Champions 2.0 Post-launch FAQ and Discussion

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Alright, whose turn is it to ask that same question next?

Daredevil217

@Altair22 said:
Daredevil there are events, OK let say in the current Psylocke PVP, Can you use psylock 3 base at 4 or 5 stars as the primary character?

There are not events. Name one.

As for Psylocke’s event does it say you have to use 3* Psylocke or Psylocke (Classic)?

Borstock

@Altair22 said:
A suggestion to the developers:

I suggested that Ascended characters be also boosted in PVP and PVE if their are the primary character.

I noticed in a latest psylocke PVP, a player was playing with a ascended 4 star psylocke 270 level, and it was not boosted.

Yet another bug, I would think.

Altair22

@Daredevil217 said:

@Altair22 said:
Daredevil there are events, OK let say in the current Psylocke PVP, Can you use psylock 3 base at 4 or 5 stars as the primary character?

There are not events. Name one.

As for Psylocke’s event does it say you have to use 3* Psylocke or Psylocke (Classic)?

actually you can . found that one out when I was scrolling thru the characterse

Altair22

With the ascensions, I think we can see the return of one star and two star base PVPs, where even ascended one and two star base characters of all stars and levels can participate, that should be interesting,

Bad

The future of the metagame? One thing is totally for sure: now no one will say anymore "the 4* tier is irrelevant and this new character too"
I don't think there will be "2 best characters " and I don't think any player will realize them.
It happened something never happening before: the 4* tier has become giant sized.
And in 4* tier there is a great balance and counters. It could happen that a lot of players could go for the same characters because resources are limited.
But with more batches coming right now I think this game scalated its tactical possibilities and with that the fun.

tonypq

My head is spinning in confusion with the ascended stuff. My only 4*s I have fully covered duplicates for are Polaris and Rocket/Groot, they're both at level 70 but have 13 covers and ready to champ.

Is there any good reason not to champ my Polaris & R&G dupes and ascend both ?

Even know I have all the meta 5s, I still love using Polaris/R&G daily either with Kitty/Kamala, or a good boosted 5. Also my Polaris has 1555 shards/24 saved covers & R&G has 622 shards/24 saved covers.

Altair22

@Bad said:
The future of the metagame? One thing is totally for sure: now no one will say anymore "the 4* tier is irrelevant and this new character too"
I don't think there will be "2 best characters " and I don't think any player will realize them.
It happened something never happening before: the 4* tier has become giant sized.
And in 4* tier there is a great balance and counters. It could happen that a lot of players could go for the same characters because resources are limited.
But with more batches coming right now I think this game scalated its tactical possibilities and with that the fun.

I would say that no one would say that even 1s to 4s are not irrelevant. and it seems that a ascended one star base 5 stars(level 450 with a 1rated power like the iron man currently on offer ) may actually be easier to level up compared to base 5 stars, since its a bit easier to get one star base covers noting its much easier to get standard packs than regular packs. Like 4 one star base covers to level up a one star base 5 star ascended character.

Altair22

we may even see new one and two star base characters coming out as they become relevant again.

Ptahhotep

I’m wondering if we will see nodes in the future that require any ascended character?

gmp72

@Altair22 said:
A suggestion to the developers:

I suggested that Ascended characters be also boosted in PVP and PVE if their are the primary character.

I noticed in a latest psylocke PVP, a player was playing with a ascended 4 star psylocke 270 level, and it was not boosted.

My ascended Psylocke is level 400 in her PVP - so pretty boosted 😉

LavaManLee

There might be an obvious answer to this and I am just an idiot for not seeing it, but can I tell what level an Ascended character started at without having to remember the exact character name?

Example, I have a 4* Ascended Storm. Is there a quick way to tell if she came from a 1 star, 2 star or 3 star? I don't have the cover pictures and names memorized so don't see an easy way to tell, unless I am missing it.

MoosePrime

@tonypq said:
My head is spinning in confusion with the ascended stuff. My only 4*s I have fully covered duplicates for are Polaris and Rocket/Groot, they're both at level 70 but have 13 covers and ready to champ.

Is there any good reason not to champ my Polaris & R&G dupes and ascend both ?

Even know I have all the meta 5s, I still love using Polaris/R&G daily either with Kitty/Kamala, or a good boosted 5. Also my Polaris has 1555 shards/24 saved covers & R&G has 622 shards/24 saved covers.

