My Hunt for Mr Negative
BitterSteel
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So as a few of you know, I think Negative is pretty cool. In fact he is my favourite champ of all time and I’ve never felt this hyped for a new addition to the game. I think he has so much potential and he’s so fun to play.
I’m really hoping this will be a short lived thread, and I can pull him really soon, but in case that it takes a while, I’m gonna make this thread and update it with my feature pulls for the next 90 days (or less)
I currently have 110k 6* shards, but will be opening the first round of crystals after July 4th so I can see what I have from there, or maybe get some more 6* shards if the offers are good.
As for the pool, whatever it was I would have been going for the featured Crystal so any good champs in there are a plus for me. As it happens, I’m actually ok with the pool. I don’t think it’s awful, but it could be much better.
Unfortunately two of the great pulls, sorcerer supreme and storm X I have at rank 3 6* on my mini account- so their worth is slightly diminished. Though I’d still R2 a sorcerer as I don’t have her as a 5*.
Regarding the rest, I’ve drawn up a little table of the pulls and who I’d like to get.
So it’s a solid half that I think are amazing pulls - ones I’d be happy to get.
Decent pulls I’d find some use out of, and there’s not much to be said for bad pulls. (Though I have a good feeling about DPXF and sinister for buffs)
If you disagree with my ratings that’s absolutely fine it’s more of a personal rating rather than who is objectively better. For example, I know sentinel is really good, but he’s not for me.
In any case, I’m really excited to start my hunt for Mr Negative, he would go straight to R3, and honestly once i get him I’ll probably stop opening the featured, so I’ll likely awaken him too with my science gem. I just love the champ so much.
Good luck to anyone opening crystals, featured or basic! Happy hunting!!
I’m really hoping this will be a short lived thread, and I can pull him really soon, but in case that it takes a while, I’m gonna make this thread and update it with my feature pulls for the next 90 days (or less)
I currently have 110k 6* shards, but will be opening the first round of crystals after July 4th so I can see what I have from there, or maybe get some more 6* shards if the offers are good.
As for the pool, whatever it was I would have been going for the featured Crystal so any good champs in there are a plus for me. As it happens, I’m actually ok with the pool. I don’t think it’s awful, but it could be much better.
Unfortunately two of the great pulls, sorcerer supreme and storm X I have at rank 3 6* on my mini account- so their worth is slightly diminished. Though I’d still R2 a sorcerer as I don’t have her as a 5*.
Regarding the rest, I’ve drawn up a little table of the pulls and who I’d like to get.
So it’s a solid half that I think are amazing pulls - ones I’d be happy to get.
Decent pulls I’d find some use out of, and there’s not much to be said for bad pulls. (Though I have a good feeling about DPXF and sinister for buffs)
If you disagree with my ratings that’s absolutely fine it’s more of a personal rating rather than who is objectively better. For example, I know sentinel is really good, but he’s not for me.
In any case, I’m really excited to start my hunt for Mr Negative, he would go straight to R3, and honestly once i get him I’ll probably stop opening the featured, so I’ll likely awaken him too with my science gem. I just love the champ so much.
Good luck to anyone opening crystals, featured or basic! Happy hunting!!
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I know nothing about Mr Negative but I'm chasing him cause he looks so damn cool.
Good luck in your chase.
I've opened 10x of these crystals. Got overall nice results, but no Mr. Negative (or even a Maw, sad news).
Meh pulls:
- 1x Sentinel (new);
- 1x Black Panther (new).
"Okay" pulls:
- 1x Deadpool X-Force (new ; didn't had the 5-star);
- 1x Black Widow (new ; didn't had the 5-star);
- 1x Joe Fixit (dup first time, waiting for the buff);
- 1x Mangog (new ; 5-star was rank 1 only);
Good Pulls:
- 1x Sorcerer Supreme (new ; didn't had the 5-star);
- 2x Mr. Fantastic (new and dup, didn't had the 5-star);
- 1x Shang-Chi (new ; didn't had the 5-star).
So overall got pretty lucky with the new champs that I didn't even had as 5-stars. Considering taking either Joe or Fantastic to rank 3 in the future
If you do pull Negative feel free to check out my guide I wrote. Ive had him since early access and been using him every second I can!
Thank you!
I also completely agree that this new featured, although not as good as it could have been, it's not THAT bad either. I really don't get the hate it's stirring in the forums .... yes there have been better ( like that Ghost/CGr/ Apoc one) .... but still is better than the one before ( the Stryfe one) and definitely there have been waay worse ones in the history of 6* featureds.
To put my money where my mouth is, I had 45k shards saved so I opened three of them. Got Shang, SilvCent and Vulture... very happy with these pulls. And yes I will blow all shards I can get this summer on it not only because I want Mr. Neg baad, but also cuz I wanna dupe the three I got plus Angela and CMM. Also wouldn't mind an Odin, SorcSupreme or Mr. F. Agree to that Mr. Sinister and DpX are up for a buff, perhaps even OG Hulk might get the an overhaul too.
About your breakdown on the desirability of the included champs, I agree almost 98%, The only change I would make to it would be passing Storm X into the "decent" pull category because, well, she is decent.
