The Gauntlet - Ultron Edition (Sept. 07th- Sept. 14th, 2015)

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  • jredd
    jredd Posts: 1,387 Chairperson of the Boards
    anyone have a good crew for sim 34? it's just a beauty.

    nm, jumped the gun. just beat it with 2* daken, wolverine and r&g
  • SnagglePuss
    SnagglePuss Posts: 702 Critical Contributor
    Back in lvl 94 land (node is 270)

    Finally did sim 41, 2nd try today and it wasn't even a lucky board, pretty even / slow boring perhaps but that was fine.

    Steve / QS / Hood
    Work on DPX, stun IF and erase his Attack tile to buy you some time. Instead of Hood Twin Pistol i put a Caps SoL first time down as extra insurance, IF neutralized and you don't need to worry about that pesky attack tile. QS setting things up and being the green outlet (535) actually got both black and green off a few time, number of times Supersonic exploded.. Zero. But that was helpful as it made gr/blk spammable.

    Had to leave the game running in the background for a couple of hours due to work and couldn't stop thinking about how not to screw it up. Once Steve is up and spamming it was game over.

    Home stretch in sight.
    SnagglePuss wrote:
    stochasticism wrote:
    Jathro wrote:
    Who's the sadist that thought it was a good idea to make Reed essential for the last essential node?

    At least you can whale it. The real sadist was whoever thought up node 41.

    Current bane of my life, got really close once and had Cage down to 5k but not been that close again. The one node i would like to whale but can't.

    For the record i have a lvl 94 roster and have been Wol/Dak + Hood/Loki/someone
    My cap has 4 red so i may have to get the 5th one and see how that affects things.
  • MarcusGraves
    MarcusGraves Posts: 495 Mover and Shaker
    sim 41 is god damn brutal, IF's attack tile is 990 damage per turn for me, I can't get going fast enough w/o the majority of my team being mauled by almost 1k damage per turn and then JJC going off doing 2k damage...
  • Vhailorx
    Vhailorx Posts: 6,085 Chairperson of the Boards
    MarcusGraves wrote:
    sim 41 is tiny kitty brutal, IF's attack tile is 990 damage per turn for me, I can't get going fast enough w/o the majority of my team being mauled by almost 1k damage per turn and then JJC going off doing 2k damage...

    How well is your hulk covered? He is a useful counter to over-leveled iron fist as anger will trigger every round.
  • MarcusGraves
    MarcusGraves Posts: 495 Mover and Shaker
    Vhailorx wrote:
    MarcusGraves wrote:
    sim 41 is tiny kitty brutal, IF's attack tile is 990 damage per turn for me, I can't get going fast enough w/o the majority of my team being mauled by almost 1k damage per turn and then JJC going off doing 2k damage...

    How well is your hulk covered? He is a useful counter to over-leveled iron fist as anger will trigger every round.

    I thought the same thing and it didn't end well, I actually just finished it using 5/3/5 patch, 5/3/5 Loki and my current 4/5/4 doom.

    +2 green/black/purple/blue AP boost going in and having both doom and loki gave me more leeway in popping off zerk rage between trickery and the doom trap tiles taking up the purple. first round of BR I hit with a trickery, doom got off a techno strike and and I had enough black to put out my own attack tiles and was doing between 1-2k a turn myself.

    DPX down, IF downed, and cleaned up cage with a massive diabolical plot +strike tiles
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    Seriously, **** Beast. 2 nodes in a row this guy has done nothing but spam protect tiles and then stomp all over me. I hate the Gauntlet so much; I can never get any awards from it because of how hard it is. Wish they would tone down the difficulty so everyone can get more covers.
  • Quebbster
    Quebbster Posts: 8,070 Chairperson of the Boards
    Made it all the way through the third sub without ever superwhaling. I may have gotten lucky on the last essential, I brought X-force and Daredevil and was able to stunlock Carnage early on and got rid of Ant-man's traps on an early stage.
    Now to go back and do the remaining essentials...
  • vinnygecko
    vinnygecko Posts: 245 Tile Toppler
    MarcusGraves wrote:
    Vhailorx wrote:
    MarcusGraves wrote:
    sim 41 is tiny kitty brutal, IF's attack tile is 990 damage per turn for me, I can't get going fast enough w/o the majority of my team being mauled by almost 1k damage per turn and then JJC going off doing 2k damage...

    How well is your hulk covered? He is a useful counter to over-leveled iron fist as anger will trigger every round.

    I thought the same thing and it didn't end well, I actually just finished it using 5/3/5 patch, 5/3/5 Loki and my current 4/5/4 doom.

    +2 green/black/purple/blue AP boost going in and having both doom and loki gave me more leeway in popping off zerk rage between trickery and the doom trap tiles taking up the purple. first round of BR I hit with a trickery, doom got off a techno strike and and I had enough black to put out my own attack tiles and was doing between 1-2k a turn myself.

    DPX down, IF downed, and cleaned up cage with a massive diabolical plot +strike tiles

    I tried Patch/Loki/Doom and was crushed pretty easily. Granted, my Doom is only at 136 so probably wasn't a good move for me, as Loki tanked both purple and black. Just couldn't get enough AP before XDP got going. IF strike tiles were 1060 per turn (ouch!)

