New Character - Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) 5*

S0kun
S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 1,052 Chairperson of the Boards
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Character Clue

10/16 5 Star: ..."Invalid Formula"

Health & Match Damage

Feeder Chart

Abilities

Ability: Rise of Hydra

Color: Black
AP Cost: 0

As Johann Schmidt prepares the world for his rule, he plants the seeds for what will become the Hydra menace.

(PASSIVE) Whenever a friendly Hydra tile expires, remove a random enemy special tile. At the start of Red Skull’s turn, if an enemy special tile was created during the enemies’ last turn, convert 1 enemy special tile into a 3-turn Hydra tile that deals 354 damage. This ability becomes Head of the Hydra while Red Skull is Down.

450: Deal 1424 damage.
550: Deal 3079 damage.

Level 2: Deal 708 damage.
450: Deal 2848 damage.
550: Deal 6158 damage.

Level 3: Deal 1151 damage.
450: Deal 4628 damage.
550: Deal 10007 damage.

Level 4: Deal 2036 damage.
450: Deal 8188 damage.
550: Deal 17704 damage.

Level 5: Deal 3894 damage.
450: Deal 15664 damage.
550: Deal 33869 damage.

Ability: Red Death

Color: Red
AP Cost: 5

The Red Skull scatters his Dust of Death, leaving his victims disfigured with his own horrifying visage. Deal 182 damage and create 2 1-turn Dust of Death tiles that deal 182 damage. This ability’s damage and the damage of Dust of Death Repeater tiles increases by 45 each time one activates.

(PASSIVE) Whenever Red Skull creates a Dust of Death Repeater tile, create a Hydra tile.

450: Deal 730 damage, increasing by 183 per activation.
550: Deal 1578 damage, increasing by 394 per activation.

Level 2: Deal 200 damage, increasing by 49 per activation.
450: Deal 802 damage, increasing by 201 per activation.
550: Deal 1733 damage, increasing by 433 per activation.

Level 3: Deal 217 damage, increasing by 54 per activation.
450: Deal 872 damage, increasing by 219 per activation.
550: Deal 1886 damage, increasing by 471 per activation.

Level 4: Deal 253 damage, increasing by 63 per activation.
450: Deal 1015 damage, increasing by 254 per activation.
550: Deal 2193 damage, increasing by 548 per activation.

Level 5: Deal 324 damage, increasing by 80 per activation.
450: Deal 1299 damage, increasing by 326 per activation.
550: Deal 2890 damage, increasing by **701 per activation.

Ability: In Pursuit of the Cube

Color: Blue
AP Cost: 7

The Red Skull uses the reality shaping powers of the Cosmic Cube to realize his plans. Create a Fortified 3-turn Repeater tile that burst heals Red Skull for 443 and creates a Hydra tile. While this repeater tile is on the board, enemies take an additional 49 damage per friendly special tile on the board.

450: Burst heal for 1781 health. Deal 198 additional damage. 550: Burst heal for 3848 health. Deal 428 additional damage. 

Level 2: Burst heal for 523 health. Deal 59 additional damage. 
450: Burst heal for 2137 health. Deal 238 additional damage. 
550: Burst heal for 4618 health. Deal 514 additional damage. 

Level 3: Burst heal for 620 health. Deal 69 additional damage. 
450: Burst heal for 2493 health. Deal 277 additional damage. 
550: Burst heal for 5387 health. Deal 599 additional damage. 

Level 4: Create a 2-turn Repeater. Burst heal for 709 health. Deal 78 additional damage.
450: Create a 2-turn Repeater. Burst heal for 2850 health. Deal 217 additional damage.
550: Create a 2-turn Repeater. Burst heal for 6157 health. Deal 217 additional damage.

Level 5: Burst heal for 930 health. Deal 103 additional damage. 
450: Burst heal for 3740 health. Deal 416 additional damage.
550: Burst heal for 8081 health. Deal 899 additional damage.


Release Events

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Story

Operation Spider Silk
October 16, 2025, 04:00am – October 19, 2025 11:00pm
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) Shards and Event Token in Placement Rewards
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) Event Token in Progression Rewards and Alliance Rewards

Meet Rocket & Groot
October 19, 2025, 04:00am – October 23, 2025, 11:00pm
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Fight For Wakanda
October 23, 2025, 04:00am – October 27, 2025, 11:00pm
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Versus

Superior Soldier
October 19, 2025, 05:00am – October 22, 2025, 12:00pm
Red Skull (Johann Schmidt) Event Token in Progression Rewards, Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Offers

The Deadly Dust Store
October 16, 2025, 04:00am – October 20, 2025, 11:00pm
Chance to get Red Skull (Johann Schmidt). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

The Tesseract Vault
October 23, 2025, 09:00am - October 26, 2025, 09:00pm
Chance to get Red Skull (Johann Schmidt). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

40 Items:

  • 1x The Stonekeeper Legendary Store Token
  • 1x 4-Star Captain America (Worthy) cover
  • 3x Random 3-Star covers
  • 6x Heroic tokens
  • 4x 2500 Iso
  • 6x 1000 Iso
  • 5x 500 Iso
  • 14x Two stars

The Stonekeeper Legendary Store
October 23, 2025, 09:00am - October 26, 2025, 09:00pm
15% chance to get 5* Red Skull (Johann Schmidt), 5* Captain America (Infinity War), and 5* Thanos (The Mad Titan). Additional Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points

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Comments

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,318 Chairperson of the Boards

    Finally.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,475 Chairperson of the Boards

    I guess we should just assume the "Head of the Hydra" passive when he's downed is the same one that Zemo and Zola have?

