New Character - Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) 4*

S0kun
S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 1,075 Chairperson of the Boards
edited 29 October 2025, 17:36 in MPQ General Discussion

Health & Match Damage

Feeder Chart

Abilities

Ability: Viper’s Venom

Color: Purple
AP Cost: 6

A specialist in various toxins, even the toughest of foes is laid low before her. Create a 1, 2, and 3-turn Hydra tile that each deal 232 damage. 

(PASSIVE) Viper’s ability damage deals an additional hit, but burst heals the enemy for the same amount of damage. This passive is always Unlocked.

270: Deal 445 damage.
370: Deal 934 damage.

Level 2: Deal 325 damage.
270: Deal 623 damage.
370: Deal 1308 damage.

Level 3: Deal 418 damage.
270: Deal 801 damage.
370: Deal 1681 damage.

Level 4: Deal 603 damage.
270: Deal 1157 damage.
370: Deal 2428 damage.

Level 5: Deal 974 damage.
270: Deal 1869 damage.
370: Deal 3923 damage.

Ability: Madame Hydra

Color: Black
AP Cost: 6

As a once and future leader of Hydra, Viper leverages the full potential of its hidden agents. Create a Fortified 3-turn Hydra tile that burst heals the Ally with the lowest health for 56 each turn. When it expires, it deals 83 team damage. 

(PASSIVE) At the start of her turn, deal 83 damage for each friendly Hydra tile on the board. This ability becomes Head of the Hydra while Viper is Down.

270: Burst heal for 107 health. Deal 160 team damage. Deal 160 damage.
370: Burst heal for 224 health. Deal 336 team damage. Deal 336 damage.

Level 2: Burst heal for 103 health. Deal 152 team damage. Deal 111 damage.
270: Burst heal for 196 health. Deal 293 team damage. Deal 213 damage.
370: Burst heal for 411 health. Deal 616 team damage. Deal 448 damage.

Level 3: Burst heal for 140 health. Deal 208 team damage. Deal 148 damage.
270: Burst heal for 268 health. Deal 400 team damage. Deal 284 damage.
370: Burst heal for 560 health. Deal 840 team damage. Deal 597 damage.

Level 4: Burst heal for 233 health. Deal 346 team damage. Deal 203 damage.
270: Burst heal for 446 health. Deal 667 team damage. Deal 391 damage.
370: Burst heal for 933 health. Deal 1400 team damage. Deal 821 damage.

Level 5: Burst heal for 420 health. Deal 623 team damage. Deal 332 damage.
270: Burst heal for 803 health. Deal 1200 team damage. Deal 640 damage.
370: Burst heal for 1680 health. Deal 2520 team damage. Deal 1344 damage.

Ability: Head of Hydra

Color: Black
AP Cost: 0

(PASSIVE) Hail, Hydra! Immortal Hydra! We shall never be destroyed! Cut off one limb, and two more shall take its place! We serve none but the master… as the world shall soon serve us! Hail Hydra! While Viper is Down, at the start of her Team’s turn, gain 1 AP in each of her strongest colors. This passive is always Unlocked.

270: No Change.370: No Change.

Level 2 – 5: No Change.
270: No Change.
370: No Change.

Ability: Ad Nihilum

Color: Green
AP Cost: 10

Despising the decadence of the most prominent world governments, Viper will bring them all “to Nothing.” Remove and store all allied and enemy burst health, then release the stored burst health as permanent team damage.

(PASSIVE) At the start of Viper’s turn, deal 65 permanent damage to each enemy with burst health. Any Allied damage to enemy burst health is stored.

270: Deal 125 permanent damage.
370: Deal 261 permanent damage.

Level 2: This ability costs 2 less AP. Deal 93 permanent damage.
270: This ability costs 2 less AP. Deal 179 permanent damage.
370: This ability costs 2 less AP. Deal 373 permanent damage.

Level 3: This ability costs 1 less AP. Deal 130 permanent damage.
270: This ability costs 1 less AP. Deal 250 permanent damage.
370: This ability costs 1 less AP. Deal 522 permanent damage.

