unpopular opinion: i'm not freaking out about ascension like seemingly everyone is
the main issue that people have is you can't ascend your champs as a ftp until 2027 without buying valiant crystals. this locks out people from what, ascending their, and lets be honest here, mostly mid champs that are available for ascension? most of the champs in the pool are mid. everyone knows this. kabam admitted as much. they're not going to add the best champs of each class into the first round of ascension options to have them be ascendable and crush every piece of content that's available. imagine having a r5 ascended serpent spiderwoman nico okoye fantman or onslaught. there would be chaos. the top spenders would have them all ascended day 1 and the rest of us would still be grinding for ascension materials months later. all act 9.4 content would have to be way harder than it's going to be in order to account for this.
so yes, i really don't care that i can't ascend these champs for awhile. i wouldn't use them anyway. when 7 stars were released, they didn't give everyone all the best champs as a 7 star on day 1. i played many years without an ascended 7 star and i can play the game the same way, using my actually good 7 stars in content, without ascension. it's not like if i can ascend jabari panther on day 1, then I'm suddenly going to use her instead of fury, okoye and yelena. if i had a day 1 ascendable gorr, i'm not going to use him instead of my serpent hulkling or karolina. and if I had a 7 star ascendable mr negative, i would still not use him instead of silk spiderwoman and nefaria. etc etc.
so ye, I don't care that I can't ascend champions til 2027. hopefully by then there will be actual good options to ascend. people are unnecessarily freaking out about this like it's such a huge deal.
