Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Roster Advice: CMags or Black Panther?

I got some new covers, but I only have roster space for one. They are red/blue Classic 3 star Magneto, blue Black Panther, and green Classic Bullseye. I'm probably not going with Bullseye but figured I'd include it since I have one.

3 star magneto (CMags, usually) is an awesome character. He does incredible damage once you level him up. His red is decent damage (depending on board composition) but it is a great cascade activator. It also is relatively cheap. I use it over LThor's red.
His blue is very high damage. It makes a great finisher, and again, it doesn't break the bank. There are those really rare times where you don't have any red or blue tiles on the board to swap, but I generally never have trouble getting it to fire. I rate it highly on the cost/damage balance sheet.
His yellow isn't really worthwhile, it blocks so little damage that it just becomes bait for moves that steal special tiles or deal damage based on them.
As for Black Panther, he is very strong as well. Good health for tanking. His yellow activates based on your saved team up AP, which I personally usually have plenty of. The strike tiles it lays down are really strong, on the other hand, it does require them to sit on the board for a few turns for max value.
His black is an incredibly strong move with a downside. It hits all enemy characters, which is always worth hanging onto in MPQ. At max level its 3,708 damage to all characters, which is about as good as you will find. Plus, most other characters don't use black AP, so its easy to save. The problem is that it goes give 5 AP in the enemy's strongest color, which shouldn't be overlooked. You will almost certainly give them the AP to fire a special in return. Thus, it works best as a finisher.
His blue is pretty dumb in my opinion, it requires a countdown and even then the tile it creates isn't that strong.
Bullseye is interesting, and I think his black passive has some real potential, but I'm not yet buying. Pass for me.

If I were you, I'd save the CMags. The value of having two colors is really helpful as well, you need 9 covers before a 3 star is useful, so CMags is already that much closer. Plus, the blue cover is Panther's worst power.

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