thanos challenge

dyjost
dyjost Posts: 11
edited December 2016 in MPQ General Discussion
how is anyone who's not at the champ a 4* level supposed to even compete with this guy? its hard as mephisto's domain to get covers for these people, let alone champ them. this game seriously needs to make lower levels of play not as disheartening.
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  • Raisse
    Raisse Posts: 18 Just Dropped In
    There is a star.pngstar.pngstar.png character available for each one. icon_wolverine.png today, and icon_groot.png yesterday. I used both instead of my underleveled star.pngstar.pngstar.pngstar.png.
  • DFiPL
    DFiPL Posts: 2,405 Chairperson of the Boards
    My buddy beat him with a level 140 3/5/5 Patch today.

    I ain't sayin' he's easy, but he's been beatable with the 3* character both days so far. If you're not close to "champ a 3*" character territory, it's not happening for you.

    But a covered, decently leveled 3* appears to be able to get it done. If tomorrow is Inhumans, I can see Kamala Khan getting it done. Denying purple - which you should be doing ANYWAY - feeds her green battery. If you can collect enough green to use that a few times, you can take him down. The thing is that she won't have the survivability Groot had without teammates (though you can maybe use teamups for that) and her AP cost to take him down is going to be probably double what Patch's was.

    But I think she can win, yeah.
  • SummerGlau
    SummerGlau Posts: 1,027 Chairperson of the Boards
    as Previous Posters said the 3 Stars in the first two were both good choices (especially if Champ'ed)
    I beat him with a champ'ed Patch and a level 117 R&G with full covers

    Kamala Khan and Doctor Doom likely won't be so lucky
    Captain Steve can get it done with good boosts and some luck (remember Peacemaker leaves a pretty good protect tile when the countdown ends)
    not sure if he can target the Purple Countdown though?
  • broll
    broll Posts: 4,732 Chairperson of the Boards
    I have 0 4* championed and I've won every day. Today was the first time I had to try more than twice. Been winning with champed 3* in the 170-200 range.
  • Natsufan01
    Natsufan01 Posts: 259 Mover and Shaker
    Summer Glau wrote:
    as Previous Posters said the 3 Stars in the first two were both good choices (especially if Champ'ed)
    I beat him with a champ'ed Patch and a level 117 R&G with full covers

    Kamala Khan and Doctor Doom likely won't be so lucky
    Captain Steve can get it done with good boosts and some luck (remember Peacemaker leaves a pretty good protect tile when the countdown ends)
    not sure if he can target the Purple Countdown though?

    Someone said they were able to overwrite his cd tile with starlord. Should be able to with cap too.
  • wymtime
    wymtime Posts: 3,763 Chairperson of the Boards
    So today I had a choice of using championed quake or championed Kampala Khan. I choose Kampala Khan because she feeds her own powers more and I was able to deny Thanos Purple as well as green. I choose a strategy over just a 4*. I was able to defeat Thanos first try because when I fired purple I was able to generate more cascades and then fire off her green. Thanos got no powers to fire because I kept collecting all the green and purple. I also beat Thanos with Groot over Starlord. 2 times I have chosen to use 3* because I felt their strategy play wise better fit the fight against Thanos.

    Thanos can still kill you and you can look to use some boosts to make it easier, but overall he is not that hard to kill.
  • smkspy
    smkspy Posts: 2,024 Chairperson of the Boards
    I beat him with a 190 something KK today. Definitely the hardest battle yet and it took 3 turns on boosts. Was more board luck than strategy though, which is generally the case with 90% of 1v1 battles.
  • Fightmastermpq
    Fightmastermpq Posts: 995 Critical Contributor
    My wife is still pretty new and I beat him with her level 102 Rocket & Groot yesterday. They are challenging, but definitely attract more of the player base than the typical DDQ4 crash.
  • Bryan Lambert
    Bryan Lambert Posts: 234 Tile Toppler
    smkspy wrote:
    I beat him with a 190 something KK today. Definitely the hardest battle yet and it took 3 turns on boosts. Was more board luck than strategy though, which is generally the case with 90% of 1v1 battles.

    I actually lost pretty badly with a 12 cover, 200+ Quake before winning with a champed Kamala, mainly because of the color synergy - you need exactly what you want to deny Thanos, and you can use your purple to help match away his green damage CD tile.
  • Beastwood
    Beastwood Posts: 68 Match Maker
    did him with a 183 kk after about 5/6 goes unboosted, literally came down to a very lucky last turn, i got a lucky cascade and finished him before he finished me but it was very challenging to say the least i'd almost given up till i read a few people managed it with kk here
  • Hendross
    Hendross Posts: 762 Critical Contributor
    Bryan Lambert wrote:
    smkspy wrote:
    I beat him with a 190 something KK today. Definitely the hardest battle yet and it took 3 turns on boosts. Was more board luck than strategy though, which is generally the case with 90% of 1v1 battles.

