Overrated or Underrated: Baron Zemo

Welcome, welcome back to this series where we analyse a specific champion and see if they are overrated, underrated or perfectly rated.
So, there's a rumor that 7* Zemo will be releasing very soon, in the September Titan Pool alongside Nico Minoru, Karolina Dean, The Maker, and the High Evolutionary, plus one other champ. He is believed to be replacing Solvarch, next month's Eidol, as these Eidol champs won't be featured in Titans.
So, in 2025, what do you think of this champion? Is he overrated, underrated, or perfectly rated? (I already know KarateMike's answer already)

Comments

Montycarlo

Perfectly balanced as 1 thing should be.
And yes 100% sure zemo coming as 7* this year no reason to make an announcement post about him by Kabam and bug fixing. But the real drama will begin when community gets to know if F2P can get him (not like torch) or simply a whale out offer. Kabam you suck I say it before anybody incase it's ana all out whale offer.

CheeseMaster482

Overrated asf when he came out. Might hit crazy as a 7 star though

ShashankGupta

I hope he comes in Titan instead of money

HuskerCool

I hope he’s the next saga chase

EdisonLaw

Overrated asf when he came out. Might hit crazy as a 7 star though

hoping that does change after he's a 7*

ItsClobberinTime

Photon cheese incoming I'm gonna start saving my Titans as soon as I pull Jean... Anyways yeah underrated, always was after the nerf

EdisonLaw

I hope he’s the next saga chase

I think he's coming in the next titan pool

captain_rogers

He is very fun to play champ, OP cleanse, great bleed damage and nice control with root mechanics. And disorient/decelerate comes handy in longer fights once you ramp up. Great for short fights great for long fights and everyone knows how good he is.

Very excited for him.

HuskerCool

I hope he’s the next saga chase
I think he's coming in the next titan pool

Probably, but I was hoping getting him wouldn’t be RNG-dependent

Ercarret

I think that he, on average, is pretty fairly rated. It's just that some people underrate him while others praise him more than...well, maybe not more than he's worthy or capable of, but I will say that his max power level and his normal power level are two very different things. He does become pretty much a god if you run a full five Zemos as your team. You just don't ever do that outside of extremely limited scenarios, such as Mike's challenge.

But all of these ups and downs kind of averages out into a fair judgement overall. He's a very strong champion that does a lot of cool things, and I really hope that he is coming out as a 7*.

Ragnaruk5178

Great for long fights short fights if facing bleed immune. Fastest photon counter to date and is a decent defender. Great utility too

EdisonLaw

I think that he, on average, is pretty fairly rated. It's just that some people underrate him while others praise him more than...well, maybe not more than he's worthy or capable of, but I will say that his max power level and his normal power level are two very different things. He does become pretty much a god if you run a full five Zemos as your team. You just don't ever do that outside of extremely limited scenarios, such as Mike's challenge.

But all of these ups and downs kind of averages out into a fair judgement overall. He's a very strong champion that does a lot of cool things, and I really hope that he is coming out as a 7*.

Also don't forget his defensive potential too, especially the non contact attacks, the cleanse, the root, he's gonna be pretty decent. Not Yelena or Bullseye level, but ok. However most of the mutant class nowadays have answers to his kit (Sinister, Negasonic, Onslaught, Jean, Dazzler, even Cyclops)

EdisonLaw

Photon cheese incoming I'm gonna start saving my Titans as soon as I pull Jean... Anyways yeah underrated, always was after the nerf

Yes especially with buffed Patriot next month (who's literally designed to counter Photon).

EdisonLaw

I also think Zemo will be a decent High Evolutionary counter as well, because High Evo's not immune to bleed, plus Zemo can deal damage through block as well

Ragnaruk5178

Yeah once revolutionary puts debuffs on the dude he’ll be rooted and then come the bleeds

Polygon

Photon cheese incoming I'm gonna start saving my Titans as soon as I pull Jean... Anyways yeah underrated, always was after the nerf

I forgot how fast he did photon at equal ranks? But if its like 40s -50s that's a big rip as my next r4 was gonna be Photon.

The problem is unlikely patriot if they dont draft photon on attack, you can just throw zemo on defense, making everyone likely to run him

ItsClobberinTime

Photon cheese incoming I'm gonna start saving my Titans as soon as I pull Jean... Anyways yeah underrated, always was after the nerf
I forgot how fast he did photon at equal ranks? But if its like 40s -50s that's a big rip as my next r4 was gonna be Photon.

