I've been hearing everyone rave about this guy. What makes him so nice?

Disclaimer: I played up to the first DC set then quit for a long time and now I'm playing again so I have no clue of all the sets between now and then.

Johnny Quick is a well rounded HSS character, with a reasonable cost and the CSA team ability.

With his HSS, he can run up, attack for three, if he misses he can reroll by placing an action token on some guy on his team, and then run and hide. He has 18 defense at a range, and doesn't immediately suck upon being hit for 2 damage, unlike most speedsters.


Edit: Worded it more for the layman.

Thanks for the tips in layman terms hehe. Ebay here I come!

I actually don't have one... funny enough... I'm on this stupid crusade to complete the PR origin uniques and I need him and a couple others.

I was about to get one then...realized he is really short on keywords.

Besides that, he is a fine speedster but nothing to brag about. I preffer Quicksilver E from AW any time of the day, besides, he should get more keywords.

Flame On!

As grounded Hyper Sonic Speedsters go he was one of my favorites until the new restricted list came out. On the wrong map he becomes useless. Worse I like the maps that do this to grounded characters so without my favorite feat Swingline I have put him on the shelf for now.

I'm also not as huge a fan as the Europeans seemed to be of Johnny Quick. Johnny does have the nice base 3 damage and CSA team ability (which got better in the latest Errata & Clarification), but he's a little expensive for my taste and if you know his dial, you can really abuse him (he actually does immediately suck after being hit for 2 damage).

although that may be true, he dosn't suck if he's hit for 1 or 3 even 4 as most speedsters do after taking damage... just that wonderful I need some smack click.

that being said, coming from an environment that dosn't enforce restriction all that often, he's gonna remain a good piece for a long time.

Yeah, I was just making that comment because I thought it was funny that it was mentioned that he doesn't suck after 2 clicks and that 2 damage actually puts him on his worst click

He's not a terrible piece by any means, I just feel he's too expensive to be truly competative, especially in the tourney scene.

If he is hit for 2 damage you can attack a piece and reroll the result putting the token on yourself so that you strain to your next click.

He is a truly great click, if you know how to play him.

His best click lies truly after taking 4 damage with 10 HHS, 10 attack, 17 SS, and 3 Damage.

If you end up on his worst click, after taking 2 damage, just remember that when you use CSA you can give HIM a token to push him onto his b/c/f click.

However, if one was to think that his dial is too hard to play, you can always go with E Quicksilver from Armor Wars(another one of my favorites)

Johnny can easily push himself off of his withdrawl click, without doing much of anything. It's barely a disadvantage.

In fact, if I were to see I was going to take exactly two damage and I had a token on Johnny, I would force them to reroll the attack. The pushing damage would move him right past it.

He's one of those figs that seems crippled in theory, but is astonishing in practice.

Alternate reality characters don't have a lot of history, so they'll tend to be lacking keywords by and large. Kingdom Come characters will likely lack them, as will CSA and AoA characters when they arrive, I reckon.

All in all, I think he's still a good piece. Though admittedly, I still have trouble choosing between him and Sir Pietro Maximoff when I start looking for speedsters.

ok, this really has nothing to do with the character but I keep reading comments about them having or not having keywords. What is everyone talking about?