I've genuinely never understood the hype for Kingpin.
he got buffed 4 years ago i think? he was a great matchup for the tougher defenders back then like knull, terrax, thing, manthing, ibom. he was even meta relevant ~1.5-2 years ago against scorpion, spot, and one of the more popular photon counters at the time.
but now scorpion isn't available as a 7*, spot was tricky at one point but the community figured him out, and photon has much better counters.
he was a even good against korgs.
KP had great utility. 100% shrug chance with hood, each degen from the l1 reduced attack by 50% and def ability accuracy by 65% (130% at 2 stacks pre nerf, great against things). he could take annoying hazard shift nodes and overpower mode gave him tons of damage.
but he can be slow in BGs, inequity messes with him just like sinister, and he's not the defensive threat he once was with all the new mutants and mutant reworks.
I know he got buffed, I've played him before and after the buff and while I think he's great I've never found a reason to use him. Unless you're in a high debuff match or get lucky with his unstoppable it's hard to get his damage really popping off in my experience. I'm not saying he's bad, he's probably a lot better than I've found him, I just have never understood how to get much out of him that I can't get with moleman or even jabari panther
A kingpin 7* release in April with the daredevil show finishing up would be 🔥. I don’t see them releasing him as a 7*, but skill class needs something this year.
Anybody who punishes purify, which are a lot of mutants, it’s not good. Void is not a good matchup for him. Any node with cold turkey is a no go. Some other matchups would be tough for him, such as mojo. Would have to play very carefully to not get degened to death.
The 7* skill class gets a lot of hate, but it’s is quite good.
Heavy disagree, at least the skill seven star roster. Skill class as a whole is good, but most of its best champs are six star locked
The issue with the Skill class isn’t the champs, but their targets. The only relevant Science Defenders are Photon and Jess Jones; Skill attackers that aren’t Kingpin can’t shine if they have no targets to shine against.
I feel like the 'fixed' his stacking AAR on SP1 after years in order to prepare for his release as a 7*? I am hoping they do, one of my favorite champs.
Sinister and Kingpin doesn't suffer from despair mastery. If you read their abilities you will see their regen can't be reduced below 0 except for kingpin that only poison will be able to reduce his regen rate.
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He just wins.
He’d be a crazy 7*
He’s really good. Get over it.
I could try them.
Mojo is rough if the fight is long. When mojo gets his fart field, you can’t heavy, get overpower, or attack after dexing without taking degen damage.
As someone who has r2 sig 60’” shang chi. This could of been Kate and I would r3 him in heartbeat
-kingpin
-kate
-nick fury
-valkyrie
-zemo
all of these are A- at a minimum and the best 7* skills generally fall below them. it's shocking how weak it actually is.