**** Professor X (Charles Xavier) ****

Unknown

I like blue because it's the ultimate win more. It turns criticals into catastrophes. Purple just turns xavier matches into boosts. Blue sounds way more like a 4* power to me.

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ark123 wrote:

Are you asking how good 4 free ap of your strongest color is? AP that you can use immediately, since you just crit?
Pretty good

No, I think he meant how good was the +2 AP.

Yellow allow Prof X to synergise with more characters.

Unknown

One thing that's become clear is Purple is useless on an underlevelled Xavier. If Xavier isn't at least 200 and tanking at least 2 colors he's not going to be helping your team much with Invisibility.

It probably makes sense to start building him towards 5/3/5 and then switch him over to 5 purple once he's levelled if that's more your playstyle. Most people aren't going to have him fully covered the first month.

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daibar wrote:

Most people aren't going to have him fully covered the first month.

Most people will never have him fully covered

dkffiv

Lacydog69 wrote:

Phantron wrote:

Since Professor X upgrades on any match he makes even a single attack tile can quickly become something ridiculous when he's the last guy left.

I'm rethinking about 5 in blue but I think this heroic isn't a good one since you don't really have anyone that'd be good for setting up match 5s. I don't think it's that important to have yellow maxed because if you want to have Professor X kill everyone as the last person you can just group him with Daken. As long as any of Daken's strike tile survive the game sure isn't going to last very long once Prof X is the last guy left and it's usually not *that* hard to get your character killed once scaling takes off.

Looking at everything though, I would think you want his yellow at either 4 or 5, so that you can either have a strike and attack, or just an attack tile. If he's the only one left and invisible with nothing left on board, it's going to be a slow rest of match unless you luck into some match-5s.

Which is where I think Punisher would be a good pairing, because even though you have a slight chance Judgement may destroy a invisibility tile, he has cheap enough powers that can fire often letting you just spit out special tiles from the professor.

Pair that with Daken and you can make a mean combo, I would think.

Team Ups count as an ally casting an ability, if your team gets wiped and you lose your tiles you have 3 shots at reactivating them. I had one match where my last attack tiles was destroyed and if I had 4 or 5 covers in yellow I could've won (AI eventually killed my invis tile before I could get enough match 5s to win).

daibar wrote:

One thing that's become clear is Purple is useless on an underlevelled Xavier. If Xavier isn't at least 200 and tanking at least 2 colors he's not going to be helping your team much with Invisibility.

It probably makes sense to start building him towards 5/3/5 and then switch him over to 5 purple once he's levelled if that's more your playstyle. Most people aren't going to have him fully covered the first month.

If you bring a **** team (say 2* daken and 1 or 3* storm) and can get either some strike tiles or storm's black off before they die, an invisible Professor X can handedly beat teams without AoE or board shakes. If you can get his protect tiles up high enough he can even survive the occasional AoE. This rotation I beat the level 250 Moonstone/Daken/Bullseye node with a 196 Blade, 111 3* Storm and level 171 Q-ball 2/2/1.

Hayek

You're right. If you want to go 5 purple, prof should tank all 3 of his colors. Here's a list of all , and characters that WILL NOT tank for him.

Definitions:
Cheap power - non-purple cost 7 to 9. Requires 3 matches or 1 match when boosted.
Very cheap power - non-purple cost less than 6. Requires 2 or less matches or free when boosted.

: , , actives
: Dumb , board shake, actives
: Free early (situational), board shake, actives
: , board shake, actives
: , , actives
: , board shake, actives
: , , minor board shake, actives
: , minor board shake, actives
: , , board shake, removal, actives
(Patch): , sustain, that benefit hugely from attack tile, actives
(XF): , possible sustain, board shake, possible removal of / / , actives
: , free early (situational), active
: , sustain, minor board shake, free early , active
: but gets rid of , board shake, accelerator:, , actives
: A lot of board shake (may destroy invisibility), accelerator, actives
, , actives
: Free early , accelerator, board shake, active

GuntherBlobel

Hayek wrote:

(Patch): , sustain, that benefit hugely from attack tile, actives

I never considered how frustrating/amazing Patch with an invisible Prof X would be with BR tiles on the board!

