Lightning Rounds 1/28/14

DirigiblePilot

It's the usual, folks. Start with the Hood, yadda yadda. New record for most events at once, I think.

Unknown

Nah keep in mind that during Hulk there could be as many as 4 subs open at once.

Unknown

Can't find seed teams in the first round like I usually can.

Unknown

wathombe wrote:

Can't find seed teams in the first round like I usually can.

I think that happens if you join too late when there's more real people already playing. Or it could just be an MMR thing. But I can usually shake down frowny jonah and compadres for a couple thousand ISO before anything much happens if I join right at the start.

Unknown

Fingers crossed I can hold onto my 1st #1 with 6 min left. Doubt it though. Lol

Did rewards change? Thought you used to win hp too.

Unknown

Veracity wrote:

wathombe wrote:

Can't find seed teams in the first round like I usually can.

I think that happens if you join too late when there's more real people already playing. Or it could just be an MMR thing. But I can usually shake down frowny jonah and compadres for a couple thousand ISO before anything much happens if I join right at the start.

Yeah, I was at my daughter's school this morning, so it was about 10 minutes after the start of the round. I'll see if it's different in the next round.

Nemek

Psykopathic wrote:

Fingers crossed I can hold onto my 1st #1 with 6 min left. Doubt it though. Lol

Did rewards change? Thought you used to win hp too.

You only win HP on 2-cover villains.

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Nemek wrote:

Psykopathic wrote:

Fingers crossed I can hold onto my 1st #1 with 6 min left. Doubt it though. Lol

Did rewards change? Thought you used to win hp too.

You only win HP on 2-cover villains.

Ah ok never noticed that. Thanks. Almost every1 in top 10 I shielded with 5 minutes left. Gonna be interesting finish.

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Psykopathic wrote:

Nemek wrote:

Psykopathic wrote:

Fingers crossed I can hold onto my 1st #1 with 6 min left. Doubt it though. Lol

Did rewards change? Thought you used to win hp too.

You only win HP on 2-cover villains.

Ah ok never noticed that. Thanks. Almost every1 in top 10 I shielded with 5 minutes left. Gonna be interesting finish.

Gratz to psyko on top 2 place!!

Unknown

Playing super casually at work, I got 31. I dunno how. I also dunno why I had only seed teams till over 200.

Unknown

mechgouki wrote:

Psykopathic wrote:

Nemek wrote:

Psykopathic wrote:

Fingers crossed I can hold onto my 1st #1 with 6 min left. Doubt it though. Lol

Did rewards change? Thought you used to win hp too.

You only win HP on 2-cover villains.

Ah ok never noticed that. Thanks. Almost every1 in top 10 I shielded with 5 minutes left. Gonna be interesting finish.

Gratz to psyko on top 2 place!!

Thanks mech! That was super close.
>1 minute left and I'm at 450 shielded.
2,3,4 at
449 , 449, 439 un shielded.

1 more yellow hood and 4 more blue mags and my villains are done. Haven't even started levelling good or Loki though.

Unknown

I got top 37.

Aiming for the middle proves to be difficult, especially if it is like 3-4 points apart for 10 ranks.

EDIT:
WOOT!! Got rag red from a token!!

Well, not very much use now, but still great to have something I could still use.

Unknown

Cant really play these yet, but with tanking gone, do people find these easier or harder?

Unknown

Iheart, harder of course.

But surprisingly still manageable. Not the blood bath I had expected.

At least not at 300 point range.

Can't do any more. I have to sleep. And I have work tomorrow. Bye bye LR.

Unknown

Lightning round just confirmed what I already knew, I'm in MMR hell. Only played two rounds but the first match I opened when I joined the LR was 102 Hood, 115 Rag, 122 Mag

Unknown

There is still a way to tank, btw.

You have to start the round using your less than optimal team. Use the weakest team that you can that can still win the current team. (Im not sure if you can beat the opponent down with a strong team, retreat, then use a weak team to finish the job. I'm told it does not work.)

I tanked using my 50 IM and Storm. Only got like 5 ppl attacking me, but it's better than nothing.

Unknown

mechgouki wrote:

Iheart, harder of course.

But surprisingly still manageable. Not the blood bath I had expected.

At least not at 300 point range.

Can't do any more. I have to sleep. And I have work tomorrow. Bye bye LR.

Of course singular matches are harder, but they're harder for everyone else too, so it might actually be easier to place well. I'm asking if it's harder or easier to place well, not if the gameplay is harder.

Unknown

mechgouki wrote:

There is still a way to tank, btw.

You have to start the round using your less than optimal team. Use the weakest team that you can that can still win the current team. (Im not sure if you can beat the opponent down with a strong team, retreat, then use a weak team to finish the job. I'm told it does not work.)

I tanked using my 50 IM and Storm. Only got like 5 ppl attacking me, but it's better than nothing.

Every week I pick 1 villain and only try hard in his rounds. I tank the rest.
I also basically tank shield constantly. I only use sub par teams there. And I am picky choosy about pvp events. I only play seriously in like 1/3. Whenever I play serious I don't have too much trouble.

Unknown

@Ihearts

I am at least 90% sure it will be harder to place at the top.

The reason? The second last change to pvp allowed players to be attacked by much lower point players. This change benefited late comers and lazy players who don't want to grind. But those at the top grinding their **** out will suffer when they're hit.

So I'm very certain it will be harder. And, take away their ability to tank first, well, you get the point.

Of course, if your team is so uber that no one dares attack you, well, it won't matter.

nihilium

Is it just me, or did they disable tanking?

I didnt get attacked once with my lvl15/lvl6/lvl1 team out o.o

Unknown

It's not just you.....