    Went to Steve/Switch/Hood and did much better. Hood didn’t stay alive that long, but long enough for Steve to get his shields going and Wanda to get her Reality Crush off a few times. Just respecced her to 535 (from 445) and that 5 turn stun made a huge difference. Got Deadpool down first, and knocked out Cage and IF at the end with SWitch
  • lukewin
    lukewin Posts: 1,356 Chairperson of the Boards
    I beat the Gauntlet yesterday. Was #239 to beat the 3rd chapter. Only needed to use whales on the QS Essential with Iron Fist / IMHB/ The Hood. IF's attack tile just chipped away too much health, and then add in strike tiles from IF or IMHB and even more gets chipped away. Tried multiple teams, but having characters one shot by a repulsor punch, will make you wipe when they're the damage dealer on a team. Wasn't too easy to get whales off, with Deadpool hopping in because of his passive, but it finally got done.
    Mark 11995 wrote:
    Little question: what are the enemies you face in the last 2 sims and the last 3 essential nodes? Im currently at sim 40 (blade/punisher/cmags) and i wanna know what is coming after that
    Sim 41
    4* Deadpool / Luke Cage / Iron Fist

    Sim 42
    Ultron Prime / 4* Wolverine / 4* Deadpool

    Quicksilver Essential
    Iron Fist / Iron Man Hulk Buster / The Hood

    Quicksilver Essential
    The Hulk / Devil Dino / Gorgon

    Mr. Fantastic Essential
    Ultron Prime / Ant-Man / Carnage
  • MarcusGraves
    MarcusGraves Posts: 495 Mover and Shaker
    vinnygecko wrote:

    I tried Patch/Loki/Doom and was crushed pretty easily. Granted, my Doom is only at 136 so probably wasn't a good move for me, as Loki tanked both purple and black. Just couldn't get enough AP before XDP got going. IF strike tiles were 1060 per turn (ouch!)

    Went to Steve/Switch/Hood and did much better. Hood didn’t stay alive that long, but long enough for Steve to get his shields going and Wanda to get her Reality Crush off a few times. Just respecced her to 535 (from 445) and that 5 turn stun made a huge difference. Got Deadpool down first, and knocked out Cage and IF at the end with SWitch

    maybe I just had a better board, loki is maxed and was taking purple/black and doom is 153 only taking the blue but at 153 he has a nice HP amount of 8935, IF's attack tile was 990 for me. I didn't let them have a single green/black/purple match though which was what was killing me in previous attempts and eventually the board ended up being mostly TU tiles which really slowed them down when I put out my doom's attack tiles and grinded them down 1-2k a turn while pumping out zerk rage when I could.

    they didn't get a single out of bullets or righteous uppercut off and funny enough even though people don't like it on him, if fist got off even 1 fang strike it would of been GG because even w/o the 12 black boost he would of put out 777 in strike tiles and I would of been taking 1767 damage per turn which is impossible to recover from.
  • SnagglePuss
    SnagglePuss Posts: 702 Critical Contributor
    edited September 2015
    Got the last essential branch done on the hard node, so just need to work backwords.
    Having hit my head most of yesterday the go to team for the last 5/6 hard nodes were

    Steve / Essential or QS / Hood or Loki
    The last essential just took forever, just before i collected enough blue to start the attack the AI drops a TU, not sure which but that triggers Carnage cascading into Ultron, Pym is just being annoying as Hood can't quite steal everything. It then becomes a game of get as many protect tiles as i can to mitigate damage. Eventually there's a happy equilibrium, tiles keep replicating, i take 1 damage even to Ultrons AOE (thank you AI) and i keep plugging away and Carnage goes down. For some inexplicable reason the board is now starved of red and yellow for XX turns.

    This game continues for the best part of 15-20 minutes or so, playing cat and mouse between Pym spamming Pym Particles, me playing whack a purple and Ultron copying away. Eventually Pym falls, Hood falls and i manage to clear all the enemy tiles with a few moves, but the shields have also gone. This is not looking good 300 match damage, Steve on his last legs, fortunately Mr Fantastic has almost fully healed, he drops the umpteenth Imaginaut and on top of that red / yellow are starting to rain down. The game is now get shields up and try and get Reed to tank because i can't imagine going through Ultron with about 7k health with just Mr F. It's close but eventually 2/3 shields have gone up reducing damage and red is starting to flow, the rest is history

    - About halfway through the fight the TU button has been flashing with that DP Whale calling, stubborn/pride/arrogance and i thought about it a few times.

    - Shout out to the blue Steve cover i scoffed at the other day because it was coming around in DDQ, i apologise, 5 blue really was needed.
    - Special mention to QS, you stepped up to the event after being shunned for most of it. I take back anything unkind i may have said.. well almost.

