Empath soloing

any empanths soloed any arch villain, giant monsters or anything? would be kinda interesting to know

Depends upon how you define soloing. With Temp powers? Some people don't consider that soloing, but an empath with a shivan can almost certainly solo most AVs. A shivan with fort and AB is a terrifying thing. Add in a Warwolf and a couple of nukes ups the scale by quite a bit.

The problem with soloing those with an Empath is the lack of debuffing an Empath has. An empath solely buffs the team they're on. Of all the Empath buffs, only a few (the healing aura and the two RAs) affect the caster at all.

Now, on the plus side, an Empath with a dual build gets to use all the power selections and slotting they'd normally put toward team powers (Heal other, the rez, fort, etc.) to fill out their primary and perhaps take more useful (to them) pool powers. And this may help with the occasional AV. On the minus... there's still no debuffing to be had. Any debuffing is going to be coming solely from the primary (in the form of tohit debuffs, -res debuffs and the like.)

You also only mention the Empath - not an Empathy Defender or Controller. *Potentially* an Ill/Emp controller, with the pets redirecting aggro, could have an easier time of it - then again, that removes quite a bit of debuffing (not to mention the "illusory damage" that heals back automatically) that other powersets bring to a primary - and the controller may want to rethink not taking some of those team powers, having at least Phantasm to look after and buff. (The same is true with other pets, as well.) Being a secondary, their values would be lower, as well.

Regardless, I'd see it as a tough fight - and I'd probably scale down the AV to an EB if it were me doing it.

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A lot depends on the other power set. I've had good luck soloing (with assorted pets like shivans, warwolves and Amy) using an emp/energy. While knockback can be a hassle for teamplay, it's an absolute Godsend for solo. They can't hit you if they're flying through the air or flat on their back.

Probably not.. but i'd expect a duo of them to have accomplished quite a bit.

I can imagine a Fire/Emp Controller soloing an AV.

^ Definitely. I would also think, for defenders, an emp/sonic build could solo one of the very few AVs without significant damage output or resistances to smashing. Granted, without insps this would take an extremely focused build, but it looks possible.

There was a player a while back went by the name of Hobo_Healer that posted a video of himself soloing Infernal I believe it was on his Emp Dark Defender. Can't find the video now, but I'm too lazy to look very hard for it.

Back before GM scaling, my Emp Defender soloed Kraken. This would never ever happen now though.

*sigh* looks like I disappeared from these forums for a bit too long

AVs, probably not, but here's my Emp/Energy in some fun adventures.

Fruit-Salad vs Heracles on invincible

Fruit-Salad vs Carnies on invincible

Fruit-Salad vs Chimera

I can't find the video, but Hobo Fruitsalad did some AV soloing using Shivans.