vudu3 wrote: I'm thinking 4/4/5. You want at least 4 in yellow because anything less and it won't affect CD tiles. 5 in yellow doubles AOE damage but even then it's not that impressive so there's not much reason to go beyond 4. 5 in blue is just to great/interesting to pass up. That means 4/4/5 is the only viable choice. Seems like she'll be a fun PVE character.
NorthernPolarity wrote: vudu3 wrote: I'm thinking 4/4/5. You want at least 4 in yellow because anything less and it won't affect CD tiles. 5 in yellow doubles AOE damage but even then it's not that impressive so there's not much reason to go beyond 4. 5 in blue is just to great/interesting to pass up. That means 4/4/5 is the only viable choice. Seems like she'll be a fun PVE character. It affecting CD tiles is only useful in PvE: you could build her as a PvE character and have her be good in that situation, or you can try to maximize the effectiveness of her in PvP and go for the OHKOs. I also think you're understating the usefulness of 5 yellow in PvE: killing 3 vs 5 CD tiles is the difference between wiping out all the CD tiles on the board vs goons and not, a lot of the time. The increased damage also seems pretty good as well.
yogi_ wrote: Just updating the character / team combo list. What are some of her most compatible driads and triads? Thanks!
JCTthe3rd81 wrote: wymtime wrote: I have gotten to do 2 lightning rounds and took 2nd twice. Patch, Daken combo has been a good combo for me. I feel like I should run her with Hood to speed things up though as I wait for 9G, 9B, 10 R to destroy the other team. JCTthe3rd81 wrote: But yeah, her powers are awesome. Thorette with Xforce covers all colors except for purple. I often use Dpool for that, so I'm covered. 3 seasons, (or 90 some days), until we can get all colors. Seems like such a long wait, but she is more than worth it to me. She will probably be part of the 1300 reward after season 7. She will probably have an offical release in Season 8. An official release in a PvE, like other characters, just doesn't seem right to me. Don't get me wrong, I would love an official PvE release. But I'm thinking it will be more like Fury's release. One color given to the top 100 alliances for the next 3 seasons. Then after that, Thorette will be the 1300 reward, or #1 rank award like Fury is now.
wymtime wrote: I have gotten to do 2 lightning rounds and took 2nd twice. Patch, Daken combo has been a good combo for me. I feel like I should run her with Hood to speed things up though as I wait for 9G, 9B, 10 R to destroy the other team. JCTthe3rd81 wrote: But yeah, her powers are awesome. Thorette with Xforce covers all colors except for purple. I often use Dpool for that, so I'm covered. 3 seasons, (or 90 some days), until we can get all colors. Seems like such a long wait, but she is more than worth it to me. She will probably be part of the 1300 reward after season 7. She will probably have an offical release in Season 8.
JCTthe3rd81 wrote: But yeah, her powers are awesome. Thorette with Xforce covers all colors except for purple. I often use Dpool for that, so I'm covered. 3 seasons, (or 90 some days), until we can get all colors. Seems like such a long wait, but she is more than worth it to me.
NorthernPolarity wrote: yogi_ wrote: Just updating the character / team combo list. What are some of her most compatible driads and triads? Thanks! The main three I believe: X Force -> Non overlapping colors, RB is strong with X-Force as shown by cap/cmags, and surgical works with charged tiles (!!!) Hood - Twin Pistols + charged tiles = near infinite combos. Patch - Zerker rage into GT yellow = profit. I would say that all other characters don't really synergize with her in any meaningful way: you really want to have characters that don't depending on red/blue/sort of yellow abilities, of which there aren't that many in the game. She also goes well with AP generators that destroy tiles, so Mohawk is a possibility (albeit a really **** one).
GrimSkald wrote: I'm going to call her Thora. It's an entirely legitimate Scandinavian name.
Phantron wrote: NorthernPolarity wrote: yogi_ wrote: Just updating the character / team combo list. What are some of her most compatible driads and triads? Thanks! The main three I believe: X Force -> Non overlapping colors, RB is strong with X-Force as shown by cap/cmags, and surgical works with charged tiles (!!!) Hood - Twin Pistols + charged tiles = near infinite combos. Patch - Zerker rage into GT yellow = profit. I would say that all other characters don't really synergize with her in any meaningful way: you really want to have characters that don't depending on red/blue/sort of yellow abilities, of which there aren't that many in the game. She also goes well with AP generators that destroy tiles, so Mohawk is a possibility (albeit a really **** one). Problem is that a team like Hood + X Force + Thor can only be fielded in exactly one typical PvP event: Unholy Outlaw. In all other events, this isn't even possible. If you pair her up with only one of the three, which is typically the case when there's a featured character forced on you, instead you get this: The Hood: Thor doesn't do quite enough heavy lifting compared to the top PvP character when she's the only source of major damage, and has an identical structure to top PvP teams without any obvious advantage. X Force: Strong team but very vulnerable to Hood due to a large number of 4 match moves. Patch: Have both of the problems above while being a weaker version of the WR + Sacrifice combo (same colors, more AP to use, and not quite instant game over). Yes, if you can just choose that third character it addresses all the issues, but you don't get to do that on most events. Perhaps it's time to look at the featured + 2 format, because this format does a very good job at preventing you from getting the third guy you need to cover your weaknesses.
Lerysh wrote: Ability to affect CDs for Yellow is important, especially as a Sentry counter.
Lerysh wrote: Can you explain why 5 blue is too great to pass up? The Charge tiles make keeping 9 blue between casts pretty trivial, so is a 3 turn stun vs a 4 turn stun isn't THAT big of a deal. Is it the 12 charge tiles? I feel like 12 might give too much away to the AI.
NorthernPolarity wrote: So first of all, Yogi simply asked for the best characters that mesh with her, not whether or not it was top tier. If we want to go by your logic, then it's useless to discuss any new character that doesn't beat out Sentry Hood or XF Hood featured (which is pretty much going to be every single character released from now till eternity). I was simply listing the characters that I thought had the most synergy with her, not the ones that I think will actually dethrone XF Hood, and I think those 3 characters have more synergy with her than any other character in the game. Secondly, yeah. Looking at her a little more closely, you're totally right. Outside of XF LadyThor Hood, she doesn't actually fit into any team comps that are superior to featured / XF / Hood. So I dunno, maybe the hype train has been derailed. Maybe we should just accept the fact that no character released is ever going to be better than XF / Hood or Sentry / Hood, and just stop posting at all on the forums.
Lerysh wrote: vudu3 wrote: I'm thinking 4/4/5. You want at least 4 in yellow because anything less and it won't affect CD tiles. 5 in yellow doubles AOE damage but even then it's not that impressive so there's not much reason to go beyond 4. 5 in blue is just to great/interesting to pass up. That means 4/4/5 is the only viable choice. Seems like she'll be a fun PVE character. Can you explain why 5 blue is too great to pass up? The Charge tiles make keeping 9 blue between casts pretty trivial, so is a 3 turn stun vs a 4 turn stun isn't THAT big of a deal. Is it the 12 charge tiles? I feel like 12 might give too much away to the AI.