Rage and Ruin Tourney

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  • jpKNOCKOUT
    jpKNOCKOUT Posts: 38
    Anybody else have an issue where the entire tournament disappears for intervals of time? I remember the hulk (r:1) disappeared with 10 hours left and never came back. R2 came and went every once in awhile and now this tournaments doing it too. 10H to go and it's nowhere in sight.
    Pretty lame.

    EDIT: aannd it's back. The game must have known I was typing this up icon_eek.gif
  • Unknown
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    Phantron wrote:
    I really would prefer if we have fewer but more quality wins. I know when I need to push a rating I just boost all the way and most of the wins feels like pure garbage time when you go through a fully legit team as if they're Bagman.

    Agreed on all counts. And yes, we boost to get through matches as fast as possible in fear of getting hit.
  • Unknown
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    What's up with this tourney?! Everyone has an insane MMR! I got matchmade against ppl that has 2000+ MMR and they all had 3* teams...I'm coming 2nd in my bracket with 950...good ok wolverine and obw haha
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    Misguided wrote:
    Phantron wrote:
    I really would prefer if we have fewer but more quality wins. I know when I need to push a rating I just boost all the way and most of the wins feels like pure garbage time when you go through a fully legit team as if they're Bagman.

    Agreed on all counts. And yes, we boost to get through matches as fast as possible in fear of getting hit.

    Not sure how they can fix this with the AI being so dumb. There really is no "skill" in this game. Guy with the highest point doesn't mean he's more skilled than you. Just means the player had more time to play and was lucky to not get attacked while getting up there.
  • mischiefmaker
    mischiefmaker Posts: 932
    wathombe wrote:
    This. I'm running 48 Ares/78 OBW/69 Wolvie. I only saw two tank teams, either this morning or last night, I can't remember (thanks, Bughunt, whoever you are!). I saw mischiefmaker twice and quickly passed.

    Thanks, much appreciated! I'm at 1619 now and shielded with a 6 Ares / 6 Bag Man / 4 CHawkeye, so if you see me again, feel free to take a bunch of whacks. Hope that helps someone get to 1800 and above.
  • poomermon
    poomermon Posts: 300 Mover and Shaker
    This tourney eats up my health packs like they are nothing. Every other match ends up a slug fest and me taking considerable damage. Hard to take out every threatening char when Ares has so much health and his abilities are quite powerful when boosted.
  • Unknown
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    mischiefmaker wrote:
    wathombe wrote:
    This. I'm running 48 Ares/78 OBW/69 Wolvie. I only saw two tank teams, either this morning or last night, I can't remember (thanks, Bughunt, whoever you are!). I saw mischiefmaker twice and quickly passed.

    Thanks, much appreciated! I'm at 1619 now and shielded with a 6 Ares / 6 Bag Man / 4 CHawkeye, so if you see me again, feel free to take a bunch of whacks. Hope that helps someone get to 1800 and above.

    Oooh, excellent! Hope you still have that team up in about four hours! I will surely take you up on that if I can find you.
  • Unknown
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    poomermon wrote:
    This tourney eats up my health packs like they are nothing. Every other match ends up a slug fest and me taking considerable damage. Hard to take out every threatening char when Ares has so much health and his abilities are quite powerful when boosted.

    I banged out 2401 into two late night pushes with a few battles during the work day between shields.

    L85 Wolverine, L76 Spiderman, L50 Ares.

    Keep Ares in stun lock. Feral claw until you have a healthy number of strike tiles, then pile up green for an onslaught. I'll use sunder as soon as I accumulate enough yellow and Rampage once the strike tiles are in play. I usually save Ares for last and kill the lowest HP character first to make it easier to maintain stun lock. If you're having trouble accumulating enough blue before they trigger special attacks, use some stockpile boosts.

    If you're low on health, nix the sunder, restun the team (since all the web tiles are about to be wiped out) and heal with spidey instead. If there are multiple enemies, i rampage, if it's down to one, i use wolvie's adamantium slash.

    Only health packs you'll need are for when a cascade or blueless board gets Spidey killed.

    I've found if you grind at night, after 11pm. you can go 8-12 matches without a retaliation or attack.

    Also, followed the tip of another poster and waited a day before starting the tourney.

