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I beat the Ant-Man DDQ on the third try with 5/0/4, underleveled. I got the strike and attack tiles out in good positions and just had to survive. My prize was a Red Hulk purple (0/1/1).

I sold Quicksilver and championed my last two fully-covered 3*s. I got Prof X purple (2/2/4) and Iceman blue (3/4/1), pretty good.

Balance of Power's always a gas, everyone at 555 is even more silly

its fun because you p much can't lose but it's not fun because every battle takes 10 minutes

haha yes!

can I just say that Falcon/IF/Cage is even more ridiculous in this tournament than normal

Don't forget about that each Gauntlet has 2 CPs up for grabs.

I hit that point about halfway through the second Gauntlet where I'm just like ehhhhhhh this is such a drag

Gauntlet (slog) + Balance of Power (slog) + end of season = MPQ may be actually trying to get people to "take a break" to avoid burnout. It'd be interesting if that was a purposeful event design decision.

tbh I am finding Balance of Power to be hilarious

your characters' power scales based on how many covers they have rather than their actual level, correct? this is my assumption anyway

it doesn't upgrade your powers, if that's what you mean, only your level

so my 1/1/1 luke cage is probably not a good play, but if you had a level 40 5/5/3 LK you'd be good. i've been using psylocke and GSBW a bit, because they're cover maxed but nowhere near 166, just to see how they'd play (albeit absurdly exaggerated)

Yeah my question is "if you have all the covers, do you scale to the same level as a fully-maxed character or would you be proportionally weaker?" Trying to see if I should bust out Hulk/KK or not

near as i can tell my GSBW keeps up with all other GSBWs despite being level 41 or something

okay gonna fire up some lols with Hulk/KK/R&G, will report back on whether this is as ridiculous a combo as I predict it will be

CMags/Loki/Patch is already on deck to rofflestomp, also looking for someone to pair with She-Hulk (MagNow/Blade?)

How about Shulk/Patch/MagNow? Gather blue via Mags, cast BR, then steal some strike tiles?

It used to be fun to fight BoP with Hood/OBW/Juggs and get points from other people attacking you. But it looks like the more common characters don't level up as well now.

Then board shake + AOE damage with her red? xp

oooooh that's nice Leee

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FINALLY. Glad I took the plunge to champion him.

Tony & Steve will be back in business!

http://i.imgbox.com/govHFR0N.jpg

whoa that's nice, he was my first 166, we're back in business boys

RIP Ballistic Salvo stun ;_;

ya for real

that recharge though. 12R 12B!!! from 6Y!!! two matches away from a Fat Cap yoyo party. One match if you use stockpiles. Stooooked. When does this update go in?

I maintain that while IM40 wasn't a top-tier character in the wake of some of those who came after him, he was still very, very effective if you used Recharge to fuel his insanely-expensive powers and drained your other colors before firing Unibeam and Ballistic Salvo. But overall this looks better.

it's waaaaay better, his red is now close to cyclops tier (close only b/c of the ap drain)

5-3-5 seems obv

rip blue but I only got it off maybe 10 times ever anyway

my IM40 strategy was always a survival game; last long enough to fire Recharge, drain all your colors except blue/red while IM40 is stunned, Ballistic Salvo, murder unstunned enemies with Unibeam, kill the stunned enemy

rinse/repeat; it was very effective before insane burst damage became the name of the game

Will, it's updating with the next patch.

xp As someone who actually used IM40 on a semi-regularly basis, his red was kind of worthless because I always used him with Cap and Cap's red is orders of magnitude better. His blue, though, I agree that it kind of sucks that it's losing the stun, which I'd use in the last wave of the 3* DDQ to minimize the number of turns the AI got -- and I used it in the last wave precisely because I needed that much time to gather that much blue. But as a tradeoff for the insane amount of AP you get now from Recharge, I'm totally ecstatic. Think about KK/Cap/IM40!

xxp I'm actually thinking I'll spec my IM40 to 3/5/5, because having that team-wide damage is more important than a red that I'll ignore (assuming of course that I'm running him with Cap).

