4* champ rewards to give 5* ideas.

The rockett

I know I have posted a lot of serious posts with the game, so I wanted to have some actual fun with one. 

Now that we see that D3/Demi will be giving out 5* covers from champ rewards of 4*, let's have some fun and guess where you think this will go. 

Here is the list:

Silver Surfer
Phoenix
Old Man Logan
Black Suit Spider-Man
Green Gobin
IM46
Cap
Banner 
Black Widow
Dr Strange
Black Panther
HawkEye
StarLord
Doc Ock
DareDevil
Gambit
Thor  

Black Bolt <- Medusa Confimed 
Thanos <- Gamora Confirmed 
Peter Parker <- Vulture Confirmed

Post your thoughts below and let's see what happens. 
 

The rockett

Silver Surfer <- Mr F or IW
Phoenix <- JG or Cyc 
Old Man Logan <- XFW or x 23
Black Suit Spider-Man <- Miles/Jess/Gwen 
Green Gobin <- Sand Man/Carnage/Venom
Black Bolt <- Medusa Confirmed 
IM46 <-Riri or HB
Cap <- Peggy
Banner  <-Cho
Black Widow <-
Dr Strange <- Mordo or Nova 
Thanos <- Gamora Confirmed 
Black Panther <- Bucky (MCU tie in)
HawkEye <-Kate
StarLord <- Star Lord 
Doc Ock <- Sand Man/Carnage/ Venom
Peter Parker <- Vulture confirmed 
DareDevil <- Elektra 
Gambit <- Rogue
Thor  <- Thora

alphabeta

Nice idea and great change from the devs

Here is my guesses

Silver Surfer - Thing (well a member of fantastic 4 anyway and thing is my highest so biased wish)
Phoenix - Cyclops
Old Man Logan - XFW
Black Suit Spider-Man - Agent Venom
Green Gobin - Venom (Eddie Brock) 
IM46 - Hulkbuster
Cap - Peggy
Banner - **** and **** Hulk
Black Widow - Agent Coulson or Nick Fury
Dr Strange -Mordo
Black Panther - Winter Soldier
HawkEye - Kate Bishop
StarLord - Porn Lord
Doc Ock -Sandman (cause you know rubbish in rubbish out) 
DareDevil - Elektra
Gambit - Rouge
Thor - Thoress

Black Bolt <- Medusa Confirmed
Thanos <- Gamora Confirmed  
Peter Parker <- Vulture confirmed 

The rockett

Ah.  I didn't think of Fury for BW 

The rockett

Also Main Event Hulk could give Banner. 

thisone

I'm thinking they are trying to steer clear from older 4* as newer players will struggle for their covers. Medusa, Gamora and Vulture seem to bear this out, but quite a small sample size so could be wrong.

Rogue > Gambit
Grocket > Starlord
Sandman > Ock are my guesses at next 3.

Copps

Yeah so far all of the named heroes have benefitted from vaulting. So I think Peggy is more likely than buck for cap, riri and not hb for cap and so on. Not as sure about really old fives like oml surfer and Phoenix though since they match so well with older fours. 

charmbots

Rogue > Gambit
Yondu > StarLord (“He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy.)
Sandman > Ock
Mordo > Strange
Venom > BSSM 
Peggy > Cap
Fury > Widow
Cyclops > Phoenix 
Elektra > DD

STOPTHIS

Already mentioned who I thought should give who here, but one thing I hope that will come out of this (that probably won't) is that 3*s rewards get updated to give 6 4* covers as well. Feels odd that 2*s get 50 champ levels and give you three 3* covers and 4*s get 100 champ levels and give six 5* covers, but 3*s get 100 champ levels and only give three 4* covers.

Pongie

There is no way they would release as many 5*s as 4*s. Does having 2 feeders for each 5* is too many? That’s 12x covers for an optimal 4/4/4 setup and any single pull (or bonus heroes) would complete a 5*. Too good to implement? We’ve already identified possible multiple 4*s feeding a single 5* so it’s not really far fetched. Though taking RNG away completely is a long shot. Regardless of how long it would take a typical player to max 2x 4*s for those covers. 

JHawkInc

I've seen Coulson/Fury for Natasha, Quake could work as well if you're going for the Shield angle.

