Morningstar

Advantage:	cosmic
Disadvantage:	science
Common abilities:	Nullify and Power Gain

Bio

Queen Haasen conquered and ruthlessly ruled over her kingdom of Languria with only a few mercenaries, and a demonic sword. But her people rebelled against the Queen’s reign of fire and blood, and sealed her within a mystical iron maiden to suffer for all time. When Mephisto offered her a chance for vengeance, the Prince of Lies granted her new life in the tortured form of her walking iron tomb, and the weapon for which she is named: Morningstar.

Hints

Strong Match-Ups 0 0

Hyperion
- Once she has her Signature Ability unlocked, Morningstar becomes an excellent Hyperion counter. His consistent Power Gains have a reduced effectiveness against her, and she’ll trigger her own Power Gain, and Fury to match his.

Wolverine
- What Morningstar’s Signature Ability can do to Hyperion’s Power Gain, it does just as well to Wolverine’s Regeneration. Also, she’s Bleed Immune to cut down on Wolverine’s damage potential so she shouldn’t have any trouble.

Mordo
- With sufficient Souls, Morningstar’s Special 2 Attack becomes Unblockable, punching right through that block Mordo loves to hide behind. Her Signature Ability also gives her a Power Gain of her own. You get the picture.

Weak Match-Ups 0 0

Quake
- Well right off the top, the Class Advantage gives a nice damage boost. Next stacking up Concussions on Morningstar will help Quake land hits without triggering the reflected Bleed. Quake also doesn’t have any Buffs for Morningstar to leech off of, and has lots of Stuns which Morningstar just has to tank through like anyone else.

Cyclops (Blue Team)
- Cyclops is a solid answer to Morningstar. His additional power gain below Special 1 comes from a Passive ability, so it doesn’t trigger Morningstar’s Signature Ability, and that Special 1 is both a Projectile and Energy Damage, so it doesn’t trigger the Bleed.

Ultron
- Morningstar can struggle against Ultron. He’s Bleed Immune, but so is she, so they’re both missing their Bleed abilities. Ultron, however, Regenerates a portion of the Energy Damage he takes, and most of Morningstar’s big damage comes in Energy form, so she’ll find she doesn’t inflict as much Damage as she’s used to.

Abilities

Signature ability

Soul Link

If Morningstar has less than 1 Captured Souls at the start of a fight, she gains 1.

Morningstar’s weapon grants her a link to her Opponent’s Soul, allowing her to siphon away a portion of the power from any Fury, Power Gain, or Regeneration Buffs they trigger, reducing their potency by X%, and granting her her own Buff.

Fury: +X Attack for 15 Seconds.

Regeneration: +X Health over 15 Seconds.

Power Gain: +X% Power over 15 Seconds.

Abilities

Bleed Immunity

A lack of blood provides full immunity to Bleeding.

Nullify

Nullify is an ability that can remove opponent's beneficial effects.

Special Attack 2: 100% chance to Nullify all Buffs.

Persistent Charge

Captured Souls:

Over the course of a quest, Morningstar’s weapon captures Souls and stores up to 5 of them, empowering both her and itself. Captured Souls travel with them from fight-to-fight.

1 Soul: When struck with a Physical Contact attack, Morningstar has a 50% chance to cause her Opponent to Bleed for X damage over 5 seconds.

2 Souls: Special 1 Triggers Unstoppable for 2.5 seconds.

3 Souls: Special 2 becomes Unblockable.

4 Souls: Gain X Energy Resist, and 50% Perfect Block chance.

5 Souls: 20% chance on Hit to Life Steal 50% of the Damage done to the Opponent.

Power Gain

Power Gain allows the user to gain Power without attacking or being attacked, allowing them to use Special Attacks.

Heavy Attacks: 100% Chance to trigger a Power Gain granting 5% of Max Power per Captured Soul over 15 seconds. Max: 1 Stack.

Special attacks

1: Strength of Languria

Morningstar strikes with her weapon, as it glows with the power of the souls contain within.

Bonus Energy Damage: Each hit of this attack deals X Bonus Energy Damage per Captured Soul. This damage increases with Critical Hits.

2: Maiden’s Furnace

Morningstar channels her pain, rage, and hatred into a beam of pure power.

Bonus Energy Damage: Each hit of this attack deals X Bonus Energy Damage per Buff active on the Opponent, when the attack is triggered.

Nullify: 100% chance to Nullify all Buffs.

3: Soul Chains

Morningstar lets her weapon taste the soul of her enemy.

Morningstar begins to pull her Opponent’s soul from their body, placing a counter on herself.

Damage to the Opponent increases the counter, Damage to Morningstar reduces it.

