The Gauntlet - Competitive Edition Feb 7- 12

Unknown

patch hulk doesn't do well against multiple 15k+ characters.

Cortez

I finished that node with stormneto after 4 tries I finally got a good board with a 5 purple combo from the get-go. Stunned Cage before he got his red protect tile on, killed loki very quickly afterwards, stunned Thoress with a Moonstone TU. Collected more purple and blue tiles, got another polarity shift off, stunned cage again and finished him shortly afterwards. I killed Thoress with Magneto's red for the DP cover.

My DP is now 1/1/0 and far from useful. Same thing for Pun and Hood...

xequalsy

Gauntlet complete!

I actually had the most trouble with the last essential node - my go to teams failed:

mnmags/storm (hard to pull off against 15k health enemies)
mnmags/mystique (pretty sure I'd have won eventually if I got lucky enough and went infinite early enough, but one turn or two of bad luck and loki destroys you)

So I ended up just using whales.

I think I quite like the strategy of not doing any essentials and then working backwards, it definitely made the last few main nodes beatable with just mnmags/cstorm!

Unknown

Well the hard part is done!

After about 7 tries, finally got through essential 18 with 166 LCap and Patch(first try with that combo) and AP boosts to all, 3ry and 3gb

My punisher is very low lvl so it probably wouldve been easier if he was higher but w/e. Hope this helps someone else out!

Nymr83

i'm stuck on the last essential node, stormneto isnt getting it done, ares/obw also no good. keep trying stormneto hoping for the perfect board?

OzarkBoatswain

My Essential 18 was level 321/322. I beat it with Steve + Hood, Aggressive Recon as a Team-Up, and some luck.

With Sim 42 I just Whaled my way through.

Konman

So how do you beat Sim 41? One Rage of the Panther and my entire team is dead. I haven't been close to killing even one member of that node's team. Even with two maxed, boosted characters (DD & Punisher), I can't even make a dent.

Any suggestions without resorting to 4* land? Thanks

dswan3rd

Konman wrote:

So how do you beat Sim 41? One Rage of the Panther and my entire team is dead. I haven't been close to killing even one member of that node's team. Even with two maxed, boosted characters (DD & Punisher), I can't even make a dent.

Any suggestions without resorting to 4* land? Thanks

I Stormneto'd (+ MHawkeye for Polarity Shift into Speed Shot) Sim 41, with +3 blue/purple (don't recall the TUs). When you're this overmatched (in terms of health and damage dealing potential), it's really a matter of getting a cooperative board/layout. I got to a point (through cascades) where I had all three enemies stunned from Wind Storm. I attacked Dino first, then stunned Loki when my first Polarity Shift triggered Mischief and then went from there.

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Marty17 wrote:

Anyone got any tips for Essential 18 Vs. (lvl 394/395)

I did it with Hood, GSBW, Punisher. Boosted +3 all AP, +3 blue/purple, +3 black/green. Hood is basically there just to steal AP and do a chunk of damage if you get enough yellow. My Hood is only at 3 blue covers, so he's not stealing black/yellow, so I had to match those to deny them to Luke Cage. You want to focus on Loki first and get that AP stealing trickster out of the game. I matched purple first to get enough for deceptive tactics, then matched green and waited to use it for a board position that would allow me to get up to 19 green at once (since DT will trigger mischief). Sniped the group (Loki out front) and had enough red to use Retribution to down Loki. I didn't calc it out (my Ret. is at 30%), so I goofed and actually had to use it twice to down him, but I had the AP so no problem.

Once Loki is down, it actually gets easier since you can freely take the match 4s and 5s. Got another round of DT into another Snipe that put both Cage and Thor close to Retribution range. A couple of molotovs from Punisher followed by 2x Ret (1 for each) finished the match. I got lucky that the enemy team matched away the protect tile for me so the molotovs did decent damage. You don't want to use that ability with the protect tile out. One nice thing about the DT+Sniper combo is that you can usually clear the protect tile with DT so Snipe does full damage. If not, you can definitely clear it with the Snipe so that any cascade and your match at least does full damage.

dswan3rd

I guess it largely depends on what they scale to (Essential 16 with OBW/Cage/Hulk is 184/185/184) but do I have a legitimate shot at the DP if my only Punisher is the from this event? I'd have to sell someone (only 225 of a required 400 HP for a new slot) to even have a roster spot for Punisher, but (obviously) don't want to if it's not going to amount to the DP - thoughts?

Note: I've got less than 28K DP points, so whales isn't an option...

Unknown

Seasick Pirate wrote:

I've run half my roster into the ground and don't know how to deal with the rest of my Sub-3. Anyone have advice for how to handle Sim 42 and all Essentials — without the use of WHALES? I have enough points to clear 3 nodes, but I don't want to waste it if I can't complete the rest.

