Ranking the DIFFICULTY of ALL the Villains From RHINO To RONAN | Marvel Champions 

Here’s the list for easy reference in the future! In Easy I have: Risky Business, Absorbing Man, Rhino, Tower Defense, Crossbones, Master Mold, and Drang In Normal I have: Magog, Ebony Maw, Taskmaster, Sandman, Wrecking Crew, Mysterio, Hela, Spiral, Collector 2, Sinister Six, Mutagen Formula, Sentinel, The Hood, and Klaw In Hard I have: Ultron, Mojo, Collector 1, Kang, Red Skull, Venom, Sabretooth, Mansion Attack, and Zola In Very Hard I have Thanos, Nebula, Magneto, Loki, Venom Goblin and Ronan All from generally a solo perspective on Standard with recommended mods 🙂

Pretty fun ranking video. I actually liked the little gimmick you did with placing them all randomly facedown and then selecting the card whose spot you chose. I’ll admit with many other ranking vids on other channels I’ll just skip ahead to the end and then go back and listen to those I’m interested, but with this one I felt the need to watch the entire thing. Well done!

For someone who hasn't played that much, your run-down very very fun and informative. All your work paid off!

That was a great video! You're very engaging to listen to, and I thought the whole gimmick where you flipped over each villain as you put the previous villain in their spot was fun.

thanks for the awesome content as always!

I’ve been waiting for a video like this for ages 😊🎉

Thx for this ranking. Great job!

I watched this a while back but didn’t comment. Fun video! I think the way you did it, moving them around, was way better and more engaging than if you had arranged them ahead of time and just flipped them! 👍👏

Thanks so much for putting this together, I've got about half the MC content so it really helps with deciding what to get next. I agree a lot of the villains play very differently depending on player count. We play mostly with 3 people and just did Mutant Genesis, found Master Mold pretty tough (not the hardest, but definitely not easy) while Sabretooth wasn't too bad at all. Magneto was soooo tough though - with our player count we were getting at least 3 magnetic counters (and often more) each round which meant a nasty effect (or two) every single time. On a separate note I'm really torn about Galaxy's Most Wanted - I'd love to get Rocket Racoon and love the Guardians theme but the majority of the villains sound fairly unfun to play, in which case it's a lot to pay for a single character. Such a shame, would be great if they released some sort of 'second edition' that fixed the balancing issues. I'd buy it in an instant!

Imma come back to this video after work to rank them in my opinion, you lit a fire in me to wanna do it😂 love when you do these kinda videos

My first game against Crossbones was an absolute nightmare due to some bad RNG I was playing the precon Starloard leadership deck and all my allies were stuck at the bottom of my deck. I kept dealing thwart cards when there was no threat, his starting weapon gave him retaliate which was whittling my health, and then I drew a hydra goon. By the time I lost, he was stacked with so many weapons I was forced to hide in alter ego mode. fun times.

Great video helps with villian match ups

Really cool video, I feel you did cross bones and tower defence slightly dirty and wrecking crew is way too high, but I can’t complain too much with the order.

Great video and rundown, thank you! Glad you felt the same about Sabretooth, he gave me a rude awakening as the opener in Mutant Genesis! Holy smokes

Really cool video!

Wow I was just talking with a friend about how I dont like to change my deck for a specific villain and you talked about it when you mentioned ebony maw, funny coincidence.

Great idea for a video. Most of your choices I agree with, some of the Villains I still have not played against and this video is a year old. Any chance of an Expert version or a 2024 edition?

Great video. I don't play much Standard, to the point I've only played Mutant Genesis and Mojomania on Expert, so my opinion on a Standard ranking is sketchy at best. With that said, my general feelings after watching are that I love your insight, I agree with almost all the individual points you make, but there's a few I'd rank quite differently! (It's worth noting that 80% of my games are done at 2-player too, which may skew some of my personal rankings.) Risky Business, Rhino and Absorbing Man are definitely the easiest to me, in that order. On the other end of the spectrum, Ronan is definitely the hardest, followed by Venom Goblin. Next come Magneto, Loki, and Nebula. (Nebula is often a lot easier, but she can also just surge you into oblivion as you mention.) And I'd actually put The Hood next - it varies with the modular, but using the ones he comes with is pain and probably what the majority of people have played him with. Mojo might be up there, but he's only been available here in the UK for about a month and I've only recently come back from a hiatus from the game. Even for Expert, I need more experience to truly comment on him. Thanos and Red Skull come in next as the gatekeepers of the Very Hard villains, in my opinion. Both can exploit certain weaknesses and seem very difficult, but to the average all-rounder deck/team I think they're fine. Without the Gauntlet, Thanos is actually very similar to Rhino - just slightly more difficult across the board. And Red Skull is pretty weak himself, it's again his own special mechanic - the side-scheme deck - that really elevates his difficulty. Zola is a weird one to rank. In solo, I put him above Red Skull. In 2-4 player, below. It turns out that 4-players can handle an extra minion every 3 turns much easier than 1 player! But it also depends on your aspect; Zola tests your minion-slaying and Red Skull tests your threat removal. Aggression usually struggles massively with Red Skull while Justice can cruise, and on the other hand Protection's low output tends to lead to Zola just inevitably overwhelming you while Leadership tends to be able to slay minions and deal with all his side schemes too. So, while largely in agreement, those are a few thoughts! Between those, there are a few outliers I place very differently. Namely, I put Mansion Attack just above the very middle - though varies depending how often Mystique visits you. Kang I consider easy overall, with Mutagen Formula just above him. I actually think Drang is harder than Mutagen Formula, though they both hit similar notes - both green, and both swarm you with minions. I've heard a few people say Venom is difficult but, even on Expert, I consider him to be pretty easy. Other than his starting side scheme, the scenario gives you the perfect counter to him in the form of the Bell Tower. And other than scary attacks, he is pretty simple with very weak minions. This is because Symbiotic Strength is overall a very easy modular aside from the one card that means he can attack in alter-ego. So, outside of getting that one card when you're low hp and in alter-ego (which is very rare), it's generally an uneventful modular. Thanks for reading!

