Which "weak" character do you love?

tiomono

The forums quickly form opinions on what is a good or bad character.

But sometimes you just love that weak character, or have a team that helps them shine.

For me its sandman. He is one of my higher leveled 4's and I will use him often. He is core on one of my simulator teams for his green aoe with a 2 turn stun. His other 2 powers are pretty meh. I will run him in a heartbeat if either him or vulture are boosted. It seems like a lot of spidey villains work well together.

So who is your trash tier character that you like to try and polish up so they can shine just a little? What do you love about them? 

jym010

Mr. Fantastic....Strictly for his blue.  I love the tile switch with the protects and a 2 turn stun helps a little as well.

Daredevil217

Infinity War Spidey- I just love characters who do things others can’t, and his web spam really helps the other spider-verse characters shine. I love him with Miles specifically as both have an ability that can one-shot characters way above their weight class with enough webs on the board.

Mr. Fantastic- Pure finesse piece that won’t get you the speed clears but is tons of fun and gives lots of protection and board control. Shuri actually breathed new life into him as his black and blue both spam fortified tiles. 

X-23- I’m a sucker for true heal. Offensively she’s trash but I like saving health packs. I sometimes send her in to tank as I match away Grocket strikes.

Taskmaster- Love at first sight. Even though he’ll never be boosted I’m going.to play the **** out of him in sim.

Main Event Hulk- Another one that Shuri improved. I think people are coming around on him and he’s no longer considered lower tier. 

Dormammu

She-Hulk

She's one of my favorite characters. I fell in love with her during John Byrne's run of Fantastic Four back in the 80s when I was just a little shaver who could barely read. The Thing was always so depressing to me; I liked the way She-Hulk enjoyed being big and green rather than always agonizing about her pathetic existence like Ben did. What a breath of fresh air she was in a book that had gone stale dating back to the Lee/Kirby era.

When I was in 3-star land I was bound and determined to come up with a team featuring She-Hulk that worked. I came up with a defensive/denial team that was awesome: She-Hulk/Cage/IM40. Basically, Cage's defense tile (set his red to 5) absorbed all the incoming match damage, while She-Hulk's green (fed by IM40's Recharge) wouldn't let the enemy use any AP powers. Offensively, I AoE'd everyone to death with She-Hulk's red and IM40's blue. It wasn't a fast team and didn't work very well against goons, but against active tile matchers that team was a nightmare.

NotBAMF

Jubilee. I use her a lot in Shield Simulator, often in conjunction with Thoress and/or Lockjaw. her ywllow is a nifty little power, and the double stun of her purple is pretty sweet.

ThaRoadWarrior

5* Dr. Octopus. I love the mini game of trying to trigger that stupid countdown, I just wish it would end wave matches like it did at release. That was a pointless nerf

4* Kraven - in my opinion he only has one foot in the garbage heap. If his trap exploded into enemy specials that could put Think Like the Enemy to work and/or there wasn't a 3AP/side cap on Wounded Pride, he would be solidly upper mid-tier. Plus his animations are great.



 

skittledaddy

SpiderGwen.
Most consider her low-tier in the 4* world, but I find her very helpful against a wide variety of foes.
Her pink, while unpredictable against a full 3 enemies, gets the job done more often then not and the rest is about fueling that Cherry Bomb. I don't even usually team her with other web-makers (yet, at least)
She and Vulture complete the rainbow and she is so good at locking out characters for the two turns I need to protect his Green CDs.

Straycat

War Machine. I like the Red-Green interaction that floods the board with attack tiles. I just ignore his blue. Often pair him with Carol or Nico, so they can do a lot of tile buffing.

sinnerjfl

5* Ock.

I think most people have never played with a fully covered Ock yet think he is the worst garbage character there is. His powers all flow with one another: use Black first, gets those strike tiles, use Blue once you have enough to double cast ideally and benefit from those very good strike tiles, then you can use Green and hopefully get it to phase 3 where it heals you and damages the other team.

Its slow, its convoluted and he needs an AP generator but I still love how he works and he's actually good in my book. He's good to bring along on Wave nodes too.

If black/blue had innate fortification it would be even better, have to rely on supports as it is.

illusionist_KA

Nightcrawler - just his purple alone, is so much fun. If the his critical lands in the right place with the 5* character. Massive damage, just makes matches really fast. If he had more health, it would be so much easier to use him day to day.

CT1888

I love using Doc Ock with Carol to fire off his green and to troll Thanos or Okoye teams, so people have to suffer the indignity of being beaten by a Doc team. 

