"What level should I level character X to?"

yogi_

From Polarity's (I miss him) text in the other thread.

What level should I level character X to?
It might seem obvious to just level all your characters to 166, but leveling takes an intense amount of iso, and it turns out that you can still reap most of the benefits out of a character while spending a fraction of the iso, as leveling someone to 135 takes 60% of the iso needed to max someone out, and makes that character 80% as effective as its maxed counterpart, which is generally good enough for PvE and when the character is boosted for PvP. Here are some numbers that I recommend leveling 3* characters to (4*s are more complicated and I'll add that later maybe).

166 - The obvious one, level all your guys that you will constantly use in PvP / PvE.

For when you want your character to be a strong PvP defensive deterrent and usable in a PvE B team even when not boosted -
137 - This gets your character above level 200 when major boosted in a PvP (which is a big defensive deterrent), and allows that character to tank for your 166 characters when it is minor boosted in a PvE. Level your guys that you use only when boosted that you DO want tanking for other characters (She-Hulk, etc) when they are featured.
135 - This gets your character above level 200 when major boosted in a PvP (which is a big defensive deterrent), and allows OTHER 166 characters to tank for your character when it is minor boosted in a PvE. Level your guys that you use only when boosted that you do NOT want tanking for other characters (squishies like Mohawk, etc) when they are featured.

For when you want your character to be an okay defensive deterrent in PvP.
118 - This gets your character to 178 when featured in a PvP, which is when they tank for a level 270 4*. This is important for say the Daredevil tournament, as it makes opposing X-Forces surgical strike hit purple, which is a terrible color to use.
114 - Doesn't tank for a 270 4*.
112 - This gets your character to 168 when featured in a PvP, which allows them to tank for your other 166 3*s.
110 - 165 boosted, so doesn't tank for your other 3*s.

I've been away from the game recently (with none of the recently released characters as well as a couple of 4*'s I really don't have room for) and just found out that 3* ISO requirements have been reduced. Have a bunch of characters sitting at 94 but ready to move some of them up a little now given the recent change has left them all 1 ISO from their next levels (annoying).

Though I am barely touching PvP at the moment, is the above advice still largely correct? There has been no weird scaling stuff recently that is going to scale me up negatively? (Is there an updated ISO calculator?)

Does anyone else have good bulk character levelling suggestions?

Unknown

The MMR in PVP has been crazy, but it seems like this Season, again as I have said in every post I have posted today... so far, has been back to reasonable.

The ISO level up on a 3* is much cheaper until you hit level 120 (I think, someone correct me if I am wrong), which puts them in a useful state, then it goes back to somewhat normal, and then, of course, the higher you go, the more it cost to level.

Pylgrim

I like to keep my tools well sharpened, so I'm maxing all my characters except 2: Falcon and Loki. Both of them are textbook support characters that should never be on the front lines, and their powers don't really improve that much from being max level. I keep them at level 144 which is the highest they can be and still be tanked in their best colours by characters with second highest strength in that colour.

wymtime

Yogi,
First welcome back.
2nd I find the best bulk leveling strategy is spend a week maybe 2 hitting LR, DPDQ, PVE, PVP Sioux leveling anyone. You should be able to get 150-250k ISO. Now you should be able to take 2 characters to 166 or a bunch to 140.

Wash and replete. If you can level on Fridays 2 really strong characters that will be buffed for the week that will also help a lot since they are now buffing 5 characters for the week as well as the featured character. I would hold off on 4* until you get some quality 3* to a level you feel comfortably rotating those 3* while you build up a 4*