Archangel or Iceman?
Viper83
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I have resources to take one mutant 4* to r5. Who do you think would be the best? Both being awakened 4*
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From an offensive standpoint Archangel can still do insane damage at rank 4 so I believe that Iceman would benefit more from that higher attack damage at rank 5
Although I love my ArchAngel. Remember Archangel has a tremendous disadvantage against poison and bleed immune champs. More so against bleed immune. If he can't get any bleeds on the opponent, he can't convert anything into his neurotoxin which is where a huge majority of his damage lies.
Aa can bleed and poison and able to reduce ability reduction even enemy is immune to stun.
Iceman can prevent enemy evading
And is immune to bleed and poison
But i recommend iceman
If you do not have a single immune to bleed and poison
You need at least one immune for aq and quest
If you already have immune champ like dormmy vision or ultron
Then go for aa because aa damage is higher
Iceman is truly the only answer to everyone. Evade champs get curshed. Double Immune. His ice armor is better for power control than actual power control champs. With Iceman I literally punch a blocking Hyperion or Juggs so they can fire off a special 3. Unless you can regen nobody saves you more than Iceman.
Plus his damage took a big jump at r5. A heavy on stack of frostbite does HUGE damage. Awakened he pretty much has frostbite going the entire fight.
As much as a love AA and watching people drop at my feet, he is 2nd place here. He isnt great against posion immune champs, GP is better there.
His insane damage output from bleed to nueros is more than enough at r4. Ultimately he is still a situational Champ.
Iceman better for AW
AA better for AW
Its all about utility imo. Not taking away from AA because he does do monster damage but id rank iceman first then try to take AA next. Reasons are the same as above.
I have GR, Ultron, vision, Dormamu, Hyperion for immune
Electra, BW for evade.
All at R5
Wth I will rank up both just might have to wait a month or so
AA has limitations though as he can't penetrate his miracle to immune champs.
IM too has limitations as his coldsnap doesn't work on some skill champs.
If you want a AW specific attacker or defender, then Iceman easily.
Here is my unbiased opinion.
There isn't one better than the other, they both have their advantages and disadvantages. Archangel can stop evade (and anything else that is a defensive ability because he is basically black widow 2.0), have heal block up the entire fight, deal damage only surpassed by star lord and stark spidey, stuns on unstunable nodes, and has the longest single stun in-game off of his sp3. Unfortunately, AA relies on being able to both bleed and poison to get any damage, plus he gets rekt by abomination. Iceman can stop evade (including mordo's astral evasion, he has guaranteed damage in every fight except for Mephisto, he can tank sp3 attacks, is an incredible defender, is good for unstunable nodes because he can take more blocked hits, he is the immunity king, and he has the coolest animations in the game. Unfortunately with Iceman, you pretty much have to run suicides to do much damage, he also has terrible damage in longer fights and has considerably lower P.I. than AA. I took up my AA to r5 and he is a monster but I should have taken up iceman to r5 not because he is better but because he will benefit more from being a higher rank than AA will.