Black Knight

BLACK KNIGHT
Bio: Nathan Garrett, the previous villainous Black Knight, begged his nephew Dane to take up the name and restore its legacy. As one of the greatest swordsman on earth, Dane Whitman has more than kept his promise. With the all-cleaving Ebony Blade and psyche-disrupting Sword of Light, the Black Knight is equipped to handle any challenge.

Recruitment Message:

“You have my sword, Agent. ...Come on, you knew I was going to say it.”

Cost: 90
Default Uniform: Modern Black Knight
Passive:
Magic Warding

• Immune to harmful Magic effects
• Takes reduced damage from Magic 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:
Ebony Blade
Target: One Enemy
Number of Hits: 2
Hit / Critical: 95% / 23%
Type: Slashing Melee
Effects:
Ignore Defense

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

Bleeding (3 rounds)

• Taking damage every round or after performing hostile actions
• This effect can be applied 3 times

Broken Vows

• Removes Chivalrous Duty

Blood Curse

• Chance to perform a follow-up attack when an ally attacks a Bleeding target
• Chance to counter when a Bleeding enemy attacks an ally

Level 2:
Atonement
Target: Self
Type: Buff
Effects:
Atonement

• Removes Blood Curse

Chivalrous Duty

• Protects allies from single target or area attacks
• Absorbs Ranged attacks, increasing the damage of the next Ebony Blade
• 50% chance to avoid and counter melee attacks

Level 6:
Shield of Night
Target: One Enemy
Number of Hits: 2
Hit / Critical: 95% / 23%
Type: Melee
Effects:
Hemorrhaging Attack

• Causes all applications of Bleeding to trigger

Weak Point (2 rounds)

• The next attack against this target is guaranteed to hit and crit

Level 9:
Valinor
Target: All Enemies
Hit / Critical: 99% / 24%
Type: Melee Summon
Effects:
Stealthy

• Does not trigger counter-attacks or protect abilities

Summon Attack

• Does not trigger counter or retaliation effects.

Intimidated (2 rounds)

• Reduces Attack, Accuracy, and Evasion

Cornered (1 round)

• Removes and prevents Protect effects

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.

• Assemble! – Any pair of core Avengers members
• Ares, Beast, Black Knight, Black Panther, Black Widow, Captain America, Hank Pym, Hawkeye, Hercules, Hulk, Iron Man, Mockingbird, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl, Sunfire, Thor, Tigra, Vision, Wasp, Wonder Man

[li]Bloodlust – Heroes with attacks that cause Bleeding[/li]

• Ares, Black Cat, Black Knight, Black Panther, Elektra, Moon Knight, Sabretooth, Sif, Tigra, Wolverine, X-23

[li]British Invasion – Heroes from the United Kingdom[/li]

• Black Knight, Captain Britain, Psylocke, Union Jack

[li]Eggheads – Heroes who are geniuses[/li]

• Beast, Black Knight, Black Panther, Hank Pym, Hulk, Iron Man, Magneto, Mr. Fantastic, Spider-Man

[li]Excalibur – Heroes who are members of Excalibur[/li]

• Black Knight, Captain Britain, Colossus, Juggernaut, Kitty Pryde, Nightcrawler, Psylocke

[li]Familiar – Heroes that summon creatures to attack[/li]

• Black Knight, Daimon Hellstrom, Doctor Voodoo, Hank Pym, Kitty Pryde, Magik, Satana, Squirrel Girl, Valkyrie

[li]Good Knight – Heroes with Knight in their name[/li]

• Black Knight, Moon Knight

[li]Safety First – Heroes who wear a helmet[/li]

• Ares, Black Knight, Heimdall, Iron Man, Juggernaut, Magneto, Rescue, Thor, War Machine

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

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

[li]You Have My Sword – Heroes who wield swords[/li]

• Black Knight, Deadpool, Fandral, Heimdall, Magik, Psylocke, Shatterstar, Spiral, Sif, Valkyrie

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Generally, I think he's kinda crap, but I wonder how he'll work paired up with Shatterstar, given how bleed happy Shatter is.

Originally posted May 7, 2013 at 10:49

Well, some say he's not good in PvE but he's overall a decent character in PvP. I haven't used him much to say anything about him, but we'll find out how he'll fit in this coming season. I'm sure it will be out one of these days, this week.

Originally posted May 13, 2013 at 08:47

I just realized that Shatter has absolutely no bleed. So I guess that's a bust combo.

Originally posted May 13, 2013 at 09:13

I may have been hasty in my statement of his crappiness. He's still a terrible choice for PvP, but in PvE fights if you're going up against range characters, using his Chivalrous Duty makes him a ridiculous power house that kill stuff in one-two shots.

Originally posted May 22, 2013 at 17:26

They didn't add Bleeding to any of Shatterstar's skills because they felt it would make him a “just another bleed” character and we already have enough of those. As for Black Knight and Shatterstar, I haven't seen any of them in PvP ever and I think that speaks a lot about their utility in the game. Playdom somewhat needs to look at the skills of whoever they release as Adamantium rewards. They can be earned from PvP, therefore, they must be made for PvP.

Originally posted Jun 16, 2013 at 01:13

for some reason i hate this hero. his look, his L1 crit dmg doesn't do any additional dmg. he's lvl 12 maxed though, but only through sheer training on flight deck

Originally posted Jan 8, 2014 at 19:31

I don't like him either. His skills have little to no synergy. He's not interesting enough, either. He's the budget version of Ares, but that's being too generous.

Originally posted Jan 17, 2014 at 18:42

I really don't like him either! I feel like he was placed in to make the Excalibur team, and then for that one mission in Season 2, and its like Playdom knows he isn't really a good character too! I have never seen him in PVP and don't expect to.

Originally posted Jan 25, 2014 at 08:01

Actually, I've seen him a few times in PvP when he was first launched. I think he's one of those characters Playdom designed to be effective in that aspect of the game, but ultimately failed because better characters came shortly.

Originally posted Feb 28, 2014 at 05:32