POLL: Most Overused Color Set

Nonce Equitaur 2

I put in an update at the Characters and Skills Compendium and noticed a few color combos that seem way overused, if the Passives were considered neutral. So I made a poll out of it.

scottee

You missed 2* Cap.

Unknown

scottee wrote:

You missed 2* Cap.

And 2* Torch.

Unknown

Everytime I see the color list, I am boggled we don't have a red/blue/black spidey.

Cymmina

Not sure why we need a poll for this, it's pretty easy to count how many characters use each combination of colors.

Ducky

I'm really tired of seeing red/green/third.

Like a lot.

GurlBYE

Red alone is everywhere in this game, it's creepily excessive, followed by green, I'd argue yellow/ blue after.

Wolarsen

"By DuckyV » Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:21 am

I'm really tired of seeing red/green/third.

Like a lot."

My first maxed chars were, in that order:
Punisher, Thor, Patch, and a healthy Hulk. I used OBWidow for ages

Lidolas

aesthetocyst wrote:

GurlBYE wrote:

Red alone is everywhere in this game, it's creepily excessive, followed by green, I'd argue yellow/ blue after.

That's funny, as I was just thinking about how I am almost always missing blue in my lineups. Unless running Groot or Cmags ... My Fury is meh, and Prof X and Hulkbuster aren't grown up yet. Amongst the popular 3*s, blue is underused IMO.

all have pretty great powers.

both have passives that are incredibly powerful.

Pylgrim

I believe it's more useful to point out the colour pairs that are overly represented in comparison to others, something I noticed while working on my Two Colour Combinations thread. For example, the combination Yellow/Black and Purple/Green are stacked with active abilities and most of them are great. Blue/Green and Blue/Black, on the other hand, are very poorly represented.

Unknown

Im curious, is there some unwritten rule about what powers are allowed to do for their color?

IE, most of the AP/board manipulators seem to be purple, most of the attack tiles tend to be black, most of the st direct damage seems to be red, most of the boardshakes tend to be green.

Does each color have some unwritten "Rule" about what it's allowed to do?

saintsomebody

Haetron wrote:

Im curious, is there some unwritten rule about what powers are allowed to do for their color?

IE, most of the AP/board manipulators seem to be purple, most of the attack tiles tend to be black, most of the st direct damage seems to be red, most of the boardshakes tend to be green.

Does each color have some unwritten "Rule" about what it's allowed to do?

Blue is stun and light board manipulation, Yellow works with protect tiles and health.

CoffigDarkGravity

Give us a

And another

I think there is another color set that hasn't been represented yet, but those two are very under represented.

Yes, I do know those are Hood and Daredevils colours, but that's it. And hoods is passive.

ETA: Kingpin is the other one. He is the only

And quicksilver is the only I think

Pylgrim

CoffigDarkGravity wrote:

Give us a

And another

I think there is another color set that hasn't been represented yet, but those two are very under represented.

Yes, I do know those are Hood and Daredevils colours, but that's it. And hoods is passive.

ETA: Kingpin is the other one. He is the only

And quicksilver is the only I think

Black Panther has the same combination as Hood and Doc Ock has the same combination as Quicksilver. When in doubt, always refer to the excellent Characters and Skills compendium thread linked in the first post. According to it, these are the combinations that only have 1 or less representative:







(If you are ignoring characters under 3*s)


If we were to count colours without characters with all three actives in those colours we'd add to that list:

There are 4 characters in this combination but not a single one with three actives.

2 Characters but none with 3 actives.

ronin_san

Haetron wrote:

Everytime I see the color list, I am boggled we don't have a red/blue/black spidey.

Crossing my fingers for Miles and Ben Reilly. Heck, a Doc Ock Superior Spider-Man would be cool.

And I'm hoping Black Cat makes the rounds.

Vhailorx

Haetron wrote:

Everytime I see the color list, I am boggled we don't have a red/blue/black spidey.

I am just boggled that spiderman doesn't tank red. It's kinda like psylocke not having purple, or original loki not having green, only much MUCH worse because Spiderman is the A-1 marvel property and has sported that predominantly red costume for what, 50 years now? But at least purple and yellow make a ton of sense for him!

Pylgrim

Thing is that under the colour pie of MPQ, Spidey (Peter Parker) is not red at all, neither mechanically or philosophically. The only red Spideys I can think of would be his symbiote "Black Suit" version (he'd likely be ) or Superior Spider-Man ( ). Miles, I think, would be and Ben Reilly,

Actual colouration of the character's illustrations has no bearing in their MPQ colours.

Unknown

Not sure if it's a sign of overuse or just my relative roster build (eternal 2*-3* transition), but I usually go for or almost out of instinct. usually follows, depending on who I using.

It's so ingrained, I have to remind myself that another color might be better if I happen to be using specific characters (Doom, Mystique, etc.)

As for , whenever I see a match, I'm thinking, "Meh. At least it's something. Of course, I don't have a fully functional HB either.

DBC

mgallop

I'd vote for PA, not only are there 4 of them, and 3 of them who are top tier characters, but you effectively have 2 more of them.

and are basically that because they have almost completely unusable third powers.

Unknown

Pylgrim wrote:

Thing is that under the colour pie of MPQ, Spidey (Peter Parker) is not red at all, neither mechanically or philosophically. The only red Spideys I can think of would be his symbiote "Black Suit" version (he'd likely be ) or Superior Spider-Man ( ). Miles, I think, would be and Ben Reilly,

Actual colouration of the character's illustrations has no bearing in their MPQ colours.

Yeah, Im slowly making my way out of that "new player" phase where every day Im surprised by something I find. The color themes dawned on me weeks ago, but not sure on the specifics.

I so badly want Superior Spider-Man at some point, but I worry that boat has already passed. But in all other games, Spidey's always been single target scrappery, so I dunno why Red seems an odd choice for him?

Pylgrim

Haetron wrote:

Pylgrim wrote:

Thing is that under the colour pie of MPQ, Spidey (Peter Parker) is not red at all, neither mechanically or philosophically. The only red Spideys I can think of would be his symbiote "Black Suit" version (he'd likely be ) or Superior Spider-Man ( ). Miles, I think, would be and Ben Reilly,

Actual colouration of the character's illustrations has no bearing in their MPQ colours.

Yeah, Im slowly making my way out of that "new player" phase where every day Im surprised by something I find. The color themes dawned on me weeks ago, but not sure on the specifics.

I so badly want Superior Spider-Man at some point, but I worry that boat has already passed. But in all other games, Spidey's always been single target scrappery, so I dunno why Red seems an odd choice for him?

Red in MPQ (as far as we can deduce) is philosophically the colour of fury, unrestricted violence and/or power and mechanically, the colour of fire, point impact, and energy beams. There's nothing red in Peter Parker's Spidey, except maybe when Gwen died and he went apetinykitty on the Green Goblin.