Best Teams for Team Synergy

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Thoughts on an OBW + cStorm + Magneto(Now) team?

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SteelBus wrote:

Thoughts on an OBW + cStorm + Magneto(Now) team?

Fairly standard except that OBW rarely gets to use either her blue or purple abilities. You're keeping her around mainly for espionage, but depending on levels and who is buffed within a current event, she may not even get to do that. I prefer either a tanky guy like IM40 or Thor who cover and use Red & Yellow, or go for Punisher and take advantage of his black and red (Punisher's red really speeds up what can be a dragging fight if you hit a blue/purple drought).

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My OBW is finally 3/5/5 and I am looking to use her and team her up. I have her at lvl 65 right now. Who should I team her with then?

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SteelBus wrote:

My OBW is finally 3/5/5 and I am looking to use her and team her up. I have her at lvl 65 right now. Who should I team her with then?

She's buffed in the current event, and her healing will keep anyone up and running. To keep her abilities from overlapping, I've been using her with Punisher and Thor (also both buffed) and tearing through Hulk content pretty quickly. Only downside is that if you get unlucky or careless, she'll die to a Photon Blast from Moonstone or a Sniper shot.

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My Thor and Rags are both above level 60. My Punisher however is very very low so I can't go that direction.

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I currently use patch/CMags/OBW and punisher/CMags/OBW most lately as the offense team.

Patch regenerates and deals substantial damage on berseker activation and mags can kill off the odd purple tiles. But green strikes are vulnerable and no black users.

Punisher works for less green, destroys tiles and uses black. Retrib is also a sure finishing move on big guys.
Mags - nuff said, OBW fuels the other guys and keeps the enemy without AP.

No yellow user but yellow mags picks the yellow tiles for good damage.

HailMary

SteelBus wrote:

My OBW is finally 3/5/5 and I am looking to use her and team her up. I have her at lvl 65 right now. Who should I team her with then?

I'd team her up with two heavy hitters.

Having no viable 3*s, I'm using OBW + Thor + AWolv/C.Storm. AWolv + Thor gives you two options for attack pacing in red/green: AWolv = spam green + hoard red for big hit, Thor = spam red + hoard green for big hit. OBW steals and heals for both of them. Thor + C.Storm is a green+blue+counterattack AoE machine with OBW as support, though C.Storm's blue overlaps OBW's blue heal. C.Storm's green can also do some board-clearing in a pinch.

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SteelBus wrote:

My OBW is finally 3/5/5 and I am looking to use her and team her up. I have her at lvl 65 right now. Who should I team her with then?

I changed my OBW from 5/5/3 to 3/5/5 and she works great with Daken (But you need to bring him to a higher level to really start feeling his power). Also she helps much Ares (healing after sunder, stealing after onslaught). If you can bring all 3 together (no required character) they complement each other great. If I don't like anything about them is that sometimes they down the opponents too quickly to heal completely up before the end of the fight.

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the troll teams: Spider-Man, Venom, mStorm. Om nom nom!
Spider-Man, mStorm, oBW (double AP source, double healing)
the ultimate troll team (not my idea, I just like it): the Hood, oBW, mStorm (triple AP sources, but you have pitiful health)

What is a troll team?
Anyway, I wonder how dangerous could OBW, mStorm and Loki be on defense? I guess they are squishy, but annoying to face constant animations and if they get a lucky cascade. Who's purple would AI use? How many purple should Loki have at least?

Great combinations I use (don't really have 3* leveled high enough yet) :
Thor/cStorm/GSBW - can spam green on any terrain, plus Storms blue stun - a way to beat lvl 230 Devil Dino, Juggernaut or the like
MN Magneto + cStorm + Thor - on Icy terrain
OBW + mStorm + dmg dealer/required - against goons
OBW + Daken/Punisher/Wolverine + Ares/Thor - can alternate to prolong playing

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Any thoughts on Doom, Black Panther and Hulk as a team? I have them just about high enough but they lace pink and dooms black is basically eliminated with Panthers being stronger. Have I made a mistake?

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Soitswritten wrote:

Any thoughts on Doom, Black Panther and Hulk as a team? I have them just about high enough but they lace pink and dooms black is basically eliminated with Panthers being stronger. Have I made a mistake?

Yeah, that team wouldn't work well together I think: Doom/Black Panther both rely on their black skills in order to be useful, so they directly conflict with each other.

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Dr. Doom and Black Panther doesn't work well together because their black skill cost exactly the same and the AI seems to just flip a coin to decide which one to use, even though one is far stronger than the other. The fact that they overlap is okay. The problem is their cost is the same and their power varies greatly. You can have a team like Punisher/The Hulk/Patch and it works because their green skills are roughly comparable (after factoring in Patch's downside) and you're most likely going to get Berserker Rage (3 green matches = 9) which is what you'd prefer on defense. But when two skills cost exactly the same, you have no such control.

