granne said: Before Bonus Heroes came in I would have said yes, use CP for Strange. Now, though, it just isn't worth it. If you set him as your only 3* bonus hero, you'll have him fully covered in no time.
Erndiese said: Just a heads up from someone who is just a bit further along than you are, recently just started champing 3* BP blue is weaker than strange so strange will still tank blue. I believe my strange is 167 and BP is 170 maybe. BP will tank yellow I believe. Strange also tanks blue over daredevil and IM40.
granne said: Yup. That's because blue is Strange's strongest colour, which is pretty unusual. He does do better with a tank, but his burst healing helps to reduce the damage he takes.How many 3* bonus heroes are you usually getting in a fortnight? I ask because dupes can become champ levels fairly quickly. I got Hawkguy from about 5 covers to champed within 2 weeks of his entering tokens, and got to apply 3 or 4 dupes as extra levels.For 4*s, having a colour at five makes it less advisable to make someone your BH, but the same isn't necessarily true for 3*s, especially if you only need a couple more covers.
jamesh said: While Dr Strange has relatively low health, I've found him to have better survivability than some other higher health characters.As well as his yellow passive shortening matches, his blue power is very useful: as well as stunning one enemy, it does decent damage over the lifetime of the countdown, and by depleting enemy AP it can prevent the enemy from firing a power at you. Since the damage of both of these moves increase with character level, the benefit of levelling him probably outweighs having him protected by a stronger character.
jtsings said: I guess I kind of assumed that the bonus hero favors giving you only one kind of color for a character, so it was pointless to keep trying to get covers if it favors giving you dupes. Does it seem to be random for most other people?
MarkersMake said: It is indeed random. You have just had some bad luck, that's all.
3* Strange is probably my most-used character in PVE, as I will use him even when not boosted (infact, when he was boosted I cant say I noticed a massive jump in his damage).
Even if I have collected enough blue to fire his stun, I will generally hold onto it until I'm in a situation where a goon countdown is about to resolve, and like @jamesh said, his relatively low health isnt a problem when your team never gets hit!
BlackBoltRocks said: jtsings said: However, for the important news, I did get my 5th yellow (and 13th) cover for Strange I highly recommend champing Strange immediately if you have the iso. That's largely because he will be boosted for the next week starting today. Have fun using him in Iso-8 Brotherhood!
jtsings said: However, for the important news, I did get my 5th yellow (and 13th) cover for Strange
talleman said: Im not sure that i understand the question but if you champ your character you can choose wich colours you want to max.
granne said: Both Cage and R&G are great, but I would vote for Cage in your situation. He will save you health packs, which, as an early 2*-3* transitioner, will be important for you. R&G will also save you health packs, but only on themselves.