Black Friday 2025 - Artifact Selector Recommendations

Hello! This is the Daily Buggle bi-yearly Artifact Selector recommendations. This will be refreshed every Black Friday and Anniversary, as most Artifact Selectors are earned during these events.

You can click on the portrait images below and it will take you straight to the Artifact tab of that character. Also worth checking out the:

• Lead/Support tab for Support characters for a full view of their overall supports.
• ABX/L and WBL tabs for versatility.

While the recommendations are split into the lower ranking and upper ranking Artifacts, there is no hard cutoff. It may be wise to look at the stats for each rank yourself - it may be fine to not follow the categorisations below.

• 3-4 Star Recommendations

  3-4 Star Recommendations

  Criteria

  As 3* and 4* Artifacts are more common, the recommendations can include slightly worse characters. Focus is on:

  • Good Artifacts for "pretty good" but not amazing characters (e.g. the selection of Immortality characters).
  • Revive Passives for PvP - the main benefit here is the revive itself, which is provided at all ranks.
  • Artifacts whose stats do not significantly increase with higher ranks. We will refer to this as "poor scaling" and it is actually a good thing for 3* and 4* Artifacts. If it scales poorly, it means even a lower rank Artifact gets good performance compared to a higher one.

  Support Artifacts

  • Abomination

    Restricted to Gamma Radiation Allies only.
    All Basic Attacks scales very poorly - 18% at 3* compared with 25% at 6*. However the HP part only provides 4% at 3*, which is not that helpful for Hulk.
    This is mainly a futureproofing pick in the hopes that there is a future Gamma character that benefits from All Basic Attacks.

  • Ronan

    Restricted to Universal Allies only.
    Provides only All Basic Attacks with poor scaling - 14% at 3* compared with 20% at 6*.

  • M'Baku

    Provides Ignore Dodge (which scales well but is less useful) and All Basic Attacks - this scales moderately with 8% at 3* compared with 15% at 6*.

  PvP Artifacts - Revives

  • Silver Surfer (Shalla-Bal)

    Basic Revive.

  • Apocalypse

    Basic Revive.

  • Rachel Summers

    Basic Revive.

  • Sersi

    Basic Revive - also easy to get from Makkari's Deluxe Mission if you have it unlocked.

  PvP Artifacts - Immortality

  • Ghost Rider

    You can get this Artifact at a low rank for PvE - a 5-6* would be best for PvP.
    Ghost Rider's skills are slow, meaning he is sometimes vulnerable to being oneshotted in WBL - the Immortality will protect against this once per fight.
    His 6th and 4th skills also deal high damage ignoring i-frames, meaning they can be used alongside the Immortality to facetank Dormammu's iframe phases and continue to deal damage.

  • Hela

    Decent PvP character with Immortality, can get pretty tanky with Tier-4.

  • Mister Sinister

    Mid PvP character with Immortality.

  • Sabretooth

    Mid PvP character with Immortality.

  DPS Artifacts

  • Storm

    Also recommended in the 5-6 Star section as Storm is incredibly powerful.
    Provides 14% Element Damage at 3*, compared with 20% at 6*.

  • Mephisto

    Also recommended in the 5-6 Star section as Mephisto is incredibly powerful.
    Provides 14% Element Damage at 3*, compared with 20% at 6*.

  • Gwenpool

    Both Ignore Dodge (9% at 3* vs. 15% at 6*) and All Basic Attacks (14% at 3* vs. 20% at 6*) scale very poorly.
    Gwenpool is very useful for many days of ABX/L if you do not have Luna Snow's seasonal, though her Artifact has been given for free at 4* in the 10.2 Collector's Vault.

  • Gambit

    Also recommended in the 5-6 Star section, but a fantastic Artifact to improve ABX/L scores.
    Even at 3*, provides a solid 20% damage buff, which is nuts for a 3* Artifact.

  Other

  • Wasp (Nadia van Dyne)

    Not useful for anything, but 4* Nadia Artifacts are required to be sacrificed one of the S.H.I.E.L.D. Archive items.
    Kind of a "waste" but if you want completion and don't care about any of the other ones in this section, it is a decent use of a 4* Selector.

• 5-6 Star Recommendations

  5-6 Star Recommendations

  Criteria

  As higher rank Artifacts are much rarer, the criteria are different.

  • The characters are either meta as DPSes or Supports in PvE or PvP.
  • PvP Artifacts focus on Immortality, as higher ranks provide more duration on the passive.
  • PvE Artifacts (for both DPS and Support) focus on high percentages and favourable scaling - generally where a 6* Artifact provides more than double the effect of a 3* Artifact.

  Percentages listed in this section show the 5* and 6* values. For example, (15% / 20%) means 15% at 5*, and 20% at 6*.

  Support Artifacts - PvE

  • Dazzler

    Mutant Support: Basic Damage to Villains (7% / 10%), All Basic Attacks (17% / 20%)
    Useful for a ton of PvE content - several Alliance Battle restrictions, WBL restrictions, GBR if you use a Mutant there.

