Best Of

I thought the format was really good. Enjoyable to open crystals, the results of the rank rewards speak for themselves. For me personally, my account grew a lot… got all the keys to get all box champs. Now at 27 rank 4 champs.

I knew I wasn’t going to be dancing in the ranks that mattered, and it made the rank rewards feel unexciting. The banquet milestones (i got all but the last SBC) were amazing.

Luck? Well… I didn’t have too much of that. Everyone else it appears was swimming in sig stones or can’t use all the T7B they acquired. My jubilants were mainly titans (which are sitting unopened until March) and the dreaded 7 star nexus. It just felt terrible to get those. The few champs I wanted never showed of course, and putting 20 sigs on the likes of superior Ironman for the equivalent of 4,500 units ultimately made me quit opening crystals for fun at the end despite have a lot more units to spend.

Would I change anything? Maybe make that 7 star nexus class based just to increase the odds of getting something useful. Otherwise, I hope they follow the same pattern next year,

Just one feedback from my side, the SBC should have contained a bit more shards imo. Like sometimes when you open a single SBC hoping for a jackpot pull and when it is the opposite maybe a few more shards like 1k 7* or 1k titan shards may feel like a consolation and not so bad.

Other than that it was amazing event.

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.