'Marvel Puzzle Quest' User Statistics (Heroes & Abilities)

David [Hi-Fi] Moore
David [Hi-Fi] Moore Posts: 2,872 Site Admin
edited November 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
Hello MPQ aficionados,

It's time once again for "Fun With Stats"! Last time we took a look at how and where mobile players were enjoying Marvel Puzzle Quest (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18156). This time around, we dive deep into Super Hero usage and abilities. Thanks go out again to IceIX for digging into the details and compiling this list.

Activated Abilities:

iOS
    Player - 89,134,220 AI - 65,622,235

Android
    Player – 113,735,295 AI – 87,005,599

PC
    Player – 13,495,620 AI – 9,323,543

Total
    Player – 216,365,135 AI – 161,951,377
    Hero/Villain: 81,502,529 Minion: 70,448,848


Player Stats:

Top 5 Characters by activated ability
    Thor (Marvel NOW!) - 9.62% Black Widow (Original) - 7.32% Iron Man (Model 35) - 6.76% Daken (DA Wolverine) - 6.17% Storm (Classic) - 5.96%

Bottom 5 Characters by activated ability
    Captain Marvel - 0.2% Loki - 0.19% Colossus - 0.12% Spider-Man (Bag-Man) - 0.09% Invisible Woman - 0.06%

Top 5 abilities fired
    Thor (Marvel NOW!): Mjolnir's Might - 3.64% Storm (Classic): Wind Storm - 3.32% Black Widow (Original): Espionage - 3.25% Iron Man (Model 35): Repulsor Blast - 3.22% Ares (Dark Avengers): Onslaught - 3.01%

Because I'll be asked it -
    Sentry: World Rupture - 0.37%, which places it just below Psylocke's Psychic Knife and just above Moonstone's Gravity Warp.

Bottom 5 abilities fired
    Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Snarky Remark - 0.03% Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Switcheroo - 0.03% Colossus (Classic) : Fastball Special - 0.02% Invisible Woman: Force Bubbles - 0.02% Invisible Woman: Invisibility - 0.01%

Team-Ups (Player):

Top 5 by character used
    Iron Man (Model 35) - 7.12% Venom (DA Spider-Man) - 5.96% Yelena (DA Black Widow) - 5.66% Wolverine (Astonishing) - 4.6% Thor (Marvel NOW!) - 4.22%

Bottom 5 by character used (leaving off Blade and Ms. Marvel since they're too new)
    Devil Dino - 0.28% Beast (Classic) - 0.22% Spider-Man (Bag-Man) - 0.2% Invisible Woman - 0.12% Colossus (Classic) - 0.06%

Top 5 by ability used
    Juggernaut (Classic): Unstoppable Crash - 4.05% Daken (DA Wolverine): Chemical Reaction - 3.14% Venom (Da Spider-Man): Devour - 3.09% Wolverine (Astonishing): Adamantium Slash - 2.92% Yelena (DA Black Widow): LethalRecon - 2.87%

Bottom 5 by ability used
    Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Web Slinger - 0.07% Colossus (Classic): Fastball Special - 0.06% Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Snarky Remark - 0.06% Beast (Classic): Medical Marvel - 0.05% Beast (Classic): Animal Inside - 0.04%

AI Stats:

Top 5 characters by abilities fired
    Daken (DA Wolverine) - 16.17% Venom (DA Spider-Man) - 6.27% Iron Man (Model 35) - 4.66% Bullseye (DA Hawkeye) - 3.89% Wolverine (Astonishing) - 3.66%

Bottom 5 by abilities fired
    Nick Fury - 0.26% Loki - 0.22% Invisible Woman - 0.14% Colossus - 0.13% Spider-Man (Bag-Man) - 0.09%

Top 5 abilities fired
    Daken (DA Wolverine): Pheremone Rage - 6.5% Daken (DA Wolverine): Healing & Heat - 5.87% Venom (DA Spider-Man): Symbiote Snare - 4.06% Daken (DA Wolverine): Chemical Reaction - 3.96% Bullseye (DA Hawkeye): Adamantium Bones - 3.57%

