Best designed champion in MCOC history (Kit wise)

Inspired by this video

https://youtu.be/eaj-z7U3ZB0?si=vhnMh1yJoVa48_cZ

Who is, in your opinion the champion who had the best kit design in the history of the game and why?

Comments

CheeseMaster482

Stark Spider Man.

Skill based ramp up.
Low HP forces you to intercept for openings
Multiple counters if you manage to find him on defense
Doesn't rely on buffs or debuffs to do damage

It's a shame the only way to get him is through some horribly designed challenges if you don't want to spend money.

benshb

Scorpion.
Super versatile. For giant damage you need to be a bit agressive and quick reflexed.
Could be a pain on defense.

Ragnaruk5178

Abs man I find it so cool that you need to rely on intercepts for him as it’s like a nod to his boxing background. His modes are pretty cool as well

EdisonLaw

Scorpion.
Super versatile. For giant damage you need to be a bit agressive and quick reflexed.
Could be a pain on defense.

Originally I thought he was the Heart of Fire science champ, considering other OP champs like Nick Fury and FAM are part of it.

shield311

Scorpion, Doom, CGR, Onslaught and some other pre 2025 champs

champs this year are absolute bs lol either 5/5 defenders or forged to counter specific defenders, okoye can be a exception and maybe jean too.

Armageddøn

The Serpent.

Stun Immunity During Specials

Once-per-fight Death Immunity: If KO‑about to occur and Serpent has ≥ 1 Dread: 125% chance to consume all Dread to gain a Death Immunity buff for 8 seconds (buff cannot be staggered or nullified); per Dread consumed restores 1.25% max Health and grants 10% of a Power Bar per second.

True Focus: Gains an indefinite True Focus Buff on activating a special — makes his Specials undexable (cannot be dodged via Dexterity). This Buff ends when struck (as a Defender, only if struck by Special). His true attacks cannot be avoided with Dexterity mastery

Unblockable First Hit: On Special activation, the first hit is Unblockable for ~0.65 seconds. If this first hit breaks opponent’s block, unblockable gets paused and hit potency increases by ~70% for the rest of the special

Cold Snap Immunity

90% reduced Bleed duration

Resistance Up (resist debuff effects)

Pierce (ignore part of opponent’s defense)

High base Health pool

Critical Resistance

✨ Undexable Specials ✨

Counters to Evade and Miss

Stun immune during Specials

Passive Attack Rating per Culforce Charge

125% Death Immunity

Power Gain buffs (from specials and signature)

Significant Heal from Dread consumption

Fate Seal immunity

Fear infliction (disrupts certain combos)

60% reduced potency of Power Drain/Burn

Gains 2 Power Bars on SP3 if no damage landed

Heal Block immunity

Special and Power Lock immunity

Power rate floor: cannot be reduced below 50% by non-mystic champs

60% reduced potency of any instant damaging effects

60% reduced Crit Penetration (ignores less armor/resistances)

Death immunity buff is nullify‑ and stagger‑immune

ThatGuyYouSaw235

Not Serpent or Dark Phoenix

EdisonLaw

Scorpion, Doom, CGR, Onslaught and some other pre 2025 champs

champs this year are absolute bs lol either 5/5 defenders or forged to counter specific defenders, okoye can be a exception and maybe jean too.

Spider Woman also, she's an Enchantress counter, but she can also take anyone she wants, even some skill champs

shield311

Scorpion, Doom, CGR, Onslaught and some other pre 2025 champs

champs this year are absolute bs lol either 5/5 defenders or forged to counter specific defenders, okoye can be a exception and maybe jean too.
Spider Woman also, she's an Enchantress counter, but she can also take anyone she wants, even some skill champs

fair enough, but like the video dosen't really make sense, extremely op attackers, defenders or dual threats that completely changes meta champions does not mean the best design. They are just very op and somewhat unbalanced, best example is swoman, nico and karolina.

Last time extremely op champions released that can compete with them was onslaught and serpent.

EdisonLaw

The Serpent.

