Mother Box

Mother Box is a piece of Legendary (5-star) Gear evolved from a piece of Epic (4-star) gear, Alien Artifact. The unevolved form can be earned either by ranking top 5% in certain Online Battle seasons OR through buying the Worst Heroes Ever Bundle .

The unevolved form.
The Evolved form.

Effects

8% - 28% MAX HEALTH increase
10% chance - 30% chance to BLINK on special 2
[Evolved]: 50% - 100% POWERDRAIN chance at start of the match

Shatterring

Unevolved:

Evolved:

Maxed:

Fusing

+1: 1,000 credits, 4 red, 4 blue and 4 green.
+2: 2,000 credits, 6 red, 6 blue and 6 green.
+3: 3,000 credits, 8 red, 8 blue and 8 green.
+4: 4,000 credits, 10 red, 10 blue and 10 green.
+5: 5,000 credits, 12 red, 12 blue and 12 green.
+6: 6,000 credits, 14 red, 14 blue and 14 green.
+7: 7,000 credits, 16 red, 16 blue and 16 green.
+8: 8,000 credits, 18 red, 18 blue and 18 green.
+9: 9,000 credits, 20 red, 20 blue and 20 green.
+10: 10,000 credits, 24 red, 24 blue and 24 green.
Evolved: 60,000 credits, 15 red, 15 blue, 15 green and 5 purple.
Sub-total: 115,000 credits, 147 red, 147 blue, 147 green and 5 purple.
+1: 5,000 credits, 4 red, 4 blue and 4 green.
+2: 10,000 credits, 6 red, 6 blue and 6 green.
+3: 15,000 credits, 8 red, 8 blue and 8 green.
+4: 20,000 credits, 12 red, 12 blue and 12 green.
+5: 25,000 credits, 20 red, 20 blue and 20 green.
+6: 30,000 credits, 28 red, 28 blue and 28 green.
+7: 35,000 credits, 36 red, 36 blue and 36 green.
+8: 40,000 credits, 48 red, 48 blue and 48 green.
+9: 45,000 credits, 60 red, 60 blue and 60 green.
Maxed: 50,000 credits, 72 red, 72 blue and 72 green.
Sub-total: 275,000 credits, 294 red, 294 blue, and 295 green.
Total: 390,000 credits, 441 red, 441 blue, 441 green and 5 purple.

Strategy

The blink chance is similar to the effect of the passive of Batman/Dawn of Justice and the gear Riddler's Staff in that, when it does activate, it will do so upon the opponent's activation of a special, causing the disappearing character to be unaffected by all damage and effects over the course of the special's animation. This gear is in many ways a direct counterpart to the Riddler's Staff, offering a 28% health increase when fully evolved (instead of a 35% health increase) and a 30% "blink" chance to disappear against enemy's Special 2 (instead of a 21% "blink" chance against SP1).

The BLINK effect when an opponent uses their sp2.

The power drain at the start of the match that this gear provides is quite novel. If equipped onto any character of a team, the fully evolved gear will automatically drain the power of the opponent's starting character. No other gear has an effect that goes off only at the start of a match, and, strictly speaking, no other gear affects the battlefield while the character it is equipped to is tagged out (although the League of Assassins Set effects can conditionally do so). This can greatly reduce the effectiveness of characters/gears that grant immediate access to power, such asBatman/Arkham Origins, Batgirl/Prime, and even the effects of Ra's Al Ghul's Scimitar.

This will not affect Batman/Arkham Knight's "Power Added" perk as it is chosen just after the start of the match, but it will still affect the power given by the aforementioned Batgirl/Prime and Ra's Al Ghul's Scimitar. Interestingly enough, this can also be the one way and at times only opportunity to drain Batman/Arkham Knight's power, as his controller can also choose to give him immunity to power drain (as technically that boost is chosen/given just after the start of a match also).

Note: The power drain will also take effect even if there is no power to be drained, meaning that character equipped with the LexCorp Set can gain power even if there was none to be drained originally.

Trivia

The Mother Box is an alien device that can be used to teleport the user to almost anywhere they wish, and is widely used by Darkseid and his army at first as a way to open a portal from his home planet, Apokolips, to Earth.
This is the 2nd piece of gear with the BLINK effect, the first being Riddler's Staff.
- In many ways this gear completely mirrors Riddler's Staff, as both offer a health increase and a chance to evade different special attacks. Arguably the third and final effects of both gears are similar as well, as the team XP boost of Riddler's Staff is team-oriented but has no effect in combat, while the Mother Box drain effect can help the team even if placed on a character who doesn't enter the battle (but will also have no further effect in combat afterwards).

It is the 5th piece of legendary gear to have a max health increase effect.
This is the latest piece of online season reward gear that has a unique portrait on the Online Battle page. All others are only represented by an unevolved version of the gear card. It was originally applied for the Militarized Batmobile, and later joined by the Riddler's Cane, Soultaker Sword and this gear.