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Titan Cadence Troubles
With the current Titan pool rotation cadence being 90 days per pool, and every champ in the crystal going through three cycles before hitting the basic pool, it takes nine months for a champion to enter the basic. For the champions who have already been released but just miss the Titan pool rotation, which today is Jean…
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Adding to a Long, Glorious History
(Please read this while listening to the opening theme of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey) Since time immemorial, Mankind has had a single, existential question that permeated our existence. Something so deep, so profound, that we all wish to know the answer even if we’ve never heard it asked aloud. And that…
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Rebalanced Northstar is Critically Bugged
After the update, Northstar does no reverb damage. His red numbers are just fully gone. Obviously a bug (no silent nerf talk here), but in his current state he’s fully useless. Hopefully this can be rectified quickly.
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A Plea for More Relics
I like relics. I think they are good and cool and a fun addition to the game. I like that Kabam has made champion abilities directly interact with the use of strikers, and that some champions build their strikers into their optimal rotation. These are all good things. I do not like that, for example, the Hulk relic is the…
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Who at Kabam is the Dropout Fan?
For those who don’t know, Dropout (formerly known as CollegeHumor) is a largely (but not exclusively) unscripted comedy platform, hosting a bunch of different shows. One of their most popular shows is called Game Changer, where the host introduces himself in every episode by saying: The first screenshot I posted is an…
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Glorious Guardians Rework Speculation - Now with a helpful picture!
Kabam just posted this to their MCOC Instagram story. Historically, silhouettes haven’t been super useful tools for determining what Kabam is hinting at, but I refuse to learn that lesson because speculation is too fun. We know we’re looking for a science, a tech, and a mutant champion. I think the one on the left could be…
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Crucible Crystal Theory
This month (tomorrow, I think?) we see The Crucible hit the game, which looks rad as hell. It’s been noted in the rewards that there is a “Crucible Crystal.” My initial instinct was that this would be another specialized pool of champions. But, with the update now in our hands, the new champions we see in the 7* pool are…
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Omega Days Announcement
For those who haven’t seen it, I’ll put it right at the top: https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/omega-days/ Very cool pool of new 7* champs coming to the game, but I have one pretty big concern. At the bottom of the announcement, it is explained that there is a way to get 34 free Cavalier crystals. However, the Omega…
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Winter of Woe: Nebula Strategy Thread [merged]
New boss just dropped, and at least on first glance she looks to be substantially easier to deal with than Abs Man. So I wanted to get the ball rolling on some suggested options based on the challenges we have: Metal and God: my first thought is Angela. She counters the debuffs and the autoblock extremely well. She was…
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Is This Crazy: Darkhawk v Abs Man
I haven’t seen much community discussion around Darkhawk as a potential Abs Man counter, but I’m thinking he might be great for it? At r5, sig 200, after an sp3 Darkhawk will have about 13k base attack and have placed a 30 second heal block on Abs Man. That gives you 30 seconds to get as close to another sp3 as possible. I…
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Is WoW Abs Man Anti-DoT Node Working as Intended?
A lot of mechanics that I would not classify as DoT do not seem to be applying to this Abs Man, and it seems to be because of this node. These include but are not limited to: Overseer - both Retaliation and Cosmic Cube burst damage Vision (AoU) - specials do fully nothing Warlock - Infections do not apply I’m sure there…
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A Different Incursions Bug - Tyranny and Ironheart
Just fought an Ironheart on a Tyranny node, where #Hero champs aren’t supposed to gain power. Ironheart is a #Hero. Spite was also an active node, and Ironheart gained power through both the spite node and standard combat power. From a review of her kit, she has no immunities or interactions that protect her from power…
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The Final Matchup!
FIGHTING out of the Skill corner, we have the night sky arachnid, BLACK TARANTULA: FIGHTING out of the Mystic corner, we have hunting goddess, the spider-killer herself, SHATHRA: Ladies, Gentlemen, all and none of the above, these are your contenders for your Summoner’s Choice champions! Take it (civilly) to the comments…
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And Then There Were Four
RIP to Ruby Thursday, Beetle, Swarm, and Viper. Some of us will probably miss you. Personally, I’m pulling for Shathra or Shriek to pull an upset against Blob, but I recognize how much of a long shot that is. How’re y’all feeling about who’s left?
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I Am the Lorax, I Speak for the Trees…
And if you don’t like this one, he’ll probably break your knees. Our favorite big angry tree man is coming in hot. I’d been wondering when KG would be added as a 7*, I’m curious what tweaks will be made to the Deathless kit.