Sim 42 is level 343 for me, and my roster is in my sig for a better idea of the hurdle I face.
The Deadpool cover is the only reward I needed from this event, so I'm very motivated to finish it.
I'm not afraid of using any boosts as well.

Looked at your roster. Not going to lie, it's going to be tough. I ended up using whales on essential 16, but did the rest of the essentials and sim 42 without whales. I don't know how much ISO 8 you have, but if you can get Hulk maxed out, it will greatly help you use GSBW. Put Hulk in front and she'll only tank purple. Not to mention he'll help generate green for her to use. I'd pair the two of them up with BP (for damage) or Hood (for AP denial). I believe I used Hulk+GSBW+BP for Sim 42, Pun+DD+Hulk for Essential 17, and Pun+GSBW+Hood for Essential 18 along with boosts and some luck. DD is great on essential 17 for dealing with the strike+protect tiles with his purple. You'll want some sort of AP denial for Essential 18 especially with Loki on their team, which pretty much gives you Hood if you want to stay in 3* land.

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sarlok5 wrote:

Seasick Pirate wrote:

I've run half my roster into the ground and don't know how to deal with the rest of my Sub-3. Anyone have advice for how to handle Sim 42 and all Essentials — without the use of WHALES? I have enough points to clear 3 nodes, but I don't want to waste it if I can't complete the rest.

Sim 42 is level 343 for me, and my roster is in my sig for a better idea of the hurdle I face.
The Deadpool cover is the only reward I needed from this event, so I'm very motivated to finish it.
I'm not afraid of using any boosts as well.

Looked at your roster. Not going to lie, it's going to be tough. I ended up using whales on essential 16, but did the rest of the essentials and sim 42 without whales. I don't know how much ISO 8 you have, but if you can get Hulk maxed out, it will greatly help you use GSBW. Put Hulk in front and she'll only tank purple. Not to mention he'll help generate green for her to use. I'd pair the two of them up with BP (for damage) or Hood (for AP denial). I believe I used Hulk+GSBW+BP for Sim 42, Pun+DD+Hulk for Essential 17, and Pun+GSBW+Hood for Essential 18 along with boosts and some luck. DD is great on essential 17 for dealing with the strike+protect tiles with his purple. You'll want some sort of AP denial for Essential 18 especially with Loki on their team, which pretty much gives you Hood if you want to stay in 3* land.

I whaled 42 out of frustration last night (4 bad beats in a row on 41 - I was on tilt), but I beat Essential 16 with my **** Pun (5/3/1), LCap and Hood. Boost Red and Blue, Stun Cage when you can (covering his tile), knock out oBW, then knock out Cage, then Hulk goes down easy.

Essential 17 will be the same team, but Cage goes down first, then Daken, then Rocket.

Those 2 nodes should be beatable with your roster as well, but the other 2 might need Whales depending on your patience for a friendly board.

Unknown

sarlok5 wrote:

I did it with Hood, GSBW, Punisher. Boosted +3 all AP, +3 blue/purple, +3 black/green.

That's exactly what I did. The only thing I did differently was to take out Cage first. Using Deceptive Tactics to deal with the protect tile helped a lot, but it did create a lot of Mischief. It might do to deal with Loki first, but how, with that protect tile on the board?

It helps to be flexible. I used Punisher's green when I didn't have enough for GSBW's, and it added a little damage to my Molotov Cocktail. Had I waited for more green, I can't say I would have won. What I can say is Twin Pistols is awesome, regardless of its ending the turn.

Nymr83

I finally beat essential 18 with stormneto, boosted bluepurple, all, and green.. Tough call between red for magneto and green for atrom but the green gave me mor e help to get the dang tile off the board and then stun.

At least if using stormneto, i would kill loki first as the ap drain will end you quickly. Then kill thor if you have enough blue or can generate enough to keep luke stunnwd.
Your goal needs to be to stun him and then keep him stunned, throw punisher out in front (he only tanks black here if yours is low level like mine) ahead of any devastating moves by thor or if cage is unstunned.
The +All boost was necesaary for me to get purple and then blue off on turn 3 and still have that extra blue for a 2nd use later, i tried with just bp boost but never got the 2nd stun off in time that way

TxMoose

Ok, need some advice. I'm not overly ambitous, just trying to get the hood but 36 is killing me. I only have 2 characters up to 94 and one is Thor that I can't use here. So, Daken94, OBW83 and Ares86 seem hopeless against RnG, 4or, and Blade at 139. Other options are:
boosted Dardevel135 - 1/1/1 - colors are covered, but not strong
boosted Magneto97 - 4/3/5 - don't have a high enough storm or hawk or this might be an option?
boosted torch90 - 4/4/5 - not enough health
boosted CapAm88 - 3/5/5 - too slow
Wolvie70 - 5/5/3 - not enough health and not leveled enough for attacks

Unfortunately my storm/mags/hawk team are only to ~level 60. I think I may have screwed myself by doing a couple essentials before tackling this node (36 has gone up 8 or 9 levels with me finishing 2 of the essential side nodes). Need one more essential and this node for the hood. Any advice?

