5 Star Black Panther, best setup?

Ahoyman

As someone who is about to champ Black Panther, what is the best set up for him?     Sorry if I missed this somewhere, I didn't see a guide for how to cover 5 stars

Jarvind

Depends on who you're using him with. With Thanos, 5/3/5 for sure. Without him, I would think 5/5/3 is probably the way to go.

BlackBoltRocks

The general, standalone build for 5* Panther is 5/4/4. Both Yellow and Red get minimal gains going from 4 to 5 covers, but leaving either at 3 makes them feel a bit weak

atomzed

BlackBoltRocks said:

The general, standalone build for 5* Panther is 5/4/4. Both Yellow and Red get minimal gains going from 4 to 5 covers, but leaving either at 3 makes them feel a bit weak

what blackbolt says. 

5 black is a must since that is his only active move, and it can potentially deal a lot of dmg with one more turn of CD. 

The difference between 3,4,5 red (at level 460, since it's easy reference for me)
- 3 = threshold at 9678, dmg at 12945
- 4 = threshold at 7259, dmg at 12945
- 5 = threshold at 6654, dmg at 13066

what we see here is that the dmg increase is minimal bet 4 red and 5 red, but the threshold (which passive is activated) jumps greatly between 9678 and 7259 bet 3 red and 4 red. 

for yellow, the difference between 3,4,5 yellow is 
- 3 = spend 8 TU, deal 25648
- 4 = spend 7 TU, deal 26737
- 5 = spend 7 TU, deal 29156
based purely on numbers, 5 yellow looks the better deal, but in practice that is not the case. sometimes there is no yellow match for you to trigger the passive dmg. so it is an inconsistent source of dmg.

So why 5/4/4? it's a good compromise between the red and yellow. you get lower threshold to activate red passive without sacrifice the dmg. you also get to use 1 less TU to trigger the yellow passive without sacrificing much dmg too. 

Ahoyman

Thanks for the break down , that’s why I wasn’t sure because it didn’t seem like a huge differential between 4  & 5 covers 

fight4thedream

Hi @Ahoyman !

Just a heads up but you can find information regarding a character's power set and discussions about best builds in the Character Details subforum. There's a Character Index there you can use to help find the character you are looking for. We ask that users utilize the character threads there so all the helpful information regarding that character is located in one centralized location.

So it would be very much appreciated if you could post any questions you have about a particular character in their respective character thread. Thanks!

Ahoyman

Thanks, I had already reviewed that prior to posting and it was just discussing the powers but not how people are setting him up.  There are separate posts for 1-4* with guides of how to set those characters up but nothing I could find for 5*, hence the my post.

Ahoyman

I will in the future post there!

fight4thedream

I see! Thank you for your understanding!