Black Adam

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**Teth-Adam**, also known as **Theo-Adam** and better known as **Black Adam**, is a Fighter from the DC Universe in *MultiVersus*. He was revealed on August 15th, 2022 and was released on October 31st, 2022 (originally slated to release a week earlier).

## Origin

Black Adam is a character from the *DC* universe created by Otto Binder and C. C. Beck. Although he was originally portrayed as a supervillain and the ancient Egyptian predecessor of Shazam (originally known as Captain Marvel), who fought his way to modern times to challenge the hero alongside his family and associates, he was recently redefined as a corrupted antihero who only tries to clear his name and reputation.

According to the main lead writer for *MultiVersus*, Black Adam's portrayal in the game is an original interpretation that combines both his New and Prime Earth incarnations.

### Official Biography

> You see the world as a child does. "Good" and "evil" are not constants.
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> The ruler of Kahndaq bows to no mortal man.
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Born in ancient Egypt, Teth-Adam was blessed by the wizard Shazam with the powers of the gods. His long life has been full of pain and trials, and it has hardened him into the stoic, calculating ruler he is today. Adam considers himself to be on no one’s side but his own, which has made him a beguiling on-again/off-again ally of his world’s greatest heroes. But one thing everyone can agree on is that being on Black Adam’s bad side never ends well.

### Default Variant

Black Adam's default look seems to be based on his design from the *Justice League of America (Volume 3)* series of comic books.

Black Adam as seen on the cover for *Justice League of America (Volume 3) #7.4: Black Adam*.

## Gameplay

Black Adam is a bruiser-type character focused on strong stage control and zoning, while excelling in both close and ranged combat. A couple of his attacks can inflict the shocked debuff on enemies, which causes them to take additional damage.

His most notable ability is his Up Special, which allows him to fly for a limited amount of time; unlike Superman's Air Side Special, Black Adam can move freely in any direction, but the flight will be cancelled if attacks, dodges or if the duration ends. This, when paired with certain perks such as Aerial Acrobat and Triple Jump, gives him one of the best aerial mobilities in the entire game.

Black Adam's ground moveset is filled with utility. His Ground Neutral Attack is his most powerful attack, capable of ringing out opponents around 80% near the ledge; this comes at the expense of having a significantly small hitbox, as well high ending lag. His Side Ground Attack is a flurry of punches, with the final hit grabbing the opponent and tossing them behind Black Adam; if properly used, the player can spike opponents when facing the opposite side of the ledge. His Up Ground Attack is notable as it has a very long range and can lead to a couple of his confirms, at the expense of a relatively lengthy cooldown. Lastly, his Down Ground Attack is unique as it hits all grounded opponents no matter how far they are, and the longer the attack is charged, the larger the hitbox is; this attack even hits opponents sliding on the ledge, being a powerful edgeguarding tool.

To offset Black Adam's powerful moveset, a lot of his attacks have low knockback scaling, meaning they lack proper power to ring out opponents effectively. In addition, a couple of his most powerful moves have high ending lag and cannot be frame cancelled earlier. Because of that, Black Adam gets most of his confirms with sweetspotted Down Air Attacks, and more intricate combos that can put opponents right on his palm. His high skill ceiling makes him not very beginner friendly, even though his skill floor is relatively low.

In 2v2, Black Adam finds the best in allies that can keep up with his mobility and capitalize on his intricate moveset to follow up his attacks. Given Black Adam's lack of easy guaranteed ring outs, he shines when paired with characters that have potent finishers, such as Shaggy, Bugs Bunny and Taz. On the other hand, given his ability to fly, he works exceptionally well when paired with jugglers that can easily carry opponents to the upper blast zone, such as Arya Stark and Harley Quinn.

### Skills

* Attacks
* Specials
* Passives

 *UP*🡅 + J
 *DOWN*🡇 + J

 *SIDE*🡆 + K
 *UP*🡅 + K
 *DOWN*🡇 + K

***PASSIVE ABILITIES***

**N/A**
No Passives

## Update History

**ValentiNeon Patch**
* ***~*** General
	+ Enabled 2D Hitboxes on Black Adam.
* ***-*** General
	+ Weight reduced to 72, down from 80.
* ***-*** Ground Neutral Special
	+ Cooldown increased to 18s, up from 10s.
* ***~*** Air/Ground Up Attack
	+ Shortened lightning’s VFX to better reflect the attack’s active hitbox window.
* ***+*** Air Neutral Attack
	+ Hitbox comes 1 frame earlier and grows in size while it’s active to match VFX.
* ***!*** Ground Side Attack
	+ Fix an issue where Jab 3 was not decaying alongside the other Jabs.

**New Year Patch**

Developer’s Note: Black Adam’s Ground Neutral Special threatened opponents from too far away and when it hit, it was causing too much damage. Black Adam’s ground up attack was also extremely safe, while having the ability to lead into significant follow-up damage. In order to address some of these issues, we are attempting to bring these two attacks back in-line with the following changes so that they feel less oppressive and more fair to fight against.

