When do you "retreat"?

Tiger_Wong

- if the match starts and the AI gets 2 or more straight 5 match cascades in the first 3 turns. 
- when I'm facing a Carol/Medusa team, and Carol fires photon barrage and has 5 yellow.
- facing a wasp team and the AI somehow gets 6 blue AP and I have no quick way to kill her. 

Phumade

Old pvp Truism

Losing fast is much safer than winning slow.

Anon

If I have one character left with little life while the enemy team is stretching.

Basically a case of 4* Carol, Medusa, Random tile spamming character with a godlike cascade.

Pants1000

I probably should do it more often, but I almost never retreat.  I only remember doing it once in the last couple months when I got into a healing battle with a Carol/Medusa/Cage team, and the board was full of huge protect tiles.

SkadenFrudee

Whenever I'm fighting goons and forget to bring Strang3. 

Borstock

I rarely do, but it mostly happens when I'm either one turn away from certain death or after the AI has started a match with a ridiculous cascade that I know will lead to multiple stuns. For example, a first turn for an AI with Iceman that gets them 15 blue or something. I'm a ghost. 

IlDuderino

Thanos green about to fire usually

LavaManLee

Early insane cascades by the enemy.  Especially if dealing with those stupid Ultron Sentries who get to move AND destroy tiles and then immediately are able to do Core Overload.

Sm0keyJ0e

I retreat all the time. Multiple times per PVP event. Sometimes your score just gets too high, you know?

Jarvind

Almost never, which is probably dumb on my part. I've recently started retreating if I get a string of forced matches on colors I can't use while the enemy is racking up tons of AP, but for most of my MPQ "career" I've only retreated when defeat was basically guaranteed i.e. 2 characters down with a fat nuke coming next turn.

twistmonkey

1) selected an incorrect team when PVE racing. Assuming I have the healthpacks, I'll retreat and re-start with the faster/ optimal PVE team

2) if a fat unavoidable AOE is incoming, often retreating will save you health versus fighting on

animaniactoo

It's a numbers game. For me, there are only 2 reasons to retreat:

1) I am about to take a whole bunch of damage, but if I retreat the damage will be minimal enough that I don't have to use healthpacks.
2) I'm dead, limping along on one character, facing a team with way more health than I have, I have no hope of being able to end them before I'm done, and it will take more than 2 moves to finish me off. At that point, all I'm saving is time to be able to move on to the next match/re-run.

Dormammu

Back in the day when retreating helped reduce your MMR (see: tanking) I retreated 20 times a day, on average.

Now? Never retreat. Never back down. I'll fight until all three of my characters have gasped their last. Seeing the loss screen where the game suggests that I level my characters more or try recruiting some more characters is utterly humiliating and insulting.

Wonko33

Never retreat if you have a Whale TU ...

Calnexin

I'll retreat if
- It's obvious I'm going to lose - usually a choice made after I've lost my first character.  If there's a 5* with a lot of health still standing on the other team, it's time to cut bait and move on.
- I'm hopping and an unfortunate cascade has made the match take long enough that I'm risking hits from other players.  Better to eat the loss and come back later with a fresh queue than risk 100 points worth of defeat.
- I forget to switch out my DDQ teams and wind up having 1*s on the 2* nodes.

broll

I very rarely retreat.  Usually if I do it's because I've gone into a fight with 2 support characters and a primary damage dealer and the damage dealer dies first.

Spidurman27

I'll retreat if I don't think I can win and my health is still viable (won't need a pack) on one or more chars.  I'm doing it more in 5-land where I'm unbalanced and relying so heavily on one character.  Once they go, it's much harder to win.  So if they die and my other two are healthy, I may cycle out and try a diff match, expending one health pack instead of three.

shardwick

If the enemy team is getting everything in their favor like a huge cascade on almost every move and repeatedly firing off powers then I'm out. Or if I forget to bring the best team for a pve node then I'll retreat. What sucks is when you stay too long in a fight hoping you can turn it back in your favor to pull out the victory only to see the enemy get a lucky cascade and you're like "Well, I'm dead. Retreat retreat retreat!!!!" but the game says "Haha. Nope."

Been playing this game for a year now and still waiting for the enemy to retreat.

Blindman13

shardwick said:

Been playing this game for a year now and still waiting for the enemy to retreat.

Interesting concept.  It would be nice when I show up with a team of 5*s against level 35 goons they just throw their hands up and say, "We all know how this is going to end. Here's your 250 ISO."  Then you can move on to the next one.
If your lowest level team member is 200+ levels about their highest, it should be an auto win, but you take a small amount of damage.

drayviper32

When my dinner is ready.

shardwick

I would do certain conditions like the enemy team is under 25% health and so many turns have been played in the match. It could also be limited to a certain amount of retreats per day by the enemy team.