How do I know which champions I should be using

I just completed act 4 and I have a lot of 5 star champions at this point. I have no idea how to tell which ones I should be using when. How do I decide who to use and who I should focus on leveling up?

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captain_rogers

You will get to know bout all these mechanisms eventually.

For now rank up champs who are versatile and handle lot of content.

In your roster, doom Venom and Ultron are easy to play champs who also have lot of damage and utility

WinterFields

From here on out, quest nodes become increasingly important. Read the champ's abilities and scout your paths to see what you will need.

For instance, Ultron is immune to bleed and poison, can inflict bleeds, and gains armor up buffs. If you need any of those, he is a good choice.

You can also look on YouTube or through the Forum to see who gets mentioned constantly. Doom, for example, is one of the best in the game to use

Squirrelguy

Here is a quick decision tree that you can use:

1. Does the content I want to play nextabsolutely require either a specific mechanic (bleed debuffs), type of champion (based on tags, class, rarity), or is it just tough content? You typically want to have at least one good champ ranked in each class (or other main subset of champion) because you then typically will have a good range of abilities and counters to the major class abilities. Most of the time though, content just requires a minimal level of not choosing a champion whose abilities actively suffer from the fight conditions (eg bringing most mystics against Human Torch) and you should be fine.
2. Do I like the champion? If so, you will be more motivated to learn their abilities, feel comfortable playing them, use them a lot, and have more fun in general. This should trump other concerns about the champion being "the best".
3. Do you understand their abilities? If not, there is an easy fix, but don't just bring along a champion to a fight without at least mostly understanding what they do. Just because Rintrah is a beast doesn't mean he doesnt have a specific playstyle or match up terribly against defenders sometimes.
4. Are they a higher rarity/rank? If you don't know about the benefits between champion rarity (star level) and rank, then I'd suggest spending a couple minutes learning about combat power and things like the sp3 minigame and adrenaline (though, less useful for you rn). If two champs are similar base PI (the number under their name), but one is a 4* and one is a 5*, you probably want to prioritize the higher rarity (5*) because they will last you longer and have a higher ceiling for ranking/attack/health/etc.
5. Some champions are just better *IN GENERAL* than others, and will often be at least slightly more powerful all things considered. But the game has 250+ champions, and almost infinite combinations of nodes and modifiers. Not every champ is always better, and often the gap is not that large. There is a wide grouping of great champs, but you will almost always want Doom over Elektra. Just how it is.

Keep posting and learning! The forums are a great place to learn if you can filter out the noise. Plus, some of the noise is funny, so there's that.

Demonzfyre

I just completed act 4 and I have a lot of 5 star champions at this point. I have no idea how to tell which ones I should be using when. How do I decide who to use and who I should focus on leveling up?

All of your 5*'s that you show are viable. Loki, probably not as much. You're in a spot right now that most of the content you come across, isn't champion dependent.