* ***-*** Air Up Attack
	+ Shrunk the Hitbox on Arc Lightning by 25%
* ***+*** Ground Neutral Special
	+ Lightning Surge’s throws trigger quicker (0.6->0.2)
* ***-*** Ground Neutral Special
	+ Reduced Lightning Surge’s minimum length by 15%
	+ Lowered the amount of shocked debuff from Lightning Surge to 1 stack
	+ Removed all damage on Lightning Surge’s throw
* ***!*** Ground Down Special
	+ Fixed an issue with Shu’s Protection where it would apply many stacks all at once.
* ***~*** Ground Down Special
	+ Shu Protection’s bubble forcefield now blocks superman’s lasers, Superman’s lasers will now explode on the surface of the forcefield
* ***-*** Ground Up Attack
	+ Increased the cooldown on Call The Heavens’ lightning bolt to 19s, up from 12s.
	+ Added 14 frames of recovery on whiff
	+ Reduced the amount of hits from Call The Heavens to 3, down from 4
	+ Shrank the hitbox on Call The Heavens by 25%
	+ Startup on armor’s application to Call The Heavens is now delayed by 2 frames and is no longer instant.
* ***!*** Ground Down Attack
	+ Fixed bug where Black Adam's Ground Blast wouldn't hit enemies that were polymorphed or turned into a chicken

**Spectator Mode Patch**

* ***!*** Fixed an issue where many of the skin's voiceover lines were not playing.

**Others**: Fixed a bug that was causing Black-Adam-based-bot's AI to ring themselves out.

**FestiVersus! Patch**

* ***-*** Aerial Down Special
	+ Hitboxes shrunk significantly
* ***+*** Ground Neutral Special
	+ Throwing upward with the lightning grapple will now pull enemies toward Black Adam more
* ***-*** Ground Down Special
	+ Shield health reduced from 4 hits to 3
* ***+*** Ground Down Special
	+ Shield can now only take damage from normal and heavy projectiles.
* ***~*** Ground Down Special
	+ Now properly blocks Superman’s eye laser, but the laser will cause a delayed explosion on the shield as if the laser had hit the ground.

**Season 2.02 Patch**

* ***!*** Ground Neutral Special
	+ Fixed an issue where Black Adam’s chain lightning would whiff through opponents after Black Adam was rung out

**Season 2 Patch**

* ***!*** General
	+ Fixed issue where the electric tether hitbox would linger after the visuals faded.
* ***-*** Grounded Side Attack
	+ Much smaller hitboxes for all 3 jabs to better match the visuals.
* ***-*** Grounded Neutral Attack
	+ Removed hitbox on Black Adam's arms
* ***+*** Grounded/Aerial Up Special
	+ Liftoff triggers 3 frames earlier
* ***+*** Grounded/Aerial Side Special
	+ Increased the acceleration and hitstun of the projectile slightly.
* ***+*** Grounded Up Attack
	+ Added armor on startup

**Season 1.06 Patch**

* ***~*** Grounded Down Attack
	+ Earth bolt no longer attempts to lead its target
* ***+*** Grounded Down Attack
	+ Earth bolt checks a larger range when deciding whether to emerge beneath an airborne victim
* ***+*** Grounded Up Attack
	+ Increased hitbox size, more slide, and the lightning’s knockback direction now is in the direction it comes down.
* ***+*** Aerial Neutral Attack
	+ Uncharged attack now comes out 4 frames earlier
* ***+*** Grounded Neutral Special
	+ Comes out faster, branches earlier on whiff, has a greater minimum range, has a shorter cooldown of 10 seconds, and has knockback scaling on throw.
* ***+*** Air/Ground Up Special
	+ Flight now has a faster takeoff and greater speed.
* ***!*** Bug Fix
	+ Grounded Up Attack’s lightning will now spawn below the roof in Scooby’s Mansion.

**Season 1.05 Patch**

* Black Adam was a playable fighter in the Open Beta.

**August 15 2022**

* Black Adam was revealed to be a playable fighter in MultiVersus.

## Trivia

* While Black Adam and Stripe's official reveal was on the loading screen at the start of Season 1 on August 15th, 2022, an advertisement promoting said Season was published earlier on the Xbox dashboard, revealing Adam and Stripe prematurely.
* According to a WB UK email promoting the Black Adam movie, he was originally set to release on October 25th, 2022, before getting delayed for unknown reasons.
* Black Adam's Gameplay Trailer ends with an advertisement for the movie mentioned above, which debuted before Adam joined MultiVersus.
* Black Adam is the only Fighter in the game that will swear via a Substitute Variant if the "Mature Language" option is turned on in the Settings, but won't do so in his own default appearance.

## External

* Teth-Adam (Prime Earth) and Teth-Adam (New Earth) on the DC Database.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/multiversusie/status/1699923639733293545/photo/1
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Player1stGames/status/1587126746851299328
3. ↑ https://multiversus.com/en/roster
4. ↑ https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FfqqB-AXwAoqXyE?format=jpg&name=large