Neither Polaris nor R&G are currently able to ascend, so don't try that yet.

Ultrace

@tonypq said:
My head is spinning in confusion with the ascended stuff. My only 4*s I have fully covered duplicates for are Polaris and Rocket/Groot, they're both at level 70 but have 13 covers and ready to champ.

Is there any good reason not to champ my Polaris & R&G dupes and ascend both ?

Even know I have all the meta 5s, I still love using Polaris/R&G daily either with Kitty/Kamala, or a good boosted 5. Also my Polaris has 1555 shards/24 saved covers & R&G has 622 shards/24 saved covers.

In addition to what MoosePrime said about Polaris and Rocket/Groot not being ascendable yet, one of your two characters that combine together has to be a MAX champion. So, you're going to need to have enough covers to take your 4* characters to level 370 (100 covers above the 13 that you need to champ them) before you can ascend them.

There's debate on whether or not you should max champion both copies of a character that go into ascension, but you must have at least one of them maxed.

ThaRoadWarrior

It will (in my experience), take 9-12 months of dedicated sharding spending as you go to bring a 4* from 0 covers to max champ, so definitely be choosy about who you spend that kind of time on i would say.

Pantera236

@gmp72 said:

@Altair22 said:
A suggestion to the developers:

I suggested that Ascended characters be also boosted in PVP and PVE if their are the primary character.

I noticed in a latest psylocke PVP, a player was playing with a ascended 4 star psylocke 270 level, and it was not boosted.

My ascended Psylocke is level 400 in her PVP - so pretty boosted 😉

Mine isn't 🤷‍♂️

ThaRoadWarrior

@Daredevil217 said:

@Altair22 said:
A question to the developers:

lets say in a PVE or PVP you have a required 3 stars character in a PVP or PVE slot, if the required 3 star has been ascended to a 4 or 5 star, can it sill compete as the primary 3 star character?

Example in a pve slot it is required you have a 3 star magneto, lets say you only have a 4 star ascended(3 star) magneto, can you still participate?

No events have asked you to play a specific character of a specific rarity. They have asked for specific characters OR specific rarities, but not both.

While no such events exist today, I think it's probably wishful thinking to believe they are not coming ever, or even soon (ish). I believe it will behoove us to backfill any character we ascend at some point, even though it's gong to be slot-costly. It feels like this may be the new "10 cover minimum for Shield Training" lockout to me at some future time.

Pantera236

@gmp72 said:

@Altair22 said:
A suggestion to the developers:

I suggested that Ascended characters be also boosted in PVP and PVE if their are the primary character.

I noticed in a latest psylocke PVP, a player was playing with a ascended 4 star psylocke 270 level, and it was not boosted.

My ascended Psylocke is level 400 in her PVP - so pretty boosted 😉

Oh and btw a 266 3* is boosted to 412 anyway.

Kolence

@LavaManLee said:
There might be an obvious answer to this and I am just an idiot for not seeing it, but can I tell what level an Ascended character started at without having to remember the exact character name?

Example, I have a 4* Ascended Storm. Is there a quick way to tell if she came from a 1 star, 2 star or 3 star? I don't have the cover pictures and names memorized so don't see an easy way to tell, unless I am missing it.

They should have a different color background where the level is written, same as champed chars (but not the same color).
If you don't remember which color is what, then look for their shards count. True 4* will need 400 shards per level, but lower tiers ascended characters mixed among the 4's will need fewer. 300, 200 or 100.

Kolence

@Pantera236 said:

@gmp72 said:

@Altair22 said:
A suggestion to the developers:

I suggested that Ascended characters be also boosted in PVP and PVE if their are the primary character.

I noticed in a latest psylocke PVP, a player was playing with a ascended 4 star psylocke 270 level, and it was not boosted.

My ascended Psylocke is level 400 in her PVP - so pretty boosted 😉

Oh and btw a 266 3* is boosted to 412 anyway.

And eventually, the 370 Psylocke could jump to 512, or so...

Some of this must be bugs. But after fixing that, all these powers and boosts scaling could use a little smoothing.
For now, the main thing we should focus on is these can churn out better rewards. In case of 1*s simply more rewards where before there was only a paltry amount of iso.