Finished leveling Thor, where do I go from here?

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I'm a fairly new player - got my 12th daily reward today - and I have just finished leveling Thor. Now I'm at a bit of a loss on which character(s) I should focus on next.

Current roster (minus scrubs):

- Lvl 85 Thor 5/5/3
- Lvl 45 C.Storm 5/4/2
- Lvl 41 Grey Widow 0/3/3
- Lvl 35 Astonishing Wolverine 2/4/3
- Lvl 26 Dr. Doom 2/3
- Lvl 25 C.Spider-Man 0/2/0
- Lvl 18 IM40 0/1/1 (soon to be 1/1/1 thanks to The Hunt)
- Lvl 15 Ragnarok 1/0
- Lvl 15 C.Magneto 0/0/1

I stopped leveling Storm shortly before the nerf. I still like her and she and Thor play really well together, but she makes me a target in PVP and frankly I'm looking for something new and better. Considering that she and Grey Widow are now my second and third best characters I am also looking for someone less squishy.

- I guess Wolverine would be the most reasonable choice here, but the 4 points in red do hurt his potential (didn't know about the 13 point limit at the time). Is he still worth leveling or should I start a new one?

- I really like Dr. Doom, but I'm afraid he doesn't mix well with Thor. A big bonus would be his usability in Lightning Rounds - they do feature the villains every time, if I'm correct?

- If I had a yellow Spidey Cover or a red Rag (bought quite a few Dark Avengers Tokens, but no luck), this would be a no-brainer. I would probably spend some money to train them. I guess I will have to wait for a lucky pull, since I don't want to gamble on Covers any more.

- I do like IM40 and his yellow works well with Thor, but I don't know if he's really worth the investment compared to other ***-chars.

Any opinons and suggestions? Should I (reluctantly) throw more money at the game? Work with what I have? Save my Iso and wait for Spidey and/or Rag?

P.S.: It is refreshing to see such a level of maturity and willingness to help on a gaming forum. The outstanding developer support is the icing on the cake. Thank you for all the useful information, I wish I had found this board on day one.

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Max Thor in 12 days? You don't mess around.

I'd go Wolvie or Doom. Adamantium Slash is a good move still. I really don't know why everyone avoids it like the plague.

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You can still shoot for 5/4/4 on Wolverine and with this he will still heal a guaranteed amount every turn (just not as much as at level 5) so no problems there. And I wouldn't write off Storm even with the change to her skills, I have her at 85 and find she is still very useful on a lot of my teams (great synergy with both Thor and especially Rag). Other than that you are looking at bringing up those 3* characters of yours, Grey Widow and Doom should be the focus looking at the available skills. I think Thor/Storm/Doom would make a well balanced team on tile damage and Thor/Wolverine/Doom could be a nice setup as well.

Bainee

If you have the money buy some heroic packs, until you stop getting useful covers. This will give you plenty to level and a lot more team options.

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ihearthawthats wrote:

Adamantium Slash is a good move still. I really don't know why everyone avoids it like the plague.

I too like Adamantium Slash, but since I started putting all my focus on Thor I have been using it only when Thor is stunned or not on the team.

Nick-Fury wrote:

I wouldn't write off Storm even with the change to her skills, I have her at 85 and find she is still very useful on a lot of my teams (great synergy with both Thor and especially Rag). Other than that you are looking at bringing up those 3* characters of yours, Grey Widow and Doom should be the focus looking at the available skills.

I really enjoy using Storm, but I think Thor/Wolvie/Doom looks much less inviting to potential attackers than Thor/Storm/Wolvie. That's why I am not convinced of dumping my ISO into her. I know that "there is no such thing as defence" but if it deters even one attacker in the last minutes of a tournament, I will give her up in a heartbeat.

Bainee wrote:

If you have the money buy some heroic packs, until you stop getting useful covers.

Because of my "Dark Avengers Debacle" (got only Daken and Moonstone Covers) I'm a bit hesitant to spend money on something that isn't guaranteed to help me. Wouldn't it be better to wait for pulls from rewards and then pay for training?

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C. Storm and Wolverine. That's a solid threesome that will let you place highly in most non-lightning tournaments.


You would have been better off leaving Thor at 75ish and using that ISO on leveling up Wolverine/C.Storm instead.


Start hoarding your HP and use that to buy covers of Rag and Doom.

