Muscle's "Threaten" ability over powered?

Dragon_Nexus

Is there another character that will drop attack tiles that do 218 damage at level 54? If there is I'd love to know.

These guys just obliterate my team. Especially since the board seems against me today, and a huge collection of yellows will be shunned for that one yellow in the bottom right miles away from anything. So my equivilent of level 125 characters get decimated by a team of level 54s.

I can understand having attack tiles and such, but should they really be *that* powerful? When a level 54 Yelena can do 500+ damage by matching a weak colour something feels unbalanced.

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Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Is there another character that will drop attack tiles that do 218 damage at level 54? If there is I'd love to know.

These guys just obliterate my team. Especially since the board seems against me today, and a huge collection of yellows will be shunned for that one yellow in the bottom right miles away from anything. So my equivilent of level 125 characters get decimated by a team of level 54s.

I can understand having attack tiles and such, but should they really be *that* powerful? When a level 54 Yelena can do 500+ damage by matching a weak colour something feels unbalanced.

What kind of team composition are you using against them?

Dragon_Nexus

Thor, C.Storm and Magneto Now, usually.
Covers all the colours so either I can build yellows into green and take them down with Storm, or I can build reds or purples with Magneto and pick up AP or blues that way and stun them to death since Storm's powered up blue is insane.

Buuuut the board is totally against me today, which also doesn't help. Plenty of times where it gives me enough purples to get 8 points, then no more until Magneto dies. Then I get to maybe 11 yellows and Thor or Storm dies. then it's just not worth bothering with.

Unknown

OBW is handy against muscle, since she can delay the CDs. Your team composition, while not bad in general, may not be ideal for dealing with goons. You need to focus on eliminating/overwriting/delaying/matching the CDs, or you're going to lose.

Dragon_Nexus

Yeah, true...
It's kinda frustrating because with the right board I can take this team down in about 5 moves. Match a few purples, create a bunch of blues on the board, grab 11 blues total from that, stun...and usually they're dead.

Still though I argue that power is too powerful and/or the timer is way too short for what it creates.

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Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Thor, C.Storm and Magneto Now, usually.
Covers all the colours so either I can build yellows into green and take them down with Storm, or I can build reds or purples with Magneto and pick up AP or blues that way and stun them to death since Storm's powered up blue is insane.

Buuuut the board is totally against me today, which also doesn't help. Plenty of times where it gives me enough purples to get 8 points, then no more until Magneto dies. Then I get to maybe 11 yellows and Thor or Storm dies. then it's just not worth bothering with.

That's weird, I'm running the same team against enemies at the exact same level. In the 4 times I've played that node, they've managed to put out exactly one Threaten tile.

How is you Mag specced? Do you have at least 4 in purple?

Dragon_Nexus

4 blue, 4 purple, 5 red.

I've just tried that Venom one, focussing on the Muscle because that guy drops two 400+ tiles. Which is ridiculous.
Know how many blues I managed to accumulate? Eight. and then the blues were few and scattered, so I couldn't push up the countdowns, couldn't heal, couldn't stun, couldn't do anything.

I actually managed to activate Thor's yellow and guess what, it didn't create a single green match. Just a lousy 4 after the ability fired off. Meanwhile Muscle has managed to fire Threaten off twice, so every match and ability is doing about 1700 damage on top of existing damage. you can guess how long I lasted when his blue abilities started firing off that damages the whole team.
I'm tellin ya, the game is completely against me today. Last few days have been a grind to scrape together as many points as possible to stay on top of the leaderboard. Today has just screwed me over completely and I'm stuck in 8th place unable to advance because my teams just get wiped out constantly.

You can really tell this was an early event. It's just not built as well as the later ones.

Unknown

Then again why are you struggling for transient placement on top really?

Just skip all the battles that not fit your team. Due to rubberband **** you can make up all the skipped points on the next match played 12 hours later.

Dragon_Nexus

Yeah, it's never worked that way for me. I find I need an accumulation over days. You can't, for instance, skip a day and make it all up the day after. Your accumulated points will suffer for it.

Unknown

Muscles are uber, but stealing Threaten with Moonstone is pretty much instant game over too.

There's really not much that can be said about Threaten, but I think it's still less threatening than the Thug's rapid fire Pistols.

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Dragon_Nexus wrote:

Yeah, it's never worked that way for me. I find I need an accumulation over days. You can't, for instance, skip a day and make it all up the day after. Your accumulated points will suffer for it.

Unless you're trying to get Top 1, you really don't need to worry. I feel perfectly safe hovering outside Top 100 points, and can easily (and I mean easily) get back up to Top 10 within a few battles with rubberbanding in action. The crux of the matter is do you have the time to play the last hour of the event to lock in your placement.

Heck, you could start the event 24 hours before it ends and get to almost the same points as us who started when it began. You just lose out on all the ISO drops.