New Character - Nova (Frankie Raye) 5*

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Abilities

Ability: Gold Comet

Color: Green
AP Cost: 5

Create 3 Charged tiles, then Nova goes Airborne for 3 turns.

(PASSIVE) When Nova goes Airborne and at the Start of her turn while Airborne, she deals 421 damage to the enemy team for each Charged tile on the board.

450: Deal 1691 damage.
550: Deal 3656 damage.

Level 2: Deal 443 damage.

  • 450: Deal 1781 damage.
  • 550: Deal 3850 damage.

Level 3: Deal 465 damage.

  • 450: Deal 1869 damage.
  • 550: Deal 4040 damage.

Level 4: Deal 510 damage.

  • 450: Deal 2048 damage.
  • 550: Deal 4427 damage.

Level 5: Deal 443 damage.

  • 450: Deal 2403 damage.
  • 550: Deal 5195 damage.

Ability: Burn Bright

Color: Red
AP Cost: 7

Deal 797 damage plus 266 for each Charged tile on the board.

(PASSIVE) At the Start of the battle, create 5 Charged tiles. At the Start of Nova’s turn, remove a random Charged tile. She deals 4.5% increased damage and takes 10% decreased damage for each Charged tile on the board, up to 5 tiles. 

450: Deal 3205 damage plus 1068 for each tile. Deal 4.5% increased damage.
550: Deal 6927 damage plus 2309 for each tile. Deal 4.5% increased damage.

Level 2: Deal 885 damage plus 296 for each tile. Deal 6.0% increased damage.

  • 450: Deal 3561 damage plus 1187 for each tile. Deal 6.0% increased damage.
  • 550: Deal 7696 damage plus 2565 for each tile. Deal 6.0% increased damage.

Level 3: Deal 974 damage plus 325 for each tile. Deal 8.0% increased damage.

  • 450: Deal 3917 damage plus 1305 for each tile. Deal 8.0% increased damage.
  • 550: Deal 8465 damage plus 2822 for each tile. Deal 8.0% increased damage.

Level 4: Deal 1107 damage plus 369 for each tile. Deal 11.0% increased damage.

  • 450: Deal 4452 damage plus 1483 for each tile. Deal 11.0% increased damage.
  • 550: Deal 9622 damage plus 3207 for each tile. Deal 11.0% increased damage.

Level 5: Deal 1417 damage plus 473 for each tile. Deal 17.0% increased damage.

  • 450: Deal 5698 damage plus 1899 for each tile. Deal 17.0% increased damage.
  • 550: Deal 12316 damage plus 4105 for each tile. Deal 17.0% increased damage.

Ability: Siphon Power

Color: Black
AP Cost: 6

Convert up to 4 non-friendly tiles into Green or Red Charged tiles, destroying 1 random enemy AP for each basic tile converted.

(PASSIVE) Nova cannot be Stunned. Whenever an Ally causes a Charged tile to leave the board, deal 487 damage.

450: Deal 1959 damage.
550: Deal 4233 damage.

Level 2: Deal 531 damage.

  • 450: Deal 2137 damage.
  • 550: Deal 4618 damage.

Level 3: Deal 598 damage.

  • 450: Deal 2404 damage.
  • 550: Deal 5194 damage.

Level 4: Convert up to 5 tiles.

  • 450: Convert up to 5 tiles.
  • 550: Convert up to 5 tiles.

Level 5: Deal 709 damage.

  • 450: Deal 2850 damage.
  • 550: Deal 6159 damage.

Release Events

All times in Pacific

Story

Honor Among Thieves
July 24, 2025, 04:00am – July 27, 2025 11:00pm
Nova (Frankie Raye) Shards and Event Token in Placement Rewards
Nova (Frankie Raye) Event Token in Progression Rewards and Alliance Rewards

Infinite Pursuit
July 27, 2025, 04:00am – July 31, 2025, 11:00pm
Nova (Frankie Raye) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

TBA
July 31, 2025, 04:00am – August 4, 2025, 11:00pm
Nova (Frankie Raye) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Versus

The Golden Girl
July 27, 2025, 05:00am – July 30, 2025, 12:00pm
Nova (Frankie Raye) Event Token in Progression Rewards, Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Offers

The Herald of Earth Store
July 24, 2025, 04:00am – July 28, 2025, 11:00pm
Chance to get Nova (Frankie Raye). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

The Fantastic Fifth Vault
July 31, 2025, 09:00am - August 3, 2025, 09:00pm
Chance to get Nova (Frankie Raye). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

40 Items:

  • 1x The Second Storn Legendary Store Token
  • 1x 4-Star Human Torch (Jim Hammond) cover
  • 3x Random 3-Star covers
  • 6x Heroic tokens
  • 4x 2500 Iso
  • 6x 1000 Iso
  • 5x 500 Iso
  • 14x Two stars

The Second Storm Legendary Store
July 31, 2025, 09:00am - August 3, 2025, 09:00pm
15% chance to get 5* Nova (Frankie Raye), 5* Shang Chi (Origin) , and 5* Silver Surfer (Skyrider) . Additional Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points

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Comments

  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,768 Chairperson of the Boards

    So might Thors new favorite friend

  • MCPenance
    MCPenance Posts: 22 Just Dropped In

    @SuperCarrot and @Bustapup guessed correctly! Well done!

