Experiment 3: New Release 4* to Ascended 5* timeline

ThaRoadWarrior

My Namor is at 356, he is definitely from the era of “we waited this long for this character and got…this?” in my opinion. He costs too much as a 4* for what he does, I wonder if he is due a rebalance and/or secretly gets good as a 5?

IrisRyu

Namor stats at 475.

Domitronas

@IrisRyu said:
Namor stats at 475.

So dog water. Quite fitting

IrisRyu

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
My Namor is at 356, he is definitely from the era
@Domitronas said:

@IrisRyu said:
Namor stats at 475.

So dog water. Quite fitting

Pretty much. On a semi-related note, Ascended Namora was much better than I expected when I tried her during her last boost week. There’s no universe in which she’s worth prioritizing, but she hits harder than I expected.

JoeHandle

@Domitronas said:

@IrisRyu said:
Namor stats at 475.

So dog water. Quite fitting

Hey, my dogs get only the finest water!

ElectricVasting

I think asking any one character at level ~575 to neutralize two of the strongest characters in the game (i.e. a lvl 550 mThor and a lvl 650+ Polaris) is probably going to be tough. Unless that character is so specialized, like an Electro, where it opens you up to different counters.

In this case, the 650+ Polaris is doing so much damage via electromagnetic resonance and particle accelerator (which Black King doesn't have any counter for), that unless you actively get rid of special tiles, it gets overwhelming. In that team, the mThor is just there to destroy a couple special tiles, mThor is not the driving engine of that team.

That doesn't necessarily mean Black King is an ineffective counter against mThor. I would guess Black King is pretty good against mThor plus non-boosted Polaris. I would also guess Black King is good against mThor plus Shang Chi, which a lot of lower-MMR players have and that can cause some annoying defensive losses while climbing. I am in the 550-672 MMR as well, and faced a few ascended boosted Black Kings, and he's legitimately difficult to take down, if you don't have a huge Polaris. I nearly lost several times, which is why I just started skipping. I don't think we should be calling him useless ...

@ThaRoadWarrior said:
I don’t think there is a defensive counter to Polaris really.

entrailbucket

I guess we'll see. I won't be selling mine. I'll give him a shot again next time he's boosted.

ThaRoadWarrior

Mine is at 13 covers as of today, so it took this long for him to be technically ascendable from new for me. I’ll take him to 274 first though.

126 covers in 132 days for a 0.95/day rate.

ThaRoadWarrior

Ok, got the dupe to 271 and early ascended to free up a slot for Nova. So I guess that’s that on this experiment. I will I guess keep pushing 3* switch up to see how long it takes to grind a 3 into a 5* as a supplemental experiment.

JoeHandle

Ascended Shaw, max+max, 158 days in-game. Nice to know that it doesn't take "literally forever" to get a 4* ascended ... even if insistent on max+max'ing.

And he works just fine, does what he's supposed to do, has a fat health pool and new car 5* match dmg to boot.

Domitronas

I'm going to start a new journey once Purpleman drops, going to save every token that gives 4* shards and favorite him ASAP. He seems to be quite good, but I feel like I'm in for a disappointment once he becomes ascended, just like with Shaw.

ThaRoadWarrior

I’m considering it; I’m still getting all my existing dupes to 13 covers but it’s between taking a chance on purple man or going with the known monster M’Baku.

ThaRoadWarrior

Hit a bonus 300 support shards and finished the Power Stone today. I’ve had that set as my favorite since you could favorite supports.

Domitronas

First purple man half the way through at 320. Although I have to admit I haven't opened any LL tokens since his release, as I am waiting for Agatha to enter LL. Should give him another a nice bump once I start opening for Agatha.

WhiteBomber

@Domitronas said:
First purple man half the way through at 320. Although I have to admit I haven't opened any LL tokens since his release, as I am waiting for Agatha to enter LL. Should give him another a nice bump once I start opening for Agatha.

Excellent, definitely looking forward to those stats, I went with Baku for now, but if Purp ascends well I might do him next.

Tiger_Wong

I also have begun the trek to ascend purple man as I love his kit.

Started last week. Presently at lvl 288. No dupes. Got a long way to go obviously. I think it took ok me 2 minths to ascend Shaw off release? Hoping it takes a similar time for killgrave.

It’ll probably take longer because I anticipate going hard for mephisto when he drops later. Although if his kit isn’t interesting I’ll just blow him off and go hard for killgrave again.

JoeHandle

My latest interest is 3Miles ... seems promising, 3>5 MIles will be WAY better than 5MIles? They both have the same issues ... sort of an evolution of the old Thor design, kinda feeble unless power are executed in proper order, with proper timing and board is favorable BUT ... when it all comes together ... KA-BLOOEY

Anyway, have a 266 and well on the way to a 2nd, and trust a season vault will deliver a 270 soon ....

ThaRoadWarrior

My 3* Scarlet Witch is currently at level 354; it really does take a laughable amount of time to get a 3* over to 5*, which maybe it should, I don't know. M'Baku is currently 342, I didn't make a note of where he was when I started on him. I ascended Karnak earlier, and I did Main Event the other day. I've pulled a few of the 4* jump ups from the Steel Vault as well, i have 2* thor and bullseye (ascended) sitting on the vine till I make room for them.