What's Your Favorite Stupid AI Move?

Leugenesmiff
Leugenesmiff Posts: 401 Mover and Shaker
edited March 2015 in MPQ General Discussion
We all know the AI in MPQ isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer. Hell, it can rarely even count to five. But sometimes it's stupidity can be so ludicrous it crosses over from dull knife territory into the realm of spoons. I thought it'd be fun to hear if people had any funny instances they might share.

This is one of my favorites and the AI couldn't have pulled it off at a better (or worse) time yesterday. I was one more turn from winning the match, but so was the AI, and there was nothing I could do on my current turn to win. So I had to make a match three, pass the turn, and watch myself lose. But then, lo and behold, the wonderous mind of the AI decides it's a good time to use its Team Up. Thankfully it's Invisible Woman's Force Bubbles which, seeing as how Invisible Woman hadn't been around previously to make any, in effect did nothing but end the AI's turn. Then, using the last three black I needed and got the last turn, I set my Black Panther loose for the win.

I've also had the AI down to just Juggernaunt who decides that if he can win then suicide is the best option, but that one's not quite as bafflingly idiotic.

Anyone else have any amusing tales about the play style of the MPQ AI?
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  • SnowcaTT
    SnowcaTT Posts: 3,487 Chairperson of the Boards
    Never taking the 5-match "L" shape move. Glad they make it miss that one.
  • simonsez
    simonsez Posts: 4,663 Chairperson of the Boards
    Stocking up on AP to use the loaner's ability, instead of a cheaper, more damaging ability from a maxed teammate.
  • DaveR4470
    DaveR4470 Posts: 931 Critical Contributor
    Electra throwing Double-Double Cross when I don't have any strike tiles out... or even a character who can generate strike tiles.

    Thanks for the assist, hon!
  • TazFTW
    TazFTW Posts: 695 Critical Contributor
    Snarky Remark team-up
  • ynglink
    ynglink Posts: 195
    2* icon_magneto.png using Polarity Shift. I've never seen the AI even try to use this in a way to create matches with it. Usually it places them, then makes a 3 match...
  • Killinstinct
    Killinstinct Posts: 99 Match Maker
    Back in the time: matching an environmental tile instead of a normal match when I only had a few hp left.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I've definitely seen Human Torch drop a green countdown then follow up with a Snarky Remark TU. Don't get too confident Johnny.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    SnowcaTT wrote:
    Never taking the 5-match "L" shape move. Glad they make it miss that one.
    Yeah. They don't make the "T" either. I still cringe whenever I see one on the board though.
    simonsez wrote:
    Stocking up on AP to use the loaner's ability, instead of a cheaper, more damaging ability from a maxed teammate.
    Had one of these today. Ate a Cyclops visor blast instead of a Smite from a maxed 4* Thor. Match was winding down and I still would have won, but someone would have been taking a hammer induced nap for the duration.
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Dropping a special tile and immediately matching it. They're usually good for at least one per match.
  • mohio
    mohio Posts: 1,690 Chairperson of the Boards
    simonsez wrote:
    Stocking up on AP to use the loaner's ability, instead of a cheaper, more damaging ability from a maxed teammate.
    Yup, just had the ai hold off on xforce at 8 green so it could save up for whatever terrible green power gamora has. That was nice.

    I think my favorite is patch's best there is for 0 when they have a cheaper red ability from a higher leveled char that will clearly do more damage.
  • stowaway
    stowaway Posts: 501 Critical Contributor
    Having a match five, in a straight line, so the AI will take it; but instead casting Godlike Power (or similar board-shifting ability) to crash right through it.
  • konannfriends
    konannfriends Posts: 246 Tile Toppler
    The Ai with Force Field Crush Team up icon_lol.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Killing itself with self-damage
    Matching its own countdown tiles
    Save up for high-AP bad powers instead of using better powers of the same color
    Using team up powers which use up colored AP
  • Der_Lex
    Der_Lex Posts: 1,035 Chairperson of the Boards
    Saving up green for loaner Gamora in the previous pvp while there's a L270 XForce on their team.

    This has happened to me plenty of times during Lethal Intent, and I count my blessings for it. icon_mrgreen.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    "That 4 is in a color I need and is actually a crit tile for the player, but THIS 4 is TU Tiles. I better take the TU tiles to be sure." icon_lol.gif
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    TazFTW wrote:
    Snarky Remark team-up

    The amount of times Snarky Remark TU has made me want to throw my phone is more than I'd like. Stupid Webslinger....

    How about this one: Force Field Crush TU. Makes 2 bubbles and ends turn.
  • rednailz
    rednailz Posts: 559
    I'd say any AI team that picks Moonstone to be on their team is a candidate for a stupid move award
  • GTannen73
    GTannen73 Posts: 145 Tile Toppler
    A nearly-down Sentry, just one match away from wiping my team, suddenly realized he had 9 yellowtile.png . His Sacrifice was much appreciated.
  • ClydeFrog76
    ClydeFrog76 Posts: 1,350 Chairperson of the Boards
    Last night in DDQ, I had Rocket and Groot down to 45 health, there were yellow matches *everywhere*...AI went for TU instead.

    icon_lol.gif
  • ZootSax
    ZootSax Posts: 1,819 Chairperson of the Boards
    In this last PVE, I was just about to lose on the last wave of a survival node when the AI ignored two match-5's in order to do an off-color match-4 which destroyed two of its own countdown tiles (one of which would go off the following turn, finishing my team off). The resulting two match-5's and follow-up cascades gave me enough damage finish off Gorgon. Hawkeye's Speed Shoot took care of the rest.

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