Ascended Winners and Losers

Glockoma

Ascended 4* Spider-man 2099:

Blue has no change from 4* version.

Loving that black.

Bowgentle

Tapping their name takes you to the roster screen, there you can check everything.

bluewolf

@Tony_Foot said:

@Bowgentle said:
Tapping their name takes you to the roster screen, there you can check everything.

But that just shows you the stats at base, not god boosted. Unless I'm not understanding what you mean.

The answer is no, you can't view boosted stats for opposing characters without entering a match.

You can't view your own boosted stats unless you're on the character select screen.

dramatist

I’m enjoying Melinda May’s boost week.

entrailbucket

Someone was asking about Doop somewhere...hoo boy.

I'm running him all passive, with Chavez/Colossus/PX, and he's just a straight-up better Colossus. With AC's extra match damage boost adding on, plus PX's extra damage reduction, he's a completely unstoppable tank.

Kross

I am curious, are you guys Ascending everyone (1* and up)? Or just certain characters? I am getting a little overwhelmed with roster spots and such.

ThaRoadWarrior

i'm ascending everyone personally, but I'm only max-max ascending 1-3 so far. I've been getting 14 covers for a 4* dupe and then ascendng those, so at least right now, i have a surplus of slots.

captainheath

@entrailbucket said:
Someone was asking about Doop somewhere...hoo boy.

I'm running him all passive, with Chavez/Colossus/PX, and he's just a straight-up better Colossus. With AC's extra match damage boost adding on, plus PX's extra damage reduction, he's a completely unstoppable tank.

Have you tried Ascended Doop/5ProfX/Ascended Rogue. I guessing that would work well. I'm almost done with Ascending Coulson, then I'm planning on Doop next, but I need 40 covers.

entrailbucket

@captainheath said:

@entrailbucket said:
Someone was asking about Doop somewhere...hoo boy.

I'm running him all passive, with Chavez/Colossus/PX, and he's just a straight-up better Colossus. With AC's extra match damage boost adding on, plus PX's extra damage reduction, he's a completely unstoppable tank.

Have you tried Ascended Doop/5ProfX/Ascended Rogue. I guessing that would work well. I'm almost done with Ascending Coulson, then I'm planning on Doop next, but I need 40 covers.

I haven't, but that sounds like a pretty good idea!

captainheath

@entrailbucket said:

@captainheath said:

@entrailbucket said:
Someone was asking about Doop somewhere...hoo boy.

I'm running him all passive, with Chavez/Colossus/PX, and he's just a straight-up better Colossus. With AC's extra match damage boost adding on, plus PX's extra damage reduction, he's a completely unstoppable tank.

Have you tried Ascended Doop/5ProfX/Ascended Rogue. I guessing that would work well. I'm almost done with Ascending Coulson, then I'm planning on Doop next, but I need 40 covers.

I haven't, but that sounds like a pretty good idea!

I'm thinking there is a team where Doop denies AP with his passives and increases power cost for enemies. If it stacks with Prof X's increasing power costs and Rogue continually tanks and denies even more AP, that would be a great sim team.

entrailbucket

@captainheath said:

@entrailbucket said:

@captainheath said:

@entrailbucket said:
Someone was asking about Doop somewhere...hoo boy.

I'm running him all passive, with Chavez/Colossus/PX, and he's just a straight-up better Colossus. With AC's extra match damage boost adding on, plus PX's extra damage reduction, he's a completely unstoppable tank.

Have you tried Ascended Doop/5ProfX/Ascended Rogue. I guessing that would work well. I'm almost done with Ascending Coulson, then I'm planning on Doop next, but I need 40 covers.

I haven't, but that sounds like a pretty good idea!

I'm thinking there is a team where Doop denies AP with his passives and increases power cost for enemies. If it stacks with Prof X's increasing power costs and Rogue continually tanks and denies even more AP, that would be a great sim team.

Oh, hmm. I guess you could spec him that way. I think that might actually be TOO much defense, though!

I liked using him with AC's passive and Colossus passive stacking for match damage, with PX and Colossus passive stacking on defense. He took almost no damage.

Glockoma

@entrailbucket said:

@captainheath said:

@entrailbucket said:

@captainheath said:

@entrailbucket said:
Someone was asking about Doop somewhere...hoo boy.

I'm running him all passive, with Chavez/Colossus/PX, and he's just a straight-up better Colossus. With AC's extra match damage boost adding on, plus PX's extra damage reduction, he's a completely unstoppable tank.

