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yo, mag classic and im40 are two of my absolute JAMS. im40 doesn't need to necessarily be high-level as long as he has level 5 yellow tho... i had maxed him WAY back when his yellow wasn't as good so i can't say. definitely champ mags, that red/blue are great even now that i have like 30 champed dudes

xpost yeah what leee said. champ both. then use both. then:

turn 1 match yellow
turn 2 match yellow
turn 3 recharge
...
...
turn 6 hit 'em with both of mags attacks
repeat

IM40 gives Hulkbusters, who is kind of good, so there's at least one reason to champion him. Also, leveling him up gives him more health, and every once in a while you'll use his non-yellow powers to bail you out, and having them at higher levels means more damage done.

Ok good tips thank you all!

Forks's last 11 (because I'm out sick today):

Beast
Not a monster compared to Fist, Cyclops, IM40, but underrated! Think of him as a faster, slappier R&G with an AOE but without the trve healing. Hits for decent damage if you get blue special tiles out (which includes countdown tiles, wink wink), so you'll want to rush blue. And once that happens, you can also cast yellow to set up some protects that'll minimize your match damage. I have him at 5/5/3.

Bullseye
Very useful in turning wave nodes into hilarity -- I use him every day in Big Enchilada -- and adds a fun little contest with yourself to see how to get as many strike tiles on board as you can. Also good against ninjas! 5/5/3.

Gamora
She's on my Big Enchilada team with Beast and Bullseye so that I have a decent red and a moderately useful black, but otherwise, she doesn't really stand well on her own. You'd have to include her on a Silly Strike Tile team for her red to be useful, in spite of the nice damage-per-AP ratio. 3/5/5 because there are so many better green abilities out there.

Quicksilver
Underrated, as Will sez. He's good at setting up or creating match-5s (so ModHawk and Professor X are good teammates), but also at lining up matches for trap tiles (so Daredevil namely, maybe Fury). I have him at 3/5/5 because I like to have more damage on green and blue, and when you use his black, it's not for the direct damage, it's for the tile rearrangement; however, you can definitely go with other builds depending on opponents and teammates.

Daredevil
So-so. With his blue and purple, he's decent partner for Patch, especially when you fight against a Hulk or someone else who has a passive that activates on damage taken (the stun, Berserker Rage, Radar Sense sequence does 7K+ base damage IIRC). If you want to use his red, you're better off making the matches yourself so you can recycle the trap tile, and in that case, you might want to bring Loki, Quicksilver, or Cyclops (for his red generation, but you'd want to use that for Cyclops's red anyway) (same with Mags: you'd probably use Mags's powers over DD's) -- basically anyone that can shuffle the board, cause cascades, place tiles to create matches, etc. Best build is situational, I respec him all the time (well, at least when I bother to use him nowadays).

Captain Marvel
Good black/red battery, but she has to tank for that to be most effective. Crucial in boss fights, especially if you have a Ghost Rider with a decent-covered Penance Stare. 5 yellow is the key, spec her black/red depending on your team.

Ragnarok
He's not good anymore, but has some niche uses. You want to generate blue? He's your man/robot. The self-damage on his green sucks but 2200 AOE to the enemy for 1200 to you isn't the worst tradeoff, especially if his teammates are trve healers. He's got pretty good health, so he can be an annoying part of your defensive PVP team (and in that case who cares about self-damage). 5/5/3 because if you're using Rags' blue, lol @ you.

Vision
I keep plugging the Vision/IF/Cage team! I mean, sometimes your Magneto needs a break, so you bring Vision in! His blue/red combo hits pretty hard, and if he's tanking matches, then that's 1K of damage per match 3 that he's doing when you have his blue CD tile out. (You might use his yellow despackling power with, say, Patch, but that's kind of a slow combo to roll IMO.) Also, since his blue and yellow are so cheap, he makes a decent teammate to Kamala -- they'd be annoying as a defensive team, too. I run him at 5/5/3.

Ock
One of the last of the 3*s I championed, I still haven't used him much, but he's probably another good Patch partner. (Also! Carnage.) Not too bad against goons, either, since matching away their CD tiles gives you your own attack tile.

Sentry
poly uses him more I guess? Might be a decent annoyance on defense where self-damage doesn't matter.

Colossus
lol ask Dan.

Daredevil is still pretty decent for the Red ability, though the usefulness of the Purple isn't that good now that we have characters than can blow up Strike, Attack, Defense, and Countdown tiles in one ability (DD's is just anti-strike). Continuous stun seems like it might a good pairing with BIB Spidey, but I only have 3 covers on him.

(DD's is just anti-strike)

Radar Sense kills Attack and Protect too! But yes, when you have a Jean Grey, DD is kind of old news.

I like Colossus for tanking and for Fastball Special when I have to bench characters with better black abilities so they can heal. I still haven't champed him, though; still need to do him, Beast, Cap Marvel and Ragnarok.

thanks for the breakdown Leee!

