tiomono said: Name 2 solid counters for bishop.
Daredevil217 said: tiomono said: Name 2 solid counters for bishop. I’ve asked this before. Inevitably you’ll get...1. Silver Surfer2. Unboosted 4* characters leveled low enough to not trigger BishopNow who’s hungry? I head @The rockett is buying Panera.
blankcanvas said: tiomono said: blankcanvas said: tiomono said: blankcanvas said: All If I might be allowed to chime in. I'm a regular voyeur of the forums but felt compelled to sign up so I may add my voice to this particular discussion. I'm day 920 and still thoroughly enjoy the game despite the dilution issue and meeting R&G on an all too regular basis. I play almost exclusively PVE and would like to add that Bishop is incredibly useful in this mode and has gotten me out of more than a few sticky situations in the past; and whilst I totally understand the calls for him to be hit with the nerf bat, I really cannot see how anyone is going to be the happier for it given the track record of nerfs in the past; OML, Gambit, Kingpin, Mr F to name a few. The element of the game is puzzle. The puzzle is to work out how best to counter him. I believe some of the releases in 2019 have been excellent solutions to counter the Gritty meta; Th4nos & Sabretooth immediately spring to mind. I do believe just like those examples, there's solid counters to Bishop also and the puzzle element of the game is finding those. Shout out to @brigby and the dev team for all their hard work. It is appreciated! Name 2 solid counters for bishop. As I said, I do not play PVP a great deal and clearly have not faced him as much as most, but I've thrown Miles & IW Spidey at him and they took care of business.I am looking forwards to using an xfdp & juggernaut combo as I believe that also could work. The problem 5* players have with him is they cannot even make a match 3 vs Bishop without triggering him. Imagine if a 3* character was able to jump in front of an ally any time an enemy 4* made a match 3. That 3* also hits you for more damage than you did to them and gains 5 ap in a color that they can use to stun you for 4 turns or that an ally can use for whatever power they have, just for a 4* player making a match 3. You might also change your tune with juggernaut once you give that a spin and realize his bigger match damage will trigger bishop more often. I do understand your point and the mechanics around how Bishop works. I can't disagree with any of it. I feel that given the level of conversation that he creates, the emphasis really has to fall to the dev team to come up with a viable solution. For me, that would preferably be in new characters rather than a nerf, but I accept I appear to be in the minority. Having just faced off with 4* Juggs in the final node on SIM day 3 (man that was difficult!) , I really feel like he's got the game to challenge Bishop. Also agree with @bluewolf in that there's many options for a 'best' character. My personal top 3 in no particular order would be Vulture, Peggy & IW Spidey (best defensive character imo).
tiomono said: blankcanvas said: tiomono said: blankcanvas said: All If I might be allowed to chime in. I'm a regular voyeur of the forums but felt compelled to sign up so I may add my voice to this particular discussion. I'm day 920 and still thoroughly enjoy the game despite the dilution issue and meeting R&G on an all too regular basis. I play almost exclusively PVE and would like to add that Bishop is incredibly useful in this mode and has gotten me out of more than a few sticky situations in the past; and whilst I totally understand the calls for him to be hit with the nerf bat, I really cannot see how anyone is going to be the happier for it given the track record of nerfs in the past; OML, Gambit, Kingpin, Mr F to name a few. The element of the game is puzzle. The puzzle is to work out how best to counter him. I believe some of the releases in 2019 have been excellent solutions to counter the Gritty meta; Th4nos & Sabretooth immediately spring to mind. I do believe just like those examples, there's solid counters to Bishop also and the puzzle element of the game is finding those. Shout out to @brigby and the dev team for all their hard work. It is appreciated! Name 2 solid counters for bishop. As I said, I do not play PVP a great deal and clearly have not faced him as much as most, but I've thrown Miles & IW Spidey at him and they took care of business.I am looking forwards to using an xfdp & juggernaut combo as I believe that also could work. The problem 5* players have with him is they cannot even make a match 3 vs Bishop without triggering him. Imagine if a 3* character was able to jump in front of an ally any time an enemy 4* made a match 3. That 3* also hits you for more damage than you did to them and gains 5 ap in a color that they can use to stun you for 4 turns or that an ally can use for whatever power they have, just for a 4* player making a match 3. You might also change your tune with juggernaut once you give that a spin and realize his bigger match damage will trigger bishop more often.
blankcanvas said: tiomono said: blankcanvas said: All If I might be allowed to chime in. I'm a regular voyeur of the forums but felt compelled to sign up so I may add my voice to this particular discussion. I'm day 920 and still thoroughly enjoy the game despite the dilution issue and meeting R&G on an all too regular basis. I play almost exclusively PVE and would like to add that Bishop is incredibly useful in this mode and has gotten me out of more than a few sticky situations in the past; and whilst I totally understand the calls for him to be hit with the nerf bat, I really cannot see how anyone is going to be the happier for it given the track record of nerfs in the past; OML, Gambit, Kingpin, Mr F to name a few. The element of the game is puzzle. The puzzle is to work out how best to counter him. I believe some of the releases in 2019 have been excellent solutions to counter the Gritty meta; Th4nos & Sabretooth immediately spring to mind. I do believe just like those examples, there's solid counters to Bishop also and the puzzle element of the game is finding those. Shout out to @brigby and the dev team for all their hard work. It is appreciated! Name 2 solid counters for bishop. As I said, I do not play PVP a great deal and clearly have not faced him as much as most, but I've thrown Miles & IW Spidey at him and they took care of business.I am looking forwards to using an xfdp & juggernaut combo as I believe that also could work.
