Which powers for my character concept?

So I want to make a Hobgoblin type character(the villian from Spider-man). A shady technology-based character in a halloween mask I'm naming The Grim Gremlin.

So what's a good archtype and powerset combo to go with this concept. I was thinking an electric/traps corruptor or maybe a Stalker of some kind. Advice?

An assault rifle/traps corruptor would be a nice combo for the nasty bag of tricks feel. My buddy has one, and he loves it.

A */Traps Corrupter is probably your best bet, yeah, with another possible choice for primary being Fire (if you want to go heavy on the "explosives").

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Well Since his signature weapon is punkins. Traps would work, but orange colored flying skulls from Dark would be neato too from Dark Blast.

But since hes techy, then perhaps Dual Pistal/Traps

Fire/Devices or Fire/Traps is a s close as you would get.

You might also try a Crab Spider (Bane Spider built for gun attacks). You'd get a very agile, hard to hit guy with a gun and two grenade types plus you could go Pyre epic and add Fireball.

If you specifically want the Hobgoblin's pumpkin bomb type attacks, try a Dark/Traps Corruptor with orange Dark powers. That's about as close as you'll get to flaming jack-o-lantern bombs in look, but you won't have them actually explode since the attacks that have the right look are single target. Energy/Traps colored orange might also give something like the right look and more of the right feel.

If you want to wait until Beam Rifle is out you may want to check that out too.

Isn't Poison getting proliferated with issue 21? I could see a Fire/Poison corruptor working fairly well for a Hobgoblin-esque character. Granted, you might have to wait until Freedom launches. /traps and /devices from Corruptors/Defenders and Blasters would work fairly well too. Heck, now I'm getting a little jazzed about the idea and thinking that maybe I could wait until 21 for poison. Mmm, Dark attacks, yeah, also good.

I could almost see Dual Pistols working too, what with the ammo types and effects, not that people swap out to different types that often, but that's definitely an option if you wanted to have a bigger bag of tricks.

Lots of good suggestions, and Traps is an awesome set, but doesn't the Hobgoblin character spend a fair bit of time airborne? That doesn't mesh as well with Traps, but a Fire/Devices Blaster might not be a bad compromise. If not actually planning to fly a lot, then i would tend to go with Fire/Traps as well.

I think the Ultimate Green Goblin throws fire balls and I think a coh version of the Hobgoblin could do the same. I say fire/ traps corr would fit the theme.