Hello everyone, it’s El Satanno again, hoarder extraordinaire. I went and forgot to post up the results of last season’s haul, so you get a double dose this time around! Super fun times! I can’t even remember what the Infinity Gem names are for seasons past (or present, for that matter) so I’m sticking with numbers. Because that makes sense, eh? My methodology hasn’t changed much, so if you’ve been following these threads you’ll know the score. So here goes!
Season XXXV
The initial hoard:
- 321 silver tokens
- 130 elite tokens
- 264 mixed gold tokens
- 3 Heroic 10-packs
- 22 legendary tokens (+7 special)
- 796 command points
The pulls:
[spoiler]Silver tokens (321)
Psylocke (black)
Thor (yellow)
Iron Fist (green)
Kamala Khan (purple, green)
Quicksilver (green)
Spider-Man (purple)
Luke Cage (yellow)
Mystique (purple)
Thanos (green)
- 2* pulls: 50 (15.5%)
- 3* pulls: 10 (3.1%)
Elite tokens (130)
Black Widow (purple x2)
Thanos (green, black)
Colossus (yellow, black)
Hulk (black, red)
Quicksilver (green, black x2)
Scarlet Witch (green)
Ragnarok (blue)
Kamala Khan (purple)
Black Panther (yellow x2, black)
Mystique (black)
She-Hulk (blue)
Beast (green, yellow)
Doctor Octopus (black)
Luke Cage (yellow, black)
Loki (green, purple)
Rocket & Groot (yellow x2)
Captain Marvel (yellow, black)
Iron Man (red)
Hood (blue)
Gamora (red)
Magneto (blue)
Sentry (yellow)
- 3* pulls: 32 (26.9%)
Heroic gold tokens (170)
Ant-Man (blue, purple)
Magneto (yellow, blue)
Gwenpool (black)
Captain America (blue x2)
Colossus (yellow)
Star-Lord (yellow, red)
Sentry (red x2)
Scarlet Witch (purple)
Cyclops (blue)
Black Panther (yellow)
Hulkbuster (blue)
Rulk (purple)
Luke Cage (black)
X-Force Wolverine (green)
Cyclops (red, black)
Miles Morales (red)
Invincible Warrior (yellow)
Rocket & Groot (yellow)
Kamala Khan (yellow x2, purple)
Hood (blue)
Psylocke (black, blue)
Iron Man (red)
Squirrel Girl (yellow, purple)
Blade (purple)
Storm (yellow, black, green)
Black Widow (green)
Spider-Gwen (purple)
Thanos (green)
Totally Adequate Hulk (black)
Daredevil (blue)
Beast (blue)
Daken (black)
Elektra’s Worthless-Except-for-Kaecilius Ass (purple)
Doctor Octopus (blue)
Doctor Doom (blue)
Iceman (blue)
Spider-Man (purple)
Nick Fury (yellow)
Captain Marvel (red)
War Machine (blue)
Mystique (black)
Deadpool (purple)
Patch (yellow)
Hulk (red)
- 3* pulls: 37 (21.7%)
- 4* pulls: 17 (10%)
Heroic 10-packs (3)
Daken (blue), Blade (black), Iron Fist (purple)
Kingpin (yellow), Storm (green), Doctor Doom (blue), Daken (purple), Peggy Carter (blue), Captain Marvel (black)
Patch (green)
- 3* pulls: 8 (26.6%)
- 4* pulls: 2 (6.6%)
Deadpool vs. MPQ (3)
Human Torch (green)
Magneto (blue)
The Greatest Event That Should Be Run All the Time (aka Combined Arms) (3)
Luke Cage (yellow)
Crash of the Mad Titan (10, vault)
Falcon (blue)
Sentry (red)
Galactus Hungers (5)
Daredevil (blue)
Patch (green)
Storm (green)
High Stakes (3)
Medusa (purple)
Webslinger (3)
Squirrel Girl (purple)
Behold Thanos (3)
Deadpool (red)
Magneto (red)
The Hulk (7, vault)
Doctor Strange (purple)
Moon Knight (black)
Made Man (3)
Doctor Octopus (blue)
Cyclops (black)
First Avenger (3)
Bullseye (purple)
Dark Avengers: Heroic (5, vault)