    Are the Hydra tiles he creates CDs, like the other guys? How many turns?

  • amigopdude22
    amigopdude22 Posts: 29 Just Dropped In

    Lots of missing information in this but so far, doesn't look that great. Easy MThor food (At least until the mega-nerf).

    Would have been a great partner for Polaris with the special tile damage.

  • WilliamK1983
    WilliamK1983 Posts: 1,318 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    I guess we should just assume the "Head of the Hydra" passive when he's downed is the same one that Zemo and Zola have?

    Are the Hydra tiles he creates CDs, like the other guys? How many turns?

    I think both cd and repeater tiles, maybe? The write up is a mess. Poor sleep deprived s0kun.

  • Bustapup
    Bustapup Posts: 255 Mover and Shaker

    @amigopdude22 said:
    Lots of missing information in this but so far, doesn't look that great. Easy MThor food (At least until the mega-nerf).

    Would have been a great partner for Polaris with the special tile damage.

    I don't know.....are charged tiles considered special tiles? If they are ...isn't he going to keep her oppressed like Shaw can? Altho I guess if he's only converting one of them per turn it's not enough

  • TheVulture
    TheVulture Posts: 456 Mover and Shaker

    Pretty mid I'd say - Rise of Hydra isn't bad but there are better special tile suppressors, and Dust of Death is respectable as a cheap 'damage over time' effect... the problem is that isn't a popular style of play in any mode.
    So they haven't done him dirty, but nor is he realistically worth having unless there's another better Hydra person coming up - to be honest I don't think there will be, since the recent three seem designed as a trio for PvE nodes.
    Sadly characters with really low numbers don't scale well when buffed, so he's never really going to be competitive even on weeks he's buffed.

  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,281 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Hammer3001 said:

    @MegaBee said:
    Now folks can figure out someone else to ask for

    HELLVERINE!!!!!

    GIVE IT TO ME

  • Hammer3001
    Hammer3001 Posts: 277 Mover and Shaker

    @MegaBee said:
    Now folks can figure out someone else to ask for

    Korvac: Cosmic Avengers villain!

  • amigopdude22
    amigopdude22 Posts: 29 Just Dropped In

    @Bustapup said:

    @amigopdude22 said:
    Lots of missing information in this but so far, doesn't look that great. Easy MThor food (At least until the mega-nerf).

    Would have been a great partner for Polaris with the special tile damage.

    I don't know.....are charged tiles considered special tiles? If they are ...isn't he going to keep her oppressed like Shaw can? Altho I guess if he's only converting one of them per turn it's not enough

    I wouldn't think so because charged tiles aren't labeled as friendly or enemy, similar to fortified. So in the meantime, MThor is destroying his Hydra tiles, Dust repeaters, and other miscellaneous team special tiles, effectively neutering him before any of them have the chance to go off.

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 781 Critical Contributor

    @MegaBee said:

    @Hammer3001 said:

    @MegaBee said:
    Now folks can figure out someone else to ask for

    HELLVERINE!!!!!

    GIVE IT TO ME

    Call it a Ghost Rider and they're legally required to release it immediately.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,475 Chairperson of the Boards

    The Hydra tiles are flavorful, I guess, but it's pretty lame that there are only 3 characters (out of 500 or whatever) that do stuff with them.

    Winter Soldier's Thunderbolts gimmick looked the same until you guys added the affiliation to a bunch of characters, any plans to expand Hydra tiles similarly? What about putting them on the (currently useless) Hydra Henchmen support?

  • amigopdude22
    amigopdude22 Posts: 29 Just Dropped In

    @Hammer3001 said:

    @MegaBee said:
    Now folks can figure out someone else to ask for

    HELLVERINE!!!!!

    Didn't know this existed until right now and I'm all aboard the HELLVERINE train

  • Hammer3001
    Hammer3001 Posts: 277 Mover and Shaker

    Akihiro, killed by Sabretooth (cut to pieces), is Frankensteined back together by Project Hellfire & possessed by the demon Bagar-ghul.

  • AdamMagus
    AdamMagus Posts: 364 Mover and Shaker

    Would've liked if Hydra tiles were similar to 5* Magik's Red Demon repeaters, "Cut off one head, and two more shall take its place!"

  • Codex
    Codex Posts: 486 Mover and Shaker

    Are we getting quests for this character or on pause until the resetting quests bug is truly fixed?

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 805 Critical Contributor

    Looks fun, definitely not top tier in the current game, but maaaaybe slowing down the crazies currently being nerfed he will be able to play. That is a lot of tile spam. I look forward to trying him out.

  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,281 Chairperson of the Boards

    @amigopdude22 said:

    @Bustapup said:

    @amigopdude22 said:
    Lots of missing information in this but so far, doesn't look that great. Easy MThor food (At least until the mega-nerf).

    Would have been a great partner for Polaris with the special tile damage.

    I don't know.....are charged tiles considered special tiles? If they are ...isn't he going to keep her oppressed like Shaw can? Altho I guess if he's only converting one of them per turn it's not enough

    I wouldn't think so because charged tiles aren't labeled as friendly or enemy, similar to fortified. So in the meantime, MThor is destroying his Hydra tiles, Dust repeaters, and other miscellaneous team special tiles, effectively neutering him before any of them have the chance to go off.

    Charged tiles count as special tiles for G4mora.

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