Bottom 5 abilities fired
    Invisible Woman: Force Bubbles - 0.04% Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Switcheroo - 0.03% Invisible Woman: Grant Invisibility - 0.03% Colossus (Classic): Fastball Special - 0.02% Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Snarky Remark - 0.01%

Minion Top 5 by abilities fired
    HAMMER Soldier - 15.83% HAMMER Lieutenant - 11.41% Maggia Muscle - 7.22% Maggia Don - 5.43% HAMMER Pyro - 5.02%

Minion Bottom 5 by abilities fired
    SHIELD Spy - 0.85% Doom Bot Decoy - 0.67% HAMMER Intel - 0.47% Doom Bot Coordinator - 0.03% Doom Bot Defender - 0.03%

Minion Top 5 abilities fired
    HAMMER Soldier: Assault Rifle - 7.9% HAMMER Soldier: Suppressing Fire - 7.64% HAMMER Lieutenant: Morale Boost - 5.62% HAMMER Lieutenant: Pistol - 5.57% HAMMER Pyro: Flamethrower - 4.92%

Minion Bottom 5 abilities fired
    Doom Bot Decoy: Temporal Warp - 0.15% Doom Bot Coordinator: Narcisissm - 0.03% Doom Bot Defender: Repair - 0.01% Doom Bot Defender: Hubris - 0.01% Doom Bot Coordinator: Summon Demons - 0.005%
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Comments

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Espionage cannot be third, after an ability that costs 12 AP. Espionage is free. A team consisting of OBW and Storm would need to use Espionage four times before Wind Storm would become available.
  • atomzed
    atomzed Posts: 1,753 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ooh stats... fun stuff icon_e_smile.gif

    While I appreciate the stats for the whole mpq population, is it possible to give us data of specific populations?

    Example I would be interested to look at the abilities for the top players. It may be difficult to filter out, but the top 100 alliance data would be a good way of querying the data.

    I think it is better to show specific population data, cos it gives a better indication of the way the games are played by the top echelon of the population.
  • loroku
    loroku Posts: 1,014 Chairperson of the Boards
    Espionage only fires if OBW tanks a color. Depending on Storm's level OBW may never tank blue for her.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Sentry: World Rupture - 0.37%, which places it just below Psylocke's Psychic Knife and just above Moonstone's Gravity Warp.
    What the hell... just that? just a minority has sentry maxed covered or what? icon_e_surprised.gificon_eek.gif
  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    unbemator wrote:
    Sentry: World Rupture - 0.37%, which places it just below Psylocke's Psychic Knife and just above Moonstone's Gravity Warp.
    What the hell... just that? just a minority has sentry maxed covered or what? icon_e_surprised.gificon_eek.gif

    Exactly. Also you would use an ability Psychic Knife multiple times per game, compared to WR needing only one cast before it wrecks the enemy team.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Its like only the top 50 alliances use sentry and the rest of the alliances dont have him at all.
  • Moon Roach
    Moon Roach Posts: 2,863 Chairperson of the Boards
    Could you have separate statistics for passive and active abilities?