  • Black Cat

    All Support: Basic Damage to Heroes and Villains (8% / 10%), Basic Damage to Bosses (16% / 20%)
    Mental Artifact, almost makes her a full support in her own right, though you ideally want the Christmas paywall uniform.
    Useful for leading Villains in Alliance Battle, and unrestricted content as a Villain Lead/Support.
    Downside is that she still doesn't have a Tier-3, so you cannot use this lead in WBL.

  • Sin

    Villain Support: Basic Damage to Heroes and Villains (12% / 15%)
    Requires Halloween paywall uniform, but useful as a Villain support in Alliance Battle, and unrestricted content with a Villain DPS.

  • Satana

    Universal Support: All Basic Attacks (18% / 20%), Basic Damage to Bosses (8% / 10%)
    Highly recommended to also have her April Fools paywall uniform, useful for making her more of a general Elemental support rather than just Fire. Useful for ABX/L days with Scarlet Witch, and unrestricted content as a Fire Damage dual Lead/Support.

  • Nick Fury

    Hero Support: Ignore Dodge (8% / 10%), Basic Damage to Bosses (11% / 15%)
    Strong damage boost on top of Fury's existing high supports, useful for Speed Male Alliance Battle days.

  • Valkyrie

    All Support: Basic Damage to Bosses (11% / 15%)
    Good for Alliance Battle and unrestricted content.

  • Phil Coulson

    Hero Support: Ignore Dodge (13% / 15%), Basic Damage to Bosses (11% / 15%)
    Good on paper, but note it only applies to Heroes despite his seasonal uniform supporting All Allies.
    Good general Hero support for unrestricted content.

  Support Artifacts - Niche PvE

  • Medusa

    All Support: Ignore Dodge (11% / 15%), Basic Damage to Bosses (11% / 15%)
    Not that useful in general, but might help for the Inhumans ABL day and Dispatch challenge.

  • Nova (Richard Rider)

    All Support: Basic Damage to Heroes and Villains (12% / 15%)
    Pretty good overall support, but lacks versatility. Consider if you have all the other Support Artifacts already, or have specific WBL restrictions you can use him in.

  • Warwolf

    All Support: Basic Damage to Heroes and Villains (12% / 15%)
    If for some reason you want a very minor support for Warwolf's restrictions go ahead...

  Support Artifacts - PvP

  • Franklin Richards

    Provides Immortality to all Fantastic Four characters, which is mostly just useful for Otherworld/TBA/Conquest at the moment.

  • Agent Venom

    Provides nice offensive and defensive buffs for a Symbiote team in primarily PvP content, though it can be useful in PvE too.

  PvP Artifacts - Immortality

  No descriptions required - you know what these do.

  • Ghost Rider

     

  • Wolverine

     

  • Carnage

     

  • Madelyne Pryor

     

  • Deadpool

     

  • Magik

     

  DPS Artifacts - Uncommon

  These are "Applies to: Self" Artifacts for powerful DPS characters that do not have "Basic Damage to Villains" (see the next section).

  Note that Damage to Aliens is most useful for ABX/L. This can also apply to GBR and some World Bosses, but are not as generally useful as Damage to Villains or Bosses.

  • Gambit

    A crazy 16% / 20% Damage to Villains and Aliens in the same Artifact, as strong as some full Support characters.
    Also pretty good at lower ranks, thus it is also recommended in the earlier section.

  • Mephisto

    Also valid to take at 3-4*. Provides a solid All Element Damage buff at 18% / 20%, good if you want to push his scores or WBL clear times even further.

  • Storm

    Also valid to take at 3-4*. Provides a solid All Element Damage buff at 18% / 20%, good if you want to push her scores or WBL clear times even further.

  • Star-Lord

    A very high 20% / 25% Damage to Aliens with a less useful defensive passive on top.
    Very good if you use Star-Lord in Alliance Battle as a substitute for Alien or Blast Male days, but he is not the best choice for any restriction.

  • Hades (Pluto)

    Not amazing with 16% / 20% for both Ignore Dodge and All Basic Attacks.
    However, since Pluto is a good pick for ABX/L now, you can consider it if you want to push his scores.

  DPS Artifacts - Damage to Villains

  ALL of these Artifacts have Damage Dealt to Villains as the main effect. Any additional effects are listed in the description.

  No further descriptions are provided and they are in no particular order. Simply pick these if you use these characters often and want them to deal more damage.

  • Ares

    (16% / 20%)
    + Basic Damage to Heroes (16% / 20%)

  • Zeus

    (16% / 20%)
    + Ignore Dodge (16% / 20%)

  • Captain America (Sharon Rogers)

    (11% / 15%)
    + Instinct Critical Rate (14% / 16%)
    + Instinct Critical Damage (15% / 20%)

  • Sentry

    (16% / 20%)
    + HP (16% / 20%)

  • Crescent

    (16% / 20%)
    + Basic Damage to Heroes (16% / 20%)

  • Scarlet Witch

    (16% / 20%)
    + Basic Damage to Heroes (16% / 20%)

  • Gladiator

    (17% / 20%)
    + Basic Damage to Heroes (17% / 20%)

  • Knull

    (17% / 20%)
    + Basic Damage to Heroes (17% / 20%)

  • Winter Soldier

    (17% / 20%)
    + Basic Damage to Heroes (17% / 20%)