Rank ups instead of Champ Selector?
Chuck_Finley
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Seeing lots of threads about picking champs and which ones. I am pretty fortunate to have the Onslaughts and Photons but certainly don’t have the every champ (silk, Medusa). And there isn’t a favorite I haven’t been chasing…
With 21 Rank 3’s and 1 Rank 4, I judge myself in the mid to low roster size for Valiant these days. Seems like someone like me would benefit from 3 more rank 3’s than a rare champ. KT1 kind of echoed that I was thinking in his review - but is there a fault in that line of thinking?
Obviously I have no aspirations of climbing high rungs of BG’s, expect I will settle somewhere in Uru world but the easier it is to do that the better. And a bigger roster seems like the best way to do it. Just curious what others think
With 21 Rank 3’s and 1 Rank 4, I judge myself in the mid to low roster size for Valiant these days. Seems like someone like me would benefit from 3 more rank 3’s than a rare champ. KT1 kind of echoed that I was thinking in his review - but is there a fault in that line of thinking?
Obviously I have no aspirations of climbing high rungs of BG’s, expect I will settle somewhere in Uru world but the easier it is to do that the better. And a bigger roster seems like the best way to do it. Just curious what others think
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So those rank up materials I don’t plan on chasing. Ordeal and 9.2 are explored. I guess that’s why free rank ups seem valuable. I don’t have anyway to awaken Medusa which seems to be where her value jumps.
The R3 resources we can just buy at any time with no RNG failure; picking specific champs instead of living and dying through RNG crystals is very rare or expensive.
And in a draft situation, I am going to be banning awakened Medusa automatically anyway. Silk awakened or not I wouldn’t ban.
Decisions, decisions… lol
I'm really debating about getting Medusa which I have the gem to awaken her and sig up or either photon, silk or kushala. I already have a fully maxed out 6* ascended photon and 6* r4 version of the other 3 but it doesn't stop me from getting a 7* version of any lol.
I'm a new valiant with 5 x r3 champs so far, will like to r3 the following champs in no particular order: dazzler, dust, sinister, Chavez, prowler, red skull, purgatory and possibly serpent if I can awaken him.
Crazy how this has been bothering me since day one of poolshield.
I dont have most of the champs i want, but i have everything i need. Onslaught, adam warlock, medusa, sentinel, DPX. All champs i want, but the rank up mats are infinitely better than a singular champion. I still have enough to r3 a few.
@ChaosMax1012 - and that’s the other side of my thinking. No content I am willing to do am I hurting for champs. My problem is almost always mine are ranked too low. It’s a tough call. Probably will sleep on it again.
As long as its not to get another progression level, I’d go for guaranteed targeted champion. We may not ‘need’ more champions to complete content, but having a champion lets us test them out to even see if we want to rank them up.
I went rank up materials, myself, because though I have most of the heavy hitters, there were also other champs I wanted to take up for bg's and future content.
I am a low level valiant and have only about 10 r3s and no r4s. I went for the 250 poolie deal and ranked 4 r3s. My r3 roster was science and tech heavy, i needed others so got a few good mutant and skill rank ups to provide a more balanced roster.
I can make do without the 7* Onslaught, Bishop, Medusa and America Chavez i have been chasing. Kept 6r3 versions of them for now (r5 for Bishop) and will wait it out. I am not a big BG/AW player anyways. Stopped playing both recently and joined a retired alliance.
How good is DPX? Is he worth missing out on another instant 3-4 R3's (Most likely would be champs like Medusa, Domino or Bishop, Red Skull, Bullseye or Chee, and Silk or Nef). Any thoughts are appreciated!
Great BG nuke. Barely used him at all in 9.2. Did not use him in Ordeal. Not really built for long form stuff.
So I would say just a fun offensive nuke champ who doesn’t need awakening with one caveat - With 7 star Fury coming, an awakened DPX who shuts down his second life is probably going to be valued more than it would have before.
I'm close to forming my third generic T7B, and so if I go with Bundle 2, then I could put a lot of that T6B/T4A/T3A/T6CC towards a r4 champion.
So personally, I'm planning to get 4x Bundle 2, and 1x bundle 7, so I can put the cats where I want. Take someone to r4; take others to r3.
I might even squander some of it taking a rare 6* to R5, just for a bit of fun...
Most convincing argument for me is the R3 material depreciation coming. Hope to awaken her naturally but she will still put in work without the awakening. Thanks for all the comments.
I guess everyone has their priorities as to what they feel us important for their account.
I almost always choose rank up materials over champs/shards, the champs will come, the resources to rank them is usually slower, at least I find it that way.