Phoenix

Phoenix was the 5th Featured Champion, being featured for the month of January 2017. (Phoenix was available in the Monthly Calendar for January 2017.)

Phoenix

Portrait
Featured

Base Attributes

Release Date

October 13th, 2016^[1]

Origin

Marvel Comics
First Appearance: X-Men #101 (1976)

Victory Animation

Phoenix, covered in cosmic fire, levitates.

Abilities

Signature Ability

Rite of the Phoenix

Availability

No

Yes

No

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Phoenix is a Cosmic Champion. Being a Cosmic Champion, she has a Class Bonus against Tech Champions, but is weak to Mystic Champions.

Bio[]

Though Jean Grey and the Phoenix Force have long been separated, their bond is unique. More than a mere host, Jean is a part of the Phoenix, as the Phoenix is a part of her. When Jean was brought to the Battlerealm and exposed to ISO-8, the highly mutagenic properties of ISO-8 reopened Jean's latent connection to the universal force of life, and the Phoenix was reborn again, this time into the Contest of Champions!

Stats[]

Max Rating	Max Health	Max Attack
579	1962	158
-	-	-
1519	5214	418
-	-	-
3803	13075	1047
-	-	-
7643	26216	2098
-	-	-
13039	44733	3580
-	-	-

Abilities[]

Phoenix Force - Passive

The Phoenix's connection to the cosmic Phoenix Force entity is the source of much of her power. She begins the fight with 1 Phoenix Force charge, and periodically generates Fury Buffs based on her current number of Phoenix Force charges.
Fury Buffs increase Attack by X.

Tier	Attack Rating
	21.33
	56.43
	141.35
	283.23
	483.3

Empowered - 5 or more Fury Buffs

All attacks gain 100% chance to Incinerate the opponent, dealing X Energy Damage over 6 seconds. This effect also removes Perfect Block Chance and reduces Block Proficiency by 50% while it's active.

Tier	Incinerate Damage
	15.8
	41.8
	104.7
	209.8
	358

Heavy Attacks gain 100% chance to Armor Break, reducing Armor by X for 10 seconds.

Tier	Armor Rating
	566.67
	616.67
	666.67
	700
	750

Overloaded - 11 Fury Buffs

On entering Overload, all Phoenix Force charges are immediately consumed, and the Phoenix Force begins to consume Fury Buffs periodically.
All attacks have a 25% chance to Stun Incinerated targets.
Combat Power Rate is reduced by 80%.
On reaching 0 Fury Charges, the Phoenix stops Overloading and generates 1 Phoenix Force charge.

Heavy Attacks

100% chance to gain a Phoenix Force charge.

Signature Ability[]

Rite of the Phoenix - Passive

Once per fight when the Phoenix by a blow that would knock her out, she immediately becomes invulnerable for 2 seconds, and consumes all of her Phoenix Force charges, regaining X health per charge. After which she gains 1 Phoenix Force charge.

Tier	Health Regenerated
	82.4 - 196
	218.99 - 520.87
	549.15 - 1306.17
	1625.39 - 4034.88
	2773.45 - 6884.81

Special Attacks[]

Special 1 - Telekinetic Blast
The Phoenix Force is released in a wave of telekinesis, amidst a rush of power!

Gain 10% Power for each Phoenix Force charge, consuming all but 1 of them.
Consumes up to 1 Fury Buffs, increasing Special Damage by 10% per Fury consumed.

Special 2 - Cosmic Firestorm
Cosmic fire, funneled by raw Telekinetic power, into a deadly firestorm.

Gains 3 additional stacks of Phoenix Force.
Consumes up to 4 Fury Buffs, increasing Special Damage by 10% per Fury consumed.

Special 3 - True Avatar Phoenix
The power of the Phoenix Force unleashed!

This attack consumes all of the Phoenix's Fury Buffs, granting up to a 240% damage bonus, based on the number of Fury Buffs consumed.

