Advanced soft capping.
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Anyone have a advanced soft capped roster? Fully covered 3* 4* characters, but under leveled?
If you do, mind sharing your roster, thoughts and experiences doing this pve and PvP wise.
If you do, mind sharing your roster, thoughts and experiences doing this pve and PvP wise.
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The only reason I would soft-cap a fully covered character is for ISO reasons, so I'll just list my general strategy. I have all 3* characters championed except for Thanos where I'm still lacking covers, so this only applies to 4*:
1. When a character reaches 9 covers, I bump them to 185. This allows them to be useful when boosted, and easily win their Clash. Well, except for Mr. F who can't win his clash even when champed
2. When the character reaches 13 covers, I only champ then if they're top 15 or so.
3. When a 14th cover comes in, I champ unless ISO is short AND they're low tier.
I manage my ISO pretty closely so I can champ a level 185 character at all times, so the only thing I have to manage for the soft-cap is what is low tier.
At the moment, the only 4* I have soft-capped with 13 covers is Wolvie, and I have enough ISO that I'll probably champ him when a new one comes in, although I have enough higher-end characters at 10-11 covers that I might change my mind when the moment comes.0 -
Soft capping is a strategy that works decent in the PvE (provided you don't have any 5* already on your roster). In PvP any team with softcaped 4* has an automatic bulls eye for all the championed 4* and all the 5* team.
If you have 5* without iso in them then you might as well softcap 4* at around 180 (when boosted they will not increase the scaling much over the 5* threshold). That way your PvE experience should be "easier" compared to people with championed 4* and 5* teams. In terms of placement - can't tell you. I know that if I put the effort in (and I am 4* players with over 20 champions) i can get top2 finish on a new release. On other events I just cruise to top50 finish. So the scaling is not killing me. If it would be easier with softcap - maybe.
In PvP reality is probably something around 650 points unless you plan to shield a lot. If you decide to champ - 800-900 can be achieved without shield (one to guard the score at the end if you want to) and it opens a shield-hopping road to 1,2k.
As much as I hate the increased scaling in the PvE (which seems like punishing for spending iso) there is limited benefit of staying softcapped. One extra disadvantage - you will have to sell the extra covers for 4* as they can't be champions levels.0 -
Just a heads up, in the latest dev community video, they spoke about switching scaling to be based on what SCL level you choose in Story events not your roster. So soft-capping may no longer give any tangible benefits when that takes effect in the future.0
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