ZeroKarma said: But I actually saw a few Phoenix teams in the wild!!! It’s been a very long time. Remember when she and OML were everywhere?
aesthetocyst said: JHawkInc said: ... didn't have to sift through Gambit teams to see them. That's precisely the point. This event was not a choice between 1) having to skip dozens of times to find something other than a 5bit team, and then skip more, more, more to find a team sans 5bit worth points, or 2) just grinding out the event by paying the same match vs. 5bit, over and over and over.
JHawkInc said: ... didn't have to sift through Gambit teams to see them.
OJSP said: JHawkInc said: I wasn't being dismissive of someone else's experience, I was defending mine. Well, your first statement that I quoted sounded dismissive. Zerokarma was trying to explain it without mentioning the levels of your characters. I don’t think he was trying to say you were ignorant about it. Anyway, I’ve said what I wanted to say, which was about the levels of the characters and MMR.If anyone was playing in s2 last event, they would find me using Banner when climbing between 800-900.
JHawkInc said: I wasn't being dismissive of someone else's experience, I was defending mine.
Uthgarprime said: Lol all I saw was DD and Thor, they need to be nerfed now cause they are OP woithout a Gambit counter. See how this works. When Gambit gets nerfed everyone will complain about someone else.
Chrono_Tata said: Yeah, 80% of the teams I fought were Thor. He's nowhere near as annoying to fight as Gambit though.I was also using Thor so I can't complain.
Tony Foot said: Thor fest for me, as someone without a Thor and without gambit to consistently take him down with a full red I struggled and burnt through health packs. I hit 575 and quit.
rixmith said: I started with Thor/Grocket then went Thor/DD the rest of the way. Loved not needing to use health packs after every fight. Loved using someone other than Gambit without becoming a punching bag for everyone else. Once I got past about 600 points I mostly saw other Thor/DD teams, which gave a good indicator of where the meta would go if Gambit gets nerfed too hard someday.
Doc L said: I thoroughly enjoyed the event, as a non-5* Gambit user (mine is only 11/13, sad). I used 5* Daredevil (462) and 5* Thor (450) (yeah, I'm one of those people). Whilst the variety of team may not have changed (i.e. the sheer number of Thor/Daredevil teams in general replaced the Gambit equivalents), the fact that I can beat another Thor/Daredevil team without breaking my health packs every match made it more fun.
Doc L said: I thoroughly enjoyed the event, as a non-5* Gambit user (mine is only 11/13, sad). I used 5* Daredevil (462) and 5* Thor (450) (yeah, I'm one of those people). Whilst the variety of team may not have changed (i.e. the sheer number of Thor/Daredevil teams in general replaced the Gambit equivalents), the fact that I can beat another Thor/Daredevil team without breaking my health packs every match made it more fun. I did use Thanos, Spiderman (Peter Parker) and America Chavez as well in that mix, upto 1200. The thing about this meta is it would be beatable, even if you don't have the best thing going. With Panthos, for example, I was running Hawkeye/Thanos (again, my 4-1-5 Panther is not quite useable), and although taking hits, I was able to score well, and never felt completely hindered by my lack of a champion level Panther. To me, that's the takeaway from this event. Not necessarily that variation increased, but more that variation wasn't a handicap, like it is when 5* Gambit is in play (my experience only).
mohio said: The problem with the 5* "meta" though, is that because of the scarcity in supply, it's often determined more by who players have available than who is actually the best duo/trio. Sure there are handfuls of players that have all or most all of the 5* champed and available for use. But many people have hoarded and pulled and skipped some characters while focusing on getting others fatter. Alternatively, I think there has been a significant increase in the 5* player pool around the time that Gambit has been in latest tokens, and those players are likely to be limited to some subset of PP, DD, Gambit, and Thor. Whether Thor/DD is actually the next best team is beside the point if those are the only 5s people have to chose from. If somehow Widow or Super Steve become part of the best duo you're not likely to just see them everywhere the way you see Gambit now, cause far fewer people have them covered in the first place. Not to belabor the point too much, but we saw this with OML/Phx for the first entire year+ of the 5* game. Even when there were better duos out there, they were in much shorter supply so 5* players continued to use trusty old OML/PHX despite not being "the best" team available.
Daredevil217 said: Doc L said: I thoroughly enjoyed the event, as a non-5* Gambit user (mine is only 11/13, sad). I used 5* Daredevil (462) and 5* Thor (450) (yeah, I'm one of those people). Whilst the variety of team may not have changed (i.e. the sheer number of Thor/Daredevil teams in general replaced the Gambit equivalents), the fact that I can beat another Thor/Daredevil team without breaking my health packs every match made it more fun. I did use Thanos, Spiderman (Peter Parker) and America Chavez as well in that mix, upto 1200. The thing about this meta is it would be beatable, even if you don't have the best thing going. With Panthos, for example, I was running Hawkeye/Thanos (again, my 4-1-5 Panther is not quite useable), and although taking hits, I was able to score well, and never felt completely hindered by my lack of a champion level Panther. To me, that's the takeaway from this event. Not necessarily that variation increased, but more that variation wasn't a handicap, like it is when 5* Gambit is in play (my experience only). Doc... [Chris Jericho] you just made the list!! [/Chris Jericho]... of people who saw the meta shift from Gambit to Thor.I absolutely agree that it's easier to deal with but disagree with the the fact that more variety would come with a Gambit nerf which is the point I was making in the other thread. People will still use their two best which has been the case sense the dawn of MPQ lol.Grocket is the equivalent in 4* land. You can beat him... but it'll cost you some packs. Good thing we have 4* boosts!
I played CoulHawk initially, then switched to DD/Thor to minimize retaliations. It was definitely more fun than I usually have in PVP. I wish I had thought of IF/DD - that sounds like fun, I'll have to try it in PVE.
Let's not have the Gambit debate on this thread - revive the old one for that, but I'm with everyone else that says that he breaks the game.