least free outta them all.
you also need to remember that graveyard shift has been a relatively situational antiheal/buff counter so this wouldn't really change much.
the requiring an enemy or teammate to die condition has made her weaker compared to her peers with her only saving grace being a valentine and fairly cheap.

many of the fighters with regen spam also have multiple sources of immunity,debuff cleanse from teammates,rift catalysts or pf modifiers usually so its not even a clear cut counter sadly.

 

[crownd]

not a clear cut , but def a efficient strategy for attacking , def not reliable on deffense .
If you think how many SS units actually revolve around healing mechanics , healblock and inverse polarity are very relevant .

I see graveyard as great ICU curse valentine which already has a anti-heal mechanic .
replacing healblock w. inverse will def be a improvment