High Evolutionary

Tier List

Villain, Cosmic, Tech, Support, Shadow Conclave

Arena	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Alliance War Offense	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Alliance War Defense	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Cosmic Crucible Offense	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Cosmic Crucible Defense	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Raid	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Dark Dimension / Saga	★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Battleworld	★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Iso-8

High Evolutionary can be either a Raider or a Striker. With his Iso-8 attack, he gains Offense Up, making Striker a very good option — after his first turn, if he targets an enemy that has Vulnerable, he will have Offense Up ready for his second turn, where he unleashes his powerful Ultimate. Raider is generally a top-class that will reliably boost the potential damage of his Ultimate without depending on whether High Evolutionary has Offense Up or whether opponents have stripped it in the meantime. Besides those two classes, he can also be a Healer to further strengthen the healing he provides to himself and his Shadow Conclave team.

T4 Priority

P – Passive ability

U – Ultimate ability

S – Special ability

B – Basic ability

Passive – Maxing the Passive is essential for War and Shadow Conclave effectiveness in that game mode. Because the Passive adds the ability to apply Safeguard for 2 turns on Spawn to himself and all Shadow Conclave allies in War with 3 Shadow Conclave allies — which is an outstanding upgrade in itself, but it does not stop there. Because also in War, with 3 Shadow Conclave allies, enemies cannot gain Speed Up. This is a truly powerful upgrade through which Shadow Conclave can dominate in the War game mode.

Ultimate – The Ultimate will deal greater damage, and with it, High Evolutionary will be able to clear all negative effects from himself and all Shadow Conclave allies (upgrade from 3 random negative effects if Ultimate is not maxed). This is a key upgrade as it can happen during fights that some characters have more than 3 negative effects on them, and therefore, this upgrade completely eliminates the possibility of a key negative effect not being removed from High Evolutionary or any of his Shadow Conclave allies. On top of that, the damage increase is significant, making this upgrade essential overall.

Special – It enables High Evolutionary to flip all positive effects on each enemy and all negative effects on himself and all Shadow Conclave allies in War if he has 3 Shadow Conclave allies. This is an upgrade from flipping 3 random positive effects on each enemy and 3 random negative effects on himself and Shadow Conclave allies. So with this upgrade, we eliminate the possibility of some positive effects on enemies not being flipped or some random negative effects on the Shadow Conclave team not being flipped.

Basic – When we max his Basic, High Evolutionary will gain Offense Up for 2 turns instead of 1, and apply Offense Down to the primary target for 2 turns instead of 1. Making this a solid upgrade through which High Evolutionary increases his own offensive potential while reducing the enemy’s for a longer period of time.

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About Character

Arrogant, unethical, and deeply intelligent, Herbert Edgar Wyndham — known as the High Evolutionary — is one of the Marvel Universe’s most important and consequential villains. While a student at Oxford in the 1930s, he began experimenting with genetic manipulation, and while attending a genetics conference in Geneva, he was approached by a mysterious man — in truth the outcast Inhuman geneticist Phaeder — who handed him blueprints for cracking the genetic code. Expelled from Oxford and unwilling to stop, Wyndham established the Citadel of Science on Wundagore Mountain in Transia, where he developed serums to transform animals into sentient, anthropomorphic beings known as the New Men.

His influence on the wider Marvel Universe runs deeper than most realize. He experimented on Wanda Maximoff and Pietro Maximoff as babies, giving them their powers as part of his research. It is also Wyndham who gave Adam Warlock his name and his iconic Soul Gem. His ambitions never stopped at Wundagore — he went on to create an entire planet, Counter-Earth, intended as a world free of evil, only for it to be corrupted and ultimately stolen by the Beyonders. He later rededicated himself to advancing human evolution on a global scale, attacking genetic groups he deemed evolutionary dead ends and aggressively pursuing his vision of a perfected universe.

He has evolved his intelligence to the upper limit of human potential and is considered the leading geneticist in the Marvel universe, with god-like powers including the ability to evolve and devolve life-forms, manipulate matter at a subatomic level, energy projection, cosmic awareness, precognition, telepathy, telekinesis, and size alteration. Thanks to all his evolutionary tampering, he has effectively achieved immortality — perhaps his greatest power of all.

A scientist who long ago stopped asking whether he should do something and only ever asks whether he can — the High Evolutionary brings a terrifying combination of intellect and god complex to the Shadow Conclave.

High Evolutionary is a Support character who perfectly maintains his Shadow Conclave team, boosting their sustain and damage mitigation throughout the entire fight. He isn’t the fastest character around, but he doesn’t need to be.

At the start of every battle, he applies Defense Up for 2 turns to the entire team, immediately improving their mitigation from the first moment. Whenever any Shadow Conclave ally drops below 50% HP for the first time, High Evolutionary strips all negative effects from them, and in War, he also steals 10% HP from every enemy and redistributes it to that ally — a powerful reactive heal that can completely turn the tide at a critical moment.

His Passive also ensures that the Speed of Shadow Conclave allies can never be reduced, making characters like Emma Frost essentially useless against them. In War, this goes even further — all forms of Speed Bar and Speed Stat manipulation are completely negated. Enemies cannot gain Speed Up, cannot increase their Speed passively, cannot increase their own Speed Bar, and cannot decrease the Speed Bar of Shadow Conclave characters. On top of that, enemies cannot passively increase their Resistance either. And as the cherry on top, the entire Shadow Conclave team spawns in War with Safeguard for 2 turns.

His Ultimate strips all negative effects from his team and heals everyone — with healing doubled in War — while simultaneously hitting all enemies for massive damage and applying Defense Down. His Special deals no direct damage but makes up for it in sheer utility: it applies 2 Bleeds to all enemies, steals 25% HP from every opponent and redistributes it to his team, and in War it reduces the duration of Safeguard on all enemies before flipping all their positive effects into negative ones — while flipping all negative effects on his own team into positive ones. It is one of the strongest War abilities in the game, and remains excellent outside of it as well, particularly in modes where enemies have large health pools like Dark Dimension.

You can find detailed information about High Evolutionary on the Shadow Conclave team page HERE.

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