Is Red Skull R3 worthy?

Nacho98

I am looking to rank 3 a defender. Red Skull is theoretically one of my best options. I have a couple hesitations with taking him to rank 3 for defensive purposes.

He has a low health pool. Like really low. My other issue is the amount of counters to this guy. Almost everyone I run into has a maxed out CGR and he destroys him in ~25 seconds. Hercules and Adam can do the fight as well. I’ve even seen a few R3 Corvus’ that destroy him just as fast. Does anyone have experience with him at R3 as a defender? Worth it or no?

Nemesis_17

Yes

He’s still worth r3. I think he used to be a no brainer instant r3 and he’s fallen from that to just a strong consideration. Depends on your other options but he’s still great.

Herbal_Taxman

Yes

Worthy, just not as worthy as a couple months ago. Don’t sleep on his ability as an attacker.

DrZola

No

As a starter tech, I think worthy—but there are better tech choices. What made him special as a defender has been neutered substantially, but he is also a sneaky good attacker.

Just depends on your other choices.

Dr. Zola

Chuck_Finley

No

If you dupe him, then yes …as you gain armor up much faster.

Squidopus

Yes

Pulled the trigger myself a few days ago. Don’t think I’ll regret it. He’s got a few extra counters now, but that won’t save your opponent if they don’t get them in the draft, and if they do you can still pivot him to attacker use because he’s still great there (including as a potential sneaky option against Bullseye). Plus you always get a few fights where Red Skull decides to be real passive and you accidentally hit his block once and boom that’s a big burst of damage that may cost you the match. Still well worth it.

captain_rogers

Yes

Can you name any other tech from the base/titan pool you can r3 over him?

Hulk808

Yes

One of the best 7* techs atm

YodaKaj

Yes

I'd R4 him

Ansh_A

Yes

Yes but if this is for BGs, get ready to have him banned every match

Polygon

Yes

Nemesis_17 said:

He’s still worth r3. I think he used to be a no brainer instant r3 and he’s fallen from that to just a strong consideration. Depends on your other options but he’s still great.

He's kind of like Domino in a sense

Polygon

Yes

captain_rogers said:

Can you name any other tech from the base/titan pool you can r3 over him?

Ironically this is the reason i havent r3ed him yet (in case i get a tech class gem from Cyber Monday) as rather use the mats on a class with many good options like mutant mystic science

Soumemiakas1926

Yes

Really?Adam can do this fight?

BeastDad

Yes

He’s elite

Wolf911

Yes

Soumemiakas1926 said:

Really?Adam can do this fight?

Yes

my 7* rank 3 Adam warlock is my 2nd go to counter to him ( as he's always banned so have to use CGR )

what you do is don't activate the counter at start

just play normally and build 2.5 bars of power

bait sp1 punish it with heavy let him hold block

dash in with medium and activate sp2 before you land any hit ( it will activate counter with 10 )

then you don't have to worry about autoblock or anything

captain_rogers

Yes

Soumemiakas1926 said:

Really?Adam can do this fight?

Adam has true damage buff which ignores all armor and resistances. He also got unblockable buffs to counter auto block.

But you have to hit the opponent every 2 seconds to keep these buffs up. He is one of the best counters besides cgr.

Bendy

Can there be a maybe option since it depends who ever u fight has a scream who makes red skull not get any armor ups since her sig ability removes all that armor and he wont gain any new ones

Finalfuryk

Yes

I would probably have rank 3ed him if I had him by now. Needs awakening but you'll hit it eventually. There are some hard counters for him but he is a tricky fight if you don't pull the right option for Battleground.

iZiggi

Yes

No defender gets me more wins in BG.

JT_Supreme

DrZola said:

As a starter tech, I think worthy—but there are better tech choices. What made him special as a defender has been neutered substantially, but he is also a sneaky good attacker.

Just depends on your other choices.

Dr. Zola

I’m wondering how he has been neutered? My only decent counters are cgr, kate and hulkling, and hulkling I have to take some damage to get the first pierce up.

Zuro

Yes

iZiggi said:

No defender gets me more wins in BG.

Please change your stat focus

peixemacaco

Reached yesterday Incursions 80k milestone, 156k total

Tried to pull Red Skull on 6* Stun Immunity crystal, but pulled Centurion instead...

Polygon

Yes

Soloed idoom in SoS with him and mine is only a rank 2. He didnt throw a single special.