Human Torch (green)
Peggy Carter (red)
Naughty and Nice (7, vault)
Legendary token
Iso-8 Brotherhood (8, vault)
Vision (yellow)
- 3* pulls: 16 (16.8%)
- 4* pulls: 5 (5.2%)
Purple Reign (7)
Spider-Woman (purple)
Faptain (yellow)
Thanos (green x2, purple)
Iceman (green)
Star-Lord (purple)
Legendary tokens (31) + 874 command points (34 Latest pulls)
Cyclops (blue, red x3, yellow)
War Machine (green, red)
Thanos (black, purple x3, green)
Agent Venom (black, yellow, red x3)
Rulk (green)
Star-Lord (purple, red)
Thing (red x3)
Punisher (green x2)
Moon Knight (black x2)
Professor X (yellow)
Quake (blue x2, green x4, yellow)
Ant-Man (purple x2)
Spider-Woman (black, purple)
Miles Morales (red)
X-23 (red x2, purple)
Peggy Carter (yellow)
Ghost Rider (red)
Faptain (red, yellow)
Luke Cage (yellow)
Nick Fury (blue)
Black Widow (purple x3, black, red)
Gwenpool (green)
Doctor Strange (yellow, blue)
Blade (green, red, black x2)
Mr. Not As Sucktastic (blue)
Elektra’s Worthless-Except-for-Kaecilius Ass (purple)
Kingpin (yellow)
Carnage (green x2)
X-Force Wolverine (yellow, green)
Venom (black)
Jean Grey (purple x2)
The No-Futzer (black, purple)
Wasp (black x2)
Iceman (purple)
Spider-Gwen (red)
Nova (red)
- 5* pulls: 12 (16.2%)
The following events yielded nothing good:
Nefarious Foes (3)
Stay on Target (3)
Heavy Metal (3)
The Hunt (6, vault)
Most Wanted (3)
Best Friends Forever (3)
Blind Justice (3)
Unstable Iso-8 (4, vault)
Juggernaut: Heroic (4, vault)[/spoiler]
Total Iso from covers sales and champion rewards (more or less): 413,860 (I’m pretty sure this figure is stupid and I neglected to calculate rebuilding 2* characters or something.)
5* pull rate: 16.2%
Season XXXVI
The initial hoard:
- 262 silver tokens
- 166 elite tokens
- 3 Heroic 10-packs
- 292 mixed gold tokens
- 25 Legendary tokens (+4 special)
- 861 command points
The pulls:
[spoiler]Silver tokens (262)
Patch (red)
Cyclops (black)
Captain Marvel (yellow)
Beast (blue)
Rocket & Groot (blue)
Mystique (blue)
- 2* pulls: 49 (18.7%)
- 3* pulls: 6 (2.2%)
Elite tokens (166)
Bullseye (green, black)
Iron Fist (green)
Quicksilver (green, black, blue)
Captain Marvel (yellow x2)
Falcon (yellow, blue)
Beast (yellow x2)
Gamora (red)
Psylocke (red, black x2, blue)
Squirrel Girl (green, yellow)
Patch (yellow)
Hood (yellow, blue)
Black Panther (yellow, black)
Mystique (purple)
Cyclops (red)
Rocket & Groot (green, blue)
Storm (black, green)
Punisher (black)
Scarlet Witch (purple)
Thor (green, yellow, red)
Deadpool (purple, red)
Black Widow (purple)
She-Hulk (blue)
Doctor Octopus (blue)
Thanos (black)
Human Torch (red)
Doctor Doom (purple)
Captain America (blue)
- 3* pulls: 44 (26.5%)
Heroic gold tokens (168)
Venom (yellow, black)
Scarlet Witch (green)
Black Panther (yellow)
Vision (yellow x2)
Squirrel Girl (purple)
Iron Fist (green x2)
Bullseye (green)
Deadpool (purple)
Kingpin (yellow)
Thanos (black)
Black Widow (red x3)
Colossus (yellow, black x2)
Punisher (black, red)
Wasp (yellow)
Carnage (red)
Luke Cage (red)
Nick Fury (yellow, purple)
Ragnarok (blue, green)
Sentry (yellow)
Thor (blue)
Falcon (blue, purple)
X-Force Deadpool (purple)
Thor (red)
Patch (yellow)
Blade (green)
Hood (black, yellow, blue)
