What is the best defensive team?

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edited March 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
At first I was thinking it would be a team consisting of characters that could spam abilities, however, the majority of matches I lose come against characters like Storm or OBW when they get numerous cascades or chain abilities... Obviously a maxed hulk is pretty good on defense and a good deterrent... What does the community think?
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  • Unknown
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    Mooseman22883 wrote:
    At first I was thinking it would be a team consisting of characters that could spam abilities, however, the majority of matches I lose come against characters like Storm or OBW when they get numerous cascades or chain abilities... Obviously a maxed hulk is pretty good on defense and a good deterrent... What does the community think?



    IMO. Maxed out OBW / hood / patch

    Edit: 3 pink OBW to generate red / green and double dpi from patch with no doubled up abilities. Hits all 6 colors.
    OBW black / pink
    Hood yellow / black
    Patch red / green
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    Psykopathic wrote:
    IMO. Maxed out OBW / hood / patch

    Edit: 3 pink OBW to generate red / green and double dpi from patch with no doubled up abilities.

    A little too squishy but certainly annoying. Hulk is the first counter that comes to mind.

    I'm really curious to see what people think about this topic so I'll get these two things out of the way now:

    1) There is no such thing as a perfect defensive team because defense is for the most part non-existent.

    2) Spidey is a counter to everyone.

    Now let's never mention those two things again. I'm still thinking of my answer.
  • Twysta
    Twysta Posts: 1,597 Chairperson of the Boards
    Check your PM's beez icon_e_smile.gif
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    ditto Patch/oBW/Hood, oBW with 3 purple obviously. I don't have a usable Patch, but I do have a maxed Wolverine and a maxed Thor, and Wolverine or Thor/oBW/Hood netted me more defensive wins than any other team I could field before. Hood and oBW prevent enemy abilities like a boss (two bosses) and actually add to offense unlike Spidey. On the same note, who'd you kill first? 3 purple oBW or 5 blue Hood?
  • Puritas
    Puritas Posts: 670 Critical Contributor
    what build patch?
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    edited March 2014
    Puritas wrote:
    what build patch?

    For defensive purposes I'd say 3/5/5
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    obviously 553 is a suicide build for Patch (doubled for defense, I never find a 553 Patch a problem (yet)). 355 is a major annoyance and better suited for prolonged fights.
  • Unknown
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    Sounds like you guys are fighting my shield training team lol 141 Hood/Patch 85 OBW -.-

    I laugh every time I get a defensive win. Happens quite often but got knocked out of the top 10 today. Its all in good fun, should push for the ISO at 1550 one of these days.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    isn't Patch's red his best skill and the one worth leveling him for?
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Chimaera wrote:
    Sounds like you guys are fighting my shield training team lol 141 Hood/Patch 85 OBW -.-

    I laugh every time I get a defensive win. Happens quite often but got knocked out of the top 10 today. Its all in good fun, should push for the ISO at 1550 one of these days.
    SHIELD training is only useful for tanking purposes alas...
  • Unknown
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    What do you guys think of Psylocke, Daken, and Hulk? Daken could provide Psylocke with some serious spamable damage and the Hulk should keep those strike tiles around right?
  • Unknown
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    I want the strike tiles, do not care about the red, it is usually enough to kill someone anyways even without 5 in it. Green laying the tiles, spam a few attacks shreds an entire team. Just need to hit that critical mass.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    But 5 green for Patch is equally suicidal on defense as it's good on offense. I kid you not, most of the times enemy Patch spammed strike tiles, he just doomed his team or himself if last man standing.
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    locked wrote:
    But 5 green for Patch is equally suicidal on defense as it's good on offense. I kid you not, most of the times enemy Patch spammed strike tiles, he just doomed his team or himself if last man standing.

    If he is last man standing we probably already lost anyways. The point is either to win or do massage damage. No team or build should be able to win on defense a large % of the time, so you have to draw the line somewhere between usability and defensive prowess. If I had every every character maxed then migth be able to think about specing him different but at the moment I feel he does his job well.

    Patch is generally hindered greatly by the presence of Spiderman on many top teams so its not like you can play around that too much. Same thing with the Hulk or any problem character. Once Spiderman stops being the answer to the question, then you can ask again.
  • Unknown
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    obw/hood max blue is the one i usually avoid. joined with spidey. damn. it's very annoying. hulk max? punisher max patch max?not a problem. it's just a meat shield , non threatening.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Chimaera wrote:
    locked wrote:
    But 5 green for Patch is equally suicidal on defense as it's good on offense. I kid you not, most of the times enemy Patch spammed strike tiles, he just doomed his team or himself if last man standing.

    If he is last man standing we probably already lost anyways. The point is either to win or do massage damage. No team or build should be able to win on defense a large % of the time, so you have to draw the line somewhere between usability and defensive prowess. If I had every every character maxed then migth be able to think about specing him different but at the moment I feel he does his job well.

    Patch is generally hindered greatly by the presence of Spiderman on many top teams so its not like you can play around that too much. Same thing with the Hulk or any problem character. Once Spiderman stops being the answer to the question, then you can ask again.
    I dunno, I don't even run Spidey these days for PvP, enemy Spidey, Patch, Hulk notwithstanding.
    The point is, 5 green Patch is very good at dooming his entire team on defense which makes me condemn 5 green so much. Not many characters pull this off you know.
  • ClydeFrog76
    ClydeFrog76 Posts: 1,350 Chairperson of the Boards
    5 green is SO much fun on offence, though.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Absolutely any ability is fun on offense (except defensive abilities lol). Even Bullseye's black as someone has proved already.
  • Unknown
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    5 in green for Patch is only guaranteed to lose if you're facing Spiderman, but you're already guaranteed to lose if you're facing Spiderman barring a miracle.
  • over_clocked
    over_clocked Posts: 3,961
    Now what do you mean, that 5 green in Patch is always good except when facing Spider-Man (for obvious reasons), or that the only good thing 5 green does is lose, especially to Spider-Man? Some clarification needed.

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