Are you ready for the new Crash of the Titans?

Quebbster

It just occurred to me that we are at the very tail end of the original run of Crash of the Titans, so we will soon do our first rerun of the half dozen fights that were added in April, and then we get some brand new fights! ...so of course I am curious how well prepared everyone is for the new fights.
Last time we had half a dozen new fights added (Cho, Miles, Venom, Nova, Gwen, as well as Howard the Duck who probably won't get an encore this time). I Think it's safe to assume we get fights for Quake, Punisher, Drax, Winter Soldier and War Machine at least. Kate Bishop, Moon Knight and Peggy Carter are all in the "maybe" category. Wasp and any new releases are probably too new, but you never know...

On my end, the only one in the first Group I am a bit worried about is Winter Soldier as I only have four covers for him (soon five thanks to PvP progression). Quake and Punisher are both at 12 covers, Drax and War Machine has 10. In the latter Group, Kate Bishop only has Three covers (one of each color), so she'll be tricky. Moon Knight has 7 covers so he's a bit touch and go and Peggy is up to 9 covers now.

Obviously this may change in the month or so we have left Before the new fights, but I am a bit curious about how Confident people are about these fights. Let's hear it!

dr tinykittylove

I'm probably ok up to Kate... got lucky with tokens on some of the upcoming set - champed Quake, Pun, War Machine.

Have Drax fully but not ideally covered, will get 9th cover on Winter Soldier in upcoming progressions. Kate has 5 black. Peggy is firmly in "probably but it will be painful category" with both red and blue at 3.

Moon Knight has scorned me since I slept through his pve release. He will get his lunch money taken after his opponent beats him up.

Still, I always look forward to crash and will give it my best shot.

Polares

Last time I just failed in the Gwen fight (she was 1/2/1), now my Gwen is 4/5/4 so it should be easy.

I have most of the new chars covered or almost. Punisher, Quake, Drax are max covered. My WarM will be 4/5/3 tomorrow, my Kate is 2/5/3, so those two should win easily. Peggy will be champed in a couple of weeks.

So the only ones I might fail are WinterS who is just 1/3/2 (but he is 1000 progression reward in the next PvP so I will add one cover) so I hope I will win, and my MoonK who is 2/3/3, I also hope I will win. Wasp is just 1/2/1 and has no chance of winning so I hope she is not featured in this cycle.

I would love to win all the featured fights, in both previous cycles I just lost one fight each

Oh, as I said last time, It would be nice to have a heads up from the Devs to know who will be the last featured, so we can concentrate on those. My guess is MoonK is going to be the last, but we will see...


PS: I don't know who is bad enough so Wasp can win him/her. She is so bad in offense that anybody that doesnt have 5 in black is going to lose against almost anyone :S

GrumpySmurf1002

Gwen was the cutoff last time and she was ~3 months old at the time of her DDQ. Assuming no Duck DDQ, we should be looking at (where I'm at I'll put in parentheses):

9/24 Quake (3/3/5, should be fine, could use more green)
9/29 Punisher (4/1/2, the black should be enough)
10/4 Drax (5/3/5, no issues)
10/9 Winter Soldier (1/2/3, maybe?)
10/14 War Machine (1/1/3, doubt it)
10/19 Kate Bishop (2/2/2, maybe?)
10/24 Moon Knight (2/1/0, no chance currently)
10/29 Peggy Carter (2/2/3, should be ok)
11/3 Wasp (1/2/2, maybe?)

Wasp will be close, but I think she sneaks through unless there's a surprise in there for Anniversary week that pushes things back a week. Spider-Woman and any other future 4* are almost guaranteed to get pushed to Cycle 4.

Overall I'm in ok shape, I have 2-3 months to get more covers in there for the more recent ones. I haven't missed the LT since Cycle 1, so hopefully that streak will continue through Cycle 3.

