Moonstone Gravity Warp

YegGuy

I'm sorry if this topic is out there but I've searched for a couple days on the forums & the Wiki site...For the life of me, I just don't understand how Moonstone's Purple Gravity Warp works. I have her Championed @ level 112 & set to 3/5/5 so she swaps a random enemy purple, black, red or yellow tile with a chosen basic tile. If no special tiles are available she deals 1099 damage instead. 
Am I just over-thinking this power? It seems simple enough but I avoid her at all costs since I've never yet seen any outcome when I've tried. Basically, you have to select a tile & ANY qualifying enemy special tiles could switch places with it. How do you know what tile to choose? If the enemy team doesn't/won't have special tiles, I get it, she just destroys the chosen tile & then does the specified damage...but that seems to be totally missing the point.
So please humour me...give me an example or 2 or how, when & why & what other characters compliments her.
Thanks all.

TPF Alexis

It's not a well-designed power, honestly. It works best against Opponents who only create tiles in one colour. Try it in a node where Daken is the only opposing tile creator, for instance. Then you can pretty reliably pop one of his Strikes into a spot where it'll get matched away.

jamesh

There's two main ways to use the power:

• leave the power at three covers so it only affects purple, black, red, and yellow special tiles, increasing the number of situations where it will cause damage rather than swap a tile.
• use it against enemies that primarily create specials on a single colour(e.g. Magia creating yellow specials): that way you can use it to create a match irrespective of which tile gets picked.

It's not a great power, but it does help introduce new players to conditional effects.

Vold

It works in three ways

when there's no special tiles it damages the target

if there are special tiles and ur power level effects the colour of the tile, u can swap it to the location u pointed

if there's too many the tile selected is random. If it's only one colour it's easy to tell it where to go to make instant matches to get rid of the enemy special tile.

So best way is to use her only when u know there's an enemy that uses the same colour special tile only or act quickly when only one is on the board.

Moonstone's power uses
https://youtu.be/V9R4-0nazuE

Jaedenkaal

jamesh said:

There's two main ways to use the power:

• leave the power at three covers so it only affects purple, black, red, and yellow special tiles, increasing the number of situations where it will cause damage rather than swap a tile.
• use it against enemies that primarily create specials on a single colour(e.g. Magia creating yellow specials): that way you can use it to create a match irrespective of which tile gets picked.

It's not a great power, but it does help introduce new players to conditional effects.

This pretty much sums it up. When I use Moonstone (which is basically only on her required nodes), I run her at 5/5/3 if the enemy team doesn't make A/P/S tiles, or 3/5/5 if they do. You can use Control Shift first to steal up to 3 A/P/S tiles, which might mean you get to actually fire Gravity Warp for damage. (I think it also generates 1 AP in whatever color tile you pick in that case, for when you have 9 Purple but really need 1 more Red or something).

Of course it also swaps CD and Invisibility tiles (and Repeater tiles, presumably) so even this isn't foolproof.

At least, that's what I'd do if I cared. In practice none of her abilities are exciting. Photon Blast is only better damage than Adamantium Slash if there are 13 Red tiles on the board (or more), and we're still only talking a little over 5000 damage here.