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I wouldn't bother with generic Heroic packs, IMO they are not worth it if you are being careful with your money. Either save up for direct skill-ups, or wait for a specific special pack that has what you're looking for (for example a few weeks ago there was a special "Thunder" pack with only Thor, C.Storm, or Rags, for 450 HP, which was quite a good deal for newer players).
Generic Heroic tokens are especially a bad idea if you're trying to be careful with funds, because if you pull a character you don't care about at the moment, you'll have to buy more cover slots or trash someone else, compounding the downside.
If I were you I'd focus your ISO on Wolvie, then focus your HP on skilling up Spidey or Rags in the future. I know Rags doesn't seem like a good companion to Thor, but if you're looking for good defense, I don't know many people who would want to take on a max Thor AND max Rags lol... Even when they kill one, the other is still gonna bash.

I honestly don't see how people like Doom at all. His abilities really have no synergy with any other characters, and cost too much AP to be very relevant. Compare what he does for 12 AP to what most other tier 1 characters can do with the same amount. His high HP is not enough to compensate for being mostly irrelevant to most battles. I know anytime I'm battling a team with Doom on it, he's generally my last target.

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Toxicadam wrote:

You would have been better off leaving Thor at 75ish and using that ISO on leveling up Wolverine/C.Storm instead.

But then what would I have to brag about on Facebook Seriously though, Thor seems to be the consensus no. 1 **-char, and barring a nerf he will serve me well for a long time, even if I get a high-lvl Rag in the future. With C.Storm I am not so shure, although this thread is starting to change my mind.

Unknown

I wouldn't put more iso into storm. The tournaments are full of 85/85 Thor/storm teams. Putting another 40 levels on her doesn't make her more intimidating or harder to kill.

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There's no 2 star character that scares anyone in PvP, so that shouldn't even be a consideration. This is more about putting more damage on the opponent and avoiding damage yourself while acheiving rewards.

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Twanbon wrote:

I wouldn't bother with generic Heroic packs, IMO they are not worth it if you are being careful with your money. Either save up for direct skill-ups, or wait for a specific special pack that has what you're looking for (for example a few weeks ago there was a special "Thunder" pack with only Thor, C.Storm, or Rags, for 450 HP, which was quite a good deal for newer players).
Generic Heroic tokens are especially a bad idea if you're trying to be careful with funds, because if you pull a character you don't care about at the moment, you'll have to buy more cover slots or trash someone else, compounding the downside.
If I were you I'd focus your ISO on Wolvie, then focus your HP on skilling up Spidey or Rags in the future. I know Rags doesn't seem like a good companion to Thor, but if you're looking for good defense, I don't know many people who would want to take on a max Thor AND max Rags lol... Even when they kill one, the other is still gonna bash.

I honestly don't see how people like Doom at all. His abilities really have no synergy with any other characters, and cost too much AP to be very relevant. Compare what he does for 12 AP to what most other tier 1 characters can do with the same amount. His high HP is not enough to compensate for being mostly irrelevant to most battles. I know anytime I'm battling a team with Doom on it, he's generally my last target.

That all sounds very reasonable. I guess Wolvie is going to the Top of my ISO food chain.

Misguided wrote:

I wouldn't put more iso into storm. The tournaments are full of 85/85 Thor/storm teams. Putting another 40 levels on her doesn't make her more intimidating or harder to kill.

Exactly why I am so hesitant about leveling her further. Would Grey Widow be a better replacement? The three star rating might scare off more people... I know I'm still missing her best skill, but I really like her. Plus, her purple is really nice to have against the hoards of Grenadiers and Pyros in PVE.

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Toxicadam wrote:

There's no 2 star character that scares anyone in PvP, so that shouldn't even be a consideration. This is more about putting more damage on the opponent and avoiding damage yourself while acheiving rewards.

Understood. I just like to consider all aspects before I make a commitment.

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Dephro wrote:

Exactly why I am so hesitant about leveling her further. Would Grey Widow be a better replacement? The three star rating might scare off more people... I know I'm still missing her best skill, but I really like her. Plus, her purple is really nice to have against the hoards of Grenadiers and Pyros in PVE.

If you really like her though, just use her. She has useful colours and still more health than 2-stars. Non-lvl5 green is maybe better than Thor's green, but nowhere near Wolvie's green.

