Hardest 5* Essential Node

The rockett

With some of the current talk about which 5* E node is the hardest, it got me wondering which one really is the hardest.  Now I do understand that the required 5* is very important in this topic, because having 1/2 covers changes this drastically, but even without that some of these nodes are just ugly. 
With looking at this, I am only looking at tile movers (non goons). Reason is the forums only lets me do 10 questions for a poll. So I am only looking at 3 characters that move tiles even though I know some of the non tile movers can be hard if they get going.
This will only be for the PVE events they have ran with this.  Here is the list of PVEs we have has so far.
Venom Bomb
Unstable ISO-8
Heart of Darkness
Webbed Wonder
Honor Among Thieves
Simulator
Deadpool vs MPQ
The Hunt
Thick as Thieves
Meet Rockett & Groot
Enemy of the State 
Strange Sights
 

The rockett

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

To me, Heart of Darkness with BB Medusa and Lockjaw just sucks.  Wiped too many times on that node. 

Daiches

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

Easy choice 

Bowgentle

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

Bolt Medusa Lockjaw.

Although Mockingbird Fist Cage is also off the charts.

alphabeta

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

Would be surprised if the poll isn’t 100% the B.B. Medusa Lockjaw node 

Sub 1 DP vs MPQ is tough but there are all active powers - venom bomb is passive death before you even fire a power 

robertbah

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

BB, Medusa, lockjaw. This node is the one I would retreat after first couple turns especially when your strongest color has some charged tiles... 

atomzed

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

The inhumans royalty is the toughest. their synergy is really very good. 

sambrookjm

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

There's only one node I've had to DROP ALL THE WHALES each and every time I've faced it - Medusa, BB and Lockjaw.  Makes me want to get all of these characters up to a decent level so I can try it myself in Sim.

Keirain1982

Deadpool vs MPQ Sub 2- 5* Thanos, 4* Vulture, 3* Daken

I don't know how, but I cleared the inhuman nod first time! Didn't do it again though, so really can't say if it was a fluke!
The Thanos-Vulture-Daken node, however, has crippled me. No matter what I do, I think I've only managed to complete that once.

alaeth

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

I can't remember which 5* was featured for those (and which of those I have Championed), so I went with the worst one based on power synergy and overall "sneakiness"

PenniesForEveryone

Simulator Sub 1- 4* Rogue, 4* Wolverine, 3* Colossus

Bowgentle said:

Bolt Medusa Lockjaw.

Although Mockingbird Fist Cage is also off the charts.

In terms of toughest to beat these two hands down.  But I voted for the Rogue one because it took FOREVER and caused me to screw up the timing of my final grind and really killed my placement.

ZeiramMR

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

Voting like most everyone else.

I know the goon nodes are usually easier, but I will say the Mindless One nodes from HAT were pretty tough on me without Gambattery/Jean.

SnowcaTT

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

Easy vote, where is the inhumans option? Click, check.

The DP vs MPQ are also difficult, but nothing rivals the Heart of Darkness one, it really needs  a fix.

GrimSkald

Deadpool vs MPQ Sub 1- 4* Iron Fist, 4* Luke Cage, 4* Mockingbird

It was a bit of a toss up for me between this one and the one that most people voted for - the reason I went with this one is that I default to CoulHawk to clear the 5* nodes, particularly if my 5* is low.  Luke makes CoulHawk so, so very much more difficult.

BearVenger

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

I just chose based on emotional memory, but it was gratifying to see everyone else picking the Royals as well.

Jarvind

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

Definitely Bolt/Medusa/Lockjaw. 

It's wild how a champed Gambit makes everything trivial, though. Now the 5* nodes are just as easy as everything else, they just take a bit longer.

Vhailorx

The hardest over-scaled nodes are always the ones with passive damage and good-but-squishy support characrers with way more health than they should have.

Hood, strange, bb, 3fist, vulture, and medusa arw the type of characters that become extea challenging when they start tanking as well as doing all their other good stuff.  

Add in some good characrer synergy (like the inhuman royals, or that old gauntlet node of 3fist + switch + 3cage) and it's pretty easy to predict which nodes/characters give us the most trouble at 500+.

Inhuman royals or gambit + rogue + jg are about as nasty a combo as exists in the game now.  Strong, unavoidable passive damage, defensive passives that make the player less efficient, and self-accel to drop an active power hammer if the player takes to long.

BigBZ32

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

I believe I used 4-5 whales in that 5e for HoD sub 3.

aa25

May I nominate, Thick as Thives: Scotland yard - Jugg+Muscle+Moonstone.

Milk Jugz

Heart of Darkness Sub 3- 4* Medusa, 5* Black Bolt, 4* Lockjaw

Definitely this one from HoD, but a very close 2nd place goes to Sim sub 1- IF4, LC4, MB.

I didn't have the essential 5 champed for the last run of either, but I still managed to eek out 5 clears in Sim, HoD..... 3, maybe.....

LifeofAgony

Simulator Sub 1- 4* Rogue, 4* Wolverine, 3* Colossus

Part of this is tough to answer because it really depends on the 5* ess we’re getting to use.  On their own, Rogue drives me crazy.  Especially at Lvl 515.