New Character - Gorgon (X of Swords) 5*

S0kun · 7 January 2025, 01:31

Health & Match Damage

Feeder Flow

Abilities

Ability: Calculated Strikes

Color: Blue
AP Cost: 6

Gorgon studies his opponent’s movements, then unleashes a series of attacks. Deal a hit of 753 damage to the target for each unique color amongst tiles destroyed this turn. Then, if Godkiller is active, swap it to Grasscutter.

(PASSIVE) Whenever Godkiller or Grasscutter swap, burst heal Gorgon for 487 health.

450: Deal 3027 damage. Heal for 1959 health.
550: Deal 6542 damage. Heal for 4233 health.

Level 2: Deal 842 damage. Heal for 531 health.
450: Deal 3384 damage. Heal for 2137 health.
550: Deal 7314 damage. Heal for 4618 health.

Level 3: Deal 930 damage. Heal for 620 health.
450: Deal 3738 damage. Heal for 2491 health.
550: Deal 8079 damage. Heal for 5389 health.

Level 4: Deal 1063 damage. Heal for 709 health.
450: Deal 4274 damage. Heal for 2850 health.
550: Deal 9237 damage. Heal for 6159 health.

Level 5: Deal 1329 damage. Heal for 885 health.
450: Deal 5343 damage. Heal for 3561 health.
550: Deal 11547 damage. Heal for 7696 health.

Ability: Petrifying Gaze

Color: Purple
AP Cost: 9

Gorgon removes his mask, petrifying his target. Stun the target for 2 turn(s) and deal 443 damage to them. Then, if Grasscutter is active, swap it to Godkiller.

(PASSIVE) While an enemy is Stunned, Godkiller costs 2 AP less (Min: 3 AP).

450: Deal 1781 damage.
550: Deal 3848 damage.

Level 2: Deal 532 damage.
450: Deal 2137 damage.
550: Deal 4618 damage.

Level 3: Deal 620 damage.
450: Deal 2493 damage.
550: Deal 5387 damage.

Level 4: Deal 1063 damage.
450: Deal 4274 damage.
550: Deal 9235 damage.

Level 5: Stun for 3 turns. Deal 1152 damage.
450: Stun for 3 turns. Deal 4631 damage.
550: Stun for 3 turns. Deal 10005 damage.

Ability: Godkiller

Color: Red
AP Cost: 6

Destroy target Column (Destroyed tiles do not deal damage or generate AP). Then this ability becomes Grasscutter.

(PASSIVE) When this ability becomes Godkiller, deal 1329 damage to a random enemy (prioritizing Stunned enemies). Then, permanently increase the damage of Godkiller and Grasscutter by 10%.

450: Deal 5342 damage. Increase damage by 10%.
550: Deal 11545 damage. Increase damage by 10%.

Level 2: Deal 1772 damage. Increase damage by 12%.
450: Deal 7121 damage. Increase damage by 12%.
550: Deal 15389 damage. Increase damage by 12%.

Level 3: Deal 1994 damage. Increase damage by 14%.
450: Deal 8013 damage. Increase damage by 14%.
550: Deal 17318 damage. Increase damage by 14%.

Level 4: Deal 2658 damage. Increase damage by 16%.
450: Deal 10684 damage. Increase damage by 16%.
550: Deal 23090 damage. Increase damage by 16%.

Level 5: Deal 3765 damage. Increase damage by 20%.
450: Deal 15134 damage. Increase damage by 20%.
550: Deal 32707 damage. Increase damage by 20%.

Ability: Grasscutter

Color: Red
AP Cost: 6

Destroy target Column (Destroyed tiles do not deal damage or generate AP). Then this ability becomes Godkiller.

(PASSIVE) When this ability becomes Grasscutter, deal 664 damage to the enemy team. Then, permanently increase the damage of Godkiller and Grasscutter by 10%.

450: Deal 2671 damage. Increase damage by 10%.
550: Deal 5772 damage. Increase damage by 10%.

Level 2: Deal 797 damage. Increase damage by 12%.
450: Deal 3205 damage. Increase damage by 12%.
550: Deal 6926 damage. Increase damage by 12%.

Level 3: Deal 974 damage. Increase damage by 14%.
450: Deal 3918 damage. Increase damage by 14%.
550: Deal 8468 damage. Increase damage by 14%.

Level 4: Deal 1240 damage. Increase damage by 16%.
450: Deal 4987 damage. Increase damage by 16%.
550: Deal 10776 damage. Increase damage by 16%.

Level 5: Deal 1771 damage. Increase damage by 20%.
450: Deal 7124 damage. Increase damage by 20%.
550: Deal 15394 damage. Increase damage by 20%.

