Space Gem Season Character Updates *Updated (8/23/17)

Freelancer

Kingpin Black should have been changed to remove 'selected' Countdown tiles, with the option to choose one or three to remove.

Magic

After playing with Kingpin in the System Reboot I can agree with many here - it's a nerf. Sure, my Kingpin does 9k+ AOE damage when boosted for 8 AP... and 3 countdown tiles. So you have to pair him with countdown spammers to make it work (Star-Lord? Deadpool?) or get lots of Yellow as well. I think to make this rework look good you should be given the full choice - 1 or 3 and which 3 to remove. In such case you would still have a nuke option on 1 opponent. Otherwise the skill goes from "can't use it" to "I have to do AOE and lose 3 tiles" in a blink.

Don't like the change. 

For GR - i don't care for him other then being good TU. And the cost reduction from 12 to 10 is great. Thumbs up.

KGB

shardwick said:

Brigby said:

Player1575 said:

Brigby any more updates for system reboot? Does it start tomorrow along with galactus hungers? 

Yes. It starts tomorrow, and will reward Iso-8, 1 random Ghost Rider cover, and 1 random Kingpin cover.

Hoping I don't get yet another yellow Kingpin. But this is MPQ so I know I will.

Me too. And of course that's EXACTLY what I got so my 2/2/5 Kingpin remains at 11 covers with a soon to be wasted Yellow.

It's really annoying that in special events like this that you can't select a color you need so that everyone who completes the event gets something.

KGB

byc

The other problem with this Kingpin change is that he doesn't work with himself nearly as well.  I rather just do the single-target damage, but Kingpin can't just put out one or two countdowns for Gambit to eat.  He puts at a minimum of 3, so I'm always stuck at doing 2/3 of the single damage as AOE damage.

If this change keeps long-term, I might sell him.  He's worse than his original version.

byc

Magic said:

After playing with Kingpin in the System Reboot I can agree with many here - it's a nerf. Sure, my Kingpin does 9k+ AOE damage when boosted for 8 AP... and 3 countdown tiles. So you have to pair him with countdown spammers to make it work (Star-Lord? Deadpool?) or get lots of Yellow as well. I think to make this rework look good you should be given the full choice - 1 or 3 and which 3 to remove. In such case you would still have a nuke option on 1 opponent. Otherwise the skill goes from "can't use it" to "I have to do AOE and lose 3 tiles" in a blink.

Don't like the change. 

For GR - i don't care for him other then being good TU. And the cost reduction from 12 to 10 is great. Thumbs up.

You mean you do not enjoy spending 10 yellow, 8 black to do 4000 damage to the entire team?  Why that's better than most 3*s!

It's good to know his new black is worse than GSBW's green now.

Jaedenkaal

byc said:

You mean you do not enjoy spending 10 yellow, 8 black to do 4000 damage to the entire team?  Why that's better than most 3*s!

It's good to know his new black is worse than GSBW's green now.

I can't tell how much of this is sarcasm. "Worse than Sniper Rifle" isn't exactly a high bar. Plenty of powers are worse than Sniper Rifle.

Pongie

Kingpin black being useless when there are no friendly countdowns is a terrible change. They should have made it so it remove random countdowns (including. In friendly). That way you introduce another angle to have him become a countdown remover

dannyj

The new GR is absolutely insane with CM and Coulson. Probably the best sub 5* team in the game. 

jamesh

dannyj said:

The new GR is absolutely insane with CM and Coulson. Probably the best sub 5* team in the game. 

Just wait until Hellfire turns into a repeater tile with the next game update.  It'll stop triggering both Captain Marvel and Coulson.