My personal frustration with the Skill class

Hey, everyone. Hope all are well.

To begin with: I pretty much need a Skill character at R4/55 or higher now. I've been able to do a good chunk of things in the game, but I've always tried to fake it in the Skill class because I'm being stubborn.

This is my problem. Some people won't necessarily even see it as a problem, because I am the one being stubborn. Just rank up who I like, or rank up the most effective character. That's really the answer, and I know it.

But the Skill class is very frustrating for me.

I get it: Aegon, Nick Fury, Blade, Stealth Spider-Man...those are great characters. Gwenpool, too. I have three of them at a high rarity, and I know I am lucky to have them. Some people are still waiting.

But. I do my best to not rank up every single superior character if it's even close -- I really don't want to play the game like that, where yeah, you can absolutely rank up whoever you want -- and really should -- but when the gap is such where you can't even pretend...man. It is frustrating.

I really would rather play either of the Black Panthers, or Daredevil, or Moon Knight. I might even take Winter Soldier up, because I'd honestly rather play him than the most powerful Skill options.

It's just a little frustrating because I have never been afraid to rank up who I want to play, but usually most of those characters can do a bit more than the Skill characters who are a little behind the curve.

Man.

I guess I need to suck it up and do what's best for my account -- I need a Skill character who is effective, right now.

It's just frustrating that it feels like it's not really even a choice.

Comments

Osfan8

Rank up who you like to play and who you'll use! I ranked Masacre over Blade or Nick Fury with 0 regrets. I use him with Domino and Rulk all the time and I prefer his play over the others. I've since taken Aegon and Blade to r5 as well but I use Masacre more than the other 3 combined and it's not even close.

LibertyPrimeV1

Do you by chance have a 5 Star Taskmaster?
He's not the Beyond God Tier Best Champion but can certainly be Amazing if you get his Slightly Above Moderate Skill Level Playstyle down, and once you do he is Really Fun to play, while at the same time wouldn't steamroll every bit of content.
I think he's the perfect medium in my opinion.
I do! He's at 3/45 and I am pretty freaking good with him. I actually like the kit. I used him on that 6.1 Thing miniboss and he did pretty good. But I just don't think his DPS is gonna get me where I need to go for the resources -- it wasn't that smooth.

I have always said that DPS isn't my primary focus, and it isn't. But you know how it is: At some point, you gotta be able to get 150K-300K characters down efficiently, and Taskmaster just doesn't have any way to scale the DPS up

I haven't really had a problem with that since I got the Heavy Attack Weakness Reset thing down, that Direct Damage adds up quickly and it means you can use Heavies more regularly without having to Parry first which is a nice work around for Defensive Stun Immune Champions. Also love that bit where his Debuffs get strong for the more Debuffs you've placed on the Enemy, as well his eventual Debuff Immunity which is great for fighting champions like Invisible Woman or Annihilus on Beefy Nodes.

LibertyPrimeV1

Do you by chance have a 5 Star Taskmaster?
He's not the Beyond God Tier Best Champion but can certainly be Amazing if you get his Slightly Above Moderate Skill Level Playstyle down, and once you do he is Really Fun to play, while at the same time wouldn't steamroll every bit of content.
I think he's the perfect medium in my opinion.
I do! He's at 3/45 and I am pretty freaking good with him. I actually like the kit. I used him on that 6.1 Thing miniboss and he did pretty good. But I just don't think his DPS is gonna get me where I need to go for the resources -- it wasn't that smooth.

I have always said that DPS isn't my primary focus, and it isn't. But you know how it is: At some point, you gotta be able to get 150K-300K characters down efficiently, and Taskmaster just doesn't have any way to scale the DPS up
I haven't really had a problem with that since I got the Heavy Attack Weakness Reset thing down, that Direct Damage adds up quickly and it means you can use Heavies more regularly without having to Parry first which is a nice work around for Defensive Stun Immune Champions. Also love that bit where his Debuffs get strong for the more Debuffs you've placed on the Enemy, as well his eventual Debuff Immunity which is great for fighting champions like Invisible Woman or Annihilus on Beefy Nodes.

https://auntm.ai/champions/taskmaster/tier/5 check out the scaling and such, when you have the time, between the Rank 3 and Rank 4. It's not bad compared to most champions.

