Agent Venom

AGENT VENOM
Bio: Ironically, Peter Parker's worst enemy and Spider-Man's greatest fan are the same person: Eugene "Flash" Thompson. After losing his legs while serving in the military, Flash's superiors made him an offer he couldn't refuse: to become the new host of the Venom symbiote, turning him into a super-soldier with enhanced strength, agility, and most importantly to Flash... the ability to walk again. However, the deal was not without peril; as Agent Venom, Flash must maintain constant mental discipline, lest the alien symbiote seize control of his body and dominate him forever.

Recruitment Message:

“Ready for deployment, Agent. Rest assured, I have full control. I'm not the symbiote. And if you want the symbiote... well, I'd strongly advise you to reconsider. Sir.”

Cost: Reach Adamantium League at the end of PvP Tournament: Season 13

• Agent Venom can also be recruited for 135

Default Uniform: Classic Agent Venom¹
Passives:
Breaking Bonds

• Vulnerable to Fire and Sonic attacks

Symbiotic Relationship

• Gradually restores Health during combat
• Chance to remove debuffs each round
• Attacks that would reduce health to 0 have a chance to reduce health to 1% instead

Under Control

• Chance to go Out of Control when an ally is attacked
• Guaranteed to occur when an ally is KO'ed

Out of Control

• May not attack your chosen target
• Chance to return to Flash Thompson mode when attacking
• Guaranteed when an enemy dies

¹Agent Venom changes his sprite and becomes a Bruiser if Out of Control activates.

Actions
Different skills can be unlocked as the heroes level up. Reaching levels 1, 2, 6 and 9 will guarantee access to new abilities. This can be done by gaining XP points for the characters and training them in the Team Management screen. Other heroes can unlock more than four abilities during combat. In some cases, alternative uniforms can offer new move sets as well.

Note: The actions listed below are only accessible if Agent Venom is Under Control.

Level 1:
Advanced Combat Training
Target: One Enemy
Number of Hits: 2
Hit / Critical: 92% / 11%
Type: Melee Unarmed
Effects:
Wide-Open (3 rounds)

• Taking additional damage from melee attacks

Cornered (1 round)

• Removes and prevents Protect effects

Level 2:
Go Long
Target: One Enemy
Number of Hits: 2
Hit / Critical: 82% / 19%
Type: Ranged Gun
Effects:
Lock-On (3 rounds)

• Taking additional damage from ranged attacks

Disadvantage

• Creates a negative effect according to the class of the target

Level 6:
Bullet Blitz
Target: All Enemies
Number of Hits: 3
Hit / Critical: 82% / 24%
Type: Ranged Gun
Effects:
Hobbled (1 round)

• Attacks cannot be Stealthy

Pressure Points (1 turn)

• Has a chance to cause Dizzy, Exposed, Slowed, or Weakened

Level 9:
Hail Mary
Target: One Enemy
Hit / Critical: 82% / 32%
Type: Ranged Explosion
Effects:
Deadly Crits 

• Deals extra damage on critical hits

Desperation Attack

• The lower this character's Health, the more damage this attack does

Pass Interference

• Applies Bleeding to Burning to other targets

Note: The actions listed below are only accessible if Agent Venom is Out of Control.

Level 1:
Rip to Shreds
Target: One Enemy
Number of Hits: 2
Hit / Critical: 94% / 17%
Type: Melee Slashing
Effects:
Exploits Shields

• Bypasses and deals extra damage against targets that are protected by Shields

Paragon Exploiter

• Deals extra damage against targets with Combo Setup, Dizzy, Exposed, Slowed, Stunned, or Weakened.

Shield Breaker (1 round)

• Removes and prevents new shields

Level 2:
Eat Your Brains
Target: One Enemy
Hit / Critical: 98% / 39%
Type: Melee Unarmed
Effects:
Exploit Opportunity

• Deals increased damage against targets with Cornered, Exhausted, Impaired, Neutralized, Off-Balance, Staggered, or Winded

Consume

• Mmmmm, tasty

Well Fed (2 rounds)

• That hit the spot

Level 6:
We Are Venom
Target: Self
Cooldown: 3 Rounds
Type: Buff
Effects:
Quick Action

• Grants an immediate free turn after using
• Does not trigger follow-up attacks

Permanent Bond (1 round)

• All single-target attacks gain a follow-up attack

Level 9:
Along Came a Venom
Target: All Enemies
Number of Hits: 3
Hit / Critical: 88% / 11%
Cooldown: 3 Rounds
Type: Melee Slashing
Effects:
Boon Buster

• Deals increased damage against targets with Strengthened, Fortified, Focused, Agile, Shield, or Regen effects

Exploit Attrition

• Deals extra damage against targets with Bleeding, Burning, Chilled, Dark Void, Iso-8 Corruption, Poisoned, or Radiation Exposure.

Exploits Protection

• Deals extra damage against targets that are Protecting

Webbed (2 rounds)

• Reduces Attack and Defense

Team-ups
Team-up bonuses are awarded when certain heroes are paired together in a battle. Some hero pairs get multiple team-up bonuses. This awards the players 50 points per bonus at the end of the battle. As part of the PvE score modifier, team-up bonuses improve the player's total score and increases the speed of obtaining chapter mastery stars. The pairing of the heroes are based on certain events that happened in the mainstream comic books of the Marvel Universe. This can range from existing or former organizations, to love pairings and couples.