    I actually lost pretty badly with a 12 cover, 200+ Quake before winning with a champed Kamala, mainly because of the color synergy - you need exactly what you want to deny Thanos, and you can use your purple to help match away his green damage CD tile.

    I lost with quake as well, KK just has better board control.
  • MightyBP
    MightyBP Posts: 21 Just Dropped In
    Agree with the previous posters. This crash is doable with the 3 3* chars.

    Rocket and Groot I had lvl 175 5/5/3 and while he was beating me pretty badly a well timed I Am Groot got me back to full health.

    Patch lvl 185 3/5/5 was deny purple long enough to collect 14 red and 9 green then Berserker Rage into Best There Is for gg. Healing Factor should keep you in the game until you get there.

    The KK one was definitely all about similar colors. Your 8 purple is mostly more effective than Thanos since you control the board and can do your 3-4k damage instantly instead of on a timer. Mine was 3/5/5 lvl 170.

    With Doom you'll probably need to get 12 black while denying purple and fire your Demons ASAP. ill probably try him 5 Black 3 Blue 5 Purple but I wouldn't be surprised if purple is not good enough.

    Cap might be the most challenging since he wants to match all the other colors that Thanos does not want. You'll have to balance blue/red gathering with green/purple denial.
  • Jam_Adams
    Jam_Adams Posts: 486 Mover and Shaker
    how do you guys know who the next roster set will be to go up against thanos?
  • firethorne
    firethorne Posts: 1,505 Chairperson of the Boards
    Jam_Adams wrote:
    how do you guys know who the next roster set will be to go up against thanos?

    See viewtopic.php?f=7&t=55479
    Brigby wrote:
    Crash of the Mad Titan (12/22/16)
      Required Characters: - Rocket & Groot - Wolverine (Patch) - Kamala Khan - Doctor Doom - Steve Rogers (Super Soldier)

    These are also the first 3*s Mad Titan vault.
  • SummerGlau
    SummerGlau Posts: 1,027 Chairperson of the Boards
    so Villains will be a pass for me and Avengers will either be Captain Steve or Fingers Crossed for Nova (unless I have enough ISO to get my well Covered but only level 98 Hulkbuster up there
  • revskip
    revskip Posts: 1,037 Chairperson of the Boards
    Hendross wrote:
    Bryan Lambert wrote:
    smkspy wrote:
    I beat him with a 190 something KK today. Definitely the hardest battle yet and it took 3 turns on boosts. Was more board luck than strategy though, which is generally the case with 90% of 1v1 battles.

    I actually lost pretty badly with a 12 cover, 200+ Quake before winning with a champed Kamala, mainly because of the color synergy - you need exactly what you want to deny Thanos, and you can use your purple to help match away his green damage CD tile.

    I lost with quake as well, KK just has better board control.

    Lost my first fight with a champed Quake then remembered that you cam use kamala khan team ups. Second fight was easy with just a +2 TU bonus.
  • PuceMoose
    PuceMoose Posts: 1,445 Chairperson of the Boards
    For those attempting with Kamala (like myself), don't forget to check her load-out - I always had her 5/3/5 for normal PvP, but she's of course better at 3/5/5 for this battle. Those extra green tiles might make the difference.
  • Orchedelia
    Orchedelia Posts: 46
    I can't even get close with a 167 KK 3/5/5....five tries...and then all colors boosted 30%...made no difference.
    Unfortunately, I will have to concede this matchup...I've got better things to do with my KK in the PvE.

    This match is all luck of the board, especially with only one offensive power at 167.....
  • MarkersMake
    MarkersMake Posts: 392 Mover and Shaker
    Orchedelia wrote:
    I can't even get close with a 167 KK 3/5/5....five tries...and then all colors boosted 30%...made no difference.
    Unfortunately, I will have to concede this matchup...I've got better things to do with my KK in the PvE.

    This match is all luck of the board, especially with only one offensive power at 167.....
    If you decide to give it one more try, don't forget to deny black matches when you can as well. You'll be making green and purple matches for KK anyway, but Thanos' 3rd primary color (and strongest match damage) is black. It might buy you a few extra turns.

    I got my 172 KK through with just maxed crit boosts (I had stupidly left +100% match boosts on for several matches earlier today and had none left). It's doable, but definitely board-dependant.
  • iron-n-wine
    iron-n-wine Posts: 495 Mover and Shaker
    seeing these posts encouraged me to have another couple of goes with my 175 KK, and got it on the second try - result!

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