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Nu-Cap looks like he can slow down Gambit enough for others to kill him, esp if he can drop two countdowns on different colors. I am very interested in running him with AC and Thor and seeing what happens.

Gambit still gains AP to use when the countdowns expire.

Wait, so we have two 5* Caps now?

Yes it’s dumb

Two 5* Caps, two 5* Spideys, can’t wait for the next 5* Wolverine and 5* Thor because as we all know Marvel only has like 6 characters to draw from

(Maybe someday the New Mutants will show up, if love a 5* Magik)

6* Franklin Richards inevitable
Oh yeah, I forgot we had both BIB Spidey and Chip Kidd Spidey

so from the new icon... Infinity War Black Widow/Iron Suit Spidey?

I champed Yondu and Nikki Minaj this week. I’m running out of 4 stars! From classics I’ve just Kingpin (and Devil D & Howard I guess). From the newer ones, Sandman, MEH Hulk, BP, Shuri, Jubilee, and Valkyrie. I counted and I need 25 more covers to finish all of them.

Now I have a bunch of 3 stars to farm, as almost each day I 266 another 3 star.

I could champ Drax but I think I’m going to keep rechamping 2*s and 3*s until they’re all done, then level my decently-covered 5*s (Thanos, SS, Gambit, Archangel) so 5Thor and AC have better playmates.

Yeah the 5 star temptations are strong. My Ghost Rider is now 3-5-4. I guess he sucks but still, he does 5 star damage. But yeah, 3 star farming is probably a better bet for me too

PvP is a disaster for me now but PVE is now hilarious; I basically run 5Thor/AC/whichever 5* is boosted and watch cries melt faces. 3-shotting characters with 40K health has not yet lost its entertainment value.

PvP is as easy as it’s ever been for me. I saw that 900 was a Kingpin cover today so I got it without much trouble. Now I’ll champ him and be done with the non-limited classics.

I’ve been playing CL9 in pve and it’s def hard for me. I run AC, whatever 5 Star is buffed, and some buffed champed 4 star. But I go through the health packs usually. I could drop back down to CL8, not sure.

i feel like i missed it... AC?

America Chavez, aka the character with all passive powers that dummies on the forums thought was going to be terrible because they didn’t pay attention to what her powers actually do or how they scale with 5* characters.

Basically, if you hoard AP, she starts generating crit tiles, which then set off cascades, which is absolutely lethal if you have a champed 5*; I have 5Thor at 452 and 3-gem crits off of green or red hit for 4.5K. 4-gen crits hit for 9K. It’s amazing.

what's your main source of 5*s? champing 4*s?

Pulling latest 5*s with my most desired 5* as a bonus hero. It used to be pulling classics with my most desired 5* as bonus hero but the hit rate for 5*s wasn’t high enough to make it worth it; when I just pull latest, I get very close to covering the characters I care about (compare my champed 5Thor or my 3/4/5 Gambit to my 0/2/0 Black Bolt, for example).

I was pulling classics when I was really gunning for 4* covers, which helped me champ a lot of them.

roger. yeah i'm still on my 4* phase, though it's awesome to have a boosted 5* in PVE

Boosted champed Peggy + boosted champed Mockingbird = lol

I just had a match where I held onto blue until Mockingbird’s passive fired Peggy’s blue for free; I then rotated the unstunned character to the back and fired blue again. Three turns later, all opponents were dead.

After drawing two extra 5* Ghost Rider covers, I decided to champ him. Whee! So far my mmr gets me one 5* not quite fully leveled, one boosted 4*, and high level 3* required, in pvp. I can handle this. I did it to zing my stale-ish gameplay and to speed up pve.

I champed Bagman

Ghost Rider is my next now that I have an extra cover for him as well. He seems like... maybe not that bad?

5* or 4*?

oh right lol. 4*. i am way behind oyu.

4* GR is ok! His black is the fun one but it's not as practical as the other two.

still love that they gave America Chavez those little star animations for regular match damage. so goofy

Okoye is finally in latest so I decided to use my 12 pulls to see if I could get one of her covers.

I ended up getting:

Okoye: 1/1/1
JJ: 1 red
Nu-Cap: 1 purple, 2 Yellow

I also got a legendary token and enough CP for another pull, which gave me another black Okoye.