    Got placed in a cake bracket.

    I'm in first with 2401, 2nd place is 1055 with 8h to go.

    Good Luck. Feel free to wail away on Brady28, shielded for the remaining duration of tourney.
  • Unknown
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    Thanks to all the people with tanking teams. Reached my 2400 goal, so enjoy my bagman team for easy points!
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    cstar wrote:
    Thanks to all the people with tanking teams. Reached my 2400 goal, so enjoy my bagman team for easy points!
    Thanks i got a quick 100 points off you then I couldn't find you anymore icon_e_sad.gif
  • Moral
    Moral Posts: 512
    Looks like the response to tank teams is allowing people 1000 points lower to see you and bust you back down as you try to advance.
  • Spoit
    Spoit Posts: 3,441 Chairperson of the Boards
    Moral wrote:
    Looks like the response to tank teams is allowing people 1000 points lower to see you and bust you back down as you try to advance.
    Just like the response to hood-round point loss was shields icon_lol.gif
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    Moral wrote:
    Looks like the response to tank teams is allowing people 1000 points lower to see you and bust you back down as you try to advance.

    Though no one puts in a tank team until they shield, so they're not so much able to bust you down as they are to catch up more easily.
  • Unknown
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    Hit 2400 but forgot to put in a bag team icon_e_sad.gif

    Thanks to all those shielded with tankers from 2000 up!
  • Unknown
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    cstar wrote:
    Thanks to all the people with tanking teams. Reached my 2400 goal, so enjoy my bagman team for easy points!

    Woot! I have you queued up for when my shield runs out in a couple hours! icon_twisted.gif Thank you!
  • Unknown
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    It's not uncommon to take out the two guys that isn't Ares with a 6 red + 6 whatever else the rest of team uses by turn 3. This has nothing to do with AI. If you had to play against someone that starts out with 3 AP boosts (and subject to the same handicap as the computer) you'd also see 2 of your guys blown away by turn 3 half of the time and then get permanently stunned the rest of the match. I understand why the boosts are there, but there's literally no way the defense has any chance of putting up a fight against 6 AP in 4 colors whether they're trying to tank or not.
  • Unknown
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    Phantron wrote:
    It's not uncommon to take out the two guys that isn't Ares with a 6 red + 6 whatever else the rest of team uses by turn 3. This has nothing to do with AI. If you had to play against someone that starts out with 3 AP boosts (and subject to the same handicap as the computer) you'd also see 2 of your guys blown away by turn 3 half of the time and then get permanently stunned the rest of the match. I understand why the boosts are there, but there's literally no way the defense has any chance of putting up a fight against 6 AP in 4 colors whether they're trying to tank or not.

    The defense is necessarily supposed to win as much as they are supposed to maybe take out a single cover or damage a few enough to force health pack use.
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    Phantron wrote:
    It's not uncommon to take out the two guys that isn't Ares with a 6 red + 6 whatever else the rest of team uses by turn 3. This has nothing to do with AI. If you had to play against someone that starts out with 3 AP boosts (and subject to the same handicap as the computer) you'd also see 2 of your guys blown away by turn 3 half of the time and then get permanently stunned the rest of the match. I understand why the boosts are there, but there's literally no way the defense has any chance of putting up a fight against 6 AP in 4 colors whether they're trying to tank or not.

    So...yay, shields, right?
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    wathombe wrote:
    Phantron wrote:
    It's not uncommon to take out the two guys that isn't Ares with a 6 red + 6 whatever else the rest of team uses by turn 3. This has nothing to do with AI. If you had to play against someone that starts out with 3 AP boosts (and subject to the same handicap as the computer) you'd also see 2 of your guys blown away by turn 3 half of the time and then get permanently stunned the rest of the match. I understand why the boosts are there, but there's literally no way the defense has any chance of putting up a fight against 6 AP in 4 colors whether they're trying to tank or not.

    So...yay, shields, right?

    Always thought boosts should be for PVE events only to make things more interesting.
    Some say boosts are there to give newer players a chance to win but with the way things are, boosts = I win button
  • Unknown
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    Boosts also cost you ISO. Sure you win a few more matches in the short term, but it prevents you from upgrading as quickly in the long term.

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