Release Schedule

All times in Pacific

Release Events

Story

Cosmic Chaos
January 9, 2025, 04:00am – January 12, 2024=5 11:00pm
Gorgon (X of Swords) Shards and Event Token in Placement Rewards
Gorgon (X of Swords) Event Token in Progression Rewards and Alliance Rewards

Venom Bomb
January 12, 2025, 04:00am – January 16, 2025, 11:00pm
Gorgon (X of Swords) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Operation Spider Silk
January 16, 2025, 04:00am – January 20, 2025, 11:00pm
Gorgon (X of Swords) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Versus

Blind Business
January 9, 2025, 05:00pm – January 13, 2025, 12:00am
Gorgon (X of Swords) Shards in Placement Rewards, Event Token in Progression Rewards, Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Just One Gaze
January 12, 2025, 05:00am – January 15, 2025, 12:00pm
Gorgon (X of Swords) Event Token in Progression Rewards, Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Offers

The Great Uniter Store
January 9, 2025, 04:00am – January 13, 2025, 11:00pm
Chance to get Gorgon (X of Swords). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

The Hand Ninja Vault
January 16, 2025, 09:00am - January 19, 2025, 09:00pm
Chance to get Gorgon (X of Swords). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

40 Items:

1x Godkiller Legendary Store Store Token
1x 4-Star Medusa (Inhuman Queen) cover
3x Random 3-Star covers
6x Heroic tokens
4x 2500 Iso
6x 1000 Iso
5x 500 Iso
14x Two stars

The Godkiller Legendary Store
January 16, 2025, 09:00am - January 19, 2025, 09:00pm
15% chance to get 5* Gorgon (X of Swords), 5* Black Bolt (Inhuman King), and 5* Wolverine (Old Man Logan). Additional Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points

Tiger_Wong · 7 January 2025, 02:10

The 3’s kit is more interesting but the 5s kit is more complex. Definitely have to try it out and see how it feels.

entrailbucket · 7 January 2025, 02:12

Seems like a pretty easy 5/3/5 -- a 3 turn stun for 9AP is way too much these days. The rest of the kit is just cheap, decent damage and targeted board destruction. Seems pretty good.

Seph1roth5 · 7 January 2025, 02:15

Blue - Looks pretty interesting, multi hits are always fun

Purple - Expensive, and not sure if I'm reading it right. On it's own, it can only ever go down to 7ap? Regardless of when or how many enemies get stunned?

Red - Is grasscutter supposed to destroy a row instead of a column? Would make more sense. Also a bit weird that it doesn't do damage, since it's just 1 column. The AP I get.

Overall he looks interesting, not S tier or anything. Really needs someone to help him get AP if he's meant to be firing his powers off a lot to stack up the damage. I'd say....solid B! I like that the 3 and 5 are very different versions as well.

Hammer3001 · 7 January 2025, 02:21

Guessing Punisher will be his feeder because Punisher’s time in the Hand.

SaltnPeppa · 7 January 2025, 02:26

That shouldn't be the Gorgon associated with Black Bolt and Medusa. This is the correct inhuman Gorgon.

Should remove the inhumans and replace with mutants in the store.

Grizwald · 7 January 2025, 02:52

Why is he Phoenix Force?

SaltnPeppa · 7 January 2025, 02:57

@Grizwald said:
Why is he Phoenix Force?

Agreed!

@S0kun why is he? I don't recall him even being half the host like the Rasputins. I know he competed on some moon or dimension to battle to become an Heir to Apocalypse. Spoiler, it's Doug that's the heir. But I don't see anything about him being a Phoenix Force host? Can you link the comic with the specific issue here showing he was a host?

GrimSkald · 7 January 2025, 03:07

@Hammer3001 said:
Guessing Punisher will be his feeder because Punisher’s time in the Hand.

Possible. My guess would be Silver Samurai because they had some personal interactions (Kenuichio served Gorgon at one point,) and they're both Japanese. Samurai does feed Hit Monkey, but so does Domino, so they may just switch him (and feed HM secondary.)

@Seph1roth5 said:
Blue - Looks pretty interesting, multi hits are always fun

Purple - Expensive, and not sure if I'm reading it right. On it's own, it can only ever go down to 7ap? Regardless of when or how many enemies get stunned?

Red - Is grasscutter supposed to destroy a row instead of a column? Would make more sense. Also a bit weird that it doesn't do damage, since it's just 1 column. The AP I get.

Overall he looks interesting, not S tier or anything. Really needs someone to help him get AP if he's meant to be firing his powers off a lot to stack up the damage. I'd say....solid B! I like that the 3 and 5 are very different versions as well.

So if you activate Godkiller it destroys a column, then immedietely does team damage as the power switches to Grasscutter. If you activate Grasscutter it also destroys a column then does damage to a random target (preferring stunned,) and switches to Godkiller. His blue only switches the swords if it's Godkiller, purple if it's Grasscutter. Either way it gains in damage and bust heals Gorgon every time it switches, which is interesting.

I suppose one of the powers should destroy a row or a diagnol instead of a column to make it interesting, it is a bit weird that they do the same thing but the passive is different.

