traedoril wrote: Malcrof wrote: traedoril wrote: I think I play IF in an unusual way and I am checking to see if I need to change the way I am playing him. I pair him with SW who is 5/3/5. I stock up on Purple til I have 10 (usually 4 turns with witch) then pop Purple twice. Watch board explode then grab green until SW blue pops again. Cast purple, rinse and repeat. While boosted IF does 5600 with 12 black for just 5 purple. Is this the proper strategy with him? Depends on the fight. Some use him as a black generator for cage, mostorm, etc.. The free attack tile works great with LDaken, strike tile matching green, his ability giving more strikes, that tile can hit 1k a tick in no time easy. Any strike tile generator is a good pair with him. Using his purple to get the damage bonus is fine, but cage with 12 black can do the same, MoStorm with 12 black can do over 1k a turn. So , it is situational. Nifty combo with SW though Got it, so In simulator add Cage and win thanks!!
Malcrof wrote: traedoril wrote: I think I play IF in an unusual way and I am checking to see if I need to change the way I am playing him. I pair him with SW who is 5/3/5. I stock up on Purple til I have 10 (usually 4 turns with witch) then pop Purple twice. Watch board explode then grab green until SW blue pops again. Cast purple, rinse and repeat. While boosted IF does 5600 with 12 black for just 5 purple. Is this the proper strategy with him? Depends on the fight. Some use him as a black generator for cage, mostorm, etc.. The free attack tile works great with LDaken, strike tile matching green, his ability giving more strikes, that tile can hit 1k a tick in no time easy. Any strike tile generator is a good pair with him. Using his purple to get the damage bonus is fine, but cage with 12 black can do the same, MoStorm with 12 black can do over 1k a turn. So , it is situational. Nifty combo with SW though
traedoril wrote: I think I play IF in an unusual way and I am checking to see if I need to change the way I am playing him. I pair him with SW who is 5/3/5. I stock up on Purple til I have 10 (usually 4 turns with witch) then pop Purple twice. Watch board explode then grab green until SW blue pops again. Cast purple, rinse and repeat. While boosted IF does 5600 with 12 black for just 5 purple. Is this the proper strategy with him?
ayatorahxephon wrote: I have a 3/5/5 IF and I've been thinking if he is the only green user on my team... is it viable to respec him to 5/5/3 or even 4/5/4 ? I will only have a mindset in using his green after collecting 12 black...
Phantron wrote: I have green at 5 because the covers fall that way. His green at 5 is only weaker than Battleplan but the double damage mode is almost always better than Battleplan since it's almost never practical to have 12 TU APs. Now that The Hood and Loki seems to have been forgotten after the HP nerf there isn't a huge pressing need to have black at level 5 to deal with those guys.
raisinbman wrote: Phantron wrote: I have green at 5 because the covers fall that way. His green at 5 is only weaker than Battleplan but the double damage mode is almost always better than Battleplan since it's almost never practical to have 12 TU APs. Now that The Hood and Loki seems to have been forgotten after the HP nerf there isn't a huge pressing need to have black at level 5 to deal with those guys. no black at 5? thats viable?
ArkPrime wrote: raisinbman wrote: Phantron wrote: I have green at 5 because the covers fall that way. His green at 5 is only weaker than Battleplan but the double damage mode is almost always better than Battleplan since it's almost never practical to have 12 TU APs. Now that The Hood and Loki seems to have been forgotten after the HP nerf there isn't a huge pressing need to have black at level 5 to deal with those guys. no black at 5? thats viable? Not really. Black at 5 gives you something that is really rare in MPQ, guaranteed high damage every turn vs a character, expandable with strike tiles. It makes it so every match versus hood/loki is like 50% easier. That's a hard power to top.
Phantron wrote: in PvE The Hood isn't terribly common
simonsez wrote: Phantron wrote: in PvE The Hood isn't terribly common You quit at the right time. Hood is all over the current ISO brotherhood.
Phantron wrote: Not really. Black at 5 gives you something that is really rare in MPQ, guaranteed high damage every turn vs a character, expandable with strike tiles. It makes it so every match versus hood/loki is like 50% easier. That's a hard power to top.
tuscan panty raider wrote: Phantron wrote: Not really. Black at 5 gives you something that is really rare in MPQ, guaranteed high damage every turn vs a character, expandable with strike tiles. It makes it so every match versus hood/loki is like 50% easier. That's a hard power to top. Absolutely. As the Yang to the Yin of Cage's red power, his perma strike tile is unusually powerful. Forget the effect of say, a blade or the compensating effect of cage. The luck of the draw has seen me upgrade cage first but, my iron fist is next. Like cage IMO, he is someone who can't not be nerfed at some point. Regardless of whether or not it is again or not.
Phantron wrote: If I recall, prior to the whole streamline thing, Hood is limited mostly to the easy sub of Iso 8 so the highest he'd get to is maybe level 150 on essential, and sure there was a Hood + Muscle + whatever node but when he's level 55 you can live with that kind of cheese.
IceIX wrote: Iron Fist of K'un-Lun - 5 AP Level 5 - Converts 9 tiles to Black or deals 4113 damage.
rossfoss wrote: IceIX wrote: Iron Fist of K'un-Lun - 5 AP Level 5 - Converts 9 tiles to Black or deals 4113 damage. Sorry if I missed the announcement but in-game description says 7 tiles not 9 with 5 purple covers. Did they nerfed his purple?