Congrats! Now you should rank up that nick and other decent 4 stars(and 5 stars if you have any)
Yeah I'm working on ranking up my fury and Omega Red(duped) my only 5 star is my kingpin sadly
Nice job with Act 4 👍🍾🍾🍾
Don't be sad about pulling Kingpin. As a first five star, you could have done better, but could also have done way worse.
Kingpin is totally underated, and was my first useful Five star skill champ. Took mine to Rank 4/55, still not Awakened and he does solid work throughout Act Five, and Uncollected EQs. There are a lot of paths in Act Five that place supposedly permanent or recurrent debuffs on you, and KP ramps up to Overpower mode beautifully there. He's also romped cheerfully through Uncollected bosses like Annihilus, Clare Voyant, Void, Silver Surfer and the entire Fantastic Four thanks to their fun habits of placing debuffs on opponents through block or at a distance.
Definitely worth taking him to R3; but it's a matter of personal choice if you take him further. A lot of people wouldn't, but he's worked out great for me.
Wow ok that really changed my mindset on him, I'll prolly take him up a bit now, thank you!
You're welcome. @Seatin has him on the 'Occasionally useful' tier list; but I'd say it's less than occasional if you start to look for opportunities for him. So I started making a list...
The thing is, Kabam is making quite a few champs who punish you for hitting them, or who inflict debuffs at a distance lately (one of Kabam's favourite new tricks, as it counters the likes of Ghost and Warlock); and all of which is good for Kingpin.
Champions Kingpins excels against (without getting hit):
Those who inflict debuffs at a distance, through block, or when you hit them:
Invisible Woman
Mr Fantastic (he also evades...)
Annihilus
Human Torch
Aarkus
Terrax
Silver Surfer
Symbiote Supreme
Man-Thing
Void
Yondu
Clare Voyant
Scarlet Witch
Morningstar
Captain America OG
Captain Marvel (Movie)
Science Sentinel
Science Doombot
Abomination
Evade champs:
Ultron
Mister Fantastic (again)
Stealth Spidey
Wasp
Elsa Bloodstone
Spiderman (OG)
Sparky
Miles Morales
Spider-Gwen
Nightcrawler
Golden Symbioid
Champs you need to regularly nail with Heavy attacks:
MODOK
Ebony Maw
Sparky (again)
Other Scenarios/Nodes he does well at:
Any time ability accuracy reduction would be helpful...
Chaos nodes
Variant-2 (XL, Unstoppable Heavy?)
Short Burst lockdown (can inflict Armour Break and other debuffs at start of fight)
Empathic Lock (Power Lock, Heal Block and Fate Seal at start of fight)
Special Lock-1 (just get to one bar, and watch the Rage ramp up)
Footloose node (grants the defender Evade)
Spry node (grants the defender Evade, and inflicts a debuff on KP when they do...)
Like I said - way more useful than people think; even if he's not going to be your 'forever' champion. Of course he's not one of the 'great' champions, but a better 5* skill champ might take a long time coming; so use him till they do.
Geez this is amazing, I almost only used him for chaos and that was it, thank you so much!
Also one question, will he work on the degen on the node where u get 100% degen and then a 300% attack boost?
Sorry, I don't think that's a debuff. Not 100% sure if even Ghulk's Face Me! ability works for that one.
However his Black Iso-8 damage on SP1 will get multiplied by that node, and by effects like Power Shield.
If you want to make use of his slightly high-risk three-heavies and you gain a big Fury Ability, make sure you've got Petrify maxed out; so you can parry-stun-heavy three times without pushing the opponent to SP1 before the third heavy lands. KPs heavy attacks are Unstoppable, but that doesn't help if the opponent counters with a Special.
Anyway, I'll stop, as I just wanted you to see that he has some value; not to over-hype him. He's not going to be your go-to for all fights; but hopefully you feel he can be useful now, even if he'll probably get superceded by better champions later on. Have fun!
Congrats! Now you should rank up that nick and other decent 4 stars(and 5 stars if you have any)
Yeah I'm working on ranking up my fury and Omega Red(duped) my only 5 star is my kingpin sadly
Nice job with Act 4 👍🍾🍾🍾
Don't be sad about pulling Kingpin. As a first five star, you could have done better, but could also have done way worse.
