I think my Alliance leader said it best: “Wasp has the strength of the support character with none of the functionality, since she doesn’t do a whole lot for others.”
I’m still interested in getting more covers for her; a five-star who can reliably(?) increase her own match damage by 50% could be really good if I spend the iso-8 to level her, and I think this forum tends to skew negative on theorycraft.
But even in my own theorycraft, she winds up as a support who needs a support. Maybe it’s because I only have it at rank 1, but her blue AP steal seems to need help from a cost-lowering support character like 4* Star-Lord or Shuri, and her black and yellow abilities are too expensive to use even with that. I still think Carnage and either Medusa or Mister Fantastic could be good with her (a team I’d naturally refer to as Minimum Carnage), but they’d still struggle to compete with rosters that included… almost any 5* besides Wasp.
I did try to get as much use as I could out of her in her Essential nodes in Simulator; I used Star-Lord to reduce the cost of her blue (16 AP to make four countdowns and steal 8 AP), then Hood to make sure they all resolved. The result was… sad; it’s still likely this is all just because my Wasp is 1/0/0 lv255, but even with the bonus to match damage, Wasp just wasn’t doing a lot for me.
Granted I don’t have P5nther covered much at all, (0/1/1), but I was thinking maybe she’d have a use turning BP invisible, then I double checked and her yellow is 10 AP, compared to IW’s 7…and the invisibility lasts a long 3 turns…yeah, she has zero use.
When you make Banner and Doc Ock look like decent 5 stars, and are compared to a worse version of the original invisible woman 4 star, you are a festering pile of broken dreams and lamentations.
She’s bad. The only way I found her to be useful was with cardusa, since she needs to be healed to accelerate her powers.
The devs CAN introduce more swarm tiles with w 5* Ant-man, or someone else, and then she would have some nice synergy. But even champed boosted was pretty awful.
I would agree with most of the comments here but I think she is a diamond in the rough if they release new characters to support her on her own though her 4 star mom is a lot better plus her covers are easier to get than her daughters
5Wasp needs a forum nickname like Sue used to have (Baglady) to help us all truly convey how horrible and useless she is. I’m opening the floor for nominations.
In trying to get a Kitty Pride cover for her Essential nodes in DP vs MPQ I actually pulled three Wasp covers, bringing her to twelve covers.
Hoping for an eventual rebalance/buff I decided trying for one more cover, so I could champ her when that moment comes.
In the end I did 25 pulls, managed to get two Kitty covers, two Loki covers and I got Wasp to 13 covers plus one saved.
However horrible she is, pulling nine 5s in 25 pulls is a beautiful day and another 5 at 13 covers is cool as well, even if it is Wasp.
Today was a good day.
Insult to injury for my pulls. Pulling for essential Kitty got Wasp to 5/5/0 with 4 saved covers. At least I get no ability to Champ her to go along with no desire to do so, but seriously, drop a Pain Index cover already.
