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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

I've been running OML/Thanos/R&G for non-required PvE nodes and it's hilariously good. On early nodes, Thanos ends the match in 3 turns thanks to OML's high match damage. In later nodes, OML/R&G strike tiles ramp up the OML's match damage so that Thanos can again womp the entire team with a bat. Meanwhile, OML heals back up to full at the beginning of the next match and when R&G gets into the danger zone, one yellow match puts them back to almost full health. I start with Thano5 for the added stun on Court Death, then switch to 3* as 5* gets beaten up.

It's kind of funny that they're nerfing OML when Thano5 is going to be the real game breaker in the next year or so.

yeah, Thanos and Black Bolt were better than OML. I thought OML's healing was a bit too good (no health packs needed unless he dies) but otherwise he was in a good place.

Because I have OML undercovered (no red, argh), I mostly use him for match dmg/dmg sponge and not as an offensive character and get actively pissed if I accidentally transform him until I remember that I can usually spam yellow and black to erase the other team in 2-3 turns.

On a side note, bonus heroes FINALLY gave me a red Phoenix cover and I am very, very quickly falling in love with her all over again.

So I'm getting 3 Dino covers this week from my SHIELD Resupply. Is there any reason at all to roster him? Technically I could probably make the space for him (and put off for another few weeks opening any of my 30+ legendary tokens and using my now 1236 CP, not to mention i want to roster rag, sentry, colossus, and the now 8 4*'s i don't have rostered yet) but afaict he's never used for anything? If I do roster him, can I level him up to a point where it's worth selling him and make something off the whole deal? Any advise?

Also, while I have u guys -- I now only have 9 3*'s left to champ! Beast, Gamora, Psylocke, Spider-Man, Hawkeye (not fully covered yet), Col, Rag and Sentry (last 3 not rostered yet). I guess I'll end up champing them all before I'm even ready to champ 4*'s - my closest 4*'s ready to be champed are Wolv (8 covers), Sam Wilson (8 covers), and Spider-Gwen (6 covers). I think Hawkeye would probably be my priority if I had the covers for him - so assuming not what do you guys think... Beast > Gamora > Psylocke > Spider-Man?

My opinion:

Beast is unambiguously the best of the characters you've ranked due to a cheap spammable blue and a green that hits like a truck when boosted. I like Psylocke more than Gamora but her damage output lags behind in the current game while Gamora can be terrifying if she's the last character standing or tanks a lot of the colors (if she can get a lot of her strike tiles out, her damage output goes from "eh" to "wtf why"). Spider Man is great at what he does and what he does is not rewarded by the current mechanics of the game at all, so even though I have fond memories of him from back in the day, I'd say he's a lower priority unless you get enough covers from him to get some Miles covers out of his champion rewards.

Devil Dinosaur is a trophy. If you don't care about trophies, you don't need to roster/level him. (I care about trophies, which is why I championed Bag-Man this week.) He does have a periodic required event but... eh.

I have bagman covers I'm still not sure what to do with too.

Just out of curiosity: What 4*'s does Bagman give when champed?

Also out of curiosity since I'm nowhere near this point (and can't find the information through googling) what do maxxed 3* champs give when you sell them? Has anyone ever done this like I'm always doing with my 2* champs?

mordy, in your heart you know what to do with those covers

btw at this rate you are definitely going to catch me

Bag-Man gives 0 4*s, because he's a 2*. It would be a no-brainer to champ him if his champ rewards completely skipped the 3* tier!

(He gives 3* Spidey)

lol yes that's what i meant i misspoke

Baggy also gives you a legendary when you get him to 144.

mordy, in your heart you know what to do with those covers

my heart says yes, my HP says... maybe.

Some of these new characters are incredible. I've been running through goon nodes of all stripes and levels with Wasp (lvl 229 5/3/3), Cpt M4rvel (lvl 70 0/4/2) and Agent Coulson (lvl 70 3/3/1) and it is just ABSURD how well they work together:

Wasp creates a strike tile and a protect tile
Using a power triggers Coulson passive and he places a cooldown
Cooldown expiration triggers M4rvel's passive, which buffs the strike and protect
Every time you use Wasp's yellow to buff the tiles, Coulson drops another cooldown
Get enough blue and Wasp creates her own cooldown
Coulson's purple energizes before swapping, so you can use it to get 5 yellow and fire Wasp's tile/strike buff, which will drop another Coulson cooldown

I don't even miss M4rvel's black; it's totally unnecessary. Add in the cooldown bug and every expiration is dropping an extra 1K of damage on the enemy. Take this team into a game where the enemy matches tiles and every time the enemy makes a match of its strongest color, M4rvel gives you 2 yellow.

