Is Falcon Good For ANYTHING?

Honestly I have no idea I know he's garbage, but there has to be at least ONE use besides arena.

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When using him in the arena if you come up against an evade champ, use his red wing lock on to prevent them from using their evade ability. And that’s about it

phillgreen

Taking on evade champs when you have no one that's any good.

phillgreen

Mine gets used with cap and crossbones in arena and that's it.

XFA_Rebooted

Oh... Evade champs...I didn't know that.

Tedders

he needs to be reworked, his lock-on mechanics don't last long enough and are clunky to use. Other than arena he has no use in the game

Jwallace25

His value is that when you get him in the crystal spin, you can say, " well at least I didn't get Kamela Khan."

Jay_Ibero

Also part of a good crit team with SW, BW, Vision, and him.

shchong2

Pls folks!!! FALCON IS GOOD!!!

How I know it! Ask those ppl who mistaken him as Blade when bringing to AQ or AW, or even ranking him up thinking he is Blade!!

Falcon is THAT GOO!!!!

Lovingkid

I once sold my 4* to open 5* crystal and ended up duping the ****.
I cried that day.

phillgreen

shchong2 wrote: »

Pls folks!!! FALCON IS GOOD!!!

How I know it! Ask those ppl who mistaken him as Blade when bringing to AQ or AW, or even ranking him up thinking he is Blade!!

Falcon is THAT GOO!!!!

I've lost count of the times falcon ended up in an arena team instead of AV. It would be worse if I had blade as well.

And yes, I need glasses rather than a sensitivity course.

DTMelodicMetal

Map 5 Tier 1 Path 5, redwing nullifies Electro’s defensive shock damage and Abomination’s poison damage

Bahamut

Lock on completely shuts down abilities so no evade or auto block

xTony_xD

Actually kamala Kahn is better than falcon because at least kamala hits hard eventually falcon has meh health and meh attack the only maybe use is the lock on thingy

Vossler77

None worse of the worse. Maybe close to Thor Rags who hits like a little girl. Carnage too but those 3 are the worst. Kamalah is ahead of them.

Spurgeon14

I have Falcon, "effective" Cyclops, and Rhino all as 5* and I have to say Falcon is the best out of those 3. Haha

sbb75

He is IMO the worst champ in the game. 5* sig 40. And my last dup I thought was Blade.
They. Need to upgrade his pellet gun to bullets.

shchong2

Spurgeo14 wrote: »

I have Falcon, "effective" Cyclops, and Rhino all as 5* and I have to say Falcon is the best out of those 3. Haha

LOL personally I do have Falcon as 5*, and Rhino as 5* too, and my 5* Rhino is at R2, honestly I like my Rhino better, not talking about AWD, but actually talking about attack, coz his unblockable when dash forward is actually handy, and it is fun to see his fat Rhino jumping around and being so agile

Magrailothos

Falcons main use in the game, like in the movies, is to buff up his allies. He has decent synergies, and gives everyone extra Physical Resistance penetration - up to 40% with four synergies.

So you can build a team around him; if you like the Avengers.

On the other hand, as a champion, his base stats are actually decent; and he has a reliable if not inspiring bleed. You can also use him to shut down ability accuracy more reliably than any other champion*; he just can't keep it up for the entire fight. But if you really need someone to get around a predictable evasion, arc overload, Physical Resistance or an Invulnerability buff (hello, Hela!), he's your guy.

For fighting champions who have a strong finishing ability like Punisher, Hela, Hulk, War Machine, he's got value.

His bleed is actually decent damage per tick, but doesn't last long (so overall damage isn't high at standard). However, as a short intense bleed, it will benefit from Deep Wounds more than Electra's slower bleed effect.

*There are other champions who might be better at some things - but Electra only reduces ability accuracy whilst you're bleeding or broken; Crossbones needs to keep his Furies up; Kingpin only gets -45%, Magneto only works if you're metal, Blade only according to his synergies. Black Widow is more reliable, but tops out at 70%. All champions who reduce ability accuracy have limitations to stop them getting overpowered. That's why BW was nerfed back in 12.0. Falcons lock-on is at least under your control, even if it can't last the whole fight. Fight intelligently, and just use it when you need to. Twelve seconds should be enough to turn the fight in your favour!

So, whilst I'm not going to suggest you wouldn't be better off with Blade, if you do pull Falcon as a five star champion try to recognise that you could have done much worse; even if he's primarily just a member of the team.

Griffoplay

I reach "level Up" milestones ranking him up a few level. then I didn't see anymore

issamaf80

Scopeotoe987 wrote: »

Honestly I have no idea I know he's garbage, but there has to be at least ONE use besides arena.

GroundedWisdom

He can bypass Safeguard.

Jay_Ibero

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

He can bypass Safeguard.

Only helpful if he can hit hard enough to do more than 1% damage to begin with.

TedFeds

I want a one star version of every hero, falcon included. That’s what he’s good for lol

Mirage_Turtle

Let's start by saying that Falcon isn't terrific and could use a rework. Three seconds to lock on to a target can feel like an eternity in some fights.

But there is something he is useful for that I'm surprised no one else brought up yet. Surprisingly, he is a very effective Magik counter. Once locked on, she is unable to trigger limbo via her signature ability.

In the early days of playing my second account, he was one of my earliest 4* dupes. I ended up bringing him to war (along with Guilly and Cap WWII) for lack of better options and even at 4/40, he was able to take out 4/55 Magik without much issue (depending on the nodes, of course).

This ability is also super helpful if your roster isn't very big and you are working toward an infinite streak. Sometimes they'll throw a Magik in the "hard rounds", which can be difficult for most 3/30 and 4/40 champs if you're not prepared, but Falcon was cruising through those fights with a lot of health remaining.

As others have said, he's great for evasion champs as well. He's got class advantage against Spidey and can completely shut down evade. He can also shut down Nightcrawler's or Stark Spidey's evade. And when he's locked on, Falcon can hit Stark Spidey with specials without having the knock out the AI first.

So again, not a great champ. But if you've got a small roster, he does have some very specific uses that can help you clear some content that you wouldn't otherwise be able to clear.

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Narcuul

fighting evade champs every 8 seconds is about the limit of his usefulness

cx23433

arena

Magrailothos

Narcuul wrote: »

fighting evade champs every 8 seconds is about the limit of his usefulness

It's a ten second lock-on; twelve if Awakened, and fourteen against science.

How much damage can you do in fourteen seconds?

Lt_Magnum_1

I had Falcon as one of my top champs for a long time. He is able to shut down evades, auto blocks, and Electro's shock. But he is outclassed by lots of other anti evade champs such as Killmonger, Gwenpool, Taskmaster, Quake, Archangel, Crossbones, Thor Rangraok, and Iceman. Falcon's damage output is quite underwhelming.

Hammerbro_64

Vossler77 wrote: »

None worse of the worse. Maybe close to Thor Rags who hits like a little girl. Carnage too but those 3 are the worst. Kamalah is ahead of them.

Thor Ragnarok is actually alright with synergies and his PI is the best in the game