**** Namor (The Sub-Mariner) ****

Brigby

Hi Everyone,

"The offspring of an Atlantean princess and an American explorer, the powerful mutant Namor is a force to behold. While he occasionally leaves his kingdom to work with - or fight against - the surface world, the welfare of Atlantis is always his utmost priority."

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

4-Star Rarity (Legendary)
Heroes
  

(Abilities listed at level 270, Power Level 5)
15,642 Health
 85 |  74 |  65 |  43 |  13 |  12 |  11 |  3.0x

Namor's Mercy -  11  AP
Prince Namor strikes down his foe but bestows upon them a boon, for his mercy knows no bounds. Deal 1479 damage and destroy 3 AP in the enemy's strongest color. Then the enemy team gains 1 Black AP.

• Level 2: Deal 2074 damage...
  
• Level 3: Deal 2651 damage...
• Level 4: Deal 3409 damage and destroy 4 AP...
• Level 5: Deal 5519 damage...

Imperius Rex! - 12  AP
Namor bursts forth from the waves, attacking any who dare oppose him. Deal 83 damage for each Blue tile on the board, then destroy a random set of tiles in the shape of the Trident of Neptune. (Destroyed tiles do not gain AP.)

• Level 2: Deal 162 damage...
  
• Level 3: Deal 253 damage...
• Level 4: Deal 415 damage...
• Level 5: Deal 740 damage...

Atlantis Attacks - 9  AP
The Sub-Mariner uses ancient Atlantean technology to unleash a tidal wave upon the surface world. Convert 3 basic tiles to Blue. If there are 10 or more Blue tiles remaining after any matches are made, deal 1100 damage to the enemy team.

• Level 2: ...deal 2272 damage...
  
• Level 3: ...deal 3084 damage...
• Level 4: Convert 4 basic tiles...deal 3787 damage...
• Level 5: Convert 5 basic tiles...deal 5189 damage...

Character Release Stores/Vaults/Events

Recruit Namor!

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

• Starts: 1/31/19, 7:00am ET
• Ends: 2/7/19, 7:00am ET
• Price 7,000 Hero Points
• Contents: 
  
• Cloak and Dagger (Classic) Yellow Cover
• Mordo (Master of the Mystic Arts) Black Cover
• 16x Elite Tokens
• 6x Command Points
• 20,000 Iso-8

Namor & Friends - Limited Vault

• Starts: 2/3/19, 8:00am ET
• Ends: 2/9/19, 2:00am ET
• 80 Items: 
  
• 1x Legendary Token
• 3x Beginner Support Tokens
• 1x Random Namor (The Sub-Mariner) Cover
• 2x Random 4-Stars from the Call for Backup missions, with an option of the following characters:
• Domino (X-Force)
• Cloak and Dagger (Classic)
• Mordo (Master of the Mystic Arts)
• 21x 3-Star Covers
  
• 3x Featured
• 18x Random
• 52x 2-Star Covers
• 10x Featured
• 42x Random

Event Schedule

Venom Bomb - Story Event

• Starts: 1/31/19, 7:00am ET
• Ends: 2/5/19, 2:00am ET
• Namor (The Sub-Mariner) in Placement Reward

S.H.I.E.L.D. Training - Character Release Event

• Starts: 1/31/19, 7:00am ET
• Ends: 2/7/19, 7:00am ET
• Rewards tokens to Venom Bomb, random cover of Namor, and more!

Webbed Wonder - Story Event

• Starts: 2/4/19, 7:00am ET
• Ends: 2/8/19, 2:00am ET
• Namor (The Sub-Mariner) in Progression Reward
• Rewards tokens to the Namor & Friends Vault

From the Depths - Versus Tournament

• Starts: 2/3/19, 8:00am ET
• Ends: 2/6/19, 3:00pm ET
• Namor (The Sub-Mariner) in Progression Reward
• Rewards tokens to the Namor & Friends Vault

 What do you think is Namor's best build? Vote down below!

DAZ0273

"Shape of Trident of Neptune" board destruction sounds a bit bonkers.

Hmm, now who makes blue tiles? 

KGB

Brigby,

What does the Trident of Neptune look like on the board? Presumable Random means players can't place it (ala GSBW).

Overall looks pretty Meh given 2 expensive powers which aren't AOE. Esp when you consider one of them has to be at rank 3 since I'll assume most players will want his AOE to be rank 5.

Also realized he makes Blue (via the Purple) but doesn't actually use it. So he needs a Blue user with him.

KGB

DAZ0273

Ughh, Domino for Shield Training, even with BH'ing RNG has not been kind to me (so much for her being lucky!), oh well. 

