CareBearStare Alliance Thread

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@Arogntbastrd:

I love how every time ANYONE mentions patch a wild AceOfBlades member appears out of thin air

Sadly I didn't make top 10 for a green cover so I was forced to settle for 4/5/4. He's not strong enough to have ANY tiles for Best There Is so he's pretty useless right now. Dumping ISO into him now that there is Patch PvP but only up to 62 right now

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Man, that Starfall PvP was just brutal. I had zero fun dragging Sentry's useless **** through a bunch of fights. I also really didn't want to spend the HP to shield when I had no interest in the prizes and just kept losing points near the end there. It had me really frustrated.

I also just seemed to be experiencing some really **** luck in relation to AI cascades. I lost 2 matches in row and won a third by the skin of my teeth, I was about to throw my phone.

I'm much more looking forward to this PvP as my Patch is pretty well leveled and I really want some BP covers.

user311

What a weekend. Congrats to everyone for the PVP top 100 again. Thanks to you I can now level my Patch up to my stopping point of 95 (gotta keep him just a bit weaker than Hulk for my play style). But with the PVP he's currently at like 123 or something. Should be a crime to boost him like that. I can't wait until tonite I can blast through the new PVP.

Those elite tournaments were very fun but the rewards were not kind to me. Two events 1st in one and 4th in the other, spend 650Hp total. Won 2 Red Psylockes (didnt need either) and a Red IM40, some ISO and maybe 150 HP.

DecoyDuck

Nice to see how many Bears have been hitting the Elite Tourneys. If nothing else, just for the thrills.

Opened my Season 2 10-pack today. GOOD pulls!
3 Hawkeye covers
2 Storm covers
1 Bagman (wouldn't be complete without a bagman or two or seven)
1 Ares
And the gold covers! Everyone of them useful to me!
Human Torch red, Falcon purple, and Invisible Woman blue

Huzzah!

How are you all doing in Season 2? The alliance is hovering in the 90s, but we're still a few spaces away from Thunderkittens and CH4 News Team, so there's that. Despite Tonzil's urgings, I haven't played SHIELD Training yet, so there's still a bit of gas left in that tank.

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Wow, how the hell did we end up in 72? When I went to sleep we were barely 100. Nice push!
I actually stayed in top 10, so got all 3 covers

Arogntbastrd wrote:

Milkrain wrote:

Actually: what's the best Patch build? I'm 4/5/3 now, so do I go 5/5/3 or 4/5/4?

355 is most balanced/safe. Green is usable without having to think about it too much, red is a monster, always heals

535 you basically make patch a one trick pony, use this if you want to heal and are never going to use red (spoiler, the red is VERY good)

553 honey badger don't give a damn. All offense, red bomb, green bomb, rawr! Kill then before they can kill you, then Health pack

Problem with 4 in any of patches builds is that the 5s are much better. You're basically neutering him cause you're scurred, don't be scurred.

It feels like you never use red until you start fighting high hp characters, then 14 red happens much more. If you choose the right positioning and teammates, red at 5 is auto death for the overwhelming majority of characters hitting at 5 or 6k+ Even if there are no strike tiles on the board

So it boils down to do you want crazy strong strike tiles that accidentally kill you every now and then 5 green. Do you want to destroy a character in one move 5 red. Do you want to laugh at match damage, 5 yellow

Sure 4 somewhere is a compromise but 3 to 4 is about a 33% increase in damage output where as 3 to 5 is a 100% increase. Choose wisely!

Or don't, whatever

My Patch is currently 5/4/1, so I guess honey badger it is.

user311

DecoyDuck wrote:

How are you all doing in Season 2? The alliance is hovering in the 90s, but we're still a few spaces away from Thunderkittens and CH4 News Team, so there's that. Despite Tonzil's urgings, I haven't played SHIELD Training yet, so there's still a bit of gas left in that tank.

You got your 10 pack and haven't entered the SHIELD yet? Im at like 1400/1500 in there and about 300 shy of 5000 over all. Should get it tonight now that I have 4 go to teams. I've been trying to get at least 100 pts a day in there.

DecoyDuck

user311 wrote:

DecoyDuck wrote:

How are you all doing in Season 2? The alliance is hovering in the 90s, but we're still a few spaces away from Thunderkittens and CH4 News Team, so there's that. Despite Tonzil's urgings, I haven't played SHIELD Training yet, so there's still a bit of gas left in that tank.