Stun Immunity During Specials

Once-per-fight Death Immunity: If KO‑about to occur and Serpent has ≥ 1 Dread: 125% chance to consume all Dread to gain a Death Immunity buff for 8 seconds (buff cannot be staggered or nullified); per Dread consumed restores 1.25% max Health and grants 10% of a Power Bar per second.

True Focus: Gains an indefinite True Focus Buff on activating a special — makes his Specials undexable (cannot be dodged via Dexterity). This Buff ends when struck (as a Defender, only if struck by Special). His true attacks cannot be avoided with Dexterity mastery

Unblockable First Hit: On Special activation, the first hit is Unblockable for ~0.65 seconds. If this first hit breaks opponent’s block, unblockable gets paused and hit potency increases by ~70% for the rest of the special

Cold Snap Immunity

90% reduced Bleed duration

Resistance Up (resist debuff effects)

Pierce (ignore part of opponent’s defense)

High base Health pool

Critical Resistance

✨ Undexable Specials ✨

Counters to Evade and Miss

Stun immune during Specials

Passive Attack Rating per Culforce Charge

125% Death Immunity

Power Gain buffs (from specials and signature)

Significant Heal from Dread consumption

Fate Seal immunity

Fear infliction (disrupts certain combos)

60% reduced potency of Power Drain/Burn

Gains 2 Power Bars on SP3 if no damage landed

Heal Block immunity

Special and Power Lock immunity

Power rate floor: cannot be reduced below 50% by non-mystic champs

60% reduced potency of any instant damaging effects

60% reduced Crit Penetration (ignores less armor/resistances)

Death immunity buff is nullify‑ and stagger‑immune

captain_rogers

Okoye. Simple, effective and hits the spot every single time

altavista

Didn't watch the video, but that screenshot shows two 2024 champions who are bad (either for the game or just plain bad), and two 2025 champions who are OP (which is not good champion design).

Not really an answer to the original question, but the Dust and Ironheart month was a month where both champion designs were on point. Neither seem designed to be "meta defender" or "meta defender counter", but still have their role. Dust doesn't have to have a weird kit just because "Bullseye pursuit ability" needs to eat into her design budget; she has a fully fleshed out design that still lets her face Bullseye if necessary.

Obviously one tends more towards defense, and the other towards offense, but neither are outrageously OP nor one dimensional. Dust is not just a defensive menace, she has done wonders for me as an attacker as well (questing, incursions, even BGs). Once Ironheart got her bug fix, her offense ability matched her utility.

EdisonLaw

Didn't watch the video, but that screenshot shows two 2024 champions who are bad (either for the game or just plain bad), and two 2025 champions who are OP (which is not good champion design).

Not really an answer to the original question, but the Dust and Ironheart month was a month where both champion designs were on point. Neither seem designed to be "meta defender" or "meta defender counter", but still have their role. Dust doesn't have to have a weird kit just because "Bullseye pursuit ability" needs to eat into her design budget; she has a fully fleshed out design that still lets her face Bullseye if necessary.

Obviously one tends more towards defense, and the other towards offense, but neither are outrageously OP nor one dimensional. Dust is not just a defensive menace, she has done wonders for me as an attacker as well (questing, incursions, even BGs). Once Ironheart got her bug fix, her offense ability matched her utility.

Yes February was the perfect design month. Neither are overpowered or broken, which is perfect.

Kingering_King

Either gladiator or Shang Chi, both for near limitless utility and insane damage. Both are also the funnest champs in the game.

Xguard77

Keeping it simple here - nobody does more per word in their description than Hyperion. Still holding up to the test of time.

Flavyjay

The Serpent.

Stun Immunity During Specials

Once-per-fight Death Immunity: If KO‑about to occur and Serpent has ≥ 1 Dread: 125% chance to consume all Dread to gain a Death Immunity buff for 8 seconds (buff cannot be staggered or nullified); per Dread consumed restores 1.25% max Health and grants 10% of a Power Bar per second.

