What are all the god tier champions in the game at the moment?
wheatmann
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What are all the god tier champions in the game right now?
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If you want to see champion attributes, you have them here: https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/category/champion-spotlights/
This thing is that some people really really like champs that might not be god tier to you but are god tier to them. This being said:
Cosmic: cgr, hercules, corvus, hyperion king groot, knull
Skill: nick fury, aegon, black widow do, falcon
Science: cap iw, spidey2099, human torch, mr fantastic, ibom, void
Mystic: doom, black widow cv, diablo, tigra, magik
Mutant: apoc, stryfe, archangel, havok, magneto, kitty, cable (apoc synergy), prof x, omega red
Tech: ghost, nimrod, warlock, guardian, ultron, sparky
The game provides countless options and scenarios that interact in too many ways to count. Telling OP that this isn’t the kind of question they should be asking and that they should instead play around with champions on their own is far better than telling them to zero in on a small core of them.
I know you have good intentions on this one, but a new player shouldn’t be told “these five champions or bust” for each class. I had a 4* Drax who was my workhorse through my Act 4 run back in the day. Had I been focused on meta champions, I wouldn’t have ranked him and it would’ve taken far longer to progress.
There are some that unless you know how to use them will not seem like top tier champions.
Heimdall
Hela
Hercules
Jane
Knull
Loki
Odin
Thor
Valkyrie
GOD tier! XD
Once upon a time, nobody knew anything in this game, just like when any game first starts up. Not just in terms of this game, a high percentage of the players of this game when it first launched probably knew little about any game like it. What do players do when everything is knew and everyone is dumb? They start comparing things.
This champ is great, this one sucks. This one can complete more content, this one less content. And in this game, the comparison quickly focused on one thing: damage. When this game was new, damage was everything. There was completing content, and there was completing content faster. Offense was the best defense. Dead things don't shoot back. This one-dimensional view of how to rank champions haunts us to this day.
Eventually we grew up and started seeing things less one-dimensionally. We starting seeing "utility" as a thing that could be just as beneficial, if sometimes more beneficial, than raw damage. Star Lord was not the beginning and the end of everything. But this need to place champions into a linear order persisted. Surely no matter what kinds of things champs could do, some were still better than others. Surely some were at the top and some were at the bottom. Thus was born the ranking lists, aka tier lists.
I'm going to skip a couple years of tier list evolution, because its boring. More important is that almost immediately after the birth of the tier list came the counter-clash. When you say this champ is "god-tier" and this one is not, why? What does that mean? Does that mean the first champ is always better than the second one? Does that mean you should always rank the first over the second? When you get them, and rank them, and bring them, do you even know what you're supposed to do with them?
Tier lists can be a useful guide, but they can also replace actual knowledge. As quickly as tier lists proliferated, people began to complain that there was a whole generation of players using them in place of knowledge. Everyone knows Stark Enhanced Spiderman is better than X-23 because he's god tier and she's not. Worse, players started complaining that they brought a "god tier team" to some piece of content and they failed, so the content must be unfair or broken. After all, how can a team of gods ever fail? If that team couldn't do it, what team could?
More experienced, more skilled players began to see tier lists as a crutch. Worse, the game itself started to evolve in directions that made the whole question of which champ is better even more complicated. Content started rewarding roster diversity. This champ won't work, but that champ will. This champ doesn't do much, but it really shines here. Content stopped being one-dimensional. It wasn't enough to be god tier, you had to be the right kind of god. In a world where sometimes you need bleed or sometimes you need something that *doesn't* crit or that *doesn't* heal, which champ was better and which was worse was increasingly a question whose answer was "it depends." No tier list can capture that.
The crust cooled, the oceans formed, and the continents shifted, and now we're here. Tier lists are now considered the Sesame Street alphabets of the MCOC world. They are fun, colorful, and who doesn't like to see Cookie Monster. But the idea of them being anything more than casual conversation starter has passed, and with them the notion that "god tier" is a title worth anything.
Are there champs that are, in general, better than average. Yes. No one is going to argue that Hercules, Kitty Pryde, Cosmic Ghost Rider, or Archangel are anything but extremely strong and extremely valuable champs. But what does that mean? You still need to know what they do, how they work, and where they don't work, or knowing that is not terribly useful. Who are the god tier champs? Why are you asking? Are you wondering who you should rank up? Post your options, and people will be more than happy to give you advice. Are you wondering who you should use in certain content? Post a question, and people will be more than happy to give you options.
But if you just want to know, for no particular reason, people will assume it is because you believe you don't need to give a reason: god tier is god tier, right?
No, it is not. And asking that way will suggest to many people that you don't deserve an answer, because any answer they give will be more dangerous than useful.
And then the asteroid struck the Earth and killed all the dinosaurs. But not Hercules, because he triggered immortality. That guy is definitely god tier.
You won’t just want to know who is and isn’t better than who, because that is just a starting point. At the end of the day, you should be asking among which of your selection of champions should be ranked up for a specific piece of content. It’s not a matter of whether Annihilus is better than Nova, but which champion would shine better on a specific path in a specific quest… obviously Annie’s better than Nova, but still.
But this difference of opinion is exactly why tier lists don’t work. Where one player may think that Psylocke is trash because of her low damage, another may find her utility to be some of the most powerful in the game. It’s all about what your roster looks like and what content you’re trying to do.
All this rhetoric on how meaningless tier lists are, but 99% of our rank ups are the SAME CHAMPS!!!!
There is a reason high level Arena fights are always against the same short list of champs.
Sometimes the choices are 3 Doom teams or 3 Hercules teams.
And yes, 1% of the time we all have niche rank ups that "prove" we don't follow the herd. Congratulations.
@wheatmann
to answer your question, there are high quality lists of champs (tier lists) that show you where to invest your limited resources.
Just go on Youtube and look up:
Tier list July 2022 Lagacy
or
Tier list July 2022 Vega
or
Tier list July 2022 KT1
Champs in the top 3 columns are usually all worth investing in.
From there, rank the ones that work best for you.
I have always found The Hood to be a worthwhile champ (even before his buffs), but the lists didn't always agree.
Except no one uses tier lists for prestige rank ups. They use auntm.ai. No one's tier list affects those arena teams. This isn't a point in favor of tier lists. This is an example of when they have no value.
The reason why you often see three Dooms or three Hercs, but you see three Groots or three Guillotines far less often, is because the higher the champ's prestige, the less other champs with similar prestige exist. So the arena is more likely to pick two or three of the same champ just by random chance when assembling teams when the search target is in the high prestige area then when it is the middle of the prestige area.