Superior Spider-Man
I liked is comic a lot. Really a lot and all of the side comics like superior team-up was great as well. Except Superior Carnage that story really sucked. And it was really fun to see Superior Spider-Man be in Spiderverse with our Peter Parker ignoring the obvious time paradox. Overall I found Superior way better then the standard Spider-Man comics both before and after in modern times. So yeah go and read those ones, got me back into reading Spider-man well at least I followed that then as soon as its Peter again, it become kinda meh again.
First lets talks bout his Superior Counter.
Its really sad that his lecture counter does nothing...I think that is such a bad design why don't it add something like weak mind? Or some other debuff, impaired /weakened perhaps. A big missed opportunity. Superior already got weird none combos with himself like bleeding and ravage on one move, webbing fumbling, fatal blow? and then turning of tech moves? I am gonna go into his abilities more but I mean really Playdom, superior Spider-man hits all over the place with hit stuff. His passive could have added something that would help fucking pure psychic users and it would make sense on his overall design, would impaired be better. Yes absolutely but he could go with weak mind in how the animation and the comic storyline was. But now its just a dam time waste. I really dislike this passive as its just like most of Deadpool's its just means the battle take more time, fun the first 5 times then it just becomes nauseating.
So its a completely useless time wasting passive that just makes the use of playing him decrease in value.
His other passive is a typical, well his Tactician but not really. We can find it on Black Widow etc. So its Counter on all attacks like other Spider-mens are Infiltrator so they counters stuff but he still does that even do he is a Tactician.
Its really as shitty lack of passives. Look at all the best characters i teh game, for example Magneto which is you cant avoid, you cant counter and I will premetive conter half your attacks. War, team gets more damage and accuecy, go past blocks, self heal, self increase of damage etc. Like Emma has her remove all debuffs and give you 25% more total stats and then she has her really good attacks. Molly is obviously all about her endless second turn but she is also stun immune which is like one of the best passives ever in a turn based game where losing a turn is the biggest deal and gaining turns are also the best. Emma also can save anyone from loing turn to stun or incapation etc. So shes kinda like 70% stun immune for the team + evertything one of the reason she is soo good. But all that is just their passives.
Superior Spider-man got bad attacks and really bad passives. He don't even have the counter + stealth which would be exactly like Black Widow but if anything he should have the avoid/stealth thing with the spider sense so it really makes no sense.
Why does he not have spider sense? I honestly do get it. See in the Story he even made better use of the Spider sense then Peter comboing in that with his spider robots that would cover the city after crime and incoming danger and stuff. So if anything he should have spider sense + preemptive counter.
Why cant they understand that they would also sell more if the character was actually good.
New characters need to be competitive,. now I will just put Superior on the shelf after I leveled him, which I really dislike as I really liked him as a character. SO obviously if you ask me if you need to use gold or real money to get him, DO NOT. Hes one of the weakest addition in a long time. I haven't even gone into his abilities in detail but yeah they are also pretty bad.
I am not fan of power creeping but the new characters has to be competitive to some degree. This is really one of my favorite comic limited issues marvel has done, probably my all time favorite Spider-man issues actually and they just fuck it up in this game. There is likely not a chance in hell I will play with him in pvp. That is simple sad. I would love to mix up the teams and go with like a full Spider-Man theme. I like Spiderverse except the very end of it. But apparently that is to much to ask to even make him bearable. Hes not even close to better characters in the game. All his abilities are very mediocre and they don't fit together.
First of all hes NOT a toolbox. Its important ot note that he is not a toolbox! A shallow analyze of him might give someone that idea but he does not counter anyone, hes abilities are a bunch of crap that does not stop anyone except the ultimate but that means he counters tech users and noting else so far from a real toolbox character and the rest of his moves are then pretty shit.
You look at Superior and none of his moves make any sense to the other one. So that first screams toolbox but because they are all bad, its just bad. Compare him to for example my review before this Deathlok. Deathlok counters sheild users, he counters stat buff users, he can also turn of extra turns and he reduces accuracy and evasion. Thats a lot of tools that are useful. Superior Spider-Man adds bleeding so that might counter heavy turn users like Molly, Quicksilver etc. But his bleeding thing is interesting but very unreliable its a 0-3 bleed stack + maybe ravaged. Its a new debuff that is pretty bad. But sometimes really strong. Basically it has huge distribution range in damage. Then his first move does fumble that counters no one really. It also does 1 stack of weebing that eventually he can get in I suppose not really countering anyone.
His ultimate is a bleeding based but its an aoe ultimate so it does not even combo good with his third attack. As that attack is on a single target and likely wont add up to many stacks of bleeding, concluding that he needs another bleeder in his team and that is just bad. As bleeding team sucks. Means the agent also needs to be a bleeder and so on. I have written about this several times bleeding teams are extremely weak and vulnerable. Also no other bleeder has the webbed debuff so he cant combo that on the same time,well I guess one of the many incoming spiders might team up well with him on this regard.
So the only real utility he has that is good is the tech blocker hi ultimate has. This is actually a decent thing but not good in the current meta and clearly not enough to be a good character. As the other thing just don't match together, as they are all over the place with no agenda, no direction.
The ultimate would combo way better if it was single target bleeding exploit as other character has, the effect now is that it might deal moderate to high damage on one character and then low damage to the two others. The fatal blow likewise don't really make any sense as he cant hard focus a character. having Fatal blow is always good but its been nerfed and its not that strong just a mediocre finisher now days. Then his primary attack deals fumble and weebing that is decent, fumble is ok to spread around he does counter all normal attacks always so he does spread that easily. I think thats the best part with Superior Spider-Man, it makes everyone then counter the person he first countered.
1/10. The only Playdom got right with Superior Spider-Man is that hes a tactician and not an infiltrator. Other then that I would also like to see his robot..way more and his henchman come on give him some real passives.
