Black Bolt

BLACK BOLT
Bio: Even amongst the race of super-powered Inhumans, Blackagar Boltagon's abilities are terrifyingly destructive. Blessed and cursed with a voice that can shatter whole planets, Black Bolt must keep forever mute, lest a single incautious whisper kill everyone around him. As the King of the Inhumans, it is his duty to protect the Inhuman city of Attilan and guide his people through an uncertain future.

Recruitment Message:

“.....”


“He wants to thank you for everything you've done for the Inhumans, Agent. You can count him as an ally, now and in the future.”

Cost: Complete Special Operations 13: Infinity

• Black Bolt can also be recruited for 200

Default Uniform: Classic Black Bolt
Passives:
Electron Harnessing

• Grants Ambient Particles to allies when they attack or are attacked
• All Ambient Particles on allies are removed when Black Bolt is KO'ed

Flying

• Immune to ground attacks

Actions
Different skills can be unlocked as the heroes level up. Reaching levels 1, 2, 6 and 9 will guarantee access to new abilities. This can be done by gaining XP points for the characters and training them in the Team Management screen. Other heroes can unlock more than four abilities during combat. In some cases, alternative uniforms can offer new move sets as well.

Level 1:
Kingly Fists
Target: One Enemy
Number of Hits: 2
Hit / Critical: 97% / 34%
Type: Melee Unarmed
Effects:
Deadly Crits

• Deals extra damage on critical hits

Off-balance (1 round)

• Removes and prevents Counter-Attack effects

Level 2:
Royal Flight
Target: One Enemy
Hit / Critical: 97% / 34%
Cooldown: 2 Rounds
Type: Melee Unarmed
Effects:
Ambient Particles

• Chance to reduce damage taken by 5%
• Cannot be removed or prevented by buff removal or buff blocking effects
• This effect stacks up to 10 times

Kree Speed (expires next round)

• Taking two actions after a full round

Level 6:
Whisper
Target: All Enemies
Hit / Critical: 100% / 35%
Cooldown: 2 Rounds
Starts cooled down
Type: Ranged Sonic
Effects:
Catastrophic

• Can't be Protected against
• Ignores most Avoidance effects
• Guaranteed to hit

Incapacitation (3 rounds)

• Chance to lose a turn
• Counts as Stun for actions that affect those targets

Buff Blocker (1 round)
40% chance

• Removes beneficial status effects from the target and prevents new applications

Level 9:
Power Word
Target: One Enemy
Hit / Critical: 100% / 49%
Cooldown: 3 Rounds
Starts cooled down
Type: Ranged Sonic
Effects:
Catastrophic

• Can't be Protected against
• Ignores most Avoidance effects
• Guaranteed to hit

Ignore Defense

• Damage ignores enemy's Defense stat
• Attacks penetrate Shield statuses

Particle Manipulation

• Consumes all Ambient Particles from allies
• Increases damage done for each consumed Ambient Particle

Team-ups
Team-up bonuses are awarded when certain heroes are paired together in a battle. Some hero pairs get multiple team-up bonuses. This awards the players 50 points per bonus at the end of the battle. As part of the PvE score modifier, team-up bonuses improve the player's total score and increases the speed of obtaining chapter mastery stars. The pairing of the heroes are based on certain events that happened in the mainstream comic books of the Marvel Universe. This can range from existing or former organizations, to love pairings and couples.

• Aviary – Any pair of Flying heroes
• Angel, Black Bolt, Captain Britain, Human Torch, Iron Man, Magneto, Moonstone, Ms. Marvel, Nico Minoru, Omega Sentinel, Phoenix, Rescue, Rogue, Satana, Spider-Woman, Storm, Sunfire, Vision, War Machine, Wasp

[li]Debbie Downers – Bonus for bringing heroes who are dour[/li]

• Ares, Black Bolt, Cable, Dr. Strange, Ghost Rider, Heimdall, Hogun, Magneto, Phoenix, X-23

[li]Illuminati – Heroes who are members of the Illuminati[/li]

• Beast, Black Bolt, Black Panther, Dr. Strange, Iron Man, Mr. Fantastic

[li]Inhuman Relations – In-laws[/li]

• Black Bolt, Quicksilver

[li]More Human than Human – Heroes who are Inhumans[/li]

• Black Bolt, Thane

[li]The New Black – Heroes with Black in their name[/li]

• Black Bolt, Black Cat, Black Knight, Black Panther, Black Widow

[li]Sovereign – Heroes who have been rulers of a nation or realm[/li]

• Black Bolt, Black Panther, Captain Britain, Hulk, Magik, Magneto, Storm, Thor

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he needs some buff to be viable in pvp. some that i could think of are:
1. make buff blocker 100% chance
2. he needs something to speed up ambient particle gathering. something like "double the amount of ambient particle all allies gained for 1 round". kingly fist is a good choice to be put that addition on.
3. somehow i don't think that stacking particle acually works when it comes to reducing dmg received. so yeah, make sure that works properly

Originally posted Jan 8, 2014 at 19:12

The problem with making Buff Blocker's application guaranteed is it's going to destroy the meta. Buff removal, prevention and retention are bad enough as they are: there's too many of them in the game now, it's like a character won't be complete unless he/she has at least one of these moves. With Nightcrawler's Revered EISO-8, Scroll of Angolob, Synthetic Cube, Soulfire, among many others, it's hard setting up heroes to unleash their full potential. You can even go for three full rounds without applying any debuff to your opponents.

Originally posted Jan 17, 2014 at 18:38

hmm you're right.. so no 1 is off the list

Originally posted Jan 17, 2014 at 23:33

Probably the most disappointing hero I've gotten from an SO. I liked Black Bolt in the comics, and he deserved better than being turned into a below-par guy for MAA.

Although he is a good hero in pve, he needs some sort of an upgrade to become viable in pvp, I think removing the initial cooldown for his L9 would be one of them. A new passive also that grant him the perks of being an Inhuman, reduced damage from certain attacks and probably immunity to sonic attacks. 6/10

Illogical how he damages opponents when using Whisper or Power Word, but not his allies. Can Black Bolt pick who to hurt with his sonic abilities now?