Level 4: This ability costs 2 less AP. Deal 167 permanent damage.
270: This ability costs 2 less AP. Deal 321 permanent damage.
370: This ability costs 2 less AP. Deal 671 permanent damage.

Level 5: This ability costs 1 less AP. Deal 316 permanent damage.
270: This ability costs 1 less AP. Deal 607 permanent damage.
370: This ability costs 1 less AP. Deal 1268 permanent damage.


Release Events

All times in Pacific

Story

The Hunt
October 30, 2025, 04:00am – November 3, 2025, 11:00pm
Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) Covers and Shards in Placement rewards, Event Token in Progression rewards

Welcome to S.H.I.E.L.D.
November 2, 2025, 04:00am – November 7, 2025, 11:00pm
Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) Shards + Recruit Token for Shield Offer in Progression rewards

Lost in Time
November 3, 2025, 04:00am – November 6, 2025, 11:00pm
Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) Covers and Shards + Vault Token in Progression rewards

Versus

Perfect Storm
October 30, 2025, 05:00pm – November 2, 2025, 12:00am
Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) Cover and Shards as Placement rewards

Fanged Fighter
November 2, 2025, 05:00am – November 5, 2025, 12:00pm
Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) Covers and Shards + Recruit Token for Shield Offer in Progression rewards

Offers

Viper & Foes Vault
November 7, 2025, 04:00am – November 10, 2025, 11:00pm
80 Item Vault:

  • 3x 4-Stars

    • 1x Viper (Ophelia Sarkissian) cover
    • 1x Kate Bishop (Hawkeye) 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 Spider-Man (Classic) cover
    • 12x Random 3-Star covers

  • 49x 2-Stars

    • 10x Hawkeye (Modern) cover
    • 39x Random 2-Star covers
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Comments

  • ThisisClemFandango
    ThisisClemFandango Posts: 1,200 Chairperson of the Boards

    Nope, no idea at all

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,836 Chairperson of the Boards

    I've read the purple passive seven times and lose brain cells every time I read it.

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,363 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 28 October 2025, 23:34

    So the purple deals damage to the enemy and then immediately heals them for said damage? What's the point?

    Edit: appears to deal with the green power

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,941 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 28 October 2025, 23:34

    @WilliamK1983 said:
    So the purple deals damage to the enemy and then immediately heals them for said damage? What's the point?

    The point seems to be her green, which does damage equal to what she has healed. If she just healed the enemy, they'd end up with more health. By hurting them and then healing them, they don't lose or gain health, but she adds damage counted to her green

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,363 Chairperson of the Boards

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @WilliamK1983 said:
    So the purple deals damage to the enemy and then immediately heals them for said damage? What's the point?

    The point seems to be her green, which does damage equal to what she has healed. If she just healed the enemy, they'd end up with more health. By hurting them and then healing them, they don't lose or gain health, but she adds damage counted to her green

    Yea I updated my post once I got down to it. 10 ap for her green is pretty steep.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,783 Chairperson of the Boards

    What

    Huh

  • Gymp28
    Gymp28 Posts: 260 Mover and Shaker
    edited 28 October 2025, 23:38

    @LavaManLee said:
    I've read the purple passive seven times and lose brain cells every time I read it.

    Yeah it’s a bit of a weird setup. Net neutral damage from the extra hit she deals. But it’s all to fuel her green by giving enemies burst health, so she’s not a total dud and relying on enemy team compositions that burst heal.

    Who knows how much the green might cost when at 5 covers, maybe 4 AP? Makes you wonder why they costed it at 10 to begin with, as nobody is running her at only 1 green cover…

  • toecutter3095
    toecutter3095 Posts: 116 Tile Toppler

    So this means we're not getting a new 6-star release to replace the 4-star release? Wasn't that the intended rollout for 6-stars? A quick set of 3 releases to build a team, followed by quarterly-ish releases?