I'm trying to remember what my team was; I think it was IM40/X-Force/Daken? I know I wasn't using Cap or FatCap because I didn't have either of them leveled.

yeah but with cap won't cap's blue be more useful too?

at least the cost of IM40's blue is down to 16, but there's still an ap hit. can't see myself using it much, I dunno. but his red & yellow, yessssss

Is there a widely-considered "best" blue power in the game? For 3* anyway? Could be interesting to roll IM40/Cap/whoever that is, and just ignore over half of the board. you're really banking on hitting those yellows, tho. R&G maybe, since he's also got that green?

right now my favorite active blue powers are Beast and R&G

R&G blue is amazing, no doubt.

I like Cap's b/c it returns + you get that protect tile.

I LOVE Doom's blue with xforce but my xforce is 272 so it feeds a massive surgical strike. but even on its own Doom's blue creates hilarious cascades.

oh yeah I forgot about Doom's blue

cascade city + almost guaranteed Summon Demons (which for at least a turn or 2 will do silly damage, especially if you've got some strike tiles out)

hmmm I am now pondering Doom/BP/Patch

maybe i should reboost doom's blue to 5, i have him at 5/3/5 now because i love DPlot so much... maybe try 3/5/5? i don't use summon demons that much despite how killer it is

doom + falcon + IM40 ?

yeah my doom's at 3-5-5 though post-championing not so crucial

doom/BP/patch is something i have rolled & enjoyed many times fyi

xpost haha doom falcon im40 i will totally try

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so many characters use red for strike tiles that Summon Demons gets undervalued; stick him with Beast/BP/Sentry/R&G/Patch/Punisher/prob forgetting someone though...

actually Falcon/Doom/non-red strike tile generator could be hilarious

xp: lol everyone firmly on the "Falcon makes everything better" train

Falcon's yellow power is one of the best powers in the game IMO, and his blue has saved my ass so many times

simply pairing him with someone who has a good use for yellow matches already has my mouth watering.

also i wish that strike and attack tiles had better names, i can never remember which one is which. like they're named backwards! attack/defense should be sword/shield and strike should be the tile that, uhh, strikes on its own???

or just call them sword/shield/punch tiles because i'm 8 yrs old thx

Ororo glares and dark clouds coalesce. Hailstones pelt the enemy, converting 16 basic tiles to Strength 10 PUNCH TILES.

yeah Falcon in unequivocally my favorite character, even over powerhouses because his main function is to turn anyone on your team who puts down attack or strike (or protect, which isn't as important in today's burst dmg game but still helpful) into a powerhouse

like the only issue I have with my default combo of Falcon/IF/Cage is that IF tanks purple, green and black and ends up taking way more dmg than I want him to, but that's offset by Falcon making his strike/attack combo leap into the 2K range while prepping Luke's Righteous Uppercut

but then I can stick him with, say Patch and Loki, and it's super lol "oh hey I'm now invulnerable and every match I make hits you for 3K plus ILLUSION"

yeah but with cap won't cap's blue be more useful too?

Absolutely -- it's just that I usually use(d) IM40 whenever I have a lot of goons, esp. Teisatsus, and/or survival nodes, and when I reach the last wave, I often like to use Ballistic Salvo as a finisher or near-finisher.

I have Doom at 3/5/5 (occasionally change him to something as needed) because someone on this board said that Imagine Dragons is basically made obsolete by Blade's OP punch tiles, and the awesomeness of black cascades (which can also feed Cage or Cyclops) is salivating.

And when you pair him with Patch, your own purple trap tiles can block BR's purple knife tiles from being placed.

Also much love to R&G blue. And don't sleep in CMags's idiotically painful blue.

Oh man, completely forgot cmags. IM40/Cap/Cmags would be a giant, hilarious fuck you to "balanced" rosters

woo! last boost of 7 CP got me a black deadpool 4*, at 4-1-1 now, almost usable :) :) :)

haha yeah forgot about cmags too, that's probably the best blue in the game, at least for 3 stars

Leveled my 4/2/3 Star-Lord to 100 and test drove him against Gamora -- yeah, died in like lol 6 turns, so I think I'll be skipping this one.

My 3/2/3 maxed S-L can get around a third of her life off... don't think it's happening.