TheEyeDoctorsWife said: Does the non reduced damage mean opposing powers only cannot modify damage , or is it also included as another Knull/ Apoc that ignores protect tiles as well? That’s a big difference.
JHawkInc said: That's basically Ultron Prime.Not Boss Ultron, the one seen in "Avengers vs Ultron" with the dropping bomb mechanic.The other one, that we see in nodes in story missions sometimes, like in Strange Sights in the sub where Ultron Drones have taken over with the Doombots.Blue (Hive Mind) is basically the same, but it stops making tiles and starts buffing them when a threshold is reached, and doesn't have the Stun Immunity passive.Black (Gravitational Force) is basically the same, but it's cheaper, creates one tile, that tile is fortified, and presumably has a better stun and AP destruction at max covers.Red (Energy Beams) is completely different. Ultron Prime does team damage. This version's red works better with his blue, and the overall game meta (with people like Wanda and Colossus mitigating damage).Here's hoping for some comic-based artwork! Or at least a costume (that doesn't cost $75...) in the near future.
HoundofShadow said: This character's abilities at a quick glance are underwhelming. The only interesting ability is red, which is a new ability in the game. It smells like anti-5Witch and 5PX. His red ability will receive the immunity from power damage reduction with 3 or 4 friendly sap tiles. And it looks like it can create 5 strike tiles. Damage looks to between 18k-20k
entrailbucket said: I wouldn't compare this guy to Polaris...she's way, way better than he is. (She's better than most of the 5*, barring health and match damage). His tile cloning passive is straight-up worse than her tile creation passive in almost every case, and his stun power is significantly worse in every case (unless it's like a 12-turn stun, and it's not).How good he is is going to depend *very* heavily on how much damage that red power does. I have a feeling it's going to be bad, because I have a feeling they're going to overrate the "ignores damage reduction" part of it.Just make a guy who ignores damage reduction on everything: his match damage and all of his powers. It'll be ok, I promise.
Borstock said: Are....are any of these powers good?
Tiger_Wong said: Borstock said: Are....are any of these powers good? No. It’s a horrible thing to be able to make strikes/attack tiles/protects passively and improve them passively. It’s also bad to stun, destroy AP and do it on a color other than blue. And of course who in their right mind would want a damage dealer that can’t be reduced? That’s like….. the worst thing ever. You know what? Don’t bother waiting for the numbers. We already got this character figured out.
TheRiddler said: I have alot of questions about the character. The Blue power. What does it do if there are no special tiles on the board? It doesn't say anything about creating one if there are none. It says converts a tile adjacent to one into one.... what if there are none? Also its only creating or improving 1 per turn. For this to be worth anything that 1 tile is gonna have to be significant... but it says low strength in the description. This thing is gonna have to be +400 or more strength to be decent. In comparison sake BRB creates 4 protects that are nearly 200 strength in the beginning of the match and Kitty improves up to 5 tiles by +600 each turn. The Black power. Seems straight forward. It says a low-turn countdown and that doesn't change so that has to already be low like 2 turns. It does a stun and fortifies with more covers. A fortified 2-turn tile isn't that bad. And it looks like it destroys 4-5 AP in the targets strongest color each turn. Not bad. In PVP here though it isn't AI proof as the stun and AP reduction are based on the target. The Red power. All depends on the numbers. It says deals low damage. We have seen in this game that can be as low as 1k. It also creates what looks like 4-5 strike tiles of low strength. The damage and strikes get improved. But how much? I said it earlier we have other recent releases that had red attacks with similar cost and also have secondary functions and those do about 10k damage at champ level. The damage of this attack can't get reduced if there are x number of special tiles on the board. Thats good. But only if the damage output is decent otherwise its not worth the setup. So who do you run with this character? Kitty is an obvious choice. She boosts tiles and can create protects/attack tiles. But here she doesn't put them out quickly. Which is why you often see her with Grocket, Polaris and BRB because you get those boosted tiles going quicker from the start. So it seems like you have better options in a pick 2. In a pick 3 it makes more sense. BRB is an obvious choice. You have the special tiles to work with right off the bat. The black and red powers don't conflict. You still have better options here like Kitty, Apocalypse, Polaris etc. But this seemingly makes sense. Knull is an obvious choice. They seemingly both help each other with the special tiles as Knull passively creates and this one replicates or boosts to get the other powers rolling. Black is the only shared power color and this characters black is much better than Knull's anyways. But my thing here is where is the damage? In a pick 2 this isn't doing enough damage quick enough. In a pick 3 yeah makes sense. Apocalypse? I don't know why you would want to fire this characters powers on Red and Black over Apocalypse. Alot of better partners IMO. Okoye? The only reason there is to boost his Red. And then you are needing those special tiles so likely needing to fire his red power twice to get that effect. Alot of better partners IMO. Wanda, Colossus or Shang-Chi? None of them make the tiles he needs for 2 of his powers. With Colossus you are gonna want his black over this one. With Shang-Chi you are gonna want his red over this one. Carnage and Ronan might make sense but once again I don't see enough damage being done quick enough. What teams are you seeing?
Tony_Foot said: captainheath said: Add this to Odin and Shang Chi in a month. Might be a really great trio to target. All three have unique mechanics. I haven’t seen a single Odin in the game since his pvp event.I will pull for Shang, this release and then the next. I was going to go for Odin but I’ve literally seen no one use him. I think that is quite telling?
captainheath said: Add this to Odin and Shang Chi in a month. Might be a really great trio to target. All three have unique mechanics.
Elementeo said: By the way this looks we must be getting zemo
ThaRoadWarrior said: Elementeo said: By the way this looks we must be getting zemo I've given up trying to guess, but I'd much rather see Zemo than Ultron personally. Still waiting for the numbers, but it wasn't that long ago that we got Knull who is a big bag of nothing for the most part with a reasonably similar setup.