***** Wong (Sorcerer Supreme) *****

IceIX

Wong (Sorcerer Supreme)
5-Star Rarity
Affiliations: Heroes, Supernatural, Avengers, Multiversal

"Wong takes over for the Ancient One as Sorcerer Supreme and leader of Kamar-Taj, teaching a new era of sorcerers to protect our reality from mystical threats. Despite the heavy responsibility, Wong still finds time for his friends, to spar in kumite against powerful foes to gain more understanding of his powers, and to chill with some popcorn watching his shows."

Abilities listed at level 255/450
Health 15770/63386

  

Eldritch Whip - 7 Red AP
Wong uses his Eldritch Whip to weave his attack through the battlefield at a distance. Deals 1329 damage and destroys a chosen row, dealing 443 damage for each special tile destroyed. Destroyed tiles do not deal damage or generate AP. (Max Level 5342/1781 damage)

(PASSIVE) Sorcerers! Fortify your MIND! Reduces Ability damage dealt by Supernatural and Multiversal enemies by 10%, increases ability damage dealt by Supernatural allies by 10%.

• Level 2: Deals 1551 damage and 665 damage for each special tile destroyed. Reduces ability damage taken from Supernatural and Multiversal enemies by 15%. Increases ability damage dealt by Supernatural allies by 15%. (Max Level 6232/2672 damage)
• Level 3: Deals 1772 damage. Reduces ability damage taken from Supernatural and Multiversal enemies by 20%. Increases ability damage dealt by Supernatural allies by 20%. (Max Level 7123/2672 damage)
• Level 4: Deals 2215 damage and 886 damage for each special tile destroyed. Reduces ability damage taken from Supernatural and Multiversal enemies by 25%. Increases ability damage dealt by Supernatural allies by 25%. (Max Level 8903/3562 damage)
• Level 5: Deals 3012 damage and 1329 damage for each special tile destroyed. Reduces ability damage taken from Supernatural and Multiversal enemies by 30%. Increases ability damage dealt by Supernatural allies by 30%. (Max Level 12109/5343 damage)

Wand of Watoomb - 6 Yellow AP
Wong has trained with the Wand of Watoomb even before he was Sorcerer Supreme. Choose a spell type and create a 3-turn Fortified Wand of Watoomb Countdown tile that reduces all damage taken by 15%. When it expires or is matched, Wong releases the stored energy dealing 60% of the reduced damage. If it expired or if this ability is used while one exists, Wong casts the chosen spell.

(PASSIVE) Wong casts a random spell other than Mystic Mending at the start of the battle.

• Level 2: Reduces damage taken by 18%. Deals 70% of reduced damage.
• Level 3: Reduces damage taken by 21%. Deals 80% of reduced damage.
• Level 4: Reduces damage taken by 24%. Deals 90% of reduced damage.
• Level 5: Reduces damage taken by 30%. Deals 100% of reduced damage.

Spells
• Shield of the Seraphim - When the Wand of Watoomb tile expires, Wong creates 2 Protect Tiles of strength 185. Level increases: 207/3x224/4x264/5x264 (Max Level strength 748/837/908/1068/1068)
• Mystic Mending - When the Wand of Watoomb tile expires, Wong heals his team for 1240 health. Level increases: 1244/1248/1252/1264 (Max Level 4985/4989/4993/4997/5009 health)
• Hand of Hoggoth - When the Wand of Watoomb tile expires, Wong creates 3 Strike Tiles of strength 264. Level increases: 286/3x312/4x361/6x361 (Max Level strength 1068/1157/1264/1460/1460)
• Bolts of Balthakk - When the Wand of Watoomb tile expires, Wong drains 3 AP in his team's strongest color, and gains 1 Red and 1 Purple AP. Level increases: No change/+1 Red AP/+1 Purple AP/No change

A Wong Exit - 7 Purple AP
Wong goes Away for 3 turns to gather aid; Choose a character to gather aid from, then this ability becomes A Wong Entrance.

• Level 2: No Change
• Level 3: Away for 2 turns.
• Level 4: No Change
• Level 5: No Change

A Wong Entrance - Purple PASSIVE
(PASSIVE) When Wong returns from Away, fire the summoned character's ability. If all allies are downed while Wong is Away, he returns with the chosen character early, and boosts their effectiveness by 30%. This ability becomes A Wong Exit.

