Took a long time to ascend Emma from 3 to 5, but totally worth it. Not only does she allow all allies to have 5/5/5 ability level and has a double tile swap. Once you hit 5*, she creates 5 1250 strength strikes whe she does her swap and when she uses her pink to destroy enemy tiles, she lowers all enemy powers to level one while he CD is on the board.
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Now, what is the best team to raise all allied powers to 5*, but still let her utilize her yellow and pink.
Just thought about it. Once she is ascended, she raises allied powers by 3 instead of 2. That could come in very handy for 6* characters.
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6* could be a good use. Can’t think of anyone else who would benefit from being 5/5/5 but having to drag Emma along as another character. PvP would be out. So maybe in PvE?
I love Emma, shes definitely not always the best choice, but I love her kit.
There are a few characters who really want to be 5,5,5, I dont remember many of them, but coincidentally Hawkeye1 becomes even more disgusting. MThor wants it, less after the nerf, but still does. AmericanChives kinda does and is an ok teammate.
I mostly always ran her for her yellow since the passive was just a nice bonus. She starts very strong with Darkveil and Krakoa (naturally).
I’m a little ashamed of myself for not testing it on 6 stars… but Galactus is the only 1 I have with all 3 colors.
OK, just tested it and it didnt work anyway. None of Galactus abilities went up levels.
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Maybe 6’s cant be made stronger? I would imagine coding issues havent taken boosts into account
What cover spread is your Galactus? She is supposed to boost the “lowest” level unlocked ability by 2.
If you have 2 or 3 all at 1, what does she do? I am asking because for all the rest of the toons you champ them extremely quickly, or at least have some uneven spread with a low one if you have a 5, usually. OR you aren’t running half-finished toons for obvious reasons.
Anyway I am wondering if her passive fails if you have a 1/1/1 or something. Or even a 2/1/1. Etc. Like how does the game treat a tie? is this a bug no one really noticed before, that she does nothing if you have even a 3/2/2 Man Thing (for example)?
Mmm, maybe, I have him at 1 1 1. Possible it cant decide which one. Ive never been in the situation to test that either…
Actually, once you ascend her to 5*, she boosts by 3 (or 4 if it’s an X-Man)
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I like the idea of 3a5 Emma and two synergizing 6*s, just to be able to play them for a second!
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She gains an extra boost level once she’s ascended. She would turn a lvl 1 power into lvl 4 (or 5 if it was an X-Man). Also think I’ve been overlooking her pink. Destroys 3 enemy tiles and drops all enemy powers to lvl 1 for 3 turns.
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I’ve done some testing on my Galactus 1/1/1 and Cosmic GR 1/1/0
Emma does boost them, but she only boosts one of each of their powers. I’ve done 8 battles like this and it’s always the same powers she boosts (Galactus blue operates at lvl4, and GR Red goes up to lvl4). Their other abilities remain unchanged.
No idea what determines priority order for which power gets picked for boosting, but it’s clearly not universally the color they have the highest match damage in, or their top power…
I wonder if it’s a tie between powers she prioritises certain colors? E.g. blue over purple or black. Red over green. Will have to try some other combinations to see if any pattern emerges
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I tried my 3 rostered 6s (G, CGR and Cho) - all are 1/1/1. I had the same boosted colors for G and CGR. Cho’s red got boosted.
There’s probably some unseen thing in the code that breaks the tie in the same way every time for each character and it can’t analyze match dmg, or doesn’t. Something to avoid a crash/loop if a weird circumstance happened like you made two colors have the same match dmg with a support or ability.
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Awesome, thanks for testing Cho. With that knowledge I’ve used my shards to roster him as 2/0/1. This now means his blue is boosted to lvl4 by Emma, and his AP generation engine gets fully online.
He’s actually ok. He does damage when firing his red, even though that isn’t mentioned in the power description, so you can pretty much alternate fire red/blue with the AP gen engine.
Obviously not as good as 1star Hawkeye, but why should the ultimate chase item be better than him? 
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If I was dragging 3a5Emma into PvP with the idea of abusing 6s…
My first thought is that she is 100% the target. Sure, this doesnt necessarily bother you when on offense, but we can still play with the idea. So, why not 6Valk and Galactus? Valk can do her protect gimmick at least once for your Emma, while big G gets to flex for a while.
To be clear, I don’t consider this to be “fast”. But more along the lines of having some potential to stick around and abuse the extra power youve gained from Emma. (And of course, add supports as necessary)
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