New Character - Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) 5*

S0kun
S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 1,001 Chairperson of the Boards
edited 25 August 2025, 22:48 in MPQ General Discussion

Health & Match Damage

Feeder Flow

Abilities

Ability: Path to Power

Color: Purple
AP Cost: 6

Whether through force of arms or force of will, Zemo finds a way to gain influence and power over others.
Choose Force or Will. Force: Deal 753 damage, destroy a random enemy Protect tile, and Create a strength 251 Strike tile, then deal another hit of 753 damage. Will: Steal up to 3 AP in the target’s strongest color, converting the stolen AP into Black.

450: Deal 3027 damage. Create a strength 1009 tile. Deal another hit of 3027 damage.
550: Deal 6542 damage. Create a strength 2181 tile. Deal another hit of 6542 damage.

  • Level 2: Deal 842 damage. Create a strength 281 tile. Deal another hit of 842 damage.

    • 450: Deal 3384 damage. Create a strength 1128 tile. Deal another hit of 3384 damage.
    • 550: Deal 7314 damage. Create a strength 2438 tile. Deal another hit of 7314 damage.

  • Level 3: Deal 930 damage. Create a strength 310 tile. Deal another hit of 930 damage.

    • 450: Deal 3738 damage. Create a strength 1246 tile. Deal another hit of 3738 damage.
    • 550: Deal 8079 damage. Create a strength 2694 tile. Deal another hit of 8079 damage.

  • Level 4: Deal 1108 damage. Create a strength 369 tile. Deal another hit of 1108 damage.

    • 450: Deal 4453 damage. Create a strength 1484 tile. Deal another hit of 4453 damage.
    • 550: Deal 9623 damage. Create a strength 3208 tile. Deal another hit of 9623 damage.

  • Level 5: Deal 1462 damage. Create a strength 487 tile. Deal another hit of 1462 damage.

    • 450: Deal 5875 damage. Create a strength 1958 tile. Deal another hit of 5875 damage.
    • 550: Deal 12698 damage. Create a strength 4233 tile. Deal another hit of 12698 damage.

Ability: Loyalty Unquestioned

Color: Black
AP Cost: 7

Baron Zemo doesn’t just inspire loyalty and obedience in those who fight for him, he demands it! Create a Fortified 4-turn Loyalty Countdown tile. While any of these tiles are on the board, Allies deal an additional 40% ability damage, and Teammates lower their ability costs by 3 (min: 3 AP) but take 20% increased damage.

(PASSIVE) At the start of each turn, Allies are granted up to 687 burst health. Whenever a Teammate fires a power, drain 3 AP in that ability’s color to create one Hydra tile.

450: Burst heal 2760.
550: Burst heal 5965.

  • Level 2: Deal an additional 45% damage.

    • 450: Deal an additional 45% damage.
    • 550: Deal an additional 45% damage.

  • Level 3: Deal an additional 50% damage. Drain 2 AP.

    • 450: Deal an additional 50% damage and take 15% additional damage. Drain 2 AP.
    • 550: Deal an additional 50% damage and take 15% additional damage. Drain 2 AP.

  • Level 4: Deal an additional 60% damage.

    • 450: Deal an additional 60% damage and take 10% additional damage.
    • 550: Deal an additional 60% damage and take 10% additional damage.

  • Level 5: Create a 5-turn tile. Drain 1 AP.

    • 450: Create a 5-turn tile. Drain 1 AP.
    • 550: Create a 5-turn tile. Drain 1 AP.

Ability: Age of Hydra

Color: Yellow
AP Cost: 8

Through Hydra we are made strong, and all work together in common cause. No matter the cost. Hail Hydra! Create 3 3-turn Hydra tiles that deal 1196 damage

(PASSIVE) Whenever a friendly Hydra tile expires, deal 354 damage for every friendly Hydra tile that was on the board at the start of the turn. This ability becomes Head of the Hydra while Baron Zemo is Down.

450: Deal 4897 damage. Deal 1424 damage for every tile.
550: Deal 10390 damage. Deal 3079 damage for every tile.

  • Level 2: Deal 1285 damage. Deal 398 damage for every tile.

