New Featured - Good or Bad?
SuelGames
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Yes, the new champs are awesome, but the amount of trash this crystal has is making me reconsider wasting 15k shards
New Featured - Good or Bad? 143 votes
Great champ pool
55%
79 votes
Awful champ pool
44%
64 votes
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very good 😐
Of the new champs my main targets were IIM, Mantis, Spot, Attuma, and Absorbing Man. In addition, three of the last ‘good’ cosmic champs that I need are included - KG, Angela, and Venom. I won’t complain with any new 6*, so Mystic Spidey, Shiri, and Mordo are fine also. Good first time dups for me as well of ranked or soon to be ranked champs incl Sassy, White Mags, Agent Venom, and Civil Warrior. Not going to complain about awakening Gambit or sigs on my Overseer, Sunspot, or Spidey OG given his upcoming buff. Heck I’ll even take a first time dup on my BB. So, only ‘bad’ pulls for me are OG DD, Yondu, Mr S, and Ant Man - only because I have all 4, they are all awakened, and I have no plans to rank them. But hey - even Yondu and Ant Man aren’t bad champs.
Luckily for me I had a good first day - got most my top targets and first time awakens on Sassy and CW.
Agent Venom is a bad pull, you need full synergy team to be able to do something
Ant-Man not the best pull by far
King Groot, same as Ant-Man
Mags X is a good pull
Overseer is a good pull
Sasquatch is a good pull
Sunspot and Venom are good pulls
OG Spiderman is a bad pull
Lets keep it going
Black Bolt is a bad pull
Civil Warrior is a bad pull
Classic Daredevil is a bad pull
Gambit is decent maybe
Mr Sinister is a bad pull
Mordo is decent
Yondu is a bad pull
Now lets go with the new ones:
Absorming Man is a nice pull
Spot is a nice pull
Infamous IM is a nice pull
Attuma is decent pull
Shuri is not the best
Mantis is decent pull
Spiderman Supreme is decent pull
So overall there are only 8 pulls you could really use, since the rest will have a very concrete scenario usage.
Conclusion: 8 good pulls out of 24; which means you have 33,3% of getting a good pulls, which is less than half, so It means it is not a good pool.
You could argue that is an "Okay" pool, but it is not good at all
Daredevil
Blackbolt
Spider-Man og 2x
Hoped after a bad feeling month this would be my pick me up … but sadly no good rng for me
That being said, I pulled Black Bolt four times out of 16. lol
2. As mentioned, the champion pool being good or not is very dependent on your roster.
King Groot at max sig doesn't die and is very useful in many parts of the game.
Yondu is a walmart Nimrod and great against a lot of annoying mutants.
Antman is great if you don't have other buff immune options.
Cat Murdock will probably dislike you for calling Black Bolt bad since he is also very good at higher sig and with synergies.
Gambit is insanely noob friendly to use if you got an Apoc on your team. 100% perfect block is not something to scoff at.
Mr Sinister has proven to be a great defender for different metas of BGs and isn't a bad champion. Not the best, but not bad either.
OG spiderman I'll agree is a horrible pull. I tried to like his buff, but it seriously lacks, I don't enjoy champions that are pure utility.
If you don't have good hazard shift counters, Angela at sig like 127 is very good for that.
Basically, if the champions fill in a niche you need, then the crystal has a great pool. Otherwise, it is a just an okay pool. Your roster and your preferences are what decides if a champion is good and worthwhile or not.
I really enjoy Spot, but the rest...meh. I'll definitely test them all out quite a bit more before passing my final judgement, but I had a pretty negative initial impression for Absorbing Man, Shuri, Spider-Man (Supreme), and Attuma. Absorbing Man seems way overrated to me right now, but I gotta keep testing.
And I have all the other older champs in the crystal + awakened and ranging from mid sig level to max, so they're all "bad" pulls.
I'm only going to continue this featured to dupe the new champs and to hopefully pull Mantis.
King Groot is quite easy to counter, and there are a lot of better options than him in most of the content.
Yondu is in the lower half of Tech class, comparable with Green Goblin, both are just useful as maybe defenders, if you want to kill mutants you have a lot better tech options, and not only tech but from other classes.
Saying that Antman is great when you dont have other options its equal to saying that he is bad.
Black Bolt does his thing with high sig and synergies, but other cosmics do way better unawakened and no synergies, so still bad.
Gambit is good with Apoc yeah, but there are a lot better ones with and without Apoc, Ill give you that he is noob friendly so that gives some points, but anyway, people that open Featured Crystals should be experienced players since otherwise you shouldnt be spending additional 5k on a 6* when you are a noob because you will probably have not even 25% of 6* in game
Mr Sinister has only value as defender and not that much, he will be good only in very specific scenarios so you will probably rank him for only 2 to 3 metas in GC, nothing else, so still bad pull since there are a lot better ones.
When there are a lot of better options that those, that means those aint the best or those are just bad ones.
So after in conclusion, only 2 kind of people should get this featured ones in my opinion:
1. You have only left the new champs.
2. The champs that you have left besides the new ones are not worth to rank up so they have no value for you, so its better to try to get the new ones anyway.
For the rest of the people I would say its better to open basic or dual ones.
Im only lacking Herc mainly and some dupes, so Ill probably have some tries, but not more than 10, mainly targeting Absorbing Man, the rest of the shards will go to basic or dual crystals
You said only the new champs are worth the rank up. Venom is worth it (as a stand alone champ and also synergy with scorpion). Overseer is worth the rank up, top science champ (not saying top how much because that's not the debate but he's very good). Angela is worth it too, king groot too, white mags is also underrated, sasquatch is worth it the highest health pool in game and also still being able to smack damage. Sunspot is very good, even tho he isn't my type of champ I can recognise he is a very good champ and lots of people enjoy playing him. Mordo is good for defense and also underrated on offense (battelgrounds gameplay comes to mind). Lastly gambit with apoc is also good and worth the rank up.
I agree YOU might not want to rank some champs but that doesn't automatically make it a bad pull. I feel like you are rating champs on what you have in your roster. Because you might have galan, knull, hype, hulkling, cgr and other top cosmics you say king groot isnt good, while he is without a doubt in the top 15 of the class.
Counting the champs above + 5 or 6 of the new champs you get to 14 or 15 good pulls out of 25. Seems like a decent featured crystal. Featured crystals used to be a lot worse.
More than half are what "I" would find useful but I only have 110ish 6*, more than half of which "I" consider garbage.
Seems the odds are in my favor with the featured.
Some i pulled so many times i had em lvl 80 and 100 already, like Groot, Titania and QS