  • Bustapup
    Bustapup Posts: 119 Tile Toppler

    @wymtime said:
    So might Thors new favorite friend

    And worthy Peggy??

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 734 Critical Contributor

    Greeeeen! A good Greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!

    Like the kit (in ideation) and she feels very usable. Not sure about giving MThor 5 more tiles at the start of the match though... Nerf incoming?

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 2,982 Chairperson of the Boards

    Does Chasm shutdown the start of battle power?

  • TheVulture
    TheVulture Posts: 443 Mover and Shaker

    Nifty character, nice art.
    Seems an incredibly easy 3/5/5, as Gold Comet barely scales and the passive boost from Burn Bright immediately outpaces it anyway.
    This is the first 5* in a long time that I'm excited to use (and whose uses aren't a challenge to decipher), so I may actually hoard until she can be favourited.

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 734 Critical Contributor

    @Borstock said:
    Does Chasm shutdown the start of battle power?

    I doubt it, but Black King does :smiley:

  • SuperCarrot
    SuperCarrot Posts: 245 Tile Toppler

    @MCPenance said:
    @SuperCarrot and @Bustapup guessed correctly! Well done!

    First time reading the Surfer books ever paid off! Feel like I got a “no prize”, thank you. I’m sure I can extend my streak to…Forearm!!!

  • revskip
    revskip Posts: 1,116 Chairperson of the Boards

    Oh good. A much needed partner for Jane's board shake shenanigans. /sarcasm

    Frankie should be good even if they do the right thing and finally hit mThor with the nerf hammer. Cheap and relatively straightforward powers. Can't wait to play with her.

  • bbigler
    bbigler Posts: 2,165 Chairperson of the Boards

    Holy ****, this is actually really good. I like all 3 powers. Tons of damage, self buffing, stun proof, damage resistant, airborne dodging, AOE plus cascades, removing enemy specials plus AP drain. They literally threw everything into this 1 character. Works great with MThor. I think this will shake up the meta.

  • BlackBoltRocks
    BlackBoltRocks Posts: 1,246 Chairperson of the Boards

    I was hoping for a Green/Black character, and here we are! Just wish she were Green/Black/Yellow; we only have 3 natural 5s with that combo (Black Bolt, Storm, Electro). But hey, Frankie looks good. I was also hoping the new character would be immune to Stun, so that's great as well. I feel she's superior to both Howard (stun-immune) and Namor (the last Green/Red/Black character), so that's a win-win. Now if only both 4* Human Torches could primarily feed her ;)

    I'm wondering if her Black passive counts herself. If so, it's going to be triggered almost every turn by her Red passive. And if it procs for every individual Charged tile removed, Storm's Black and Jane's Yellow are gonna have a field day.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,862 Chairperson of the Boards

    Oh wow this is a mess

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,684 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    Oh wow this is a mess

    Exactly my thought.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,668 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 22 July 2025, 03:53

    @entrailbucket said:
    Oh wow this is a mess

    Agreed.

    1) Equip Green support that gives 5 Green at start of battle (there are multiple options here so more than 1 character can generate 5 green)
    2) At start of battle get 5 passively created charged tiles.
    3) On turn 0 cast Green (cost 5) and add 3 more charged tiles, go airborne for 3 turns and deal 8*2403=19224 (L450) or 41560 (L550) TEAM DAMAGE.
    4) At start of each turn deal 19224 (or 41560) TEAM DAMAGE passively for the next 3 turns.

    All enemies dead by time she returns from airborne.

    All this without MThor or any other charged tile creator. In other words she can solo win on turn 0 even on defense by the AI as long as she's the only green user and you are unable to kill her turn 0 (with stun immunity you'll have to essentially win turn 0).

    KGB

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,862 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    Oh wow this is a mess

    Agreed.

    1) Equip Green support that gives 5 Green at start of battle (there are multiple options here so more than 1 character can generate 5 green)
    2) At start of battle get 5 passively created charged tiles.
    3) On turn 0 cast Green (cost 5) and add 3 more charged tiles, go airborne for 3 turns and deal 8*2403=19224 (L450) or 41560 (L550) TEAM DAMAGE.
    4) At start of each turn deal 19224 (or 41560) TEAM DAMAGE passively for the next 3 turns.

