dkffiv wrote: Xavier and kk don't work well together. Only cover purple + green for actives, her purple doesn't reliably make match 5s and the blue that Xavier will generate can't be used by them. Gsbw Xavier is much better, barring that maybe doctor doom or lthor
dkffiv wrote: Cyclopes wrote: If maxed and ordered properly Groot will tank for Kamala which will be nice. At 153 4 cover Kamala green does 2.2k, 5 cover raises that to 3.1k. The difference from 1 cover to 5 cover is roughly 2.5x so if you manage to get her covers you will almost always use her green over Groot's. If you get to that point you'd want Groot 5/3/5 since you'll never touch his green anyway, let him tank over half the board and you got abilities on every color. I just maxed Cyclops last PvE, maxed Groot during Black Vortex and I'll probably max Kamala once I get her green cover from progression. Team comp doesn't seem bad, probably B to B+. It can probably take 250 to maybe even 300 nodes but I'm not sure about 395's. Depends on how well Groot can tank while running around trying to gather AP. The more I think about it the more I like Kamala's purple. You can use it to deny an enemy's AP to reduce the chances of you getting screwed by cascades. If Ares is at 7 yellow you can try to remove most of if from the board with purple and thus focus on the color you want rather than denying yellow at all costs. Same thing on a Juggernaut node, hit red as often as possible with it. Because of that I would value her purple over cyc's yellow by a large margin.
Cyclopes wrote: If maxed and ordered properly Groot will tank for Kamala which will be nice. At 153 4 cover Kamala green does 2.2k, 5 cover raises that to 3.1k. The difference from 1 cover to 5 cover is roughly 2.5x so if you manage to get her covers you will almost always use her green over Groot's. If you get to that point you'd want Groot 5/3/5 since you'll never touch his green anyway, let him tank over half the board and you got abilities on every color. I just maxed Cyclops last PvE, maxed Groot during Black Vortex and I'll probably max Kamala once I get her green cover from progression. Team comp doesn't seem bad, probably B to B+. It can probably take 250 to maybe even 300 nodes but I'm not sure about 395's. Depends on how well Groot can tank while running around trying to gather AP. The more I think about it the more I like Kamala's purple. You can use it to deny an enemy's AP to reduce the chances of you getting screwed by cascades. If Ares is at 7 yellow you can try to remove most of if from the board with purple and thus focus on the color you want rather than denying yellow at all costs. Same thing on a Juggernaut node, hit red as often as possible with it. Because of that I would value her purple over cyc's yellow by a large margin.
ShionSinX wrote: dkffiv wrote: Xavier and kk don't work well together. Only cover purple + green for actives, her purple doesn't reliably make match 5s and the blue that Xavier will generate can't be used by them. Gsbw Xavier is much better, barring that maybe doctor doom or lthor after you have PX purple up and some special tiles from yellow, soon enough you dont need ability damage anymore. Just randomly matching PX colors will make his special tiles skyrocket. Its not even funny if you go for 5 purple, a double match-3 makes your special tiles go 500+.
Konman wrote: So right now, after we all know KK abilities, and have had an event to test things out...who makes KK a part of their usable roster? Do you consider KK a valuable addition that you'll use frequently because the abilities work well for you? I don't have any of the covers, so was wondering what those who do intend to do with them. Thanks.
dkffiv wrote: ShionSinX wrote: dkffiv wrote: Xavier and kk don't work well together. Only cover purple + green for actives, her purple doesn't reliably make match 5s and the blue that Xavier will generate can't be used by them. Gsbw Xavier is much better, barring that maybe doctor doom or lthor after you have PX purple up and some special tiles from yellow, soon enough you dont need ability damage anymore. Just randomly matching PX colors will make his special tiles skyrocket. Its not even funny if you go for 5 purple, a double match-3 makes your special tiles go 500+. Do you mean 2x green match 3s generated from Kamala's purple? Kamala (or you third) will be tanking green and you won't get the Professor X buff. She also tanks yellow for Professor X and if you're bringing someone along to dump the blue AP you're generating from match 5s, Prof X is only tanking purple, team up tiles, and maybe red/black (and only if you aren't bringing someone with an active on those 2). Realistically you want a blue/black/red/yellow user with blue being top priority (off the top of my head LCap and Cyclops fit those colors best). I like both characters but they play horribly together. I did 3 essential nodes with her this pass and couldn't generate a single match 5 using her power (4 covers) 1-2 times per match.
ark123 wrote: She's fine to good. There are some interactions with character with low cost powers like Cage that allow you to stretch low life characters for a long, long while. I'm not that convinced that 3/5/5 is the only way to go btw, I might be using her an awful lot with cafe and xf and no way green is ever being used then, but with guys like daken and blade her green seems amazing.
dreadlington wrote: I'd like it if there were more characters like her, instead of the 'get 10 red then push button to win' type characters.
dreadlington wrote: I dropped a whole load of HP on her and she's currently at 2/5/5, with the other yellow appearing when I hit 3,000 points in Season 13. I really like her, her green is very powerful and the purple is very useful and fun to use. That's the main reason I leveled her up - because she seemed actually FUN to use, a word that often isn't apparent in this game. You have to analyse the board and decide which colour is best to change to green instead of most characters where you can play without thinking at all. I'd like it if there were more characters like her, instead of the 'get 10 red then push button to win' type characters.
Phaserhawk wrote: I"m still not sure if I'll go 3/5/5 or 5/3/5. I thought even about 4/4/5 but the upgrade from 3 purple to 4 purple isn't worth the downgrade from 5 yellow to 4. I"m leaning 5/3/5 just because I think the yellow will help more in PvE add to the fact that purple even at level 1 will get me a match 3/4, here's my thought. 3/5/5--Decent heal, goal to accelerate to her massive green AoE 5/3/5--Amazing heal, purple strong enough to acclerate lower costed green's like X-Force, Punisher, Devil Dino, IW etc. I do want to say, her green is not better than Thor's but is equal. Remember while Thor does less AoE, he does more single target, by an extra 1128, that could mean downing someone or not
Phaserhawk wrote: I do want to say, her green is not better than Thor's but is equal. Remember while Thor does less AoE, he does more single target, by an extra 1128, that could mean downing someone or not
Mawtful wrote: Phaserhawk wrote: I do want to say, her green is not better than Thor's but is equal. Remember while Thor does less AoE, he does more single target, by an extra 1128, that could mean downing someone or not With 3 enemies in play CtS deals 9036, Bash deals 10170 With 2 enemies in play CtS deals 6777, Bash deals 6780 With 1 enemy in play CtS deals 4518, Bash deals 3390 The fact that Thor frontloads a larger chunk of damage onto the targeted enemy is definitely the main deciding factor between the two abilities. Although Bash is still technically better with only two enemies, in realistic play , you're more likely to want more damage on one enemy than the other. However, since the abilities are actually so close in terms of damage, I think it's highly unlikely that you'd be running a team with both characters together. So the choice between the two is really only one that you're going to have to make before a match. I'm still only 9/13 covers, but I'm interested in getting her maxed to see if she can do anything defensively in PvP. Thor is AI-proof, and has a big enough health pool that means a cascade or two in his favour could get you a defensive victory. Kamala is a lot squishier, and the AI has no idea how to use her purple - however, she's potentially frustrating and could be equally likely to generate a few upsets if the AI gets a lucky cascade.