**** Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile) ****

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  • ZootSax
    ZootSax Posts: 1,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    Has anyone championed Devil Dinosaur? I'm curious if he has a special reward progression, as Bagman does.
  • notamutant
    notamutant Posts: 855 Critical Contributor
    ZootSax wrote:
    Has anyone championed Devil Dinosaur? I'm curious if he has a special reward progression, as Bagman does.

    It would be pretty hard to champion him. You would need him already maxed but to be under 365 days play time so you can still get his covers as a daily supply award.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    I saw a screenshot of someone who did, but I don't know who.
  • ZootSax
    ZootSax Posts: 1,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    notamutant wrote:
    ZootSax wrote:
    Has anyone championed Devil Dinosaur? I'm curious if he has a special reward progression, as Bagman does.

    It would be pretty hard to champion him. You would need him already maxed but to be under 365 days play time so you can still get his covers as a daily supply award.

    I agree it would be extremely difficult, to put it mildly, but I'm hoping that the devs acknowledge that fact and his rewards are insanely good. I'm past Day 365 and need ~160 more levels on my Dino, so it's not something I'd even remotely have a chance at until the next anniversary, unless something changes in the meantime with his availability...and my iso acquisition.

    simonsez wrote:
    I saw a screenshot of someone who did, but I don't know who.

    I'm glad to know someone out there has enough extra iso to consider championing DD icon_e_smile.gif
  • vudu3
    vudu3 Posts: 940 Critical Contributor
    notamutant wrote:
    ZootSax wrote:
    Has anyone championed Devil Dinosaur? I'm curious if he has a special reward progression, as Bagman does.

    It would be pretty hard to champion him. You would need him already maxed but to be under 365 days play time so you can still get his covers as a daily supply award.
    All you need to champion a character is to have him at max level. You don't need another cover to bring him to 271.
  • kyrain
    kyrain Posts: 32 Just Dropped In
    I feel like he is the most useless star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.png out there. I have 5 covers so I'm hesitant to drop him but my goodness he seems just poor poor poor
  • Xerobu11
    Xerobu11 Posts: 18 Just Dropped In
    kyrain wrote:
    I feel like he is the most useless star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.png out there. I have 5 covers so I'm hesitant to drop him but my goodness he seems just poor poor poor

    He might be but his super cheap powers are great activators for passives like Professor X.
  • Salgy
    Salgy Posts: 254 Mover and Shaker
    simonsez wrote:
    I saw a screenshot of someone who did, but I don't know who.

    Mr. Maestro of Villains Inc not only has a championed Devil Dino, he also has rostered a 1* Devil Dino... go check it out...
  • Buret0
    Buret0 Posts: 1,591
    kyrain wrote:
    I feel like he is the most useless star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.png out there. I have 5 covers so I'm hesitant to drop him but my goodness he seems just poor poor poor

    Star-Lord's Everyone With Me + Dancing Dino Purple + ProX = 1 Purple AP for board shake that creates three special tiles.
    If you've never won a match just by dancing, you've never lived.
  • cooperbigdaddy
    cooperbigdaddy Posts: 405 Mover and Shaker
    I thoroughly enjoy using Devil Dinosaur with Kamala Khan because DD's purple becomes a 3ap heal (cheapest move I can think of in the game, and he dances!) and two 5ap damaging-heals. Throw in a Hood or Black Panther for black/blue coverage and an active yellow, and you are groovin'. icon_e_smile.gif
  • SeveredSynapse
    SeveredSynapse Posts: 38 Just Dropped In
    ZootSax wrote:
    Has anyone championed Devil Dinosaur? I'm curious if he has a special reward progression, as Bagman does.

    I have, his reward progression is different than many:
    271: Legendary Recruit Token
    272: 2 Command points
    273: 2500 Iso-8
    274: 2 Command Points
    275: 50 Hero Points
    276: 2 Command Points
    277: 2500 Iso-8
    278: 2 Command Points
    279: 50 Hero Points
    280: Legendary Recruit Token

    281: 2500 Iso-8
    282: 3 Command Points
    283: 50 Hero Points
    284: 3 Command Points
    285: 2500 Iso-8
    286: 3 Command Points
    287: 50 Hero Points
    288: 3 Command Points
    289: 2500 Iso-8
    290: Legendary Recruit Token

    291: 50 Hero Points
    292: 4 Command Points
    293: 2500 Iso-8
    294: 4 Command Points
    295: 100 Hero Points
    296: 4 Command Points
    297: 3000 Iso-8
    298: 4 Command Points
    299: 100 Hero Points
    300: Legendary Recruit Token

    301: 3000 Iso-8
    302: 4 Command Points
    303: 100 Hero Points
    304: 4 Command Points
    305: 3000 Iso-8
    306: 4 Command Points
    307: 100 Hero Points
    308: 4 Command Points
    309: 3000 Iso-8
    310: Legendary Recruit Token

