How is he not #metal?
Captain_Spasm
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Some champs have far less obvious metallic objects in their costumes and get the #metal tag, so I’m curious as to how this guy avoids it? They haven’t done a very good job of explaining it away in his info, so I assume it’s just a case of not wanting to add another easy Magneto target and not caring enough to explain how it’s not #metal 🤷♂️
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Mags is way too slow... No cheeze required
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Are those vibranium. How does he get access to vibranium... Comic noob here, no idea who is he or if those are metal or not.
Fortunately, it makes certain sense. All champions having the tag, have some metallic base to them. But not all the champions that have metal are tagged.
As others have pointed out, the game places balance ahead of logic or it would be chaos.
Long answer: At some point in the comics Shocker upgraded his tech so that the shockwave emitters were located in his suit instead of the gauntlets, but he just wore them as a way to trick Spider-Man and any other heroes. Following Kabam's logic that if it can be dropped with ease in the middle of the fight, it's not #metal. Then you could say that if shocker was using his upgraded suit, getting rid of the gauntlets would not affect his abilities at all. Ofc this entire theory is easily disproved by the fact that in-game, Shocker's blasts actually seem to come from his gauntlets. Or maybe it's part of his ruse...
In Marvel Comics, Shocker's gauntlets are made out of a specially designed vibro-shock material that can generate powerful concussive waves. The gauntlets are equipped with generators that convert compressed air into powerful shockwaves, allowing Shocker to deliver devastating blows or vibrations to his opponents or surrounding objects. The exact composition of the vibro-shock material is not specified in the comics.
Also, since White Megneto is bleed immune, bcs he can stop bleeding using the iron in his blood, it is pointless to apply any logic here. For gameplay reasons, some champs aren't #Metal. We gotta accept it
In the context of MCOC the #Metal tag doesn't really mean 'metal'. It means 'Ferrous', or 'a metal subject to being magnetised'.
Vibranium is clearly a metal; but BPCW, Killmonger, and Shuri aren't subject to magnetism.
Whatever metal is used by the Tech members of the Guardians of the Galaxy (Rocket, Star Lord, Yondu) clearly isn't magnetic either. Despite Yondu having a cybernetic fin on his head, and Rocket having cybernetic implants.
It's perfectly acceptable to state that whatever Shocker used to build his gauntlets isn't subject to magnetism.
It would be be a nice tweak if Dr Octopus lost his #Metal tag, too... 😉
Some good answers in here that shed some light on the subject, but it’s probably just a case of Kabam randomly picking and choosing and not having any idea or method in their tag selecting process.
Misty Knight’s Vibranium arm somehow gets her the #metal tag.
This champion isn't seen as "Shocker", it is seen as "non-#metal Tech". Same case for Misty. She isn't "Misty Knight", she is "#metal Skill". It doesn't matter who the champ is in this context. Kabam planned to add a "non-#metal Tech" in April 2023, because in their opinion, the game needed another such champ. And it doesn't matter if the champ is Shocker, Prowler, Thinker or another Iron-man.
Doesn't seem like he was in the RAFT when he first built the gauntlets so having access to alien tech would be nearly impossible