Why not "retire" champs instead of trying to buff all the Meme Tier ones?
RyGoku
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Hear me out because there has to be a way this could work.
Even though the Magneto Buff looks kick-ass we can't expect every old champion that gets buff to jump straight to the highest tier of usefulness.
So why not retire champs from the Contest instead. Wouldn't that be very similar to the comics idea of the contest, always changing rosters?
If you own any retired champs, let us trade them in for a featured crystal or some sort of crystal with a smallish pool of new champs. We have so many versions of Ironman for example, do we really think OG Ironman will be made best for that character when/if he gets buffed. I'd be cool with a crystal that gives me a shot at the newer Ironman characters instead of having to keep my crappy OG Ironman.
I know sig levels will be a challenge but Kabam did say in the Roadmap that they wanted to make sig stones more easily accessible. I can't think of an easier way to gain sig stones than trading in quadruple dupped 2015/16 champs and getting a featured crystal and some class (or generic if I'm being greedy) sig stones back for it??
I am sure someone here has already suggested this but maybe that was before all the announced changes so...now could be the time to finally make this great idea a reality??!
Thoughts?
Even though the Magneto Buff looks kick-ass we can't expect every old champion that gets buff to jump straight to the highest tier of usefulness.
So why not retire champs from the Contest instead. Wouldn't that be very similar to the comics idea of the contest, always changing rosters?
If you own any retired champs, let us trade them in for a featured crystal or some sort of crystal with a smallish pool of new champs. We have so many versions of Ironman for example, do we really think OG Ironman will be made best for that character when/if he gets buffed. I'd be cool with a crystal that gives me a shot at the newer Ironman characters instead of having to keep my crappy OG Ironman.
I know sig levels will be a challenge but Kabam did say in the Roadmap that they wanted to make sig stones more easily accessible. I can't think of an easier way to gain sig stones than trading in quadruple dupped 2015/16 champs and getting a featured crystal and some class (or generic if I'm being greedy) sig stones back for it??
I am sure someone here has already suggested this but maybe that was before all the announced changes so...now could be the time to finally make this great idea a reality??!
Thoughts?
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If I have a rank 2, 6 star Drax for an example, would the champ I pull from the new crystal be at rank 2...like the retired one?
Then there's the issue of which champs are considered "meme" tier. Just because a champ is commonly panned, doesn't necessarily make them one a lot of summoners would like to see retired. This could be for a variety of reasons. I think the retirement idea is very creative, and maybe could be seen as these older champs simply not added to 6 star crystals (and maybe 7? stars), but I wouldn't like to trade in my champs which I enjoy playing the contest with just because there are those who consider them "useless". Colossus is one of my favorite champs in all of MCOC right now. I am very appreciative that they buffed him instead of just kicking him out.
Newer buffed will be better pushing mediocre to buff radar, then they will become better pushing the next row to get buffed, and so the story goes.
There will be always bad champs, they won’t just be the same champs over and over 😉
"Buffing" a champion isn't about making the champion a "god tier". It's about making the champion somewhat usable in today's content. Think about how far content has changed from Act 1 to Act 6. Think about all the requirements that Act 6 imposes. The point of a buff is to make an outdated champion, like Iron Man, have a kit that can fulfill some of the requirements that are set by future/present content.
Will there always be bad champions, even when buffed? Yes. It's unavoidable.
Furthermore, I don't get how this would work. You get a "meme tier", then you trade it in for a crystal that contains better champions? How are those champions chosen?
If the champion pool of said crystal was limited to the upper 25% of the character list, wouldn't the people who pull a champion who is good, but not great (not in the bottom 25% nor the top 25% be at a disadvantage? Should any champion pull not in the top 25% be eligible?
There's too many flaws in the execution.