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Saturday, October 26, 2013
Marvel Avengers Alliance Tier List Season 11
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuZscKPza-4jdFF0SWhVTFBVeTNreTNydDNTSGxZUWc&output=html
So Spider-women is clearly a lot better now
But her first and second move are still pretty shit.
Her third move is pretty good but requires a heavy defence oriented stats. While she only have one single target dot etc, so its not very good to go in that direction. However, her ultimate also plays out like that and its an improved version of Fantomex is third ability. Her passive and these 2 new abilities both relay on luck. Makes her very unreliable but sure much better then before and she is good against some characters.
Doing some approximation math using the tier list(yes very accurate exact factual math here) she is roughly 6.5 times better then before. Obviously, Spider-women is a lot better now. But she was the second worst character in the game 6.5 times better of a character that was in spot 71 of 73 characters, she wont just land in spot 1. I wouldn't say shes playable and no one has seen her being played.
The character I think is most interesting this meta is Deadpool, who is actually pretty ok now. This is because his self buffs now last much longer meaning the player actually can get his stuff going. However, he still is a slow character, making him not very good for PvP.
But when I see Deadpool I have always been thinking massive tank, and with the new meta iso, he tanks. I just haven't gotten it yet, and we dont want to mix up the tier list with forced iso calculations on it. But as I mentioned yesterday that is still mainly because most isos are shit, making only 1 be usable of the CP ones. And the farmable ones its only deadpools that makes a huge difference. So its a very specific case for him.
Nonetheless this season list does not take in his iso but the next season surely will.
Regardless of that iso hes clearly much better now.
Than of course Cable a character that has always been decent is actually a lot better now as he wont take damage in his second mode. And the user can swap at any time. This actually makes him much better, I mean Cable has always been like one of the best Blasters for pure damage thanks to his ultimate were he can take 2 turns or give your agent or the character another turn. Hes really good but the tier list dont take in to consideration of allies in most cases. However, Cable is actually the best character now of the 4 buffed ones.
Lastly Gambit is, well I always kinda like Gambit but the new characters and new suits kept making him worse and worse. Ares basically got his ultimate + Hulks ultimate that kinda made him absolute, but now. Hes back a little. Hes better but not by much.
He is still mainly good at what he was awlays good at and thats removal. But I really like how Playdom made his ultimate have a unique mechanic(lets see how long that last). However, that ultimate was always paradoxically weak towards Tanks. As even do he removes tank protection buffs he wont hit everyone, which Ares will do. Its more that why use Gambit for Removal when Ares does it better. That's the main issue with Gambit.
Otherwise hes a pretty good character, also that his Bo Roulette now always give 2 or more stacks makes him a lot more viable in pure damage.
NOTE: That as several characters become better that more balanced out characters strength, however the really good characters like Emma Frost,Laura and Kitty Pride was not affected by most of the improved characters. This put Emma even higher and good as always. (As Phased is nerfed Kitty has some issues with some characters but still really good in attack at least).
The difference to Emma is because of this then bigger-_-
And it feels like Kitty should be worse, I think its a mistake by Playdom how her start phase is better then her phase given by her attack. Her start phase can still be a tank, which is good enough as most games dont last so long. But yea sure shes still worse against magic users.
This is 100% sure, second character I leveled to 13. Emma, First was QS as I wanted to keep trying QS and Ares in defence. Emma is as always ridiculous good, in the meta now as almost no one uses phoenix too. Means there is no one with mental immunity except the few Magnetos, shes the best character in offence again by far. Personally I likely play Iron Patriot and Emma again the last day as that means really fast wins thanks to massive AoE damage. That or magneto Emma, it depends on how much Bruisers/Blaster etc there is in the meta. Possible Cable can take Iron Patriot place as well. Depending a little on what I see.
A side note, I have is that Cyclops is likely higher, with that I mean the new Uncanny suit. I have but I haven't tested so much with it and neither has anyone else it seems, uncanny is better then the po5 by far if hes in Blaster suit at least. However, the revival is beaten by many character like Thane etc, and hes still weak to removal so not a A+ Character. But he does more for his team now so.