SnowcaTT

08/20/2016 X-23 vs 270 Electra (barely beat last time, this time 172 5/3/5)
08/25/2016 Ghost Rider vs 270 Galactus (barely beat last time, this time 172 4/4/5)
08/30/2016 Cho-Hulk vs 2/2/2 level 270 Beast (beat last time, this time same 172 5/5/3)
09/04/2016 Miles vs 270 Starlord (barely beat last time, this time 172 4/2/4)
09/09/2016 Venom vs 270 Carnage (barely beat last time, this time 172 4/2/5)
09/14/2016 Nova vs 270 FalCap (barely beat last time, this time 172 5/5/3)
09/19/2016 Spider-Gwen vs 270 Spider-Miles (didn't beat last time, this time 172 4/1/5....unlikely)
09/24/2016 Quake vs 270??? (172 3/3/3, hopefully)
09/29/2016 Punisher vs 270??? (172 1/3/4, hopefully)
10/04/2016 Drax vs 270??? (70 3/1/0, nope)
10/09/2016 Winter Soldier vs 270??? (70 1/1/2, nope)
10/14/2016 Dino (anniversary) vs 222 Squirrel Girl [Placeholder, assumed] (will be 270 champed by the time this comes up, easy enough)
10/19/2016 War Machine vs 270??? (70 1/2/0, nope)
10/24/2016 Kate Bishop vs 270??? (70 0/1/0, nope)
10/29/2016 Moon Knight vs 270??? (70 1/1/0, nope)
11/03/2016 Peggy Carter vs 270??? (70 2/1/1, nope)
11/08/2016 Wasp vs 270??? (70 0/1/1, nope)
11/13/2016 August release Spider Woman??? vs 270???

Considering how fast the 4*'s are being released, you'll probably be playing the "new" ones for quite some time. Why this isn't a daily thing yet baffles me.

Is Venom the last one that champing 3*'s gets you? That would mean you have about 12 coming up you couldn't possibly get covers from through 3* champing (Nova/Gwen/Quake/Punisher/Drax/Winter Soldier/War Machine/DD/Kate/Moon Knight/Peggy/Wasp/(more) - that's yet another way that the newer characters aren't helping you at all. Why 4* drops haven't been moved/increased everywhere yet also baffles me.

I beat everyone last time except Spider-Gwen, then it re-started. Now will have easier time with some that I -did- get from 3* champs, like Venom, Miles, GR, and X-23.

Of the next 17 DDQ's I hope/expect to beat 9...and then I'll have to watch helplessly for almost two months while these ones I won't be able to do pass me by, all the while not progressing since it is one of the VERY few ways to progress. WHY AREN'T THESE EVERY DAY AGAIN?!?

Polares

SnowcaTT wrote:

Of the next 17 DDQ's I hope/expect to beat 9...and then I'll have to watch helplessly for almost two months while these ones I won't be able to do pass me by, all the while not progressing since it is one of the VERY few ways to progress. WHY AREN'T THESE EVERY DAY AGAIN?!?

Call me optimist, but I really hope, one of the main surprises we are going to get for the third anniversary is a new an improved DDQ

My hopes are:

- DDQ4 is now run every two days.
- DDQ5 clash of the mega titans!!! Run every 5 days. One 5 against one 370 level enemy. The price is a 5 (a new token or the cover).

This last DDQ5 being a way of winning a 5 not through RNG (well, maybe the particular 5 you win can be RNG, but at least you always win a 5).

I really really really hope we get something like DDQ5. If we don't get something like this to get more 5 covers it might be the end for me ...

PS: This way I would have motives to level my SS

TxMoose

"Quake, Punisher, Drax, Winter Soldier and War Machine at least" - quake, pun, and drax are ready. bucky (-/2/2) and war machine (2/2/2) are highly questionable.

"Kate Bishop, Moon Knight and Peggy Carter are all in the "maybe" category" - kate is no go at 2/1/-, moon is highly questionable at 2/2/2 and peggy is highly questionable at 2/1/3.

I've averaged being a little short on covers for the latest 2 characters each rotation.

mckauhu

I have chances pretty much only with Nick Fury, Ant-Man, Wolverine, Deadpool, Professor X and Thoress. Sam Wilson is well covered, but his opponent is Cpt Marvel which destroys all of the protect tiles so... Not good either. Hulkbuster might be good too but haven't got a chance to test him yet with his 3/1/5

gravel

My worst three characters are Wasp (1/2/2), Kate (0/3/2), and Moon Knight (2/2/2). Everyone else has at least 9 covers, so I should be okay for a while, but some of them might need some ISO when the time comes. It will be interesting to see who the new characters face, and how evil they want to be with the opponents.