    • 450: Deal 5163 damage. Deal 2137 damage for every tile.
    • 550: Deal 11159 damage. Deal 3464 damage for every tile.

  • Level 3: Deal 1373 damage. Deal 443 damage for every tile.

    • 450: Deal 5518 damage. Deal 1780 damage for every tile.
    • 550: Deal 11928 damage. Deal 3839 damage for every tile.

  • Level 4: Deal 1594 damage. Deal 531 damage for every tile.

    • 450: Deal 6408 damage. Deal 2136 damage for every tile.
    • 550: Deal 13850 damage. Deal 4619 damage for every tile.

  • Level 5: Deal 2038 damage. Deal 664 damage for every tile.

    • 450: Deal 8191 damage. Deal 2670 damage for every tile.
    • 550: Deal 17705 damage. Deal 5773 damage for every tile.

Ability: Head of Hydra

Color: Yellow
AP Cost: 0

(PASSIVE) Hail, Hydra! Immortal Hydra! We shall never be destroyed! Cut off one limb, and two more shall take its place! We serve none but the master … as the world shall soon serve us! Hail Hydra! While Baron Zemo is Down, at the start of his Team’s turn, gain 1 AP in each of his strongest colors. This passive is always unlocked.

450: No Change.
550: No Change.

  • Level 2 -5: No Change.

Release Events

All times in Pacific

Story

Hearts of Darkness
August 21, 2025, 04:00am – August 24, 2025 11:00pm
Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) Shards and Event Token in Placement Rewards
Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) Event Token in Progression Rewards and Alliance Rewards

Webbed Wonder
August 24, 2025, 04:00am – August 28, 2025, 11:00pm
Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Venom Bomb
August 28, 2025, 04:00am – September 1, 2025, 11:00pm
Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Versus

The First Punch
August 24, 2025, 05:00am – August 27, 2025, 12:00pm
Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo) Event Token in Progression Rewards, Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Offers

The Heinrich Store
August 21, 2025, 04:00am – August 25, 2025, 11:00pm
Chance to get Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

The Scorpion Vault
August 28, 2025, 09:00am - September 1, 2025, 09:00pm
Chance to get Nova (Frankie Raye). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

40 Items:
○ 1x The Cold Control Legendary Store Token
○ 1x 4-Star Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes) cover
○ 3x Random 3-Star covers
○ 6x Heroic tokens
○ 4x 2500 Iso
○ 6x 1000 Iso
○ 5x 500 Iso
○ 14x Two stars

The Cold Control Legendary Store
August 28, 2025, 09:00am - September 1, 2025, 09:00pm
15% chance to get 5* Baron Zemo (Helmut Zemo), 5* Captain America (Infinity War), and 5* The Hulk (Immortal). Additional Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points

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Comments

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,071 Chairperson of the Boards

    Woof.

    I'll give him a chance but he does not look good on paper.

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 583 Critical Contributor

    For purple why would we ever choose Will? The amount of ap stolen doesn't even increase with each rank.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,071 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bzhai said:
    For purple why would we ever choose Will? The amount of ap stolen doesn't even increase with each rank.

    I wonder if something is missing or wrong on that ability. We've seen messed up descriptions recently.

  • BearVenger
    BearVenger Posts: 456 Mover and Shaker

    I've been gone for a while. What's the difference between an Ally and a Teammate?

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,781 Chairperson of the Boards

    @BearVenger said:
    I've been gone for a while. What's the difference between an Ally and a Teammate?

    I believe Allies includes the character (ie Zemo) while Teammates are his other 2 companions.

    KGB

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,781 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    Woof.

    I'll give him a chance but he does not look good on paper.

    Yeah it appears the budget is built around the Black power lowering AP costs by 3 while increasing damage by 60%.

    Maybe there is some sort of Winfinite with another character if you get their AP costs lowered by 3.

    But I agree he doesn't look like much at all.

    KGB

  • Tiger_Wong
    Tiger_Wong Posts: 1,099 Chairperson of the Boards

    Seems to be a bit underpowered, damage-wise.

    I’m hoping there doesn’t need to be an enemy protect on the field to fire the Force option of his purple.

    His black looks like his best power on paper.

    I’m also hoping his yellow CDs do damage every turn.

