The Superhero Database Classification number, or SHDB Class, is a number that represents the overall 'power' of a character. All traits of a character are used for calculating the Classification.
What it DOESN'T mean
This doesn't mean that a higher class would always beat a lower class character. But the bigger the difference in Class is, the more obvious it is who'll win in a fight.
How is this calculated
( INT^1.3 + (STR*0.5 )^2 + (SPE*0.5)^2 + DUR^1.6 + (POW + (SPS*SPL))^2 + COM^1.8 ) ^ TIER
Super Power Score and Level
Every Super Power has a score (SPS) that is used to calculate the Class. Each Super Power also has 3 levels (SPL). The level is set when connecting that Super Power to a character. The level determines the final score, of the Super Power, being used in the calculation.
AIPT: At this year’s New York Comic Con, X-Fan avatarkyungsoo said it was revealed that Jean Grey will undergo some changes and Phoenix writer Stephanie Phillips mentioned Jean would emerge from a psychic cocoon as a “cosmic queen.” How might this affect Jean’s role in the X-Men franchise and her dynamic with the X-Men line at large? Will this new direction see Phoenix eventually tackling storylines to do with the cosmic hierarchy or other cosmic entities?
Tom: I’ll answer the last part first. You’ll definitely see that and probably sooner than you even really expect. It’s hard to give you too many specifics because the actual story in which she goes through the things she goes through and emerges in the way she emerges hasn’t come out yet. But you’ll definitely see more larger and well-known cosmic entities. We’ve already seen a few in upcoming solicits and it’s been spoiled that a couple more are showing up. Thanos is in issues 6 and 7 and the Dark Gods are coming. But also, some of the more abstract entities. I’m probably not spoiling too much to say, oh, yeah, you’ll see Eternity and you might see the Living Tribunal and a few others as we go. But it’s difficult to really give a lot of specifics, at least until we’re on the other side of that transformational issue where at least there’s something I can point to and talk about.
AIPT: You’re keeping Jean busy. She’s making lots of new friends.
Tom: Yes, and without putting a timeline on it, we will see Phoenix interacting with the more earthbound X-cast at some point within the next year. So she won’t be completely on her own in space full-time. We’ll at least get some circumstance that will bring her back into the sphere of some of the other earthbound X-characters in a way.