New Character - Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) 5*

S0kun
S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 792 Critical Contributor
edited 6 March 2025, 18:25 in MPQ General Discussion

Health & Match Damage

Lvl 40 / 166 / 266

Feeder Flow

Abilities

Ability: Decoys and Dopplegangers

Color: Purple
AP Cost: 6

Create 1 3 turn Decoy Repeater tile(s) that will fire a random Pumpkin Bomb effect from New Gob, New Tricks.

(PASSIVE) At the start of the battle, create a Decoy Repeater tile. Whenever Hobgoblin would take more than 2259 damage and there is a Decoy tile on the board, reduce the damage by 100% and burst heal him for 266, then remove a friendly Decoy tile.

450: Take more than 9081 damage, burst heal for 1068 health.
550: Take more than 19626 damage, burst heal for 2309 health.

Level 2: Burst heal for 709 health.
450: Burst heal for 2848 health.
550: Burst heal for 6158 health.

Level 3: Burst heal for 1286 health.
450: Burst heal for 5162 health.
550: Burst heal for 11159 health.

Level 4: Burst heal for 2527 health.
450: Burst heal for 10146 health.
550: Burst heal for 21936 health.

Level 5: Create 2 tiles.
450: Create 2 tiles.
550: Create 2 tiles.

Ability: New Gob, New Tricks

Color: Black
AP Cost: 8

Select 3 basic tiles, converting each into a 3 turn Pumpkin Bomb Countdown tile with different effects based on the tile color.

450: Unchanged.
550: Unchanged.

Level 2: Yellow, Red, Green, and Black Pumpkin Bombs become stronger!
Level 3: Yellow, Red, Green, and Black Pumpkin Bombs become stronger!
Level 4: Convert into 2 turn tiles.
Level 5: Yellow, Red, Blue, Green, and Black Pumpkin Bombs become stronger!

Ability: Purple Pumpkin Bomb

Color: Black
AP Cost: 8

Hobgoblin’s Purple Pumpkin Bombs steal 2 AP amongst Hobgoblin’s strongest colors.

450: No change.
550: No change.

Level 2 – 5: No change.

Ability: Yellow Pumpkin Bomb

Color: Black
AP Cost: 8

Hobgoblin’s Yellow Pumpkin Bombs create 3 strength 164 Yellow Attack tiles.

450: Create strength 659 tiles.550: Create strength 1424 tiles.

Level 2: Create strength 175 tiles.
450: Create strength 704 tiles.
550: Create strength 1521 tiles.

Level 3: Create strength 195 tiles.
450: Create strength 784 tiles.
550: Create strength 1693 tiles.

Level 4: No Change.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.

Level 5: Create strength 239 tiles.
450: Create strength 961 tiles.
550: Create strength 2078 tiles.

Ability: Red Pumpkin Bomb

Color: Black
AP Cost: 8

Hobgoblin’s Red Pumpkin Bombs deal 2 hits of 1085 damage.

450: Deal 4362 damage.
550: Deal 9428 damage.

Level 2: Deal 1196 damage.
450: Deal 4807 damage.
550: Deal 10390 damage.

Level 3: Deal 1328 damage.
450: Deal 5339 damage.
550: Deal 11540 damage.

Level 4: No change.
450: No change.
550: No change.

Level 5: Deal 1638 damage.
450: Deal 6587 damage.
550: Deal 14236 damage.

Ability: Blue Pumpkin Bomb

Color: Black
AP Cost: 8

Hobgoblin’s Blue Pumpkin Bombs stun a random Unstunned enemy for 1 turn(s).

450: Unchanged.
550: Unchanged.

Level 2: No change.
Level 3: No change.
Level 4: No change.
Level 5: Stun for 2 turns.

Ability: Green Pumpkin Bomb

Color: Black
AP Cost: 8

Hobgoblin’s Green Pumpkin Bombs deal 354 team damage and destroy surrounding non-friendly tiles (Destroyed tiles do not deal damage or generate AP).

450: Deal 1424 team damage.550: Deal 3079 team damage.

Level 2: Deal 398 team damage.
450: Deal 1602 team damage.
550: Deal 3464 team damage.

Level 3: Deal 443 team damage.
450: Deal 1780 team damage.
550: Deal 3849 team damage.