Synergy Bonuses[]

Synergy	Partner(s)	Effect(s)
It's Complicated - Level 3		All Champions: +60 Armor Rating & 3% Power Gain.
Friends - Level 3		All Champions: +130 Armor Rating.
Teammates - Level 3		All Champions: +5% Perfect Block Chance.
Teammates - Level 3		All Champions: +5% Perfect Block Chance.
Incoming Synergy	Partner(s)	Effect(s)
The High Ground		Air-Walker: Heavy Charging increases Ability Power Rate by an additional 150%, reduced by 50% for each Persistent Power Cosmic Air-Walker has. Phoenix: While Overloaded, Heavy Attacks also refresh Phoenix’s Armor Break Debuffs. Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.
Mutant Agenda - Level 3		Mutant Champions: Mutant landed strikes during Special Attacks gain +12% Attack rating.
Frequent Kidnapper Miles		Attuma: Power gained from the Opponent Evading is increased by a flat 15%. Phoenix: Heavy Attacks have a 25% chance to grant a Phoenix Force charge. Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.
Stole My Shtick		Baron Zemo: Bullet hits during Zemo’s Medium Attacks and Special Attack 2 inflict Incinerate Debuffs, dealing 20% of Attack Rating as Energy Damage over 6 seconds. Incinerate removes Perfect Block chance and reduces Block Proficiency by 50%. Phoenix: Fury Buffs gain +100% potency. Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.
Family - Level 3		All Champions: +6% Health.
Romance - Level 3		All Champions: +5% Combat Power Rate.
Like A Book		Synergy Champions: Well-Timed Blocks grant a non-stacking 20% Energy Resistance Passive for 10 seconds. Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.
Phoenix Force		Emma Frost: Whenever Emma Frost would gain one Prowess Passive, she gains two instead. Phoenix: Entering Overload does not consume Fury Buffs. When Phoenix stops Overloading, all Fury Buffs are removed. Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.
You’re Tangling with the Wrong X-Men		Jubilee: +900 Energy Resistance. Phoenix: +15% Attack Rating. Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.
Enemies - Level 3		All Champions: +155 Critical Rating.
My Hellfire Club		Magneto: Personal Armor Break and Bleed Debuffs gain +20% Duration. Solo: Only affects this Champion and does not stack.
Blood Lines		Synergy Champions: Special Attacks have +20% Critical Rating and gain True Strike, ignoring all Armor, Resistances, Evasion, and Auto Block. Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.
Drug L		All Mutants and X-Men except Professor X: Once per fight when a Champion would be knocked out, immediately regenerate 7.5% of their Max Health for each Cerebro Charge. Max 30% Health. Phoenix: When Overloaded, Phoenix gains an indefinite Fury Passive, increasing her Attack Rating by 60%. Max 5 stack(s). Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.
Enemies - Level 3		All Champions: +155 Critical Rating.
Family? - Level 3		All Champions: +6% Health.
Drug L		Terrax: Well-timed blocks give Terrax +3% of a Bar of Power. Phoenix: When striking with her fourth Light Attack, Phoenix consumes one of her personal Fury Buffs, increasing the hit damage by 100%. Unique Synergy: Does not stack with duplicate synergies.

Strengths and Weaknesses[]

Strengths[]

Iron Man, Iron Patriot, Superior Iron Man
- In addition to Class Advantage (against most of them) Phoenix can Armor Break to counter their Armor Ups, and her massive burst damage allows her to blow right through their Overload Regens.
Captain America, Captain America (WWII)
- Captain America lacks any way to disrupt Phoenix’s core Fury loop, allowing Phoenix to stay Empowered for longer. This allows Phoenix to keep him Incinerated lowering his Block Proficiency and removing Perfect Block.

Weaknesses[]

Ronan
- Before gaining his Signature Ability, Edict, Ronan’s ability to convert Fury to Weakness helps him a little against Phoenix. However once his Edict ability kicks in, Phoenix will have to be very careful as she will almost always have many stacks of Fury to trigger the full damage and stun duration bonus.
Doctor Strange
- Few Champions have the ability to interfere with Phoenix’s core Fury building loop like Doctor Strange. Nullify, Counterspell, Fate Seal all have the ability to throw Phoenix’s timing out, leaving her struggling to do damage.

Recommended Masteries[]

Enhanced Fury
- The Phoenix Force passive ability allows the Phoenix to create lots of Fury buffs. Increasing the effect of each of these can have a large impact on her damage potential.
Courage
- Similar to Enhanced Fury, increasing Phoenix's attack translates to a large damage increase, and her Signature Ability makes playing around at low Health values a little less dangerous.
Inequity
- When playing for sustained damaged, the Phoenix can keep herself in the Empowered zone for quite a while, gaining a guaranteed Incinerate on hit. These stack up fast, and can make a difference for the Phoenix who lacks powerful defensive tools beyond her Signature Ability.

External links[]

Trivia[]

Phoenix is the only Champion of the X-Men tag to be Cosmic class.
A 2-star version of Phoenix was available in the 2 star X-Men crystal during the March 2018 event.