    Espionage happens whenever a match is made in one of (up to) three colours. Something like World Rupture has to be saved for and then chosen.
  • IceIX
    IceIX ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 4,328 Site Admin
    Top 1* abilities
      Iron Man (Model 35): Repulsor Blast - 22.97% Iron Man (Model 35): Armored Assault - 20.23% Black Widow (Modern): Widows Sting - 8.54% Storm (Modern): Lightning Strike - 8.14% Storm (Modern): Hailstorm - 5.89%
    Bottom 1* abilities
      Black Widow (Modern): Aggressive Recon - 3.59% Juggernaut (Classic): Headbutt - 2.08% Venom (DA Spider-Man): Symbiote Snare - 2.06% Venom (DA Spider-Man): Devour - 1.86% Yelena (DA Black Widow): Payback Mission - 1.01% Yelena (DA Black Widow): Lethal Recon - 0.97%
    Top 2* abilities
      Thor (Marvel NOW!): Mjolnir's Might - 7.35% Storm (Classic): Wind Storm - 6.77% Black Widow (Original): Espionage - 6.61% Ares (Dark Avengers): Onslaught - 6.13% Thor (Marvel NOW!): Thunder Strike- 6.05
    Bottom 2* abilities
      Captain Marvel (Ms. Marvel): Photonic Blasts - 0.3% Captain America (Modern): Sentinel Of Liberty - 0.2% Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Web Slinger - 0.06% Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Snarky Remark - 0.06% Spider-Man (Bag-Man): Switcheroo - 0.06%
    Top 3* abilities
      Hulk (Indestructable): Thunderous Clap - 5.19% Spider-Man (Classic): Spider Sense - 4.52% CaptainAmerica (Rogers): Star Spangled Avenger - 4.14% Hulk (Indestructable): Anger - 3.65% Wolverine (Patch): Healing Factor - 3.55%
    Bottom 3* abilities
      Colossus (Classic): Colossal Punch - 0.19% Beast (Classic): Medical Marvel - 0.18% Loki (Dark Reign): Trickery - 0.14% Colossus (Classic): Immovable Object - 0.14% Colossus (Classic): Fastball Special - 0.08%
    Top 4* abilities
      Wolverine (X-Force): X-Force - 24.29% Wolverine (X-Force): Surgical Strike - 21.17% Wolverine (X-Force): Recovery - 12.79% Thor (Goddess): Smite - 10.85% Thor (Goddess): Power Surge - 8.92%
    Bottom 4* abilities
      Nick Fury: Demolition - 1.68% Nick Fury: Avengers Assemble - 1.29% Invisible Woman: Force Field Crush - 0.51% Invisible Woman: Force Bubbles - 0.36% Invisible Woman: Grant Invisibility - 0.19%
    Top 5 Passives
      Black Widow (Original): Espionage - 17.1% Daken (DA Wolverine): Pheromone Rage - 12.34% Daken (DA Wolverine): Healing & Heat - 10.9% Storm (Classic): Raging Tempest - 7.77% Spider-Man (Classic): Spider Sense - 7.35%
    Bottom 5 Passives
      Falcon (Mighty Avengers): Inspiration - 2.32% Doctor Octopus (Octavius): Monologue - 1.77% Falcon (Mighty Avengers): Redwing - 1.7% Deadpool (It's Me!): Life of the Party - 0.39% Captain Marvel (Modern): Energy Absorption - 0.32%

    Cutting passives out pushes Thor (Marvel NOW!)'s Call the Storm up into 5th and raises Sentry's World Rupture up to 0.45% of all ability usages.
  • mags1587
    mags1587 Posts: 1,020 Chairperson of the Boards
    Yelena is in the top 5 team ups used by players? Really? Would not have called that.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    unbemator wrote:
    Sentry: World Rupture - 0.37%, which places it just below Psylocke's Psychic Knife and just above Moonstone's Gravity Warp.
    What the hell... just that? just a minority has sentry maxed covered or what? icon_e_surprised.gificon_eek.gif

    Exactly. Also you would use an ability Psychic Knife multiple times per game, compared to WR needing only one cast before it wrecks the enemy team.

    Remember a majority only use to shield hop, so that represents less than about 1.5% players per pvp. On top of that, about 75% or more of fights are done before senty hopping. Remember for most shield hops, you are getting 40-50 points a pop, so these are less fights than getting the same fights on the way to shield hop territory. So 0.37% sounds about right.
  • Ebolamonkey84
    Ebolamonkey84 Posts: 509 Critical Contributor
    mags1587 wrote:
    Yelena is in the top 5 team ups used by players? Really? Would not have called that.