If the counter reaches 100 she captures the soul, if it reaches 0 her opponent reclaims their soul.

Morningstar can capture only 1 Soul per fight.

Availability

2* 3* 4* 5* 6*

Premium Hero Crystal: already available (since 2018-01-23)

Synergies

Masters of the Sword

Soul Seeker

Warrior Queens

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*	Synergy	Champions
2*	Masters of the Sword Morningstar: If she has less than 2 Captured Souls, she gains 1. Guillotine: Soul charges take 10 seconds longer to expire.
3*	Masters of the Sword Morningstar: If she has less than 2 Captured Souls, she gains 1. Guillotine: Soul charges take 10 seconds longer to expire.
3*	Soul Seeker Morningstar: Starts the fight with 1 Bar of Power. Mephisto: +1 Soul at the beginning of the fight.
4*	Masters of the Sword Morningstar: If she has less than 2 Captured Souls, she gains 1. Guillotine: Soul charges take 10 seconds longer to expire.
4*	Soul Seeker Morningstar: Starts the fight with 1 Bar of Power. Mephisto: +1 Soul at the beginning of the fight.
4*	Warrior Queens Morningstar: Buffs last 20% longer. Angela: Buffs last 20% longer. Magik: +500 Critical Rating and +500 Critical Damage while Limbo is active.
5*	Masters of the Sword Morningstar: If she has less than 2 Captured Souls, she gains 1. Guillotine: Soul charges take 10 seconds longer to expire.
5*	Soul Seeker Morningstar: Starts the fight with 1 Bar of Power. Mephisto: +1 Soul at the beginning of the fight.
5*	Warrior Queens Morningstar: Buffs last 20% longer. Angela: Buffs last 20% longer. Magik: +500 Critical Rating and +500 Critical Damage while Limbo is active.
6*	Masters of the Sword Morningstar: If she has less than 2 Captured Souls, she gains 1. Guillotine: Soul charges take 10 seconds longer to expire.
6*	Soul Seeker Morningstar: Starts the fight with 1 Bar of Power. Mephisto: +1 Soul at the beginning of the fight.
6*	Warrior Queens Morningstar: Buffs last 20% longer. Angela: Buffs last 20% longer. Magik: +500 Critical Rating and +500 Critical Damage while Limbo is active.

External synergies:

Champion	*	Synergy
	5* 6*	Mystic Tyrants Doctor Doom: Successful Nullifies deal a burst of energy damage equal to 20% of Doom's Attack.

	4* 5* 6*	Our Shared Curse Guillotine 2099: +30% Degeneration Potency. Guillotine: +20% Bleed Ability Accuracy and Potency. Morningstar: +20% Critical Damage per Captured Soul.


	4* 5* 6*	Soul Seeker Morningstar: Starts the fight with 1 Bar of Power. Mephisto: +1 Soul at the beginning of the fight.


	2* 3* 4* 5* 6*	Mystic Observation Sentinel: Reduce the duration of the target's Power Lock effects by 50% and generate 50% Power each time a Power Lock expires when facing a target of the Mystic class

Synergy teams:
N/A

Duel targets

N/A

Arena

Kind	Starts	Cutoff
5* featured	2020-04-20
5* featured	2020-04-16
4* featured	2020-04-20
4* featured	2020-04-16
4* featured	2017-10-16	11 221 740
4* featured	2017-10-12	17 964 342
4* basic	2018-05-07	2 516 715
4* basic	2018-05-03	2 203 555
3* featured	2020-04-20
3* featured	2020-04-16
3* featured	2017-10-16	1 219 278
3* featured	2017-10-12	1 543 474

Guides

All

Preview	Kind	Author	Published
	Revisiting Morningstar 2019! - 5 Star Gameplay /w New Synergy 0 0
	gameplay	Seatin Man of Legends	2019-10-14
	Morningstar Initial Review, Impressions and Beginners Guide 0 0
	review	Dork Lessons	2017-10-14
	How to Fight With Morningstar 0 0
	guide	Muzz MCOC	2017-10-13
---	Entering Marvel Contest of Champions: Morningstar 0 0
---	spotlight	Marvel	2017-10-12
	Morningstar Early Review - Pros, Cons & Ability Recap 0 0
	review	Seatin Man of Legends	2017-10-12
	Morningstar Review - Strong, but not my type 0 0
	review	ContestChampion	2017-10-12
	Morningstar Rank Up, Abilities & Gameplay 0 0
	gameplay	Seatin Man of Legends	2017-10-10
	Morningstar: Early Abilities Overview & Theorycrafting 0 0
	review	Seatin Man of Legends	2017-09-26
---	Champion Spotlight 0 0
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