ESF

Do you by chance have a 5 Star Taskmaster?
He's not the Beyond God Tier Best Champion but can certainly be Amazing if you get his Slightly Above Moderate Skill Level Playstyle down, and once you do he is Really Fun to play, while at the same time wouldn't steamroll every bit of content.
I think he's the perfect medium in my opinion.
I do! He's at 3/45 and I am pretty freaking good with him. I actually like the kit. I used him on that 6.1 Thing miniboss and he did pretty good. But I just don't think his DPS is gonna get me where I need to go for the resources -- it wasn't that smooth.

I have always said that DPS isn't my primary focus, and it isn't. But you know how it is: At some point, you gotta be able to get 150K-300K characters down efficiently, and Taskmaster just doesn't have any way to scale the DPS up
I haven't really had a problem with that since I got the Heavy Attack Weakness Reset thing down, that Direct Damage adds up quickly and it means you can use Heavies more regularly without having to Parry first which is a nice work around for Defensive Stun Immune Champions. Also love that bit where his Debuffs get strong for the more Debuffs you've placed on the Enemy, as well his eventual Debuff Immunity which is great for fighting champions like Invisible Woman or Annihilus on Beefy Nodes.

Yeah? Huh. What is the Direct Damage coming in at for you? What rank is your TM?

If yours is at R4 or higher, I would definitely like to know where the Direct Damage is. I like him enough to take up

Mr_Platypus

So what I’m taking away from this is that you can’t decide whether to rank up a champion that’ll actually do something in 6.2, or to rank up something that’ll be useless because you enjoy them and want to be different?

Honestly your choice is fairly obvious, progress or fun.
I know who I’d go for but I consider nick fury to be fun so it’d be win/win for me.
Don’t consider MK, BP etc to be fun and tbh I try to avoid using some of them even in arena.
I will say that ronin is pretty fun and not considered top tier, dunno how far he will get you though.

Mirage_Turtle

Don't sleep on Killmonger!

I feel like many have moved on from KM in the nearly 2 years since his release (favoring Blade or Nick Fury in the skill class), but I still use him all the time. I am in Tier 2-3 wars and he's ALWAYS on my attack teams and he sees a minimum of 2 fights but usually closer to 4.

He's got great synergies, great damage output, and he's very tanky. I also find his animations fun and satisfying. I use him in end-game content a lot too. He was my go-to for the 6.3 Medusa fight, which isn't all that mind-blowing. Many people used him for that. However, I found success using him against the 6.3 Nick Fury Boss as well. I wasn't having great luck using Omega or Sabretooth, but Killmonger was able to pull out multiple solos against him. That protection via indestructible charges was very nice.

I've seen a few people mention KM here, and that's great! I hope he gets the respect he deserves. I'm just throwing it out there that he's a very effective and satisfying champ to play.

LibertyPrimeV1

Do you by chance have a 5 Star Taskmaster?
He's not the Beyond God Tier Best Champion but can certainly be Amazing if you get his Slightly Above Moderate Skill Level Playstyle down, and once you do he is Really Fun to play, while at the same time wouldn't steamroll every bit of content.
I think he's the perfect medium in my opinion.
I do! He's at 3/45 and I am pretty freaking good with him. I actually like the kit. I used him on that 6.1 Thing miniboss and he did pretty good. But I just don't think his DPS is gonna get me where I need to go for the resources -- it wasn't that smooth.

I have always said that DPS isn't my primary focus, and it isn't. But you know how it is: At some point, you gotta be able to get 150K-300K characters down efficiently, and Taskmaster just doesn't have any way to scale the DPS up
I haven't really had a problem with that since I got the Heavy Attack Weakness Reset thing down, that Direct Damage adds up quickly and it means you can use Heavies more regularly without having to Parry first which is a nice work around for Defensive Stun Immune Champions. Also love that bit where his Debuffs get strong for the more Debuffs you've placed on the Enemy, as well his eventual Debuff Immunity which is great for fighting champions like Invisible Woman or Annihilus on Beefy Nodes.
Yeah? Huh. What is the Direct Damage coming in at for you? What rank is your TM?

If yours is at R4 or higher, I would definitely like to know where the Direct Damage is. I like him enough to take up

Mines currently at Rank 3 which is just over 1,050 Direct Damage every couple of Seconds once you get in the Rhythm, from what Auntm.ai says the Rank 4 Version's Direct Damage is just barely under 1,400 which would probably add up quickly!