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raziel777 wrote:

daibar wrote:

Most people aren't going to have him fully covered the first month.

Most people will never have him fully covered

Are you supposed to fully-cover 4 stars? I think I'm doing it wrong My Suzy is at 3/3/1 Devil 2/0/5 Fury 1/2/3 X-Force 2/3/1

slidecage

this guy needs to be nerf and nerf quick. I mean i just won a match in one move. Yes he is overpower but it shows that if you max him you can win in one move.

hit for a 5 move Killed the one person right off the back. Stones fall and got another 5 stone another kill and stones fall and got another 5 stone and a 3rd kill

Then if you team him with storm.

Get enough stones to do a pink and then do Storms Hail and then have the professor match for 1 move the hail storm will do 4k per round again 3 or 4 rounds hello win.

you got the cash and you got one of each cover hello ever few is ever going to beat you.

clay_peterson

Phaserhawk wrote:

in fact GSBW is all that's left for placing colored tiles

Not quite. People are forgetting about Steve Rogers' yellow. Sure, it's very expensive, but at 1-4 covers it almost guarantees, and at 5 covers it DOES guarantee a match 5 (assuming you don't care about the shields, but X will be generating his own shields anyway).

Not that I expect people to start rushing to re-spec Cap to 5/*/*, but it's something to consider.

Vhailorx

slidecage wrote:

this guy needs to be nerf and nerf quick. I mean i just won a match in one move. Yes he is overpower but it shows that if you max him you can win in one move.

hit for a 5 move Killed the one person right off the back. Stones fall and got another 5 stone another kill and stones fall and got another 5 stone and a 3rd kill

Then if you team him with storm.

Get enough stones to do a pink and then do Storms Hail and then have the professor match for 1 move the hail storm will do 4k per round again 3 or 4 rounds hello win.

you got the cash and you got one of each cover hello ever few is ever going to beat you.

Is this a serious post?

This will only happen if the enemies die with about 4k damage (whatever xavier's blue does on a match 5). That's not an issue when playing against 4* thor, or Ares at level 395.

Xavier does seem to be the most useful 4* released since 4* thor, and is certainly the best currently available 4* support character. But I think it's too early to say that he overpowered.

Unknown

Vhailorx wrote:

slidecage wrote:

this guy needs to be nerf and nerf quick. I mean i just won a match in one move. Yes he is overpower but it shows that if you max him you can win in one move.

hit for a 5 move Killed the one person right off the back. Stones fall and got another 5 stone another kill and stones fall and got another 5 stone and a 3rd kill

Then if you team him with storm.

Get enough stones to do a pink and then do Storms Hail and then have the professor match for 1 move the hail storm will do 4k per round again 3 or 4 rounds hello win.

you got the cash and you got one of each cover hello ever few is ever going to beat you.

Is this a serious post?

This will only happen if the enemies die with about 4k damage (whatever xavier's blue does on a match 5). That's not an issue when playing against 4* thor, or Ares at level 395.

Xavier does seem to be the most useful 4* released since 4* thor, and is certainly the best currently available 4* support character. But I think it's too early to say that he overpowered.

Regardless if he's OP or not, D3 just nerfed him and his main partners - if he's ever nerfed, it won't be for a longgggg time.

Unknown

Hey guys. Been lurkin around and finally registered as a member here. Been actively playin the game for a while.
Wanted to ask your insights if a team of 4thor prof x and xforce is a good team?
Im currently raising 4thor to 270 (now at 232 with 5/3/5), gotten prof x at 1/1/1 and xforce is 0/1/1. Think ill be gettin his green power sooner or later with the shield supply pull.
Wanted to check if this is a good team and whats your recommendation?

Unknown

Gotta love how the opinion on Xavier changed from OP to useless, back to OP over the course of 2 weeks.

