With season 5 just around the corner, I believe now is the perfect time to look at an across-the-board buff for season 1 heroes.
To look at exactly why S1 heroes need a buff now, more than ever, we must take a look at the power of the classic 5* and see how they compare to their 5* counterparts in the upcoming S5.
Early Information on New Season 5 Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v46,v47]
As can be seen in the above link, the average power stat for the upcoming S5 heroes comes out to 827. As we can see in this helpful post by @garanwyn (Card Power Calculation), 90 of those points can be attributed solely to the fact that they are 5* and an additional 35 points can be attributed to having their special skill leveled to 8/8. The rest of the card power is due solely to stats. Therefore, if we exclude these 125 power points, we can look at the contribution to card power that comes solely from stats. In the case of the S5 5*, that means 702 points come from stats.
Now let us consider the S1 5*. The average power stat for Classic 5*, comes out to 755. If we exclude the 125 points given to all 5*, we see that only 630 points can be attributed to stats.
What this means is that there is a 72 power point discrepancy due solely to stat differences.
To truly understand how much this is, some context is needed. For that, let us consider the power of S1 4* heroes. The average power of a classic 4* is 642. Using the reference for card power above, we can see that 50 points are attributable to them being 4* and that 35 points are attributable to them having their special skill at 8/8. If we exclude these 85 points, we can see that S1 4* have 557 power points from stats alone.
Therefore, we can see that the stat difference between an S1 4* and an S1 5* comes out to 73 points. This is almost the exact same difference between an S5 5* and an S1 5*.
It is due to this massive discrepancy in power, that I propose all S1 5* be buffed to remain relevant, if not necessarily competitive.
- Season 1 Legendary Heroes Should not be Buffed
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Now, I understand that S1 heroes will never be at the level of premium heroes from portals, and that is not what I am proposing here. I merely want them to be viable as they are the 5* heroes all players have ready access to.
To that end, I have crafted a proposed buff for each S1 5* (and their costume so as to maintain a similar balance between the costumed version and the base version).
As a baseline, I tweaked the stats of each S1 5* to bring them up to 768 power (average increase of 13 points, but still leaves them below S2 heroes). To do this, I started with a 1.5% increase to all stats, and then tweaked them from their to better align with their role. Their costumes have therefore been boosted to 809 or 810 power as stats permitted, which puts them in line with where HOTM will be by the end of the year at the current increase of about 1 point per month.