Top Ten Green Lantern Corps: Honorable Mentions

Some Green Lanterns, while great enough to make most any GL team, weren’t quite great enough generally to be among the greatest GLs, period. Here’s Heroclixin’s list:

Salaak

He bears Telekinesis, Probability Control and the Brilliant Tactician-like SP “Brilliant Administrator,” and some late-dial Flurry for when he gets based and punched to circumvent his near-dial-long ESD. But 100 points is a lot for pure support, his DV is below average and he lacks keywords. He’s still highly playable, though, and is essential for large GLC builds.
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V Green Lantern (Collateral Damage)

The other 12-ranged GLC member is the 2nd fig I consider for GL tank duty. He’s just way too expensive for what he does nowadays (and doesn’t do, such as push well), but old-school Rayner is still an effective piece to tank up with Trick Shot.
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Guy Gardner (DC 75th Anniversary)

Inexpensive and hard-hitting, it’s hard to leave Guy off a GL team, much less this top 10 list. His lack of opening moving attack or damage reducers made it hard to rank him over more mobile, better-protected Corps members.
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Hal Jordan (Gravity Feed)


An absolutely dirt-cheap meat shield with a helpful SP for fliers, test pilot Hal is a welcome addition to help fill out GLC themes. His tweaked-to-near-perfection AE power is simply icing. Obviously, his stats aren’t Top Ten material, but he’ll get picked for many GL teams anyhow.
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and finally, Sinestro (Fast Forces)

I really wasn’t impressed with his dial at first, ruing the lack of Running Shot and soft opening defenses on the front end. But playing against him in action, I see that he’s quite fearsome in combat — 19 DV with Willpower can be unstoppable and Exploit Weakness is always scary. Haven’t lost to him yet, though, so he remains just an Honorable Mention.

That does it for this edition of Top Ten! Look for the next edition the week of the 27th. Monday, be here for the last of My Custom Mods!

2 comments

  1. I’d have included Justice League’s “Starro-Face” Green Lantern amongst the honorable mentions. He’s an okay secondary attacker who team-plays well with his TK-into Perplex. He’s definitely not in the top ten, but when I want to play Hal and can’t afford the one from Crisis (and I don’t want the AE), then I’m still likely to reach for this one. It’s also easy to do a head swap from Unleashed.

    1. I didn’t forget him. He simply wasn’t impressive enough to make that list. He’s far from a bad figure, though!

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