New Character - Galactus (World Eater) 6*

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  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,347 Chairperson of the Boards

    @TheVulture said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    I don't understand why they gave him all this damage defense/stun/away immunity/healing, and he still just dies immediately to Kang.

    To be honest I see Technologist + high health & match damage + blue/purple/black AP generation and my first thought is that Galactus' best role is to be Kang's bodyguard in a Deathlok team, so it would be kind of fitting that Kang is still the star player. Whatever the new SCL 10 brings, that would be a solid steamroller team.

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    General assessment is kind of "meh" to be honest - if this was a 5* power set it wouldn't excite me at all, and it's a real shame that we've got all of these heralds and none are feeding him cosmic tiles.
    Assuming some of the numbers are simply muddled he's not bad at anything, but he's only an OK AP battery (relative to existing options) and merely burst healing stops him being a top tier tank.

    It is massively in his favour he's the first 6* so his raw numbers will make him more appealing, but since he has to tank to do much he's going to depreciate pretty fast as the 6* tier fills out - one year from now he'll pretty likely be bottom of the 6* rankings.

    Releasing a brand new star tier, with a brand new, cosmically powerful chase character, whose best role is "bodyguard for Kang" seems like a misstep.

    As usual, the pre release power descriptions have very odd wording, and potentially some typos, so I'll continue to reserve judgement until I get to use him.

    Oh wait lol one last thing...what are they going to do about all the stuff like Iron May? Pairing her with a lvl700 Galactus would be... interesting.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,815 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 8 October 2025, 22:59

    @LennoxHC said:
    Yes, it seems odd that Galactus has immunity to stun and airborne, but not away. Those are the standard boss immunities so not including the away immunity doesn't make sense.

    Well, I mean, canonically Galactus was defeated the first time by Reed Richards using the ultimate nullifier to send him away.

    Maybe the next 6 star will also be immune to away and insta win conditions.

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 786 Critical Contributor

    @scottee said:

    @TheVulture said:

    General assessment is kind of "meh" to be honest - if this was a 5* power set it wouldn't excite me at all, and it's a real shame that we've got all of these heralds and none are feeding him cosmic tiles.
    Assuming some of the numbers are simply muddled he's not bad at anything, but he's only an OK AP battery (relative to existing options) and merely burst healing stops him being a top tier tank.

    It is massively in his favour he's the first 6* so his raw numbers will make him more appealing, but since he has to tank to do much he's going to depreciate pretty fast as the 6* tier fills out - one year from now he'll pretty likely be bottom of the 6* rankings.

    This reminds me of when Silver Surfer was released as the first 5*. He was better than everyone at the time simply because of stats, and he had an immunity to stun. But once more 5*s were added, he wasn't anything special.

    There is a very important note between this and 5stars introduction however, for years, basically the entirety of the 4star tier was rendered pointless by 5stars. This was of course corrected with ascension. So, if they continue this path, now everything will be significantly less useful until they can be ascended to 6.

  • turbomoose
    turbomoose Posts: 846 Critical Contributor

    Do we know what level the new SCL 9 and 10 will be yet ?

    Suppose we will find out in a few hours anyway

  • Painmonger
    Painmonger Posts: 192 Tile Toppler

    I know she's supposed to be on the rebalance radar, but looks like MThor shuts down most of his kit. She may not munch the new Cosmic tiles, but the repeater even at 1 turn is iffy.

    Of course he still makes Cosmics passively if you damage him enough, so Away may still make the most sense.

    No feeders for 6* but that could just be as the tier rolls out so a handful of people don't immediately have him maxed out.

    We'll see how the "targeted offers" play out. If those are one time buys & don't come around very often then it could be quite a while before anyone has him at 700.

  • Tiger_Wong
    Tiger_Wong Posts: 1,102 Chairperson of the Boards

    Bruh…. That match damage tho. I like it.

    And hopefully with him having access to cosmic tiles, silver surfer and nova’will make cosmic tiles instead of charge tiles? Please?

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 749 Critical Contributor

    So .... shard per cover? 600?

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,759 Chairperson of the Boards

    I wonder whether Kate Bishop's blue will work on him?

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,526 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Tiger_Wong said:
    Bruh…. That match damage tho. I like it.

    And hopefully with him having access to cosmic tiles, silver surfer and nova’will make cosmic tiles instead of charge tiles? Please?

    IDK what will happen with the meta game and all that but I don't want them to screw with Nova and make her basically only synergize with Galactus after I've been chasing her to 550 range.

    The whales can make do with Galactus vs Galactus fights, lol.

    Anyway I doubt they'd revisit lower tier characters to make Galactus stronger.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,759 Chairperson of the Boards

    They might very well give the other two new 6* abilities to create cosmic tiles for synergy, especially if they turn out to be the mentioned Eternity and Death (although not sure that works for Death exactly).

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,526 Chairperson of the Boards

    Copying from a Reddit post - Galactus got nerfed based on what we see in game currently.

    "Based on level 500 stats.

    Blue power:

    instead of a max of 7 cosmic tiles created per turn passively, it has been reduced to 3 now.
    heal is capped at 3 Cosmic tiles removed, instead of 4.
    The damage threshold to create Cosmic tile has been increased from 4452 to 10994.
    To compensate for the nerfs, they added aoe damage to his blue.

    Purple Power:

    Repeater has increased from 1 turn to 2 turns at 5 covers.
    However, the damage has been increased from 1834 to 10734.

    Black power has received an increment of about 1000 damage to both target and aoe damage."

    It would be very beneficial if we got some updated communication about whether these numbers are intended final (for now, anyway) or an error.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,759 Chairperson of the Boards

    Is that Reddit post from a Dev? Only reason I ask is that sometimes the Boss version of a character is a bit different to the actual released playable version so both stats might be right?

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,526 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Is that Reddit post from a Dev? Only reason I ask is that sometimes the Boss version of a character is a bit different to the actual released playable version so both stats might be right?

    No, a user. They clicked on the ingame Galactus you can see at the top of the home screen for these stats.

  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,244 Chairperson of the Boards

    The game background has changed...

  • Godzillafan67
    Godzillafan67 Posts: 733 Critical Contributor

    @MegaBee said:
    The game background has changed...

    Behold! The power of Unity.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,759 Chairperson of the Boards

    @rainkingucd said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    Is that Reddit post from a Dev? Only reason I ask is that sometimes the Boss version of a character is a bit different to the actual released playable version so both stats might be right?

    From a dev?

    Fine, I deserve that one...

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,759 Chairperson of the Boards

    @MegaBee said:
    The game background has changed...

    But not the loading screen...

  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,244 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @MegaBee said:
    The game background has changed...

    But not the loading screen...

    The loading screen is what's holding everything together...

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