Marvel Contest of Champions tier list

SS tier: Top picks

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  Cosmic Ghost Rider

  Runs a rotation of Buffs (Armor Up, Fury, Precision, Cruelty, Power Gain, Unblockable, Vigilance and Aptitude), and each one he triggers places a matching Judgment on the opponent that lengthens all his Buffs by 20%.

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  Kushala

  Feeds on the opponent's Buffs: her Light Attacks plant Ignition Buffs on them, every Buff they gain hands her 2% of her max Power, and Special 1 gives each Buff a 50% chance to be Nullified and turned into a 22488-damage Incinerate.

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  Onslaught

  Spreads Neuroshock from either champion's attacks (crits and Unblockable special hits raise the chance), and Special 3 drops 20 of them at once and gets cheaper for every one already on.

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  Nick Fury

  Against a Bleeding opponent he ignores all of their Physical Resistance, and his Bleeds hit twice as hard whenever they aren't Regenerating.

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  Quake

  Against a Concussed opponent she Evades every Basic Attack, and she has plenty of ways to apply Concussion: charging a Heavy starts an Earthquake that Concusses, Special 2 does it directly, and big Aftershocks do it again.

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  Count Nefaria

  Feeds on the opponent's own gains: every bar of Power they fill and every bit of Health or Power they get from Buffs piles up as Energy Build Up Debuffs, which his Special 1 devours (even through Block) for Ionic Charges, Health and Power.

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  Jean Grey

  Her Light Attacks stack Neuroshock, and Special 1 converts the opponent's Neuroshock and other non-damaging Debuffs (plus her banked Psionic Charges) into personal Neuroshock Passives that deal damage over time, up to 35 of them.

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  Hercules

  Builds Strength by completing three feats (landing a Heavy on an opponent who isn't Stunned, intercepting a dash, getting back up after a knockdown), and each stack adds Armor Penetration plus a burst of Physical Damage worth 10% of every hit.

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  Hulkling

  His kit runs on Shapeshift Charges and the Bulwark, Aptitude and Pierce Buffs tied to them, and Special 1 speeds charge gain to one every half second for 10 seconds.

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  Doctor Doom

  Built around the Aura of Haazareth, which Special 1 and 3 switch on: while it's up his Special 1 and 2 are Unblockable, his Light Attacks steal Power, and contact has a 30% chance to Nullify a Buff.

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  Ghost

  Dashes back to Phase for 2 seconds, during which every incoming attack Misses (Psychic attacks excepted) and her damage-over-time Debuffs turn into Fury.

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  Kitty Pryde

  Stacks Prowess whenever either champion crits or Stuns, and once she has 3 she can dash forward to Phase: the opponent's attacks Miss, she's Stun Immune, and her Signature means she takes no damage at all while Phased.

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  Shang-Chi

  A crit-stacking fighter who chains Wushu Strikes, set attack sequences that end in a guaranteed Critical Hit and a Chi Charge.

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  Archangel

  Mixes his own Poisons and Bleeds into Neurotoxin, a Passive that doesn't count as a Debuff or a Poison; each one deals 11781 damage over 15 seconds and Stuns the opponent for 1.5 seconds when it expires.

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  Bullseye

  Rewards timing.

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  Karolina Dean

  Collects Iridescence by standing in a sun that moves around the stage, which also feeds her Power, and spends it on Glancing Blocks that cut incoming damage by 85% and on personal Incinerates (Special 2 converts one per hit, Special 3 drops 12 at once).

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  Domino

  A luck champion: she randomly turns Lucky, the opponent randomly turns Unlucky (Skill champions always are), and each Special gains a different bonus depending on which is active.

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  Silk

  Puts a Physical Vulnerability stack on with every hit, up to 50, kept alive as long as the combo keeps landing, then cashes them in with Special 2's 24,638 burst.

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  Kate Bishop

  Well-timed Blocks against Basic Attacks become Evades, and every Evade fires back a Taser Arrow that Stuns for 3 seconds, so she counters rather than just blocks.

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  Photon

  Collects Electromagnetic Charges that carry between fights (from Debuffs on the opponent, their specials and their Misses), and at 10 or more she can dodge back and hold Block to enter Pure Light Form.

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  Arnim Zola

  Hard to burst down: no single damage source except a Special 3 can take more than 10% of his max Health, he's immune to Bleed and Poison, and only his own effects can change his Ability Accuracy and Power rate.

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  Apocalypse

  Grows across a quest: he collects Genetic Code by knocking out opponents (and gets 2 more against Mutants), and each Code gives an indefinite 40% boost to Special Attack damage.

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  Black Widow

  Her signature does nearly all the work, cutting the opponent's Ability Accuracy by up to 80% (more against Science, less against Mutants), so a lot of their abilities simply fail to trigger.

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  Juggernaut

  Everything runs through the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak: while it's active he gets 5084 Attack Rating and 25% Damage Reduction, but a non-damaging Debuff or a knockdown shuts it off and leaves him Weakened until Special 1 turns it back on.