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Anyways I read the whole thing up and down and I found out a couple of things:

1. The obfuscate debuffs sound very strong and will make him a pretty braindead Spider Woman counter, and basically anything that deals massive damage on block and isn’t immune to aar so probably Photon as well and others (if I read it right).
2. Like someone pointed out his shocks are instant so a) you won’t get a ton of neuros on you and b) considering they can gain up to 300% potency he should be able to take Onslaught especially since he will take all the power burn damage straight to the face (power burn potency also goes up to 300%) so technically you’ll only be missing a portion of shock damage but not all damage, not even half as a matter of fact. I get that he’s metal but just because a champ is metal doesn’t mean they absolutely suck for Onslaught especially if they don’t crit which J J does, he can’t crit.

I really loved this banquet. I’m a dolphin for sure so have all the rare chase champs etc, and feel like after this event that’s most of what differentiates my account now. There was SO much catching up done by casual players, it was perhaps even too much. Great to see how everyone had loads of fun though. I’m at 45 R4s now and kinda lost the interest in extra R4s, and now a lot more folks will have 30 R4s in their BGs rosters so I feel like there’s not so much to show for my spending over the course of the year anymore. First world problems though.

I started with 31k units, and put $400 into offers for units to get more crystals. I’m honestly shocked that I still only ended up top 2-3%, it’s staggering that there’s well over 5,000 players that dropped that kind of money on the game this year. If I could change one thing, Kabam would look at that distribution and make the ranked rewards a bit spicier outside of the top 1%, as it seems top 3% were still spenders.

TLDR: great event overall, devalued my spending over the course of the year and shocked how high the rank reward cutoffs were.

21k units not enough for Banquet based on last year’s milestones requirement

You need to grind more arenas

It's not about the kit it's the fact AI is **** and Abs requires the defender to play into your intercepts. I've placed Serpent three times against Abs already as well and he cooked, not because Abs can't handle Serpent's kit but because it requires extreme AI cooperation to put up a perfect score with high hp in under 60-70 secs

It seems like there is alot of issues with the rank rewards placements and payouts so im not surprised

Nevertheless, my point stands that the first nerf now is not needed and there a much worse offender that roam freely in todays Meta

Poor guy. He's been absolutely destroyed by banquet this year 😂. Anyway, I'm off to play with my nimrod, hulkling and scorpion.

I liked it. I think it succeeded in three important areas: the main Banquet crystals, the Jubilant crystals, and the Realm event tier rewards. The only thing that I felt was underwhelming was the ranked rewards. They're not objectively bad, but so many people pushed so hard that it was difficult to get anything especially worthwhile without putting down some serious cash. I put in over 40k points (which is probably about what I've put in in the last three years combined), but still only ended up in the top 10%. To cap off an event where I think I r4'd eight or nine champs with two 4-5 6* gems felt…yeah.

Not that it came as a surprise. As the Realm awards started ramping up, you could feel the community going hard and just pushing forward. While I aimed higher than I ended up at, I always suspected that I'd land where I did in the end.

But like I said, that was the only thing that I felt was underwhelming. I really liked the rest of the event.

One thing that I would like to see changed next year, though: while it was nice to have an extra avenue to earn some free crystals, please don't tie them to an alliance event next year. As an alliance leader, I feel like it puts me in a weird position. I typically declare December to be a grace month of sorts where everyone can just take whatever time off they need due to the holidays, without having to worry about any alliance stuff. But if Kabam then launches an alliance event (even a fairly low-effort one) where you can earn up to about an Odin's worth of Banquet crystals, I suddenly have to rally the troops again so that we don't end up losing out on a very significant source of both points and actual rewards.

I'm not opposed to an alliance event as such, but I would rather have it in November and then have the rewards carry over in some fashion to the Banquet. I don't want to hound my alliance mates about moving in AW during Christmas and New Year's (and especially not after having explicitly said I wouldn't).

But aside from those little nitpicks, I had a great Banquet. It really showed me how much mileage you can get out of diligently saving up your units throughout the year. I wasn't entirely free to play, but I felt very much like a little goldfish in a sea of whales and dolphins. Somehow that still worked out great for me. I haven't had a Banquet feel this account-changing for me since it was called the Gifting Event back in the day.