Cosmic class R5 choices: What would you do?

Hector_1475

Let's say that you already have the Cosmic Top-3 (Hyperion, Corvus, CMM) at R5. And you have to choose between the 2 champs below for your 4th one. What would you choose? Let's just say that the targeted content is Act 6 exploration. Feel free to discuss.

Gardener

I would go venom you already have him awakened so thats good

Hector_1475

Interesting poll result so far.

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Hector_1475

Monke said:

Damage output and better utility

Aquaflash

I think this is closer than the pole shows. Aarkus is underrated as an attacker, and he’s a solid defender. Venom is a beast though! Can’t go wrong either way, imo.

Hector_1475

Aquaflash said:

I think this is closer than the pole shows. Aarkus is underrated as an attacker, and he’s a solid defender. Venom is a beast though! Can’t go wrong either way, imo.

I like your comment and I agree.


Having both and having tried both, I was personally surprised to find that Aarkus out-damages Venom, the longer the fight is. For shorter / burst fights, a duped Venom is faster in inflicting damage. Just putting this out there.

Berjibs

Don’t think I’ve used venom yet in act 6 and am about 50% explored. I’ve got hype and Corvus @ r5 as main cosmics though. Maybe I’ll need him at some point but on that basis he’s still r4. Variants are already done but he was quite useful in 2 and 5.

Personally I’d be looking at vision as he offers something different but with all of these questions it depends on the rest of your roster beyond knowing just a couple of champs.

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Hector_1475

Actually, that was the whole point of this poll. People seem to think with a certainty that Venom is MUCH / CLEARLY better champ than Aarkus and in my opinion they are at least equal in both terms of damage and utility.


Venom bleeds them - Aarkus freezes them
Venom counters all spiders - Aarkus counters all evaders (including spiders) , also demolishes robots
Both can be used for Buffed up - Both can be used for Diss Track (Aarkus does this clearly better)
Venom has TS at the last 18% - Aarkus armor breaks them
Venom counters IMIW - Havok (if he's lucky) - Aarkus counters Emma and others
Venom has nullify of his SP1 - Aarkus has crazy power-gain
Both have power drain resistance
Venom is much more useful for 2 Variants (this is a huge factor btw).


Yet, the poll is clearly one-sided.

Oh, well, the choice of doing both eventually is on the table.



For what it's worth, I like BOTH much more than Medusa.