Count Nefaria

ScienceS tier

Stier

Adapted from the Count Nefaria page on Marvel Contest of Champions Wiki, under CC-BY-SA.

• Passive (Power Steal / Bleed Immunity)

  Passive

  Count Nefaria’s body is composed of Ionic Energy, granting Immunity to Power Steal and Bleed effects, and 90% Shock and Incinerate Resistance. Dev Notes: Even though he’s Immune to Bleed, Count Nefaria still suffers when he would be inflicted by one. See below, under “Ionic Charges".

• Energy Build Up

  Passive

  Whenever the Opponent fills a Bar of Power, they gain 15 Stored Energy. For every 1% of the Opponent’s Max Health or Power they would gain from a Buff or Passive, they gain 2 Stored Energy. This is unaffected by reduced Regeneration or Ability Power Rates. Every 10 Stored Energy is automatically converted into an indefinite Energy Build Up Debuff. Dev Notes: Energy Build Up Debuffs are the key resource for all of Count Nefaria’s abilities. They don’t do anything on their own, but he needs to devour them off the Opponent to fuel his kit, so the more of them the Opponent has, the better he’ll perform in the fight. Note that the Stored Energy they gain from gaining Health or Power has rollover. So for example if they gain 1.5% of their Health at once, they’ll gain 2 Stored Energy and this ability will ‘remember’ the remaining 0.5%. Then if they gain another 2.5% later on, the ability will roll the previous 0.5% into the trigger, and they will gain 6 Stored Energy. The fact that this ability is unaffected by reduced Regeneration or Ability Power Rates means that the Stored Energy they gain remains the same even while Ionic Overcharge is active.

• Ionic Charges

  Passive

  Gain 10 Ionic Charges when performing a Well-Timed Block. Lose 20 Ionic Charges when Count Nefaria would be inflicted with a Bleed effect while fighting a non-Mystic Champion. Ionic Charges grant up to 10479.7 Attack Rating, maxing out at 100 Charges. They also grant up to 6416.67 Physical and Energy Resistance and 90% Degeneration Resistance, maxing out at 100 Charges. Dev Notes: While Energy Build Ups are what you need to monitor on the Opponent, Ionic Charges are what you should keep track of on Nefaria. Fortunately, they increase pretty steadily over the course of the fight, and provide a nice set of bonuses, scaling up to when Nefaria has 100 of them.

  At tier 7

• Ionic Overcharge

  Passive

  red At 100 Ionic Charges, activate Ionic Overcharge for 17 seconds. It is paused during Count Nefaria’s Special Attacks. Lose 100 Charges when it expires. During Ionic Overcharge, all of Count Nefaria’s attacks are non-contact and deal Energy Damage instead of Physical. Additionally, the Opponent’s Regeneration and Ability Power Rates are reduced by 95%, and when they gain Ability Power he gains 60% of the Power denied this way. Dev Notes: Ionic Charges don’t have a maximum, but whenever Nefaria has over 100 of them he’ll enter Ionic Overcharge. Since the Ionic effects all cap at 100 to begin with, the big benefits of Overcharge is that he’ll take a portion of the Power the Opponent would have gained from Power Gain effects, and his Basic Attacks can now benefit from the Energy Vulnerability he inflicts.

• Special Attacks (general)

  Passive

  The first hit of any Special Attack deals a burst of 5716.2 Energy Damage if it is the first or second hit after Count Nefaria’s Counter-Attack hit. Dev Notes: This is the last bit of icing on the cake for Count Nefaria’s damage loop. In most situations, using his Evade to punish a Special Attack and inflict Vulnerability will get you the majority of his damage output. However, if you’re able to make the stars align and follow up with a Special Attack of your own (or a Medium then a Special Attack), you’ll benefit from this additional burst of Energy Damage.

  At tier 7

• Special 1 - Count's Consumption

  Special Attack

  Count Nefaria disorients his Opponent with quick strikes, then violently drains the energy from their body. The final 4 hits each devour 2 Energy Build Ups. This can trigger through Block and is unaffected by Ability Accuracy. Each devoured Energy Build Up grants 16 Ionic Charges, 2% of his missing Health, and 9% of a Bar of Power. Dev Notes: Count Nefaria drains the energy from his enemies in order to sustain himself. The Special 1 is the main way of building Ionic Energy. In addition to putting him immediately into Overcharge if the Opponent had at least 8 Build Ups before the attack, it also gives him a decent chunk of Power and missing Health.

• Special 2 - Ionic Obliteration

  Special Attack

  Count Nefaria fires a searing beam of energy from his eyes, before warping next to his Opponent and beating them into the ground. On activation, gain a 1143.24 Fury Passive per 10 Ionic Charges, each lasting 16 seconds. Max stacks: 15. The final hit inflicts an Incinerate Debuff, dealing 12385.1 Energy Damage over 6 seconds. Against Mystic Champions, inflict a Plasma Debuff instead. Dev Notes: If Special 1 is the main way of building up Nefaria’s resources, then Special 2 is his main damage ability. The Fury he gets based on his Ionic charges significantly increases his damage, and then he has the Incinerate/Plasma to finish it off.

  At tier 7

• Special 3 - Hundredfold Power

  Special Attack

  After briefly vanishing, Count Nefaria reappears behind his Opponent. He drags them across the floor, then pulverizes them with an intense series of Ionic energy blasts. Gain 50 Ionic Charges, then activate Ionic Overcharge. Pause Ionic Overcharge for 10 seconds. Dev Notes: The Special Attack 3 is a nice way of shortcutting directly to Ionic Overcharge and its corresponding reductions to Ability Power and Regen Rates in matchups where it’s needed. If Ionic Overcharge was already active before using it, it’ll be re-triggered, effectively refreshing the duration.

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