User blog comment:YourFailureMyHappiness/Top Characters/@comment-24743674-20151112020521

My personal top 5:

1) Killer Frost/Prime - Annoying power dampener, slow on specials, and a nasty unblockable sp2 (even worse with the Fourth World gear set). She provides incredible utility for all team compositions, especially Wonder Woman 600 teams. But her strategy is too cheap for me, thus I will never use her. In my opinion there are other far more fun ways to win.

2) Batman/Arkham Knight - His passive allows him to choose two of many practical buffs. If he wasn't given such a situationally adaptive passive, Green Lantern/Red Son would have this spot on my list. His special 1 will almost always disable enemy specials, and his special 2 is an excellent burst-execution attack.

3) Reverse Flash - Yes, he seems weak compared to MH Flash, but he is the only speedster to have a passive that all Flash variants need in order to sustain combat (he effectively ignores the first 3 specials used on him). Use the Fourth World chestpiece and helmet to give him durability and infinite regen, and the Hyperspeed Suit for power generation and block break on basics. Then proceed to solo entire teams with special 1 spam, since power generates quickly whether or not the enemy has Killer Frost. His regeneration from his passive and gear are both not influenced by Killer Frost/Regime's polar vortex.

4) Martian Manhunter/Blackest Night - His lifesteal phase is very short but incredibly effective. Using a special 2 or supermove usually allows him to heal himself and his entire team to full health. His other phases are also invaluable, making him an well rounded character capable of many roles. However, Killer Frost/Regime is able to render his healing phase useless.

5) Solomon Grundy/Boss - I know, he's notorious for being among the worst characters, but hear me out. Now that augmentations and the Fourth World set have been added to the game, his potential durability is indisputable. He has 91k health at eVII lvl 50, which can be extended past 100k with augmentations. This allows him to tank everything blockable, and gives him a huge margin of error. The passive sp1 regen, defense bonuses, and resurrection from the Fourth World set allow him to to make maximal use of his passive, which multiplies his damage up to 10x at low health (which isn't even "low" because he has so much health and blocking damage reduction. The resurrection is just insurance that he can survive an unblockable special, and it leaves him in the max damage range).

HONORABLE MENTIONS & CROWD FAVORITES

- Nightwing/New 52 - Amazing drain spam capabilities with Eskrima + Venom Injection + Scimitar. However, Static is a near-perfect counter to all his power drains.

- Batman Beyond/Animated - The god of crits, but has bad survivability and is made irrelevant by crit immune characters like AK Bats and RS Green Lantern. Only deserves a spot because of his insane 20K crit basics.

- Shazam/Prime - Great stats and passive, but blocking gear makes his special spam a joke. Assuming he can even manage to save up for a supermove.

- MH Flash - His passive makes him arguably the best basic attack oriented character, but just use a special after he uses one and you'll stall for long enough that his passive will wear off. Compared to Reverse Flash, he also has no recovery method, and is consequently easily punished.

- Raven/Prime - Her passive is easily avoided. If she's got the Fourth World gear resurrection going on, just kill her with a character at low health that has a long, multi-step special 2. Save her for last and you'll win even if you mess up and trigger her passive.

- Superman/Godfall - Excellent stats, and the king of all things reflective. But his damage output, even when buffed, is still fairly poor.

The remaining mentions should be self explanatory

- The Joker/The Killing Joke - Zod/Prime - Wonder Woman/600 & Wonder Woman/Justice League - Static/Prime - Martian Manhunter/Prime - Killer Frost/Regime - The Arkham Knight/Arkham Knight - Harley Quinn/Arkham - Harley Quinn/Animated - Hawkgirl, Prime and Regime - Deathstroke, Bane, and The Joker (Arkham Origins) - Bane/Luchador - Batgirl, Prime and CC - Ares/Prime


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