**** Maria Hill (S.H.I.E.L.D. Operative) ****

IceIX

Maria Hill (S.H.I.E.L.D. Operative)

4-Star Rarity (Legendary)

Affiliations: Heroes, Team Iron Man, S.H.I.E.L.D.

"A former Marine turned S.H.I.E.L.D. operative, Maria Hill gets the job done, whatever it takes. With reflexes every bit as sharp as her wit, this is one agent you don't want on your case!"

(Abilities listed at level 70, followed by 270)
3297 Health / 12212 Health

 10 |  9 |  33 |  42 |  8 | 37 |  23 |  3.8x

 13 |  12 |  65 |  85 |  11 | 74 |  43 |  3.8x

Life Model Ambush - 8  AP

Using a Life Model Decoy, Maria sets up a devastating ambush for her foes. Creates 2 Purple Trap tiles that deal 759 damage when matched by either team. (Max level 1479 damage)

• Level 2: Creates 3 Trap tiles.
• Level 3: Deals 981 damage. (Max level 1912 damage)
• Level 4: Creates 4 Trap tiles that deal 1055 damage. (Max level 2056 damage)
• Level 5: Deals 1712 damage. (Max level 3337 damage)

Best of Intentions - 6  AP

Maria puts a bold plan into action, ignoring the potential fallout. Creates 3 strength 62 Strike tiles and creates a 3-turn Countdown tile. When this Countdown tile expires, Maria Hill takes damage equal to 90% of her base health. (Max level strength 121 tile)

• Level 2: Creates strength 84 Strike tiles. (Max level strength 164 tile)
• Level 3: Creates 4 Strike tiles and places a 4-turn Countdown tile.
• Level 4: Creates strength 121 Strike tiles. (Max level strength 237 tile)
• Level 5: Creates 5 strength 134 Strike tiles. (Max level strength 262 tile)

Get Out Alive - 7  AP

Maria Hill always has a high-power exit strategy. Maria deals 139 damage to the enemy team and turns invisible for 2 turns. (Max level 271 damage)

• Level 2: Deals 306 damage. (Max level 596 damage)
• Level 3: Deals 334 damage and goes invisible for 3 turns. (Max level 650 damage)
• Level 4: Deals 667 damage. (Max level 1301 damage)
• Level 5: Deals 1195 damage and goes invisible for 4 turns. (Max level 2331 damage)

Release Schedule

Store Offerings

Maria Hill & Friends - March 12 - 20

• 80 Item Vault
• Legendary token
• 3x Beginner Support tokens

• Random Maria Hill (S.H.I.E.L.D. Operative) cover

• 2x random 4-Stars:
• Spider-Man 2099 (Miguel O’Hara)
• Northstar (Classic)
• Talos (Skrull Warlord)

• 21x 3-Stars
• 3x Featured
• 18x Random
• 52x 2-Stars
• 10x Featured
• 42x Random

Release Debut:

Cosmic Chaos - March 12 - 17

• Maria Hill (S.H.I.E.L.D. Operative) In placement rewards

Featured Event:

LOST IN TIME - March 16 - 20

• Maria Hill (S.H.I.E.L.D. Operative) as a progression reward
• Rewards tokens to the Maria Hill & Friends vault

Versus Tournament:

Hill to Spy On - March 15 - 18

• Maria Hill (S.H.I.E.L.D. Operative) as a progression reward
• Rewards tokens to the Maria Hill & Friends vault

Note: Eagle eyed viewers will notice something that's *NOT* there this time. We're going to release Mari Hill *without* a S.H.I.E.L.D. Training event running alongside her release. We're re-evaluating the effectiveness of these S.H.I.E.L.D. Training release events as a result of player feedback about many aspects of it (required characters, matchups, etc.) and want to see how the character launch works without this event running. While hot takes about this aren't a bad thing, we'd like feedback on the overall different feel of this 4-Star character release with the changed release cadence once you've had a chance to experience it.

Warbringa

So what's the purpose of that black power?  It basically kills her? I may be missing something about her but she sure seems very weak, don't really think any of her powers are decent. Maybe her blue is ok if paired with Okoye etc.

I guess you hope to get rid of the countdown in time but for what you get, doesn't seem that great.  In addition, anyone who fortifies your tiles actually is bad to use with her if that is your goal?

I do also see where she could be a good pair with Kitty but I guess imo not better than Grocket who most people already have.

Wish they had done something with her traps that maybe would have really synced with Sinister (I know in comics they have nothing in common etc.) but having her be a really good trap character/booster with the same tanking colors would have made sense.

pfarewell

Re evaluate shield training translates as throwing something that benefits players in the trash along along with support circuit. 

supergarv

Her black sounds funny.

Funny also that SHIELD Training is DOA for a SHIELD Operative.

Sad we see things like Support acquisition, Gwenpools Event and Shield training go away as being „evaluated“ but it never gets addressed.

Anon

Not sure how to build her. Looks good though.