Jarvind

The only one I failed last run was Reed, and I got his down this time.

Punisher's maxed, Quake is fully covered and just needs some ISO dumped on her. Drax has 5 black and a handful of purple/red so he should be fine.

Bucky's at 2/3/2 which is iffy but probably doable, same for Moon Knight with like 3/1/2 or something.

Kate, Peggy and War Machine are at 4-6 covers so they're probably a bust unless I get some covers before then.

amusingfoo1

With almost three months until Wasp's turn, I think there's pretty decent odds she'll appear this cycle. She's the only one I'm worried about, although I need to put ISO into quite a few of the newer ones. But Wasp (0/3/2) and Moon Knight (4/5/3) are the only two that aren't fully covered, so I'm not worrying too much.

Edit: Just pulled 13th Moon Knight cover. Woot!

ZeiramMR

I did pretty well on the new characters for Cycle 2, but most of the new characters for Cycle 3 top out at 4 or 5 covers for me. Many with less, about the only exceptions are Quake and Peggy who have a few more.

DFiPL

Of the characters waiting to take their debut bow, the only one who MIGHT have a chance is Quake. She has three yellow covers, so maybe things will shake out (pun intended) to where her opponent tries to squish her with AOE damage and she just laughs it off and nibbles him to death.

Nobody else has more than 2 covers.

Once we get back to the start of the rotation in six months or whatever, I have 8 4* who have proven capable of beating the Crash, and a couple characters who lacked covers last time who might be able to do it this time (Deadpool, Ghost Rider).

We'll see.

Calnexin

Not even close. I couldn't even get today's. My viable 4*s are firmly in the first third or the Crash. It's going to be awhile before I see an LT from that avenue.

Meander

I'm actively excited to not only see new matches, but also have an excuse to level up some of my newer characters, even if they're under covered. While it's nice to have championed 4*'s, that often turns their DDQ run into a snoozefest. Its nice for the LT, but doesn't feel as exciting as downing it with say a level 120.

LFChikarason

Mines looks like this:
9/24 Quake (4/2/5 level 78)
9/29 Punisher (3/3/2 level 70)
10/4 Drax (3/1/5 level 115)
10/9 Winter Soldier (2/2/1 level 70)
10/14 War Machine (2/1/2 level 70)
10/19 Kate Bishop (0/1/1 level 70)
10/24 Moon Knight (1/2/1 level 70)
10/29 Peggy Carter (4/1/1 level 115)
11/3 Wasp (0/1/1 level 70)

so mostly no chance outside of Peggy

Crowl

Polares wrote:

My hopes are:

- DDQ4 is now run every two days.
- DDQ5 clash of the mega titans!!! Run every 5 days. One 5 against one 370 level enemy. The price is a 5 (a new token or the cover).

This last DDQ5 being a way of winning a 5 not through RNG (well, maybe the particular 5 you win can be RNG, but at least you always win a 5).

I really really really hope we get something like DDQ5. If we don't get something like this to get more 5 covers it might be the end for me ...

They definitely need to do the DDQ4 more often, but the biggest issue with 5* is the RNG nature of gaining them that excessively punishes the unlucky, bringing in a DDQ5 like that would be a horrible idea.

Mawtful

My "tail end" 4's are all over the place.

X23 & Quake are both ready to go.
Venom, Nova, & Punisher will all probably be ok, might take some effort/extra levels. Gwen is borderline - I think I won hers last time, and I think I only gained a Yellow cover for her since then, so in theory I should be able to win again.

Miles, MK, Peggy, GR, War Machine, Wasp, Bucky and Kate are all out. And I don't even have Cho rostered.

Cousin Simpson

Quake (7 covers)
Moon Knight (6)
Punisher (6)
War Machine (5)

Those are the likeliest 4*s out of the new batch, but none that I'd consider a guarantee.

TimGunn

I propose we get two crash of titans per 5 day cycle. Takes too long to cycle them back through.

FaustianDeal

At a minimum run crash every 4 days instead of every 5. Take 1x 3* from each of the original sweet and savory taco groups and create a 5th group for each flavor set.
That seems like a decent "least they could do" proposal.

Once that's done then we can start pressing to get them to run the Crash battle 2x each rotation... build toward a system were we get crash happening every other day... baby-steps...