True Focus: Gains an indefinite True Focus Buff on activating a special — makes his Specials undexable (cannot be dodged via Dexterity). This Buff ends when struck (as a Defender, only if struck by Special). His true attacks cannot be avoided with Dexterity mastery

Unblockable First Hit: On Special activation, the first hit is Unblockable for ~0.65 seconds. If this first hit breaks opponent’s block, unblockable gets paused and hit potency increases by ~70% for the rest of the special

Cold Snap Immunity

90% reduced Bleed duration

Resistance Up (resist debuff effects)

Pierce (ignore part of opponent’s defense)

High base Health pool

Critical Resistance

✨ Undexable Specials ✨

Counters to Evade and Miss

Stun immune during Specials

Passive Attack Rating per Culforce Charge

125% Death Immunity

Power Gain buffs (from specials and signature)

Significant Heal from Dread consumption

Fate Seal immunity

Fear infliction (disrupts certain combos)

60% reduced potency of Power Drain/Burn

Gains 2 Power Bars on SP3 if no damage landed

Heal Block immunity

Special and Power Lock immunity

Power rate floor: cannot be reduced below 50% by non-mystic champs

60% reduced potency of any instant damaging effects

60% reduced Crit Penetration (ignores less armor/resistances)

Death immunity buff is nullify‑ and stagger‑immune

Kabam really smoked something when creating this champ, a problem for years to come

GilbertoJunior

Didn't watch the video, but that screenshot shows two 2024 champions who are bad (either for the game or just plain bad), and two 2025 champions who are OP (which is not good champion design).

Not really an answer to the original question, but the Dust and Ironheart month was a month where both champion designs were on point. Neither seem designed to be "meta defender" or "meta defender counter", but still have their role. Dust doesn't have to have a weird kit just because "Bullseye pursuit ability" needs to eat into her design budget; she has a fully fleshed out design that still lets her face Bullseye if necessary.

Obviously one tends more towards defense, and the other towards offense, but neither are outrageously OP nor one dimensional. Dust is not just a defensive menace, she has done wonders for me as an attacker as well (questing, incursions, even BGs). Once Ironheart got her bug fix, her offense ability matched her utility.
Yes February was the perfect design month. Neither are overpowered or broken, which is perfect.

Dust is broken because she eats you FPS and lags more than the game already do on it's own

Beewee

Fam or void. Can be pretty much used in every piece of content. Great champs but also not overly busted

EdisonLaw

Didn't watch the video, but that screenshot shows two 2024 champions who are bad (either for the game or just plain bad), and two 2025 champions who are OP (which is not good champion design).

Not really an answer to the original question, but the Dust and Ironheart month was a month where both champion designs were on point. Neither seem designed to be "meta defender" or "meta defender counter", but still have their role. Dust doesn't have to have a weird kit just because "Bullseye pursuit ability" needs to eat into her design budget; she has a fully fleshed out design that still lets her face Bullseye if necessary.

Obviously one tends more towards defense, and the other towards offense, but neither are outrageously OP nor one dimensional. Dust is not just a defensive menace, she has done wonders for me as an attacker as well (questing, incursions, even BGs). Once Ironheart got her bug fix, her offense ability matched her utility.
Yes February was the perfect design month. Neither are overpowered or broken, which is perfect.
Dust is broken because she eats you FPS and lags more than the game already do on it's own

Yeah that's the only thing that needs fixing, otherwise her kit is perfectly balanced as all things should be

Polygon

Surprised no one said what i believe is truely the best in terms of how well they've aged, Archangel.

Insane dps and one of the best utility in the game.

If he was a 7* he'd be the next big thing

Wolf911

Copy Pasta from my comment on same thread by you in 2024

Well I'd like to say KUSHALA

but gotta go with the goat HULKLING

easy to play
massive damage
good defender
useful in each and every game mode
takes variety of matchups
useful immunities
has great regen ( when correctly utilised )
indestructible ( useful but not broken )
Peirce & unblockable
fury & bullwork buffs

just what you expect out of a cosmic champ

weak against some mystics ( respects class wheel unlike certain someone )

Ragnaruk5178

Serpent is actually very well designed. On defense however, it’s another story

Ragnaruk5178

@Polygon hes way too much as a 6 star already, but yes, I definetly see and agree with your point 👍

WhoDaPoo

Best champ design and play style, is go Doom. Some champ designer perfectly made that doom cycle with the timing and power steal/gain. It's a thing of beauty.