    I like how the Head of Hydra power sounds.

  • IamGrootacus
    IamGrootacus Posts: 9 Just Dropped In

    Most obvious feeder is Moonstone. Would be more apt if he were Citizen V but he has a thunderbolts affiliation. Maybe a secondary with Taskmaster. I would like to see a Crossbones or Arnim Zola be brought in to be a feeder though.

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 758 Critical Contributor

    @KGB said:

    @BearVenger said:
    I've been gone for a while. What's the difference between an Ally and a Teammate?

    I believe Allies includes the character (ie Zemo) while Teammates are his other 2 companions.

    KGB

    Perhaps in this instance, "allies" could mean "Hydra, or "Thunderbolts" and "teammates" would be any of your team, regardless of affiliation. Sounds similar Bucky and Moonstone, so perhaps?

    Moonstone would also spam the board with Hydra CDs, though the complete cover overlap is pretty rough.

    Either way, his first impression definitely feels like you might need to get pretty creative to find a reason for him. Maybe the first character you actually want to bring to the fight already dead? :lol:

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,071 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    Woof.

    I'll give him a chance but he does not look good on paper.

    Yeah it appears the budget is built around the Black power lowering AP costs by 3 while increasing damage by 60%.

    Maybe there is some sort of Winfinite with another character if you get their AP costs lowered by 3.

    But I agree he doesn't look like much at all.

    KGB

    I don't understand why his boost power is attached to a (at least it's fortified) CD tile, then has an additional downside stapled to that (extra team damage taken), and then arguably an additional additional downside stapled to that (powers cost 3 less but also drain 3 extra AP).

    I think it's likely that something is messed up in the description or that this isn't the final version of the character.

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,383 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 19 August 2025, 22:46

    Or, maybe Zemo is the new 5 Peggy

  • SuperCarrot
    SuperCarrot Posts: 261 Mover and Shaker

    My tinfoil hat theory is that they want to put a DOA-ish character in the middle of Frankie (good) and maybe another good to great character. I’m sure there are people with 550s of Odin or Knull (I feel like one of those was in the midst of two good toons) because of a scenario like this.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,734 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:

    @KGB said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    Woof.

    I'll give him a chance but he does not look good on paper.

    Yeah it appears the budget is built around the Black power lowering AP costs by 3 while increasing damage by 60%.

    Maybe there is some sort of Winfinite with another character if you get their AP costs lowered by 3.

    But I agree he doesn't look like much at all.

    KGB

    I don't understand why his boost power is attached to a (at least it's fortified) CD tile, then has an additional downside stapled to that (extra team damage taken), and then arguably an additional additional downside stapled to that (powers cost 3 less but also drain 3 extra AP).

    I think it's likely that something is messed up in the description or that this isn't the final version of the character.

    Definitely agree. This looks like an awful 5* the way it is written.

  • Omegased
    Omegased Posts: 627 Critical Contributor
    edited 19 August 2025, 23:41

    is this another character like half-thor (in that, their strength is not at full health)? have them take a knee first round, then Free AP?

    0/0/1 Zemo incoming

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,734 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Omegased said:
    is this another character like half-thor (in that, their strength is not at full health)? have them take a knee first round, then Free AP?

    0/0/1 Zemo incoming

    Would be a waste of a character, in my opinion.

  • liminal_lad
    liminal_lad Posts: 498 Mover and Shaker

    I have learned the hard way not to start pulling covers until Thursday, but who do we think might feed him beyond Moonstone?

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,071 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Omegased said:
    is this another character like half-thor (in that, their strength is not at full health)? have them take a knee first round, then Free AP?

    0/0/1 Zemo incoming

    Why bother? You can bring supports or boosts with someone who actually does something, instead of hauling around an AP corpse with one of your slots.

  • LavaManLee
    LavaManLee Posts: 1,734 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:

    @Omegased said:
    is this another character like half-thor (in that, their strength is not at full health)? have them take a knee first round, then Free AP?

    0/0/1 Zemo incoming

    Why bother? You can bring supports or boosts with someone who actually does something, instead of hauling around an AP corpse with one of your slots.

    Bingo. This is an awful 5*. Worst one in quite a while.

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