IceIX

The shape for Imperius Rex is:

<div>- - - - - - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - o -
- o - o - o -
- - o o o - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - - -</div>

It will always appear fully on the board when used, no prongs hanging off the sides.

Anon

3/5/5

3/5/5 looks like a pretty safe bet. 11 black AP for 5k damage and some AP destruction is just ok. Definitely not worth shortchanging the other 2. 

KGB

IceIX said:

The shape for Imperius Rex is:

<div>- - - - - - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - o -
- o - o - o -
- - o o o - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - - -</div>

It will always appear fully on the board when used, no prongs hanging off the sides.

So then no chance it can hit corner tiles which are always the ones players desperately want to hit. 

Any chance it appears in another orientation (90, 180 and 270 degrees) or is it always pointing up?

KGB

IceIX

KGB said:

Any chance it appears in another orientation (90, 180 and 270 degrees) or is it always pointing up?

Always in that orientation.

DAZ0273

KGB said:

IceIX said:

The shape for Imperius Rex is:

<div>- - - - - - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - o -
- o - o - o -
- - o o o - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - - -</div>

It will always appear fully on the board when used, no prongs hanging off the sides.

So then no chance it can hit corner tiles which are always the ones players desperately want to hit. 

Any chance it appears in another orientation (90, 180 and 270 degrees) or is it always pointing up?

KGB

 For that you would have needed "shape of Namor's Speedo's".

spatenfloot

IceIX said:

The shape for Imperius Rex is:

<div>- - - - - - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - o -
- o - o - o -
- - o o o - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - - -
- - - o - - -</div>

It will always appear fully on the board when used, no prongs hanging off the sides.

Why is the left prong broken?

Thanos

Green and black are way over costed. It's not too late to fix it! And no blue ability? Aquaman is laughing his **** off.

Treras

Iceman 2.0 but Iceman is still better. Oh well.

CaptainFreaky

3/5/5

Is it just me or is his purple the only decent power?
The others seem both meh and over valued.

Vhailorx

He looks pretty weak at first glance.

Good health, but no self-acceleration, no healing, and no special tiles.

Black is a straight up bad power. Expensive for very weak single target damage, and the AP destruction effect is also underwhelming.

Green might hit decently hard, but it's basically a less good version of imhb red (has a theoretically higher damage/ap, but only if you get a favorable board. His purple will help keep blue on the board, but I think you need 12+ before you start getting a worthwhile damage/AP ratio). Random boardshake is nice of course, but as noted above, it will never clear the corners, and it will also dampen the damage from second castings when the player does get a blue-filled board. And's very expensive too.

Purple is good. Not too expensive, keeps blue on the board for his green and generates blue ap to fuel someone else.  Plus 5.1k aoe damage is good for the 4* tier. Plus a purple aoe is unusual, and options are always good.

The standard 1 good, 1 meh, and 1 bad power design.  But the good power is only good (not quite great), and the meh power (green) is very meh.  Demi really needs to stop releasing 4* powers that cost 10+ AP for ~6k single target damage.  They just don't have a place in that tier of play.

Never say never of course, but I will be surprised if he is good.

Vhailorx

Treras said:

Iceman 2.0 but Iceman is still better. Oh well.

I think this comparison is an insult to Iceman.

gentgeen

POOF!

(I missed some details earlier, and this post was off track because of it)

DeNappa

Good to sea Namor finally arrived!

He seems okay, but not sure what they were thinking with his black. It's quite expensive and in my experience, 'strongest color' AP destruction isn't always that useful, either because it's not always an active power.

Also, can't help but notice his purple power description is worded a bit like the gimmick power I made up for him

IronLad

3/5/5

He seems respectable, and having one big team attack power is a selling point. 

Weirdly (unless I've just not been paying attention), his SHIELD Training team-up looks to be designed to showcase Namor - so appreciate the effort put into that one:

• Namor fueling blue and inflicting AoE
• Mordo turns blue into damage & enemy's strongest color into charged black
• Cloak & Dagger help harvest the charged black
• Namor turns black into damage & suppresses enemy's strongest color further

Dogface

May have missed it, but who are the essentials for Shield Training? 

JHawkInc

Dogface said:

May have missed it, but who are the essentials for Shield Training? 

Under the Namor & Friends vault, it mentions Call for Backup, and Domino, Cloak & Dagger, and Mordo.

Call for Backup missions are the ones in Shield Training that require the essential characters, so those three are your essentials. Might not hurt to actually list that information under SHIELD Training itself, but it has been provided, at least.

Shintok17

Dogface said:

May have missed it, but who are the essentials for Shield Training? 

Cloak & Dagger, Domino, and Mordo.