Level 4: No change.
450: No change.
550: No change.

Level 5: Deal 664 team damage.
450: Deal 2670 team damage.
550: Deal 5773 team damage.

Ability: Black Pumpkin Bomb

Color: Black
AP Cost: 8

Hobgoblin’s Black Pumpkin Bombs create 2 strength 171 Black Strike tiles.

450: Create strength 685 tiles.
550: Create strength 1482 tiles.

Level 2: Create strength 189 tiles.
450: Create strength 756 tiles.
550: Create strength 1636 tiles.

Level 3: Create strength 211 tiles.
450: Create strength 845 tiles.
550: Create strength 1829 tiles.

Level 4: No change.
450: No change.
550: No change.

Level 5: Create strength 258 tiles.
450: Create strength 1032 tiles.
550: Create strength 2232 tiles.

Ability: Behind the Schemes

Color: Blue
AP Cost: 6

Choose to Bide or Exploit. If Bide is chosen, add 1 turn to the timer of every friendly Countdown or Repeater tile and Fortify up to 2 friendly Countdown or Repeater tiles. If Exploit is chosen, reduce their timers by 1 and deal 177 plus 89 team damage for each tile reduced.

(PASSIVE) Whenever a friendly Countdown or Repeater tile reaches 0, deal 523 damage.

450: Deal 712 plus 356 team damage. Deal 2137 damage.
550: Deal 1539 plus 770 team damage. Deal 4618 damage.

Level 2: Fortify 3 tiles. Deal 221 plus 111 team damage. Deal 576 damage.
450: Fortify 3 tiles. Deal 890 plus 445 team damage. Deal 2314 damage.
550: Fortify 3 tiles. Deal 1924 plus 963 team damage. Deal 5001 damage.

Level 3: Deal 266 plus 134 team damage. Deal 621 damage.
450: Deal 1068 plus 534 team damage. Deal 2494 damage.
550: Deal 2309 plus 1155 team damage. Deal 5389 damage.

Level 4: Deal 354 plus 178 team damage. Deal 709 damage.
450: Deal 1424 plus 712 team damage. Deal 2849 damage.
550: Deal 3078 plus 1540 team damage. Deal 6156 damage.

Level 5: Fortify 4 tiles. Deal 531 plus 267 team damage. Deal 887 damage.
450: Fortify 4 tiles. Deal 2136 plus 1068 team damage. Deal 3562 damage.
550: Fortify 4 tiles. Deal 4617 plus 2310 team damage. Deal 7698 damage.


Release Events

All times in Pacific

Story

Honor Among Thieves
March 6, 2025, 04:00am – March 10, 2025 11:00pm
Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) Shards and Event Token in Placement Rewards
Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) Event Token in Progression Rewards and Alliance Rewards

Deadpool vs. MPQ
March 9, 2025, 04:00am – March 13, 2025, 11:00pm
Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Cosmic Chaos
March 13, 2025, 04:00am – March 17, 2025, 11:00pm
Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Versus

No Treats For You
March 9, 2025, 05:00am – March 12, 2025, 12:00pm
Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley) Event Token in Progression Rewards, Event Token in Alliance

Offers

The Gliding Doom Store
March 9, 2025, 04:00am – March 13, 2025, 11:00pm
Chance to get Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

The Carved Terror Vault
March 16, 2025, 09:00am - March 19, 2025, 09:00pm
Chance to get Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

40 Items:
○ 1x Tricks Only Legendary Store Token
○ 1x 4-Star Spider-Man (Oscorp) cover
○ 3x Random 3-Star covers
○ 6x Heroic tokens
○ 4x 2500 Iso
○ 6x 1000 Iso
○ 5x 500 Iso
○ 14x Two stars

The Tricks Only Legendary Store
March 16, 2025, 09:00am - March 19, 2025, 09:00pm
15% chance to get 5* Hobgoblin (Roderick Kingsley), 5* Green Goblin (Norman Obsorn), and 5* Spider-Man (Peter Parker). Additional Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points

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Comments

  • concillado
    concillado Posts: 96 Match Maker

    Let the feeder guesses flow...

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,977 Chairperson of the Boards

    The Pumpkin Bomb power says it costs 8 but each color says it costs 10 AP. Can you please clarify?

