But counters here aren’t triggered by area of effect (AoE) abilities. Part of what makes this game so fun is devising a smart ability rotation on the fly. It would be boring if you were forced to stand around fidgeting while the enemy counters. In a nice touch, every animation can be cancelled in Battlerite, which opens up a whole minefield of mind games. When will they trigger it? How will it affect my team? The mind games that come with this one entrancing ability means that countering adds more depth to each battle. Just imagine keeping that eight second clock in your head for you, your teammate, and two opponents.
Here, if an enemy attacks while you’re countering, a special effect is triggered.įor a melee assassin, this might mean being teleported behind the enemy. Perhaps it’s charging up your weapon, or sending you into a frenzy. While they’re always different, there’s some uniformity in that most characters will have an escape bound to the spacebar, and many of these plucky heroes also have a counter ability.Īs you’d expect from a fighting game inspired MOBA, countering is an important tool. The Trance DanceĮach of Battlerite‘s 23 champions has a handful of abilities with of course, their own cooldowns.
It’s a highly polished and in many ways a beautifully designed game, with lots of clever ideas built into its combat system. Abilities build up energy just like a fighter, which can be spent on EX abilities, or saved for a super attack.Īs the spiritual successor to Bloodline Champions, a lot of the design ideas have carried over from that game and been refined, but with a new esports focus. It might make more sense for you to think of it as a fighting game with a top-down camera. So much so that the oft-used MOBA term is misleading.