heybub said: I have ~350pull with CP/Tokens and am looking to max out some cool 5*s but not champ.
Malcrof said: GED and Hela only have 1 downside, the overlap of 2 amazing black skills. I am working on both, if CM gets done in the meantime, bonus, she is situationally very useful. If your goal is PVP , Hela is great, for PVE, GED is amazing. Edit: I missed out on the current meta being retired, so for me, this is the current meta.
Dormammu said: heybub said: I have ~350pull with CP/Tokens and am looking to max out some cool 5*s but not champ. If you're not going to champ, there isn't a 5-star worth blowing your hoard on in the latest 3 (or with the addition of Pepper Potts). Of the 5-stars who are worth cover-maxing and soft-capping, it's only the ones who have some outstanding passive that are going to be of any legitimate help to you. Someone like Kitty or Okoye. Otherwise, there's plenty of strategy and tactics in the 4-star tier that can do whatever an under-leveled 5-star can do - except better (as long as you have the 4-star champed and possibly boosted).I voted to wait. If you have plans to one day elevate to 5-star play, that's your best move.Now, you're never going to see three meta characters in the pool of Latest 3. The last time we were even close to that was when Okoye and JJ were in there together, but that was a long time ago. Hoard your LTs for when there is one meta character in Latest 3; try to pull when that one meta character is surrounded by the least amount of trash. In the meantime, you have a hoard of LTs that will enable you to get at least one cover for all new 5-stars so that you have them for 5e nodes.Your CP is of infinite more value. Right now, the trend is to offer meta or near-meta fives in special stores. These are the best opportunity to get the top 5-stars. You need to be patient, and when one is offered that appeals to you a hoard of CPs will come in pretty handy.
heybub said: Malcrof said: GED and Hela only have 1 downside, the overlap of 2 amazing black skills. I am working on both, if CM gets done in the meantime, bonus, she is situationally very useful. If your goal is PVP , Hela is great, for PVE, GED is amazing. Edit: I missed out on the current meta being retired, so for me, this is the current meta. I think we can all agree that CM and Rescue suck. Hela is pretty good (as close to a meta as we have seen in several months). I'm not sure about GED, but heard he is solid.Why is GED so amazing for PVE? What makes Hela so great for PVP? I usually play PVE, but do like to play PVP sometimes. Maybe current 5*s are good enough for me, especially since these tokens are burning a hole in my pocket.
Dormammu said: Your problem is that your hoard is burning a hole in your pocket.
Dormammu said: Your problem is that your hoard is burning a hole in your pocket. I'm going to be as helpful as I can be with you...If you champ two 5-stars you're going to see a lot of Okoye and Thor. And I mean a lot. You're also going to see a lot of Kitty + Grocket. And I do mean a lot. That doesn't mean you can't skip through and find some other teams, because you sometimes can, but at some point when your score is high enough that's about all you'll see for teams that are worth hitting (36 points or higher). You have to be able to handle them or you will quit PvP all together. In SHIELD Sim you start to see Okoye + Thor + JJ and a lot of Kitty + Grocket + high-level Bishop. These are difficult teams to deal with when you don't have your own set of metas (or hard counters - like BSSM for Gritty) to contend.Right now, if a player doesn't have Okoye, Thor, or Kitty champed PvP is going to be a lot harder than for those who do. I don't want to comment on the right or wrong of this, that's just simply the state of the union at the moment. But this won't always be the case. Okoye, Thor, and Kitty haven't always been the darlings they are now and they won't always be the meta. Someone will come along and oust them, eventually. So you have to ask yourself... when that new meta character arrives, do you want to be sitting on two so-so 5-stars and one bad one? Or do you want to be sitting on a hoard that's ready to jump into the new meta? What about the next time they run a special store featuring fan favorites (like the one they did featuring Thor, Okoye, and Kitty)?My advice is to be patient. Enjoy the 4-star tier - you can never go back to it once you cross that threshold of two champed 5-stars. You'll get there. But you'll be a lot happier if you do it at the right time. I don't think this is the right time, but that's just me.