Grand Experiment 2: Treading Water in the SCL 10 Post-Shardpocalypse

ThaRoadWarrior

Finished champing Danver5, moving on to Killmonger.

ThaRoadWarrior

Killmonger is out, Deadpool is in. I ended up pulling a few more over the weekend, so Killmonger left at 4/4/5 with 1 saved cover and 400 shards.

Current latest crop:
Old Man Daken: 3/2/4 with 995 shards
Heimdall:1/4/5 with 700 shards
Deadpool: 0/0/0 with 370 shards

Lot of movement on Heimdall this past week and a half; I'm curious if he'll end up finishing before Daken at this point?

ThaRoadWarrior

Well then. Pulled a red Heimdall today. So I went ahead and burned my shard cover on blue, making him 2/5/5 with 200 shards. So he should be champable sometime across the next story event. Old Man Daken hasn't had any movement in a bit, so he is still 3/2/4 with 995 shards saved. Definitely plausible to champ him, but I wonder how high my Heimdall will be if I choose to keep pulling for him?

BlackBoltRocks

Congrats on Heimdall! For Daken, assuming he'll be featured in PvE twice more, you only need to pull one more cover for him, as that would bring him to 10 covers + 1500 sharts. Based on your roster I don't see that you have Carbage or Hela; Daken is an okay alternative to them, albeit inferior. He could be decent with Polaris and Medusa, especially against the usual Polaris teams.

ThaRoadWarrior

My roster is out of date, I do have Carbage but Hela is 5/2/4 + 420 shards and a 291 magik.

ThaRoadWarrior

@BlackBoltRocks
I went in and looked at my GamePendium - I really don't know how it got into that state, it was pretty out of date on some older characters. My 5*s are all correctly covered now, and I've been walking down my 4*s, which have had quite a bit of movement since whenever I saved this last.

ThaRoadWarrior

Cyclops max-champed just in time for this PVP and feature in PVE, so it's a good time to flip him over. The Chavez feature in the Eye for an Eye pvp will bring her up to 368 if I get to the 1k progression bar. Edging ever closer to deciding to flip vs dupe roster.

ThaRoadWarrior

So over the next few days I'll have the opportunity to champ either Heimdall or Killmonger with the iso I have on hand. I'm tempted to do Heimdall first because he seems more like someone I could find a use for, though Killmonger does seem to play with with Profe$$or X/Onslaught. Any preferences out there in the aether?

Daredevil217

I like Heim’s kit better. Seems more unique/interesting. He’s also going to be featured/boosted several times in PVE while Killy won’t be for over a year. 

Heim gets my vote. 

ThaRoadWarrior

I was feeling the same; once i get the shards out of silky spiders I’ll be able to champ and respec Heimdall.

ThaRoadWarrior

Ok, Heimdall is champed. As expected, his damage per second is very high with BRB in this red gaurdian pvp. I’m curious how well it will float defensively - there is a possibility it will work well given the auto blue fortification from Clash of the Worthy and minimal overlap, but I haven’t seen many Heimdalls in the wild to judge how he plays on AI. I may try running him in pick-3 with BRB and P4nther, or just P4nther/Shuri.

ThaRoadWarrior

Update: that team can’t float lol

ThaRoadWarrior

Ugh; that hot streak has turned into a dry streak, and I still haven't got a Deadpool. I'm 5 shards away after finishing all but the 5e node, so I did what one does, and favorited my way to a cover. I had no path to getting enough iso to champ Anti-Venom with 15 saved covers, so I sold off a max-champ 3* daken and blew a bunch of hp in the resources store on 3* Gamora who was 2 levels from an LT. Then I started champing high-saved-cover 2* characters with my 3* shard parked on her too, and actually lucked into an organic pull of Gamora. then I champed 2* wolverine when I discovered Patch was 1 level from an LT, and there you have it, one blue Deadpool on roster. Christmas is saved, but my resources are currently a wreck lol.

ThaRoadWarrior

And of course, right after doing all that and getting the first CP slug out of Divine Champions, I got an organic blue pull of Deadpool. 

Current Latest Crop:
Old Man Daken: 3/2/4 with 995 shards (no movement)
Heimdall: lvl 450 champed, 0 shards
Deadpool: 0/0/2, 76 shards

Progress on Favorites:
Kitty: 5/5/0 lvl 405 with 259 shards
Frost: 327 with 47 shards
Cyclops: 3/4/4 with 227 shards, rebuilding after a flip

I'm 100hp away from opening up the roster slot to backfill 3* Daken, but he's 200 shards away from that himself. 2* Daken is 8 covers away from the 200 shard slug though, so it'll happen soon enough.

ThaRoadWarrior

Pulled a champ level for Heimdall and a black for Deadpool earlier. If I can just get one more Daken I’ll probably sit right till Heimdall drops out and hope Daken gets one more feature.

ThaRoadWarrior

Another black for Deadpool, 2/0/2. No change on Daken.

ThaRoadWarrior

Ok - I champed Anti-Venom with 15 saved covers, and was able to finally land an organic pull of Old Man Daken. I burned my saved covers to bring him up to triple 4s, and he has 295 shards remaining in the bank. I'm going to sit tight on pulling now in the hopes that Daken is featured once more before he drops out. Current Latest Crop:

Old Man Daken: 4/4/4 with 295 shards
Heimdall: champed, lvl 451
Deadpool: 2/0/2 with 201 shards

ThaRoadWarrior

Wow, stealth nerf to Danver5 not even a month after I champed her. I'll have to figure out another very reliable Challenge Node team as a replacement. Hopefully this was done so she'd work better with some yellow-using Future 5* rather than so it would break the Winfinite, but still she is decidedly internally damaged by this change since her red passive is very useless.

ThaRoadWarrior

The What’s New thread went up and I didn’t see any more OMD features, so I opted to pull what I had. I found a blue Deadpool and a Black for OMD, so now I’m for real sitting right until Magneto lands. 

ThaRoadWarrior

Killmonger is champed, lvl 452. Old Man Daken waiting on iso.

boosted Okoye with Ghostpool and Spider-man 2099 was pretty fun, I’m going to like running that team once I get some more covers and levels on him.