Color Clearing Strategies with The Hood

Nonce Equitaur 2

Modern Storm used to be the prime person for cleaning up the board. At a low cost, all the Environment tiles were gone. She was fragile, though.

With R60
Magneto (Classic) -- Polarizing Force - Red 8 AP -- Destroys all Team-Up icons
Wolverine (X-Force) -- Surgical Strike - Black 11 AP -- Destroys all tiles of enemy team's strongest color
Doctor Doom (Classic) -- Technopathic Strike - Blue 9 AP -- Converts all basic Blue tiles to Black
Storm -- Mistress of the Elements - Yellow 9 AP -- Destroys up to 7 Team-Up tiles for AP.
BWGS - Deceptive Tactics - Purple 11 AP -- choose 6 basic tiles to make green.
Magneto (MN) -- Polarity Shift - Purple 9 AP -- choose 5 basic tiles to make blue.

The Hood -- Dormammu’s Aid - Blue Passive -- steal colors with more than 9 tiles on the board.

When 7 types of tile are well mixed, each tile appears about 9.14 times.
When 6 types of tile are well mixed, each tile appears about 10.66 times.
When 5 types of tile are well mixed, each tile appears about 12.8 times.

The Hood gets much more dangerous when a color is cleared away. Instead of draining 1 or 2 colors, he'll consistently drain 5 or 6 colors. All of the color-clearings powers can be Team-Up powers, so that can be a follow-up attack with Magneto (Classic) or Storm (Mohawk).

OnesOwnGrief

Shouldn't this be in the Tips section, otherwise good info. Might want to make it clear that GSBW and mnMags are basic color tile changers and not just any tile. Also, Technopathic Strike only effects basic color tiles.

over_clocked

Polarity Shift only costs 9 purple at higher levels, too.

hurcules

I was gonna point out LThor's Thunder Strike too. But the game usually ends after that, so I guess there's no point for Hood to leach colour unless the 9 green tiles fail to cascade/match.

Nonce Equitaur 2

With R60 out, I just tried XForce/Mags/Hood against a high level team (maxed hulk/Thor/BWGS)

I went for Black to start out. Playing that wiped out Red tiles, and gave me enough red to wipe out all team-Up tiles. After that, the game was like Christmas, with Hood grabbing lots of AP as I went for Black again. Most damage went to XForce, so I used his healing. Finished up almost fully healed.

I call this team XMag party. It's fun.

Unknown

I'm not sure if it's a good idea of making certain characters more painful to face to balance out the existing powerhouses. At some level it's not a bad idea but it's getting to a point where the game devolves to either Hood vs Hood or that people felt they need to have the ability to Sentry bomb a team by turn 3 because things can get ugly really fast against a team built similarly (or exactly) the way Nonce did. It's the same problem I have Loki, who totally sucks but Illusion randomly does completey insane thing. A team like X Force/Mag/Hood probably isn't always very good and certainly can't match the reliability of Sentry but when it's good, it's insanely good. Some randomness is good but a team shouldn't constantly vary from fodder to dominating.