New Character - Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock) 4*

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Health & Match Damage

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Abilities

Ability: Bear the Mantle

Color: Red
AP Cost: 4

Wielding the Starlight Sword, Captain Britain draws from the magiks of Otherworld, becoming stronger. Your next match grants +1 AP, and deals 60% more damage, for each member of Excalibur or Mutants on your team.

(PASSIVE) For every 5 AP you have amongst Captain Britain’s strongest colors, increase the base match damage of her strongest colors by 65% and she deals 15% bonus ability damage (max: 390% base match damage and 90% ability damage.)

270: Unchanged.370: Unchanged.

Level 2: Deal 70% more damage. Increase match damage by 90% (max 540%) and ability damage by 25% (max 150%) 

• 270: Unchanged.
• 370: Unchanged.

Level 3: Deal 80% more damage. For every 5 AP, increase match damage by 110% (max 660%) and ability damage by 35% (max 210%) 

• 270: Unchanged.
• 370: Unchanged.

Level 4: Deal 95% more damage. For every 4 AP, increase match damage by 120% (max 720%) and ability damage by 50% (max 300%) 

• 270: Unchanged.
• 370: Unchanged.

Level 5: Deal 120% more damage. Increase match damage by 130% (max 780%) and ability damage by 75% (max 450%) 

• 270: Unchanged.
• 370: Unchanged.

Ability: Otherworld Protector

Color: Yellow
AP Cost: 8

As the new Captain Britain, Betsy Braddock has pledged to protect not only the Mutants across the world, but all those in Otherworld as well. Unlock, activate, and remove any Raised Shield tiles, then create a 3-turn Raised Shield Countdown tile that deals damage equal to the total strength of friendly Protect Tiles for each hit allies take while this tile is on the board. While this tile is on the board, Captain Britain moves to the front whenever the enemy would deal damage.

(PASSIVE) At the start of the turn, create a strength 60 Red Protect tile, up to the number of Mutants on your team.

270: Create a strength 116 tile.
370: Create a strength 243 tile.

Level 2:  Create a strength 88 tile. Costs 1 AP less.

• 270:  Create a strength 170 tile. Costs 1 AP less.
• 370:  Create a strength 355 tile. Costs 1 AP less.

Level 3:  Create a strength 102 tile. Costs 1 AP less.

• 270: Create a strength 196 tile. Costs 1 AP less.
• 370: Create a strength 411 tile. Costs 1 AP less.

Level 4:  Create a strength 162 tile.

• 270: Create a strength 312 tile.
• 370: Create a strength 654 tile.

Level 5:  Create a strength 249 tile. Costs 1 AP less.

• 270: Create a strength 482 tile. Costs 1 AP less.
• 370:   Create a strength 1009 tile. Costs 1 AP less.

Ability: Leader of Excalibur

Color: Purple
AP Cost: 8

Improve friendly Protect tiles by 14 for every member of Excalibur on your team, then deal damage equal to the strength of friendly Protect tiles to the enemy team.

(PASSIVE) Friendly Protect tiles gain 25% bonus strength while Captain Britain is in the front. This bonus also applies to her abilities.

270: Improve tiles by 27. Tiles gain 25% bonus strength370: Improve tiles by 56. Tiles gain 25% bonus strength

Level 2: Improve tiles by 28. Tiles gain 35% bonus strength

• 270: Improve tiles by 54. Tiles gain 35% bonus strength
• 370: Improve tiles by 112. Tiles gain 35% bonus strength

Level 3: Improve tiles by 47. Tiles gain 45% bonus strength

• 270: Improve tiles by 90. Tiles gain 45% bonus strength
• 370: Improve tiles by 187. Tiles gain 45% bonus strength

Level 4: Improve tiles by 79. Tiles gain 65% bonus strength

• 270: Improve tiles by 153. Tiles gain 65% bonus strength
• 370: Improve tiles by 317. Tiles gain 65% bonus strength

Level 5: Improve tiles by 159. Tiles gain 100% bonus strength

• 270: Improve tiles by 306. Tiles gain 100% bonus strength
• 370: Improve tiles by 635. Tiles gain 100% bonus strength

Release Schedule

All times in Pacific

Story

Thick as Thieves
January 23, 2025, 04:00am – January 27, 2025, 11:00pm
Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock) Covers and Shards in Placement rewards, Event Token in Progression rewards

Welcome to S.H.I.E.L.D.
January 26, 2025, 04:00am – January 31, 2025, 11:00pm
Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock) Shards + Recruit Token for Shield Offer in Progression rewards

Strange Sights
January 27, 2025, 04:00am – January 30, 2025, 11:00pm
Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock) Covers and Shards + Vault Token in Progression rewards