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Phantron wrote:

Dr. Doom and Black Panther doesn't work well together because their black skill cost exactly the same and the AI seems to just flip a coin to decide which one to use, even though one is far stronger than the other. The fact that they overlap is okay. The problem is their cost is the same and their power varies greatly. You can have a team like Punisher/The Hulk/Patch and it works because their green skills are roughly comparable (after factoring in Patch's downside) and you're most likely going to get Berserker Rage (3 green matches = 9) which is what you'd prefer on defense. But when two skills cost exactly the same, you have no such control.

Who would recommend to pair with Panthers and Hulk then? I have options with Punisher, GSBW, and CMags (was worried about nerf) somewhat close to completely covered. Appreciate the help. I also have Thor, OBW and CStorm at 85. My panther is 100, Hulk 94 and Doom 95.

I actually thought Doom feeding Panther would work better but his blue would need to be cheaper.

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Soitswritten wrote:

Who would recommend to pair with Panthers and Hulk then? I have options with Punisher, GSBW, and CMags (was worried about nerf) somewhat close to completely covered. Appreciate the help. I also have Thor, OBW and CStorm at 85. My panther is 100, Hulk 94 and Doom 95.

I actually thought Doom feeding Panther would work better but his blue would need to be cheaper.

Dr. Doom + Panther would work on offense but not defense, because you obviously prefer Rage of the Panther to be used (assuming they're equally leveled) but 50% of the time the AI will pick Summon Demons (and probably promptly match 3 of your own attack tiles to boot) instead.

So if you don't care too much about winning defense (and to be fair, right now it's pretty hard to win at all in defense) there's nothing wrong with Dr. Doom + Panther. You just have to be aware that the 50% chance of not getting Rage of the Panther will definitely cost you some games. Maybe you should consider winning your last game with someone else other than Dr. Doom so that new opponents do not get a 50% chance to avoid Rage.

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I like OBW + M Storm + anyone for goon fights. Good tile and board control.

For enemies that move tiles I prefer Magneto Now(85 3/5/5) paired with Spidey (85 3/3/5). Mags feeds Spidey's blue by collecting purple which also provides protect tiles. Spidey's blue isn't that great yet due to lack of covers so Mags is a huge help. If not Mags, then GSBW who also let's me double-dip purple withe even more explosive results! For a third toon, I've been beefing up Punisher now that I have covers to take him up to 77. Getting black and green power added rounds out the rainbow pretty well and his red is cool, though I generally use Mags red more as it does more damage and collects AP. I'm also looking hard at BP for the third wheel but I don't have the covers for him yet. His yellow overlap with Spidey is a little annoying but not that big a deal as I rarely need to heal twice in the same match and generally toward the end when perma-stun is rolling and I've collected enough environmental tiles to make BP's yellow worthwhile. I just horde yellow until I'm ready to push both skills off.

I noticed you Mags Now is 5/5/3 which was my original build with him but I'm much happier with the respec. Also, if your Spidey isn't strong enough I hear good things about Mags Now with Classic Storm though I didn't like it as much as Spidey.

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aussiemac wrote:

akboyce did a thread similar to this, but more about tile coverage: http://www.d3pforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=3664

Looking forward to seeing that Hulk/Bagman combo...

HailMary

SquishySquash wrote:

I noticed you Mags Now is 5/5/3 which was my original build with him but I'm much happier with the respec. Also, if your Spidey isn't strong enough I hear good things about Mags Now with Classic Storm though I didn't like it as much as Spidey.

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5 red in MN Mags nets you damage and AP, which makes it better than blue, IMO. Also, the MN Mags + C.Storm formula is just "gather blurple, generate 8-10 blue AP with well-placed Mags purple power, dropkick everyone with Wind Storm." That carried me through pretty much all of Brotherhood.

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What's the recommended build for Mags Now?

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SteelBus wrote:

What's the recommended build for Mags Now?

Think we concluded you can't mess him up realistically So just follow your preferred play style.

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I'm looking at a nice synergistic combo myself right now

Patch 3/5/5, IM40 5/4/4, OBW 3/5/5

Patch--Green Tiles
IM40--Red, Yellow, Blue
OBW--Purple, Black

IM40 is the key, get yellow, generate, red, blue, green, and purple. When he is offline, OBW can steal AP, and heal, Patch now has red, yellow, and green for max damage off of the best there is

Con's--black is wasted AP

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IMO if you replace your key to CMags you'll get way more DPS as fast and with more general safety.