am i doing champions 2.0 wrong

entrailbucket

Maybe some others can weigh in here? As a long time anti-hoarder I'm bringing a lot of bias to this.

I will say that some of these ascended 4* are so good that they're likely going to blow away the new Latest guys, unless they release another Chasm.

SuperCarrot

@entrailbucket said:
Maybe some others can weigh in here? As a long time anti-hoarder I'm bringing a lot of bias to this.

I will say that some of these ascended 4* are so good that they're likely going to blow away the new Latest guys, unless they release another Chasm.

Kind of what I was thinking. Thank you for taking the time to respond. It is sort of why save for anything “meta defining” when a player now has the potential to go for 4 Stars that become “meta” after ascending. Hoarding seems like it could hurt a player from this particular point of view.

Bowgentle

It all depends, really.
Since the ascended 4s take 4 covers per level, it takes FOREVER to get them higher after ascension.
So you'll see some very, very, VERY slow growth, even if you don't hoard.
I think what I'll do is hoard until I have enough pulls to get a new potential meta 5 to 530+, then decide what to to with extra pulls after.
Not knowing your roster, keep enough pulls to get the new hotness to around your highest level 5s, and do with the rest whatever you want.

I'm also doing 370 x 370, unless there's a really, really, REALLY good reason to ascend the 4 earlier.

Bad

Right now I don't see any reason to pull for LL anymore.
Pvp many times requires 4s. Boss events too.
I can get enough LL covers in pve, pvp and boss event, also LL rewards on farming 4s.
So usually when a character is going to exit I have 90 LL tokens to almost champ the 3.
Pulling CL I can favorite the best LL 5*.
And of course I'd take years maxing 2 4*s so I'll ascend them with max and min.
That's personally my route plan to follow, but YMMV.

SuperCarrot

Thanks for the input. I have 43 of the 5 stars champed (highest being 465) and 90 something 4 stars champed. I have about 500 pulls I can do from LLs. Pulling from classics to level 4s for ascension, just seems more enticing I guess it is just because of the last three 5 stars being kind of “meh”. Again thanks for the input.

revskip

@entrailbucket said:
Maybe some others can weigh in here? As a long time anti-hoarder I'm bringing a lot of bias to this.

I will say that some of these ascended 4* are so good that they're likely going to blow away the new Latest guys, unless they release another Chasm.

Ascending changed my plan from save for 550s in latest to spend CP in classics. I figure it is better at this point to add levels to 4s to get more to max while also finishing a handful of targeted classic 5*s. Spent about 10k on the Colossus/Switch/5clops trio that is in now. Holding another 17k for when another solid group moves in.

I'll still probably be in the Max/Max camp most of the time. I did ascend Medusa immediately day 1

bbigler

Now that we’ve had some time to experience ascension, here’s my takeaways:

1. Ascension and champ farms can produce enough LL tokens to continuously champ new 5*s, so you can save your CP for something else.

2. Levels in the 2-Star & 3-Star tier build so fast that you should ascend with Max + Max, but in the 4-star tier I would ascend Max + Min because a boosted 450 ascended character now is worth much more than some extra champ rewards spread out over many years.

3. A new player can legitimately compete in
   5-Star land with 1s and 2s ascended to 450 and then boosted. A 1-Star Spiderman boosted to 550 is no joke. I can only imagine what ascended Juggs, Hawkeye, Ares, Daken and Storm would be like.

Ruinate

I took a long break so my dupes are hurting but man, do I have no regrets taking Coulson up to 450. I just wish I had more 4's that I could take to 450 right now, rewards be damned.