That CL10 challenge node is...
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I've done the same too... had that bad purple tile luck. It's honestly annoying, and probably the only way the computer wins this match up if you're playing it right.
And I agree again on the fact that we have little viable options to beat these teams. You can play around only so much with off-the-radar characters before it just becomes glaringly obvious that Kitty/Hawkeye/BRB/Okoye/Thor... you get the idea... are NECESSARY.
THIS is the part of the game I DON'T like. Was never so prevalent in the earlier PQ tiles. Sure, the meta changes here and there, but I think a "CHALLENGE NODE" would be something different. Like, if they aren't gonna rebalance the characters so that more choices are viable, then how about making these 'bosses' like K-silly, or Ultron? Something with a little flair and plays a little different... Instead of using the equivalent of FPS bullet-sponges.6 -
Enter weekly 5* boosted characters...2
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Is there an industrious soul out there that has compiled all of the Challenge Nodes from all of the events run so far?Someone who perhaps needs an activity to occupy some time?1
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Challenge Node: Arctic Circle
Goblin/Area/Grenadier
Not much to talk about here. Goblin's black is powerful, we know. Grenadier's green is strong, and gets protected by Goblin... but that's the only CD that's common here... Ares' yellow and Goblin's purples dont come out that often.
So, because of the boosted list, my personal choice for four clears was easy.
Kitty/Valkyrie/BRB (boosted)
Valkyrie's bounty hunter gives green AP, so Skuttlebutt flew out there VERY often. The starting protect tiles with Kitty made this pretty safe too. And Kitty uses Grenadier's CD to punish the others very often. Easy four clear. The only thing that hit me often was Ares' green, and even then, I didn't care much.
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Challenge Node: Arctic CircleGoblin/Ares/Grenadier
Boosted BRB meant I took 50Thor and America Chavez along with him and went to town on them. Goblin first.1 -
We have seen all challenge nodes from all current events except für Sub 2 (Twisted Reality) of Infinite Pursuit which was not yet run as 4-day event. So lets do some statistics!
Team Compositions (in order of occurrences):- 8 teams were 3x 5-star
- 7 teams were 5-star, 2x goons
- 4 teams were 5-star, 3-star, goon
- all other compositions were seen ony two or one times
We have seen 132 characters in challenge nodes with 73 different characters:<div>------------------------------+-------------------------- Tier | number ------------------------------+-------------------------- 1-star characters | 6 ------------------------------+-------------------------- Iron Man (1*) | 1 Juggernaut (1*) | 1 Venom (1*) | 4 ------------------------------+-------------------------- 2-star characters | 4 ------------------------------+-------------------------- Ares (2*) | 1 Bullseye (2*) | 1 Daken (2*) | 1 Moonstone (2*) | 1 ------------------------------+-------------------------- 3-star characters | 20 ------------------------------+-------------------------- Bullseye (3*) | 1 Daken (3*) | 4 Doctor Doom (3*) | 1 Gorgon (3*) | 2 Iron Man (3*) | 1 Magneto (3*) | 1 Mystique (3*) | 1 Sentry (3*) | 2 The Hood (3*) | 6 Thor (3*) | 1 ------------------------------+-------------------------- 4-star characters | 14 ------------------------------+-------------------------- America Chavez (4*) | 1 Captain America (4*) | 1 Carnage (4*) | 2 Gamora (4*) | 1 Human Torch (4*) | 1 Juggernaut (4*) | 1 Kingpin (4*) | 2 Medusa (4*) | 1 Peggy Carter (4*) | 1 </div><div> Rocket and Groot (4*) | 1 Venom (Eddie Brock) | 1 War Machine (4*) | 1 ------------------------------+-------------------------- 5-star characters | 49 ------------------------------+-------------------------- Beta Ray Bill (5*) | 3 Black Bolt (5*) | 1 Black Widow (5*) | 1 Captain America (5*) | 1 Captain Marvel (5*) | 1 Carnage (5*) | 5 Doctor Doom (5*) | 3 Doctor Octopus (5*) | 2 Doctor Strange (5*) | 2 Green Goblin (5*) | 6 Havok (5*) | 1 Hawkeye (5*) | 2 Hela (5*) | 2 Iceman (5*) | 1 Iron Man (5*) | 1 Jessica Jones (5*) | 1 Kingpin (5*) | 5 Kitty Pryde (5*) | 2 Mister Sinister (5*) | 1 Okoye (5*) | 1 Professor X (5*) | 2 Rescue (5*) | 1 Spider-Man (Back in Black) | 1 Thor (5*) | 1 Wolverine (5*) | 2 ------------------------------+-------------------------- goons | 39 ------------------------------+-------------------------- Assassin | 1 Brawler | 4 Brute | 2 Carrier | 4 Coordinator | 1 Demolisher | 2 Devastator | 1 Don | 2 Grenadier | 2 Hitman | 1 Horror | 1 Lieutenant | 4 Mutation | 1 Savage | 2 Shinobi | 1 Spy | 1 Subject | 1 Teisatsu | 2 Thug | 6 ------------------------------+--------------------------</div>
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as one might expect, the 5* distribution favors villains. But no thanos or loki at all? that seems odd.
Also, 4s seems very underrepresented, especially given that (unless something has changed about post-400 scaling) their power damage and healthpools are actually quite a higher than comparable 5s.
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Actually some nodes featuring the 5* needed are way hard than challenges. It uses to include 4*. And if the player dont have the 5* champed are really difficult.
Here, like always, the strategy depends on the roster level of each player.