Buffs Character rebalances coming, apparently my man Star-Lord is among those getting tweaks.

Glad they're fixing the between-screens lag, been annoying me enough to seriously cut down my playing time over the last week or however long it's been since the last patch revision.

yeah, wasn't going to say as it felt like a "and they put crispies in my chocolate, i HATE crispies" problem but still

the new clearance level RULE though

omg get this patch out already D3

What patch are you talking about? If you mean the clearance levels in PVE, that's already out!

no to eliminate the delay lag in all the animations

After Gwen's DDQ4, they're changing the order so that X-23 is up next.

Happy about that since my x23 is l250

Can I win the Gwen crash with 1-2-2 l113 or whatever max is?

Legendary yesterday was another IW who I max covered like a year plus ago, so mad

Can I win the Gwen crash with 1-2-2 l113 or whatever max is?

YOU CAN DO IT.

champed magneto, iron man and lazy thor today. i guess i should hoard these legendary tokens for a bit?

yeah, hold onto them until you can create roster slots for them

btw, picked up a 5* Hulk cover today (PURPLE!!!!!!)

champed ares, daken, beast; nine covers for elektra XFW and Star Lord; champing my second 2 star wolverine for the iso; 1 cover apiece left for vision and doc ock and i have all my 3 stars ready to champ.
Working quicksilver now; finding the current pve easy to run and profitable... but OHHHH that slowdown

er sorry, max champed daken and ares to 144

I'm sure max can give his own updates

game has def become irritating to play... gotta do the story event tho for that last Cage cover

the steady trickle of SHIELD xp and more rewards has reinvigorated me

I champed 4* Thor last night!

4* Thor should be even better after the Silver Surfer and Cho Hulk buffs.

yes happy about that, she's one of my two champed 4 stars

and about Surfer, since mine's l345 1-3-2. which has kinda fucked up my mmr evidently. was hoping clearance levels would fix that so I don't get anymore bullshit OMLs but alas not yet.

so lazy thor, classic magneto and im40 are easy mode huh

does the app seem to be running/loading much more slowly for anyone else?

also - i've got 2 free spots (i opened all my deadpool covers and did pretty well on hero points). which of the following should i roster?

1x green beast *** cover
7x moonstone ** covers
2x colossus *** covers
3x sentry *** covers
2x ragnarak *** covers

i know these are all mostly undesirable but probably makes more sense to roster covers now and delete them later when something better comes along (i already rostered ms marvel ** since i had 11 covers for her lying around). i'm leaning towards rostering moonstone just bc i have so many covers for her and i can probably champ her soon for hulk covers. i'm about to get some colossus covers from divine champions... iirc some ppl do like him?

Moonstone becomes scary when boosted; her red starts hitting for insane amounts of damage on boards with a lot of red on them (also, as a 2*, you will get her covers faster than any of the 3s, none of whom are really essential)

Of the 3*s, go Beast. He's much, much more useful than the others listed.

Agree with Beast.

Pros and cons with Moonie: like Dan sez, she does scary damage at high levels, and she's very tanky (HUGE health pool), and if you like 3* Hulk, she'll spit out his covers. However, she's probably going to be locked out of a lot of PVE nodes because you're often fighting her as an opponent.

xp Mordy between-screens animation crawl-times still happening. seems to be server-side as it's wildly inconsistent. they said they's fix it in the next patch

so lazy thor, classic magneto and im40 are easy mode huh

And now I just champed Spidey -- done with 3*s!

congrats!!

i just did the two who i couldn't get to 13 covers for the longest time... luke cage and cyclops :D now i've only got guys i don't care that much about left to 3* (and i'm actually getting enough 4* covers to level dudes up)

the transition to a 4* roster, she is finally happening!

the 4 star transition is fun! particularly when you have a buffed one that week. I'm looking forward to the clearance levels being added to pvp so that I can hit the progression reward more regularly (no hope of placement anymore but whatever)

btw: coming up on day 1000 next week !!!

i'll get there... someday....

btw: coming up on day 1000 next week !!!

Enjoy your BSS!

oh no! i capped out my OBW. do i sell her and start collecting again from scratch?

if you have roster space, build up another one and sell when it makes sense. Otherwise, just sell them as you get them? OBW is kinda useful for the long game even so I wouldn't want to go back to a low-level version. I have two 2star wolverines going now, one max champed and one that I'm about to champ and then use for the rewards and to sell when I max him out.

i just sold my obw and am recollecting! just make sure you're comfortable enough with the rest of your 2* roster i guess, i am actually kinda struggling in the 2* nodes in DDP! (which honestly is a lil fun)

When I recycled my 2*s, I recycled them into the characters I hadn't played all that much, which led me to discovered that champed Moonstone and champed Bullseye can still stomp all over DDQ, they just aren't as "instant win" as CMags/ModHawk/CStorm.

Whom should I roster: Moonie or Bag Man?

bag man is the truth

I mean, obv Bagman

You guys decide, I obey!

Please do not actually waste your valuable roster slot on Bag-Man