HoundofShadow said: I just tried his Introducing Event and it appears his blue power is better that I interpreted initially. If you have four fortified red tiles, your red power will cost you only 6ap. Basically, all your teammates' powers could be reduced to 3 if you managed to fortify most of the board and if their ap costs aren't too high. Basically, there isn't any cap since most power costs between 9-12 ap on average, but the min ap cost is 3 for most characters.
MadScientist said: Does his yellow trigger 5* Black Panther?
wymtime said: after playing the first introducing event it does feel like Blue is the main color to chase with him. I am thinking pairing him with Apocalypse and Thor. You start my matching blues only really looking to get to 9 blue AP. This lets you fortify 3 blue and then 3 red. Thor should have helped you collect 7 yellow already. From there Heimdall will heal 16k health and Apocalypse red will now cost 4. You can then chase blue and black. Keep fortifying black and red to make each cost 3 and watch Apocalypse wipe everyone out.pros Heimdall will keep healing saving HP and making Apocalypse red do most of the work. Also will avoid protect tiles when doing damage against Kitty/BRB teams.cons of this will be cascades wiping out fortified tiles and enemy matches wiping out fortified tiles. Against goons he feels like he has a build up AP then lets his team lay the wood to some people. Against tile movers it might be a different story
Vhailorx said: wymtime said: after playing the first introducing event it does feel like Blue is the main color to chase with him. I am thinking pairing him with Apocalypse and Thor. You start my matching blues only really looking to get to 9 blue AP. This lets you fortify 3 blue and then 3 red. Thor should have helped you collect 7 yellow already. From there Heimdall will heal 16k health and Apocalypse red will now cost 4. You can then chase blue and black. Keep fortifying black and red to make each cost 3 and watch Apocalypse wipe everyone out.pros Heimdall will keep healing saving HP and making Apocalypse red do most of the work. Also will avoid protect tiles when doing damage against Kitty/BRB teams.cons of this will be cascades wiping out fortified tiles and enemy matches wiping out fortified tiles. Against goons he feels like he has a build up AP then lets his team lay the wood to some people. Against tile movers it might be a different story Sadly, heimdall cannot reduce the cost of his own blue power. it always costs 6. a blue battery will be important for him (or at least an ally with blue as the strongest color to turn his yellow into his own blue batter).
ThaRoadWarrior said: Vhailorx said: ThaRoadWarrior said: I like the look of Heimdall, and his Shuri-like powers. He'll be a terror with BRB/Polaris i suspect. I'm not sure I agree with that assessment re: polaris. her strength is lots of passive damage procs and flooding the board with specials. But her tiles by themselves are fairly puny by 5* standards, so she more or less needs a damage booster (kitty, okoye, or Apoc) to really play in 5* land. Additionally, heimdall doesn't really leverage special tiles or passive damage ticks at all; his strengths are various ap shenanigans to improve active powers, and tanking damage. plus, polaris and heimdall will always be fighting for blue ap.*I think apoc might be a good fit with him (although they do overlap on 2 colors). Apoc is really good, and even better if his powers cost 6 or less, plus heimdall tanks 2 colors for him, making the team quite survivable. Add a good blue and/or red battery as the third wheel and this team looks quite strong. *HE might also be an interesting pairing, as he will passively fortify tiles that will make powers cheaper to keep the train rolling. *Okoye + IH might be also be a good match. Both can true heal on different colors (so they won't fight for ap), and IH's red is even scarier at 3ap. Add in okoye-boosting and IH's passive AOE and this team will really really hurt. The big draw of Polaris + BRB is that she floods a board with protects faster than he can, and without taking damage. With BrB you don’t actually care what the strength of the protects is, just that destroying them provides a free green and blue AP as a battery. His blue is already dirt cheap, and add that to an AP Coupon like Heimdall (or shuri or 4* Lord or N4tasha), and you can really wreak some havoc. Now imagine you have targeted fortification, so you fortify a blue match-3 containing 3 protects. Now you get 6ap from the match itself (fortifications accrue AP twice if they all get matched away), then you get 3x green and 3x blue from breaking the shield. THEN Polaris turns that into 9x more protect tiles. On top of that, BrB’s blue comes out fortified, so it gets cheaper every time you fire it. It’ll be wild quick.
Vhailorx said: ThaRoadWarrior said: I like the look of Heimdall, and his Shuri-like powers. He'll be a terror with BRB/Polaris i suspect. I'm not sure I agree with that assessment re: polaris. her strength is lots of passive damage procs and flooding the board with specials. But her tiles by themselves are fairly puny by 5* standards, so she more or less needs a damage booster (kitty, okoye, or Apoc) to really play in 5* land. Additionally, heimdall doesn't really leverage special tiles or passive damage ticks at all; his strengths are various ap shenanigans to improve active powers, and tanking damage. plus, polaris and heimdall will always be fighting for blue ap.*I think apoc might be a good fit with him (although they do overlap on 2 colors). Apoc is really good, and even better if his powers cost 6 or less, plus heimdall tanks 2 colors for him, making the team quite survivable. Add a good blue and/or red battery as the third wheel and this team looks quite strong. *HE might also be an interesting pairing, as he will passively fortify tiles that will make powers cheaper to keep the train rolling. *Okoye + IH might be also be a good match. Both can true heal on different colors (so they won't fight for ap), and IH's red is even scarier at 3ap. Add in okoye-boosting and IH's passive AOE and this team will really really hurt.
ThaRoadWarrior said: I like the look of Heimdall, and his Shuri-like powers. He'll be a terror with BRB/Polaris i suspect.
Painmonger said: ThaRoadWarrior said: Heimdall doesn’t seem to self reduce unfortunately Wondered about that, too. The way it's worded, it might still reduce his red & yellow, but not his blue. It says "other friendly powers" not "allies powers" so hard to tell without confirmation or seeing it in the wild.
ThaRoadWarrior said: Heimdall doesn’t seem to self reduce unfortunately
atomzed said: So many interesting combos! Thanks for all the theory crafting!As he is a complicated character, AI can’t really play him well. Which is a good thing. The only question is whether he can supplant the other PVP meta teams (hulkoye, Britty, Apocalypse+ another)
DAZ0273 said: This first day of Introducing Heimdall puzzles me - it is almost like the least optimal choice in terms of set-up was chosen to show off his power set! Heimdall needs buddies to shine but we get a solo that is a wave node?!?!?