No. 6
Professor X [Days of Future Past 022]
He sees all.
He targets through characters. Through hindering. Over rooftops. Even through WALLS. All at a nice 8 range, good for his Outwit and Perplex SP. He also has a great trait enabling him to get allies out of trouble and back to his side (for possible benefits of Leadership next turn) and his powers can’t be countered or ignored, at least for his early dial.
Yet he’s still one of the worst figs of the year. HOW?!?
- The same SP that gives him Outwit/Perplex/Leadership keeps his stats from being boosted. That’s a problem when
- his damage starts and stays at just 2 or lower until his last click, when his AV slides to 8.
- His DV is also completely bare which is downright dangerous if he’s doing any fighting at all — and, at 150 points, he really ought to be.
- But that 2 damage, though. Even with a full dial of Penetrating/Psychic Blast, it’s just so useless without Willpower or something to increase the frequency at least.
Though it’s an asset, his 8 range is liable to make his trait useless, or vice versa. If he’s near enough the action to affect friends or foes with his powers, he’s too close to evac those pals. If he’s too far away, that’s the rest of the team overextending a good bit.
150 points shouldn’t be an easy KO or sitting way out of the action. But this Prof does both.
Totally gonna happen if you use him.
No. 5
Glorith [Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes 036]
For the really cheap cost of 83 points, you can field this 5-click character with Probability Control+Perplex and 9-8 AV. That’s TOP TIER, yo, especially since Chaos War Scarlet Witch retired.
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Nope, no one’s buying. Not even with her Toughness defense. Not with just 16 DV.
She’s spending a lot of points on her wildcard TA and the trait to use Super Senses (which, we’ve established, isn’t the defense it used to be) and to copy a second TA from a fellow Mystical keyword ally.
But those Mysticals are almost always going to only have one TA for her to copy in the first place, and it’s almost always going to be Mystics. She can’t even use this ability on Legion of Super-Heroes teams.
Despite her Phasing and eventual run of Pulse Wave, there’s just no reason to play her over a half-dozen other better, cheaper Mysticals or support figs.
Our words exactly, little girl