Also, purple's cost doesn't go down if an enemy is stunned, only Godkiller does (but not Grasscutter, at least by the strictest read of the powers.) Still, it goes down to 4, so that's pretty nice. And it doesn't say that Gorgon needs to stun them, so Gorgon does have a 4 point power whenever an opponent is stunned - potentially turn 1 if you're running Chasm.

Interesting.

S0kun · 7 January 2025, 03:18

@Grizwald said:
Why is he Phoenix Force?

Looks like his affiliations for copied over from Namor. I’ll update tomorrow.

BlackBoltRocks · 7 January 2025, 03:21

Me: sees Black Bolt in the store [wide eyes emoji]

Please tell me there's a rebalance planned for him...

SaltnPeppa · 7 January 2025, 03:50

Should this be Grasscutter? And wouldn't that change the name of the ability too? They are two different swords. One is flawed, the other isn't.

SuperCarrot · 7 January 2025, 04:32

Kind of a deep cut character. Glad they didn’t go with a 5-star Romulus for Wolverine bad guy representation. Enjoy seeing the X-Villans get some love.

Dayraven · 7 January 2025, 10:47

That shouldn't be the Gorgon associated with Black Bolt and Medusa.

They’re a fairly high-profile example of Marvel characters with the same name who aren’t connected in any way. (Even Monica Rambeau as Captain Marvel was trademark maintenance out-of-story)

SaltnPeppa · 7 January 2025, 14:48

@Dayraven said:

That shouldn't be the Gorgon associated with Black Bolt and Medusa.

They’re a fairly high-profile example of Marvel characters with the same name who aren’t connected in any way. (Even Monica Rambeau as Captain Marvel was trademark maintenance out-of-story)

I know, that's why reading the rest of my post would have been useful.

DAZ0273 · 7 January 2025, 15:33

Hopefully it is as @BlackBoltRocks says above and Mr. Bolt is getting an upgrade

wymtime · 7 January 2025, 16:39

I guess my question for Blue is will the damage only activate at the end of the turn? Example I fire blue and red on the same turn. I then make a match and then Blue does damage based on how many colors I have destroyed.

If this is the case he could do some really good damage. He definitely won’t be S tier but with the damage flip and increased damage % it will be fun to see what people can get his damage numbers up to. Run him with IM40 to boost AP and a damage booster like Emma or Okoye and blast blue and red till everyone is dead.

GrimSkald · 7 January 2025, 18:49

@DAZ0273 said:
Hopefully it is as @BlackBoltRocks says above and Mr. Bolt is getting an upgrade

Well, as far as I can tell, the contents of each Legendary Store is 100% based on theme. Not the power of the characters, not how often they've appeared in these stores (Doctor Strange anyone?) just the theme of the store and/or linkages to the new character.

That being said Bolt desperately needs an upgrade. He was kind of B-tier when he was introduced (did a few things well, since he added charged tiles to the most common color he could feed pretty much anyone, but he was so damn slow about it. Also, his yellow was always a wasted power.) He was, in fact, my first 5★. At this point he's very, very low in the tier, even updating his numbers would be something, but mostly he needs a rewrite, particularly his yellow.

MegaBee · 7 January 2025, 20:09

@GrimSkald said:

@DAZ0273 said:
Hopefully it is as @BlackBoltRocks says above and Mr. Bolt is getting an upgrade

Well, as far as I can tell, the contents of each Legendary Store is 100% based on theme. Not the power of the characters, not how often they've appeared in these stores (Doctor Strange anyone?) just the theme of the store and/or linkages to the new character.

That being said Bolt desperately needs an upgrade. He was kind of B-tier when he was introduced (did a few things well, since he added charged tiles to the most common color he could feed pretty much anyone, but he was so damn slow about it. Also, his yellow was always a wasted power.) He was, in fact, my first 5★. At this point he's very, very low in the tier, even updating his numbers would be something, but mostly he needs a rewrite, particularly his yellow.

I found Black Bolt's yellow power to be his most fun for quite a while since he let me use incomplete characters as though they had more covers.

slidecage · 7 January 2025, 20:27

Cp safe again

Old man is 450 plus. And never used
Blackbolt I think is same

Maybe pull in April when it goes into ll and don't have other two max

I think only time I will cp again would be

New release
Aunt may
And random 3rd

Then again really don't play that much anymore

Pve. Do 3 easy clears and node 4 and 5

Pvp. Use 550 juggie with the needed and 3rd either another 1 star at 550. Or mthor it chi

Get 7 or 12 wins and move on

Or someone else if major pumped

Game really needs update to get me back into it. Maybe when the new season pass hits Thurs it gets me pumped but doubt it

Then again what you expect after playing this for what 10 years

S0kun · 7 January 2025, 21:31

@SaltnPeppa said:
Should this be Grasscutter? And wouldn't that change the name of the ability too? They are two different swords. One is flawed, the other isn't.

Yes it should be "When this ability becomes Grasscutter" and it would prob also help to add "When this ability changes back to Grasscutter". I've made the changes across all the pages and website.