First of all, I am like many others very disappointed in that its KID nova and not the classic nova, with Rider.
I was also very confused / disappointed in how Rider was not in the Guardians of the Galaxy movie while the nova corp is in it a lot. That was just weird in my opinion. I completely expected him to appear and arrest Rocket and co at the city scene instead of Dey, which I was cannot say I am fully against as he is the one to recruit Rider. Still, was that not strange? I guess Rider is in the second movie.
But Kid nova then..Man I just hate him. I get that he is in the game as he is in the current Spider-man animated tv-shows. But he is by far the worst character in the show. I cannot be the only one that seem how he just brings nothing but fighting with spider-man over so childish things. Hes just obnoxious, well the whole show just is so much over the top of trying to be "funny" I guess its an overall issue they got. Still who cares for kid nova Sam. I don't think anyone does honestly. In Marvel VS. Capcom 3 they added in Nova in the expansion and we got Rider, the classic nova. T hat made sense, well Capcom does make a lot better games then Playdom. I see a pattern in that.
I guess what I am pointing at is that adding in Sam just feels like another, merchandise = cash move. Where I think most players actually want Normal Nova and the people who don't know the character NOVA (not nova corp from GOTG which I guess most knows by now), they don't care and they likely very likely wont go and buy something with Kid Nova. I would argue for that is more likely, a veteran Marvel person would buy Nova in game instead if they got the Nova they wanted.
Anyway, in game then. As I mentioned on my Crystal and Hybrid article he is also a Blaster, so a lot of Blasters. And he also sucks, which actually a lot of Blasters do. So its not surprising. Most blasters just get to straight to the face but with no substantial damage for it and end up doing nothing productive.
Compare most Blasters to Iron patriot, hes a blaster who really can blast and will win the game extremely quickly doing insane damage for a cost. Instead of having a character who deals decent damage and nothing more. There is a lot of characters that deal decent damage but also adds in huge debuffs or support for the team. E.g do 50 damage or do 35 damage but +5 debuffs. Those 5 debuffs will do more damage or lower their damage etc. A lot more worth it. But in Iron Patriot case is more like deal 150 damage or 35 etc. That's the damage difference you need to have, well 150 he is to strong. Around 100+ or so would be enough. But just being a little better then a Bruiser with a lot more utility, that's pointless.
And that just Blaster in general. Nova even more so is a horrible character because he not only is very limited to just pure damage, his damage is horrendously low. Yeah, I am not kidding, he is probably the weakest Blaster in game, at least of recent 10 blasters. Maybe stronger then some old vanilla blaster (damage wise). For PvP and well kinda for PvE if its not several waves.
While a Blaster like Iron Patriot spends 2 turns doing 150 damage, first 150 right away and then 75 a Hyper Beam of an attack which is far superior to the reverse of build up. He still does then 75 per turn which si 50% higher then a normal blaster, he also adds 3 Dots with the right spec etc and obviously just kill people out right with that. But ok a Blaster does 50 at average per turn. Nova, far behind this.
His first move is a multi-function ability where both of the attack one single one aoe are extremely weak but give him a permanent buff. A different buff per ability used. He also has his second move a quick action which also deal very low damage but it can give some random debufs(of the weak opportunist kind) his first attack gives the weakened instead etc the stats debuffs. So all the 8 for weak debuffs. Anyway, so after 2 turn he can deal damage. And he does deal very high damage with both buffs on. Problem is you have to spend 2 turns to do this.
So he does around 10, 10 and then 100 damage. That's 120 damage in 3 turns a 40 damage per turn, so below the bare minimum of shit blasters and also its a build up ---- that is obviously horrible. As mentioned you always rather do 100 damage and then 0, pay the cost later. So if you have to do 0, and then damage it better deal more damage to make it balanced like 120 or so. Get a little higher then 50 minimum right. So if you have to spend 2 turns doing nothing and still end up far below the average...that is sad. Also the moves are just pure single target damage, one with fatal so sure he can kill people easily in the end so it means you have to play as a 2 vs 3 for most of the game and in the end he can finish someone off, that is his best scenario. Hes completely useless until the game is almost over. And even if we assume he will be a great finisher the overall damage he is done is incredible low. Better to just have a Random half decent blaster do 50 damage per turn and probably add in some better debuffs as well for more effect.
Is just so not worth do so little, looking at it compared to another more utility based class he only deals 5 more damage then them, that's 10 more damage only 12.5% more damage (yes I am just using low base numbers I made up but the number scaling its correct for the game) That's nothing for having no utility except being able to hit them and not even hitting them hard, Again look at Iron Patriot he actually shields himself and give opponents targeted so all attacks are critical and cant miss vs them. And has damage over time effect which also add to his damage and other characters like Magneto etc...He does way more damage, does it right away instead of build up and got more utility...There is no reason ever to use Nova, is horrible.
Another 0/10 character.
