The top 5 worst clix of 2018. Hope you don’t get nauseated reading on.
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No. 5
Lock-Up [Batman The Animated Series 024]
A thoroughly confused design. He’s a Barrier piece with 0 range and trait Plasticity. So wait: Is he playing “keep away” or “stay here?”
And look at that Barrier SP.
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LOCK THIS PLACE DOWN!: Barrier. Opposing characters adjacent to 2 or more of Lock-Up’s Barrier markers modify speed -2. |
With only 4 range on his Barrier, that speed penalty is almost totally useless. He also has Incapacitate along with Exploit Weakness. Um, I know which one of those powers I’m using in close. So why even give him Incap? All it and that SP do is inflate his cost, which even at just 40, is too much.
This prison guard needs a shanking
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No. 4
Black Widow [Avengers Infinity 003]
Stealthy Perplex is good if you can do something more. She does NOTHING more. So you have to push her. But then you lose the Perplex and she’s a Mind Control medic. So not useless, but not great. And so she’s not great. At all. No wonder she got a makeover into a redhead after defecting.
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No. 3
Starfox [Avengers Infinity 027]
No armor. No mobility. Poor damage and AV, needing his trait to punch up at pricier foes, WHO WILL JUST KILL HIM AND TAKE THOSE POINTS. Mind Control is trash without great AV, and so Starfox. Is. Trash.
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No. 2
Artie [X-Men Xavier’s School 008]
9 AV and 1 damage Shape Change means all he’s good for is Mind Control. 4 range Mind Control for 25 points. (If you’re going to pay that price, use the X-Student for a MC with a real chance of hitting). He’s junk. Not even worth running as an ID character — for FREE
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No. 1
Professor X, Dreamer [X-Men Xavier’s School 049]
Title Characters usually have powerful effects and long dials. He has neither. For +1 Plot Points, “Violence is Not the Answer” gives a DV boost to the team, but Prof needs to attack or take self-damage. With 7 range, 10 AV and 2 damage, he’s not good at it (though you can use his out-of-character TK to hurl a heavy). -4 Plot Points grants “Freeze Motor Functions” to immobilize and -2 DV a target in range/LoF. But you never want to use it because the -9 “Dream of Peaceful Coexistence” is the real one … that you can’t use until Turn 8 at the earliest — and that’s if you take the damage every turn he doesn’t have an attack opportunity, which is likely. But by the time he gets it, he’s on his last click and if he dies, it’s wasted. Worse than wasted: the team loses the quasi-armor “Dream” gives and the enemy gets +1 damage.
And anyway, he’s likely using TK early on. So the chances of the Prof using any of these abilities are low. At 50 points, maybe you could build in X-Men batteries to build him up. But … why?
MAGNETO WAS RIGHT
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And that’s that. Next installment: Heroclixin’s Ten Most F.U.N. figures of the year.