**** Spider-Man (Infinity War) ****

D4Ni13

5/3/5

Dormammu said:

I consider X-23 to be a bad character, too.

Yet as bad as she is most of the times, there are some missions where no one stands like her. When boosted and in the correct set up she is a monster tank. I would welcome a change in her abilities, but don't think it will ever happen, except if an X-23 movie will come around. 

As for Infinity War Spider-Man, I think he's in the top half of the 4* tier. Granted when you start being a 5* transitioner, he won't be so much help, but as for a 3* or 4* player, he is very very good, because he can sustain himself in the battle (no other spider character required) and he is well balanced between offense and defense. 

Daredevil217

My Spidey is now level 285 unboosted.  I got to try him boosted in his PVP and it was nuts.  At first I was going to use half-Thor for red/green gen. I quickly switched to (unboosted) Miles/ (boosted) Peggy and rode that to 1K untouched where I broke MMR and took some defensive losses to 5* teams (who could probably match damage me to death) and eventually shielded out. 

Thoughts on Spidey:

- With Spidey as my red outlet, Peggy could default to 5 Yellow and really slow down the AI.  Even with Peggy tanking red there were more than enough webs being made with Spidey boosted. His punch could easily one-shot any character (except champed AI Spidey). He even double punched a champ Thor and Okoye, leaving only the champed enemy Spidey left (who took forever to take down). 

- 95% of my 4s are “play only when boosted” and so that doesn’t hurt my view of Spidey who needs to tank to be effective. If I play him boosted, he WILL tank most of the time. 

- Spidey is a monster defensively. I tried stunning him with Peggy, only for him to wake up and shrug off all three Peggy bombs like they were nothing... yes the same bombs that usually KO enemy teams. Scary stuff. 

- Like many characters, stunning is his big weakness. The mirror match against AI Pete was great because I need more tiles to punch harder, but said tiles thicken the Spider-Armor. I’ve had many a punch do a single point of damage to AI Pete (while that same punch would one shot a 5*) because there were too many webs. I learned to instead use Miles red stun and purple surprise attack to kill AI Spidey.

- Oh yeah, Miles can do boosted 4* levels of damage with that purple thanks to all the webs on the board at any time; ESPECIALLY when only AI Pete is left because all the enemy matches make webs too. 

- With Miles you can easily outpace the enemy in AP generation, and its not close. Focus on blue and web tiles, let Peggy do Peggy things and it’s all academic. Even when not focusing on blue I had blue, red and purple ready to fire multiple tiles just from myself and the enemy matching webs (remember Miles procs when either team matches web tiles!). 

hopper1979

Thank you, I have been arguing he is way underrated.  The big knock against him, and it is valid, is he cannot be paired with 5's partially well.  I would still argue he is one of the best 1 on 1 character in the game and when paired with Miles you have two character with almost no upper limit to their damage.  I just wish I could get him covered.

Waddles_Pines

5/3/5

hopper1979 said:

Thank you, I have been arguing he is way underrated.  The big knock against him, and it is valid, is he cannot be paired with 5's partially well.  I would still argue he is one of the best 1 on 1 character in the game and when paired with Miles you have two character with almost no upper limit to their damage.  I just wish I could get him covered.

Totally agree with him being underrated.  Just waiting on one more red or green cover.  Somehow all the events with him as a prize kept giving me blue covers.  

As for best 1 on 1, he's up there but I would argue against him being the top dog.  Any stunner can take him down as long as you deny him red.  

Jaedenkaal

Waddles_Pines said:  

As for best 1 on 1, he's up there but I would argue against him being the top dog.  Any stunner can take him down as long as you deny him red.  

I think that's true of pretty much every 4*.

hopper1979

One of the best   Ignoring 5's, I still might put Electra, Gamora and Vulture above him but you got to remember if you deny stun most of the stunners are not good in 1 v 1 either.  Regardless he is better than he is given credit for and he suffers from the existence of 5's more than a lot of characters.

AXP_isme

I was pleasantly surprised using him in his featured PvP. I also enjoyed him in the boss event with miles and gwen. Mine isn’t champed so he needed to be boosted to tank his colours but when he did... oh boy! Webs, webs and more webs. 

For me it’s a shame he came so late to the party. It’s unlikely he’ll ever make it to as high a level as either miles or gwen so he’ll tank fewer colours and generate fewer webs. If I could reliably get him to tank I think he would be in much more regular rotation.