Anniversary Simulator Event Info and Strategies

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Anyone else having trouble?

What are some useful strategies against this team? Hard to burn through Thing fast enough to prevent the other team from getting blue or purple in significant enough quantities to be problematic.

Colognoisseur

QS/PX/IF works no problem.

fmftint

GSBW/PX/Loki

That node is 306/306/306 for me

No trouble yet

udonomefoo

One of my alliance mates suggested patch/loki. Use patch to trigger Thing's protect tiles, then flip them to strikes. Loki will generate mischief tiles every time switch gets her countdown off.

I went the aoe route and used boosted black panther, loki, and kamala and came out without a scratch, but maybe I got lucky. It works 60% of the time, every time.

Hendross

Fistbuster FTW

JordonLee

I second BP, Loki and KK. Just AoE them to death and it's been pretty reliable for me. Just be cautious with BP's black as it does generate SW's purple I believe. Let Iceman use his purple if you can, first, before you use Rage of the Panther.
Only bad thing is you can't actually set off the Thing's yellow to use Loki's black if that's one of your main strategies.

Vhailorx

I almost tried gsbw/profx last time through, but held off as I was worried that one of them would get frozen before they got enough ap to start cycling. will try it next time.

As for the qs/profx/if combo, I have never tried that one, since it always seemed less precise that gsbw/switch. will try that too.

I did try patch/loki a couple of time. But I found that by the time I had enough green/black, one of the two was stunned just long enough for the ai to get off a nasty power.

IMHB/IF does work most of the time, but it's awful bloody. Especially if switch's countdown generates some fast blue for the ai.

Dragon_Nexus

I've been running Thor/Loki/Khan throughout the simulator and it's serving me very well. Lots of AP theft, plenty of hard hitting AoE if I can save up both yellow and purple.

Maybe I've just been lucky so far?

Vhailorx

It may be that I am out of practice with PVE nodes, as I have been mostly PVP for the summer. I will have to dust off some of my old standard "punch above their weight" pve combos.

Punisher5784

Ice Man stuns are ridiculous.. 4 turn stun for 6 AP.. 4* or not I still don't understand how that ability was pushed through.

Malcrof

IF/Loki + anyone.

Purposely trigger Things shields once you have enough black with loki to turn them.

If's tile is doing 2k+ a turn, battle ends itself.. 3rd person can be anyone, i have used IMHB, Cmags, and KK

stowaway

I've done it a several times now, using Kamala, Ragnarok, and Hood. I figure Rags is boosted, and he's only remotely useful when paired with three specific characters, and two of those are also boosted, so why not dust him off and justify some of the Iso I invested in him.

mjh

I beat it twice now without dying with good ol' 4* and

take out first obviously, that way his doesn't trigger. Stun if her blue is about to go off. Stuns and AP denial are key

The Viceroy Returns

I used Panther, Kamala, Hood.
Went after Thing first. Try and get Panther's Yellow, then blast them with Kalama Green and Panther Black.
Depending out how Scarlet Witch's Blue pops, it powers Hood being able to Steal Purple, which only gets you to Kamala's Purple faster. Slightly dangerous though, but it swings quickly in your favor if they fall right.

Also, you want to deny green too, because Iceman's green is a powerhouse. The funny thing is that sometimes the AI will use Iceman's purple instead of Scarlet Witch's. Sure, he fills the board with blue, but with Hood draining, it's not all that scary, and lets you use Panther's Blue for some damage mitigation.

Arimis_Thorn

fmftint wrote:

GSBW/PX/Loki

That node is 306/306/306 for me

No trouble yet

Ruined in one punch by Thing.

Next?

Arimis_Thorn

aesthetocyst wrote:

I know this is a broken record, but Cmags, XFW, Loki still works great against nodes just like this. Generates cascades and AP like crazy, limits the AI's turns, has active powers in every color.

Whittle away at Witch or Bobby, unload all nukes on Thing until he's gone. Then nuke whichever one is closest to AoE'ing you, Witch or Bobby.

Matching away Witch's CDs charges Cmags, cleaning up her pink feeds Loki, if you screw up and Thing thorws out shields, flip'em with Loki.

There are better, faster, 4* teams, but this 3.5* team is very accessible and beats dang near anything.

But yeah....Bobby and those stuns .... when the AI doesn't save pink for Reality Crush, and burns it with Bobby instead, he becomes a huge pain!

This was actually my Go To team for Galactus as well. Thanks for reminding me.

simonsez

Arimis Thorn wrote:

fmftint wrote:

GSBW/PX/Loki

That node is 306/306/306 for me

No trouble yet

Ruined in one punch by Thing.

Next?

If Thing made 4 red matches before you made 3 purple matches, it wasn't necessarily a strategy problem.

famousfoxking

Vhailorx wrote:

What are some useful strategies against this team? Hard to burn through Thing fast enough to prevent the other team from getting blue or purple in significant enough quantities to be problematic.

I used Rags, Thor and Kamala. Did match damage against Switch, hit Thing with Rags red to generate blue to match away Snowmen and Arcane Incantations (and in quantities, clear the board of blue). Built up blue, yellow and purple, then charged a bunch of tiles, hit Thing with Thor's yellow, and picked up any remaining charged tiles with Kamala's purple. Then CtS or Embiggened Bash as appropriate. Iceman did get off a purple, but I followed that with two thunderclaps to take all of that extra blue for myself.

Unknown

Dragon_Nexus wrote:

I've been running Thor/Loki/Khan throughout the simulator and it's serving me very well. Lots of AP theft, plenty of hard hitting AoE if I can save up both yellow and purple.

Maybe I've just been lucky so far?

I used this combo as well, and completed every node twice (the one in question once) on the first try. My characters are only 114 though so my scaling might be lower, but I also did not use a healthpack until the final node.

Malcrof

Moving thread to the Events forum, and will change title to Simulator Fights Help at 2pm EST today

GurlBYE

I used MNM, Storm, Cyclops
2 purple blue ap
freeze iceman,
Freeze thing next (he can kill anyone once he gets his red or green off)
Witch is the least dangerous, you're already matching purple and blues. Her greens damage is a joke,

Use clyclops yellow to try and steal some red matches when the tiles are prevalent.

Use Magnetos red if you need AP, (do not target anyone but thing with this and cyclops black until thing is down, his protect tiles are HIGHLY effective)

Clyclops black to dust anyone off below whatever you have his black at (mine is 1/5/2 so he hits for just over 4k with his black)

Way easier then last sims Iceman, Jean and someone else (forgot 3rd think it was cyc)