DrNitroman wrote: I had two defensive wins this night and no defeat. Defensive wins have definitely increased recently but I'm not sure why. Maybe because after R60, Ai is slightly harder to defeat? Often, player who 'offer' this defensive wins to me have weaker roster than me and shouldn't have tried attacking me to my opinion. So, newbie's mistake or AI improvement...?
Phantron wrote: In this event? Because The Hood, Sentry, and Daken are not boosted and less likely to show up. [snip]
Spoit wrote: Laken/falcon is still usable, since most of your value comes from falcon now anyway. The unboosted HP does make you more of a target though
Phantron wrote: DrNitroman wrote: I had two defensive wins this night and no defeat. Defensive wins have definitely increased recently but I'm not sure why. Maybe because after R60, Ai is slightly harder to defeat? Often, player who 'offer' this defensive wins to me have weaker roster than me and shouldn't have tried attacking me to my opinion. So, newbie's mistake or AI improvement...? In this event? Because The Hood, Sentry, and Daken are not boosted and less likely to show up. They're not only powerful but they tend to be characters that are overwhelmingly advantageous on offense. That is, if you have the opposite villian boosted fight you'd still have Sentry + Hood + Daken bombing each other by turn 3 and since their boosted offense cancels out their boosted HPs you'd expect the same old offense domination. In this event, an Avenger line up top team might be Nick Fury + Thor + Black Panther. Well, none of those guys have a strong damaging move that's under 4 matches, so even max boosts you'd need 2 matches of a given color instead of 1 match in 2 colors. This also creates a negative feedback into using boosts, since if you're not certain you can win quickly enough even while using max boosts you'd be less likely to waste your HP on boosts in the first place. This makes fights much close to even and favors the defense, and given the insane boosts to the Avengers, you can't exactly use the old tried and true Sentry bomb when the level 322 guys can easily withstand a World Rupture + Sacrifice combo.
locked wrote: Edit-edit: forgot the troll team of Falcon/Spider-Man. If you use it, kudos... And know that entire MPQ playerbase hates you
locked wrote: What Phantron said. I'm running BP/Thor/Nick Fury exactly to have deathy abilities in every colour (wish I could squeeze Deceptive Tactics or Star-Spangled Avenger in there somehow, but oh well), even if my Fury is woefully underleveled and undercovered yet. Fights are not laughingly easy even against non-maxed 3*s or 2*s, and I will probably need to use a good TU every fight. Last similar event, Nefarious Foes, Sentry/Hood/Daken were buffed to the stratosphere and there was 0 reason to run anyone else, since the buffed team coincided with the strongest offense/defense team perfectly. Well, Daken/pre-nerf Magneto/Hood could be used to climb without extensive healthpack usage, too. At least hopefully after this event devs will see that no one likes to run Falcon without Daken, and no one wants to run She-Hulk/Spider-Man/2* Cap/IM 40/Captain Marvel/mHawkeye/Mohawk/Beast, period. Marvel at 3/5/5 has her uses but maybe 1-2% of the players have her at this build and maxed. Thor/Hulk/lazy Cap/BP/Nick Fury, all event. With guest star GSBW to assist for Thor who can handle every single team by himself this time since his usual banes oBW/Hood are more or less banished.
locked wrote: no one wants to run She-Hulk/Spider-Man/2* Cap/IM 40/Captain Marvel/mHawkeye/Mohawk/Beast, period. Marvel at 3/5/5 has her uses but maybe 1-2% of the players have her at this build and maxed.
OTERSEY wrote: locked wrote: no one wants to run She-Hulk/Spider-Man/2* Cap/IM 40/Captain Marvel/mHawkeye/Mohawk/Beast, period. Marvel at 3/5/5 has her uses but maybe 1-2% of the players have her at this build and maxed. I hope what your borsch maker skill much better, than this analytics. Imo, She-Hulk is one of the best new characters. After I maxed her — she one of my often used chars in main team. Same with Danvers. About others: IM40 — is always pretty solid choice and I regularly play with him even now. Especially in PVE or heroes LR. Mokay — after R60 he like **Sentry and for ** peoples is decent hero. Fact: Before R60 he was one of my unloved chars, who have place in roster only for essentials nodes and Heroics. Now I want maxed him and play not only when he needed or buffed. Beast — yeah, he not very good at first look, but when he maxed and placed in right team, he may be real threat. No jokes. Mororo — never like any Storms, but seen her in many teams. **Cap — if you don't have Super Steve, he may be useful even in PVP. Especially, when your goal is Top50 or Top100. Of course, his red is puny, but almost free and he have decent stun and awesome shields for late game. Remember, in MPQ life exist even beyond the boundaries of Top10-25 or various Elite Clubs on forums.