You got your 10 pack and haven't entered the SHIELD yet? Im at like 1400/1500 in there and about 300 shy of 5000 over all. Should get it tonight now that I have 4 go to teams. I've been trying to get at least 100 pts a day in there.

To balance things out, I'm pretty below average when it comes to PVE. Something in me struggles with the grinding.

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DecoyDuck wrote:

user311 wrote:

DecoyDuck wrote:

How are you all doing in Season 2? The alliance is hovering in the 90s, but we're still a few spaces away from Thunderkittens and CH4 News Team, so there's that. Despite Tonzil's urgings, I haven't played SHIELD Training yet, so there's still a bit of gas left in that tank.

You got your 10 pack and haven't entered the SHIELD yet? Im at like 1400/1500 in there and about 300 shy of 5000 over all. Should get it tonight now that I have 4 go to teams. I've been trying to get at least 100 pts a day in there.

To balance things out, I'm pretty below average when it comes to PVE. Something in me struggles with the grinding.

Pwaah! Grinding? You mean Rubberbanding abusing...

Ummm... I have to make a confession. I have taken a liking to this OBW person... Mine is at 60 + 40 for the tournament. She is pretty decent sub in when they take away my Thor or if I just dont feel like using a Health Pack. Had to save those for Starfall... Man, that PvP sucked. We did very well, so congrats to all. At the end there, it was kind of scary. I had the same problem with AI cascades that would literraly just wipe me, almost instant. OBW in EVERY team was annoying. Thankfully, the teams she was on were worth 18 ~ 22 points.

I started hunting out my prey and ended up finding 141 cmags/hulk and boosted sentrys. Those were dropping like noones buseiness. But an 85 Ares/OBW/Fabbio... Would drop me, like I wasn't even there... On a happy note, the Mags/Hulk teams were worth 38 ~ 49 points. so I was able to make a good last minute climb - from 141st to Top 5.

Stare on!

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Anyone have any good tips for taking out Hulk in PvP?

When Spidey was a main team member it was easy enough to just keep Hulk stunned when it was time for him to go down, but now that it costs so much more to stun Hulk can be a real PITA and he's the main opponent I try to avoid.

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adamLmpq wrote:

Anyone have any good tips for taking out Hulk in PvP?

When Spidey was a main team member it was easy enough to just keep Hulk stunned when it was time for him to go down, but now that it costs so much more to stun Hulk can be a real PITA and he's the main opponent I try to avoid.

I almost always leave him for last. I let my AP build up so when it is down to him, I can just beat him into the ground with AoE attacks in one turn before evening having to make my match. That way, all his anger tiles just sit there useless.

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I usually have a few things and it depends on the board.

CMags is key - I use him to both to overwrite (or 4-match-and-blow-up) anger tiles, and for magnetic translocation. Plus his red helps extend turns. But in general, I try to either,
1) One-turn-kill
2) Keep a lot of black matches available so I can match aways any anger tiles
3) Plink him to death
4) Strip all of the green out of the board so anger doesn't cause matches
5) Use CMags or another method to remove anger tiles

1) is by far the most common of these, with 5) as my backup plan. The rest I might or might not do depending.

DecoyDuck

adamLmpq wrote:

Anyone have any good tips for taking out Hulk in PvP?

When Spidey was a main team member it was easy enough to just keep Hulk stunned when it was time for him to go down, but now that it costs so much more to stun Hulk can be a real PITA and he's the main opponent I try to avoid.

Spidey can still stun, just pretty badly. It's not so problematic in PVE where you can take your time, but it's too slow for PVP.
Let's see... I've saved up a ton of AP for Berserker Rage and TBTI in a row. I've used Lazy Thor's Call the Storm a couple of times. C.Mags blue spam. I've used Storms Blue stunner. And I've used OBW to nudge up his countdown tiles after hitting him.

If I'm in a hurry and there's 20K+ of health of work down... I might have to skip.

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adamLmpq wrote:

Anyone have any good tips for taking out Hulk in PvP?

When Spidey was a main team member it was easy enough to just keep Hulk stunned when it was time for him to go down, but now that it costs so much more to stun Hulk can be a real PITA and he's the main opponent I try to avoid.

40% retribution!

When I face him, I usually have L. thor, Punisher and ...

I'll take out the 2 other opponents with him, or widdle them down...
Building my AP for when he needs to die...