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You're probably right. In the end it's all about preference, I just need to think long and hard before I make an informed gut decision

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+1 for Wolvie. His green skill is money with Thor. Build up 12 red ap as fast as possible. If you don't have a good red match, go for green, then yellow. Once you hit 12 red (15 is even better if you can manage it) use Wolvies green until as many red tiles as possible are strike tiles. At Level 70 Wolvie each strike tile adds 70+ damage to each match and attack. Unleash both thor reds, this usually causes a yellow cascade, each match doing incredible damage because of all the strike tiles. Then rain thunder down on them once or twice. Game over. I love this combo. But Wolvierine is pretty great with anyone. I have him at 5/5/3 and i don't regret it at all. His yellow still heals pretty consistetly and his red can do some serious damage if thor isn't ready or in your party.

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Grey widow is great but one thing that you want to avoid doing is leveling a (relatively) squishy character up very quickly (in less then a day). You do not want to be in a position where you have dumped all your ISO into a valuable character only to have them make all the matches on the board and therefor take all the hits. Make sure that Thor or another tank still beats the match strength of your squishy characters on most of the squishy characters colors. In your position you want to be very careful because you only have one leveled tank (Thor) and he can't go any higher, so once a secondary character beats him on a color, Thor can never take that color back.

If you level up Wolvie, this goes double for him if you use him as a tank. You want as many colors on Wolvie as possible because Wolvie can only heal himself.

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Twanbon wrote:

I honestly don't see how people like Doom at all. His abilities really have no synergy with any other characters, and cost too much AP to be very relevant. Compare what he does for 12 AP to what most other tier 1 characters can do with the same amount. His high HP is not enough to compensate for being mostly irrelevant to most battles. I know anytime I'm battling a team with Doom on it, he's generally my last target.

Because when you're on offense, each black cast is 1100 damage per turn. If you have the team stunned, just match around the strike tiles, and you're shooting off the equivalent of Thor's red every turn. For 12 AP. So yeah, Doom is relevant if you use him correctly.

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the moose wrote:

+1 for Wolvie. His green skill is money with Thor. Build up 12 red ap as fast as possible. If you don't have a good red match, go for green, then yellow. Once you hit 12 red (15 is even better if you can manage it) use Wolvies green until as many red tiles as possible are strike tiles. At Level 70 Wolvie each strike tile adds 70+ damage to each match and attack. Unleash both thor reds, this usually causes a yellow cascade, each match doing incredible damage because of all the strike tiles. Then rain thunder down on them once or twice. Game over. I love this combo. But Wolvierine is pretty great with anyone. I have him at 5/5/3 and i don't regret it at all. His yellow still heals pretty consistetly and his red can do some serious damage if thor isn't ready or in your party.

Okay, you got me excited. Wolverine will be my new number two. I will use the next lightning rounds to see if Dr.Doom will be a practical third member of my team or if I should stick with Grey Widow.

funny russkie wrote:

Make sure that Thor or another tank still beats the match strength of your squishy characters on most of the squishy characters colors.

Great advice that I had forgotten to consider. Thank you for that!

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And one more thing about Wolverine. Free healing. Never waste a heal on Wolvie (unless in last 10 minutes of a tournament or something). He takes ten minutes to revive if downed. Then jump into a low pve level and let him heal up. It may take two times through and easy level, but he'll be at full health in 5 minutes. I can't express enough how much I love this guy

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the moose wrote:

And one more thing about Wolverine. Free healing. Never waste a heal on Wolvie (unless in last 10 minutes of a tournament or something). He takes ten minutes to revive if downed. Then jump into a low pve level and let him heal up. It may take two times through and easy level, but he'll be at full health in 5 minutes. I can't express enough how much I love this guy

FYI, best level I've found for this is "Not the red one" in the HAMMER missions -- once the middle guy is down there's no threat at all. The real issue is making off-color matches so you don't kill them too fast; but I can usually heal full from <100 hp in a single go through.

I'm still trying to find the best level for using Spidey.

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Woah, all those covers in 12 days, with a 2* star completely maxed? That is crazy, you're team is almost as good as mine and I've been playing since the beginning. Since Thor is regarded as the best 2* by many, and since you already have him maxed, I would suggest to only level a few of your other characters to save ISO for when you get better covers, since you seem to be getting some of the best covers extremely fast. Everyone else gave great advice too, so it's up to you to see how you want to do it.