Worth a second Prof X?

chamber44

my prof x is sitting at 5/1/3, but the RNG is a fickle ****, i'm sitting on two additional Blue covers. Is it really worth starting a dupe? My SW and GSBW are champed, but i haven't really started running Charlie's Angels in events since I don't play much PvE.

ErikPeter

IMO no, duplicates are never really useful for anything. Once you champ the first one, are you going to waste covers on the dupe just to keep him under-leveled? Doubt it.

GrumpySmurf1002

I keep a second around but I also did so at a time before championing was a thing.

It is helpful in the rare event I want to run winfinite, but if I didn't already have it, I'm not sure I'd build it now, the 13 covers would be more valuable for my champed version.

lukewin

I'm kinda biased, since I am a fan of dupes. I have 4 PX right now. 200 5/3/5, 160 5/3/5, 70 5/4/4 and 70 3/2/0. I will probably take the 200 to champ, eventually, or possibly the 70 5/4/4 once the quad gets 2 more blues. I like saving healthpacks.

stochasticism

Px is one of the few 4* worth a dup because the second build you want to run him at is 5/5/0. The only reasons to have a non-champed Px are

1) You are lukewin and have 4 of every character in the game , or
2) You can't because of resources (ISO, covers, etc.), or
3) you want to run winfinite

Yellow is a liability in winfinite as it clogs available placement of green tiles so 5/5/0 is really the best build for it. Since championing doesn't let you go below 3 in a skill the only other option is a dup with no yellow.

TxMoose

I have a 5/3/5 at 145 that is in line to champ and a 5/5/0 at 94 that is good for winfinite even when he's boosted and nether angel is. truthfully I've rarely used him but do sometimes. this current heroic as an example. I can hide him a little easier behind switch or daken (or drax/quake)

Pylgrim

stochasticism wrote:

Px is one of the few 4* worth a dup because the second build you want to run him at is 5/5/0. The only reasons to have a non-champed Px are

1) You are lukewin and have 4 of every character in the game , or
2) You can't because of resources (ISO, covers, etc.), or
3) you want to run winfinite

Yellow is a liability in winfinite as it clogs available placement of green tiles so 5/5/0 is really the best build for it. Since championing doesn't let you go below 3 in a skill the only other option is a dup with no yellow.

How high up can a 5/5/0 character be leveled to?

stochasticism

Pylgrim wrote:

stochasticism wrote:

Px is one of the few 4* worth a dup because the second build you want to run him at is 5/5/0. The only reasons to have a non-champed Px are

1) You are lukewin and have 4 of every character in the game , or
2) You can't because of resources (ISO, covers, etc.), or
3) you want to run winfinite

Yellow is a liability in winfinite as it clogs available placement of green tiles so 5/5/0 is really the best build for it. Since championing doesn't let you go below 3 in a skill the only other option is a dup with no yellow.

How high up can a 5/5/0 character be leveled to?

229, higher than you'd want to run winfinite.

Vhailorx

stochasticism wrote:

Px is one of the few 4* worth a dup because the second build you want to run him at is 5/5/0. The only reasons to have a non-champed Px are

1) You are lukewin and have 4 of every character in the game , or
2) You can't because of resources (ISO, covers, etc.), or
3) you want to run winfinite

Yellow is a liability in winfinite as it clogs available placement of green tiles so 5/5/0 is really the best build for it. Since championing doesn't let you go below 3 in a skill the only other option is a dup with no yellow.

This. in general champing and the shift to 10 healthpacks has killed the value of dupes. But the prof is one of the very rare holdouts. Maybe even the only holdout. His blue passive is the key feature of a lot of infinite engines, and for that purpose it is useful to have him underleveled so that its easier to select the proper strongest color. (plus the yellow hampers GSBW in the traditional winfinite lineup).

Melevorn

Vhailorx wrote:

In general champing and the shift to 10 healthpacks has killed the value of dupes. But the prof is one of the very rare holdouts. Maybe even the only holdout.

My ideal roster has two dupes - a 5/0/0 PX (for winfinite) and a 0/0/5 GR (for team-ups). I have the GR dupe, working on the PX dupe. Both characters have championed primaries, of course.

GrimSkald

I have a PX dupe for when I champ my primary (he's one of my remaining 4 no-champs.) I haven't used Winfinite in a while, though.

If your HP income is good enough that it won't really hurt you, I'd say go for it.

Polares

This is in fact the only 4 (and probably the only char in the whole game) that makes sense to have twice. In my particular case he is the only dup I have.

I have to say though that I don't know if 5/5/0 is the best build for him. It is obvious that yellow power tiles can make things harder for you, but there are some times where something might go wrong and going invisible and buffing those tiles might save your life (this has happened more than once). When 3s are not buffed they all have close to 10k hitpoints or less, so they are really easy to kill (at least at my current level), so 5/4/4 or even 5/3/5 might make sense.

Buuuuut I don't use Winfinite almost never anymore. Now that I am a 5 players, killing three 45k+ hitpoint guys (close to 130k in total) with Winfinite is damn slow, so slow that basically it is not usable. It is unfortunate that the only 5 with purple as strongest color is BW because a 5 with purple as strongest color, champed and buffed 370+ level ProfX, GSBW would probably be still quite strong for PvE.

Jarvind

If you don't use Winfinite there's no reason to roster a dupe. He's actually pretty beastly when champed - his tiles can get crazy in a hurry.

Personally I haven't loaded up Charlie's Angels in months. It's boring, and usually slower than just using the week's boosted 4* characters anyway.

Fightmastermpq

I have a dupe but I hardly ever use it. Still, there are some crazy situations where the only way I can win is with a winfinite combo (some boss battles?) and it's really nice to have that option available to me when it comes up.

amusingfoo1

I also have a winfinite dupe, but I haven't used him in ages. Not since the perfect-score EotS (where I used it on two or three nodes), I think. I could still use my champion Prof with Jean winfinite (I was thinking of using Starlord, but Prof is now several levels ahead of Starlord ), I guess, but it's so slow that I probably won't.