Death tank?

Unknown

Not that I'm looking for it, but I haven't seen this mentioned.

I was using hulk, facing a patchneto team. Patch uses berserker, and creates massive strike tiles, them cascades, and hits hulk for about 7k damage, prompting hulk to throw out several anger tiles. Since I have 5 in the skill, when each triggered they used the added strike tiles, and promptly destroyed the entire enemy team.

Anyone else experience this?

The damage is easily greater than a sentry/daken combo

Unknown

Countdown tiles trigger one at a time once they hit 0. So each individual Anger tile will trigger Strike tiles if they get a match.

OnesOwnGrief

Yes, this is normal. It's actually quite effective when facing Patch as his Berserker Rage isn't that powerful on it's own. Damage adds up quick as Hulk should trigger anger off the skill and the proceeding match. You can also play around with it with other characters who produces strike tiles on your own team.

Unknown

Well the problem is that you have to grant strike tiles to the enemy as well so that hulk can be targeted for anger to trigger.

OnesOwnGrief

squirrel85 wrote:

Well the problem is that you have to grant strike tiles to the enemy as well so that hulk can be targeted for anger to trigger.

Not entirely. You can also throw him at quick low cost damage skills that will trigger it. Psylocke, Punisher, Deadpool, people like that.

Unknown

You can actually do this to yourself to blitz battles if you don't mind Hulk taking it in the face, and it's very fast if you use boosts. Use Patch and Hulk, collect green, make sure there's a Hulk match on the board, and fire off Berserker Rage. One of the few times you'll be hoping for an enemy cascade. If Hulk eats a few strike tile enhanced matches it's probably game over from the strike enhanced Anger damage and the ensuing greenpocalypse. Back when I was crazy enough to run a 5 green Patch I could end fights like this in seconds. Of course Hulk needs a health pack after pretty much every battle, but hey, if you want to make an omelette...

OnesOwnGrief

Thugpatrol wrote:

You can actually do this to yourself to blitz battles if you don't mind Hulk taking it in the face, and it's very fast if you use boosts. Use Patch and Hulk, collect green, make sure there's a Hulk match on the board, and fire off Berserker Rage. One of the few times you'll be hoping for an enemy cascade. If Hulk eats a few strike tile enhanced matches it's probably game over from the strike enhanced Anger damage and the ensuing greenpocalypse. Back when I was crazy enough to run a 5 green Patch I could end fights like this in seconds. Of course Hulk needs a health pack after pretty much every battle, but hey, if you want to make an omelette...

The good thing is that if Hulk is the same level as Patch, he will tank Green, Red, and Black as long as he's in a higher priority slot.

Unknown

Yea, Hulk is great at taking big hits.

He is a natural counter to Patch.

He is also a perfect tandem with LDaken.

simonsez

Fun to fight a battle this way, but the problem is, you can only do it once, unless you plan on burning through a lot of health packs.

Unknown

Thugpatrol wrote:

but hey, if you want to make an omelette...

then you better fire up the gamma reactor!

This would be a decent way to pad 1-2 matches onto a hop. No health packs for Hulk, he regens quick enough to not need them. Just face plant him for a few wins, then wait for the next shield hop to face plant him again. Save the Health Packs for Sentry or Thor.