Jean Grey (purple)
Cyclops (red)
Deadpool (red)
Rocket & Groot (blue, green)
Magneto (blue)
Gamora (green)
Daredevil (red)
Quicksilver (black)
Thanos (black)
Captain America (yellow)
- 3* pulls: 39 (23.2%)
- 4* pulls: 11 (6.5%)
Heroic 10-packs (3)
Spider-Man (yellow), Thor (yellow), Falcon (purple), Luke Cage (black), Winter Soldier (purple)
Magneto (red), Bullseye (green)
Black Widow (red), Black Panther (black), Spider-Man (blue), Captain America (blue)
- 3* pulls: 10 (33.3%)
- 4* pulls: 1 (3.3%)
Too Many Sorcerors (3)
Mordo (blue)
Unstable Iso-8 (6)
Daken (purple)
Thick as Thieves (3)
Squirrel Girl (purple)
Iron Fist (purple)
Venom Bomb (5)
Doctor Octopus (blue)
Hood (black)
Weapon Tex-Mex (5)
She-Hulk (red)
Doctor Doom (purple)
Fly-Fight-Win (5)
Human Torch (black)
Magnetic Mayhem (5)
Black Panther (black)
Punisher (red)
Bullseye (black)
Starfall (5)
Wasp (black)
Category-5 (5)
Quicksilver (blue)
Rocket & Groot (yellow)
Squirrel Girl (yellow)
God of Lies (5)
Loki (black)
Fight and Flight (7)
Daken (black)
Storm (black)
Hulk (black)
Beast (yellow)
Flight Test (5)
Storm (yellow)
Loki (green)
The Gauntlet (3, vault)
Iron Fist (purple)
The Hunt (4, vault)
Luke Cage (red)
Strange Sights (25, vault)
Thanos (green)
Beast (yellow)
Captain America (red)
Mordo (blue)
Rulk (purple)
Spider-Man (blue)
Loki (purple)
Iron Man (blue)
Team Cap (6, vault)
Legendary token
Webbed Wonder (7, vault)
Punisher (black)
Team Iron Man (6, vault)
Beast (blue)
PvP Matchmaking (6, vault)
Legendary token
Thor (green)
Scarlet Witch (green)
Hulk (black)
Hearts of Darkness (7, vault)
Patch (yellow)
Meet Rocket & Groot (6, vault)
Sentry (green)
Colossus (red)
Rocket & Groot (yellow)
- 3* pulls: 37 (29.8%)
- 4* pulls: 6 (4.8%)
Hail to the King (4)
Blade (red)
Medusa (red)
Jean Grey (green)
Venom (black)
Legendary tokens (46) + 1134 command points (45 pulls)
Riri Williams (green x3, red)
Invincible Warrior (blue, green)
Punisher (green x3, black)
Miles Morales (purple, yellow, red)
Totally Adequate Hulk (black, blue)
Blade (red x2, black x2)
The No-Futzer (purple x2, blue, black)
Jean Grey (purple x2, green x2)
Thanos (purple x2, green)
Spider-Gwen (yellow)
Black Widow (purple, black, red)
Venom (yellow, green, black)
Rulk (red x2)
Spider-Woman (red, black)
Hulkbuster (black)
Ghost Rider (red x2)
Thing (yellow, green)
Luke Cage (red, black, yellow x2)
Ant-Man (blue x2)
Iceman (blue)
Kingpin (yellow)
Agent Venom (black)
Professor X (purple)
Star-Lord (red x2, yellow)
X-23 (purple x2)
Gwenpool (purple x2, black x2, green)
X-Force Deadpool (red, purple x2)
Moon Knight (purple)
Mr Not-as-Sucktastic (black)
Cyclops (red, blue)
Quake (green)
Peggy Carter (red, yellow)
Wasp (black)
Winter Soldier (purple, blue, red)
Carol Danvers (black, green)
X-Force Wolverine (black)
Elektra’s Worthless-Except-for-Kaecilius Ass (red x2)
Spider-Gwen (red)
Medusa (red, purple)
Drax (purple)
- 5* pulls: 6 (6.5%)
*Special note: I pulled 294 taco tokens and got a buttload of garbage trying to get the decent rewards.[/spoiler]
Total Iso from cover sales and champion rewards: 1,887,455
5* pull rate: 6.5%
Observations and (totally subjective) conclusions:
