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good ultron strats / team comps?

I am experimenting with XFW/Quake/CMags for maximum boardshaking/color elimination

XFW black to kill any bombs on Ultron's strongest color (red? can't remember now) + green to zap a whole bunch of tiles, hopefully including bombs + yellow that hopefully gets zapped at the bottom of the board and kills some more tiles and drops dmg on him

Quake green to reshuffle the board + blue to target bombs on colors I can't match away that aren't already covered by XFW black

CMags red to shake up the board and cascade away some bombs + blue to drop some damage and maybe get some free matches that lead to cascades and clearing of bombs

Obv the risk is that you shake a bunch of bombs onto the bottom of the board, which would be terrible, but at least in the initial levels I haven't seen much of this.

i kinda like steve rodgers for some board control since both his abilities can overwrite the special tiles

Ultron's strongest color is yellow.

Anyway, 4* Deadpool has been my centerpiece, since being buffed, his Countdown tiles do 3K damage each. The best part is that when Ultron destroys the bottom row, any Countdowns there will do damage as well.

The other two people I've brought along have been Maxie Pun and Quicksilver -- the first for potential strike tiles, the second to try to set up matches on bombs I can't reach. I haven't actually had the chance to use either of them, since Deadpool has taken care of everything so far.

thx Leee, red felt wrong but I couldn't remember and am currently locked out of the boss fight waiting for the timer to expire

hulkbuster and xfdp have been my mains for ultron, the above mentioned countdown + hb's boosted red are both instawins this early

UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE: OGDP, Blade, Falcon

Take a chunk off with DP's red, finish it with Blade's purple

Falcon steadily buffing strike tiles along the way

Hah! Invisible Woman's invisibility tile was out when a bomb dropped -- my team entirely dodged the damage!

mh, i've just cleared a spot, join us at ILX-Factor

My preliminary impression of Hawkguy is that he is a lot of fun. The animation on his black is the best in the game (esp if you are a fan of the Fraction series) and even though a bunch of his blue cooldowns got eaten, enough of them went off to wreak havoc on the wave I tested him against.

Thanos's purple stops Ultron from destroying the bottom row of the board

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Oh! Also I tried out the Wasp changes with my lvl 70 2/1/2 paired with SWitch and Falcon and HOLY SHIT

Her yellow alone is OUTSTANDING now; by the time I had enough purple to fire Bird Strike, I had 15 yellow and was able to buff all of his shields into 300+ strike tiles in one turn. The match ended shortly after that. Also, given how her blue works, I am thinking of swapping out SWitch for D4nvers for maximum lols.

yeah she's good now! & Spider Gwen too, who I have at 1-5-4 and thus have some hope of champing.

Hah just in time too, I have two Wasp covers in my queue.

Which 4* is in your Clint Barton vault? Mine has a purple Rulk, which would be great except that my Rulk has already maxed purple.

Mine has a black Bl4de.

God, Round 6 is when these PvEs turn to shit. At least I'm only one card away from finishing Starlord, now.

i got 2 bag of tricks tokens from this event and i notice the timer on cashing them in ends in about a day. but i don't really have the roster space for a new char (tho i guess i could probably find it before anything i pulled expired). if i don't use the tokens right now, will i lose anything cashing them in later? like does the prize pool worsen once the initial event expires?

don't think so, odds should stay the same iirc

Thanks for getting me that last Starlord, everybody!

Ugh why am I still playing this game? (Something I ask myself probably a few times a day, tbh.)

I have been really, really enjoying Wasp/Hawkguy/Star Lord even though all three are seriously undercovered

Star Lord is INCREDIBLE now, he gets one of his countdowns out and suddenly Hawkguy's arrow spam and Wasp's strike/protect flip and buff are each 3 AP, plus every countdown adds damage to SL's red. I've come through multiple PvE goon nodes with zero damage using this combo.

Starlord rules, it's true

so apparently you can sell your spider-gwen for like 1000-2000hp atm. my is actually decently covered so i'm thinking i won't.

Mordy, whenever one of the characters gets a redesign (buff or nerf), they have an increased sale price for a little time afterwards.