  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,320 Chairperson of the Boards

    She looks so happy!

  • TheVulture
    TheVulture Posts: 460 Mover and Shaker

    @toecutter3095 said:
    So this means we're not getting a new 6-star release to replace the 4-star release? Wasn't that the intended rollout for 6-stars? A quick set of 3 releases to build a team, followed by quarterly-ish releases?

    The next two 6-stars will replace every other 4-star:

    Galactus
    Red Skull
    Viper
    5-star
    6-star
    5-star
    4-star
    5-star
    6-star

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,674 Chairperson of the Boards

    I’m pretty sure their plan is to get 3 6s out on a 4 week cycle which is on an off week from normal releases. Then later slot them into the normal cycle but only every few months.

  • Bustapup
    Bustapup Posts: 303 Mover and Shaker

    @WilliamK1983 said:
    So the purple deals damage to the enemy and then immediately heals them for said damage? What's the point?

    Edit: appears to deal with the green power

    No it does damage and then does additional damage that heals so it's only the second instance of damage that heals which fuels her other ability (and would also be good with Mephisto I think)

  • Bustapup
    Bustapup Posts: 303 Mover and Shaker

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @WilliamK1983 said:
    So the purple deals damage to the enemy and then immediately heals them for said damage? What's the point?

    The point seems to be her green, which does damage equal to what she has healed. If she just healed the enemy, they'd end up with more health. By hurting them and then healing them, they don't lose or gain health, but she adds damage counted to her green

    If you pair her with Mephisto she will be doing extra damage because he will reduce the healing

  • Bustapup
    Bustapup Posts: 303 Mover and Shaker

    @Gymp28 said:

    @LavaManLee said:
    I've read the purple passive seven times and lose brain cells every time I read it.

    Yeah it’s a bit of a weird setup. Net neutral damage from the extra hit she deals. But it’s all to fuel her green by giving enemies burst health, so she’s not a total dud and relying on enemy team compositions that burst heal.

    Who knows how much the green might cost when at 5 covers, maybe 4 AP? Makes you wonder why they costed it at 10 to begin with, as nobody is running her at only 1 green cover…

    She's the perfect support to skull and zemo. More so than Zola.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,783 Chairperson of the Boards

    Did they update the green active with cost reduction? It looks like it's going down to 4AP at 5 covers, which makes her pretty strong against anybody who does burst heal.

  • kuntilanak
    kuntilanak Posts: 271 Mover and Shaker

    Another set of unnecessarily complicated powers, making this another 'use when necessary' type. Oh well... :|

  • thedarkphoenix
    thedarkphoenix Posts: 558 Critical Contributor

    She seems neat, wish she was a 5 or 6 however with these kind of abilities.

  • Seph1roth5
    Seph1roth5 Posts: 498 Mover and Shaker

    I wonder if her purple passive will always heal the same damage, or if strike/may/whatever will put it ahead.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,783 Chairperson of the Boards

    @thedarkphoenix said:
    She seems neat, wish she was a 5 or 6 however with these kind of abilities.

    She'll be a 5* soon enough!

  • UnityGamer
    UnityGamer Posts: 64 Match Maker

    Quite a number of heroes and villains in MPQ produce burst health, making Doctor Strange, 3-star Kamala Khan, Nico Minoru, Karolina Dean, Apocalypse and the like very useful for Viper's move kit. Characters like Shang Chi and Luna Snow produce actual healing, whether it's selfish or selfless, meaning they might compromise with Viper's intended use of utilizing burst heal to deal massive damage.

    It's really going to boil down to your battle preferences. Are you looking to cure or collect damage? Cure requires having characters who can actually heal, and there isn't a lot of them. Collecting means being able to take some damage to build up "Ad Nihilium", but you have to be careful not to lose too much health, or you could unintentionally put one of your allies at risk of Downed. 5-star Captain America's Yellow power "On Your Feet, Soldier" not only revives a Downed hero, their revival is made up entirely of burst health. Might be something worth experimenting with.

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