**** Spider-Ham (Peter Porker) ****

Brigby

Hi Everyone,

"Spider-Ham, aka Peter Porker, is a sweet, well-intentioned member of the Spider Family. He is always the first one to try and pay a compliment or crack a joke, but despite behaving like the ultimate ham, he takes his job as Spider-Man seriously and fights with his own special kind of cartoon fury."

Check out the brand new Limited 4-Star Spider-Ham, and find out how you can recruit him onto your roster!

Limited 4-Star Rarity (Legendary)
Heroes, Spider-Verse
  

(Most abilities listed at level 270, Power Level 5)
14,956 Health
 85 |  74 |  65 |  43 |  13 |  12 |  11 |  3.5x

Into the Spider-Verse -  10  AP
Spider-Ham reaches through the multiverse and summons spider-heroes to join the fight. Creates up to 4 3-turn Countdown tiles that create Web tiles, stun the enemy, grant allies a burst of health, and deal damage, respectively.

• [Purple Tile] Miles Morales lets his web shooters loose and creates 2 Web tiles.
• [Blue Tile] Agent Venom's tendrils stretch out and wrap up the enemy, stunning them for 1 turn(s).
• [Yellow Tile] Peter Parker leaps to the front, inspiring his Spider-Verse comrades and giving them a burst of 139 health.
• [Red Tile] Gwen Stacy, Spider-Woman, lets loose with a proportionally powered punch, dealing 426 damage.)

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• Level 2: ...stuns for 2 turns...heals for 361...hits for 1083 damage.
  
• Level 3: ...creates 3 Web tiles...heals for 542...hits for 1588 damage.
• Level 4: ...up to 4 2-turn Countdown tiles...heals for 723
• Level 5: ...4 2-turn Fortified Countdown tiles...stuns for 3 turns...heals for 1084...hits for 3952 damage.

A Talking Pig!?! - 8  AP
"Do pigs talk in this dimension? I don't want to freak anyone out." Stun a random enemy Minion for 1 turn and remove up to 1 enemy Countdown, Strike, Attack, or Protect  tiles, removing Countdown tiles first.

• Level 2: ...enemy Minion for 2 turns...
  
• Level 3: Stun all enemy Minions for 1 turn...up to 2 enemy Countdown...
• Level 4: ...up to 3 enemy Countdown...
• Level 5: ...Minions for 2 turns...up to 4 enemy Countdown...

When Pigs Fly - 12  AP
Spider-Ham swings through the air like a capicola cannonball, bouncing off his foes. Creates a 3-turn Blue Countdown tile which deals 1930 damage to a random enemy. While this tile is on the board, Spider-Ham is Airborne and this tile continues to tick down (even if Spider-Ham becomes Stunned).

Costs 1 fewer AP for each member of the Sinister Six on the enemy team.

• Level 2: ...deals 3571 damage...
  
• Level 3: ...3-turn Fortified Blue Countdown...deals 4455 damage...
• Level 4: ...deals 7287 damage...
• Level 5: ...deals 12915 damage...

Recruit Spider-Ham!

S.H.I.E.L.D. Training - Heroes for Hire

• Starts: 12/24/18, 7:00pm ET
• Ends: 12/31/18, 7:00am ET
• Price: 7,000 Hero Points
• Contents: 
  
• Agent Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) Yellow Cover
• Riri Williams (Ironheart) Blue Cover
• 16x Elite Tokens
• 6x Command Points
• 20,000 Iso-8

Spider-Ham & Friends - Vault

• Starts: 12/24/18, 7:00am ET
• Ends: 12/28/18, 2:00am ET
• 80 Items: 
  
• 1x Legendary Token
• 3x Beginner Support Tokens
• Random Spider-Ham (Classic) Cover
• 2x Random 4-Stars from Call for Backup Missions, option of following characters:
• Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)
• Agent Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
  
• Riri Williams (Ironheart)
• 21x 3-Star Covers
• 3x Featured
• 18x Random
• 52x 2-Star Covers
• 10x Featured
• 42x Random

Event Schedule

The Hunt - Story Event

• Starts: 12/24/18, 7:00am ET
• Ends: 12/28/18, 2:00am ET
• Spider-Ham (Peter Porker) in Placement Rewards

S.H.I.E.L.D. Training - Story Event

• Starts: 12/24/18, 7:00am ET
• Ends: 12/31/18, 7:00am ET
• Rewards tokens to Prodigal Sun, random cover of Spider-Ham (Peter Porker), and more!

