Character Updates: Negasonic (Modern), Beast (AoA), Yellowjacket (Live 4/27)

@BlackBoltRocks said:
Phew Yellowjacket's mechanics remain untouched, and he got a welcome numbers boost. Much appreciated! Likewise for Negasonic and Beast for those in 4* land. Negasonic will hit harder for those who use her with Jane Thor, and Beast's change to his Green interacting with special tiles instead of Charged tiles is also great. Nice work devs!

EDIT: I didn't realise the buffs were already live. For Darren, while 5/5/3 is still generally better, this makes a 5/3/5 build more viable, especially if he's not tanking all of Black/Blue/Green and maximises his damage output when he's not invisible.

funny thing is, having him at 5/5/3 is still a must cause now his blue IS HIS BASE MATCH DAMAGE, so now its guarantee'd he'll go invisible if he matches blue, black, and green since no one will tank over him and my lvl 463 yellowjacket was dealing 24,658 match damage in blue just from matching tiles instead of firing his green lol.

There was no need to mess with beast, he was fine until they mess with him.. but yet they haven't touch Chasm who's ruining the pvp.. how about unnerfing bishop if there not going touch Chasm.

@Bzhai said:
It would be cool if like the new character poll, they let us vote for the next batch of reworks. They already addressed the biggest losers in the game so now it's just a matter of moving up the F-tier list.

I agree with this, I'd love to vote on the next rebalance, such as, Talos

That approach would be more favorable and transparent on why a specific character is updated. Instead many players feel Beast is a nerf. We had similar complaints when 4* Carnage was "buffed" but it felt like a nerf.

The 5* Spider-Mans would be my pick. There's no reason for them to be both boring and useless. We need more web tile generators in the 5* tier or something.

@Daredevil217 said:

@BlackBoltRocks said:
EDIT: I didn't realise the buffs were already live. For Darren, while 5/5/3 is still generally better, this makes a 5/3/5 build more viable, especially if he's not tanking all of Black/Blue/Green and maximises his damage output when he's not invisible.

My Yellowjacket has the same health/match damage as before. Anyone else?

Fixed! Thank you!

@marvel075 said:

@BlackBoltRocks said:
Phew Yellowjacket's mechanics remain untouched, and he got a welcome numbers boost. Much appreciated! Likewise for Negasonic and Beast for those in 4* land. Negasonic will hit harder for those who use her with Jane Thor, and Beast's change to his Green interacting with special tiles instead of Charged tiles is also great. Nice work devs!

EDIT: I didn't realise the buffs were already live. For Darren, while 5/5/3 is still generally better, this makes a 5/3/5 build more viable, especially if he's not tanking all of Black/Blue/Green and maximises his damage output when he's not invisible.

funny thing is, having him at 5/5/3 is still a must cause now his blue IS HIS BASE MATCH DAMAGE, so now its guarantee'd he'll go invisible if he matches blue, black, and green since no one will tank over him and my lvl 463 yellowjacket was dealing 24,658 match damage in blue just from matching tiles instead of firing his green lol.

I came to post the same thing. As soon as I read that they added to his base match damage I got excited and tried it out. Sure enough, he tanks everything when he goes invisible. Since this is the crux of his power set, it makes him so much better, because now he can team with everyone, regardless, of who tanks, which really ups his utility.

Well, they updated Yellowjackets health and base match damage but they nerfed his match dmg boost while invisible. They reduced the match dmg boost by 2/3 🤬

@Punisher5784 said:
When I used him last night he was tearing the enemies up, then today I used him and it wasn't as powerful.

I'm annoyed they did this because I purchased his chain deal thinking his update was huge and it's not

Same here. Except I only bought the first level.

Did they change something? My test was "will yellow jacket still tank with Colossus on his team".

The answer is yes, so he's still good in my book?

It says in the description that it's like 1700 at 5 covers. Did they have it set wrong on the initial change and then fix it the next day?

To clarify my issue with this:

Beast was amazing at his colors, and I would often bring him if he would tank any one of his own colors. He would work well with a huge list of characters, I'm not even going to waste the time trying to list them all.

Now, he requires support to get going instead. His blue has to fire first for anything to happen for him, his green is an "only fire" after his blue has been going for a bit, and there's no way for him to fuel his own black now.

Before, his powers cycled into each other powerfully and smoothly. Fire his green first? No problem, you've got blue charges out to work with. Catch those, throw blue, then don't hesitate to match away your own attack or protect tiles as things keep going. By the time his blue CD's ticked through, you'd often have the green to fire again, and boom, more blue charges.

This was so flexible and easy hitting, and yet he never really overcame too many other characters. I'd rotate him through with plenty other 4 star's, but was a favorite for a while.

He's just... So much slower. Now you have to wait for SAP's to be out before you can throw green to any benefit, blue now feels so much more expensive without those charge tiles to fuel it, and his doesn't generate black on his own, making him stronger.

The end result feels like they wanted him to be more of a team player, but that's not Dark Beast's style, that's not how he worked, and frankly even with this edit he sucks at that role. Tried him with Apocalypse was just like..... Eh? So what? Doesn't bring any oomph. Tried him with BRB, that was mildly more interesting except for the color overlap. So my overall opinion is:

CHANGE BEAST BACK!!