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All right, I'm in

Apocalypse is ridiculous

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.

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)

(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)

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.

I hit Shield Rank 120 so I figured, why not try the Lvl 10 PvE?
... that... was a mistake.

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

I'm going to spend my hoard on Apocalypse too. Finally a 5* who can decimate Bishop teams.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

my Coulson and Worthy are both pretty decently leveled, I could give it a try, if I lost it wouldn't matter.

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.

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 :(

I champed Karolina yesterday as I sighed heavily and looked at my 4/3/4 Super-Skrull

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.

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!

nice!

I still need thanos & hawkeye ronin, and super-skrull (12 covers, with others coming from season / shield sim progression) and spider ham.

IMO shards + saved covers have been an unqualified success

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.

LLs?

latest legends tokens

shit, you have 63 of those?? damn. those are the tokens i can't bring myself to hoard

lemme do some lame math:
1 in 7 chance... 3 five stars... 13 covers each... yup, 273 pulls assuming you get a perfect distribution

It's a little less though if you bonus shard the 5-star you want

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.

nothing can solve the iso grind, still

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

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.

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).

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.

I can't even tell you how many times Karnak has killed my squad basically by himself at this point. I fucking hate him.

haha, same.

btw, is Onslaught as terrifying as he seems?

onslaught seems very tough and also looks like a fuckin clown

he is so 1990s.

Uh Legion looks nuts. Wish he was a 5*

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.

Apocalypse + Thorkoye is hilarious. Collect teamups, let Thor passively collect red, Apocalypse red becomes insane. I've dropped 100K dmg in the most Hearts of Darkness on the dreaded Royal Family node in SCL10 this go-round; it's the easiest clears of that node I've had in a looooooooooong time

dang nice!

I mean, imagine Valkyrie's red on a character with insane health for a 5*; that's Apocalypse

Then, put Kitty with him and he's immune to stun

wow

yeah looking forward to champing him! I have too much iso debt to put anything into him now. I'm a couple days from champing 4* hawkeye ronin, the last 4* I haven't champed that isn't limited (Spider Ham) or new (Hellcat & now Legion).

then I can champ Mister Sinister already but don't have the iso, and then the three new ones need iso, and 5* Loki is just a cover away from champable.

the real iso drain has been rechamping all the 3*s. my third time through champing the 3*s, but they're a lucrative farm, and it's good to keep a champ 3* since they help in pvp (though the last few pvps have been 4* which is good for my roster, and the current Karolina one shows how annoying she is to play against, going airborne again and again).

& nicki minaj with Kitty & BRB was very fun

Thoughts on Killmonger?

He seems good, not likely to be top meta, but better than e.g. Havok. I'd like to champ him! He may have interesting interactions with Mister Sinister, who I can already champ but haven't had the ISO yet.

I'm back to hoarding CP & LLs. I got iHulk to 5-4-3 and softcapped him at 415 because you want him 33 levels less than your Okoye to minimize the colors he tanks. I have Yelena champable (currently saving ISO to do it) and Apocalpyse at 5-2-5 with nearly enough shards for the last color. I'll break the hoard again once Yelena leaves LLs, or when I need an Onslaught cover for a required node. I don't think Onslaught is very good, certainly ok but not great. I think.

I finished champing all the 4* except for Spider-Ham and the two newest ones (Hellcat & Legion).

I agree. I wish Onslaught had been 4* and Legion had been 5* (although I understand why Legion was 4*)

yeah, I agree with your Onslaught/Legion transposition. Do you think Legion is a 4* because he would be too powerful otherwise, at 6ap per power?