i know it’s early days, but using her in the simulator pve was eye opening. It’s like she wasn’t really there. She placed some wasp tiles on the board that did nothing, did 2k damage once and let the others do the heavy lifting.
She he just takes up space, is a passenger and doesn’t contribute to the team.
Or or am I using her incorrectly?
She had better match damage than my 4* I had alongside her. That’s about it.
I only have 5 covers in 2 powers for her, so I wasn’t expecting much, but yeah, aside from soaking up a lot of health packs because her match damage always put her in front, she was pretty useless.
I mean, Doc Ock with 1-2 covers wasn’t much better. Superior Science is at least a stun, I guess.
Yes, she is the worst.
All I know is that she’s giving banner a run for his money
I just fought someone in PvP who had one champed 5-star (Wasp) and the next closest 5-star they had was a Lumbercap with around 7 covers.
I don’t envy this person.
I think she might be, 4 wasp is far superior.
I feel like ghost was suppose to be the 5 and wasp the 4 alt and they got switched.
Dear Lord, imagine Ghost as a 5, with that passive at least doubling, or usually quadrupling, that 5* match damage.
Nobody will ever be worse than Banner. Banner is the only character with a mechanic that is actively detrimental to your team.
Note to devs: This is not a challenge, please do not make an effort to prove me wrong.
Only? Both versions of Gambit hurt their teammates in some way (blocking powers or literally damaging them). Sentry and Ragnarok both damage teammates. Phoenix creates pretty strong enemy attack tiles if you spam recklessly. Carnage red and black. I am Grrrrroooot! (matching the bomb for you). Kingpin’s finger. Dazzler’s absence. Lots of detrimental stuff.
Those are tradeoffs for mostly-positive powers, though. Banner’s auto-matching so reliably wastes every good match and eats up all your friendly tiles that there’s basically no upside to it. Yes, it does a piddly amount of damage, but it’s so completely not worth it.
The only power that comes even close to that level of phenomenal suck is the pre-rework version of Eddie Brock’s passive.
I sadly confirm that the perceived power level of 5* Wasp is somewhere around Dr. Ock. It would help to automatically let her create swarm tiles up to a certain threshold like Peter Parker. This would somewhat lessen the impact of her powers removing swarm tiles.
At the current state, too cumbersome, too slow and even when the stars align, the damage numbers are insignificant.
She’s definitely one of those characters that feels useless at low numbers of covers: the rate at which she locks covers is so low that I’ve never had the ability transform. It’s not as bad as Agent Venom where a low-cover version actively sabotages your team, but it doesn’t really help build interest in the character.
So she doesn’t actually get useful fully covered?
Wasp looked very weak on paper, so I wonder what the thinking was behind her design?
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if they buff her to strengthen her up a bit (like they did with 4* Wasp) and she accidentally becomes the new meta.
She’s basically a rehashed of the old Invisible Woman’s design. It didn’t work then, so I don’t know why they think It would work now. This only shows that IW design before was so bad that even putting those powers in a 5-star cannot save them.
Even old IW could make herself invisible…
Gosh, you’re right. Now I really really want to know the design process that led to this result…
The fact they gave Wasp a burst heal instead of a true heal only adds insult to injury…
Her locked Swarm tiles seem to be incredibly easy to remove as well. Not sure why.