With Wasp leveled so much higher, she tanks a lot, which saves the squishier characters from everything except AOE powers; Wasp herself doesn't get that banged up because by the time the opposing team can start firing powers, she is usually sitting on a 1.5K protect tile.

If yellow remains highest damage once I level all of them, this is going to be my new default no-5* team.

I've been neglecting leveling my 4 stars for champing my 2 stars, finally; have just Bullseye (l71 currently I think), Cap, and Mag left. It's nice not to waste so many covers now, and the champ level goodies are pretty good.

DJP is it weird if I facebook friend you to get in on the ISO gifts? I've been on ilx long enough that I know your rl name.

Go for it!

As a bonus, your Facebook feed will be inundated with adorable pictures of my kids and nihilistic bitching about the state of the world.

I can live with that!

NEED ISO-8

DONE AND DONE

Cloak & Dagger look fun!

I am looking forward to my eventual C&D/Wasp/OML team

My kingdom for a black C4rol card

I've played this daily for the last month (did that VIP thing to try to catch up a little) and you guys are still an echelon above my pay grade

It's being nicer about giving me cards for my few champed characters although I don't have enough good ones to get that enemy-bashing synergy really rolling. Currently using weak ol' Magneto to get a match of over 5 blues, getting Hawkeye to drop a bunch of those quick shot countdown tiles, and throwing the blues to Storm

That combo is basically a DDQ steamroll; you can get all of the 2*/3* nodes relatively easily with that team (don't forget to throw in Hawkeye's red from time to time)

Yeah, even with Storm downed, I had one game where Hawkeye's shots and Magneto's steel hammer all dropped on the same turn and it was delightful

y'all

Wasp and 3Blade are boosted in the Prodigal Sun PVE

If you have usable versions of these two, you HAVE to run them together, it is hilarious

At one point, I had 12 strike tiles on the board that were all doing over 1K damage. Then I put out Blade's purple attack tiles. The match was over 2 turns later.

With enough red on the board, you can easily get your match damage up to 11K.

Oh, Peggy is boosted too; each hit of her blue when it resolves lands for 10K

Made curious about the 2011 Warren Ellis Moon Knight series from the card. "Mr. Knight" is a trip. Good stuff, Marvel cross-media promotion actually working for once!

just opened my ten pack - did pretty amazing imo: 4* jean gray, 3* iron fist, medusa, 3* steve rogers, 4* cpt marvel, 3* blade, and 4* venom

Sorry about that Venom, unless he got a buff.

we're all compulsive hoarders here anyway

four 4*s is damn good

Sorry about that Venom, unless he got a buff.

gotta catch 'em all even magikarp

I've come to the conclusion that a lot of the people who are complaining about vaulting preventing them from building competitive rosters aren't in 4* land and aren't playing around with some of the new characters, because there are some ferocious, devastating combos out there among the following:

Wasp
Medusa
Bl4de
4Luke
Coulson
Cpt M4rvel

Is any one of them a self-powering steamroller? Not really. I'd still rather champ any of them over Rulk (maybe not Iceman).

4* land?

*peers into the distance, longingly*

It will come eventually! I didn't start getting a decent roster until I started focusing on the progression awards in PVE rather than PVP; it was a lot of grinding though.

ditto. i've got 26 LT right now i've been saving up and 1500 CP (/20 per CL = an additional 75 CL tokens!). every 3* is rostered except for colossus and all but 7 are champed. every 4* is rostered but 5 (mr.f, venom eddie brock, deadpool, the thing and war machine). i'll hopefully be able to open all these tokens soon and presumably cover at least a couple 4*s (have at least a few btwn 6-8 covers) but it requires so much iso to champ them that i'm not in any kind of rush.

I would love if it'd stop giving me the same 1* card over and over. I can't champ that Spider-Man. Stop giving me the damn cards!

oh yeah, standard tokens suck a lot (unless you manage to get a 3* out of them because they guarantee a bonus 3* pull)

otoh every little bit of ISO helps

I was banking it and was up to about 70k before I realized I had just a single character I'd forgotten to level

is that true that pulling a 3* from a standard token guarantees a bonus pull? i think i got one today (bonus pull: hawkeye) but just assumed i was super lucky

fwiw i wouldn't bother spending iso on 1*'s - you'll make the transition to 2*'s quickly enough and ultimately you'll just have 1* (juggernaut probs) on your roster

I have no 1* characters to spend iso on, I'm all done with 1*, please stop giving me them entirely