CoTS does about 3200 damage to main target and 1600 to others.
When everyone is "ready to die"... I'll switch to hulk, Thunder Strike (hope for an extra cascade or two; not always necessary), CoTS, if I have black, a Molotov Cocktail or 2, just in case.
Finish with retribution. Game over. Level 141 Hulk down in 1 turn... bye bye.

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I'm not enjoying the game at the moment. Sure some of the simulator enemy combos are interesting but I've been grinding to catch up a bit only to realise that rubberbanding is quite heavy for this event.

Patch PvP is rough. I started leveling my patch but only got him to 63 and A LOT of people have him maxed and those are the ones that I am faced with. My defensive team currently is Patch/Punisher/Loki Just for giggles.

I really need 4 Black Panther covers but I will need to settle for 3 I think. I'd love to get him to 3/5/5, but that would require 1/2/1 in rewards.

I am really impressed that you bears got us that yellow patch cover the other day. That Sentry PvP was not enjoyable.

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Yeah, not too thrilled about the game for these events.

Simulator apparently changed the PvE mechanics to make you grind frequently instead of "just" every 12 hours, and I can't really play the game all day long to keep up. Also my CMag's blue is maxed and the reward doesn't seem achievable anyway, so I don't really care about progression rewards either.

I actually got a fairly covered Patch for Cage Match but so does everyone else. It also ends at a very bad time for me and I don't think I'll spend 300HP on a 24h shield, so I'll probably just try to score the night before and see where the hits take me. It's been a while since I played an event without shielding, I've been meaning to check what I can expect with these MMR and bracketing changes.

It doesn't help that the reward is BP, one of my least covered 3*. Even grinding like a madman to place well in both events won't get me anywhere near an useable BP.

In short, I apologize in advance but I think I'll be kinda chilling MPQ-wise for the next few days.

DecoyDuck

It's clear that we all need Panther covers (and there's only a 100% chance he'll be featured in the next PVP). But it's a midday end (for most of us) and Kamu is still out, PLUS there are Panther covers to be had in PVE... so for this round, we won't lose our heads if the alliance softens up a bit. But, as usual, throw some matches down to protect the the alliance Season score. After all, it wouldn't be terrible if we landed in the Nick Fury rankings at the end of the Season.

I haven't jumped in too deep into the PVP yet, but if it's not too gruesome, I'll try to bring up some scores for the team. If I'm gonna get Panther covers, it ain't gonna be through PVE.

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DecoyDuck wrote:

It's clear that we all need Panther covers (and there's only a 100% chance he'll be featured in the next PVP). But it's a midday end (for most of us) and Kamu is still out, PLUS there are Panther covers to be had in PVE... so for this round, we won't lose our heads if the alliance softens up a bit.

Yeeeeeeeesssssssssssss, you shall supply all the Panther covers. *rubs hands with malevolent look*


Seriously, DD, way to twist the knife in! 3 more days...

DecoyDuck

Kamuuu wrote:

Seriously, DD, way to twist the knife in! 3 more days...

On the contrary, I was referring to your normally high score contributions

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DecoyDuck wrote:

It's clear that we all need Panther covers (and there's only a 100% chance he'll be featured in the next PVP). But it's a midday end (for most of us) and Kamu is still out, PLUS there are Panther covers to be had in PVE... so for this round, we won't lose our heads if the alliance softens up a bit. But, as usual, throw some matches down to protect the the alliance Season score. After all, it wouldn't be terrible if we landed in the Nick Fury rankings at the end of the Season.

I haven't jumped in too deep into the PVP yet, but if it's not too gruesome, I'll try to bring up some scores for the team. If I'm gonna get Panther covers, it ain't gonna be through PVE.

True enough, however, for panther, I think his most coveted cover is Black which is the alliance reward from the cage matches... If we could manage to squeak in top 100, that would be awesome. The yellow is equally coveted and I think is the alliance reward for PvE...

The end times for both events (current round of PvE) and PvP suck for me as well.

And, as others have stated, the 150K cMags blue cover is out of reach, unless they go completely crazy with points in the last round...

So, do what you can, do what your able... Top 100 in PvP would be really great, if we can do it, if we can't... Well, what can I say, season 2 was supposed to be a chillaxed season anyway.

stare on!

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Hoho!

Received my missing Black Daken, 3000 Iso and 100 HP from "Heavy Metal" rewards today!

That makes me happy.

Just wanted to share some care bear joy!

Stare on!