Versus

Brand New Kicks
January 23, 2025, 05:00pm – January 27, 2025, 12:00am
Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock) Cover and Shards as Placement rewards

Spilling the Tea
January 26, 2025, 05:00am – January 29, 2025, 12:00pm
Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock) Covers and Shards + Recruit Token for Shield Offer in Progression rewards

Offers

Captain Britain & Friends Vault
January 28, 2025, 04 00am – January 31, 2025, 11:00pm
80 Item Vault:

• 3x 4-Stars

  • 1x Captain Britain (Betsy Braddock) cover
  • 1x Peggy Carter (Captain America) cover
  • 1x Random 4-Star cover

• 7x Tokens

  • 1x Legendary token
  • 1x Mighty Token
  • 2x Heroic Tokens
  • 3x Beginner Support tokens

• 6x Iso-8

  • 1x 5,000 Iso-8
  • 2x 2,500 Iso-8
  • 3x 1,000 Iso-8

• 15x 3-Stars

  • 3x Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel) cover
  • 12x Random 3-Star covers

• 49x 2-Stars

  • 10x Storm (Classic) cover
  • 39x Random 2-Star covers

bluewolf

I am curious why her yellow power unlocks any Raised Shield tiles, other than making sure that if they're locked by an enemy using her power will trigger them. However, since they are only made with 8 yellow ap, you're probably only making one at a time, and it's kind of unlikely you'd every get enough yellow to trigger one before it counted down on its own.

But....it could happen.

fnedude

Or it could be activated by Purple Soul Stone for 0AP...

entrailbucket

Protect tile combo character with a match damage bonus -- she might be ok at 5*. The jump in front power being tied to an unfortified CD tile is really unfortunate, but I guess you weren't using her against m'Thor anyway (she would eat all your protect tiles immediately).

SAking

I am unsure how she can get a 6 color boost from her "strongest colors" since that by definition is only 3 colors.

Also I assume the yellow must be 1 AP less at each level, so 4 AP at 5 covers. Otherwise that reduction doesn't matter at all since all champed characters will be at least 3 covers in the move so a single point decrease total would be weird. In general though i am a big fan of damage boost 4s for ascension targets.

That Yellow has a chance to be absolutely ridiculous if i am reading it right. Against a team move damage team or against a heavy cascade you could hit it like 20 times and get triple boosted via the first passive and the last passive plus whoever else you bring with you to externally boost it as well.

TheXMan

Level 4 of yellow doesn't show the AP reduction so I assume it costs 5AP at level 5

Codex

My memory is terrible, wasn't Captain Britain in a recent player choice poll? Is this the winner of the poll?

WhiteBomber

@bluewolf said:
I am curious why her yellow power unlocks any Raised Shield tiles, other than making sure that if they're locked by an enemy using her power will trigger them. However, since they are only made with 8 yellow ap, you're probably only making one at a time, and it's kind of unlikely you'd every get enough yellow to trigger one before it counted down on its own.

But....it could happen.

Assuming the text is correct, it only cost 5ap at 5 covers and you probably would want to trigger it early to cash in on any prior enemy cascades etc. (since it won't do any damage until count completed or recast).

She looks fun in concept, but it's in interesting choice given some similarities to Agatha3. If only some colors were different and she started with that a protect tile, we might have had a decent O'Red counter (coincidence yella cost 5, exactly what Electro would give you to slap him real good for hitting your team).

I look forward to taking this one to the lab. @entrailbucket I expect the 5star version in 2 weeks flat, so we can see for sure.

WhiteBomber

@entrailbucket said:
Protect tile combo character with a match damage bonus -- she might be ok at 5*. The jump in front power being tied to an unfortified CD tile is really unfortunate, but I guess you weren't using her against m'Thor anyway (she would eat all your protect tiles immediately).

She might actually pair well with ascended Shaw... That would further shut down Thor while also reaping the benefit of her red match damage boost, combined with Shaw's you get some nice match 3 boom boom (he's also a mutant).

WhiteBomber

The "sword" clipping through her hand in every picture is kinda bothering me though. Is there some sort of lore that says that sword is actually just attached to her thumb, and she's not actually wrapping her hand around a handle?

Zarqa

@WhiteBomber said:
The "sword" clipping through her hand in every picture is kinda bothering me though. Is there some sort of lore that says that sword is actually just attached to her thumb, and she's not actually wrapping her hand around a handle?

Kinda? That’s just horrible art work. Come on Devs, you can do better.

Borstock

"As the new Captain Britain..."

It's still weird when they give us the "new" version before we get the original.

DAZ0273

@Borstock said:
"As the new Captain Britain..."