The problem is unlikely patriot if they dont draft photon on attack, you can just throw zemo on defense, making everyone likely to run him

Same rank was usually around 40, 30 when you got really good crit RNG he was one of the fastest Photon nukes even faster than Mantis. All it took was a couple hits on her block then combo spam as soon as she got rooted and if you got some crits sp1 was usually enough to seal the deal. If she was still alive cause you got very little crits you would just hit on her block a couple more times with the five furies up and she'd die before she could even trigger pure light.
I definitely think he's going to be relevant again, not meta but relevant.

Polygon

Photon cheese incoming I'm gonna start saving my Titans as soon as I pull Jean... Anyways yeah underrated, always was after the nerf
I forgot how fast he did photon at equal ranks? But if its like 40s -50s that's a big rip as my next r4 was gonna be Photon.

The problem is unlikely patriot if they dont draft photon on attack, you can just throw zemo on defense, making everyone likely to run him
Same rank was usually around 40, 30 when you got really good crit RNG he was one of the fastest Photon nukes even faster than Mantis. All it took was a couple hits on her block then combo spam as soon as she got rooted and if you got some crits sp1 was usually enough to seal the deal. If she was still alive cause you got very little crits you would just hit on her block a couple more times with the five furies up and she'd die before she could even trigger pure light.
I definitely think he's going to be relevant again, not meta but relevant.

Yeah Photon is cooked ngl. Honestly it might be better if i prioritize r4ing the more newer defenders like Yelena, Zola, etc. Photon is dual use but shes more a defender draft than attacker.

ItsClobberinTime

Photon cheese incoming I'm gonna start saving my Titans as soon as I pull Jean... Anyways yeah underrated, always was after the nerf
I forgot how fast he did photon at equal ranks? But if its like 40s -50s that's a big rip as my next r4 was gonna be Photon.

The problem is unlikely patriot if they dont draft photon on attack, you can just throw zemo on defense, making everyone likely to run him
Same rank was usually around 40, 30 when you got really good crit RNG he was one of the fastest Photon nukes even faster than Mantis. All it took was a couple hits on her block then combo spam as soon as she got rooted and if you got some crits sp1 was usually enough to seal the deal. If she was still alive cause you got very little crits you would just hit on her block a couple more times with the five furies up and she'd die before she could even trigger pure light.
I definitely think he's going to be relevant again, not meta but relevant.
Yeah Photon is cooked ngl. Honestly it might be better if i prioritize r4ing the more newer defenders like Yelena, Zola, etc. Photon is dual use but shes more a defender draft than attacker.

Yeah she's starting to fall off a bit now and Zemo will probably make it worse, I'd even argue she's a bit meta dependant these days. If it's a vanilla meta like the current VT one she gets nuked by so many champs (CB, Okoye, Lumatrix, Sable, FAM etc) she's really not worth max investment like she was a while ago. Yelena and Zola definitely better rank up options.

EdisonLaw

Photon cheese incoming I'm gonna start saving my Titans as soon as I pull Jean... Anyways yeah underrated, always was after the nerf
I forgot how fast he did photon at equal ranks? But if its like 40s -50s that's a big rip as my next r4 was gonna be Photon.

The problem is unlikely patriot if they dont draft photon on attack, you can just throw zemo on defense, making everyone likely to run him

Is Zemo better on BGs attack or defense?

EdisonLaw

I hope he’s the next saga chase
I think he's coming in the next titan pool
Probably, but I was hoping getting him wouldn’t be RNG-dependent

MCOC is all about gambling

Polygon

Photon cheese incoming I'm gonna start saving my Titans as soon as I pull Jean... Anyways yeah underrated, always was after the nerf
I forgot how fast he did photon at equal ranks? But if its like 40s -50s that's a big rip as my next r4 was gonna be Photon.

The problem is unlikely patriot if they dont draft photon on attack, you can just throw zemo on defense, making everyone likely to run him
Is Zemo better on BGs attack or defense?

It depends on the nodes (root, debuffs etc), his sp1 can be punished easily if the nodes dont add much hes not a hard defender. Attack im not sure how 7* would be but id say mainly for debuff heavy champs like photon spider woman hed shine