There are obviously better techs out there, but since his buff, he's not pure garbage anymore.
The immunity to nullify and stagger can have some niche benefits, and at 4 armor ups, he takes 100% less bleed and poison damage, not to be confused with an immunity, cause this ability basically gives him some free healing with willpower. Not to mention a pretty powerful power drain on sp2.
I took my 6* to r2, mostly cause of expiring t4 tech cats, but I'm not disappointed. He's great for Rogue in AQ this cycle.
Would've loved to go for Mister neg as well, but I've already got Reed and s-gwen fighting for the (not yet formed) science t5cc of mine. Shang would have also been cool, but I've got a lot of contenders in that class as well. Gonna stick to basics for now instead.
Just regarding Storm, I absolutely agree. She would be in the top category for me honestly I love her. As I mentioned in the post, I actually have her R3 as a 6* on my mini account. So I wouldn’t really use her very much. She’s an awesome champ though.
I think he’s fairly good, above average for sure. I soloed abyss omega with him after his buff but I just think he’s kinda impractical
I really want a Mr Fantastic, he pairs so well with Mr Negative
Mine isn't awakened yet, so while I'd hate to pull him twice, I wouldn't hate pulling him once this cycle to awaken him.
Ironically Mr Negative is just a better option for that
My plan going in was open 2 at a time, and if I should pull him I can stop with this featured and go onto basic crystals. As after Negative, while I don’t mind the pool (I think about half are decent pulls), I don’t think I’ll continue opening.
Here is the YouTube video of my opening! Enjoy!! (Or skip to the spoilers if you’re not bothered)
Well, I GOT HIM!!
It happened on Crystal 9, apparently that’s my lucky number now.
1. Civil warrior to sig 40 - bit of an eh pull, on my bad pull list. He is R2 so there is that.
2. Ebony maw to sig 40 - actually pretty happy with that, his sig isn’t the most necessary but as I’m planning on r2 at some point it’s pretty good!
3. Hulk to sig 40 - you’ll notice this is a theme of the opening, a lot of sig 40 dupes lol. As for the champ… hope for a buff I guess?
4. DPXF - I’m not actually super mad about this, I like the Nick fury synergy and as I don’t have a 5* I’m not mad.
5. Sentinel awakening - might push me towards rank 2ing him, not mad
6. Storm X awakening - ok, I love storm X I think she’s great but unfortunately I have her rank 3 sig 20 on my mini account, so not the best
7. Storm X sig 40 - it appears sig 40 AND storm X are haunting me
8. Black widow OG - while she has nostalgia points, not the best pull. Unlikely for a buff due to her rarity
9. MR NEGATIVE himself, what a banger of a pull. Couldn’t quite believe it!
I then opened a couple basics and pulled rogue awakening and a massacre. Not mad at rogue I think she’s got some potential, and massacre I have r2 awakened on my mini, so not a great pull but I’m fine with it.
My newest favourite champion!
And he’s rank 3 already, I am very seriously considering awakening him with my science gem. I don’t have any other champs I want to use it on, torch is great unawakened, I have sig 200 void 5* that can do everything I need him to, same with Cap IW.
I really like his sig ability, he’s my all time favourite champion in the game, and let’s face it, every champion looks better with silver stars. Seriously though, that regen is insanely good for any degen node, I take my 5* to war loads and use him for Mojo’s and he net heals against the degen. The damage from dark energy and nullify immunity is great, especially for power snack fights which I use him on most wars. And lastly, I won’t be opening anymore featured so that’s 90 days where I won’t be pulling him straight after awakening him.
But yeah, this seems to be a rather short hunt and therefore thread - I hope anyone else going for him has all the luck in the world! Looking forward to doing some gameplay with the 6*!!!
Overall based on my rating in the first post of the thread I got
Amazing: 2
Decent: 1
Bad: 6
Considering I had 12 champs amazingly, 4 decent and 8 bad, that’s not the best luck. But honestly, I could have got DPXF 10 times, Negative once and still come out grinning. Anything better is just a bonus for me.
At sig 80 I get 733 per tick while at 20 dark energy. I mean that’s around what void has as an r5 with fear of the void up and 3 debuffs. Now I know Mr Negative’s isn’t as consistent but it’s still a decent bit of damage.
I also regen for 497 per tick while degenerating, which is genuinely crazy. there’s not many degens in the game that are higher than what Negative can mitigate it to even with 1 or 2 unique debuffs. For a net heal, 0 debuffs is obviously 496 degen per tick. 1 debuff can deal with degens that are 825 per tick (40% reduction is 495 per tick) and 2 debuffs can deal with degens that are 2500 per tick. 3 debuffs obviously is infinite as it is reduced by 120%.
The damage from being immune to a nullify is nice to have, but outside power snack or buffet it won’t be meaningful damage. But when it is, it’s 1600 damage which isn’t too bad. I mean considering power snack, every buff you trigger (any dex or heavy attack) will do 1600 damage which scales with fury
I haven’t tested the energy resistance, so I’m not sure how much of an impact it will have yet.
But I actually think his sig, while not necessary, is really nice to have, and I do not regret using the gem at all
The rest of the opening was pretty dire, but I have 0 ragrets