tiomono said: blankcanvas said: All If I might be allowed to chime in. I'm a regular voyeur of the forums but felt compelled to sign up so I may add my voice to this particular discussion. I'm day 920 and still thoroughly enjoy the game despite the dilution issue and meeting R&G on an all too regular basis. I play almost exclusively PVE and would like to add that Bishop is incredibly useful in this mode and has gotten me out of more than a few sticky situations in the past; and whilst I totally understand the calls for him to be hit with the nerf bat, I really cannot see how anyone is going to be the happier for it given the track record of nerfs in the past; OML, Gambit, Kingpin, Mr F to name a few. The element of the game is puzzle. The puzzle is to work out how best to counter him. I believe some of the releases in 2019 have been excellent solutions to counter the Gritty meta; Th4nos & Sabretooth immediately spring to mind. I do believe just like those examples, there's solid counters to Bishop also and the puzzle element of the game is finding those. Shout out to @brigby and the dev team for all their hard work. It is appreciated! Name 2 solid counters for bishop.
blankcanvas said: All If I might be allowed to chime in. I'm a regular voyeur of the forums but felt compelled to sign up so I may add my voice to this particular discussion. I'm day 920 and still thoroughly enjoy the game despite the dilution issue and meeting R&G on an all too regular basis. I play almost exclusively PVE and would like to add that Bishop is incredibly useful in this mode and has gotten me out of more than a few sticky situations in the past; and whilst I totally understand the calls for him to be hit with the nerf bat, I really cannot see how anyone is going to be the happier for it given the track record of nerfs in the past; OML, Gambit, Kingpin, Mr F to name a few. The element of the game is puzzle. The puzzle is to work out how best to counter him. I believe some of the releases in 2019 have been excellent solutions to counter the Gritty meta; Th4nos & Sabretooth immediately spring to mind. I do believe just like those examples, there's solid counters to Bishop also and the puzzle element of the game is finding those. Shout out to @brigby and the dev team for all their hard work. It is appreciated!
Tony_Foot said: I would like a five star with a passive that makes the team immune to stun while alive.
Tony_Foot said: Daredevil217 said: tiomono said: Name 2 solid counters for bishop. I’ve asked this before. Inevitably you’ll get...1. Silver Surfer2. Unboosted 4* characters leveled low enough to not trigger BishopNow who’s hungry? I head @The rockett is buying Panera. And not one of them will post a video of them running unboosted four stars against kitty grocket and bishop. Or any of the other ideas they dream up. They keep saying it allows them to punch up, show us. Show us your punching up play and how you take down bishop.
HoundofShadow said: Invisible makes your team immune to stun, except for random stun, which is available to only female characters, with the exception of Taskmaster.What minimum levels must Gritty and Bishop be to prove the point?
BigSoftieFF said: HoundofShadow said: Invisible makes your team immune to stun, except for random stun, which is available to only female characters, with the exception of Taskmaster.What minimum levels must Gritty and Bishop be to prove the point? If you’d like to prove a point go into a match against Bishop with any three champed 5*’s you choose, play normally, don’t get stunned in a minimum of two turns.The point has never been about winning. Never. Ever. Never.
I was wondering what minimum levels they have to be to satisfy his critieria. I suppose a champed Kitty, 370 R4G and 3XX Bishop? Or is it open to other levels.
Edit: I just saw the above replies. So, it's about not getting stunned in turn 2, and not about being able to win a match against Bishop.
I will throw in Silver Surfer or Dr Ock. However, the counter-arguments would be:
1) they are impossible to cover
2) they are not viable
A few conditions, based on replies here, attached to being a counter to Bishop should be able to:
1) not trigger his passives
2) not trigger his stun on turn 2
3) the team used to counter him should not leave a target on your back on defense
4) possibly not using healthpack(s)
The fact is: counter(s) to Bishop exists. But when you include so many conditions, the counter(s) cease to exist.
Is there any difference between saying BBSM (before Thanos/Sabretooth) is a counter to R4G and Silver Surfer is a counter to Bishop? I find them to have some core similarities.
Daredevil217 said: If Surfer made it so his entire team couldn’t get stunned while alive, the same way Spidey makes it so his whole team can’t take strike damage while alive, I’d agree.Spidey would be another stratosphere worse, if you had to make sure he tanked everything in order to shrug off strikes. Especially since Spidey and Surfer are cursed with super low match damage compared to their newer peers.