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Important Holiday Gift Note
It looks like you don’t have to claim the holiday gift for 30 days. So if you, like me, are working towards Necropolis exploration for Valiant or if you’re on the brink of another title, it may be worth it to you not to claim the gift immediately. Good luck with your openings, and happy holidays everybody!
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Champion Hockey Teams
For those that watched the stream today, you caught Jax and Miike's answers to @Cat_Murdock asking "If you could make a hockey team out of MCOC champions, who would you pick and why?" Also, being kept to five member teams, because obviously both teams have already taken a penalty. This question rules and I think we should…
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Old UI Issue Returns with New AW Map
Kudos to Kabam on the new map. I like the flow, and the removal of linked nodes to the boss is wonderful. But unfortunately it’s brought back a problem as old as this game. I can’t click on the boss node. Zemo’s fat head truly is a master of evil, as he is preventing me from getting my champs out of this war. The usual…
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Potential Rintrah Bug
In the description for Rintrah’s Root mechanic, it lists all of the various interactions it can have: Notably, there is no mention in there of Rintrah losing his passive unstoppable while still Rooted. However, that is what is happening when the opponent throws a special attack. Is this an intended interaction not listed…
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Endgame Content Creation Philosophy in the Context of Revives
I think there are two ways to go about creating endgame content. Roadblocks and Sponges. The original 6.2.6 Champion boss is an example of a potential Roadblock fight, because he had mechanics to zero out your damage and to regenerate himself throughout the fight. If you weren’t ready for him, you couldn’t spend your way…
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I Can Never Complain About RNG Again
So I knocked out the Summ(on)er objective for the day and got my two tokens for the store. Went into the resort store and picked up two purchases of the basic cav crystals because I’m currently sitting pretty on catalysts. I cannot stress enough that these are basic, normal, nothing special cav crystals. I’m not normally a…
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First 6* R5 is a champ that I Would Walk 500 of
Knocked out the last of the V3 Carina’s Challenges over the weekend and was rewarded with a Science R5 gem. I spent most of the day going back and forth on who I would use it on, which champion in a genuinely stacked class deserved to be the first maxed out 6* after all this time, and I realized there really was only one…
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Final Round! White Tiger v Gladiator!
Here’s the rundown on the final round of the Summoner’s Choice! Who do you want to see?
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Punk Never Dies
I know what y’all are thinking, “not another spider!” And I get it. It’s a legit complaint. But Spider-Punk is the character I’m most excited about potentially becoming a champion in the Summoner’s Choice poll, and I’ll tell you why. First off is the aesthetic, dude’s got drip. I don’t know how you can look at that costume…
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An Idea Regarding the Champion Review Program
We’ve now gone through two cycles of the champion review program without any changes being made to the released champions. I agree with the conclusions made by the game team’s decisions on these champs and, more importantly, I actually like the idea of this program. It’s absolutely true that the game team could never get…
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Legend Event Piggy Bank
The in-game update message stated there would be a piggy bank going live with the event, but I’m not seeing it. Is there going to be one, or was the update message in error?
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Team Building for Carina V2 Abyss Challenges
Hey all you people, I wanted to put together a place for theorycrafting best teams for these particular challenges. I appreciate that there is some flexibility in what teams can be used here, as compared to the pretty much set in stone Labyrinth teams for the first round of challenges, so I want to hear from people about…
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Help an Indecisive Summoner: First Skill R4
Well, it’s time for me to r4 another champion. My current R4 roster is Nimrod, Knull, Kitty Pryde, Spidey 2099, Doctor Doom, and Silver Surfer. You may notice a distinct lack of skill (champions) in that group. The time has come to fix that. I don’t run recoil tree masteries. I do probably have synergy partners for…
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Gwenpool Goes to the Movies - Sequel with Galan in August?
In the patch notes for next month's event (https://playcontestofchampions.com/news/v36-1-release-notes/), the new side quest is called Galan Goes to the Battlerealm. That's an extremely weird way of phrasing that title unless it's being done specifically to reference Gwenpool Goes to the Movies. I think we might be seeing…
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Champion Update and Reworks Discussion
For anybody who hasn’t seen it, there’s a new announcement relating to champion updates and reworks here: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/309699/champion-attributes-and-rebalance-updates-july-2022#latest Personally, I very much appreciated this post. I love not having to wait until the last second…