And yes on SL, I've been rocking him even before his buff. #mpqhipster

is this a buff or a nerf? and more importantly should i sell her for the hp?? she's covered 3/1/2

it's a buff (her burst heal now can target her as well as teammates)

if you don't have a good web tile generator to power her, having her isn't critical IMO; the only problem with selling her is that she isn't one of the 12 you can pull with tokens/CP so it will take a looooong time or incredibly fortuitous RNG to build her back up again

I wish I could give someone else my roster because I'm pretty sure I'm going on a hiatus.

Theoretically couldn't you link to someone else's Facebook account so they could get a backup of your roster and then let them restore that backup to their device?

They'd have to stay logged into my FB, although admittedly I don't use my account anymore for anything else than MPQ backups.

Would they? It doesn't erase the roster on your device if you disconnect your Facebook account; why couldn't you disconnect, connect to someone else's so that the account backs up to them, and then disconnect from them? (I do see that this would be more of a "I'm quitting" move than "I'm going on hiatus".)

I think I read on the forums once that D3 monitors that kind of account swapping. Anyway: I'm free! (We'll see how long this lasts.)

Enjoy the break!

I had thought about quitting for a while but I just got Peggy to 5/5/3 and have a cover waiting to champ her, so it looks like I have at least one ISO grind left in me.

Also, I started using Star Lord more in PvE and omg he + 4Cyke is one of my new favorite easy mode combinations (the other is Patch/Dak3n/Thano5, especially on early PvE nodes)

opened my 10 heroic pack got 2 Mordo's and a Wasp (!!) and the rest were 2*. feel like i hit the RNG at the right time.

wish there was an IAP step between $4.99 and $19.99 on HP. those bastards. 13 more hours to decide if i want to bite

in the meantime, i want both those green Jean Grey covers in the vault so I'm actually slowly burning all my vault tokens to get in, burned 50 in the last day. hopefully i won't have to go all the way (started at 290)

btw champed Peggy is STUPID GOOD

175 opened, still no Jean. brutal odds!

#227 - 1000HP
250 tokens in and no Jeans or Legendary Pack. I guess I'm going all the way to 300..

#264 Jean #1
#276 Legendary Token
#283 Jean #2
and because i'm a sadist, what the hell i'll just pull the remaining 17 tokens

champed Jean is amazing. I'm cutting through PVP and PVE right now like butter with her.

I champed Spider Woman a few days ago. I still don't get her. Moon Knight, on the other, he's a beast, happy to have champed him.

working on champing 3 star Thanos now (at 154 now), then I guess all the 2 stars I don't have champed, which is a lot. those go fast though and I'm tired of just selling extra covers.

The SWitch PVP has been fun for exploiting a hole in the SWitch/Jean synergy by using Jean against it; basically I match my SWitch's countdown and let the opposing team's go off, hoping it makes a match 5 and triggers my Jean's AOE stun. Usually by the time this happens, I have enough purple through matches (or can get it from my SWitch countdown during the stun) that I can then drop my Jean's purple AOE on them. Add in Mr Fantastic's Imaginaut and I am usually dropping one of them, if not both.

Of course, when it doesn't work I am eating a big purple AOE against me, which sucks. It works a lot of the time for me, though.

Maybe Quake against Jean/SWitch?

Quake has the advantage of mitigating a lot of the AoE damage but if she isn't boosted, you still get hit with 3K/character from Jean (not sure what SWitch does with boosted Reality Crush; that still might be under or close to Quake's cap).

My other thought was to go with Wasp/OML and turn OML's strikes into ridiculous protect tiles to wipe out as much of the incoming AoE damage as possible but I need more Wasp covers to keep her from insta-dying.

One thing with Jean that was highlighted in her Crash is that she's not exactly the most interesting to play. It's just a matter of getting enough purple and green and then smashing the opponent, which lacks the extra dimensions and strategies of other characters like Iceman or Wasp. Of course, that's a skewed view of her when it's based on her 1-on-1 match and her AOE is less effective.

RIP Old Man Logan

OMG new Bagman PVP, this might bring me back to the game! (Not really.)

boosted 3* Thanos Court Death is pretty hilarious, btw