New 5-Star Reveal - Wolverine (Old Man Logan)

David [Hi-Fi] Moore

Greetings MPQ fans!

I’m sure many of you have been eager to learn which 5-Star character is next to arrive in Marvel Puzzle Quest. We’re happy to be able to reveal today, it’s none other than the living legend himself, Wolverine (Old Man Logan)!



We grabbed MPQ Producer, Joe Fletcher in the hallway today and demanded he answer a few questions about the new 5-Star.

Q: Old Man Logan. Why him? He’s overflowing with awesome because?

A: Well, he’s a very interesting character in his own right, with a very well received comics run behind him and in the midst of a newer run, so he makes sense as a character in general. As well, we were looking for characters that are definite 5* material for our first outing in that arena. You don’t get much more 5* than killing the X-Men (oops) and pretty much all the Hulks (not so oops?)! Plus, Wolverine in general is a much loved character by fans, so having him around at almost all the tiers makes sense there too.

Q: Let’s talk skills. What have we got on-tap? Are the claws coming out?

A: Wolverine develops a system that we started with characters like Vision in that he can change abilities during battles, but Logan takes it to the next level. When a battle starts, two of his abilities are passives: He heals and he puts Strike tiles on the board when allies use abilities. His Black ability will deal some damage and place Strikes as well, but it also makes the team end the turn. As a gameplay feel, he definitely comes across as not having his heart in the fight. He’s helping and can deal some damage, but he’s really just going through the motions. That being said, everything kicks into high gear if you use his Black with enough Yellow AP. Once that happens, Wolverine goes berserk. He ditches the passives (including the heal) and goes for out and out damage. At that point, his Black switches into a form that deals damage, then consumes friendly special tiles to deal even more damage. With the tiles that are usually on the board after his form switch, he can pack a real punch against even other 5*s, taking a chunk out of the surfboarding Skyrider for example. His Yellow flips from passive healing to active AoE damage, dealing even more for each enemy still standing. His Red also switches to more direct damage, but has a component built in that deals bonus damage if he’s under a certain percentage of health. So he’s extremely dangerous to bring down as an ill timed Red attack can pretty well wipe out any 4* and greatly wound a fellow 5*. If you’re going to be fighting him, you really need to have a way to either keep his AP zeroed or stun the snot out of him. Luckily, unlike Silver Surfer, stuns do work.

Q: How do you see yourself using OML in-game? Do you have any potential party members in mind?

A: Well, Silver Surfer, obviously, since he’s the only other 5*. But that’s more of a power level answer than a team cohesion thing since they share two colors. For 4* cohesiveness, I’ve been running Star-Lord pretty effectively to bring down Logan’s post change AP costs which will pretty quickly end the fight after a few matches. Carnage is also a great choice since Wolverine can heal up the damage that Carnage’s tiles or his Red AoE can dole out. In a 3-person team I’ve been having fun with a rainbow team of OML, Jean Grey, and Iceman. Logan tanks 3 colors which he can do fine with his health and healing. Iceman tanks 2, and Jean tanks just Purple, leaving her in the back for the most part, so that her passive can be around whenever needed. You could swap out Professor X for Jean, but I like her in there for the ability to stop bad cascades in their tracks with her passive.

Q: When is he available? How do we get our hands on Old Man Logan?

A: Right this second. He’s in Legendary packs now.