For kit, meaning utility, damage, immunities, amount of scenarios where they shine or can get it done... Rintrah, Medusa, Jean are my favorites lately. They're the champs I bring when I'm not sure what exactly I'm going against but know I need someone to take multiple fights (like an AW path + mini bosses).

Soumemiakas1926

Deathless Thanos is what a regular Thanos was supposed to be! Pretty well designed imo and my favorite champion.

Buttehrs

Crazy how hyperion isnt getting any love here. Extremely simple yet amazing kit and aged well enough to still hold up for 8 years.

MrSanguini

Scorpion, Doom, CGR, Onslaught and some other pre 2025 champs

champs this year are absolute bs lol either 5/5 defenders or forged to counter specific defenders, okoye can be a exception and maybe jean too.

That's just not true. Of the attackers we got:

Okoye, Jean Grey, Spiderwoman, Lumatrix, and Cyclops were all not built with any specific defenders in mind.

I'd go further to argue that Nico and Karolina are also versatile enough to not be on that list. They have target matchups but they can take a LOT of defenders that aren't immune to their damage.

Joaquin is also not an Enchantress counter just because he has debilitate, so he's also not on that list, though he's weak.

So really that just leaves Bastion, Gentle, and the Maker. And Bastion is such a good war attacker that he can take basically anything with hazard shift or evade on it, on top of the mutants he was designed for.

The attackers this year have been fantastic.

Besides, Onslaught is on your list despite him also being built to counter specific skill defenders, so clearly that isn't an issue for you beyond bias.

PT_99

HERCULES,
You literally can't die.

7* Herc soon 🎉

captain_rogers

Surprised no one said what i believe is truely the best in terms of how well they've aged, Archangel.

Insane dps and one of the best utility in the game.

If he was a 7* he'd be the next big thing

Because he wasn't well designed, the point of this post.

I think well designed means a champ is versatile and fulfilling their role, that is, the champ's kit comes together really well without any flaws.

Archangel has one big flaw, that is the stun when his neuros end. when you use archangel you want to maintain 100% uptime on neurotoxin, and while the stun allows you to stack bleeds, you actually need more poisions since stacking bleeds are easy but poisons are tough, you need to block, so the stun hinders his loop. Same with his sp3 long stun, often leads to expiry of most neurotoxins.

He is a op champ, but not a perfectly designed champ

hungryhungrybbq

A few thoughts about this..
While I understand the need to create problems with defenders and solve them with attackers.. I think this year it's just too much

To answer the question in the video: I do think it's too much (too fast).. we need to split the difference a little imo

Because freedom of choice, at least to some degree or another, has always been part of the fun of the game.. in other words, you can choose to address none, some or all of the dangers in a fight via RPG counter traditionally:
- not a counter at all (use skill and gameplay to win the fight.. some situations much harder to do than others, but it's your choice)
- partial counter (your attacker has the ability to remove part of the dangers in a fight from the node/character kit combination in a fight.. meaning you can remove some, giving you the ability to focus more on the ones you aren't removing)
- Hard counter (remove nearly all the dangers of a fight.. essentially making it pretty straightforward button pressing.. all you're doing is making sure you complete the predetermined rotation you are meant to use successfully and you win)

I have always found using hard counters kind of boring tbh.. it's like following a script.. and every player in the game is also following the same script

And while we can say that some meta defenders "have more than one counter" that's without any nodes applied.. often when you actually apply nodes to the fight (BGs or AW) it's literally a one solution problem - use this attacker or lose in this particular fight design.. I'm just not a fan of that design personally

The old saying that "damage is utility" is also being countered by the latest champ design.. as many new champs are not only 5/5 defenders (even the ones actually used for attack very often), but they are given damage mitigation.. essentially to even further enforce that you must use champ A to beat champ B

MCOC has always been a fighting game with some RPG aspects.. but it's becoming an RPG game with some fighting game aspects now

Yes, I believe there needs to be roles, but I think the scales are tipping too far in that direction currently