Kingpin is totally underated, and was my first useful Five star skill champ. Took mine to Rank 4/55, still not Awakened and he does solid work throughout Act Five, and Uncollected EQs. There are a lot of paths in Act Five that place supposedly permanent or recurrent debuffs on you, and KP ramps up to Overpower mode beautifully there. He's also romped cheerfully through Uncollected bosses like Annihilus, Clare Voyant, Void, Silver Surfer and the entire Fantastic Four thanks to their fun habits of placing debuffs on opponents through block or at a distance.
Definitely worth taking him to R3; but it's a matter of personal choice if you take him further. A lot of people wouldn't, but he's worked out great for me.
Wow ok that really changed my mindset on him, I'll prolly take him up a bit now, thank you!
You're welcome. @Seatin has him on the 'Occasionally useful' tier list; but I'd say it's less than occasional if you start to look for opportunities for him. So I started making a list...
The thing is, Kabam is making quite a few champs who punish you for hitting them, or who inflict debuffs at a distance lately (one of Kabam's favourite new tricks, as it counters the likes of Ghost and Warlock); and all of which is good for Kingpin.
Champions Kingpins excels against (without getting hit):
Those who inflict debuffs at a distance, through block, or when you hit them:
Invisible Woman
Mr Fantastic (he also evades...)
Annihilus
Human Torch
Aarkus
Terrax
Silver Surfer
Symbiote Supreme
Man-Thing
Void
Yondu
Clare Voyant
Scarlet Witch
Morningstar
Captain America OG
Captain Marvel (Movie)
Science Sentinel
Science Doombot
Abomination
Evade champs:
Ultron
Mister Fantastic (again)
Stealth Spidey
Wasp
Elsa Bloodstone
Spiderman (OG)
Sparky
Miles Morales
Spider-Gwen
Nightcrawler
Golden Symbioid
Champs you need to regularly nail with Heavy attacks:
MODOK
Ebony Maw
Sparky (again)
Other Scenarios/Nodes he does well at:
Any time ability accuracy reduction would be helpful...
Chaos nodes
Variant-2 (XL, Unstoppable Heavy?)
Short Burst lockdown (can inflict Armour Break and other debuffs at start of fight)
Empathic Lock (Power Lock, Heal Block and Fate Seal at start of fight)
Special Lock-1 (just get to one bar, and watch the Rage ramp up)
Footloose node (grants the defender Evade)
Spry node (grants the defender Evade, and inflicts a debuff on KP when they do...)
Like I said - way more useful than people think; even if he's not going to be your 'forever' champion. Of course he's not one of the 'great' champions, but a better 5* skill champ might take a long time coming; so use him till they do.
Geez this is amazing, I almost only used him for chaos and that was it, thank you so much!
Also one question, will he work on the degen on the node where u get 100% degen and then a 300% attack boost?
Sorry, I don't think that's a debuff. Not 100% sure if even Ghulk's Face Me! ability works for that one.
However his Black Iso-8 damage on SP1 will get multiplied by that node, and by effects like Power Shield.
If you want to make use of his slightly high-risk three-heavies and you gain a big Fury Ability, make sure you've got Petrify maxed out; so you can parry-stun-heavy three times without pushing the opponent to SP1 before the third heavy lands. KPs heavy attacks are Unstoppable, but that doesn't help if the opponent counters with a Special.
Anyway, I'll stop, as I just wanted you to see that he has some value; not to over-hype him. He's not going to be your go-to for all fights; but hopefully you feel he can be useful now, even if he'll probably get superceded by better champions later on. Have fun!
No, Gulk doesn’t work for Flare or Brute Force. I learned that the hard way.
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However his Black Iso-8 damage on SP1 will get multiplied by that node, and by effects like Power Shield.
If you want to make use of his slightly high-risk three-heavies and you gain a big Fury Ability, make sure you've got Petrify maxed out; so you can parry-stun-heavy three times without pushing the opponent to SP1 before the third heavy lands. KPs heavy attacks are Unstoppable, but that doesn't help if the opponent counters with a Special.
Anyway, I'll stop, as I just wanted you to see that he has some value; not to over-hype him. He's not going to be your go-to for all fights; but hopefully you feel he can be useful now, even if he'll probably get superceded by better champions later on. Have fun!
No, Gulk doesn’t work for Flare or Brute Force. I learned that the hard way.