Jessica Jones Hero Review for Marvel Champions | Strongest Hero?
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In this video, I give my review for the new Jessica Jones hero from the Marvel Champions Fear No Evil Defenders wave. I discuss how the hero's mechanics work, how strong I think the hero is for true solo and multiplayer, and how fun I think she is.
When I evaluate a hero's power rankings, these are the categories I look at and why they're important for heroes to have:
Thwart
Statline: It's important to have a high printed THW stat to thwart initial threat off the main scheme/side schemes that start in play.
Control: Being able to mitigate schemes or prevent threat is valuable to let the hero access alter-ego. Confuses would contribute to this sub-category.
Cards: Thwart events, upgrades, supports that aide in threat removal.
Attack
Burst Damage: Valuable to make big pushes late game to avoid villain's final stage's when revealed abilities. This also avoids accumulation of retaliate damage from the villain.
Small Instances: Ping damage is valuable to knock off toughs, take out minions, etc. Piercing would contribute to this sub-category.
Cost: It's important to be able to afford a hero's attacks to clear the board of minions and deal damage when necessary.
Survivability
Identity Card: Having survivability on the identity card is valuable because on round 1 if the player is unable to draw into an ally to block or any other card to prevent damage, having survivability from the get go can prevent a loss.
Cards: This is any card in the hero's kit that adds to survivability.
Healing: Having extra ways to heal outside of the regular basic recovery can help a player get back into a game. If a hero has an on-demand ready, this would contribute to this sub-category.
Economy
Identity Card: Having economy on the identity card is valuable because even without resource generators, the hero still has a boost in helping pay for their hand.
Cards: Any cards in the hero's kit that boosts economy. Double resources and resource generators would contribute to this sub-category.
Cost Curve: The hero's overall cost curve.
Versatility
In-Game: Having the flexibility to do different things in a game is valuable so the hero can adapt to certain situations and deal with anything.
Encounter Card Cancels: Having a way to cancel encounter cards allows the hero to play more recklessly, knowing that they can cancel a potentially game ending encounter card if it's revealed during the encounter phase.
Aspect: Having aspect versatility allows different deckbuilding options and gives the player more flexibility in what cards they can include.
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For leadership, you got this, side by side and hugin and munin would be great with jessica as well. For protection, there's anticipation (combo with come get me bub), indomitable, stand alone, leading blow, what doesnt kill me and army of one. For aggression, it has spoiling for a fight, battle fury and surprise move. For justice theres justice served and grapnel launcher. For pool stick to itiveness. Shes great in every aspect!
Jess is straight up cracked. I'm bewildered by her cost curve and versatility. She's without a single hole in her gameplan and she's so crazy consistent. It's really funny.
Thankfully she's a super fun hero to play.
I also think counting stage 2 of most fights is missing that the optimal way to play is typically to clear a boss in 1-2 turns.
She is a lot of fun to play but her being so OP makes me feel like I'm playing another Maria Hill. Except she's even better.
I love her card Snooping Around as a free 4 thwart is so strong, and the "cost" of discarding a card from the encounter deck more often than not does not hit a side scheme or a minion (will depend on the scenario sure, but usually there are less minions+side schemes than treacheries).
"Hmmm... I can only get one right now... Cage or Jones, Cage or Jones... I think I'll go with Cage, DareDevil is already Justice."
Today:
".....@#$%...."
On a serious note: yes she is
Her AE ability alone makes her one of the best heroes in the game.
She basically pulls to pieces all of the major game mechanisms.
She should have been the 4 hand size hero of this cycle (and even then, I guess it wouldn't have been enough).
Jessica Jones Hero Review for Marvel Champions | Strongest Hero?
Web-Warrior Fanatic
5,671 views
In this video, I give my review for the new Jessica Jones hero from the Marvel Champions Fear No Evil Defenders wave. I discuss how the hero's mechanics work, how strong I think the hero is for true solo and multiplayer, and how fun I think she is.
When I evaluate a hero's power rankings, these are the categories I look at and why they're important for heroes to have:
Thwart
Statline: It's important to have a high printed THW stat to thwart initial threat off the main scheme/side schemes that start in play.
Control: Being able to mitigate schemes or prevent threat is valuable to let the hero access alter-ego. Confuses would contribute to this sub-category.
Cards: Thwart events, upgrades, supports that aide in threat removal.
Attack
Burst Damage: Valuable to make big pushes late game to avoid villain's final stage's when revealed abilities. This also avoids accumulation of retaliate damage from the villain.
Small Instances: Ping damage is valuable to knock off toughs, take out minions, etc. Piercing would contribute to this sub-category.
Cost: It's important to be able to afford a hero's attacks to clear the board of minions and deal damage when necessary.
Survivability
Identity Card: Having survivability on the identity card is valuable because on round 1 if the player is unable to draw into an ally to block or any other card to prevent damage, having survivability from the get go can prevent a loss.
Cards: This is any card in the hero's kit that adds to survivability.
Healing: Having extra ways to heal outside of the regular basic recovery can help a player get back into a game. If a hero has an on-demand ready, this would contribute to this sub-category.
Economy
Identity Card: Having economy on the identity card is valuable because even without resource generators, the hero still has a boost in helping pay for their hand.
Cards: Any cards in the hero's kit that boosts economy. Double resources and resource generators would contribute to this sub-category.
Cost Curve: The hero's overall cost curve.
Versatility
In-Game: Having the flexibility to do different things in a game is valuable so the hero can adapt to certain situations and deal with anything.
Encounter Card Cancels: Having a way to cancel encounter cards allows the hero to play more recklessly, knowing that they can cancel a potentially game ending encounter card if it's revealed during the encounter phase.
Aspect: Having aspect versatility allows different deckbuilding options and gives the player more flexibility in what cards they can include.
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I think people want to treat Alias Investigations as the nuclear option when it’s really more of a “cutscene skip.” It lets you end the fight at a point when you were probably set up to win anyway, or just at far lower risk levels. Even in multiplayer, it basically cuts the villain’s total health by 10-20%, and until then it’s a secondary resource you generate for free that pays for wildly powerful effects.
Cable actually got a big buff from her pack with Strategy Session which makes him even more consistent, but I think I still give the nod to JJ for all the reasons you said. I know I said previously that I was starting to lose interest, but I keep finding different ideas to try. Currently playing a Cameo deck with Captain Marvel from Spider-woman and that thing is pretty wild. She’ll probably be fun for longer than Dr. Strange was (though I fully agree with you; people just remember how strong he was before Steady/Stalwart and never updated their impressions).