• Arachnophobia – Any spider-themed pair
• Agent Venom, Black Widow, Spider-Man, Spider-Woman

[li]Big Guns – Heroes with big guns[/li]

• Agent Venom, Ares, Bishop, Cable, Deadpool, Omega Sentinel, Punisher, War Machine

[li]Classy – Heroes who are able to change their class[/li]

• Agent Venom, Mockingbird, Moon Knight, Omega Sentinel, Punisher, Vision

[li]Crowded – Heroes with more than one personality at one point[/li]

• Agent Venom, Fantomex, Moon Knight, Phoenix, Psylocke

[li]Keep It Secret – Heroes who are members of the Secret Avengers[/li]

• Agent Venom, Beast, Black Widow, Captain America, Captain Britain, Hawkeye, Hulk, Mockingbird, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, Spider-Woman, Thor, War Machine

[li]Proud to Serve – Heroes who are military veterans[/li]

• Agent Venom, Captain America, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, Red Hulk, Union Jack, War Machine

[li]Tangled Web – Former or current hosts of the Venom Symbiote[/li]

• Agent Venom, Spider-Man

[li]Thunderbolts – Heroes who are members of the Thunderbolts[/li]

• Agent Venom, Black Widow, Deadpool, Elektra, Hawkeye, Iron Fist, Juggernaut, Luke Cage, Moonstone, Punisher, Red Hulk, Satana

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I don't have him yet, but saving my CP to get him. From what I have heard about him, he's not all that good, but I think he could be an interesting character to play on missions. I know for a fact that he is not PvP material, but missions and flight deck will be only for him.

Finally, the first person to get it right. Everybody's replying to the shoutbox. It makes my head hurt. Anyway, you're not alone. I was hoping during his season that he'd be my first Adamantium reward. I was wrong. Didn't win him! Got kicked out two leagues down to Diamond.

I think it's pretty ironic that the heroes we get from PvP don't seem to be “PvP material.” It's always the cheaper 90 CP heroes that impress both in offensive and defensive matches.

Mar 17, 2014 14:25:32 GMT TheGarethScott said:

Finally, the first person to get it right. Everybody's replying to the shoutbox. It makes my head hurt. Anyway, you're not alone. I was hoping during his season that he'd be my first Adamantium reward. I was wrong. Didn't win him! Got kicked out two leagues down to Diamond.

I think it's pretty ironic that the heroes we get from PvP don't seem to be “PvP material.” It's always the cheaper 90 CP heroes that impress both in offensive and defensive matches.

Venom is weird. I have him but i just can't figure out how to use him :/
Must have been way better if the change was somehow controllable; like Cable.
But since he is my first adamentium reward; i just can't complain

Playdom went with the true nature of the character – the Symbiote taking over involuntarily at any time. I wish there was a switch between two modes, however, that's not really how Venom works.

AV is both fun and maddening at the same time. Here's why:
The good:
-The morph animation is AWESOME.
-There are some really useful moves. While in agent form, being able to debuff with "disadvantage" is really useful. An AoE attack giving "pressure points" is helpful, and his lvl 9 with splash damage is nice too.
-While in Venom form, his shield-breaking lvl 1 is handy at times. Lvl 6 QA that gives a follow-up attack is great, and the LVL 9 AoE is great!
-He's generally a nice pair-up with many different characters, especially because of his ability to neutralize adverse classes with disadvantage and to cause some nice set-up debuffs (wide open, pressure points, cornered, webbed, etc.)
The bad:
-Not particularly hard-hitting. You need lots of red ISOs to get decent damage. More supporter than primary attacker.
-The randomness of his class/character changing is TERRIBLE. So often he will change classes twice before you have a chance to use his Venom/bruiser abilities. It's not uncommon for him to morph into Bruiser Venom after a scrapper's attack and right before a blaster's attack. Ugh. If there was some way to either control when the morph happens or to limit it to one change per round, just to make him a little more predictable/usable, that would be really helpful. Too much of a wild card as is.

Is he worth 135cp? Of course. CP is relatively easy to obtain and you should get every hero. Should he be a top priority? Only because of possibility he will be a required deploy in Ch. 5 or an upcoming spec op. Definitely not as low as Thing/Mr F/She Hulk, but not a top-tier hero either.

Thanks for the insight. Looking at his skills, he seems a decent character but the overall damage (as seen in the tooltip), it's just meh for me. If his Flash/Venom mode is more controllable, perhaps we can utilize his skills more effectively. They also need to lower the chance of him changing back to Agent Venom while Out of Control, because it can ruin strategies in a major way.

I think there will be another symbiotic hero because of the Tangled Web Team Up. I'm a fan of Spiderman Movies, Looking forward to see another Symbiotic heroes.

I don't have him yet, but can't wait to get him! I love this new thing they're doing with the characters Where they can be 2 different classes. Its very interesting to me.

He is good but is too much unreliable.He sometimes goes out of control in the first round and then there is no debuff to exploit.His l6 for both the cases are good but the others are not so good because u cant exploit the debuffs whenever u want.And his KO prevent chance is very low,not like wolverine and deadpool.He is good for PVE but not for PVP because there are better debuffers like spiral and better exploiters like original warmachine or havok

He has low damage, and in his venom form has the potential to do more, but he`s highly unreliable. Again, Pilot material.

I suppose the best way to use him is by pairing him with an exploiter like Deadpool or Mockingbird, since it's really what he needs to do better. Yes, it's what he does when in Venom form but like you said, he's highly unreliable. Changing back to Flash Thompson before you could even perform the attack.

Nice looking new forum On topic: I've faced Venom a couple of times in PvP, first time I hammered him, second he kicked my team's ass There's definitely potential there, and he was hard as nails paired with Domino

Originally posted Mar 17, 2014 at 12:28

i haven't meet any agent venom in pvp but from what i see about him in PVe i don't think that he is very good in PVP, i think it's 50%-50%

Originally posted Mar 17, 2014 at 12:35