Quebbster wrote: I will not. My Iron Man has been 5/5/3 for ages and will be championed soon. It's not hard to find a use for that green Ap, and inte championed I might use a 5/4/4 build when I have a good purple outlet.
Ozark Boatswain wrote: Yes, I will go from 5/5/2 to 5/5/3 just for the champion rewards. I rarely use him.
Daredevil217 wrote: Quebbster wrote: I will not. My Iron Man has been 5/5/3 for ages and will be championed soon. It's not hard to find a use for that green Ap, and inte championed I might use a 5/4/4 build when I have a good purple outlet. I guess I could have added a poll option for "My IM40 already has 13 covers". Or better still, reworded the question "Is it now worth it to add a 13th cover to IM40". Because that's really what I was getting at. Ozark Boatswain wrote: Yes, I will go from 5/5/2 to 5/5/3 just for the champion rewards. I rarely use him. I'm strongly leaning this way, only because I too never use him and can't foresee a situation where that third yellow will prevent me from beating a node in which he's essential (the only time I'd use him). Plus, aside from champion rewards, there's always the slight chance that he gets rebalanced. Those seem like decent rewards for what amounts to minimal risk (an almost worthless character becoming more worthless).
Quebbster wrote: Daredevil217 wrote: Quebbster wrote: I will not. My Iron Man has been 5/5/3 for ages and will be championed soon. It's not hard to find a use for that green Ap, and inte championed I might use a 5/4/4 build when I have a good purple outlet. I guess I could have added a poll option for "My IM40 already has 13 covers". Or better still, reworded the question "Is it now worth it to add a 13th cover to IM40". Because that's really what I was getting at. Ozark Boatswain wrote: Yes, I will go from 5/5/2 to 5/5/3 just for the champion rewards. I rarely use him. I'm strongly leaning this way, only because I too never use him and can't foresee a situation where that third yellow will prevent me from beating a node in which he's essential (the only time I'd use him). Plus, aside from champion rewards, there's always the slight chance that he gets rebalanced. Those seem like decent rewards for what amounts to minimal risk (an almost worthless character becoming more worthless). IM40 is far from worthless, but his main worth is helping others through Recharge. He makes a good team with Human Torch - Recharge feeds a lot of Fireballs and Flame Jets, and Iron Man tanks red for Torch.
Daredevil217 wrote: I said "near worthless". He does have some niche uses but there are others who do what he does better. He's an okay red/blue battery with Steve against PVE goons but I use 2* Mags and Cyclops as generators with much better results.
Quebbster wrote: Daredevil217 wrote: I said "near worthless". He does have some niche uses but there are others who do what he does better. He's an okay red/blue battery with Steve against PVE goons but I use 2* Mags and Cyclops as generators with much better results. But if you champion him he can also generate green and (when needed) purple AP. I look forward to trying him out with Jean Grey or (when he's at a decent level) Rulk. Besides, I'd rather just let Cyclops feed himself as he is not a slouch in the damage departement. Magneto... Well, I rarely use two-stars these days outside of trivial and essential PvE nodes, they tend to die quite quickly.
fmftint wrote: Quebbster wrote: Daredevil217 wrote: I said "near worthless". He does have some niche uses but there are others who do what he does better. He's an okay red/blue battery with Steve against PVE goons but I use 2* Mags and Cyclops as generators with much better results. But if you champion him he can also generate green and (when needed) purple AP. I look forward to trying him out with Jean Grey or (when he's at a decent level) Rulk. Besides, I'd rather just let Cyclops feed himself as he is not a slouch in the damage departement. Magneto... Well, I rarely use two-stars these days outside of trivial and essential PvE nodes, they tend to die quite quickly. There are much better purple generators in 3* land, namely SW
Br34k wrote: If you have nothing better to champ up, why not? The rewards for champing him are too awesome not to (Hulkbuster covers!), plus if you're not using him for anything anyways... Honestly, why keep a toon on your roster that you never use, and purposely keep him under-leveled?
Cousin Simpson wrote: Quebbster wrote: Daredevil217 wrote: I said "near worthless". He does have some niche uses but there are others who do what he does better. He's an okay red/blue battery with Steve against PVE goons but I use 2* Mags and Cyclops as generators with much better results. But if you champion him he can also generate green and (when needed) purple AP. I look forward to trying him out with Jean Grey or (when he's at a decent level) Rulk. Besides, I'd rather just let Cyclops feed himself as he is not a slouch in the damage departement. Magneto... Well, I rarely use two-stars these days outside of trivial and essential PvE nodes, they tend to die quite quickly. Unlike Steve, Cyclops doesn't recycle his red... Anyway, I'll try out Cyclops/Steve/MagNow in tomorrow's Enchilada to see how it runs, as I've also been wondering about adding that yellow to my 5/5/2 IM40. (I mean, I've been gimping my ModHawk with about 4 of his covers in my queue because he's at level 98 now and adding another level would award the IM40 yellow cover.)
