What's your favorite way to hit trivial nodes?

DTStump

Especially in PvE, there are (still) trivial nodes that you can usually beat in just a couple of minutes. What's your favorite team/approach?

In my case I use a championed and two dorks that stay behind him all the time (currently two one-cover, lvl 70, 4*s characters: and ). Just align blue (and red) for a quick kill.

Quebbster

Depends a bit, but an old favorite is to try out some recent fourstar additions to my roster that have a fair amount of covers but not much ISO yet. That way I can get a feel for how they'll play when leveled and decide what priority it is to level them up.

Smudge

As grindy as things have felt since CW, I've been spending as little time as possible annihilating them with my 1 cover Goblin, 3 cover IM46, and 6 cover Phoenix (all level 255).

Otherwise I tend to toss my undamaged boosted 3*s at it after I'm done clearing the hard/essential nodes. With as gross as the PvE experience has been these days, anything to get it done sooner is better.

Lemminkäinen

DTStump wrote:

Especially in PvE, there are (still) trivial nodes that you can usually beat in just a couple of minutes. What's your favorite team/approach?

In my case I use a championed and two dorks that stay behind him all the time (currently two one-cover, lvl 70, 4*s characters: and ). Just align blue (and red) for a quick kill.

That's a good approach and I did use it for a while. These days I tend to use Vision, 3*Bullseye and Miles Morales (he is low level but I have five of his Red - he doesn't tank anything so the stars can shine but his Red is super cheap and does ~2300 damage). This way I can win fast even if there's no blue to be seen.

optimus2861

Now that I have a second 1-cover 5* in Rogers, I run he, BSS, and Fist. Stupid OP 5* match damage on 5 colors plus Fist's free attack tile melts down trivial nodes pretty quick.

And unlike BSS's useless , Rogers's actually does enough damage at one cover to be useful in a trivial node.

beyonderbub

Best time for me to use a couple undercovered five-stars as meat shields or for their high match damage and I might throw in a currently boosted character.

Redrobot30

X-23, 3*Daken/Patch, Groot. Don't have to worry about taking damage at all because these guys soak it up like nothing.

JVReal

it's the only time i get to show my 5* some love, I like OML, GG, Phoenix ... sometimes I throw in IM46 instead of Phoenix.

They are too undercovered and under leveled for PVP, and also for higher pve levels, so the poor guys are relegated to trivial nodes.

I'd run them through the prologue, but for some reason I don't want to finish the prologue and lock them all, so I've just left it as is... unwilling to lock them all out of principal.

IamTheDanger

I seem to be of a different mind than the previous posters here. I like to use the, uhh....., less desired characters, (to put it mildly). I have at least one ability for everyone in the game, but there are some I rarely ever use. So I like to use them in trivial nodes. When I begin one, I look at my roster and ask myself, "Who have I not used in a while?". Then I use them. For example, not 10 minutes ago I used Yelena, Sentry and Cho to take out 3 level 34 goons. They may not work well together, but since it will be nigh impossible to lose the match, I use them anyway. This allows me to use my entire roster and take some of the bench warmers into the field. I admit, it is not the fastest or most optimal way to play, but trivial nodes are generally not worth that many points, so the loss is insignificant and I enjoy it. Which is, imo, kinda the point when playing a game.

willyswim

Deadpool for the points, SWitch to accelerate whales, and Green Goblin with a single yellow cover to protect SWitch's countdown tile.

acescracked

Always my five and six covered unleveled 5* Phx & OML with Iron Fist for his attack tile. As long as I've been playing PVEs it's all about getting thru nodes as fast as possible. 5* match damage with attack tile gets it done fast.

DevilMayGrind

5 5 . Before 5 stars were introduced 3 3 was a fun combo, match 1 green add those tiles with fist's tile and start pumping them up with .

mpqr7

I used to use patch/daken like crazy. Now I use OML and two others to get it done quickly.

I do dream of a day we get bonuses for using as many characters as possible each day... then I would use all of the rest of my characters. I have 90+ characters that I barely use... I would love to have a reason to put them to play!

abmoraz

6-cover Silver Surver (level 270), 4 cover Phoenix (255), and Iron Fist (189). Just match damage and fist them to death. Quick and painless.

wymtime

acescracked wrote:

Always my five and six covered unleveled 5* Phx & OML with Iron Fist for his attack tile. As long as I've been playing PVEs it's all about getting thru nodes as fast as possible. 5* match damage with attack tile gets it done fast.

For new cover PVE this is my philosophy too. I use OML, X-23, Daken for true healing especially at the end of a sub so I don't have to use health packs.

For non new release PVE I will play around with buffed 4* who are under leveled to see if I want to level them. I will test out teams, test out different combos to see how they play. If I am playing on a lunch break though I will break out OML since I want to clear fast so can get to all nodes though.

Vhailorx

Quebbster wrote:

Depends a bit, but an old favorite is to try out some recent fourstar additions to my roster that have a fair amount of covers but not much ISO yet. That way I can get a feel for how they'll play when leveled and decide what priority it is to level them up.

This if I am not in a hurry. Its a good way to discover fun new team combinations.

But if I am in a hurry I will go with something like OML (0/1/0 makes him a decent tank, but nothing more) + IF (always great for speed grinding) + anyone who makes strike tiles.

ZootSax

Usually Devil Dinosaur plus whatever two characters catch my eye who I haven't used in a while. Sometime I swap Howard for DD.

Why, yes, I'm not typically a Top 100 PVE player

PeterGibbons316

JCTthe3rd81 wrote:

I seem to be of a different mind than the previous posters here. I like to use the, uhh....., less desired characters, (to put it mildly). I have at least one ability for everyone in the game, but there are some I rarely ever use. So I like to use them in trivial nodes. When I begin one, I look at my roster and ask myself, "Who have I not used in a while?". Then I use them. For example, not 10 minutes ago I used Yelena, Sentry and Cho to take out 3 level 34 goons. They may not work well together, but since it will be nigh impossible to lose the match, I use them anyway. This allows me to use my entire roster and take some of the bench warmers into the field. I admit, it is not the fastest or most optimal way to play, but trivial nodes are generally not worth that many points, so the loss is insignificant and I enjoy it. Which is, imo, kinda the point when playing a game.

I'm the same way in events where I'm not playing competitively. If it's a release event, or I'm trying for T20 or better I go with my 5*s for speed.

TxMoose

my favorite way is to have enough time to use lower, undercovered 4*s at 70 or 94 to get to know them (I've used cho, drax, miles, gwen, pun, nova, WM, bucky, venom - love seeing those in action, even if they're not the best characters...well, pun and nova are pretty good). sometimes i'll also (if I have time) go through and see who I haven't played in a loooong time, and use them. sometimes that is sentry or psylocke or 3pun. what happens many times is I'm in a time crunch and I blow through with fist/oml/anyone.

Skygazing

Back when I lived in 3* land: IF/LDaken/Blade

Occasionally: IF/IM46/BSS or some other combination of IF and two 5*s (though I find OML's healing kind of slows things down)

95% of the time: SW/JG/GG

JangoLore

If I'm pushing to get it done quick I will use IF/OML/PHX, otherwise I play the "who have I not used in a while" game.