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aaaaand i just hit my 13th bl4de on a leg pull (was 5/5/2, i gave up hope). everything's coming up willhouse!

Blade and Medusa are aces

Running C4rol + Loki + Daken in Combined Arms is highlarious

Ooh that’s a good combo.

I just saw someone complaining on the D3Go forums that they couldn't beat Squirrel Girl with a lvl 282 Devil Dinosaur

Maybe it's just me but I really don't think the problem there is with DD

lol

I guess more accurately the complaint was he couldn't steamroll Squirrel Girl with a champed DD

I still stand by my post

btw if you have Jean/SWitch/Cyk3 available to you Apocalypse is very, very easy

another great team for apocalypse is c4rol/coulson/c&d

champed vulture today. excited to use him.

True. I like going with the mutant theme, though (I know technically SWitch isn't a mutant anymore but in my mind she still counts)

welp somebody plunked down $100

i don't have that fancy stuff lol. getting it done with switch/GSBW/Quicksilver. so far so good :)

I loved this boss event. I also love my newly-champed Medusa, holy shit

Also while I'm happy the have grabbed two 5* Gambit covers, did they both have to be black?

I got one Gambit 5 star cover.

Medusa is so awesome. The Bl4de / Medusa / C4rol combo is my main SHIELD sim combo.

In this PVE Silver Surfer is buffed so I have a 450 SS there! I wish the progression 4 star weren't another champ cover, though my X-23 is now like 282?

My 3 star Black Panther is getting close to 266, guess I rebuild him after that?

My G4mora is at 252 now, will champ here (with two extra covers) in the next couple of days. Then maybe C4ge? Or 4Rocket and Groot.

i gotta get a gambit 5*. i used to not care but now that you need them to max out pve...

also if u guys like blade/medusa/carol then u gotta try gamora/grocket/medusa which is so fast

I need more Grocket covers

I am very annoyed that I had Kingpin, XPool, Nova, Agent Venom, and Kingpin all lined up at 13 covers during the anniversary event when ISO was literally falling out of the sky and the only 14th cover that came in for me was... Kingpin.

OTOH I champed Devil Dinosaur so now I all need are a bunch of Howard covers and I can delete my account satisfied with a job well done.

lol

I sold at least 5 Devil Dino covers, I'm not gonna champ him anytime soon.

I did champ 4 star Gamora and 4 star Luke Cage during the anniversary.

Now I gotta trudge through leveling a few 2 stars I neglected during those pushes, and then I'll turn to 4 star Rocket and Groot, even without a 14th cover.

I also drew my 12th Phoenix cover, but I guess you're not supposed to level 5 stars unless you want to have to use your 5 star in every PVP. That sounds awful.

https://news.marvel.com/games/78585/piecing-together-marvel-puzzle-quest-nightcrawler/

These articles would be so much more valuable if the person imparting the information didn't keep making glaring mistakes about characters and mechanics in the game. That being said, FINALLY NIGHTCRAWLER WOO

There is speculation that is blue power is an AOE, which would be cool

does he bamf away a bunch of attack tiles

He bamfs himself airborne when hit with an AOE attack and can flood the board with its most dominant color

He bamfs himself airborne when hit with an AOE attack and can flood the board with its most dominant color

Apparently if purple is the dominant color, the game is effectively over because he can BAMF his way into infinite purple collection.

it's kinda boring but also kinda hilarious

I have been ignoring Black Bolt because I only have 1 green cover for him. That has repeatedly saved my ass on his required node, though; I may throw him at more troublesome goon nodes more often now.

the damage on it isn't so great when he's unboosted. i still use it, it's decent with strike tiles out.

TBH it isn't even the damage that's impressing me (although I'm not complaining about a 6K AOE from a character with one cover), it's being able to completely reset a board that goons have flooded with strike tiles that I can't easily match away. Yes, the AP drain is annoying but that's better than having a stupid Maggia Muscle hit me with a Tommy Gun while 5 overpowered strike tiles are on the board. (Obv Gwenpool would help there too by killing the strikes but I still might eat the AOE.)

I'm taking a break, if anyone wants me to drop the alliance for now, I'll bounce

Any thoughts on 5* Thor? On paper he looks like a killing machine (a 13+K AOE???)

oh jeez i forgot to ask this thread for the advice i wanted to ask for... i'm approaching 120 CP and i have a couple of candidates sitting at 12 covers 4* that i might champ...

- Quake, currently 5/2/5 (thinking maybe her? she needs just that middle cover, and she's no longer in the vault, seems like a prime candidate to sink 120cp into)
- Coulson, currently 3/5/4 (maybe better? but not vaulted yet, and twice the chance to hit his missing cover)
- Kingpin, 4/3/5 (prob not)
- Riri, 2/5/5 (prob not)

Also some key 11/13 covers I am considering just bc I hear they're so good: Thor4 (2/5/4), Red Hulk (5/3/3), Starlord4 (5/4/2)

i've currently got i think 15ish 4*s champed (some good ones but also including some real, REAL bad ones, because that was when i champed anything that hit 13 covers) - https://mpq.gamependium.com/rosters/Brilliam/

Of those top 4, Riri or Quake. Quake doesn't hit hard but has a ton of board control and the AOE negation is *kisses fingers*. Riri post-rework is a fucking BEAST; her blue hits decently, creates cascades, and generates a ton of red and her red is a literal Mack truck of awesomeness as long as you're facing 1 or 3 opponents. (It loses half its damage with 2 opponents, something to consider if someone like Vulture is airborne.) Her green is situational but having the ability to zap a dangerous character or halt a countdown so you have enough time to gather AP to get rid of it or kill the airborne enemy once they came back down has saved me multiple times. Coulson is also amazing, particularly with C4rol, but as you say you still have a chance to pull his covers at a higher rate.