And I know people are sticklers for matching characters (when there's no reason to do so, as different versions of the same character have nothing to do with each other outside of not being usable at the same time), but I like Yondu -> 5* Star Lord and Main Event Hulk -> Gladiator Thor better for the thematic link.

brisashi

This makes the most sense to me

Surfer - IW
Phoenix - X-Force Wolverine
OML - X-23
BSSM - Venom
Green Goblin - Carnage
Iron Man - Riri
Cap - Winter Soldier
Banner - Hulkbuster
Black Widow - Fury
Strange - Mordo
Black Panther - Mr Fantastic
Hawkeye - Kate Bishop
Star Lord - Yondu
Daredevil - Elektra
Gambit - Rogue
Thor - Main Event Hulk

Punisher5784

There should be multiple 4*s leading to 1 5* like when championing was first introduced:

Silver Surfer - Mr. F, IW, Thing
Phoenix - JG, Cyke, Professor X
Old Man Logan - XFW, X23, XFDP
Black Suit Spider-Man - Venom, Agent Venom, GR
Green Goblin - KP, Iron Patriot, Spidergwen
IM46 - IMHB, Riri, War Machine
Cap - Peggy, Falcap, Cap Marvel
Banner - Hulk, Cho, Rhulk
Black Widow - Fury, Quake, Punisher
Dr Strange - Mordo, Nova, C&D
Black Panther - WS, Moonknight, Blade
HawkEye - Kate, Coulson, Mockingbird
StarLord - SL, Grocket, Yondu
Doc Ock - Carnage, Sandman, Gwenpool
DareDevil - Elektra, IF, Cage
Gambit - Rogue, Nightcrawler, Iceman
Thor - Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp

Black Bolt <- Medusa, Lockjaw
Thanos <- Gamora, Drax
Peter Parker <- Vulture, Miles, Spiderwoman

The rockett

I like the Yondu angle.  That's great.  

The rockett

@Punisher5784 I hope they don't do that. Reason is that would lead to a lot of high end 5*.  This would only mean that they would introduce 6*, which to be is not a good thing.  The rumors of 6* have been around since 5* were released.  

Punisher5784

The rockett said:

@Punisher5784 I hope they don't do that. Reason is that would lead to a lot of high end 5*.  This would only mean that they would introduce 6*, which to be is not a good thing.  The rumors of 6* have been around since 5* were released.  

6*s are coming.. it's going to happen. There will be a new token that gives 5*s with a small chance of 6*. CL10 will have 5* placement with double 4* progression for PvE. 4* PvP is coming because most vets have fully champed 3*s. We'll start seeing 6/4* duel releases. 

Beer40

Silver Surfer <---Nova
Phoenix <--- Teen Jean
Old Man Logan <--- Xforce Wolverine
Black Suit Spider-Man <--- Venom
Green Goblin <--- Spider Gwen (the irony!)
IM46 <---Hulkbuster
Cap <---Sam Wilson
Banner <---Gladiator Hulk
Black Widow <---Nick Fury
Dr Strange <---Mordo
Black Panther <---Mr. Fantastic
HawkEye <---Kate Bishop
StarLord <---Starlord
Doc Ock <---Sandman
DareDevil <---Elektra
Gambit <---Rogue
Thor  <---Thor

Black Bolt <- Medusa Confimed 
Thanos <- Gamora Confirmed 
Peter Parker <- Vulture Confirmed

broll

Pongie said:

There is no way they would release as many 5*s as 4*s. Does having 2 feeders for each 5* is too many? That’s 12x covers for an optimal 4/4/4 setup and any single pull (or bonus heroes) would complete a 5*. Too good to implement? We’ve already identified possible multiple 4*s feeding a single 5* so it’s not really far fetched. Though taking RNG away completely is a long shot. Regardless of how long it would take a typical player to max 2x 4*s for those covers. 

I struggled with this question too.  Since there are more than double as many 4* as 5* (and growing faster) you would think they would have two.  But if there were going to have 2 per  you'd think they'd only give 3 per because 12 is too generous.

People (myself included) have pondered whether this change is paving the road for 6*s.  If it is, maybe there will be much fewer 4* releases in the future.  Rotation might change to 6/5/5 with the occasional 6* copied to 4*.  That would allow the numbers to eventually balance out.

Jaedenkaal

broll said:

Pongie said:

There is no way they would release as many 5*s as 4*s. Does having 2 feeders for each 5* is too many? That’s 12x covers for an optimal 4/4/4 setup and any single pull (or bonus heroes) would complete a 5*. Too good to implement? We’ve already identified possible multiple 4*s feeding a single 5* so it’s not really far fetched. Though taking RNG away completely is a long shot. Regardless of how long it would take a typical player to max 2x 4*s for those covers. 

I struggled with this question too.  Since there are more than double as many 4* as 5* (and growing faster) you would think they would have two.  But if there were going to have 2 per  you'd think they'd only give 3 per because 12 is too generous.

People (myself included) have pondered whether this change is paving the road for 6*s.  If it is, maybe there will be much fewer 4* releases in the future.  Rotation might change to 6/5/5 with the occasional 6* copied to 4*.  That would allow the numbers to eventually balance out.

Of course, who saw 60 4*s in our future back when Thor and Elektra were being released?