Budget Player Cadet wrote: Uh... What? Did you just compare Deadpool's damage output to Psylocke and Punisher? Human Torch I can sorta see, because HT does some pretty stupid damage sometimes, but his health is a good step lower again. Deadpool not only helps protect weaker parts of your team, making it a necessity to kill him first, but 6.8k is not insubstantial, and his offense is really, really good. On one hand, you have over 3k damage for 6AP. That's pretty much completely unmatched - the only thing that comes close is Torch's "Fireball" skill. Yes, it falls off towards the end but against your typical 3* team, you're going to be able to use that at least 3-6 times for full or damn near full damage. And then there's whales, a skill which, once a week, becomes a OHKO for the entire enemy team regardless of what level or health pool, and the rest of the time is "only" significantly higher-damage than Rage of the Panther and Call the Storm. In PURPLE, a color whose list of active skills is paltry, to put it mildly (and this is now the only one that actually does damage in the 3* range, unless you want to count Nick Fury). You can't compare that to Punisher or Psylocke. Psylocke is just weak when it comes to damage. Sure, Psi-Katana may be one of the better black skills in the game, but still, nothing she has tops 1k damage, and her strike and attack tiles are substantial but not substantial enough. Punisher is similar - barely anything does more than 1k, molotov is decent AOE but not about to win any matches, and if you want to win, you really have to rely on someone with some BIG damage. Deadpool is not massively tanky. But he puts up a really effective shield between you and the less-tanky guys on your team, and his damage output is just downright crazy. He's no Thor or Sentry, but disqualifying him simply because his health isn't amazing is not a good argument. This isn't HT's wimpy 6k, or Hood's pathetic 5k. This is almost 7k of eating massive damage every two turns.
mischiefmaker wrote:
NorthernPolarity wrote: Weird, you guys all seem to rank Hulk / C. Marvs a lot higher than I do. Hulk is annoying to face if you're running Sentry bomb, but any X-Force composition makes him completely trivial to beat.
locked wrote: Predictions (Captain Obvious presents): Top 10: X-Force, Sentry, Hood, lazyThor, Black Panther, cMagneto, Patch, lazyDaken, Nick Fury, Hulk Highest climb: X-Force Lowest drop: modern Storm Lowest new: Beast followed by Mohawk Storm Highest new: Nick Fury followed by Captain Marvel Too good for their stars: oBW, Ares Too bad for their stars: IW, Daredevil Best 2*: oBW Best 1*: mBW (team-up power!) Most controversial: She-Hulk/Spider-Man? Most agreed on: Yelena
mischiefmaker wrote: Voting is now closed. Thanks to everyone who contributed their thoughts for helping us to a fourth straight record high of responses! We're now holed up working on processing the data and coming up with entertaining writeups -- I'm hopeful we'll have something early next week.
Orangecrush wrote: I see xforce as much or more than Sentry these days. IMO He is much more likely a skip for me than Sentry.
marx2299 wrote: Are you kidding? WHENEVER I see Hulk, even if its a maxed one, I go right at him. My top 2 right now are: Thor (166) and Hood (160), and I just him with all three of Thor's abilities at once and Hulk and his team are usually DOA. And if I use Cap (151) even easier because I stun him first before ****-slapping him with my shield. Hulk is definitely NOT top ten... P.S. And hood is a much better deterrent on defense than Hulk...
Pwuz_ wrote: mischiefmaker wrote: Voting is now closed. Thanks to everyone who contributed their thoughts for helping us to a fourth straight record high of responses! We're now holed up working on processing the data and coming up with entertaining writeups -- I'm hopeful we'll have something early next week. I'm trying my best to be patient, but can we get a heads up in this thread when the results are released?