Calling the December '21 buffs
Rookiie
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I know this is comes early. And yes, I am excited for Karnak and Nebula. But December is on my mind right now for many reasons. The buff program is one of them.
Kabam have done an EXCELLENT job with the Skill class this year. Truly, excellent. I can see them rounding off December with an overhaul for Moon Knight, should they wish to continue this momentum.
If they have an eye on a movie tie-in, then I suppose the overhaul candidacy would go to Classic Spiderman, Symbiote Spiderman, Rhino or Iron Patriot. In this case, my money would be on Iron Patriot.
If you were to ask me which class Kabam were placing an emphasis on, other than Skill, I would tell you Tech. We have what looks like a fantastic buff for Nebula on the way, Vulture and P2099 also had great value buffs in additional to some notable overhauls to Ultron and Howard.
Once more, if Kabam were to focus on a movie tie-in, then there are plenty of eligible candidates in the Tech class that could use a value buff.
Mainly: Iron Man IW, Doctor Octopus and Green Goblin. Yes, I know. IMIW and Doc Ock are great champs, but are stressful to play, and making their rotations less stressful would do a lot for the champions. Also, IMIW needs a bump in damage.
Now, it's not a strict rule but Kabam have not released two buffs of the same class for a while (can't remember the last pair).
Which finally brings me to my top guesses for next month's buffs:
1) Moon Knight & IMIW
2) Moon Knight & Doc Green Goblin
3) Moon Knight & Doc Ock
4) Rhino & Green Goblin
5) Rhino & Doc Ock
What are your thoughts? Do you think the December buffs will tie-in with the movie? If not, who do you think will get buffed next month?
Kabam have done an EXCELLENT job with the Skill class this year. Truly, excellent. I can see them rounding off December with an overhaul for Moon Knight, should they wish to continue this momentum.
If they have an eye on a movie tie-in, then I suppose the overhaul candidacy would go to Classic Spiderman, Symbiote Spiderman, Rhino or Iron Patriot. In this case, my money would be on Iron Patriot.
If you were to ask me which class Kabam were placing an emphasis on, other than Skill, I would tell you Tech. We have what looks like a fantastic buff for Nebula on the way, Vulture and P2099 also had great value buffs in additional to some notable overhauls to Ultron and Howard.
Once more, if Kabam were to focus on a movie tie-in, then there are plenty of eligible candidates in the Tech class that could use a value buff.
Mainly: Iron Man IW, Doctor Octopus and Green Goblin. Yes, I know. IMIW and Doc Ock are great champs, but are stressful to play, and making their rotations less stressful would do a lot for the champions. Also, IMIW needs a bump in damage.
Now, it's not a strict rule but Kabam have not released two buffs of the same class for a while (can't remember the last pair).
Which finally brings me to my top guesses for next month's buffs:
1) Moon Knight & IMIW
2) Moon Knight & Doc Green Goblin
3) Moon Knight & Doc Ock
4) Rhino & Green Goblin
5) Rhino & Doc Ock
What are your thoughts? Do you think the December buffs will tie-in with the movie? If not, who do you think will get buffed next month?
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If events in the MCU influenced buff order, we'd have had buffs for Winter Soldier, Vision and Loki from their Disney+ series. Would have quite liked that, to be fair.
Doc Ock and IMIW are hard for us to call as players.
It's one of those instances where* Kabam need to look at their data, similar to what they did with Torch and Namor, and decide whether small adjustments may need to be made (or not).
No one would have guessed that Masacre or Angela needed buffs at the time, but hey, they got them and they got great buffs.
Assuming Karnak turns out good, I hope they don't go back to skill again immediately afterward. That class has gotten the bulk of god-tier buffs this year and I'd rather see them give science some love. There are a lot of OG champs like Captain America, Hulk and Spider-Man that I would love to see Kabam round out the year with. I think the only science champs that have been buffed this year is Yellowjacket, Miles and Mr. Fantastic. I love Mr. F. - it was a great little tune-up - but I don't think the other two landed quite as well as they could have.
Also I hope the next buffs will not have a Skill, even though I love most of the buffs, Skill is now a great class. I hope that they'll buff a Mystic since all Mytics this year(except Diablord, Hood and SW) are pretty bad.
To everybody who does not think IMIW and Doc Ock need a buff:
Again, we don't decide that, Kabam do.
They look at the data and may look for small adjustments that will benefit the overall usability of a champion, look at what happened with Torch.
I am hoping the same can be done for Doc Ock and IMIW to improve their rotations / performance.
Tbh I’d like to see Sentry get a buff, or Captain America. Agent Venom & Superior Iron Man are also some I’d like to see for an overhaul but I highly doubt we’ll get another skill overhaul for a couple of months.
I’m more excited for the new champion and the possibility of holiday cavs tbh
Gamora followed by Thor Rags followed by Nebula?
Does anybody see a pattern here?
Maybe Star-Lord, Rocket Raccoon or Yondu will get the moderate buff.
Though, from his base kit, I can't tell if Rocket Raccoon needs a moderate buff or an overhaul.
I would be *extremely* excited if OG Captain America got a buff.
I wish I could take him in all my quests.
The only thing is about the Skill class is, Kabam have placed such a strong emphasis on them I can't help but feel they're doing overhauls *mostly* one class at a time. Time will tell!
I’d also like to see Hawkeye get a moderate or overhaul, purely for nostalgia reasons. He was my first 4*.
He is also in the 6-star featured crystal.
I will wait until the Tuesday after next to see what the new 5-star featured brings us, but for now:
Daredevil, Moon Knight, Rocket Raccoon and Green Goblin are the champs I am leaning towards for December's buffs.
But then I remember this gem from @DNA3000:
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/1931057#Comment_1931057
And thus I have started to feel as though the OGs will get their buffs towards the end of the program.
We do baby steps at a time all tho he already good *
There's no reason why BW, Thor, and DrS should still be kept their current numbers and not restored to their previous numbers.
Keeping to Tech, OG IM is still in desperate need of a buff
Two old, old champs and classic Marvel characters who could benefit from just a little tweaking (like Karnak).
Dr. Zola
Would like a MK buff for sure. Or Groot, Rocket, Drax, Hawkeye, Juggs, both Cyclops, Iron Fist....
I have so many meme champs as 6 stars.