I just champed Juggs and came here to confirm I was switching him to an optimal build. Up until the post on page 3 from @Melac, I wasn’t certain if Juggs was any good.
553 feels like the build I go for, but is that extra damage actually worthwhile over having a targeted destruction power? Since Grocket is the one getting Juggy all jiggy with it, is 355 the optimal?
Now that he’s seen a lot of play, he deserves some refreshed eyes giving new reviews.
He immediately landed in that spot where I only run him with rocket/G4mora, and that team it is mega important you not blast chunks out of the board. So I only ever use Gamora’s blue
I just champed Juggs and came here to confirm I was switching him to an optimal build. Up until the post on page 3 from @Melac, I wasn’t certain if Juggs was any good.
553 feels like the build I go for, but is that extra damage actually worthwhile over having a targeted destruction power? Since Grocket is the one getting Juggy all jiggy with it, is 355 the optimal?
Now that he’s seen a lot of play, he deserves some refreshed eyes giving new reviews.
These guys are right. I would really like to use Jugg's blue for targeted column destruction, but it's just over-costed to set it at level 5. His other abilities offer too much throughout the duration of the match, to reduce them in favor of raising his blue would just be inefficient.
If his blue cost was 7 or maybe 8 AP we would have more reason to consider the switch.
I recently purchased the Cyttorak's Champions bundle out of the HfH store (good value @ 4000HP!) and now my Juggs is a cover away from champable with 150 shards in the bank. I should have him ready to go soon-ish. I'm hoping he can possibly help my clear times, as I've read here on the forums that a lot of you use him in PvE.
(Some basic info on me - I play PvE at SCL8 and I have eight 5-star champs, the best of which are Okoye, Kitty, & JJ. I have most of the 4-stars champed save a few of the newer ones.)
I'm looking for some opinions/answers on him from Juggernaut users specifically related to PvE.
1. If you are a 5-star player, is Juggs still valuable to you? 2. Who do you pair him with when you can bring two others? 3. Do you use him in essential nodes? Who do you pair him with? 4. Has the arrival of Polaris made Juggs less valuable to you?
(1) Juggs is not a must-own character for 5* players. But he is quite useful. He can passively generate aoe damage (a rare and valuable abilitiy), and can ignore almost all match damage.
(2) juggs poairs with strike tiles. He does tons of small-tick aoe damage and can't get boosted by okoye (or apoc?). But strikes work just fine. So nice beefy strike tiles are what you want when running juggs.
(3) when I use him, it is for fast easy clears of trivial nodes. Gritty is the usual pairing for that purpose. I rarely use him for essentials, preferring okoye + ih/strange/Polaris/2099 or some other source of free damage rocks to boost.
(4) juggs and Polaris do different things for me, so no. Her arrival has minimal impact of Juggs usage. They should play nicely together, however; i suspect that juggs + Polaris + kitty will be a very good team for scl 8 though. (fwiw, my underocovered IH has taken a big chunk of Juggs playtime though).
I run him only on easy clear nodes in SCL10, with 4ocket/Juggernaut/G4mora. I have some support on him that pumps up his off colors so he tanks most things, and then I can generally single-swipe win all the easy nodes through clear 4. After that I switch to 50Thor/Apocalypse/Okoye for the rest. On essential nodes I run ThorPocalypse. So there are definitely other options for fast clearing the easy nodes, but i find this team relatively animation-light (compared to a Thanos-based team) and it moves fast.
He only has value if he's tanking, which is easy to arrange on a 4* team, but most of my 5*s have too-high match damage for that.
I have a 3* Hydra Henchman on him that pumps his base black damage up by 84. There may be better ones to use, I just happen to have that one on him to tank Black over G4mora
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553 feels like the build I go for, but is that extra damage actually worthwhile over having a targeted destruction power? Since Grocket is the one getting Juggy all jiggy with it, is 355 the optimal?
If his blue cost was 7 or maybe 8 AP we would have more reason to consider the switch.
(Some basic info on me - I play PvE at SCL8 and I have eight 5-star champs, the best of which are Okoye, Kitty, & JJ. I have most of the 4-stars champed save a few of the newer ones.)
I'm looking for some opinions/answers on him from Juggernaut users specifically related to PvE.
1. If you are a 5-star player, is Juggs still valuable to you?
2. Who do you pair him with when you can bring two others?
3. Do you use him in essential nodes? Who do you pair him with?
4. Has the arrival of Polaris made Juggs less valuable to you?
He only has value if he's tanking, which is easy to arrange on a 4* team, but most of my 5*s have too-high match damage for that.