It's still weird when they give us the "new" version before we get the original.

100%. Nothing against Betsy but she is already in-game and already had her own unique presence in the Marvel Universe, so this is a bit disappointing but I guess there must be a reason this version is being pushed here.

BlackBoltRocks

@DAZ0273 said:
100%. Nothing against Betsy but she is already in-game and already had her own unique presence in the Marvel Universe, so this is a bit disappointing but I guess there must be a reason this version is being pushed here.

Wellll…the current in-game Psylocke we have is Kwannon. Unless you go by the original intention for the character, which is that Betsy Braddock was kidnapped by the Hand and had her body transformed from that of a European to an Asian. Unless you go by the retconned version where Betsy’s and Kwannon’s minds/essences whatever were mixed and Betsy’s mind was in Kwannon’s body.

It’s all rather confusing.

DAZ0273

@BlackBoltRocks said:

@DAZ0273 said:
100%. Nothing against Betsy but she is already in-game and already had her own unique presence in the Marvel Universe, so this is a bit disappointing but I guess there must be a reason this version is being pushed here.

Wellll…the current in-game Psylocke we have is Kwannon. Unless you go by the original intention for the character, which is that Betsy Braddock was kidnapped by the Hand and had her body transformed from that of a European to an Asian. Unless you go by the retconned version where Betsy’s and Kwannon’s minds/essences whatever were mixed and Betsy’s mind was in Kwannon’s body.

It’s all rather confusing.

Agreed, 100% on another confusing X-Men mess.

I think her character bio does seem to reference her as Betsy Braddock and the cover is "Sword of the Braddocks" so I'm gonna say she is Betsy and Chris Claremont can suck it for starting all of this nonsense in the first place! Focused Totality, my a***!

Tac

Really, really nice 4*, probably the best one since black king

wish she also had "on battle start, make herself and allies immune to stun until you make a match", that would actually be enough to make her break the stalemate known as OR+imay+chasm in pvp sim

bluewolf

1. Does one truly “hold” a psychic sword? Does it weigh anything? Maybe the art is representing that it’s not physically there?
2. I stand corrected on the ap costs
3. I assume we got this Captain Britain because Marvel in general requires that the ingame version is the current one, when only one is being released. And Brian ain’t it.

I’m not convinced she’s important as far as ingame abilities but she seems fine.

Basically what I expect at this point as we’re at 364 characters with her.

DAZ0273

@bluewolf said:
1. Does one truly “hold” a psychic sword? Does it weigh anything? Maybe the art is representing that it’s not physically there?

It was the same with her psychic knife...how do you stab somebody with something that doesn't exist? She isn't a telekinetic, it never made any sense no matter how much her totality got focused. Basically it is just her punching you.

rainkingucd

@DAZ0273 said:

@bluewolf said:
1. Does one truly “hold” a psychic sword? Does it weigh anything? Maybe the art is representing that it’s not physically there?

It was the same with her psychic knife...how do you stab somebody with something that doesn't exist? She isn't a telekinetic, it never made any sense no matter how much her totality got focused. Basically it is just her punching you.

Her (Betsy/Kwannon/Psylocke) psychic knife was out of the back of her hand (like Wolverine's claws) so in this case maybe it's just true to character?

Gymp28

@BlackBoltRocks said:
Wellll…the current in-game Psylocke we have is Kwannon. Unless you go by the original intention for the character, which is that Betsy Braddock was kidnapped by the Hand and had her body transformed from that of a European to an Asian. Unless you go by the retconned version where Betsy’s and Kwannon’s minds/essences whatever were mixed and Betsy’s mind was in Kwannon’s body.

It’s all rather confusing.

Perhaps Betsy (in Asian psylocke form) has used her meta-ability ‘bewilder’, as we’re all super confused about what the hell is going on, who she is, and why Marvel has instructed Brian to “get in the van”, never to be seen again.

DAZ0273

@rainkingucd said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@bluewolf said:
1. Does one truly “hold” a psychic sword? Does it weigh anything? Maybe the art is representing that it’s not physically there?

It was the same with her psychic knife...how do you stab somebody with something that doesn't exist? She isn't a telekinetic, it never made any sense no matter how much her totality got focused. Basically it is just her punching you.

Her (Betsy/Kwannon/Psylocke) psychic knife was out of the back of her hand (like Wolverine's claws) so in this case maybe it's just true to character?

But I mean it wasn't really was it because her psychic powers were in her brain not her hand, whereas Wolverine has actual real knifes with which to do the stabby. I am not an expert on superpowers, I will admit but I reckon if you chopped her hand off it wouldn't do a lot to stop her being telepathic.