TPF Alexis

Storm. She's always been one of my faves, and even tho I'm solidly in 4* land and she doesn't have a 4* version, I use her whenever I can manage it. She's basically the reason I started clearing Seed Teams with the loaner and a couple of 1*, because it gave me more opportunities to use her.

ThaRoadWarrior

sinnerjfl said:

5* Ock.

I think most people have never played with a fully covered Ock 

Mine is 1/0/2 and I still think he's fun lol. He is mechanically very interesting, but he isn't fast and that's why he gets such a bad rap around here I think. He belongs in a game with some other non-speed-based meta. 

BoyWonder1914

Wiccan. 

Fell in love with the guys' powers instantly. I'm all for unique move mechanics being added to the game, and he's got that in spades. I can count on one hand the amount of abilities in the game that actually grant you the AP from destroyed tiles, so I was immediately smitten with Power of The Demiurge. I also find Chain Lightning to be an incredibly cool power. If you can pull it off against the right special tile spammer, you can destroy a vast majority of the board, and the animations are rather awesome. Magical Barrier is also pretty cool, in that its a true heal which is triggered by the tiles getting matched or destroyed by either side. The damage reduction is great as well when it works. 

Wiccan is a character with god-tier abilities, but absolutely trash tier implementation. As awesome as Power of The Demiurge is, it requires Wiccan to tank those colors to get the most out of it, which isn't likely gonna happen considering how late he is to my champ collection. Most 4-star teams I run him with, he only gets to tank blue. It's also one heck of a setup; often the match is over, or I have the ability to end it within the next couple of turns by the time I get 6 AP in all colors. There are characters like MEH and Mockingbird who decrease this time frame significantly, but as I have them both north of Lv. 300, Wiccan isn't tanking over them or America anytime soon. Chain Lightning is rather expensive, and while the damage may seem worth it, it doesn't often hit more than 1 column, because REASONS. I swear, I can have a board almost full of enemy specials, and it will pick the 1 column that happens to be free of them almost every time. Still, I'm determined to find more uses for this guy and can't be told otherwise. 

StevO-J

Quicksilver. Not necessarily that weak, but since he's a 3* he rarely gets a chance to take centre stage normally in 4* play (or 5* I guess, but I don't play that tier).

I especially find myself enjoying his PVP event whenever it comes around, because it adds an element of strategy to figure out how to get the most out of his blue passive. He puts more emphasis on the puzzle aspect of MPQ I guess.

charmbots

Boosted 4* Elektra in pvp, she won a lot of matches for me I would have otherwise lost. 

tiomono

I'm loving all the doc ock praise in here. He has been my bonus hero for a while. I think his countdown stun would be fun with 5* daredevil.

Yepyep

I appreciate the comments above for Quicksilver and Spider-Gwen. I love both, though I cannot seem to get SG covers; I still don't have her fully covered 754 days into playing!

It's hard to pick, but I have a few unloved characters I really enjoy playing, depending on the context.

For events when there are required characters, I always enjoy playing Bullseye (3*), Human Torch (3*), and Quicksilver. They don't get much attention, it seems, but they're all donkey-kickers.

For lightning rounds, which I play often, I especially love Dr. Doom, Loki, and Ragnarok. In that arena, with the right cast around them, those are deadly characters. Especially Dr. Doom! His two primary powers are such that you don't think about chasing them until, boom, they're ready to cast -- his purple is a straight up thermonuclear device if timed right, and his black is not far behind. He also fits into a lot of teams. Then there's Loki, C4rol, and a red/blue in the hands of a human being are almost unstoppable. Not as great on defense, granted, but great fun. Finally, Rags teamed with Riri (+ another) are a blast to play as a kind of infinite.

In 4* realm, I love Kate and Moon Knight. Brutal. They don't seem to get much love, and that's fine by me...

BigSoftieFF

Kraven.

I absolutely couldnt wait to champ him and throw him into the obvious Cardusa pairing and it was just as fun as expected. 

My my next target is Wiccan. I’m pretty sure he’s not very useful but I don’t care, can’t wait to champ him.

RedLion

I sympathize with the Kraven-love above. I never use him, until I see Kaecilius. He makes Kaecilius irrelevant, and for that I love him.

Other than that, I have an irrational hope that one day when "The Other Guy" goes off, the REAL 5* hulk will show up and throw down. In fact, that's my suggestion for the devs: fix 5* hulk, don't tell anyone, just let it be a surprise for those who still throw him into the occasional fight. 

Persephone

Squirrel Girl. 
I've used her yellow to avoid making a move because I just knew AI would set up what I wanted.  Almost always was I correct.  
I do love both her purple and green.  I use her every day in DDQ DAT Character Required because otherwise she won't  be used much.