Let’s pretend there was an announcement today about a new PvE Story event that is sort of like a Heroic event on steroids.
In this event, you were restricted toonecharacter of your choosing.
It would be a goon-heavy event but there would be some nodes with active opponents sprinkled in, with three opponents per node. There would be no essential nodes. You could bring whatever boosts (+AP, +Match Dam) or team-ups you wanted like usual, but you’d only have the one character available; that character would have to handle all your clears. Normal SCLs, placement, and progression prizes would be in play.
Real answer: probably 5* Daredevil. True healing would be huge if you only had one character, and OML can’t heal without partners. Plus DD’s match damage gets wild once he starts dropping strikes.
One character on my current roster (same level and everything? Or one max-champed character gifted to me?
If the latter, I’d take a 550 Daredevil
From my roster, my highest character (level 307 Vulture) also happens to excel in busting teams by his lonesome, so I’d take him with +4 to black to start.
Electra is still one of the best solo characters in the game and I think Iron Spider solo is very good as well. Nico would be solid, good control and true heal.
and her powers create solid light holograms of Longshot and Shatterstar that take all damage aimed at her a la House Party Protocol… she’s so powerful, she comes with a Forget Me Not support so no one remembers how awesome she is…
I’m liking 4* Cage more and more. I can’t help but wonder if he wouldn’t do well in such a scenario.
He has no heal ability, but those shields can completely negate a LOT of damage coming his way. He’d constantly eliminate enemy special tiles because he’d always be in front. This of course would ensure his red nuke is as strong as possible.
My only issue with solo Vulture is that when he’s airborne, you’re basically taking yourself out of any active board control. Yeah, he’s mostly invulnerable during that time, but Vulture is going to run out of black and be forced to land. In the meantime, goons are spitting out tiles; by then there could be several countdowns on the board and no black matches to get you back up. Maybe you can fire blue and get your green countdown on the board, but is that enough before sniper rifles or symbiote antics hit Vulture’s squishy little bod?
5* Dr. Strange - wastes all goons and has some healing
4* Vulture or X-23 - Vulture gets going airborne and has great AoE and tile removal OR X-23 just heals so much and her green can deal a lot of damage for its AP, not sure if goons would be able to take her down fast enough with her true healing
Dark Horse 4* - Invisible Woman - her invisibility would make all non-AoE goons and character irrelevant
3* Dr. Strange - same reasons as 5* version
Comments on other characters mentioned above:
5* Thanos - maybe if you can kill a goon quick enough, but if you can’t get to his purple power fast enough, he could take a lot of damage and has no protection/healing to him which may make him hard to use over an entire event under this scenario
5* OML - not sure his healing would be up to par without any team members, his red power would be useless as well
I think the OP is looking for characters that would be most sustainable to use as a single character over a whole event. In this case you want someone who has traits such as dealing damage quickly and automatically, can protect themselves (invisibility/airborne) and/or has healing. At least those are the traits I would look for in this hypothetical event.