Season 12, Top 20.
Full List with all stats:
Ok lets first talk about the new Daredevil with his new suit and new abilities. Is he better now? Yes hes a lot better, hes he playable...eh well yes but there are better characters who do the same thing.
DD is a lot like Gray Widow(Black Widow in Tactician Suit) but worse, lower damage and he has to first get a turn and his counter and stealth can be removed.
If DD has his buff on, (Radar sense) and its a quick action so its no problem to set up he becomes a lot like her. Counters attack and is a stealth Tactician giving him an amazing strong class placement.
This has been mentioned by me countless times,,,but Tactician who first of all can attack pass tanks are really good as they then can power down a Blaster furthermore, to be stealth means Infiltrators cant counter him. So hes both really good versus Blasters and not weak anymore versus Infiltrators.
However, DD has that all his moves are stealth only during Radar sense, this is much much worse then with Gray Widow. Its also worse then other likes Emma Frost and so on(Psychic attack instead).
DD has lower overall damage then Gray Widow too, sure he can combo his first move into his ultimate as they now got a synergy but that requires a blaster on the enemy side to be effective. And Blasters is the worst class in afk, why would you face Blasters. I used to play a lot of Natasha back in like 9 months ago, but now the only Blaster you see is Thor who for most time is a Bruiser and the occasional Thane. Hes really good if you face Blasters, which you likely wont.
Of course his Scrapper class is also good as with being a Tactician he can stealth and kill Infiltrator instead very fast. But, then hes a very strong towards Infiltrators(double attack + they cant counter if they have counter,,) but give him no defence versus Bruisers. But sure it might actually be better to run him as Scrapper even do the Tactician is the classic imba Tactician thing.
The point is,,,there are a lot better Tactician out there. Not very worth spending time to gain his Suit. The new empowered isos are much more interesting
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To the tier list and the current meta of marvel avengers alliance season 12.
Yet again, Emma Frost is even more overpowered. Just like another season, she is good against all the new ones. One would think the game would balance out eventually but this season 5 of the 6 new ones are bad versus her. Loki is not ridiculous bad against her but she can still remove his cursed mirror so she wins that one. While Heimdall can stop her ultimate it has zero cooldown so its not as effective as his ability is against others. Moon Knight is obviously just bad. Bishop cant tank Psychic so he don't help against her. And lastly Dr.Voodoo is a blaster with his strongest attack being an AoE...yeah not good versus Emma, she can also removes his dots or the team dots and as his late game strongest attack is based on attrition(number of dots on enemy) shes great there as well.
Well, Spiral is not super great versus her but shes fine to use versus Emma, shes not fantastic as Emma can remove her debuffs but decent. However,,,,as almost no one has her this season.
Season 12 is yet another season were Emma rules supreme.
Now with the super easy combo of Dr.Voodoo and Emma to(as I mentioned last article) shes just generally better. Shes also great with Loki and Spiral to of the new strongest character as well.
If we ignore who Emma is best as always.
The biggest change is that Spiral which is really strong has placed very high on the Tier list. Shes really good against so many characters, and she both deal high damage and support the team while also debuffing all enemies constantly. Very strong overall she can be put in almost any team for great effect.( Well this change is more like next season...)
Other characters like Wolverine and Laura(X-23) are still strong, this is because the new characters did not really affect them so much and the balance changes of for example Daredevil likewise had little effect. The new characters who affect(excluding Spiral who is just generally bad ass) are Heimdall and Loki and both of them are good versus high powered super attackers like Thor and Iron Patriot,Shatterstar etc. So those characters are weaker now, while the single target survivalist are better.
Cable is actually quite good versus Heimdall, he can do his ultimate and get the team of for more attacks is not like with Thor were its a one hit wonder, that makes him reliable versus him(hes a blaster too) and hes not super horrible versus Loki(hes not great but it could be worse)
Daredevil is a lot better in total usefulness, but like with other boasted characters last season, for example Spider-women hes not good enough. Hes also weak in the current meta with so much heavy removal and the cube(which has both remove and negate his true sight) the meta is also full of Bruisers and few Blasters so either of his classes are not very good. ( I know I just went over him earlier, I just want to illustrate he like other recently boosted characters did not get enough love, hes still has to many shitty abilities and a bad passive, his old passive is really bad. While his 20% to avoid is only for melee its by a landslide a lot worse then Fantomex,Spriral,Loki etc)
This season there has not been any hard nerf like with Phoenix last season were she striped of her wings fell from Grace(hopefully they buff her hard again so I can do more bad references).
Last point about characters, is that Dr. Voodoo is better then what the list says. He is very strong depending on what character he is with.
Ok some other pointers:
Cube:
The cube is really annoying it mainly slows down the game a lot bad makes it almost impossible to lose in attack.
Anyway, I had this gut feeling for a long time how avoidance effect works in the game. Now with sample size, its clear that AoE abilities are absolutely much more likely to hit through avoidance. Don't ask me why the game is like this but I have been keeping tracks of my attacks and I have discussed this with many others who also confirm that. Using an AoE attack is much more likely to hit when the enemy has the cube for example(every dam game) then wit single attacks, even do the cube says 20% of all attacks.
Note: I don't mean that as an AoE attack hits 3 people it has a larger chance I mean its more like most AoE attacks ignoring avoidance and hit all 3 all the time.
Mystic:
To repet -- I dont think most people get how bad this item performs. While it say it will protect your team from debuffs and protect from enemy removing your buffs. What happen is, you buff your characters. the enemy do Scroll of angolob and still remove all the buffs.
Mystic does nto work as indende, when it is removed by removoval the cahracters aslo loses the stats. If the Mystic shroud would first onyl be renmoved so it would require 2 removals then it would be good.
Well not actually,,,as any good agent should run Scroll and Cube, first using the Scroll to remove the mystic/buffs and debuffs and then they can remove the buffs again(same turn, as scroll is QA) with the cube.
Mystic sounds got but it rarely does anything.
My personally opinion on what it does for my team is that it might reduce my Magnetos damage output if hes before my Agent as he cant exploit magnetized then. Thats pretty much it, its a little good against magnetized but it depends on when the other persons remover turn order is. It also might save you from cursed mirror etc. But its all very circumstantial if it will do anything.
One thing which should not be forgotten too. Is that its a bad weapon. Mystic does very low damage and the debuff usually does nothing. So when you put it on your agent for Afk, you are decreasing your chance of the agent doing anything useful.
Thor?
Thor? I talked about this yesterday to,,,its just like why people? Sure he cant lose his stacks, he still does lower damage then many other pure damage guys and he so little utility, he got no tricks. His chance of wining in afk is very low. Hes only good if your stats are way higher then you enemy, still I see him a lot in adamantium, its just LoL you think I got low stats? Never lost to him once.
Stats:
Last point, yeah stats are nicely more balanced again. Playdom changed how PvP armoury works, making so that the player can have different bonus for attack and defence. I like this a lot a nice follow up on letting people have a set defence team which was great change.
But the best part of this is that its much more worth again to have hero bonuses which is really,really good as that reduces the P2W factor. Of course they also did increase the levels to 13 so a lot of people are paying to get all to 13 I guess.
Anyway, this was a good change but from now on for the coming seasons P2W will be stronger again most likely(armoury increasing - power creeping while bonuses stay the same) but it will take a while and right now its definitely worth farming CP and so on get all those heroes for the extra bonus.
For me personally this season its a lot easier then last season as I got all characters almost no one has more Hp then me and I got almost all Blasters on 13 so much -_- damage!!!
