I think it's also worth noting about the Barrier Reef buff is that you only now need Carapace at level 3 instead of 5 to get an extra second off of Barrier Reef if the shield gets destroyed. Which can allow you to invest those two loadout points to something else if you want.
@beelhybees21092 ай бұрын
Wait so you run Barrier Reef at lvl 5 and Carapace at lvl 3 to get the full second?
@Tentaku642 ай бұрын
@@beelhybees2109 Correct. Carapace 3 lets you get just enough shield health to squeeze one more proc of Barrier Reef if the enemy ends up breaking the shield. (4600 ÷ 900 = 5.11) Compared to (4000 ÷ 900 = 4.44) if you're not running the Carapace card at all.
@beelhybees21092 ай бұрын
@@Tentaku64 Alright thanks i'm gonna mess with my makoa build a bit
@jansolo46282 ай бұрын
The fact that the "Off Shield" build exists just goes to show how cool Paladins' loadout system is. The game is absolutely mishandled by the parent company and 90% of balance changes are "great idea, awful execution" incarnate but the core of this game is just so perfect. I wish that more champions actually have loadout variety, half of them either have exactly two builds or exactly two good cards and the rest are useless filler.
@Redmentoos2 ай бұрын
True.
@SmoothAsFelt2 ай бұрын
Thankfully it seems they're focusing more on diversifying existing heroes than just adding more lately. Makoa had the same problem for years, but very recently he is getting more options for how you build him. In that way, it *feels* like we got a new hero in what you can do with Makoa now that you couldn't really do before. If they keep doing that one at a time for every hero, there will be an insane amount of variety in gameplay
@ThePikeOfDestiny2 ай бұрын
1:18 WHAT A HOOK
@zephwilliams2 ай бұрын
This is such perfect timing, way back when Malia was meta, I played him 24/8. With these changes I’m back on him regularly. l was waiting for innovative builds to try.
@polarblade11592 ай бұрын
Makoa is my secondary main, and I gotta say my favourite card is the one that reduces shell spin cooldown when hitting someone with it, since Makoa is all about the burst and then either getting out again or snowballing, in both of which cases you want a shell spin up. You can also do the spinfinity meme build with the heal on spin and max range cards, I recommend strongarm instead of self heal though, throw on the classic fillers (ammo on hook and some other card)
@schokomensch54362 ай бұрын
I cant even listen to what andrew has to say because im stunned by that gameplay
@ebornmusic55052 ай бұрын
What's also worth mentionning about half shell gameplay is that full reset is almost a thing. With maxed carapace and barrier reef, chronos 3 and guardian 3 you almost get a full shield reset if the ennemies destroy it 14*0.7 - (4000+1000)*1.45/900 = 1.74 s of cooldown left
@blackjack72072 ай бұрын
Perfect timing. Last night I finished my 5 ranked games and I got the makoa plush skin from the golden chest
@irionuchiha38232 ай бұрын
Was that the daily quests or the trials of the realms quest
@blackjack72072 ай бұрын
@@irionuchiha3823 The one that you get from the 5 classificatory games
@Tmm31052 ай бұрын
Please can you do an io video and show that life link talent is bugged and doesn't heal io when healing others with luna
@iceymatthome68602 ай бұрын
I’d love to play but uh it says the servers r still under maintenance
@juantuma92682 ай бұрын
thanks bro, i am returning to play the game and it svery helpufl!!!!!
@mrwatermelontheexotic34482 ай бұрын
Is it a good day to be a makoa main? Ive been trying to try more tanks and its been a little rough,outside of nando,but i feel like that's cheating (scorch my beloved,never played formidable) Also any chances imani and corvus are good rn?
@DerfyRed2 ай бұрын
Andrew please tell me I’m not insane, I always out a ton of work into builds, and I have all my shell reset builds with level 4 carapace and maxed barrier reef. This means 4800 shield health, and I am almost 100% confident that this was an optimal build. I seem to remember 1k was the damage value needed on barrier reef a long time ago, and it was changed to 800. So this 900 seems like a nerf no? I’m going to look through patch notes just in case I’m wrong.
@DerfyRed2 ай бұрын
Ok I’m partially not insane. It did used to be 800 damage, but that was nerfed to 1k in the Last Remains patch. I guess I missed that in the patch and haven’t changed my build since then. The reason I thought 1k was the original value is because it actually used to be 500, meaning that maxing both cards was optimal like with 1k as the threshold, it was just a lot more effective.
@jakobschranz75992 ай бұрын
which talent is the best overall
@ALONE-pe4mf2 ай бұрын
all makoa's talents are great and it depends on a enemy comp if they have high dmg probably half shell or 3rd talent and if they have high mobility flank or good healers you should go pluck
@alfiechampion462 ай бұрын
I’m confused he keeps talking about playing half shell OR off tank. I thought the play was always to play half shell even if you are off tank? Except off tank doesn’t focus on shield cards as much
@unknownfella672 ай бұрын
Does Khans "Increase healing by 35% with shield active" card counter Cauterize?
@ethanspain2 ай бұрын
as a khan main who uses this card at level 5 i’m embarrassed to say i can’t remember 😭😭😭😭
@nicholasvalverde11222 ай бұрын
@@ethanspain Same but that's an amazing card, lowkey a meditation item in itself, you can use your shield out of combat and get hp faster.
@Tentaku642 ай бұрын
It does
@OooldG2 ай бұрын
Every card that is worded like "increase healing received" does