Street Justice in City of Heroes offers a brutal and impactful melee combat experience. For players looking to dominate the streets with swift strikes and shadowy tactics, the KnightStalker build emerges as a formidable hero. This Level 50 Natural Stalker build, utilizing the Street Justice primary power set and Super Reflexes secondary set, is designed for players who want to be in the thick of the action, dealing consistent damage while maintaining survivability.
This build, meticulously crafted using Mids’ Reborn Hero Designer 2.6.0.7, focuses on maximizing the strengths of Street Justice. This power set is known for its hard-hitting attacks and emphasis on single target damage, making it perfect for taking down villains quickly and efficiently. Paired with Super Reflexes, the KnightStalker becomes incredibly evasive, capable of dodging attacks and staying alive even in chaotic battles.
Here’s a breakdown of the key components of the KnightStalker build:
Primary Power Set: Street Justice
Street Justice is all about delivering punishing blows with a street-fighting style. Key powers selected in this build include:
- Initial Strike: A fast and reliable opening attack to start engagements.
- Sweeping Cross: An area-of-effect attack to handle groups of weaker enemies, adding versatility to the single-target focus of Street Justice.
- Assassin’s Strike: A powerful stealth-enhanced attack, crucial for Stalkers to maximize their damage output by leveraging Hide.
- Spinning Strike: Another potent damage dealer, adding to the arsenal of single target attacks.
- Shin Breaker & Crushing Uppercut: Focused single target attacks that are enhanced for damage and recharge, ensuring consistent pressure on enemies.
Secondary Power Set: Super Reflexes
Super Reflexes provides the KnightStalker with exceptional defensive capabilities, making them hard to hit and resilient in combat:
- Hide: The Stalker’s signature power, allowing for stealth and critical strikes with Assassin’s Strike.
- Dodge & Evasion: Core defensive powers from Super Reflexes, significantly increasing defense and avoidance of attacks.
- Focused Fighting & Focused Senses: Buff powers to further enhance defense and recharge rates, ensuring the KnightStalker remains agile and combat-ready.
- Agile & Weave: Additional defensive layers that improve survivability against various types of attacks.
Power Pools and Ancillary Powers:
To round out the build, selections from Power Pools and Ancillary Pools provide crucial enhancements:
- Speed Pool (Hasten, Super Speed, Quickness, Swift, Hurdle, Ninja Run): Enhances mobility, allowing for faster movement and positioning in combat, critical for a melee-focused Stalker.
- Fighting Pool (Boxing, Practiced Brawler, Tough, Weave, Evasion, Physical Perfection, Brawl): Provides general combat enhancements, improving accuracy, recharge, and survivability.
- Weapon Mastery Ancillary Pool (Web Grenade, Shuriken, Exploding Shuriken): Offers ranged crowd control and damage options, adding tactical flexibility to the primarily melee build. Web Grenade is particularly useful for immobilizing tougher targets.
Enhancements and Build Strategy:
The build is heavily enhanced with sets to maximize damage, recharge, and defense. Key enhancement sets include:
- Thorn of the Black Scorpion (TchofDth): Used in Initial Strike to boost damage and accuracy.
- Superior Avalanche (SprAvl): Enhances Sweeping Cross for damage and recharge, with a chance for Knockdown.
- Superior Stealthy Gunslinger’s Gauntlet (SprStlGl): For Assassin’s Strike, focusing on damage, recharge, and stealth utility.
- Superior Assault March (SprAssMar): Used in Spinning Strike to maximize damage and recharge, and synergize with Build Up for faster power cycling.
- Mako’s Bite (Mk’Bit): Enhances Shin Breaker and Crushing Uppercut for damage and recharge.
- Luck of the Gambler (LucoftheG): Frequently used for defensive powers to improve defense and recharge.
- Gravitic Anchor (GrvAnc): For Web Grenade, focusing on immobilize and recharge for crowd control.
- Aegis (Ags): Enhances Tough for resistance to damage.
- Performance Shifter (PrfShf): Used in Physical Perfection and Stamina for endurance management.
This KnightStalker build is a potent example of how to effectively utilize the Street Justice power set in City of Heroes. By balancing offensive power with robust defenses and strategic power selections, this build provides a thrilling and effective gameplay experience for players who enjoy the fast-paced, gritty combat that Street Justice delivers. Dive into City of Heroes with the KnightStalker and bring your own brand of street justice to the villains!
