This dial doesn't receive enough credit. The 600 point dial grabs most of the attention because of the 4 potential actions per turn! This dial has free action quake and grants this big snake an incredibly scary dial worth of ungodly stats. Some of these clicks can deal upward to 9 damage an attack with a 14 av! His defense makes him untouchable with 21 defense with impervious. Get the fear dial between 9-12 and all of a sudden the serpent is sporting stats that resemble the golden age Galactus and Spectre colossal dials! If you are playing him at 1300 points its even better. By the time the 600 point dial is koed....this dial has reached Godhood!

It seems like the general consensus on The Serpent (at least in my area, among the people I know) is that he's not that great. I believe that I've found a way (and tested it out tonight in a tournament) to change that. I put the Phoenix Force on him. And I know, I know... a resource can make any character great, resources are overpowered, blah blah, whatever. But anyway... with 4 attached fragments and 1 assigned character, this gives him running shot with energy explosion, poison, and also mystics if you chose the Magik fragment. That's 3 extra ways for him to damage an opposing character (several at once if you do it right) and get that fear dial turning.

He might not be too threatening to start off, but if you can get the dial turning before he's taken too much damage, your opponent is looking at a whole 'nother beast. It helped that I had Alyosha Kraven on the team as well, but that was mainly just for the opening move.... once he got in position, it was all about the Phoenix Force.

You may want to take another look at the PF and how the groups work.

The dial has 5 groups, which correspond to the number of fragments attached to the PF. They are, in order, 0, 1, 2, 3, and 4.

So the group that corresponds to having 4 fragments attached is the fifth group on the PF dial, not the fourth group, which corresponds to having 3 fragments attached.

Force Build 8544330 0
Set	#	Name	Team	Pts	Value
AVX	R100	The Phoenix Force		12	SELL
Force Total:				12	$0.00

I don't think The Serpent, with four fragments attached to the PF, has the RS, etc that you want him to have.