FaerieMyst wrote: 166 with 5Y/5B/5Bl
dr tinykittylove wrote: My hood is same level as all the rest of my big guns. I switch teams around a lot, so his tanking is not a huge deal, but personally when I see a low level hood I think "yum!" He gets taken out too easily at anything below max level. I think the most egregious case I've seen was one person leaving his fully covered hood at lvl 40. Killed that one with practically just match damage. Let him be the best he can be. Makes his yellow nuke that much more effective too. Sometimes it's worth trading him in to kill someone about to fire a dangerous skill late in the match, especially if I'm done climbing.
Phantron wrote: The Hood is much stronger on defense than offense and having him at a lower level makes it way easier to take him out on defense where he should be attacked first almost always. In the current meta game he's probably going to always have yellow/blue due to a lack of viable characters in strong in those colors unless he's grossly underleveled (note that he gets both of those colors over Thor 4*). Likewise it takes about 30 levels to raise the weak color by 1 so again he's likely to own those colors if he happens to have the highest in a weak color where no one else is strong unless you have him 30 levels below everyone else which of course makes it a lot easier for anyone to attack him too. If you're worried about this kind of stuff you should be working on raising your featured character to around level 120 because that's 180 boosted and that should be able to cover all of the colors whatever that featured character shares with The Hood as well as any mutually weak color. And if the featured character is someone like Dr. Octopus that no one can justify leveling up you might have to have The Hood tank 4 colors when paired with a 4*. For example with X Force he'd get yellow, blue, purple, and red. With Thor 4* he'd get yellow, blue, black, and purple. In both cases you end up with a massive health pack drain. There is indeed a price to pay for having The Hood on your side, as powerful as he is. I have him at level 166 because there's no reason to not to if you can afford it.