It would be nice to play on challenge nodes more often versus 4* synergied instead of super powerfull 5*.1 -
@Bad said:
Actually some nodes featuring the 5* needed are way hard than challenges. It uses to include 4*. And if the player dont have the 5* champed are really difficult.
Here, like always, the strategy depends on the roster level of each player.
It would be nice to play on challenge nodes more often versus 4* synergied instead of super powerfull 5*.I think the 5* essential nodes are unchanged from pre-cl10 (challenge nodes replaced the old 2* essential nodes which are not present in cl 10). But dealing with them at level 600 is quite different from cl9 where they top out at 515.
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Challenge Node: Mediterranean
Kingp4n/Sentry/Dak2n
Not hard at all, given the boost list and no 5* match damage to go against.
For 4 clears, i used the same team and strategy from yesterday...
Kitty/Valk/BRB (boosted)
(For those who wanna know the stats...
Kitty is 450, Valk is 280, BRB is 4/2/3)And still, Skuttlebutts for everyone!
Good luck to you!
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Sure things can change...
Kingping/ sentry/ daken
I chose carnage5 and karnak champed both... and BRB lev 460 boosted
They barely can damage my team and they are dead before they can fire any power on all 6 tries.
Thanks to karnak 3 critical tiles too0 -
Thank you all for these strategies!!
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With Karnak powered up, Gritty and Karnak have been making short work of the challenge nodes. Karnak has to be my favorite new(ish) character.
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@Tony_Foot said:
@Bad said:
Sure things can change...
Kingping/ sentry/ daken
I chose carnage5 and karnak champed both... and BRB lev 460 boosted
They barely can damage my team and they are dead before they can fire any power on all 6 tries.
Thanks to karnak 3 critical tiles tooI regret trying this team for clear 5. Wiped. How can you not take damage and why bother running Karnak as you want the blue for BRB more.
Valk kitty BRB I took about 2k damage and no risk.
Like I said BRB is level 460. So, with some luck, 3 critical balls can make about 75k damage and provide a lot of AP.
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@Bad said:
@Tony_Foot said:
@Bad said:
Sure things can change...
Kingping/ sentry/ daken
I chose carnage5 and karnak champed both... and BRB lev 460 boosted
They barely can damage my team and they are dead before they can fire any power on all 6 tries.
Thanks to karnak 3 critical tiles tooI regret trying this team for clear 5. Wiped. How can you not take damage and why bother running Karnak as you want the blue for BRB more.
Valk kitty BRB I took about 2k damage and no risk.
Like I said BRB is level 460. So, with some luck, 3 critical balls can make about 75k damage and provide a lot of AP.
My champed BRB and Karnak were doing absolutely INSANE dmg on crits. 200-300k if placed in the right spots.
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Challenge Node: The Americas
Lieutenant/Lieutenant/Spy
...i hope you dont need help here. Its all about controlling CDs, and maybe a touch of luck? Eh, probably not.
For all 4 clears (only needed 3 for full progression, but it was fun), i used...
Prof5*/Karnak (boosted)/Chavez
All 3 are champed, prof at 450, karnak is 273, chavez is 280.Karnak's red and blue are awesome, but his black at 5 makes him stronger than prof 5*! Mix with his blue for stupid strong crit damage!
I hold back from using powers until after the 4th turn, because i like to see karnak go nuts after using his blue, then prof purple(purple) to shake the crits down some more.
And his red is perfect to force things into place, in case they actually thought theyd get a CD off.
Took no damage all clears. Easy peasy.
Good luck... Although you probably dont need it.
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For the Lieutenant/Lieutenant/Spy, I used Kitty (LVL 451) and Grocket (LVL 316) and 5trange (LVL 457) for the first couple of clears, but the countdown tiles were still showing up way too frequently for Circuit Breaker to take them all down.
So I replaced 5trange with Peggy Carter (LVL 311) with her yellow set to 5. That really slowed the countdown tiles down, and let Kitty pick them off one by one. The matches took a bit longer, but I think there was only one turn there was more than one countdown tile on the board. NO chance of taking a stray Pistol to the face.
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I just took out the LVL 650 4-star Venom, Moonstone and 2-star Bullseye with Boosted Silver Surfer (LVL 562 when boosted), Kitty Pryde (LVL 452) and...TWO STAR BLACK WIDOW! Her purple prevented Venom from firing off more than one of his abilities, and Surfer had plenty of blue to heal up after eating a 70K damage Symbiotic Fury. Kitty also prevented Bullseye's protect tiles from getting too out of control, as well as Moonstone's Control Shifted protect tiles. Sure, the match took 25 minutes...but it's a win in the Challenge Node with a 2-star on my team!
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@sambrookjm said:
I just took out the LVL 650 4-star Venom, Moonstone and 2-star Bullseye with Boosted Silver Surfer (LVL 562 when boosted), Kitty Pryde (LVL 452) and...TWO STAR BLACK WIDOW! Her purple prevented Venom from firing off more than one of his abilities, and Surfer had plenty of blue to heal up after eating a 70K damage Symbiotic Fury. Kitty also prevented Bullseye's protect tiles from getting too out of control, as well as Moonstone's Control Shifted protect tiles. Sure, the match took 25 minutes...but it's a win in the Challenge Node with a 2-star on my team!25 minutes... Auch... I mean it would be an epic match... If you didn't have do play 7 games per node...
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Challenge Node: Florida (and Alaska as well)
I'm just making this quick... I've been pretty busy lately, but still got my progression in...
Kitty/Valk/Fury was my answer for 4 clears for both subs of this event so far.
Good luck to you!
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