Hello! This is a guide to get you through the Cosmic Trial with Winter Soldier. Note: This is NOT the best Winter Soldier. It is NOT end game Winter Soldier. You will not find the BiS items in this build. 

Set Up

I capped myself at 150 Infinity Points for these trial guides. It won't take too long to build up that many. By the time you've leveled up a few characters for synergies and farmed some Heroic (Red) Challenges and terminals for some gear you may even be past 150 IP when you try the trial. Worst thing that can happen when you try the trial is you fail there is no punishment. So give it a shot and see if you're missing damage, survivability or both.

Not all end game builds work equally well with less IP and gear. I tried a couple of the builds that already existed and found one that worked well to get through the Cosmic Trial. 

Synergies

I honestly forgot to set my synergies and cleared w/ just Cyclops. So do that! Kidding. I went for +fighting, physical damage and health in the synergies I selected. Ant-Man, Cable, Elektra, Hulk, Moon Knight, She-Hulk, Squirrel Girl, Wolverine, War-Machine, Winter Soldier.

Infinities

I went with the Time Gem - Temporal Loop Hole for the Attack and Move Speed. Putting 150 points in one node also gives + to all stats.

Gear

- I just went for the highest damage ilvl 70 option.  could also work if you're dying alot.

For artifacts I went with really easy to obtain ranged damage and fighting. 

His own uniques get the job done for slot 1-5. I had a  and didn't get one of his unique slot 1s close to lvl 60 so I subbed this in instead.

For the medkit you want the shield on med kit use. Other than that prioritize your stats (STR, Fighting), health, and health on hit.

 

Team Up

Jessica Jones for the grouping is great for Winter Soldier.

Playstyle

 - Basic Ability. I never really used it. I just kept it on there in case spirit became an issue. There were a couple of times while leveling that I ran out and just wanted to make sure I had a way to regen spirit if it came to it during the trial. It never came to it. If you don't need this either then you got a skill slot.

- Decent damage, applies weaken. Also a great way to track the duration of your vulnerability and DoT from . Use the two of them in succession and use the CD of this to track the other. Leaps you into melee range.

- Withering fire. Blow all 10 charges whenever they're up. If an enemy dies and you have 2 charges left, keep firing until it goes to 0. It won't build more charges until it zeroes out.

- Dodge roll, adds a stealth. Use before  to give it a 100% crit chance. Usually I  into melee, then roll back out and fire .

- Signature. Good damage. Use all charges of  right before popping your signature as it will refresh all charges and increase the damage of Withering Fire.

- Applies vulnerable. Does not have a cooldown. Use  to track the duration of vulnerability and the DoT. Use the two skills together.

- Good damge. Execute. 100% crit chance if used after . 

- Filler. Decent damage. Stacking buff. Don't ignore your other CDs to keep firing this it's less damage and you'll run your spirit dry too fast. Use it when waiting for other CDs.

Basically fire  (vulnerable, DoT) >  (weaken jumps you into melee) >  roll out of melee >  100% crit chance after the roll >  > > . And then kinda repeat that. The timings won't always be 100% anytime  and  are off CD use them.

 

Hopefully this helps you clear the Cosmic Trial so that you can start farming your best gear and move on to bigger and better content and bigger and better guides! Have fun out there.

Thanks!

 Lil