Anybody care to help out with making a tier list? I know it’s difficult to create one since people in general don’t have every cover max leveled, but maybe we can make one together. There should be 4 tier lists, 1 tier list for every cover * tier. The tier list should not be PVE or PVP specific… simply how useful the character is, overall.
1 star Commons
S+ Storm, Black Widow (Modern Black Widow’s stun is extremely useful for disabling single characters (aka “the problem”) in uneven enemy teams, still useful even after you stop using 1* chars)
A Juggernaut, Spawn (derp) Venom, Ironman
B Hawkeye
C
D
??? (no clue) Yelena Belova
2 star Uncommon
S+ Black Widow Original
A Storm Classic, Thor, Wolverine
B Captain America (gave him a B because all of his powers can be optionally cascade effects instead. 3 yellow chosen protect tiles allows you to extra turn, and yeah getting back AP is great)
C Moonstone (situational for PVE)
D Bagman
?? (I don’t know)- Bullseye, Hawkeye, Magneto, Daken, Ares
You may also want to check out this thread, where a bunch of people ranked all the characters, I averaged their rankings, and then wrote up a little blurb about each one.
A lot of the rankings are out of date now (hello, Ragnarok), but the changing nature of the game means that any attempt to rank characters or organize them into tiers will need to be updated over time. I’m planning on organizing an update later this month, once a few more balancing tweaks have been released.
1-Star: Commons
S - Modern Storm
A - Iron Man Model 35, Modern Black Widow
B - Jaggernaut
C - Venom and Classic Hawkeye
D - Yelena Belova
2-Star: Uncommon
S - Astonishing X-Men Wolverine, Original Black Widow
A - Classic Storm, Ares, Thor
B - Daken
C - Magneto Marvel Now!, Modern Hawkeye
D - Captain America, Moonstone, Bullseye
E - Bag-Man
3-Star: Rare
S - Classic Magneto, Classic Spider-Man
A - Black Widow Grey Suit, The Punisher
B - Iron Man Model 40, Wolverine Patch, The Hood, Doctor Doom, The Hulk
C - Ragnarok, Daredevil
D - Loki
4-Star: Legendary
S -
A -
B - X-Force Wolverine
C - Invisible Woman
Relating to leaving out Patch, I feel Loki deserves an asterisk. He is terrible, unless he is paired with someone that sprays out 6 enemy strike tiles… then he becomes a very viable support character. My only other comment would be bumping up Ares and The Hulk both up 1 tier. List looks good as a whole though.
Ops, now I’ve added Patch;) @aussiemac: you’re right but a character that could be a good support only for 1 character doesn’t deserve a good rank in a general debate IMHO.
Maybe not a good rank, but look at the rest of the Ds: they are no good in all situations. When do you want to play Moonstone? My best case for venom is someone that has very few levels and yet somehow has managed to get 4 spiderman covers.
If there is a case, other than major boosting, where you’d not be embarrassed by playing the character, IMO said character deserves a C.
2* Wolverine as an S over CStorm, Ares, and Thor sounds crazy to me. I’d put him at A or possibly even B.
Patch as a B is also crazy talk (easy S for me) and same for Hood and Hulk (both As). I’d probably bump BWGS down to B but I admit I probably underate her.
I feel like abilities that have tile placement, tile smashing, cascade causing features are very under rated by most people. That’s hidden AP collection and damage that can add up. Not to mention the defensive aspect of destroying enemy countdown/strike tiles/shield tiles.
That’s why I rate characters like Juggs, Magneto NOW, GSBW (even Loki) higher than most people would put them.
