Honestly, this is a future I find myself facing.
I champed Thanos a week or so ago and found I absolutely needed a second 5* and just so happened to get a 14th Daredevil cover, so I’m working on him.
But then I have Nico I could get to level 209 and America Chavex just came out and…I find myself less interested. I could champ them but…I don’t know if I’d ever use them. If I want to compete in any kind of PvP I need to use my 5*s.
5* land seems awful so far. It’s not like going from 3* to 4*, really. At least with that you have a selection of 4s to use when they’re boosted. The devs likely daren’t boost 5s up too much in case they steamroll everyone, since they’re already stupid powerful. So you use the two most powerful 5s you have exclusively because otherwise your 4s aren’t going to cut it against the 5*s you’re going to forever be matched up against.
I have only one champed 5* and rest are 255.Plus like 30 champed 4s.
Still, i often meet opponents with two champed 5s even before reaching 500 points.
Honestly i dont think champing second 5* could make more harm - i bet 4*s should be blamed.
I promoted my 5* long time ago (OML, before he was nerfed), but i have bigger and bigger problems with PvP and super strong foes. Cant say what is the reason - maybe my growing army of 4s, maybe the fact that more and more players have their 5s maxed.
Moden 5* play is alot faster than when it was dominated by Oml/phx. Between the scl9 pve/pvp CP flows relatively fast. Once you get 2 5* champs. you should be able to consistently champion each new release 5* before there latest window expires.
With today’s resources flow, Once you have 2 or 3 appropriate 5* champs, you can effectively keep up with each latest release.