(Re: Champions) Will you now add a 13th cover to IM40?

I created a poll just to see what forumites are thinking with regards to the ever awful IM40.
I know the consensus is to keep him undercovered at 5/5/2. However, no champion rewards unless you add that last cover.
I pulled another yellow and while I have nowhere near the ISO to level him I feel I may one day like to after all my other 3* are there.
Thoughts?
I know the consensus is to keep him undercovered at 5/5/2. However, no champion rewards unless you add that last cover.
I pulled another yellow and while I have nowhere near the ISO to level him I feel I may one day like to after all my other 3* are there.
Thoughts?
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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.
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).
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.
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.
I pair my 5/5/2 with Captain America or Thor. Boost +2 red/yellow AP. Make two yellow matches and you're chucking shields or Surging/Smiting chumps insanely fast.
5/5/1 is great with characters that only need red like the previously-mentioned Human Torch, Deadpool (either one), etc.
I just don't see a place for a 5/5/3 in my roster. The extra match required to use Recharge would make him fairly useless to me.
btw Never play with him.
Good discussion so far!
Honestly, why keep a toon on your roster that you never use, and purposely keep him under-leveled?
Agreed.
Assuming you are not in 4 star land, he is worth champing due to the fact that he is only 1 of 2 characters with hulkbuster on his progression path.
If your plan doesn't include needing hulkbuster, or you're confident you will have him maxed by the time you get that deep in 3
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.)
Just tried the combo this morning and it's definitely slower than IM40 + Steve since you have to collect both purple and yellow to feed Steve, whereas with IM40, all you have to do is collect yellow (and make one red and one blue match). OTOH the color coverage is better and has better one-shot and/or one-turn damage potential.