Prolly trying to weaken the Patch/OBW synergy. Or it could try to preempt changes to Spidey/Mags’ blue, since their supposed to soon be nerfed.
Ooo… A third ability? That’s the least lazy of the lazy releases!
The next character after that is going to be Falcon, kamahl from my alliance was at pax and they announced it over there, personally i would prefer they made the winter soldier, pve needs new villains
Where did IceIX say their will be a third ability? I can’t find it.
Check the first post. Notice the blue question marks below his last skill and the IceIX ninja edit.
Oooohhhh, sounds spooky. Thanks for pointing it out to me.
His blue looks like a double-edged sword so far, since getting blue to use his ability would decrease Dakens health, but I wonder if it’s going to be a passive or not.
6 is pretty low, odds are you’ll have almost that many in unmatchable places anyway
67 max tile damage would mean he should be a 3* instead of a 4* (max tile damage 70).
What!? Weak… 4**** ?
So Daken currently plays with
Purple - Passive skill + Match damage
Black - Passive skill + Match damage
Yellow - Triggers regeneration
Green - Triggers strike tiles
Red -
If his last skill is Blue (which hopefully finds a use for his store of Purple/Black), he’ll be our first character that truly has a use for every color on the board… which is pretty darned cool.
According to the post, Daken doesn’t rely on yellow tiles anymore for regeneration, it’s blue now. I guess he’s the closest to using all colors?
Makes me want to play with 3 Dakens all on the same team. Can you imagine that chaos?
Depending on blue tiles on regen means regen is a very weak ability right now, because blue is pretty much the premier color overall right now. There’s just no way you’d be leaving blue tiles up for the opponent to have a chance to collect them for ATU, not to mention your own ATU/Magnetic Field needs them too. Even in some hypothetically balanced world where 2 blue matches do not end up winning the game, it’s likely still worse than yellow because yellow is only valuable to one person (lazy Thor), and while lazy Thor is incredibly powerful, he’s still just one guy.
IceIX mentioned http://marvel.com/comics/issue/5821/wol … ns_2006_10 might be the cover.
And his character graphic is also just a giant bloody fist 
Called it! A trade-off 3rd ability for risk/reward.
I am sooo sick of seeing him, but now I’m not actively dreading the new Daken…
It also puts Daken in the odd position of leveling up a skill that isn’t very good. Unless the Regen is at 5, he’s at a higher risk of suffering from the self-imposed heat damage.
Hmm; that is quite A Big Deal - normally risks might scale with rewards, but in Daken’s case the power is just a downright liability until levelled…
I think people will be wise to just hold off on using those covers until the point of expiry, since he’ll be better off with a lower level cap than constantly losing his health (unless his blue is an Ares style move that gets stronger the less health he has).
Doom is the counter for the new Daken, right?
I really need a blue cover for him now.
Did some statisical analysis of 2Daken and I would say at max lvl 3 Daken should be getting two 88 strength strike tiles per green match. Not 100% because I don’t have a base level, 1 cover Daken to use in the analysis. So if someone does please post the strike tile strength and I will re-evaluate. Numbers seem reasonable in comparision to Patch. 3 green matches to use Patch and creates 6 tiles with 148 strength for allies and opponents (888). 3 matches with Daken will get six 88 strength tiles (528). So less damage but no strike tiles for the opponent. Hopefully the blue is something good.