Roster progress report, and plans for your roster

Yeah, it is good to be reminded that there are good combos out there I find. If you are new and just read the Kang thread you might be tricked into thinking that Kang is the first to facilitate a broken combo. Her combination to turn SC into an even bigger monster was noted in her release thread, but it was never particularly fast so never got traction.

Nice. Hopefully you collected some sweet points off them.

@AlexR said:
Okay, so. The Anniversary Season has ended, the vault is almost done too. I'm also about to hit my Year 3 anniversary in-game. Where do I stand?

Day 1090, SR 147

I now have four fully covered 5* in BRB, Kitty, Jane Foster and Kamala!! Yay!! Still none champed, because no iso and also I'm not done with 4* land yet.
(4 new classic 5* rostered in Shang Chi, SWitch, Bruce Banner, Green Goblin. 17 still missing.)

Others with at least 6 covers (the ones who progressed bolded): 5/2/4 Loki, 5/3/3 Dr.Strange, 5/3/3/ Shang Chi, 5/0/4 Dr.Doom, 4/1/3 Gargantos, 2/4/2 MoonKnight, 4/1/2 Half-Thor, 2/2/3 JJ, 4/3/0 Chasm, 1/1/4 +1 Carol, 3/1/2 Daredevil, 4/1/1 Okoye, 2/3/1 Storm, 2/2/2 Emma Frost.

I got super lucky with Shang Chi from the Anniversary vault, see this post here in the best moments thread. I got him from not rostered at all to 5/3/3 just from the vault without spending cp on him.

As for 3/4stars:
All 4* rostered again, 68 champed.
(10 new ones: Agent Venom, Mr.Fantastic, Scorpion, Lockjaw, Iron Fist, Devil Dino, Gwenpool, Flaptain, Invisible Woman, Punisher.) Still ~25 fully covered ones waiting in the wings.
All 3* champed except 3* Arcade who's still waiting for iso. I'm almost through with flipping the 3* ; I'm glad. That took forever and also ate a lot of iso and temporary dupe slots.

(...)
Plans:
-Shorterm, get Chasm a green to fix his 4/3/0 spread when Jane leaves Latest or via PvE rewards during the next week. Once Jane leaves, I'll keep pulling Latest until he's out. Might possibly start hoarding LTs again once he's out and ignore SHulk/Emma/Arcade for now? (I have all of them rostered already.) We'll see, not sure. I'd love to fully cover everyone, but I have to pick my battles. Gotta build up some savings again. I currently have Okoye favourited and am in the process of getting her cover#7. This should happen while Chasm is in Latest.
-Midterm; the 5* that are currently the next closest are Loki (5/2/4), Shang Chi (5/3/3), Strange (5/3/3) and Doom (5/0/4). There is nothing I can do about Shang Chi for the time being, although from the October Q&A post, I'm hoping they're rolling out a new batch of feeders during the winter holidays, maybe he'll get one. Edit: Switching back to favourite SC. If he does get a feeder, shard progress will go a long way in getting his last couple covers.
The other 3, I can work on though. I'd like to get Loki's, Strange's and Doom's feeders to lvl 300 each: MEHulk (11 levels to go), Mordo (16 levels) and Invisible Woman (12 levels). Starting with IW to start the process of fixing the sad, stuck Doom by getting him his first black cover. Because the 5/0/4 spread really bothers me. Then swiching over to the others to get Loki and Strange to 12 covers each. Both of them have about 200 shards, so at that point they'll only have half a cover to go.
-Longterm: Back to hoarding cp! I want to be ready in case there's a Switch store…

5 months later, Day 1225, SR 157.

BIG MILESTONE. I have champed my first 5* . I am now in single-5* mmr with Shang Chi. The change has been a bit of a mixed bag. SCL 10 is significantly easier and more convenient to before. PvP is less enjoyable. Sure, due to me picking SC who's amazing on offense it's not difficult at all. Getting my 25 wins is very chill (though a lot of retals-- more than I used to get). But pvp has always been the place where I enjoy variety and now I'm locked into SC for every battle. I don't particularly enjoy that part.

I have also almost doubled my count of fully covered 5* from 4 to 7. So, there's that. Not looking forward to how much iso they will need. The newly fully covered ones are Chasm, Gargantos and of course my shiny new champed Shang Chi.

Others with at least 6 covers (I'd bold the ones that progressed, but... almost all of them did! yay!):
5/3/4 Loki (kiiinda finished/holding milestone shards), 5/3/4 Dr.Strange (done, just waiting for Resupply Day 1459), 4/4/3 +1 Riri, 4/3/3 +1 Okoye, 5/1/4 Dr.Doom, 2/4/2 +1 Emma Frost, 3/4/2 MoonKnight, 3/3/3 Wong, 4/2/2 Half-Thor, 2/2/3 +1 SWitch, 3/3/2 Hit-Monkey, 2/2/3 JJ, 2/1/4 Carol, 3/3/1 Storm, 3/1/2 Daredevil, 3/2/1 Deadpool, 2/2/2 Arcade.

(New classic 5* rostered: Colossus, Knull, Carnage, Abigail Brand, Havok, Gamora, Electro, iHulk, Ronan. -- most of them due to Shardmas. Thanks, devs! Still missing: 8 classics.)

As for 3/4stars:
All 4* rostered except new M'Baku -- was busy during his release. I'm sure I'll pick him up soon. 79 champed.
(11 new ones: MoonKnight, Puck, Morbius, Worthy Cap, Kate Bishop, Sandman, InfiniSpidey, Dazzler, Hulkling, Drax, Prof X.) Still ~40(!!) fully covered ones waiting in the wings. ....sheesh. yeah. My 4* just about exploded. Most things are fully covered at this point, I just have no iso.
All 3* champed except newest 3* Magik.