I had zero bonus hero hits.

I’m still boggling.

I think I’ve basically blown my allotment of 5* draws for the rest of the year.

Good gravy this game is still going!

Nice draws!

5* life is going well. I can get 575 regularly still in pvp, and pve cl9 is much easier

Amazing luck DJP. I got two Gambit covers in one day a month ago, getting him to 5/2/2, then the game decided I'd had enough 5*s. I've had 10 mostly useless 5* covers since then.

I started playing this again :( God, there are so many 4*'s I don't have. I'm never going to have a playable 4* at this rate.

Patience and bonus heroes are your friend here.

a lot of patience... i'm starting to get bored again myself

https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/73603/gambit-character-update-details-6-26-18

The hyperbolic wailing here is some of the funniest stuff I’ve read in a long time.

Oh btw it has been raining Okoye covers for me, I currently have her at 4/1/3 and plan to 375 her after I rechamp 3* Hulk

Are the Growth Industry nodes set to your roster lvl? They're mad hard for me

They are kind of ridiculous.

lol I thought it was just me

Okoye is ridiculously good, you guys.

I was stockpiling ISO to champ her and got impatient, so I maxed out her level (5/2/5 lvl 435) and her black adds an extra 1168 for each team-up AP you have.

I’m basically running through goon nodes with 2* Storm/2* Magneto, stockpiling team-up AP since Okoye tanks almost everything, then pulling AOEs that hit for 15-25K per target. It’s even worse with any 5* but ESPECIALLY pre-nerf Gambit

So, I am reasonably certain that pre-nerf Gambit's red was not affect by Okoye.

Post-nerf Gambit's red is ABSOLUTELY affected by Okoye. Plus, he makes 3 charged tiles instead of 2 so you can match one if you really need some AP or leave them on the board and watch it stockpile charged tiles.

My current strategy is to let 5Thor get hit until half health, then match team-ups and black so Okoye turns Gambit's red and purple and 5Thor's green into instant death, periodically true healing with Okoye's yellow. I can obliterate practically any PVE node at this point with this strategy.

I am happy with how they nerfed/changed Gambit. His better red means that Black Bolt is no longer needed for charged tiles.

I was enjoying Gambit as a speed-up for AC and I guess he still does that, just not as well.

I leveled my 5* Strange 5-2-5 to 360 and he’s now useful in PVE (esp buffed). With 5* Ghost Rider it’s rainbow. Add AC buffed or not and cruise...

The forum tantrums over the Gambit nerf has been hilarious to read.

less whiny than with the OML nerf iirc

I have my 5* gambit parked at 351, 3-2-5, so I don't care. My 5* Thor is still at 2-5-5 and my JJ at 3-3-5 : they're the two I'm waiting on to go for the full 5* transition.

With just one 5* champ PVP is still fine: I hit 900 in the 4* Cap Marvel one & was over 7500 for the season without much difficulty. With the Gambit nerf I think I'll be able to handle genuine 5* mmr with Ghost Rider, Thor, and JJ champed. And Doctor Strange will come along soon too. My Phoenix has been at 13 covers for a long time but she needs a buff to make her worth the bother I think. My Beardo Cap is also at 11 covers but I'm still not sure how good he is.

which **** should I drop for space:

War Machine
Valkyrie
Winter Soldier
TA Hulk
ME Hulk
Nico Minoru
Mockingbird
Gamora
Iron Fist
Blade
Captain Marvel
Black Widow

i have one card for each of them.

The character rankings I've been looking at are sort of useless but I'm leaning toward dropping War Machine. I have some other ****s that are supposedly worse but they're way more leveled up (Thing, Electra, Carnage...). Already dropped all the */**/***s I'm willing to part with.

TA Hulk or War Machine. i have ta hulk at level 233 and i only use him when he's required.
Definitely keep blade and captain marvel, they are great.
Black Widow and Valkyrie will drop 5*s at level 280 if you're in it for the long term.
I recently championed the thing -- my 38th championed 4*. What am I doing.

So only some of the 4's drop 5's at 280?

yes. it looks like they're going for a single 4* for each 5* character. the rest drop legendary tokens.
https://marvelpuzzlequest.wikia.com/wiki/Champion#Transitions