    No boosts or whales were harmed during this event.
    This productions was brought to you by Lvl 94
  • Marvelfamily
    Marvelfamily Posts: 208
    shurak wrote:
    Marvelfamily wrote:
    Simulation 26? I can't manage it. Perhaps I should go and look for some whales, someone mentioned that. If I can do it, what comes in 27? ^^

    I'll try...
    it's hard to give a good advice without knowing your roster. I think I used my go-to team for this event that is boosted 2* daken/wolvie and Loki. If you have maxed Ldaken and Patch that might work even better

    Thank you! I did it today with Cyclops 4/4/5, Groot 4/5/4 and Storm 3/5/5, all maxed out.
    I had some luck with the tiles on the board, Storm could bring her blue skill, Colossus was the last one standing, and Cyclops filled his black AP just at the right time. icon_e_biggrin.gif
  • Minox
    Minox Posts: 36 Just Dropped In
    I keep on wiping on node 38 (Cyclops/Thing/KK). I am using Patch/Daken/Loki which has served me well so far, but I just can't seem to get online before the AI starts doing its thing. Any suggestions (roster in sig).
    Thanks!
  • smoq84
    smoq84 Posts: 421 Mover and Shaker
    Minox wrote:
    I keep on wiping on node 38 (Cyclops/Thing/KK). I am using Patch/Daken/Loki which has served me well so far, but I just can't seem to get online before the AI starts doing its thing. Any suggestions (roster in sig).
    Thanks!
    For me Thor/Spider-man/Deadpool worked well.
    First I have gathered some AP and when I was ready I have stunned Thing and bomb Kamala away with Deadpool and Thor. After that it was quite easy.
  • Killinstinct
    Killinstinct Posts: 99 Match Maker
    It might already have been asked, but how on earth do you beat node 41 (DPX/IF/Cage)... ?? I have a fulle developped 3star roster softcapped at 140, only usable 4star is xforce (4/5/4)

    Edit: Did it with Spiderman/Captain America/Kamala Khan -> Protect tiles/Healing/Stunning did the job
  • SnagglePuss
    SnagglePuss Posts: 702 Critical Contributor
    Minox wrote:
    I keep on wiping on node 38 (Cyclops/Thing/KK). I am using Patch/Daken/Loki which has served me well so far, but I just can't seem to get online before the AI starts doing its thing. Any suggestions (roster in sig).
    Thanks!

    Keep perservering as that's the team to use.
    Also you actually want Thing to Proc his shield tiles and them flip them all with Trickery. Aim a big hit at whoever and he will duly jump in the way.
  • optimus2861
    optimus2861 Posts: 1,233 Chairperson of the Boards
    optimus2861 wrote:
    Haetron wrote:
    Currently getting flattened by the Cyclops/SW/She Hulk node.
    Yeah, me too. They're nearly level 180 for me so my 2* roster is of no use aside from boosted Wolvie.
    Well I was dead wrong on the usefulness of the 2* roster, and also on the order to down the enemies.

    2* Magneto + 3* Steve + QS. Steve only got his blue shield off once, to slow down Cyclops, but after Cyclops woke up he promptly Optic & Full blasted Steve to pieces. I had whittled Cyke down to ~1.5K health though, and QS + Mags started moving & shaking the board something fierce after a lucky cascade got me charged up with AP. Mags red, Mags blue, Mags puple, QS black, all kept the board moving and setting up match-4s or match-5s. I took down She-Hulk after Cyclops so she couldn't wipe out my AP. That left only Witch, and by consistently moving/blowing up the board I never allowed a second CD tile to resolve and finish charging her purple (her first one did resolve but it didn't get her to 14 purple. It did fuel the earlier cascade that let Cyclops rage-kill Steve).

    Spidey & the Deadpools next for me.
  • cletus1985
    cletus1985 Posts: 276 Mover and Shaker
    Minox wrote:
    I keep on wiping on node 38 (Cyclops/Thing/KK). I am using Patch/Daken/Loki which has served me well so far, but I just can't seem to get online before the AI starts doing its thing. Any suggestions (roster in sig).
    Thanks!

    I used LThor, GSBW, and Nick Fury which cleared it easily. Yellow and Purple accelerating green into Sniper Rifle and using blue to throw out a Demolition made quick work of them. I realize some won't have Fury, I just got lucky and the covers fell 2/5/2 to make him useful as a big damage dealer. You could substitute Daken in to cover blue, which also feeds green.
  • Minox
    Minox Posts: 36 Just Dropped In
    Thanks Snaggle! I forgot about the protect tiles from Thing! Made the node almost trivial.
    Don't have the roster to try the other suggestion
  • Unknown
    Unknown
    I love how many nodes are clearable with Carnage and Doc Ock. Even with Carnage built 0/2/1. After wiping multiple times with 'strong' well-leveled (relatively) teams getting away with a Carnage centric team feels almost like cheating. Only nodes with SWitch have literally forced me to use other faster teams when Carnage fails.

    Just got to the Carnage/KK/AntMan node, not tried it yet but going to have to change strategy! Doc Ock probably still useful for this one but might be better to go back to using a tried and tested strategy like Loki/CStorm/MNMags or CptMarvel/Cyke/Daken or Loki?

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