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    361: 10,000 Iso-8
    362: 10 Command Points
    363: 250 Hero Points
    364: 10 Command Points
    365: 10,000 Iso-8
    366: 25 Command Points
    367: 500 Hero Points
    368: 25 Command Points
    369: 15,000 Iso-8
    370: 1000 Hero Points
  • FaustianDeal
    FaustianDeal Posts: 760 Critical Contributor
    Devil Dino used to have a discount on his level costs. But when I checked him today he is costed the same as all other 4* characters. When was he migrated from the special cost model onto the standard? And why wasn't this change signposted before it was made?
  • ZootSax
    ZootSax Posts: 1,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    So, through the magic of RNG during the last anniversary, I ended up with a 5/3/5 Devil Dinosaur (I even had to sell two purples), even though I don't have any other 4* characters especially well covered (I have 8 covers on Ant-Man, Captain Falcon and Nick Fury, 6 on Hulkbuster and only 1-4 on the others I have). I've only just started championing my 3*'s (8 champs, all in the 167-169 range--the rest are soft-capped at 144, pending iso) and have mostly max-champed my 2*'s (I restarted Captain America, Captain Marvel & Thor, after having them at 144 before--the others are all maxed). I have one 5*, a 1/1/0, level 255 Iron Man.

    While the obvious next step for my roster would be to continue champing all my 3*'s, I'm entertaining the idea of bringing my Dino from level 145 to max so I can get champ rewards for him during the next anniversary week. My logic is that it'll only delay some 3*'s I use less, like Daredevil and MoStorm or ones I want to keep under-leveled, like Hood and Loki. Also, having a ~270-280 Dino presumably won't impact my scaling more than having 3 5*'s, which I hope to have by the time the anniversary rolls around (I'll get Surfer from resupply and hope to at least get one from legendary tokens). On the downside, having a ~270-280 Dino won't really help me much at all, other than increasing the silliness of my roster.

    So, is this idea completely stupid or only mostly stupid?
  • mckauhu
    mckauhu Posts: 740 Critical Contributor
    I had 2/2/2 DD but sold him because he is so rare and I needed roster slot...
  • Marc_Spector
    Marc_Spector Posts: 628 Critical Contributor
    ZootSax wrote:
    So, is this idea completely stupid or only mostly stupid?

    Not stupid at all! I max-covered mine in the 2nd anniversary and champed him the day the system went live. (But then, I'm a fan of oddball characters and seriously considered spending a CP stockpile on some more Howard covers before realizing I should wait until after the 2nd "duck season" to see how many more I'd need.) I do actually use my (5/5/3) Devil Dino quite a bit on trash mobs in PVE, partially for the speed/cheap cost of his two attacks, and also as I find him... here's the kicker... "fun", which is something I still find (and make my own of) in this game when not trying to optimize playstyle for a major PVE/PVP grind.

    Re: spending the ISO to max him; Things to consider:
    i) How much ISO do you have? Would it be better spent elsewhere on a character that would bring further/greater value in the immediate or long term? (At the time I maxed DD, I would've rather put it towards Iceman and HB, but they were capped already as I'd had terrible luck getting both of their covers)
    ii) it used to cost 20% less ISO to max level Devil Dino as a trade-off for his rarity; so it was an easier choice for me to do so after last anniversary when I max covered him and was sitting on a stockpile of ISO. I believe I recall that after the champ system went live (or some other patch this year?) that amount was normalized to be equal to all other 4*s, whether accidental or intended on the part of the devs. (Is this still the case? I can't tell, as my DD is maxed, but maybe someone else can confirm.)
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    ZootSax wrote:
    So, is this idea completely stupid or only mostly stupid?
    I vote "completely". Almost anything else you do with the ISO will be better spent.
  • fnedude
    fnedude Posts: 385 Mover and Shaker
    Just so you know, I'm doing the same thing now, 1x lvl a day....

    At mid lvls (<200) you get like 20% "free" of iso each lvl, so if it says 2000iso, you get around 350-400 free. After 200, it gets lower to like 10-15% (I'm on lvl 215 or so right now).

    So the iso to level him doesn't make any sense and it's hard to budget how much ISO8 it'll take.

    Mine's 544, can't wait to champ him to 553....
  • ErikPeter
    ErikPeter Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
    Very confusing. So you're saying, don't use the level him up a lot button, but there is still a discount in effect if you go one level at a time?
  • ZootSax
    ZootSax Posts: 1,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    ErikPeter wrote:
    Very confusing. So you're saying, don't use the level him up a lot button, but there is still a discount in effect if you go one level at a time?

    That's correct. I had my DD at Level 255 and decided to use the new influx of iso from the shield ranks to champion him. The button to max him claimed he needed 65,166 to go from 255-->270. When I did it one level at a time, it only took 58,800. Apparently, for reasons unknown, the discount for leveling Devil Dino is still in effect but well hidden.
  • ErikPeter
    ErikPeter Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
    Thanks! I was reluctant to level him because it appeared he no longer had the discount... Now just gotta wait for the next anniversary event to drop some champ covers for him!

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