Unknown

For best purple combinations tried so far: Psylocke ?! + 3/5/5 Xavier
Boost +3 All, +3 , + 1

1st turn: Psi-Katana, match purple.
2nd turn: Invisibility.

End of turn 1: 75 Protect, 54, 231 Attack, 82 Strike tile, + 965 dmg + match dmg. Already +449 dmg a turn
End of turn 2: (1 Prof x Match): 313 Protect, 292, 469 Attack, 320 Strike: +1401 dmg/turn
(If 2 Prof X) Match: 551 Protect, 530, 707 Attack, 558 Strike: +2353 dmg/turn

It's not as fast as Sentry bombing, but I wouldn't say it's not powerful, not unreasonably getting rid of match damage and doing an extra 2k damage per turn by the 3rd turn. Then you could match 2 red -> Psychic Knife, another 2 black for Psi-Katana, or even 2 blue for Bewilder. Due to reliance on the invisibility tile, it's a little more risky than IF/XForce, but not too reliant on IF's transformation luck.

Again this makes +6 AP boosts broken. They should be limited to +3AP.

slidecage

Vhailorx wrote:

slidecage wrote:

this guy needs to be nerf and nerf quick. I mean i just won a match in one move. Yes he is overpower but it shows that if you max him you can win in one move.

hit for a 5 move Killed the one person right off the back. Stones fall and got another 5 stone another kill and stones fall and got another 5 stone and a 3rd kill

Then if you team him with storm.

Get enough stones to do a pink and then do Storms Hail and then have the professor match for 1 move the hail storm will do 4k per round again 3 or 4 rounds hello win.

you got the cash and you got one of each cover hello ever few is ever going to beat you.

Is this a serious post?

This will only happen if the enemies die with about 4k damage (whatever xavier's blue does on a match 5). That's not an issue when playing against 4* thor, or Ares at level 395.

Xavier does seem to be the most useful 4* released since 4* thor, and is certainly the best currently available 4* support character. But I think it's too early to say that he overpowered.

Gives you top 10 or better every time in PVP

Trisul

slidecage wrote:

Gives you top 10 or better every time in PVP

I'm fairly convinced that I'm feeding the troll here... but....

I call bullkitty.

esoxnepa

Can someone with a level 5 Master Plan build test, Dr Doom, Iron Fist, and Prof X for me?

I'm asking, because it seems like this will yield a team with a strongest color of purple, and provide the same issue as Mystique. Please remember to use summon demons as a black dump, even if it does nothing else. Just enough to try and super power Iron Fist/Prof X from the first turn.

Thank you for thinking about if I'm right or wrong on this. If I had the ability to test it, I would.

esoxnepa

Edit: Looks like I was wrong on how "Team's Strongest Color" is calculated. It's really more of a "strongest color on a team" and not a combination of the characters and their multiple strengths and weaknesses leading to a teams strongest color. So its a much lazier, less interesting, mechanic than I thought, my bad. I'll leave what would have been awesome teams if the team strongest mechanic really looked at the full team compilation and their total team strengths and weaknesses.

The Master Plan Teams, where Master Plan feeds back into an AP generating ability seem to be:

Iron Fist, Dr Doom
returns
5 generates (9)7 if < 12
Summon Demons will dump 12 to keep
Technopathic Strike offers => flexability

Mystique, Iron Fist
returns
5 generates (9)7 if < 12
9(10) generates 10(9)
Infiltration will dump


Mystique, 2*Magneto
returns
9 generates 5(3+5red) that can be placed
9(10) generates 10(9)

GSBW, Mystique
returns
11 generates 6 that can be placed
9(10) generates 10(9)

Cyclops, Thor
returns
12 generates 9
7 converts 8 to 8

3*Storm, Thor
returns
12 generates 9
10 sweeps 14 tiles

I think I have these correct. Any others that feed back into AP generation abilities from Master Plan?

dkffiv

Has anyone tested if center character is always the AP you get or if it's random if there's a tie (like Blade's black)