4 star soft cap

DonkeyTeeth
DonkeyTeeth Posts: 32 Just Dropped In
edited October 2016 in Roster and Level Help
What is a good soft cap for 4 star characters? I can put some ISO into some of my 4's but I don't want to ruin my scaling. I have most of the 3's champed and I'm trying to get all of them before I commit to my 4's. Here's my roster:
https://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/Donkey-Teeth/

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  • Smudge
    Smudge Posts: 562 Critical Contributor
    With 26 3*s champed and nowhere near enough covers on the 4*s, this isn't really much of an issue.

    Even if you had a good 4* cover-maxed, I would say champ it without thinking twice. Champ 3s boost almost to the base level of an unboosted, champed 4*. Softcapping is kind of silly with that many 3*s honestly. I maxed 4* Thor as soon as I had the covers and barely noticed a difference in my scaling, and I don't even think I had 20 3* champs yet.

    Now... if you get a lot more covers for Elektra and dump ISO into *her* (or other low tier 4*s), that is a bad idea until you have more 4*s built, but someone like Iceman, Rulk, or Jean Grey? DO IT! Softcapping is deliberately kneecapping yourself in that case.

    If they boost the 4*, even better! Sure, scaling goes up 10-20 levels, but that boosted champed 4* will demolish it.
  • GurlBYE
    GurlBYE Posts: 1,218 Chairperson of the Boards
    Soft capping is really relevant at 13 covers,

    4's lose lot of usage without at the very minimum being fully covered. (special case being prof x who only needs 2-3 blues and a GSwidow and scarlet on team)
  • mikepro
    mikepro Posts: 95 Match Maker
    If you want to soft cap your 4* cap them at about 172. From there it's roughly 300k iso to champ plus the champ cost and it's an easy number to deal with when boosted plus ddq clash beatable then. Once they are boosted it's about 270 at that point I believe but that's a rough estimate for boost lvls
  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    mikepro wrote:
    If you want to soft cap your 4* cap them at about 172. From there it's roughly 300k iso to champ plus the champ cost and it's an easy number to deal with when boosted plus ddq clash beatable then. Once they are boosted it's about 270 at that point I believe but that's a rough estimate for boost lvls
    I prefer 180 since it's a nice even number and it costs 300K ISO to max and champion them from there.
  • ZootSax
    ZootSax Posts: 1,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    Smudge wrote:
    Now... if you get a lot more covers for Elektra and dump ISO into *her* (or other low tier 4*s), that is a bad idea until you have more 4*s built, but someone like Iceman, Rulk, or Jean Grey? DO IT! Softcapping is deliberately kneecapping yourself in that case.

    In general, everything Smudge said seems spot on. I didn't follow the quoted section above, though, and champed Devil Dinosaur without any other 4* being more than 10 covers and most being far less than that. My PVE scaling is indistinguishable from before, with my champed 3*'s and smattering of 255 5*'s being just about the same as a 270 DD. However, I have noticed a difference in MMR for PVE, where having that one champed 4* has added other champed 4*'s to my opponents as well as who can find my teams on defense. With a top tier 4*, even that might be indistinguishable, but in my case it's meant a lot more skip tax. Just my $0.02 for what it's worth...

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