turbomoose said: Black widow is only useful for recharging the health of her teammates. But when you reach 5* matches health bonuses don’t really help much
jamesh said: turbomoose said: Black widow is only useful for recharging the health of her teammates. But when you reach 5* matches health bonuses don’t really help much While she's not great, she offers more than that. Lowering power costs is nothing to sniff at. And her ability to remove special tiles comes in handy. In the current Valkyrie PVP tournament, I've used her to force a few Professor X's out of hiding.
Vhailorx said: jamesh said: turbomoose said: Black widow is only useful for recharging the health of her teammates. But when you reach 5* matches health bonuses don’t really help much While she's not great, she offers more than that. Lowering power costs is nothing to sniff at. And her ability to remove special tiles comes in handy. In the current Valkyrie PVP tournament, I've used her to force a few Professor X's out of hiding. No, lowering power cost via an active power IS something to sniff at. It's just too inefficient. If you play her on team that cares about other colors, and you happen to collect yellow from Cascades, fine. It's nice to have cheaper powers. But you should never design a team to collect yellow AP so that you can use it to make other powers cheaper. That is a waste of time and effort. You are better off with a team that can use the yellow AP for some direct effect. Also, much of the meta right now is a passive one. So reducing active costs is less valuable than it otherwise might me.
I'm not saying she's top tier or anything: just that she has enough utility to not be on the bottom of the pile (what this topic is all about). There are other characters who simply don't seem to behave the way the developers hoped.
jp1 said: Funny people mentioning 3s they would take into battle over Talos, I would legitimately choose Juggernaut over him if it came down to it. He is just that bad. There isn’t a tier in the game where you can’t find a better alternative.
DAZ0273 said: Vhailorx said: jamesh said: turbomoose said: Black widow is only useful for recharging the health of her teammates. But when you reach 5* matches health bonuses don’t really help much While she's not great, she offers more than that. Lowering power costs is nothing to sniff at. And her ability to remove special tiles comes in handy. In the current Valkyrie PVP tournament, I've used her to force a few Professor X's out of hiding. No, lowering power cost via an active power IS something to sniff at. It's just too inefficient. If you play her on team that cares about other colors, and you happen to collect yellow from Cascades, fine. It's nice to have cheaper powers. But you should never design a team to collect yellow AP so that you can use it to make other powers cheaper. That is a waste of time and effort. You are better off with a team that can use the yellow AP for some direct effect. Also, much of the meta right now is a passive one. So reducing active costs is less valuable than it otherwise might me. I might use her with Sabretooth once I have him up to speed, he gets some healing then and his cheap powers become even more spammable.