Allies
• Do or Die - Rescue charges into the front lines, blasting back enemy forces with twin repulsor beams. Rescue fires off 2 separate blasts that each deal 2879 damage. If there are 2 or more friendly Strike, Attack, or Protect tiles on the board, Rescue lands an additional blast for 1861 damage. Level Increases: 3109/2084 / 3109/2215 / 3311/2438 / 4290/2829 (Max Level 11573/7478 / 12499/8375 / 12499/8899 / 13309/9796 damage)
• Damages - You make a strong argument, but mine's stronger. She-Hulk leaps into a full-force punch dealing 4518 damage and sending her target flying through any unfortunate walls behind them; for every Protect tile on the board up to 2, destroy those tiles and deal 886 damage per tile; all damage ignores Protect tiles. (Prioritizes enemy tiles). (Destroyed tiles do not deal damage or generate AP). Level increases: 4970/975 / 4970/3x975 / 5331/1099 / 5738/4x1196 (Max Level 18161/3561 / 19977/3917 / 19977/3917 / 21430/4416 / 23064/4807 damage)
• I'm a Super Hero - "Whoever saves one person, it is as if she has saved all of mankind". Kamala Khan reaches out and generates a shield of crystallized light, protecting her friends. Creates 9 strength 89 Protect tiles and clears any stuns affecting her allies. If a Wand of Watoomb tile exists on the board, she also Fortifies 4 of those tiles. Level increases: 10x/5 / 11x/5 / 12x/6 / 16x/6 (Max Level strength 356)
• Crimson Bands of Cyttorak - By Cyttorak's seventh crimson band - let this brilliant whip ensnare your hand! Doctor Strange converts a random basic tile from among the enemy's strongest color into a 2-turn Countdown tile, then stuns the target for 2 turns. The tile destroys 1 enemy AP of its color and deals 399 damage per turn. Level increases: 488 / 3AP/488 / 3AP/532 / 3AP/887 (Max Level 1602/1958/1958/2136/3560 damage)

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Cage Matchless Legendary Store 1/19 - 1/22
15% chance to get Wong (Sorcerer Supreme), Gargantos (Multiverse of Madness), and Scarlet Witch (WandaVision)
Additional Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points

WilliamK1983

I'm a fan of the Cage Matchless Store. My Switch is 2/1/1 and I wouldn't mind adding some champ levels to Gargantos. No doc strange is greatly appreciated too.

HoundofShadow

Wong and Hit-Monkey counters each other because they have supernatural tag. However, Wong also boosts Hit-Monkey attack.

Electro and Wong could be a fun defense team against a certain team. Wong will have time to gather 7 purple ap to stun the opponents.

And is Away a new status in the game, like invisible, stunned or airborne? If so, would he be considered inactive ally, which would help to trigger other abilities like Cyclops' passive? Lastly, will his countdown tile stop counting down while he's away?

The damage for summoned character seems really low though.

GrimSkald

@WilliamK1983 said:
I'm a fan of the Cage Matchless Store. My Switch is 2/1/1 and I wouldn't mind adding some champ levels to Gargantos. No doc strange is greatly appreciated too.

Yeah, right? They said they weren't giving any more Strange, and then the family favorites came by with more Strange.

Omegased

Do abyss tiles count as "special"?

HoundofShadow

No, unless they stealth changed it.

Punisher5784

Sounds like a good 3rd for Polaris/BRB team

Looks like 5/3/5

GrimSkald

@Omegased said:
Do abyss tiles count as "special"?

Probably? It doesn't say "friendly" or "enemy" so it most likely counts abyss, web, the Black Hole, etc. It is unclear if those "neutral" tiles count as "special."

I'm curious about the "away" status, too. Is it like airborne but not actually airborne for the purposes of other abilities?

IceIX

A few notes:

• Mystic Mending offers true healing, not burst healing. The scalar on it is also a bit borked at the second, may not be final.
• 'Away' status is just that. The character in question isn't on the battlefield. When in this status, they cannot interact with the battle in any way, offensively or defensively. It's hard to deal damage when you're literally in Timbuktu.
• Special tiles currently refer specifically to SAP tiles, but we may well be updating that. If it does, that'd be post launch
• Note that Wong is Supernatural himself, so he gets his own Red Passive boost. So when reading powers, take that into account. However, we balanced without this buff in effect, so it's all gravy.

entrailbucket

The void tiles do not count as special.

Good to see we've reached the point where everyone evaluates every new character based on the slim possibility that they'll counter the one dominant team in the game!

I don't think Wong counters Chasm. All of his stuff seems really, really complicated so it's hard to evaluate it. With most of the other "pick a color to do a different thing" powers, you'd only ever pick the color that does damage, so the other effects are kind of irrelevant.