Prodigal Sun - Story Event

• Starts: 12/27/18, 7:00am ET
• Ends: 1/4/19, 2:00am ET
• Spider-Ham (Peter Porker) in Progression Rewards
• Rewards tokens to the Spider-Ham & Friends vault

Porcine of Interest - Versus Tournament

• Features Spider-Ham (Peter Porker)
• Starts: 12/27/18, 8:00pm ET
• Ends: 12/31/19, 3:00am ET
• Spider-Ham (Peter Porker) in Progression Rewards
• Rewards tokens to the Spider-Ham & Friends vault

Phumade

A reason to actually run Arkangel

GrimSkald

Huh.  A mid-week character intro.  Weird.

bluewolf

I think the Shield Training should give out tokens for The Hunt store?  And Prodigal Sun will give tokens for Spider-Ham and Friends?

That’s what usually happens, anyway.

LFChikarason

America Chavez was also released on 12/24 last year

shardwick

No "Holiday Ham" pvp event. Disappointed.

GrimSkald

bluewolf said:

I think the Shield Training should give out tokens for The Hunt store?  And Prodigal Sun will give tokens for Spider-Ham and Friends?

That’s what usually happens, anyway.

It is, but I'd definitely rather have "Spider Ham and Friends" token from the Shield Training, myself.

skittledaddy

5/5/3

Any special reason why his pink/purple ability targets "Minions"?
Does that differ any way from all "Enemies"? Goons only or are they just being cute?

Brigby

GrimSkald said:

Huh.  A mid-week character intro.  Weird.

We're going on holiday break starting the end of Friday, so we're just trying to get as much info out there beforehand, otherwise we usually reveal new character info on Mondays

bluewolf

skittledaddy said:

Any special reason why his pink/purple ability targets "Minions"?
Does that differ any way from all "Enemies"? Goons only or are they just being cute?

Minions are Goons, yes.

Merrick

Why does the spider-ham and friend’s vault end days before Prodigal Sun, when that event gives tokens for the vault?

Punter1

So is a minion anyone on the opposite team?  Or specific to certain characters

skittledaddy

5/5/3

bluewolf said:

skittledaddy said:

Any special reason why his pink/purple ability targets "Minions"?
Does that differ any way from all "Enemies"? Goons only or are they just being cute?

Minions are Goons, yes.

I know there are plenty of chars especially effective against Goons, but is this the first char specifically targeting Minion/Goons only? Interesting concept, I guess...

bluewolf

He’s designed as a niche character. One of his powers only hits non-tile movers in PVE.

This is what happens, I guess, as approach 80 characters in a tier.  More specialization.

I find When Pigs Fly interesting, as the tile still counts down when he’s stunned.  Sorry, Archangel, it’s not that easy.

Thanos

@Brigby Do you know who the 5* essentials are for the hunt and prodigal sun?

skittledaddy

5/5/3

Assuming I get one more Ghost Rider cover (any color) in The Hunt progression, this will be my first SHIELD Training where I have all 3 chars at 209 or better! (Riri and Coulson are two of my 15 4* champs)

FINALLY!!! Albeit, the reward is a Limited niche-build cartoon pig that I will hardly ever use, but it's a sign of progress!

therightwaye

Assuming minion means goon or equivalent non-player character, I hope this is the only character that ever refers to that variable. Otherwise the future of character design seems very bleak and not so fun. 

HoundofShadow

It's either 5/3/5 for non-minions or 3/5/5 for minions. This pig here introduced a couple of new abilities.

1) His purple targets basic special tiles and countdown tiles, but countdown tiles are given the priority to be removed.

2) His countdown tile still resolves even if he's stunned.

3) Targeting specifically "Minions".

Isn't Prodigal Sun the PvE with 7 days of Dark Avengers?

Brigby

Thanos said:

Brigby Do you know who the 5* essentials are for the hunt and prodigal sun?

The Hunt - Archangel
Prodigal Sun - Star-Lord (Awesome Mix Volume 2)

If you want to see the full event details, you can check out the updated December 2018 Sneak Peek thread.

shardwick

therightwaye said:

Assuming minion means goon or equivalent non-player character, I hope this is the only character that ever refers to that variable. Otherwise the future of character design seems very bleak and not so fun. 

May be an early counter for future characters that spawn goons as an ability instead of characters like Coulson/Kingpin that just put out goon tiles. 

jamesh

I guess we'll be able to find out what "minions" means when SHIELD Training opens.  The first node will have a fully covered loaner Spider-Ham, and face off against three non-goons.  If his purple refuses to stun anyone, then minion==goon. If it stuns, then it is just fluffy language.