I have played with/against FF Professor X a handful of times and I have yet to see him survive a battle. With running shot and hypersonic speed in play along with his low defense, I can't heal him fast enough with a medic and the X-man team ability.

How do you protect a weak ranged combat character without blocking his own attacks?


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The easiest way to do it... find a nice Defend piece... or give him a cheap taxi that he can siphon clix on to. The new Positron from City of heroes fits both roles nicely... as does Warlock. I used the LE Hector Hall to carry him around when I used Professor to some decent effect... couldn't mastermind, but the 17 defence helped.

I'm confused. You can't use the X-Men TA on the Fantastic Fources Professor X, as he isn't an X-Men team member. And he's got 13 defense, sure, but that's what Mastermind is for. Get some decenty deep-dialed Mastermind fodder, and consider Fortitude to keep his Mastermind from being Outwitted, and speedsters can hit him all day long- they'd just better be careful not to stay in his range after they do. If you absolutely must use him to mind-control someone over 100 points, make sure to have a character with Support sitting behind him. Pretty much any figure with Support stands a good chance of hitting his defense to heal him.

Support + Defend+flight=Positron. The professor's new best friend

Sorry... the support is on Ghost Widow... I messed up there. My bad.

I used him pretty well in a four-way match like so:

Prof + Fortitude
Lockjow + Double Time
Medic

Lockjaw would keep running the Prof to just outside of most figures' range, and Prof would incap or mind control (more often incapping, really). Then Lockjaw would pull the prof away and heal the push damage (or any mastermind slough he took). I didn't win, but the I was the last of three players to go down to a KC GL.

Face it, he sucks.

i find U Prof X a perfect partner for KC Wonder Woman, he mind controls people and makes them move into WW's charge range, deals them a click of mind control damage for not attacking, then WW charges into the mind controlled figure, and while Prof X is standing next to WW he has 18 defence, good enough for me

Eh? What is this "mind control damage" that you speak of? Mind controlling someone doesn't cause them any damage, ever, unless the results of the mind control do (for example, mind controlling someone to attack a Mystic, or to make an attack and roll a critical miss).

tell me you're joking. Or are you a point and clicker, who can't possibly use anything other than a straight forward brute like thor?

sorry, i miss read the power description on mind control

He isn't good VS anyone, IMO. I like style figures over power figures, but Prof still sucks at that. 2 2ndary attackers can kill him in 1 round NO problem, he just costs so much to support, and in the end, he cant really do anything. Whats he going to do MC your V Superman . .. .

Why not? Throw a Nanobots on him and leave an object nearby and he won't even feel the feedback pain. He'd likely only need a 6 or so to hit, and could use Supes to mess up a lot of his own team while turning off his Impervious and running closer to the rest of your team for subsequent pounding.

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Hm... I hadn't ever thought about using Nanobots with Xavier... Support him with 3 Misty Knights, each one carries an object and stays next to Xavier. When they get Masterminded to, they magically drop life pellets for their master... Or in an emergency, they can push to death for the same. Hm... Or put all three objects in front of your TKer, who can throw them to Xavier as needed, and just use regular MM fodder. Hm... Of course, it's not like he isn't ridiculously easy to heal with a medic anyway, heh, unless they're basing him. Which, for everyone except Double-Timers and Jay Garrick, is not all that easy to do.