He's great with Thorokoye for the cl10 challenge nodes. It's easy to beat on defense, but it's a strong offensive team, one of the best. The trick is to prefer Iceman's cheap green over Thor's, because boosted by Okoye, it's doing huge recurring damage, and huge team damage when you match them. Once several of the repeaters get lined up, say at the bottom, you can blast them with Okoye's red for incredible damage.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 23 April 2020 15:42 (four years ago) link
really Thor is just there to generate green quickly
Ha yeah, I was already doing that when I had Bobby at 4/4/4; it's a fantastic team
― DJP, Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:16 (four years ago) link
Basically, save enough green to cast Bobby's repeaters twice; cast on successive turns; continue collecting teamups while passive damage melts the opposition and cascades stunlock them
― DJP, Thursday, 23 April 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
Yes that’s the juice
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 23 April 2020 21:04 (four years ago) link
5000 HP for 3 WorthCap covers + 3 Iron Spider covers + some other trifles. Worth it? I have a ton of HP stocked up.
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 May 2020 07:30 (three years ago) link
I have Iron Spider champed, and like 2 covers on Cap.
Both very strong four stars. I’m thinking about it too.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 7 May 2020 07:49 (three years ago) link
Seems worth it for HP
― DJP, Thursday, 7 May 2020 12:04 (three years ago) link
All right, I'm in
― Nhex, Thursday, 7 May 2020 21:55 (three years ago) link
Apocalypse is ridiculous
― DJP, Monday, 11 May 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
yup. I guess I'm hoarding for him; have 30 legendary tokens saved so far & several hundred CPs. I wasn't really trying for this, but I got Mr Sinister to 13 covers and didn't want any more, and Havok is ok but not that great. zombie Hulk is great but I'll wait for Belova (have one cover for her so far) zombie Hulk and Apocalypse in the LL store before drawing this mini hoard.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
I’m hoping to cover Sinister before this PVP season ends and he rotates out (currently 4/2/5) but I’m probably gonna hoard once he leaves (although I have Havok at 3/4/2 so I might as well keep pulling)
― DJP, Monday, 11 May 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
(I also like pulling legendaries because it beefs up my 4* tier, which gives me a better stream of CP/shards/tokens since I don't play for placement and have become lax about progression)
― DJP, Monday, 11 May 2020 16:09 (three years ago) link
totally, I hate hoarding, this is the first time I've done it. my Kitty Pryde is still only 4-5-2 (really, 4-7-2, thank goodness for saved covers) and she's my bonus shard char so that's gonna be a lot of those when I draw these tokens.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 11 May 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
I hit Shield Rank 120 so I figured, why not try the Lvl 10 PvE?... that... was a mistake.
― Nhex, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 06:24 (three years ago) link
There's a special green node that has like boosted 5* teams. it's nuts
Yeah it’s really only for 5* champed teams and even there it’s tough
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 08:54 (three years ago) link
I'm going to spend my hoard on Apocalypse too. Finally a 5* who can decimate Bishop teams.
― braised cod, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Ooh yeah SCL 10 is not for the faint of heart
I have been considering setting Worthy as my bonus hero solely to get enough champ levels for him to survive more than 3 hits on that node; if he can survive that, he generates enough cooldowns for my Coulson/underleveled 5* Hawkeye to stunlock the other team indefinitely and beat the node
It is SLOW but it works
― DJP, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:45 (three years ago) link
still relying on Iceman Thorkoye for the challenge node. usually I get 4 clears or even 5 if I'm trying to make up for missing 4 one of the other days.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 13:49 (three years ago) link
The snail team is more consistent for me; too many times Iceman has accidentally starved the board of blue because I couldn’t match tiles or a cascade stunned the wrong character and the one I actually wanted to stun unleashes a team-wiping AOE
― DJP, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:02 (three years ago) link
yeah it fails sometimes (maybe 10%?) but I just try to match blue and team ups, spread the stun around as I can, blast green asap and fire Okoye's red to clear columns of green repeaters for the big booms. the stun is just to keep the baddies from doing too much bad, really the team ups are crucial (and firing Okoye's yellow a lot helps with that, plus cascades which can pop green repeaters). it's usually fast!
but I can't run anything with 5hawkeye 1-1-1 so I can't compare with that team.
my snail team would involve BRB + Kitty, it's hard to get used to that compared to the speed of any Thorkoye team, but after a few turns you don't take damage even on big bombs so it's good too.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:25 (three years ago) link
My 5Hawkeye is 2/2/1, btw
All you really need for it to work perfectly is 2 purple; it would probably work with 1 but the AP gain would be slower. I have the entire opposing team stunned after turn 2 and I can fuel Worthy's stun indefinitely off of 5Hawkeye's 5 AP powers/Coulson's 1-turn countdowns. I'm guessing with 1 purple you would need Worthy to eat 3 hits and survive, at which point you'd have to hoard blue so you could restun the other team and chase red so you can fire as many Deep Breaths as you can to get Coulson to refuel you.