As a side note, this may be crazy talk but... consider leveling Thano5, OML, and SS to 270, at least. The higher match damage and synergy between those three can help you a lot in PVE (two true healers to recover from Thanos's black, plus OML will drop strikes after any friendly power that doesn't stun him and SS will charge tiles all over the place, increasing your AP collection potential). I currently have SS and Thanos at 375 and OML at 345 (with no red covers!) and I am clearing out the first 3-4 PVE nodes in 1-2 turns.

(Notice I didn't mention Kingpin. He is very annoying to play now and I only champed him because the covers came in.)

i have never used CP to buy covers -- it's always gone into the classic legends pulls. Now that they've put in 5* covers for 250 CP, I might change that.

tempting but man that's steep

The price for leveling covers directly on a 5* is 720 CP so this seems like an amazing bargain to me that I might someday do.

I might buy the last Phoenix cover I need when that comes up

Classic Legends cost 20 CP and have a 1 in 8 chance of drawing a random 5* cover, meaning a random 5* cover costs 160 CP on average (not subtracting for the average of 7 4* covers you'd also get.) Paying 250 CP for a specific one seems good, especially since you get to avoid the bad 5*s that are in there, like Doc Ock and Bruce Banner.

The people talking about using a 0/0/X 5* Gambit in PVE might have a point.

Thanks to the lol that is boosted 5 stars, I stared running 5* Spidey (3/1/4, boosted lvl 398), Spider-Gwen (3/3/4, boosted lvl 251) and 5* Gambit (0/0/3, boosted lvl 345) and I have been stomping all over the Venom event; since Gambit has no active powers, he just sits in the background generating purple for Gwen to flood the board with web tiles and red for Spidey to turn those web tiles into critical tiles, which then pick up 5* match damage and melt the enemy team. Also, Gwen’s purple has a random stun on one enemy and only costs 6 AP, so I’m firing it every third turn even if I actively avoid purple; if I chase it, I can fire it multiple times in a turn and make Spidey into a nightmare.

This wouldn’t work if Gambit had his actives; right now I get 2 red/2 purple each turn but at 5 covers I’d get 3 of each. Add to that the higher baseline match damage he gives you and, while I’d expect to see him eaten alive in PVP, I feel like there are options here to make PVE less Thanos-centric.

Oh, 3* Blade is also boosted so I can swap Gwen out for him and melt faces with attack tiles that are massively discounted due to all the free AP. I also ran Gambit with Thoress in the arena lightning rounds; that was also hilarious.

Yeah I think Gambit's kinda broken. And Spider-Gwen's purple does 2 turns stun to 2 enemies at level 5.
nightcrawler's purple is also brokenly good. i expect some nerfs.

New LOL team for the current PVE (all boosted);

5* Daredevil: 0/1/0 lvl 365
4* Cage: 3/5/5 lvl 379
5* Thor: 0/0/1 lvl 345

This is basically the “you can’t hurt me” team; Cage drops a beefy protect tile every time the enemy team fires a power and Thor’s yellow drops a repeater that drops decent protects every turn. Then the rest of the match becomes chasing green to put Daredevil’s DOT damage out and chasing yellow so Thor can turn all of the protects on the board into strikes and melt faces. (I’d use Hobofist I stress if he was boosted; since Thor adds to the invulnerable side AND can flip the whole board into a lol death trap, I went with him)

Oh, also I got a 5* Thor cover

jelly

nice

I dunno if I should try to draw a 5thor with the 25 cp tokens or keep saving them to get 250 to get my last phoenix cover when she comes up. I have ~180cp right now.

DD is the only other 5 star I don't have.

running champed/boosted G4mora + C4ge + Mordo is nice though. I only recently champed my C4ge so this is my first time running him boosted. yeah no one does any damage against me!

I am 2 covers away from max covering Thano5 but I'm spending all my CP on pulls because I need so many covers for most of my other 5*s/4*s

Speaking of which, I max covered a bunch of 4*s; my champing queue (still driven by whichever cover comes up first) now is:

Winter Soldier (in progress)
XPool
Prof X
Star Lord
Nova
Ant-Man
Agent Venom
Grocket (c'mon RNG)

i've champed a bunch of 4 stars lately. my roster is now c4rol, coulson, riri, mordo, bl4de, c&d, hobo fist, medusa, AV, r&g, g4mora, gwenpool, sandman, mockingbird, yondu, luke c4ge, th4r, iceman, and vulture. i'm champing peggy in 2 days.

I’m champing 4rocket now, at 220ish now, have two covers that’ll expire in 3-4 days so it’s gonna be tight

Hes already very strong w G4mora in shield

After him I need to do some 2 star work and maybe 3 star too unless I get a 4 star cover that I already have 13 for, eg Nova, Kate Bishop, or Colson whose last cover I can buy tomorrow in the heroes store

I love Coulson + C4rol

I know I could just write "I love <insert random 4* here that uses countdowns> and C4rol" but that particular combo is often lethal.

Carol & Cho were hilarious last week. I learned from the AI how lethal popping his blue countdown tile repeatedly is