    It's probably from before we could delete them and everyone was prologue dumping them to make room for useful ones.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Bottom 5 Characters by activated ability

    Captain Marvel - 0.2%

    That's right, Captain Marvel never procs! Lower the threshold on yellow icon_cry.gif

    Nice stats, especially by rarity tiers, and thanks.
  • Chrono_Tata
    Chrono_Tata Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
    NorthernPolarity wrote:
    unbemator wrote:
    Sentry: World Rupture - 0.37%, which places it just below Psylocke's Psychic Knife and just above Moonstone's Gravity Warp.
    What the hell... just that? just a minority has sentry maxed covered or what? icon_e_surprised.gificon_eek.gif

    Exactly. Also you would use an ability Psychic Knife multiple times per game, compared to WR needing only one cast before it wrecks the enemy team.
    Also, many casual players don't realise how powerful World Rupture is. The ability isn't obviously powerful from its description, is a teamhurting ability, and you have to understand how it works with strike tiles to understand how powerful it actually is. People on the forum are more in-the-know but I've seen people on Facebook complaining that they should buff his "useless green ability".
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I don't see the point of usage statistics on World Rupture. It's like saying statistics show that only 0.2% of PvE players are crazy so the insanity for the top 2 in PvE events only applies to a very small subset of players. Beyond his lack of availability, it's not always the best ability to use in every scenario but it's pretty much the best ability to use in every scenario that matters.

    I'm surprised Star Spangled Avenger is that high for 3*.
  • Dartmaster01
    Dartmaster01 Posts: 634 Critical Contributor
    This just confirms most of the player base is in one and two star land. Also, possibly explains some of their decision making. icon_e_confused.gif
  • atomzed
    atomzed Posts: 1,753 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited November 2014
    Phantron wrote:
    I'm surprised Star Spangled Avenger is that high for 3*.
    It makes sense. Because once you get it going, you can cast it again in the same game.

    Lets say 10 people use SSA one game each. That would mean that you probably get 25 times of SSA (asuming 2.5x per game) in the frequency count.

    The same 10 people use CoTS in one game each. That would mean only 10times of COTS in the frequency count.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    atomzed wrote:
    Phantron wrote:
    I'm surprised Star Spangled Avenger is that high for 3*.
    It makes sense. Because once you get it going, you can cast it again in the same game.

    Lets say 10 people use SSA one game each. That would mean that you probably get 25 times of SSA (asuming 2.5x per game) in the frequency count.

    The same 10 people use CoTS in one game each. That would mean only 10times of COTS in the frequency bc y tinykitty

    That'd mean no character is used roughly 2-3X as often as Captain America, which seems surprising to me. I wonder how the PvP/PvE breakdown goes. I can definitely see him being #1 in usage in PvE by the defined metrics but PvP would be quite surprising.
  • atomzed
    atomzed Posts: 1,753 Chairperson of the Boards
    Phantron wrote:
    atomzed wrote:
    Phantron wrote:
    I'm surprised Star Spangled Avenger is that high for 3*.
    It makes sense. Because once you get it going, you can cast it again in the same game.

    Lets say 10 people use SSA one game each. That would mean that you probably get 25 times of SSA (asuming 2.5x per game) in the frequency count.

    The same 10 people use CoTS in one game each. That would mean only 10times of COTS in the frequency bc y tinykitty

    That'd mean no character is used roughly 2-3X as often as Captain America, which seems surprising to me. I wonder how the PvP/PvE breakdown goes. I can definitely see him being #1 in usage in PvE by the defined metrics but PvP would be quite surprising.

    Hmm... when I saw usage percentage I was thinking along the line of

    Ssa % = Total ability usage count / total number of Steve Rogers games.

    Such a percentage count will mean that the total number of games are accounted for EACH character separately.

    But you have a point, if they count the percentage as
    Ssa % = Total ability usage count / total number of games of ALL characters

    Then your question makes perfect sense.

    Icex, could we have a response to this question? How are the stats calculated?
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    If it's just out of that character's games that'd mean World Rupture is used one out of roughly 200 games that involves Sentry. That just seems completely unbelievable given the ability's extremely low AP cost.
  • atomzed
    atomzed Posts: 1,753 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited November 2014
    Phantron wrote:
    If it's just out of that character's games that'd mean World Rupture is used one out of roughly 200 games that involves Sentry. That just seems completely unbelievable given the ability's extremely low AP cost.

    You are assuming max cover character. That may not be the case at all, since you could have players using 1 cover sentry.

    I think you are probably right but as long as d3 don't explain how they get their figures, it is all speculation.

    Some questions I have are : do they include the loaner char in their stats?

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