Lightning Rounds 1/28/14

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radiopy wrote:

So, uh, wait a second...is putting in a tank team basically like a free shield?

No. The game will select your highest team with with you've won to show to opponents. Tanking is strictly for lowering MMR for for other tourneys. The trick now is, you can't put in your lvl 6 bagman or lvl 1 yelena, so you put in the lowest team you can use to beat the seed teams. I usually win three for the ISO and token, then let people wale away on me for the next 90 minutes.

My point was that instead of seeing bagman teams and instantly recognizing them as tank teams, now I'm seeing a lot of M Storm, IM35, and M Widow teams (because even maxed at 50 they're pretty easy for a decent 2** team to beat).

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Hugekitty matchmaking. Can't believe that I'm happy to get a match for 9 points.

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Why would you shield with 117 above #3 and 2 minutes to go?

Loving the new single chance matches and points for failed attacks. Who attacks a triple digit villain team?

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alls I get are triple digit villian teams

also I pulled a red wolvie xforce from a hero token........wooooooooooot

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notreck wrote:

alls I get are triple digit villian teams

also I pulled a red wolvie xforce from a hero token........wooooooooooot

Nice! I got 3-4 in the first month or so and then nothing. I guess I'm making up for the early luck.

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Yay got my 4th Blue Hood. 5/4/2 now.

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I think the best team put out is used, try winning a match boosted with a bad team

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Finally finished my last retreat/pve rotation for now. Main bracket in like 2 hours. Try to do 1 match in the Doom round, cannot find anything easier than max wolf/obw/15 doom. Get cascaded against, retreat with dead doom barely alive team.

Ok...I have resolved myself to win that PvE bracket but after this I am taking a break from this garbage. It's all about playing around the system than playing the game.

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It's weird, I'm doing a Loki round and I have Fodder2009 in my queue at 489 points, but he's nowhere to be found on the top ten and the current leader on has 380.

Anyone ever encounter that?

Kikujiro

I was with a shield at 14th, two matches put me in top 8. Shield down for the first match and a forest fire in the city arena wiped my team, -30 points. 3 health packs later another forest fire in the city, -30 points.

Are you finding troubles with massive cascades from the enemy team ?

NorthernPolarity

Pretty good round for me this time. Top 8 in mags (3/1/2 now with a blue cover in my stash, debating whether or not to use pre nerf), and 4 diabolical tokens that I didn't have: 2 hood yellows, 1 blue hood, and a black loki.

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Toxicadam wrote:

It's weird, I'm doing a Loki round and I have Fodder2009 in my queue at 489 points, but he's nowhere to be found on the top ten and the current leader on has 380.

Anyone ever encounter that?

I noticed earlier in a Doom round that I was definitely seeing people with high point scores, able to be attacked, who didnt show up on the leaderboards. "Lord Cyras" is the only name I can remember, who had enough points to be in the top 5 but didnt appear anywhere despite multiple refreshes.

Few possibilities - some people might be eliminated from the leaderboard for some reason? I dont think its likely that d3 put in high-level seed teams.

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Now that the elite event is over, LR have returned back to their brutal nature.

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Toxicadam wrote:

Now that the elite event is over, LR have returned back to their brutal nature.

Diabolicals still seem extremely easy to farm: all I did last round was farm seeder teams to 200ish. Granted, the level 100 hulk/punisher probably dissuaded people from attacking.

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NorthernPolarity wrote:

Toxicadam wrote:

Now that the elite event is over, LR have returned back to their brutal nature.

Diabolicals still seem extremely easy to farm: all I did last round was farm seeder teams to 200ish. Granted, the level 100 hulk/punisher probably dissuaded people from attacking.

I was watching the live updates on the Avenger Elite thread and forgot to shield and fell out of 50 even though I could've held it easily.

It seems like I get attacked less when I put my Hulk/Patch team up, but obviously I can't know for sure. That said, it's actually kind of annoying to beat seed teams with those two (you sure aren't going to use Berserker Rage on them). Do we actually know how your defense team is chosen for non retaliation situations? I know the tank team situation no longer works, but is it the team you played the most frequently or the last team you won with? I have a weaker team I use to clear out seed teams (Wolverine + OBW) because they're still faster at mopping up easy stuff, but I'd like to put Hulk/Patch when I start appear to be a target because even though this team is more dangerous to use and sometimes slower, there's pretty much no chance Wolverine + OBW is going to win on defense against any decent team.

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Phantron wrote:

NorthernPolarity wrote:

Toxicadam wrote:

Now that the elite event is over, LR have returned back to their brutal nature.

Diabolicals still seem extremely easy to farm: all I did last round was farm seeder teams to 200ish. Granted, the level 100 hulk/punisher probably dissuaded people from attacking.

I was watching the live updates on the Avenger Elite thread and forgot to shield and fell out of 50 even though I could've held it easily.

It seems like I get attacked less when I put my Hulk/Patch team up, but obviously I can't know for sure. That said, it's actually kind of annoying to beat seed teams with those two (you sure aren't going to use Berserker Rage on them). Do we actually know how your defense team is chosen for non retaliation situations? I know the tank team situation no longer works, but is it the team you played the most frequently or the last team you won with? I have a weaker team I use to clear out seed teams (Wolverine + OBW) because they're still faster at mopping up easy stuff, but I'd like to put Hulk/Patch when I start appear to be a target because even though this team is more dangerous to use and sometimes slower, there's pretty much no chance Wolverine + OBW is going to win on defense against any decent team.

Not entirely sure. I've been tanking by just winning the seed team matches with im35/storm/villain. There was a time where I decided that I wanted to actually participate in the LR shortly after winning my first match with a tank team: big mistake. I was getting hit with retaliations left and right due to those 3 minutes I put up that tank team, so I think that anyone who saw your tank team at that brief instant of time will attack you. I think for LRs, you need to put up your best time for the duration just because of how fast paced the event is.

My approach to these LRs have been extremely lazy: tank the competitive ones (mags/hood), and grind up to diabolicals in the other 3. Its worked out pretty well this time around, as I'm nearing maxed out villains after about a month of lrs (4/5/0 hood, 4/1/2 mags, 5/5 rags, 3/5 loki, 3/2 doom).

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omfg **** lmao

Guess what? I GOT TROLLED IN THE GAME!!

I aimed perfectly well, so that I would sit in the 26-50 range. I shielded when the time is at 5min left.

Then, some guy attacked me, and lost to me, I got boosted all the way to rank 15, and I ended up with a Hood Blue instead of what I really want.

omfg lol.

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Dammit. . Top 2 in Mags still eludes me. Tried on this LR and I shielded too early and did not get my last fight to count as I was prob 30sec too late. Arrgghh...

KaioShinDE

Are the colors of the rewards in LRs always the same?

Tried three times for Magneto rounds now (over the last few weeks, not all the last two days), and everytime red covers were only for #1-2. I won't reach that anytime soon unless I play during a time when no one is online.

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KaioShinDE wrote:

Are the colors of the rewards in LRs always the same?

Tried three times for Magneto rounds now (over the last few weeks, not all the last two days), and everytime red covers were only for #1-2. I won't reach that anytime soon unless I play during a time when no one is online.

yes as I recall. Thats why its the most elusive of the group.