I like to add goblin gear to the towers, it likely gives both villains gliders and adds a heal, which can make their health mechanic more problematic. For absorbing man, if you want a challenging and fun experience, I recommend the master's of mayhem and self experimentation modulars. One thing absorbing man has is a lot of treacheries, and self experimentation gives a mean side scheme.

Hi, Would you make a video about how to set up every campaign, enemy etc? Explaining tricky parts, how many thrats to put how it increases how it effects... I have adequate English and even with it sometimes game is too confusing with every icons, every new set of rules etc. It turns into a mess very fast.

I think during mojo you mentioned that you only get two runs through the encounter deck on solo. Is this a mojo thing, or a general rule that i missed 😢

Thanks for the video. I just have a few issues with your choices. Haha. I will say, my biggest complaint is your placement of Crossbones and Taskmaster. I think they should almost swap. To me Crossbones is a perfect medium difficulty villain, while Taskmaster is somewhat easy. Overall, it's a pretty good list, imo, and thanks for making the video. I'm gonna post my list which is in 2 handed solo and campaign mode and the individual ratings are in chronological order so I didn't decide who is harder in each rating. (Ronan is the hardest though.) Two handed solo standard difficulty tier list (campaign) 10: Ronan, Venom Goblin (Advanced Glider) 9: Ultron 8: Nebula, Thanos, Loki, Venom Goblin (no Advanced Glider), Magneto 7: Red Skull, Collector I, Sabertooth, Mansion Attack 6: Zola, Collector II, Tower Defense, Hela, Venom 5: Crossbones, Draang, Ebony Maw, 4: Klaw, Taskmaster, Sandman, Mysterio, Project Wideawake, Master Mold 3: Rhino, Sinister Six 2: Absorbing Man, Wrecking Crew

Interesting take. I would agree broadly with most of this. There's a whole load I don't really have much opinion on as I have not played them much. A few comments. Zola is far harder in solo than multiplayer. I think this applies to the game in general - 2 player is probably easiest but the (lack of) scaling in Zola makes him super tough solo. Kang I never found very hard, just long so he's more mid tier. Sandman I think is like an easy Rhino. He doesn't hit as hard, so you are under less pressure and his scheme goes 2 higher so you rarely lose to an unlucky Advance. Managing sand is a thing but it's not hard. Mysterio seems very easy as half the time he does nothing. The other half of the time you spend more time shuffling than playing, which is miserable so I have not played him enough to confirm the difficulty. Mostly I play expert but I played Nebula on Standard a fair bit. I think she is MUCH easier there & never really struggled with her. Some like the Sinister 6 are almost as difficult in standard as expert. Any how I agree it's a good idea to have some daylight between standard & expert. I was amazed how much easier Magog was on standard!

i know there are 2 challenges on each villain ( I assume, as i only played the core so far ). but we actually use all villains phases for the even more hardcore version of the game haha

Master mold was a nightmare with 3 players...We just could not beat it. Venon in the other hand is always easy

Shocked by the Loki choice. IMO the difficulty with him is he starts hard, but once you’ve had some time to build up, it’s just annoying and drawn out. I think he belongs around the Red Skull-ish area.

What sleeves are you using?

I was kinda disappointed with the Risky Business scenario because when it was revealed, I loved the concept, but like you said, it’s just too easy. I would love to see them revisit the concept with someone else; with what they’ve learned in 5 years of designing villains in this game, I think the idea would come out much better. Just look at what they’ve done with multi-villain scenarios since the Wrecking Crew. I don’t know enough about the lore to know who would fit that bill (I definitely don’t play this game because of the theme.)

Tower defence to me is the easiest scenario in the game because you can completely ignore scheme. I'm not actually even sure how you lose in that scenario. It also has the highest win rate on the bgg forum with 87 percent win rate followed by risky business then wrecking crew

Something that I wish the game did was offer an easy mode. Not because I would play the easy mode, but so that I could call normal mode "intermediate" and feel better about my win. Because every time I beat a normal deck, I'm like, "Well, c'mon, who are you kidding, you're not playing the reeeeal version of this deck."

and here i am not even beaten rhino yet... he's relatively easy to deal with but eventually he gets a big hit on the scheme with like 5 and its game over for me so annoying otherwise he would be pretty damn easy

I'm curious how this entire list looks if you give every villain the Infinity Gauntlet on Expert.

why galactus isn't in the game :c

Mansion attack hard?! Lol