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,428 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 3 March 2025, 17:33

    @S0kun - Under the black power 'New Gob, New Tricks', the 6 different descriptions for the 6 colors all say AP Cost 10. I believe that's a cut-n-paste mistake (from original Green Goblin) since the AP cost was 8 to fire the power (ie you don't pay 10 more AP) . So that line should be removed for clarity.

    Overall seems pretty meh.

    His best power looks to be the 100% damage avoidance on his purple and even that will be tricky to time esp when facing MThor. But at least he should avoid a turn 0 death (unless facing Chasm) since he places some at start of battle.

    The purple pumpkin bomb only stealing 2 AP is awful. Should at least steal 3-4 at 5 covers. No one ever going to pick Purple.

    KGB

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,312 Chairperson of the Boards

    Seems like a fun payoff for CD teams, but ultimately not much more than that.

    The "choose a color" powers are almost universally worthless, because the effects are so uneven between colors. Also great: the AI ALWAYS picks the worst possible color.

  • IamGrootacus
    IamGrootacus Posts: 8 Just Dropped In

    Almost any spider man villain that doesn't already feed someone and has been in the sinister six. I believe Hobgoblin was in one incarnation or another of the sinister six but what Spider villain hasn't been. Or I think it might be Agent Venom as he tried to frame Flash as the Hobgoblin.

  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,764 Chairperson of the Boards

    I think he will be ok nothing special. For fun I would imagine him 5 * scarlet witch and 5*Jubilee would be fun. His passive blue could melt down a lot of teams when all those repeaters go off.

  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,705 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 3 March 2025, 18:11

    @KGB said:
    @S0kun - Under the black power 'New Gob, New Tricks', the 6 different descriptions for the 6 colors all say AP Cost 10. I believe that's a cut-n-paste mistake (from original Green Goblin) since the AP cost was 8 to fire the power (ie you don't pay 10 more AP) . So that line should be removed for clarity.

    Overall seems pretty meh.

    His best power looks to be the 100% damage avoidance on his purple and even that will be tricky to time esp when facing MThor. But at least he should avoid a turn 0 death (unless facing Chasm) since he places some at start of battle.

    The purple pumpkin bomb only stealing 2 AP is awful. Should at least steal 3-4 at 5 covers. No one ever going to pick Purple.

    KGB

    I agree with the assessment - he's basically the Green Goblin with a repeater/damage reduction power instead of a fortification power, updated numbers, and no direct damage. Nobody plays Normy, so yeah. Pity Sam (a pretty darn good character) is sandwiched between two mediocre ones...

    As far as Feeders go, Kraven, Prowler, and Mysterio don't feed anyone. They're all Sinister Six. I really doubt we're getting a 5★ Kraven to coincide with the movie (we don't get a lot of cross-promotion with Sony and their movies haven't been doing well at all) so any is as likely as any other, I think...

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,859 Chairperson of the Boards

    I don't get it. Like, at all. He's not a good healer because he only heals himself and the power is only a passive at the start of the battle.

    He's not good with damage because his black wants to be versatile and just ends up stinking.

    And his blue would be good except you have to fire other powers first, making it more expensive than it looks.

    He seems awful.

  • ThisisClemFandango
    ThisisClemFandango Posts: 927 Critical Contributor

    What a waste of time and asking people to vote.
    Also daredevil is out tomorrow are we not gonna get anything dd related?
    Haven't even got a rebalance of 5 star matt as they aren't doing them.

    Boo hiss boo

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,588 Chairperson of the Boards

    Boo hiss double boo hiss. 🙁🙁🙁🙄

  • S0kun
    S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 792 Critical Contributor
    edited 3 March 2025, 22:33

    @bluewolf said:
    The Pumpkin Bomb power says it costs 8 but each color says it costs 10 AP. Can you please clarify?

    Confirmed that it was an error and release version will be 8AP for the bombs. I've fixed it across our sites.

  • revskip
    revskip Posts: 1,050 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    Seems like a fun payoff for CD teams, but ultimately not much more than that.

    The "choose a color" powers are almost universally worthless, because the effects are so uneven between colors. Also great: the AI ALWAYS picks the worst possible color.

