"Predecessor" - Phase Trivia Quiz

Answer: Support

Phase is both a healer and a disruptor as a Support, able to heal allies and afflict foes with a couple forms of status.

In "Paragon", Phase was actually recommended for the Midlane in addition to Support. However, her damage output in particular was severely nerfed coming into this game, explaining why she is no longer recommended for any damage dealing role.

Answer: Durability

It's quite telling when a young, human girl wearing ripped jeans and punk clothing has her highest stat out to be Durability. Surely, the swag will protect Phase from getting shot, blown up, set on fire, stabbed or smashed by enemies twice her size or more, right?

Phase is the unfortunate owner of the lowest overall stat build in the entire game. Her Durability is a low 3, while her Basic Attack and Ability Power clock in at 2 and her Mobility gets a ghastly 1.

Answer: Healing

The heal stacks, so if Phase quickly uses two Abilities, she will receive the heal in its full duration twice. Linked Allies will also receive this heal, which is the main benefit to the Passive given that Phase is a Support character.

This aspect of the Passive incentivizes Phase players to build items that give Ability Haste as well as Mana Regeneration.

This Passive also tampers with Phase's Blink, making it cost mana to use, but massively slashing its cooldown. Bizarrely, it also causes Phase's damage output to very briefly rise upon Blinking. Unfortunately, Phase is still pretty weak even with this buff, so using a blink to run down an enemy with Phase will almost always be impractical.

Answer: Pulls the ally towards Phase

This is easily the best, most generally useful and more importantly exclusive form of support Phase can provide. If Phase Links to an ally that later gets themselves into trouble, she can pull the ally away from the nasty situation and potentially save their life.

The pull causes Linked Allies to do a complete 180 degree shift in their positioning from Phase; this means they will almost always end up being pulled a far way, and will almost always end up behind Phase after being pulled. If done correctly, an ally could rush into a situation with the reckless intent of dealing as much damage as they can, knowing their Support can rip them away from the fight if things get to be too much to handle.

Although there are no melee focused Heroes recommended for the Carry role, if a player wants to try their hand here anyway, Phase would absolutely be the best Support for them. Phase can essentially make up for their lack of range, by letting them go in to do melee damage, and pulling them out if things go awry in the approach. Bursty melee characters like Serath or Kallari, or even burly, bruising brawlers like Greystone or Grux could much more easily experience success as a Carry if supported by Phase.

Phase cannot pull allies who are immobilized in anyway, giving some counterplay to it. But if not immobilized, Phase can swiftly prevent an ally from being killed and pull them right to safety in a flash.

Answer: Blind

Blind works exactly as you'd imagine- the player themselves will briefly lose the ability to see anything other than a bright blue screen, and will be unable to even see their own character.

In order for Psychic Flare to Blind, the target must be facing in Phase's direction as they are hit by the attack. If Phase manages to Blind someone, it will also set the cooldown for her Blink to 1 second, effectively slashing it entirely.

Answer: It locks Phase's Y axis

During this time, Phase cannot fall nor can she be propelled backward or forward by anything unless it's tied to a Crowd Control move.

This has interesting use when paired with the Galaxy Greaves item; this item gives the buyer very floaty jumps, as well as massively increasing their jump height when out of combat. Phase could use this jump, then activate Energy Lance to maintain the height for a short while.

Answer: Movement speed

In total, Hyperflux offers a brief movement speed increase, temporary Ability Haste and a brief, huge Attack Speed buff. These three buffs are in pretty enormous quantities, which can be key for helping Phase and an ally in any fight, really. As such, this is a broadly useful Ultimate which really does not have a bad fight for it to see use in.

Answer: Mana restoration

The mana restoration works on the exact same mechanic as the health restoration, stacking endlessly if Phase continues to use Abilities. This sadly and crucially does not extend the mana restoration buff to Phase herself, or it would've been an absolute slam dunk of an Augment. Even still, it can be very helpful to support mana-hungry characters Phase is likely to be paired with, such as Wraith or Twinblast.

Answer: Shorter range

If a player was truly adventurous (or misguided) enough to try Phase in some kind of damage dealing role, this would be the Augment they'd be best suited to trying. That said, Energy Lance's damage output still noticeably trails fairly average damage output seen by characters in the Midlane, while Phase absolutely does not have the survivability and tankiness to make Offlane or Jungle make any sort of sense at all. So the practical application for this Augment is definitely difficult to visualize.

Answer: Hyperflux

Hyperflux already does lots for a Linked ally, so throwing in a couple more benefits is hardly a bad thing. This could be particularly useful if the player finds themselves using Phase to support a melee character in the Carry role, but realistically could be used for general, mundane situations as well.