    All enemies dead by time she returns from airborne.

    All this without MThor or any other charged tile creator. In other words she can solo win on turn 0 even on defense by the AI as long as she's the only green user and you are unable to kill her turn 0 (with stun immunity you'll have to essentially win turn 0).

    KGB

    Oh but it's totally fine right, because you can drag Archangel's useless corpse to the fight and he'll passively knock her down! We have the counter already! /sarcasm

    (You'll just get murdered by every single other team since he's trash, and probably lose to m'Thor anyway because she can use all these charged tiles to kill him).

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,668 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 22 July 2025, 03:56

    @entrailbucket said:

    @KGB said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    Oh wow this is a mess

    Agreed.

    1) Equip Green support that gives 5 Green at start of battle (there are multiple options here so more than 1 character can generate 5 green)
    2) At start of battle get 5 passively created charged tiles.
    3) On turn 0 cast Green (cost 5) and add 3 more charged tiles, go airborne for 3 turns and deal 8*2403=19224 (L450) or 41560 (L550) TEAM DAMAGE.
    4) At start of each turn deal 19224 (or 41560) TEAM DAMAGE passively for the next 3 turns.

    All enemies dead by time she returns from airborne.

    All this without MThor or any other charged tile creator. In other words she can solo win on turn 0 even on defense by the AI as long as she's the only green user and you are unable to kill her turn 0 (with stun immunity you'll have to essentially win turn 0).

    KGB

    Oh but it's totally fine right, because you can drag Archangel's useless corpse to the fight and he'll passively knock her down! We have the counter already! /sarcasm

    (You'll just get murdered by every single other team since he's trash, and probably lose to m'Thor anyway because she can use all these charged tiles to kill him).

    Technically her best partner, especially if you care about defense will be Chasm because on retals and in queues anyone who tries to attack you will be stunned so the AI will get her Green off immediately and you'll never touch her since she's airborne dealing 20-40K team damage per turn.

    As for Archangel, he can't knock her down because he does that via his passive stunning of airborne and she's immune.

    Not sure why they needed to remove Frog/Copter/Arrow etc from PvP when they knew this character was coming out. Frog's invisibility can't help you vs team damage and Copter rotations that do match damage can't damage someone who is already airborne.

    KGB

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,862 Chairperson of the Boards

    I assume they'll be adjusting these numbers. Either they can do it pre release or after several months of her eating the entire game (gee, I wonder which it'll be!).

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,862 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    Oh wow this is a mess

    Agreed.

    1) Equip Green support that gives 5 Green at start of battle (there are multiple options here so more than 1 character can generate 5 green)
    2) At start of battle get 5 passively created charged tiles.
    3) On turn 0 cast Green (cost 5) and add 3 more charged tiles, go airborne for 3 turns and deal 8*2403=19224 (L450) or 41560 (L550) TEAM DAMAGE.
    4) At start of each turn deal 19224 (or 41560) TEAM DAMAGE passively for the next 3 turns.

    All enemies dead by time she returns from airborne.

    All this without MThor or any other charged tile creator. In other words she can solo win on turn 0 even on defense by the AI as long as she's the only green user and you are unable to kill her turn 0 (with stun immunity you'll have to essentially win turn 0).

    KGB

    Your calculation is off here, btw -- you missed her red passive that causes her to deal an extra 17% damage per charged tile on the board, up to 5. So that's an extra 85% damage.

  • Codex
    Codex Posts: 427 Mover and Shaker
    edited 22 July 2025, 04:34

    @Borstock said:
    Does Chasm shutdown the start of battle power?

    Black passive makes opposing chasm irrelevant.

  • bbigler
    bbigler Posts: 2,165 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 22 July 2025, 05:37

    Step aside Omega , May has a new partner. Consider this at just level 450:

    450 Nova 5/5/3 with Atlantis at 250
    370 May with some defensive support
    3rd Required with Tinkerer or Yaro

    Start with 5 charged tiles, then fire green to add 3 more charged tiles. She then does her AOE buffed by herself 85%, may 200% & Atlantis 1792. I think the calculation is:
    2403 + 285% + 1,792 = 11,043.55
    11,043 x 8 = 88,344 AOE! ... 3 times

    Now imagine firing black to remove enemy specials, 100K+
    Now imagine her at level 550
    5195 + 285% + 1792 = 21,792.75
    21792 x 8 = 174,336 AOE ... 3 times

    Correct my calculation if I'm wrong

    Good thing she has low health eh?

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