Board Thread:News and Events/@comment-933831-20160127201216/@comment-25389303-20160128080153

A lot of good points from the other team. I originally thought that Orion was going to be the main threat, but now I think that Liath is the playmaker on their team, so to speak. But now I have a better understanding of their characters.

Firstly, I guess I'll do a bit of clarifying myself. Ulric's (I know it looks like Ulfric, but it's not) Aura is not his greatest weakness, unlike what seems to be the recurring case against him. Combined with his fairly good armour and his Semblance's semi-passive effect which slows down incoming attacks and projectiles, Ulric can take the same number of hits as most other characters. It's later on in the fight where he begins to lose this as fatigue sets in. That being said, his high endurance means that the fight will unlikely last long enough for this to be a concern to him.

Secondly, in this fight it's fair to assume that Ulric will be using his shield the majority of the time, since he's dealing with ranged opponents. As for your tactics for dealing with Ulric - I'm not going to say they're not going to work, but the whole 'dancing around him' is literally the most predictible move you could make when fighting him. He's spent several years learning from the best, and not only in that time did he learn how his attackers fought, but how they think as well. Anyone who isn't a ranged fighter, or who can go toe-to-toe with him will almost definitely go with the move you're suggesting, meaning that Ulric's going to be able to counter it almost as soon as he starts doing it.

In addition, I kind of doubt that Orion would stick with his tactic for long anyway. In his bio he's said to be 'reckless' and 'unable to see the consequences of his actions'. That tells me that as soon as he gets hit, he's probably going to start getting careless and abandon his tactic, which is when Ulric will move in for the kill. In the end, it would be more likely that the hot-headed Orion will be goaded by the cool-headed Ulric. You say he has good reaction time - OK, that's all well and good, but even then he won't expect the physically impossible moves Ulric can pull off.

Let's look at it this way. If Orion attacks with all his strength and misses, he's probably going to be stumbling a little, since it wears off almost immediately. Meanwhile, with Ulric's Velocity Semblance and sheer brute strength, he can swing almost as hard as that with a heavier weapon. In addition, his Semblance allows him to turn any missed swing into a counter attack which even Orion won't expect.

And what's to say they end up fighting for long in the first place? It's equally as likely that Ulric will start moving towards Liath as well. He may not be very fast, but he's not a lumbering giant either. He can dodge incoming projectiles just as easily, and block those that he can't with his shield. And while I'm sure Liath is a competant swordsman, I doubt he can match an opponent like Ulric, who thrives on close combat.

Also, I'd like you all to remember Viridis. You say his arrows can be blocked pretty easily. No problem there. But if you look at the different arrows he has, out of all eight of them, seven of them will be all the more effective if blocked. You block the sticky shot, you're weapon is cumbersome and difficult to use. You block the boom war, it's probably lying several metres away in the tall grass where you can't find it. Taking into account he can fire several of these at the same time, or at the very least in quick succession at an amazing degree of accuracy at a very long range, he's the one you have to worry about, really.