Does her black create strike tiles on different colors? If so, she would be fun with Kitty and Domino.

The rockett

Note: Eagle eyed viewers will notice something that's *NOT* there this time. We're going to release Mari Hill *without* a S.H.I.E.L.D. Training event running alongside her release. We're re-evaluating the effectiveness of these S.H.I.E.L.D. Training release events as a result of player feedback about many aspects of it (required characters, matchups, etc.) and want to see how the character launch works without this event running. While hot takes about this aren't a bad thing, we'd like feedback on the overall different feel of this 4-Star character release with the changed release cadence once you've had a chance to experience it.


Really?  A lot of the feedback was people liked it EXCEPT when you used a new 4* as a required character.  So that means that Shield Training will go the way of  Support circuit, Gwen Prix, Alliance raid events, Gauntlet, Wakanda PVE, Heroics PVE, Sakaar Lighting Rounds, etc etc etc.  Guess they were too generous and had to pull even more back, like the communication.   

Tony_Foot

Good, I can care even less about the four stars now. Don’t even need a 209 anymore. Great news!

ElReyFelix

Bummed about the lack of shield training as I had been leveling up my 4 stars to 209. I thought the shield training was a nice bonus. Sad to see it go

mhorham

It seems they are deliberately misconstruing the criticism of the shield training. To be clear players like to have that opportunity to acquire a cover of the latest 4 star character.  What they criticized was having recently released 4 stars that very few people have had an opportunity to get 10 covers for as a required character.

lvsmr2

Note: I am pulling out of my VIP service when it expires. I will no longer be buying anything from the store as I myself am "RE-EVALUATING" the way the devs are taking away resources from us. 

ThaRoadWarrior

So IceIX said:

[...]we'd like feedback on the overall different feel of this 4-Star character release with the changed release cadence once you've had a chance to experience it.

so the “changed release cadence” is confirmed as well then? 4/5/4/5/4/5?

Thanos

Boring. Another wasted slot.

Kolence

Hope the art is as pretty as usually is, at least. 
Oh well. 

liminal_lad

The fact that she's at best a low to mid tier character is probably going to further skew any information they're hoping to gain about player happiness or attempts at cover acquisition. 

Twomp_thaDJ

Hot take.....

We complain about a specific thing in an event..

d3 solution; just scrap whole thing, no need to fix or even work on that the one problem was to the event.

And I can’t see how taking the SHIELD training out would prove anything about the release. I say this because since SHIELD training was released the main complaint has been about the required character being a new character and they have tested it buy using old characters.. so they have data both ways.. like others said this is a way for us to lose resources.. yet again *shrug*

bowla33

mhorham said:

It seems they are deliberately misconstruing the criticism of the shield training. To be clear players like to have that opportunity to acquire a cover of the latest 4 star character.  What they criticized was having recently released 4 stars that very few people have had an opportunity to get 10 covers for as a required character.

Yeah, why tell the truth? They did that with shards and then were shocked when people realized they were being ****. 

So now they just say nothing or lie and it accomplishes the same thing. 

I've rarely seen such poor customer management in any business. 

Therealsmkspy

I feel the urge to re-evaluate my rating for the app.

Warbringa

So who is going to like losing iso and a few tokens and 1 CP usually to be replaced with nothing?  I mean, yeah the part people didn't like was using the newest 4* to complete it but even being able to play some  of the nodes and still getting iso and a few other rewards is better than nothing! Also at least with the first node you got to try out the new character fully covered, we are losing that too.

marshall

One of the few things that helped build excitement over new character releases. Even if it was repetitive, it helped promote the character, gave us a different cycle at least.

Also, re: Hill, seriously with black power?! Take 10k+ damage for an extra 1k match damage that will be half gone by the time she gets the fallout.

I mean, it's in character, but maybe a bit too useless?

Daredevil217

Here's what I don't understand...

We have specific complaints about an ASPECT of Wakanda, Support Circuit, and SHIELD Training- then they go scorched-earth and remove them completely, never to be heard from again.

Threads upon threads exist complaining about Bishop, and not so much as a tweak.  While you are Spring-cleaning and throwing out all our old things, can't you take him too?

Sarcasm aside, I agree with everyone else that this is yet another resource-nab on the part of the developers.   Replace BH with lower drop rate shards, remove HP and CP from champ rewards, remove Gwen Prix and Support Circuit from the game, remove HP and CP from progression rewards, and push out an accelerated 5* release pattern where people have to play twice long in CL10 to make less progress than they were before.

You all are seriously killing your own game.  I don't know how else to say it.

thedarkphoenix

Pretty silly to scrap the whole thing when the annoying part was having to have recently released characters so high. Meaning mostly the whales got them.

Simply required 5 or 6 of a cover Instead of 10 would have made everyone happy.



As far as she goes she looks ok, could replace rocket with rocket and kitty.


I'm guessing the cool down and and Invisibility works hand and hand? If you're invisible you won't take the cool down damage right?


Right.....?