Curiosity

Finally nailed the Cage/4hor/Loki node @ L300.

Used the above suggested strategy of Punisher/Hood/GSBW

My Hood and Punisher are maxed, but GSBW is only about 120. With the initial boost to a few colours her DT can set off massive chains and bring down Loki before he nicks everything. After that, build AP until you can take out Cage.

Now just the final node to go. XF/Thor/Fury. Good job I have one set of whales left...

Unknown

TxMoose wrote:

Ok, need some advice. I'm not overly ambitous, just trying to get the hood but 36 is killing me. I only have 2 characters up to 94 and one is Thor that I can't use here. So, Daken94, OBW83 and Ares86 seem hopeless against RnG, 4or, and Blade at 139. Other options are:
boosted Dardevel135 - 1/1/1 - colors are covered, but not strong
boosted Magneto97 - 4/3/5 - don't have a high enough storm or hawk or this might be an option?
boosted torch90 - 4/4/5 - not enough health
boosted CapAm88 - 3/5/5 - too slow
Wolvie70 - 5/5/3 - not enough health and not leveled enough for attacks

Unfortunately my storm/mags/hawk team are only to ~level 60. I think I may have screwed myself by doing a couple essentials before tackling this node (36 has gone up 8 or 9 levels with me finishing 2 of the essential side nodes). Need one more essential and this node for the hood. Any advice?

If you run DD with Mags/Storm, he should tank Blue/Purple for them and give them time to work their magic. Boost Blue/Purple and All and with a little luck you should be good. You can even boost Red/Yellow too, drop an Ambush tile and use it for Match-4 target practice when you use Mags purple.

Konman

I have literally thrown everything I have at Sim 41. The closest I have come to victory, is almost killing Loki...almost, before Black Panther rages all over me and its all over. I have to wait another 2 hours to have enough health packs to even try again. Its frustrating when you know you don't have a chance in hell of winning.

Konman

Konman wrote:

I have literally thrown everything I have at Sim 41. The closest I have come to victory, is almost killing Loki...almost, before Black Panther rages all over me and its all over. I have to wait another 2 hours to have enough health packs to even try again. Its frustrating when you know you don't have a chance in hell of winning.

Finally beat this node. Boosted maxed DD, 166 GSBW, & 140 Hulk. Ambush, Sniper rifle, and an angry Hulk. I know you were on the edge of your seats in anticipation of the outcome

ZootSax

TxMoose wrote:

Ok, need some advice. I'm not overly ambitous, just trying to get the hood but 36 is killing me. I only have 2 characters up to 94 and one is Thor that I can't use here. So, Daken94, OBW83 and Ares86 seem hopeless against RnG, 4or, and Blade at 139. Other options are:
boosted Dardevel135 - 1/1/1 - colors are covered, but not strong
boosted Magneto97 - 4/3/5 - don't have a high enough storm or hawk or this might be an option?
boosted torch90 - 4/4/5 - not enough health
boosted CapAm88 - 3/5/5 - too slow
Wolvie70 - 5/5/3 - not enough health and not leveled enough for attacks

Unfortunately my storm/mags/hawk team are only to ~level 60. I think I may have screwed myself by doing a couple essentials before tackling this node (36 has gone up 8 or 9 levels with me finishing 2 of the essential side nodes). Need one more essential and this node for the hood. Any advice?

papa07 wrote:

If you run DD with Mags/Storm, he should tank Blue/Purple for them and give them time to work their magic. Boost Blue/Purple and All and with a little luck you should be good. You can even boost Red/Yellow too, drop an Ambush tile and use it for Match-4 target practice when you use Mags purple.

I'll pretty much echo what papa07 said, except that I would use still use Magneto's red over Daredevil's, as you have the covers maxed and it cab be a devastating ability at that level if the countdown tile can survive one turn. Daredevil not having a lot of covers shouldn't matter for you in this case, as you should almost always be using Magneto's red/purple and Storm's blue over Daredevil. My Daredevil wasn't even as good as your's (mine was 1/1/0), but he was there to take the hits while my heavier hitters charged their powers. The only time I ever used one of his abilities this Gauntlet was to eliminate defense tiles with his purple.

Good luck.