***** Colossus (Phoenix Five) *****

Out of curiosity, do you have to play SCL 10 to be able to cover all the new latest characters before they fall into the classics void? 

So why, just out of annoyance factor alone, do i wanna run

Coloss5s/Rogue/Quake

Lol...  Slow fight, engage!

akboyce said:

So just to be clear a character is their own ally (Colossus negates match damage to himself) but a character is NOT their own teammate (Cyclops does not buff his own match damage with his yellow).

I guess there really is no i in teammate....

Unless you're OML, since his active black does not trigger his Red passive (when an ally fires a power, put down some strikes). His Yellow has wording that says "....other team member still in the fight" after his nerf, so we can't ever know for sure from that example.

The fact that colossus negates enemy match damage on himself as well makes him much more useful.  In SCL 10 PVE he could have some use in challenge nodes against all tile movers.  Even a single yellow cover will make him useful in the unleveled 5* or single champ 5* MMRs against Kitty teams.

His blue is still trash even for 9 AP with it's low removal and useless damage.  And it requires an enemy special to fire.  It would be much more useful if it would let you target any basic OR enemy special tile so you could at least generate some board shake or get a crucial green tile off the board if there are no enemy specials.  With no AOE in his kit I guess it could be helpful against invisibility tile makers. (Are there any in the 5* tier? Onslaught is trap based, BSSM is enemy stun based, and Yellowjacket is tileless...)

His black is still a good nuke considering he'll be in front a lot and feeds the condition to fire his blue if you don't have a useful blue user.

He doesn't protect against iHulk and his removal isn't enough against BRBitty so he won't be very relevant in the current 5* PVP meta.  But I have hope for maybe some interesting synergy if there are other Phoenix force 5* in the next releases, and that the latest pool will be worth pulling once Sighclops is pushed out.

ThaRoadWarrior said:

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IceIX said:

Coolguy101084 said:

Can someone please shine light on how this clue, “ Not Blue-Grey? Hmm”, relates to our new 5 star?

It's a kind of double meaning, one a bit deeper than the other.
1) He's not Dark Beast, who is blue-grey
2) His metallic skin has properties of osmium (but isn't), which burns blue-grey. Since he's kind of on fire while using the Phoenix Force, interesting that his flames don't change color.

Whoever came up with this "hint" must be Reed Richards, because those double meanings are a Streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch lol.

I mean, the first interpretation could apply to literally anyone besides Dark Beast.  I hope the clue for the next character is just "It's not Dark Beast."  This one ranks up there with the Dr. Octopus clue from a long way back.

Maybe it's Krakoa, The Living Island? Sauron is the only other dinosaur related Marvel character I can think up, since we already have a 4* Devil Dinosaur.

Yeah, Morbius at one point was supposed to come out March 19.  So it could be similar to how we got Red Guardian and Yelena when Black Widow was delayed.

Anon said:

Everyone seems high on the match damage thing, which is nice, but Britty is still a thing.

I'm not impressed.

I guess it's too soon to tell if these match damage multipliers will do to that pairing what apocalypse did for Okoye/Sabretooth, and sort of combine them down into a single character that doesn't have the same upper limit scalability, but do a lesser amount sooner and more often such that it's effectively better, at least situationally? I'm not sure i'm bought in either tbh.

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wymtime said:

Tiger_Wong said:

I like this character. He’s gonna be in front a lot and he’s gonna hit hard. His black power only costs 6 AP. Idk who said it’s better than GEDoom but I dont really see how. Colossus is gonna be in front quite a bit and those look like 2 hits and multiple hits are usually Apoc/Okoye approved. Which means he’ll do more damage than Doom with buffers. 

I wonder if you can target 2 tiles to remove on his blue. I hope the 2nd removal isn’t random.

This really looks like one of the better tanks for people who run 4*s vs those hard nodes in pve. 

I already like the thought of him with Rogue and ProfX. Or with Onslaught and America Chavez. 

He will not be a good partner with Okoye with his match damage.  With Apoc why would you fire Colossus?  For 2 more AP you can do significantly more damage with those protect tiles out?  

In a vacuum comparing Colossus black to GED remember GED heals himself and steals black and yellow AP to accelerate His powers.  He also does not need to be in front to do full damage.  On an AP cost GED and Colossus will do similar damage, but when you take into consideration GED steals black and does the damage unconditionally I feel it is better.

you’re gonna fire Collossus’ black because it costs almost a full match less than Apoc and it will come up sooner and you won’t have to wait 2 turns of a repeater to do the damage, which will be considerable. 

Doom’s black is a good nuke. Don’t get me wrong. But the conditions (9 AP vs 6AP) and drawbacks (Drain 1 green, red, and purple when firing) lean me towards giving the edge to Pete’s black. 

For Colossus black vs Apoc I am going to say hard no.  You might fire it every once in a while as a kill shot for 30K damage if Colossus is in fron but that will be rare.  My Apoc black currently will do 98k damage.  That will be about 50k more damage for 1AP.