Ascended Winners and Losers

@WhiteBomber said:
That was fast, thanks for posting. Those percentages are definitely not the same, but he is probably still pretty good.

The ally damage buff on black was cut in half (basically) at 60% and his bread and butter (pink) dropped from 21% to 13, while also reducing the stun from 3 to 2.

What is his health at though? Might still be worth keeping him max 4 star if his health is too high to take advantage of his pink.

Oops! How'd I miss that? I went back to the character post, but I guess I just looked too quickly.

His health at 450 is 72,465 -- relatively high for a 450, I think?

Oh, the "should we ascend?" debate! This one is a tough call for me, because he sorta needs to tank to get the most use out of that power. I guess it's a good design in that way, because the tradeoff for him making more matches (and thus potentially activating the purple passive more often) is that he'll have more health (and thus potentially activate the purple passive less often).

I'm not sure what the best answer is.

@WhiteBomber said:
Thanks. I think 72 is basically average? Maybe low average (compared to new characters, not old riffraff that needs to be buffed)? Which is what you want for him, so that's good.

I think the ascension totally depends on your use case since he does seem like he will still be good ascended. If you're only using him to absolutely melt high level PVE matches and you can keep him protected, it could be worth keeping him 4. It's disgusting what he does with IronMay and the right supports / partners, 500k health gone in an instant. His abilities are cheap too, so even if he isn't tanking, I throw his abilities a lot and still capitalize on the pink. Ascended is surely where you want him if you are leaving him on defense.

As I was typing this I thought, why the hell can't we pick which star level we want to use? THAT should be the new feature with the engine, make it so you can play your favorite characters how you want for any fight, without having to have multiple friggen copies.

Has anyone tested if it's his max health or current health that triggers it? I forget, but though it might be max. If it's current then it's a no brainer ascend. Also, if you have ascended MBaku you don't really need 4 star version, since his match damage is so broken it just does what Rider does at all times anyway.

I think it's his current health -- I remember specifically testing that. I'd have to try it out again though, I might be misremembering.

@WhiteBomber said:
If it's current health, sign me up! That's an asset worth taking to the prom.

Stupid IronMay is gonna keep creep healin em though... Damn IronMay.

Just tested -- it IS based on his current health.

Also, he's insanely strong. Wow.

@bluewolf said:
lol I’m glad that there are some players in a position to consider ascending GR2099.

Mine is level 287.

An argument for ascending is to be ready for 6 stars! 🤣

I can stop posting these if they're annoying. It's not meant to be bragging -- this is fairly important information that you can't get in the game, and I enjoy talking through the changes they make at different tiers.

I did swap two covers to complete his duplicate. I open an awful lot of classics, I have all the other 4* ascended, and GR2099 was my only bonus hero for two seasons (because Luna was delayed).

@entrailbucket said:

@bluewolf said:
lol I’m glad that there are some players in a position to consider ascending GR2099.

Mine is level 287.

An argument for ascending is to be ready for 6 stars! 🤣

I can stop posting these if they're annoying. It's not meant to be bragging -- this is fairly important information that you can't get in the game, and I enjoy talking through the changes they make at different tiers.

I did swap two covers to complete his duplicate. I open an awful lot of classics, I have all the other 4* ascended, and GR2099 was my only bonus hero for two seasons (because Luna was delayed).

I’m not annoyed. It’s good info to have and I’m sure some people can use it fairly soon.

It’s just amusing to me….thats all. Who knows how long it’ll take me to collect enough GR2099s to think about ascending him? I’m not about to focus on him yet. Probably will take a year or two to get to 370. My biggest new-ish (since returning last Oct) 4 is India at 353.

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@bluewolf said:
lol I’m glad that there are some players in a position to consider ascending GR2099.

Mine is level 287.

An argument for ascending is to be ready for 6 stars! 🤣

I can stop posting these if they're annoying. It's not meant to be bragging -- this is fairly important information that you can't get in the game, and I enjoy talking through the changes they make at different tiers.

I did swap two covers to complete his duplicate. I open an awful lot of classics, I have all the other 4* ascended, and GR2099 was my only bonus hero for two seasons (because Luna was delayed).

What we should be talking about is how you only had 1375HP! I know you churn and burn your CP but what are you spending the HP on?!?!?

Oh and ascended stuff, yeah.

I am actually curious as to whether anybody has ascended 4* Lady Ock because for the life of me I can't figure out what she is meant to do or why I should care but the game just keeps giving me covers.

I do, but with her it sorta doesn't matter?

She's a strike tile/power booster partner. She passively does a ton of lower-powered hits. Look at the passive part of this ability:

The idea is to get your Okoye boost up, or get out a pile of strikes, then use Lady Ock to hit them 4x every turn, or every time she casts something.

Seems some of the ascension exploits have been resolved overnight - 3-4 Doom no longer has non-standard champ rewards and Domino/nightcrawler/XFW are no longer usable in the DDQ 4* mode after ascension.

Still waiting on Ascension milestones...

At least they aren't gonna punish us for all the 35HP we got through this "exploit" via a clawback!