    Should be a fun partner for ascended Coulson. Not fast or meta but fun.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,435 Chairperson of the Boards

    @GrimSkald said:

    @KGB said:
    @S0kun - Under the black power 'New Gob, New Tricks', the 6 different descriptions for the 6 colors all say AP Cost 10. I believe that's a cut-n-paste mistake (from original Green Goblin) since the AP cost was 8 to fire the power (ie you don't pay 10 more AP) . So that line should be removed for clarity.

    Overall seems pretty meh.

    His best power looks to be the 100% damage avoidance on his purple and even that will be tricky to time esp when facing MThor. But at least he should avoid a turn 0 death (unless facing Chasm) since he places some at start of battle.

    The purple pumpkin bomb only stealing 2 AP is awful. Should at least steal 3-4 at 5 covers. No one ever going to pick Purple.

    KGB

    I agree with the assessment - he's basically the Green Goblin with a repeater/damage reduction power instead of a fortification power, updated numbers, and no direct damage. Nobody plays Normy, so yeah. Pity Sam (a pretty darn good character) is sandwiched between two mediocre ones...

    As far as Feeders go, Kraven, Prowler, and Mysterio don't feed anyone. They're all Sinister Six. I really doubt we're getting a 5★ Kraven to coincide with the movie (we don't get a lot of cross-promotion with Sony and their movies haven't been doing well at all) so any is as likely as any other, I think...

    I also doubt were getting a Kraven movie tie in since they would have released it at the time the movie hit theaters and not months after it's been gone. Plus we haven't had a tie in for any of the venom movies, morbius, or madame web. Marvel doesn't care about the Sony movies.

  • Zarqa
    Zarqa Posts: 389 Mover and Shaker

    @S0kun said:

    @bluewolf said:
    The Pumpkin Bomb power says it costs 8 but each color says it costs 10 AP. Can you please clarify?

    Confirmed that it was an error and release version will be 10AP for the bombs. I've fixed it across our sites.

    Ehm, it seems you fixed it to be 8 for the bombs though? Which is it, 8 or 10 AP?

  • Codex
    Codex Posts: 367 Mover and Shaker

    @ThisisClemFandango said:
    What a waste of time and asking people to vote.
    Also daredevil is out tomorrow are we not gonna get anything dd related?
    Haven't even got a rebalance of 5 star matt as they aren't doing them.

    Boo hiss boo

    You got to be kidding me. 1000% agree. This was the fan choice vote and we get this turd of a power set.

    I would take a 1/1/1 sidewinder over 550 hobgoblin.

  • Tiger_Wong
    Tiger_Wong Posts: 1,077 Chairperson of the Boards

    That purple passive and the blue with the option bide or exploit….. Oh yeah baby!

    Also…. Spider-man India doesn’t feed anybody……

  • MirrorKnight
    MirrorKnight Posts: 96 Match Maker

    I love a repeater team. I have been running Jim Hammond and Agatha with Purple Man which has been a lot of fun, but fairly slow. Have HG's black for some versatility and that blue to trigger tiles with a passive to boost the damage seems pretty nice to me.
    Will he be meta defining? No. Does he have a place on certain teams? I think so.

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 523 Critical Contributor
    edited 3 March 2025, 20:33

    I have never been more curious about the balance process than I have with this game. No other game (that I can recall) has seen such wild fluctuations in balance. To go from Sam and Sidewinder to this, is so perplexing (and I think people really wanted this one?).

    Typically you want your new characters to stand out and be, at least decent, but this game has em them all over the place. I feel much confusion and discontent with the comment they gave us last year, about every new character is supposed to be upwards of top 10 in value.

    There are surely very specific teams this guy can add at least some value to, but he is another character that (seemingly) just a few minor tweaks could have made him much better, without being too good. I will still look for fun teams for him, but I now fully believe this team has zero quality control regarding characters.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,977 Chairperson of the Boards

    As far as feeders, Black Cat is a villain and is on the cover they initially used for him. So she's a possibility.

    I doubt it'll be a hero because typically they have heroes feed heroes and villains feed villains, but not always. And we have plenty of Spidey villains to pick from.

  • MgoBlue51
    MgoBlue51 Posts: 116 Tile Toppler

    My only hope is that they treat him like magik and revamp him somehow immediately pre-post release. He's garbage. Green goblin is terrible, and this is mostly just a re-skin. I'm shaking my fist at the sky, all I can do now is shake harder

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