― DJP, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:35 (three years ago) link
my Coulson and Worthy are both pretty decently leveled, I could give it a try, if I lost it wouldn't matter.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the most important thing is "can Worthy survive a few hits" because if he can, that's 4 free red and 4 free blue with 5Hawk's purple at 1; boosting red let's you cross the threshold to fire 5Hawk's red, which gives you a Coulson cooldown for another blue and red; a blue match then lets you stun whoever is most dangerous and boosting blue helps make up the deficit of not having 5Hawk's purple at 2. I think you might get taken down because your AP gen is halved since 5Hawk's purple is at 1 rather than 2 but you will be able to stunlock pretty much any team vulnerable to stun once you get that next purple cover.
― DJP, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
ok cool; only have 150 shards with him, and I'm still dedicated to champing Kitty so all shards go to her, but then I can try to get another Hawkeye purple. My Kate Bishop is at 295 so she's on track to get me the shards for another 5Hawkeye cover. But for the time being, it's dumb Emma Frost that gets all my 4* shards :(
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:01 (three years ago) link
I champed Karolina yesterday as I sighed heavily and looked at my 4/3/4 Super-Skrull
― DJP, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
Karolina lol. at least she's featured in this pve.
My Skrull is at 4-4-4, and he's the 2000 in shield sim? probably I'll get him sooner. my Maria Hill is already at 275, they are throwing covers of new 4* at us.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
I finally have every 4* champed except Maria Hill, who is covered and waiting for ISO, and Spider-Ham, who I doubt will ever be fully covered (though I said that about Howard and got him eventually)
Just in time for Hellcat!
― (so serious) (DJP), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:10 (three years ago) link
nice!
I still need thanos & hawkeye ronin, and super-skrull (12 covers, with others coming from season / shield sim progression) and spider ham.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:24 (three years ago) link
IMO shards + saved covers have been an unqualified success
― (so serious) (DJP), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
yeah I've been getting covers faster
I'm still building up LL tokens & CPs for when Apocalypse is released. I hate not drawing these but it's better this way. They say you need 300+ draws to fully cover all three LLs but I only have 63 between tokens & CPs so far.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:52 (three years ago) link
LLs?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:55 (three years ago) link
latest legends tokens
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 15:56 (three years ago) link
shit, you have 63 of those?? damn. those are the tokens i can't bring myself to hoard
― Nhex, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
lemme do some lame math:1 in 7 chance... 3 five stars... 13 covers each... yup, 273 pulls assuming you get a perfect distribution
― Nhex, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 16:06 (three years ago) link
It's a little less though if you bonus shard the 5-star you want
― Piven After Midnight (The Yellow Kid), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
I'm still pulling; I don't feel a burning need to target specific 5* characters and I reliably get them in the 10-11 cover range by the time they rotate into classics, so I figure if I move my bonus 5 to the next one rotating out, I will come close to covering all of the Next Big Three without torturing myself by hoarding.
― (so serious) (DJP), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 17:44 (three years ago) link
nothing can solve the iso grind, still
― Nhex, Wednesday, 20 May 2020 18:14 (three years ago) link
Solving the ISO grind involves either a) A fuckton of money, or B) playing way more insanely than I currently do, neither of which are options for me
― (so serious) (DJP), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Yeah I don’t spend, and after having banked like 4 mil iso when covers were scarce, I’m iso broke again. I’ve been rechamping 3* though (third time through) but keeping the max champs this time, and that adds up. I have a max covered sinister to champ and now I gotta champ skrull, that’s like 900k right there.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Wednesday, 20 May 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
So many 4*s to level up, but I'm focusing on building XF Deadpool and Valkyrie so I have some answer to all those Gritty teams (with Rulk).
― Nhex, Saturday, 23 May 2020 01:56 (three years ago) link
And I just hit 75 wins in Shield Simulator, first time in years, thanks pandemic.A little more grinding to get that Heroic 10-pack for the season reward.
― Nhex, Saturday, 23 May 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
I can't even tell you how many times Karnak has killed my squad basically by himself at this point. I fucking hate him.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Saturday, 6 June 2020 22:52 (three years ago) link
haha, same.
btw, is Onslaught as terrifying as he seems?
― Nhex, Saturday, 6 June 2020 23:56 (three years ago) link
onslaught seems very tough and also looks like a fuckin clown
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 7 June 2020 00:08 (three years ago) link
he is so 1990s.
― wasdnous (abanana), Sunday, 7 June 2020 02:10 (three years ago) link
Uh Legion looks nuts. Wish he was a 5*
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Thursday, 18 June 2020 12:13 (three years ago) link
yeah
I champed Kitty last week! it has been a long road. She is amazing obviously. Now I have all of the meta 5* champed except for all the new ones. my iHulk is 5-3-2 but he'll be out of LLs in a week & a half & so I doubt I'll champ him before that. He's already my bonus 5*. I have Belova at 7-4-3 & so am likely to have her champable soon. I have Apocalypse at 5-2-3 but since he's the newest LL I will probably champ him too. Is he great? I haven't been that impressed but maybe I still have Kitty eyes. I don't have any Onslaught yet.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Thursday, 18 June 2020 13:09 (three years ago) link