CHAMPION PRESTIGE IS A BLACK BOX OPERATION

What determines the prestige of each champion? Nobody knows except Kabam

The best example is Juggernaut, lowest prestige among 7* champions but deals one of the most awesome damage in the game

Difficulty adapts to our prestige but prestige sometimes has nothing to do with how awesome the champion is in clearing content

Kabam is building the foundation of the game on prestige but what is prestige based on? Thin air and black magic

Comments

JESUSCHRIST

Stark Spidey is also at the bottom of prestige ranking

Coolbum67

i agree, this is a bad path.

MysticSpectrumXZ

Yes you have a good opinion about prestige. I’m thinking about this and trying to understand why a champion like Idoom who doesn’t have a great utility and power is on the top of prestige. I want to rank up champions with great damage or defense but have low prestige like you mentioned. Also it’s difficult to duplicate the champions that are powerful and have a good prestige like Photon or Bullseye.

L79G

I completely agree that keeping prestige such a central stat but at the same time treating it like a “black box” only creates frustration and confusion. Transparency should be the minimum standard, if players are meant to chase prestige, then at least show us exactly how it’s calculated, what values each champ brings, and how it impacts progression. Right now, it feels less like strategy and more like gambling.

I also would like to suggest to replace prestige with a skill-based progression path. A scalable challenge where players push as far as they can, and their maximum EQ level is based on that performance, would reward actual gameplay and not just wallets. Being able to step back and experiment would also encourage to play more instead of forcing people into a single meta.

Even if it’s not simple to implement, this kind of adaptive system would feel fairer and more rewarding. At the end of the day, players want to feel that their effort, knowledge, and skill matter as much as, if not more than, their credit card.

bexdawg12

prestige has always been a BS stat. The purpose of prestige is to get players to acquire and/or rankup champs you may not want to play. Prestige adds zero to the playing experience and that is what Kabam doesn't understand.

Kabam highlights that the difference between champions prestige is way smaller than the difference between R1 20 sig champ and R3 200 Sig champ. However, the problems still arises are…

1/quests themselves are designed for players with large and diverse rosters. Players are already motivated to rankup champs to make the competition of content quicker and easier.

2/when do newer players prestige catchup to top prestige players, since top prestige players get more rewards?

3/what is the exact formula that determines prestige? Should I rankup, awaken, or put sig stones into certain players to maximize my prestige?

MoeyTehr

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2872743#Comment_2872743

Plus Hyperion, Venom, Hulkbuster, Wolverine, Magik, Domino, etc. Two of whom are so good, Kabam refuses to give us the 7* or even 6* (in the case of Magik) versions of.

Furrymoosen

Prestige is a selling point and little more. If you notice, a lot of the low prestige champs being names here are also some of the oldest champs in the game. Over the last few years, the majority of champs that Kabam releases are higher prestige so the whales have incentive to buy them to get ahead. Prestige has far less to do with a champions value to the roster and far more to do with Kabam's desire to sell the champ, their intro bundles, and their crystals.

JozielPN

Exactly! I wish Kabam would put more effort in balancing prestige overall. For now it seems they just don't care, and focus only in not releasing a broken champion.

They've said before that their formula for calculating prestige is absurdly complex and that is one of the reasons they would not share.

But I think they could try adding things to champions of lower prestige until their prestige gets increased and more balanced compared to those high PI champs. These things could be abilities with very low impact on game metas, but it would still increase the champion's prestige because of their complex formula.

For example, Wolverine has one of the lowest prestige in game, yet there are worse champions, maybe give him 10% fury buff for 5 seconds when a regen expires, or give him 20% bleed resistance, or a small and non stacking armor break on specials… These small things would probably not break the game and would very likely increase his prestige.

Look at Rhino for example, after his buff, he still at the bottom of the science class, but his prestige is now much more balanced. Even that useless intimidate debuff they added to his special 3, probably increased his prestige.

YodaKaj

Ploy to boost unpopular champs...maybe

JAsummonar

Did you check Rhino's prestige?? May be Kabam wants us to rank Rhinos lol