When do you "retreat"?

Zyrook

Depends on who I'm facing. In most situations I won't retreat unless I know for a fact I'm going to lose next round anyway (IE AI has the AP to fire off a power that tells me FU). I'll also retreat if my team no longer has a win con (IE I'm running Carol/Medusa/Wasp and Wasp is the last one standing) or if my opponents are running a team that hits critical mass and I'm in a death spiral (Enemy team with Blade hit a big red cascade and I don't have a way of shutting him down).

Hyposphere6234

It's rare that I quit a match but when I do it's down to the RNG being completely in the AI favour for the first few turns. I would explain but people who play this game regularly already have experienced RNG giving you a sole match three move which then gives the AI a full two-minute turn of cascades and criticals which gives them every colour needed to wreck your team.

Usually, when I go back in with the same team I have RNG in my favour and the AI has no opportunity to retreat!!!!! I meant... I usually have better luck when I retry.

Punisher5784

You don't. You take the loss like a man! 


Then turn off the game and cry in the corner

PuceMoose

I'll admit that it's pretty rare that I'll retreat - the possibility of a last minute upset is always appealing to me, even when the deck is stacked against me. I think the only times I've done it have been when I've been faced with an enemy with un-matchable massive protect tiles (Thing/Falcon/? teams) due to bad luck or sub-optimal play on my point. When you finally get enough AP to launch an AOE nuke, and it does one damage to each enemy - it's time to retreat, unless you have one heck of an ace up your sleeve. (I have certainly wished for a Loki team-up more than once.) 

jredd

if defeat is inevitable and i'm climbing in pvp.

KGB

For me it's very simple.

Whenever the AI is about to fire any power that does more damage than I will lose by retreating. I think you lose 10% health for a retreat so depending on which character(s) are about to be hit and for how much and what my 10% health cost is I make my decision.

One caveat here. Since I use Medusa/4Grocket a lot and enter battles with damage already on my characters I can get burst heals from my own strike/attack tiles so when I mean damage I mean damage that exceeds the burst heal and cuts into real health. On turn 1 for example I can pick up 1000+ burst health with 1 strike tile so that buys me several turns of match damage that does nothing to my characters.

It might seem like I retreat a lot but these days with some of the passives on the 4* you can rip through matches in less than 10 turns so that the AI hardly ever fires any damaging powers much less ones that will do more than 10% of my health

KGB

byc

When I lost my primary character.  Sometimes it's by luck, most of the time it's me trying to stretch their HP a bit more.

If the opponent is close to a situation where my entire team is about to massive damage within 2-3 turns.  I eat the loss and lose some HP, as opposed to losing a lot more when the animation or the round starts.

qandols

After being hit by a lousy board for the twelvth time in a row I retreated, closed MPQ, turned off the PC and went out to smell the autumn roses

PFellah

I feel like a schmuck, I didn't know you could. Never noticed the button.

Richyyy

I very rarely retreat - only if defeat is virtually guaranteed but the characters might retain some health if I back out. Then I played a PvP with the wins-based rewards. Had to retreat from a whole series of fights to drop my score low enough so that I could bring up some more beatable opponents. Seemed like a pretty stupid side-effect of the new system.

smkspy

Usually only if I lose my strongest team member or IM40 if I'm depending on his battery.

huktonfonix

When I'm mid-match and someone in my battlechat calls out someone I really want to hit.

GigerHR

When I'm doing my final grind PVE clears and I realize I accidentally brought 3* Thanos instead of 5* Thanos to the first hard node - retreating and restarting with the correct team is almost always faster than slogging it out with mini-Thanos. 

Sabaton74

Sm0keyJ0e said:

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

Call that:
Retreat to victory 

At least till the 4* in my roster (1) can compete w the 5* champs in their roster (vets)...

Xair

in chess the strongest piece is the one that can move in all directions. 
retreat is just a move in another direction.
so i retreat when it is the correct move.

Hendross

I retreat until Thor is just below 50%, than I can resume my climb/hop.

MegaBee

I retreat when it's clear that Sabertooth can't match enough of Grocket's strike tiles before Kitty boosts them enough to wreck Okoye's face.

pheregas

I thought the only purpose of retreating was to damage Thor.

DAZ0273

I don't think GladiaThor actually existed when this thread was made...

ammenell

I'm retreating the moment I'm annoyed at the game.
sometimes im out 30 seconds into the match, sometimes I play 30 matches.
don't care how many points I lose, I won't wait 2 minutes until it's my turn again