Another Rank Up Thread

I can R5 two champs (one with cosmic 4-5 gem and the other with T5B) and I need some help. I have a cosmic, science, and mystic awakening gem. Below are a couple pictures of my roster. What do you guys think?

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Lvernon15

Awaken and max hype and quake

CoachLed

Awaken and max hype and quake

Hyp and Quake huh? Not the choices I was expecting to see but they are good champs. Thanks for the input.

CoachLed

Any Annihilus fans out there?

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Des1234

Void and hype

Osfan8

Hype and CapIW...2 of the best and most usable champs in the game

DNA3000

I would personally rank up Void and Venom to R5 and awaken Hyperion.

This is a bit of a judgment call. I think you'll get few arguments against awakening Hyperion. But I personally think Hyperion is so good awakened that it becomes a question of what would benefit me more, a rank 4 Venom and a rank 5 Hyperion or the reverse (assuming both go to R4). I would lean towards ranking Venom and still getting a lot of mileage out of Hyperion. But as I said that's a judgment call: you won't go wrong ranking Hyperion instead.

Meanwhile an awakened Void is one of my top picks to rank up period. He's just one of those champs that buys me out of so much content problems, he's worth his weight in gold in my opinion. A lot of people just see him as a heal reverser. But he's also a power controller, an evade mitigator, a champ that can kill without hitting, a champ with a really long range heavy for heavy countering, has a gigaton of health, and is incinerate immune which is an immunity that is increasing in value.

CoachLed

@DNA3000 I thought about Void but I’ve always heard that from R4 to R5 he doesn’t gain a lot of value.

DNA3000

@DNA3000 I thought about Void but I’ve always heard that from R4 to R5 he doesn’t gain a lot of value.

Well, technically speaking pretty much all champions gain exactly the same thing from ranking up from r4 to r5: they get more health and they get more attack. The thinking I believe is that if you're mostly using Void in situations where he is heal reversing then increasing his attack has less overall benefit to his total "offense" than champions that get all of their offensive output from actually attacking, and that is a valid point.

The flip side is that I actually use him more often than just that, because as I mentioned I find him useful in a lot of different situational fights. And in general you should rank up the champs you use more often to make them more survivable - both by getting more health and by getting more attack which ends fights quicker.

But that's just me. You could legitimately say the same thing about CapIW, Iceman, or even Morningstar. You have a lot of good choices, and the best ones might be the ones you like playing the most or are the best at, because it doesn't help to rank up a champ you keep on the bench because you're more accustomed to playing another. I've just personally found Void to be more widely useful than I think he's normally pigeonholed into. But if you are a Quake driver or a Magik superstar, those are both good options to rank up as well.

CoachLed

@DNA3000 you make some really good points. I’m just at the point where I don’t know what I need/want. I have R5 Ghost, Namor, CG, Medusa, and Blade. I can’t really only bring 3-4 of them at a time due to synergies so I’m at a bit of an impasse. For the cosmic gem I’ve thought maybe Annihilus for defense plus I think he’s cool. But the more I play Cull, I’m like “how can I not rank him? He’s so good”. And then there is Hyp who is constantly a top choice in a lot of new content.

As for the T5B rank up, I’m less picky. Void, Cap, Iceman....it doesn’t really matter. I use them all a ton at R4 when needed so that just means one of them is going to get a little better.

DNA3000

@DNA3000 you make some really good points. I’m just at the point where I don’t know what I need/want. I have R5 Ghost, Namor, CG, Medusa, and Blade. I can’t really only bring 3-4 of them at a time due to synergies so I’m at a bit of an impasse. For the cosmic gem I’ve thought maybe Annihilus for defense plus I think he’s cool. But the more I play Cull, I’m like “how can I not rank him? He’s so good”. And then there is Hyp who is constantly a top choice in a lot of new content.

As for the T5B rank up, I’m less picky. Void, Cap, Iceman....it doesn’t really matter. I use them all a ton at R4 when needed so that just means one of them is going to get a little better.

When in doubt, let the content tell you who to rank up. If you don't need anything yet, hang on to the resources and wait until they are either expiring (and ranking anything is better than nothing) or until some new content comes along that you struggle with, and then rank to get past that.

DPXFistheGOAT

Juggernaut and Drax easily. Awaken if possible. Or wait for a Hulkbuster

CoachLed

Juggernaut and Drax easily. Awaken if possible. Or wait for a Hulkbuster

I have a 6* HB. I’m set.