Anon said: As I posted earlier, my X-23 is 5/2/5 (been 5/1/5 for practically a year) and now I finally have a chance to champ her. I love the character and while her abilities may be a bit quirky, she's far from bad. Mist will view 5/3/5 as her best build, but I'm gunning for 5/5/3. I just need to hit 23500 in this event, pony up ~200k and I'll be good. Can't wait!
Bowgentle said: 5/3/5 until you run low on health, then 5/5/3 for one fight to let her heal up.The traps are crazy good, use them.Unless there's no tile movers, of course.
Dormammu said: So, X-23 is the featured boosted 4-star for the current PvE event and she definitely fits into the category of 'use when boosted' - which so many 4-stars fall into. That's not a bad thing; with almost 50 4-stars they can't all be first team all-stars. But it also doesn't elevate her from the lower half of the 4-star tier, in my opinion. She's definitely better than characters like Winter Soldier, who I struggle to use even when boosted, but still below that second tier of good 4-stars like Hulkbuster and Maxpun.
Bowgentle said:Ooooh don't underestimate Winter Soldier.
Bowgentle said: Anon said: As I posted earlier, my X-23 is 5/2/5 (been 5/1/5 for practically a year) and now I finally have a chance to champ her. I love the character and while her abilities may be a bit quirky, she's far from bad. Mist will view 5/3/5 as her best build, but I'm gunning for 5/5/3. I just need to hit 23500 in this event, pony up ~200k and I'll be good. Can't wait! 5/3/5 until you run low on health, then 5/5/3 for one fight to let her heal up.The traps are crazy good, use them.Unless there's no tile movers, of course.
Agree. Traps are crazy, especially when boosted. All traps took a bit of a nerf recently, and that has probably shifted X-23 down a little bit in the 4* standing.
Right now, I'd say her worst crime is having kind of powers that are very reactionary. Green wants you to chase a second colour before it becomes really useful, healing is based off matching her own icon (so it also limits team composition), and her trap is powerful enough, but the recent nerf to traps has taken a bit of the sting out of it. She doesn't have anything that hooks into the current meta and is mostly lacking anything that builds synergy with other characters. There's the cost reduction on Purple based on existing friendly Strikes, but lemme tell you that every character synergises with "friendly strike tiles on the board". The countdown meta is still fairly prominent right now - if there was a character introduced that interacted with friendly trap tiles (either on destruction or resolution, etc.) then she might regain some favour.
Dormammu said: *Sigh*Every time X-23 is boosted I am reminded about how good she almost is. If her purple was simply straight damage, or even damage on a countdown, she'd be one of my favorite 4-stars. Anything but the horribly expensive trap tile (12AP!) that she currently has. I mean, after you finally manage to gather that much purple AP there isn't a shred of purple left on the board except some unmatchable tile buried in the corner, making her purple one of the most useless powers in the game.
Dormammu said:Rogue is really the 1st effective tank in this game, despite several tries before her (X-23, Vision, Colossus...)
5* X-23 at lv450: Green at 3 covers: 12820 damage, plus 2 x 668 Strike tiles if Berserker Fury Green at 4 covers: 14956 damage, plus 2 x 785 Strike tiles if Berserker Fury Green at 5 covers: 19229 damage, plus 2 x 1010 Strike tiles if Berserker Fury
Red at 3 covers: Heals 4273 health Red at 4 covers: Heals 4985 health Red at 5 covers: Heals 6410 health
Purple at 3 covers: 32050 damage OR 21366 damage + strength 1261 Strike tile Purple at 4 covers: 37391 damage OR 24927 damage + strength 1482 Strike tile Purple at 5 covers: 48074 damage OR 32049 damage + strength 1902 Strike tile
5* X-23 at lv570: Green at 3 covers: 32324 damage, plus 2 x 1683 Strike tiles if Berserker Fury Green at 4 covers: 37712 damage, plus 2 x 1980 Strike tiles if Berserker Fury Green at 5 covers: 48487 damage, plus 2 x 2545 Strike tiles if Berserker Fury
Red at 3 covers: Heals 10775 health Red at 4 covers: Heals 12571 health Red at 5 covers: Heals 16162 health
Purple at 3 covers: 80813 damage OR 53875 damage + strength 3179 Strike tile Purple at 4 covers: 94282 damage OR 62854 damage + strength 3735 Strike tile Purple at 5 covers: 121219 damage OR 80813 damage + strength 4795 Strike tile