Have you tried Ascended Doop/5ProfX/Ascended Rogue. I guessing that would work well. I'm almost done with Ascending Coulson, then I'm planning on Doop next, but I need 40 covers.

I haven't, but that sounds like a pretty good idea!

I'm thinking there is a team where Doop denies AP with his passives and increases power cost for enemies. If it stacks with Prof X's increasing power costs and Rogue continually tanks and denies even more AP, that would be a great sim team.

Oh, hmm. I guess you could spec him that way. I think that might actually be TOO much defense, though!

I liked using him with AC's passive and Colossus passive stacking for match damage, with PX and Colossus passive stacking on defense. He took almost no damage.

Yeah, Doop was my sleeper pick given his dynamic setup and pairings with other characters. A great character for those looking to ascend first.

WhiteBomber

Anyone who lived through the 3* years should know the pain that is "The Hood", I wanted Doop to be one of my first ascensions, but I find myself prioritizing offense. However, I do also find myself with a little ascenders remorse having chose Karnak as my first, and I almost never use him... On the obvious Deathlocke now.

entrailbucket

@WhiteBomber said:
Anyone who lived through the 3* years should know the pain that is "The Hood", I wanted Doop to be one of my first ascensions, but I find myself prioritizing offense. However, I do also find myself with a little ascenders remorse having chose Karnak as my first, and I almost never use him... On the obvious Deathlocke now.

Right there with you! I was playing in the early days, and Hood still haunts my nightmares from the time.

I've got some bad news though. In 2024, the Hood passive is terrible. It was crazy strong back then because we had to cast expensive stuff to win fights. Now we've got 5* match damage, tons of mass AP generation, passive damage, and cheap heavy hitters.

AP steal/drain can still be useful (see Chasm) but it needs to be part of a package of other defensive or annoying stuff.

ThaRoadWarrior

After I finish Domino I’m considering parking my fav on Shaw, I think he is pretty obviously going to be a dominant 5 and I’m curious how long it’ll take to go from freshly rostered to max champ these days.

WhiteBomber

@entrailbucket said:

@WhiteBomber said:
Anyone who lived through the 3* years should know the pain that is "The Hood", I wanted Doop to be one of my first ascensions, but I find myself prioritizing offense. However, I do also find myself with a little ascenders remorse having chose Karnak as my first, and I almost never use him... On the obvious Deathlocke now.

Right there with you! I was playing in the early days, and Hood still haunts my nightmares from the time.

I've got some bad news though. In 2024, the Hood passive is terrible. It was crazy strong back then because we had to cast expensive stuff to win fights. Now we've got 5* match damage, tons of mass AP generation, passive damage, and cheap heavy hitters.

AP steal/drain can still be useful (see Chasm) but it needs to be part of a package of other defensive or annoying stuff.

Oh, you know I was planning on running him WITH Chasm on a purely annoying defensive team. I don't care if it takes me 20 mins to win that fight, I will leave that Doopsm team for someone else to deal with.

rainkingucd

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
After I finish Domino I’m considering parking my fav on Shaw, I think he is pretty obviously going to be a dominant 5 and I’m curious how long it’ll take to go from freshly rostered to max champ these days.

I just got Moondragon to 360 and finished Phyla-Vell. I've got no interest in favouriting Oscorp Spidey even for the Golden Oldie covers.

So I switched then to Shaw for the same reasons (and because I saw him in X-Men 97)

Mr_F

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
After I finish Domino I’m considering parking my fav on Shaw, I think he is pretty obviously going to be a dominant 5 and I’m curious how long it’ll take to go from freshly rostered to max champ these days.

I'm in process of ascending Wasp and Ant-Man. Max-Max I want. It took me about 2 months to get Wasp from 320 to 370 and now 277 and Ant-Man from 344 to 280. Total of... 119 covers. Depends on luck and pulls and such.

ThaRoadWarrior

I have both of those ascended, I feel like the new swarm mechanics they added are just kind of in the way, but that is largely due to me having such a longer history of using them the old way I guess I don't really have a good sense of what to do with them now. I'm not max-maxing any of my 4s though, i just do champ+1 and ascend.

Mr_F

Color overlapping in all three of them. Part of the problem. But it's Wasp. You know me. Even my 5 yo niece niece knows which Marvel character put on the BD's laurel*.

Anyway, I got 119 covers in 2 months. That's what ya want (101+13) to know. Aproximation, sure, but still better than nothing.

*a common kids present for adults in Poland. TLDR: A kids drawing/piece of art on paper with wishes written on it. Google "laurka". I got few and sometimes cardboard made Wasp and Ant-Man.