Talk:Jean Grey (Phoenix)/@comment-202.166.62.227-20160325144525

Seeing so many people vote 5/5/3 as the best build for phoenix is just plain sad.

True her 5 green is strong no doubt. However thats only and i mean ONLY if you're defending in pvp.

If you're attacking in either pve or pvp, going 5 green is just plain retarded.

Basically 2 scenarios can happen assuming you have max covers.

1) You pair her up with 1 or 2 more other epic characters. At that time, she is going to be relegated to a support utility champ that can pump out red tiles via her purple while having a good red dmg ability. This means 80-90% (depending if you have 2 or 1 epic respectively) of the games you don't even get to see her proc her revive which ends up being a waste. With her match tile dmg being on the low end of the epics, its difficult to get phoenix to tank.

2) Phoenix is your main dmg dealer and you have no other epics. In this scenario, you're able to reliably get phoenix to tank and thus proc her green. However your team is going to get wiped pretty hard from the collateral dmg. Which means you're stuck in a cycle of having to either spam health packs, or swap out heroes after each fight.

So in scenario 1 you're stuck with an ability you don't even proc most of the time, while in scenario 2, your limited gold and health pack resources are trimmed down significantly after each battle.

For the free to play players, the last thing you want to do is having to spam health packs or gold just to revive characters. For those who are sandboxed, you probably already have other max lvl epics to complement her which all but ensures her green will never be proced.