Did I accomplish my plans from last time?
[x] I fixed Chasm's spec and completed him! (All 3 of his green came from shards. I have literally never drawn a green for him naturally. Thank goodness for shards or he'd be 5/5/0.)
[x] As planned, I got Loki, Doom and Strange each a cover and completed Shang-Chi.
I even made good progress on Okoye (6 -> 11 covers), despite changing my mind last time.
[~] I threw what cp I had at the Gargantos/Wong/Switch store, but had bad RNG luck. Garg ate all the covers and he only needed 3! He got 10(!!) while Switch only got 4! Very disappointing. Ah well. Gotta remember that in my last post my SWitch was only 1 cover and I've managed to progress her to 8 1/2 now, so. Significant progress has still been made, I guess. Also, I'm not complaining about completed Eyeball at all, I like the tentacle Eyeball, he just didn't need to eat ALL of the covers lol.
[x] Last but not least, I champed my first 5* . Which... wasn't mentioned in the last post, but I made that explicitly my goal around December.

Plans:

• Midterm, try to cover 5* Kang if at all possible. Use 4* favourite to finish Riri and Okoye. 4* Riri (295) -> 300, then squeeze the 2 last covers for Okoye out of Namora/Shuri. My 5star favourite is currently on SWitch.

That's kinda it. No actionable shortterm plans right now, and while I would like to return back to hoarding for longterm, covering Kang will almost certainly mean I'll have to actively pull and can't hoard.

I might stick to single-5* mmr for now and just focus on my 4* for a bit maybe. However, I've been thinking about which of my 5* I should champ next after SC. MThor/Riri, probably? Or Chasm? idk.

Also, I'm around 24k iso debt now. Can we make double iso the new normal please? This is ridiculous.

I'm in an iso crisis!!! Long time since that happened!

Progress made:

5*

Champed: Crystal, Carnage, RiRi, HM
Fully covered awaiting iso: Kingpin, Star-Lord
Fully Covered not champing: iHulk
Latest LT Train: Wong 4/1/3
Classic Project options: Elektra 4/4/4, Ultron 2/5/4, Yellowjacket 5/2/4, Ghost Rider 5/3/3, Abigail Brand 4/4/4, Captain Marvel 3/5/3 - outside chance Colossus 5/4/1

4*

What to do with the 4* tier?

I have Abomination & Namora fully covered sitting there waiting for iso. They will eventually be joined by Colleen 4/4/3 and M'Baku 4/3/3 once they come around again PvE but it looks like Clea might be better than both of them so I may prioritise her. I used to make sure I champed 4's straight away but I am losing interest in them a bit I think and never seem to feel the need to spend iso. If I struggle to champ Wong then maybe Abomination might move up in priority. I really hope the Devs do address the champing costs of the 4's as they are a significant drain on iso for often not great immediate reward - I can get an LT from a champed 3* for far less. It is tempting to just let the new ones pile up covers until they can be 280'ed.

Good points, taken on board.

Abom is sitting on 5 covers between saved & shards and he is worth another 3 covers from Unstable Iso-8. Season doesn't end for another 10 days + off season, so two weeks before I will pull for more Wong, so can't see gaining extra Abom covers organically before then unless I favourite and pull Heroics/Mighty's I guess. So think I will just sit tight unless I really end up needing that last first cover. It helps that I really don't like Abomination (MPQ version at least!)

Namora - she has equivalent of 3 saved covers and I expect her to get maybe at least one more circulation as essential? Dunno - I don't track these things. Seems like she wont spit out enough for an extra Okoye cover just yet which would be a champ level - nice to have at some point but probably not a big deal right now.

With GotG3 upcoming I can see Star-Lord maybe getting some use, so he might be worth looking at more seriously.

True but I am a bit of a way off! But again, all advice noted and appreciated.

Wong didn't impress me in PVE, not even boosted.
If his yellow triggers at the start he's good, but that's a 1/3 chance.

@dianetics said:
How high do you push in PvP?

Wong is better than you think, and when he is boosted he is a literal monster.
Every Okoye level lets you make your iHulk bigger.

Depends on my work schedule. I have majority of the meta (read everybody bar Colossus and not yet Kang or Magik - is she meta?!? No idea) 5's all champed so can go all the way and normally have a bunch of god boosted each week.

I don't have a real life schedule to be truly competitive though in either PvE OR PvP and as I play on a tablet not a phone I can't normally fit anything in for the bulk of the day.

Hey #1stworldmpqproblems

It’s been over 2 months since my last update so I figured I’d hop in here to recap some things as my roster has grown considering since then.

Current roster: 281
5* champs: 9
4* champs: 57

I was able to champ Kamala, Riri and Hit Monkey from pulls from March and just recently added Wong and Kang to champ levels as well giving me now 9 champed 5*. Magik will soon be 2 powers away from champing too but I won’t be pulling again for her till Kang and Wong are both rotated out so will be a while for me to champ any more 5*.

I will have accomplished my goal of adding all 4* within the next few weeks as the two I don’t have yet will be needed either for DDQ or given as PvP rewards so that’ll be nice. That will leave just 8 5* unrostered for me but 2 of them will have a path to be added thru champ rewards here eventually.

Which brings me to my next goal I suppose, which is to try and put a dent in my 4* champs. I have 33 that are ready to be welcomed as champs but all need 300k+ iso each so choosing the ones with the most saved covers first and hopefully can start putting a little bit of a dent into that number.

5* favorite is Mighty Thor and 4* is Shuri for Okoye who is at 3/2/3 and MT 4/3/4 so those are the new long term goals for 5* champs that I’ve been working on since March.