- SIX POINT FIVE PERCENT. ARE YOU KIDDING. If I hadn’t pulled enough to champ my Widow, I’d probably be on the verge of quitting right now. Yes, yes, I know “random pulls” bla bla bla, but you know what? It fucking SUCKS. Suck suck suck. Argh!
- While I’m at it, legendary pulls suck horrible ass, too. Like last season, I hoarded all the good stuff and went all-in for Latest because that’s the only way you can get slightly better than a snowball’s chance in hell of getting a 5* character into usable shape. Usable shape meaning 13 covers, that is. You know and I know that Logan, Black Bolt and Thanos (for totally different reasons) are pretty much the only 5* characters that have any use with fewer than that. Since I got Thanos up to 11 this time, I’m going to stick with that until he is ready to leave Latest and then I’m done with Latest. “But Satanno, didn’t you just point out that Classics are basically Not Gonna Happen Town?” Why yes, yes I did. However an 11-cover Latest character is functionally identical to a 0-cover character, which is precisely what I ended up with after the last season. Effectively, I made zero progress with my roster. Outside of the current crop of Latest characters, I have the original three (Logan, Phoenix, Surfer) champed, and the rest with almost nothing. Iron Man is closest to decent at 8 covers, Bolt at 7, and the rest 4 or less. It’s stupid to give up 25% of my pulls in the practically futile effort of getting a new character to 13 in one go. So I’m giving Latest the finger, and swallowing the inevitable 6th covers I’ll pull sooner or later. I’d rather take that chance against not improving the champs I have or actually building my 5* lineup. Make no mistake, though: It all sucks. -end rant-
- On a positive note, I’ve started my first replacement 3* character in Beast. Makes me feel like a big boy! I reckon I don’t want to burn 3* covers trying to get the replacement to 13, so I started when he hit 257 and I nabbed that LT. I’ve got three more just about ready for the same treatment. It’s kinda exciting.
- For the first time ever, I’m not racing any 4* covers against champing. I had to ditch a few 6th covers, but whatever. They’re just LT/CP fountains anyway. But it does feel nice to have use for just about every cover I pull. Yay! Just goes to show that champing everyone you can pays off in the long run.
- Similarly, having almost every character championed in my roster means I had enough Iso on hand to champ Widow from 255, champ Gwenpool and Wasp from 70, champ 4 of my 2* characters to keep the farm going, and still walk away with a quarter million in the bank. That, my friends, is pretty pimp.
And so once more, I will close with my current major gripe. It’s late, though, and I’m tired, so I’ll be concise. Like I haven’t been above.
The 5* tier sucks. Top to bottom sucks. There is no reason the positive things going on at the tier (creative power sets, good balancing, etc.) need to exist higher than what has been established at the 4* level. Any good is being beaten to death by the horror of acquisition and the misery of choking your lineup choices exclusively to those 5* characters in all modes of play. Suck suck suck. I hate the 5* tier.
