Need help understanding Passive skills and their colors

Jetness

I'm trying to find the logic in what color a passive skill is and what color tiles that skill affects.

For example, if I'm playing a match with Spiderman, his Purple passive skill triggers when I match Purple tiles, and adds a Purple protect tile. This make sense.

Daken also has a Purple passive skill, but it has nothing to do with Purple tiles His Purple passive skill triggers when a Green tile match is made, and adds Red strike tiles to the board.

Huh???

Do you just end up memorizing each character's passive skill?

Anyone understand the logic in this?

- Jetness / Catness

CNash

For the majority of characters, their ability colours match their strongest tile match colours. So you can see at a glance that Daken will do good damage from matching Purple, Black and Blue, but not so good when matching Yellow, Red or Green. This means that even though Daken's Pheromone Rage doesn't actually involve Purple tiles, it's nonetheless his Purple ability because that's one of his three strongest colours.

jffdougan

I also think that, at least in Daken's case, it ties into the tendency for blue/purple/black to be "villain" colors.

GuntherBlobel

Jetness wrote:

I'm trying to find the logic in what color a passive skill is and what color tiles that skill affects.

For example, if I'm playing a match with Spiderman, his Purple passive skill triggers when I match Purple tiles, and adds a Purple protect tile. This make sense.

Daken also has a Purple passive skill, but it has nothing to do with Purple tiles His Purple passive skill triggers when a Green tile match is made, and adds Red strike tiles to the board.

Huh???

Do you just end up memorizing each character's passive skill?

Anyone understand the logic in this?

- Jetness / Catness

You do just end up memorizing them, because the reasoning behind ability colors is very "theme" based, but the Devs aren't very explicit about what the themes are exactly. So, as the above poster mentioned, is typically (or used to be) a villian trait, that represents deception or cleverness. So, Pheromone Rage is Daken tricking his enemies and purple and that kinda makes sense.

So, why does he put a red tile instead of a purple one? I think he was meant to be 2* Wolverine's nemesis and his power worked mostly to disrupt Wolvie's powerset (which is another reason that Daken has strictly opposing colors). Since he puts down 2 tiles per match, he can (or used to) saturate most the red tiles on the board, leaving no place for 2* Wolvie to place his tiles.

Weirdly, 3* Wolvie and Daken don't oppose each other at all and complement each other very well to make for a great team.

As the meta-game has evolves, some of these things change and gets harder to understand why certain characters work the way the do.

Mawtful

GuntherBlobel wrote:

is typically (or used to be) a villian trait, that represents deception or cleverness. So, Pheromone Rage is Daken tricking his enemies and purple and that kinda makes sense. So, why does he put a red tile instead of a purple one?

To expand on this further, purple is/was the colour associated with trickery, deception, manipulation, or cunning. Daken is able to control his pheremones and often uses this to manipulate people. Apparently his combat use for this ability is to enrage his opponent so that they are less likely to make rational decisions. Matching green for your own abilities but giving your opponent free Strike tiles is not necessarily a rational decision. Putting the strike tiles on red doesn't mess with any of Daken's own abilities (so he can match Purple, Black, Blue which are his strong damage colours).

Patch's Berserker Rage is supposed to represent a total offense, with defense being left completely abandoned which is why he creates as many enemy strikes as he does friendly ones. My guess is he creates them on Purple since he's past the point where he can be easily manipulated, and an enemy team that does match Purple is hindering their own chance at using the opportunity created by Wolvie's Rage.