But he's got decent passives, and his active abilities cost 7/6/7AP, so at the very least he'll be usable, and possibly quite good.

HoundofShadow

Wooo. The first true team heal in X years after they changed true team healing to burst team healing.

Electro/Wong looks like a viable counter team against Chasm/iHulk with those constant healing as long as iHulk fires his AoE every turn. Gather 7 purple aps while Electro builds up 5 yellow aps passively each turn. When Chasm is about to be downed, send Wong Away so that he can come back to stun Chasm in time and triggers his cd to down him. By then, the cd would have accumulated significant amount of reduced damage. Once Chasm is downed for good, fire Wong's yellow repeatedly to true heal the team. However, it depends on how the interaction occurs. My assumption is that his cd won't count down but continue to accumulate damage while he's Away.

If character tiles are changed to be part of special tiles, then all other character tiles, past and present, would be weaker. Morbius would be a good pick-3 against Chasm in the future.

Bzhai

@IceIX said:
(PASSIVE) Wong casts a random spell other than Mystic Mending at the start of the battle.

Does this mean he automatically starts a battle with the countdown tile?

Love his large toolkit, which is what you'd expect from a magic-user. He's a solid 3rd for Eyeball team, all you need is to focus on getting yellow to keep yourself alive.

Punisher5784

@HoundofShadow said:
Wooo. The first true team heal in X years after they changed true team healing to burst team healing.

Ahh the good ole' days when you'd bring 2* BW for her Steal and Team True Heal. I fondly remember when they changed the heal to burst which made 3* Beast worse than he already was lol

mooken

a 3-turn Fortified Wand of Watoomb Countdown tile

When it expires or is matched, Wong releases the stored energy

Since the CD tile is fortified, does this mean it could trigger more than once if matched when fortified?

Seph1roth5

He does a lot of stuff but not much of it looks too exciting.

• Does wand of watomb decrease damage for everyone on the team or just wong?

Wand of Watomb: Seems complicated. You need AP to get the damage reduction (and scarlet witch does it better), which is only for 3 turns, and THEN, unless it gets matched, you have to wait for the spell to go off. And other than the healing, most of the spells just put out SAP tiles that other 5* can do better.

Bolts of Bathak: It drains 3 of your OWN strongest color for, at best, 2 red and 2 purple? Seems wrong/weak

A wong entrance: Rescue and She hulk power seem bad/weak choices. And crismon bands seems weaker than normal too as you can't choose the color and it's only 2 turns.

He definitely seems like the definition of a jack of all trades. He can do a lot of stuff, but doesn't do any of it super well. And half of it takes a few turns to do that. Just seems like the opposite of powers I really want, trying to plan 2-3 turns in advance and hoping it actually works out that way.

entrailbucket

I didn't even notice that. It's hilarious that his yellow power is just "Scarlet Witch, but worse in literally every way."

Punisher5784

@Seph1roth5 said:
He does a lot of stuff but not much of it looks too exciting.

• Does wand of watomb decrease damage for everyone on the team or just wong?

Wand of Watomb: Seems complicated. You need AP to get the damage reduction (and scarlet witch does it better), which is only for 3 turns, and THEN, unless it gets matched, you have to wait for the spell to go off. And other than the healing, most of the spells just put out SAP tiles that other 5* can do better.

Bolts of Bathak: It drains 3 of your OWN strongest color for, at best, 2 red and 2 purple? Seems wrong/weak

You're right. What the heck is the point of Bolts of Balthakk? If Red is your strongest color, you drain 3 Red AP to get up-to 2 Red and 2 Purple. I don't see why there needs to be an AP drain when there is so many decent AP batteries in the 5* tier (e.g., BRB, Thor)

killahKlown

Pretty sure it drains 3 enemy AP of your strongest color.. and adds purple and red to yourself

dianetics

The red has pretty good damage on it for the AP cost.
I wonder if yellows damage reduction will work with other characters damage reduction since it reduces all damage. The yellow abilities are pretty meh, and as a damage reduction source it is also meh.
If Wong uses his purple while the yellow countdown tile is out will it still reduce damage?
With his purple can you summon a character that is already on your team?

I'm not sure we will see much of this character in pvp, and I don't really see a place to slot him in for pve either. I don't think this is a character I would want to specifically chase.

HoundofShadow

Once again, players compare each category of power of new releases against meta character who can do it better.

entrailbucket

@HoundofShadow said:
Once again, players compare each category of power of new releases against meta character who can do it better.

Oh yes, comparing 5* to 6* is definitely unfair.

Wait...they're all 5*? Hmm. Where in the game does it show me who's a "meta" character?