Puzzle gauntlet

fractalvisions

lvsmr2 said:

Any help on shuri and BP4? Since shuri also hands damage if a fortified is matched, I get killed quickly.

Misty Knight and/or Silk can be useful here as they both put down fortified tiles and can both heal. But really anyone who heals and/or provides some defence can be useful here. Shuri and BP4 put down so many fortified that you don't need to create your own (in fact stunning them can be counter-productive because it stops them creating more). You just need to survive long enough.

Siv75

BriMan2222 said:

I thought this was the easiest one yet. especially since 4 star gamoras deadliest woman works this time.  Since the win condition isn't have X amount of some tile and is just "down the enemy" you can use her passive to instantly down the enemy.  I won both the 1v1 nodes this way.

Seriously don't know what you guys have been smoking. Whatever it is... I dont mind some for myself. I tried this method probably 10 times... for this to work no purple tile must appear post Gamora shooting off her black. This NEVER works because the AI ALWAYS creates one purple tile. At average I fired off 2 to 3 black powers to get all the purples...blue power to stun wolverine and I had to end my move with a match which always produces one purple. Each match I get to shoot this series between 2 to 3 times. Hence... At average that's about 20 to 30 times the AI had consistently created 1 purple tile to screw up this strategy. That is 100% certainty for this to not work.

BriMan2222

Siv75 said:

BriMan2222 said:

I thought this was the easiest one yet. especially since 4 star gamoras deadliest woman works this time.  Since the win condition isn't have X amount of some tile and is just "down the enemy" you can use her passive to instantly down the enemy.  I won both the 1v1 nodes this way.

Seriously don't know what you guys have been smoking. Whatever it is... I dont mind some for myself. I tried this method probably 10 times... for this to work no purple tile must appear post Gamora shooting off her black. This NEVER works because the AI ALWAYS creates one purple tile. At average I fired off 2 to 3 black powers to get all the purples...blue power to stun wolverine and I had to end my move with a match which always produces one purple. Each match I get to shoot this series between 2 to 3 times. Hence... At average that's about 20 to 30 times the AI had consistently created 1 purple tile to screw up this strategy. That is 100% certainty for this to not work.

Idk, i didn't have that problem and it seems to be working for my ally mates, people on fb, and on here.  Sorry you've been unlucky.

HoundofShadow

I thought Loki and Patch were the obvious answer  to the 1v1. Let Loki collect black and match green. Wait for there to be enough enemy strike tiles and flip them back to be friendly protect tiles.

If not, there's always Supports that create strike or friendly tiles to make things easier.

Siv75

BriMan2222 said:

Siv75 said:

BriMan2222 said:

I thought this was the easiest one yet. especially since 4 star gamoras deadliest woman works this time.  Since the win condition isn't have X amount of some tile and is just "down the enemy" you can use her passive to instantly down the enemy.  I won both the 1v1 nodes this way.

Seriously don't know what you guys have been smoking. Whatever it is... I dont mind some for myself. I tried this method probably 10 times... for this to work no purple tile must appear post Gamora shooting off her black. This NEVER works because the AI ALWAYS creates one purple tile. At average I fired off 2 to 3 black powers to get all the purples...blue power to stun wolverine and I had to end my move with a match which always produces one purple. Each match I get to shoot this series between 2 to 3 times. Hence... At average that's about 20 to 30 times the AI had consistently created 1 purple tile to screw up this strategy. That is 100% certainty for this to not work.

Idk, i didn't have that problem and it seems to be working for my ally mates, people on fb, and on here.  Sorry you've been unlucky.

20 to 30 times isn't luck though... way too much a statistical anomaly to be luck. I'm glad it worked for you guys...as I said...whatever you guys smoke... after my experience with these puzzles... I would love some good smoke myself. Ah... probably need to settle for some whisky instead... its lockdown where I'm at and I can't make a run out for cigars... in any case... the reward system is way too flawed for these puzzles anyways... and no one is listening ... so I should really stop getting stressed and get some ice. 

Sekilicious

You can also bring as many Falcon team ups as you want while trying to down Wolverine. I did it using Wolverine, a support to boost his healing, and one Falcon TU.  It was luck, I kind of went in blind, but it was doable. If I was smart I would have brought Loki and multiple Falcons.

revskip

KGB said:

revskip said:

KGB said:

The only hard battle was matching enemy protects since there is no way to give them more protect tiles without firing powers for Cage or letting Prof X go Invis. In fact if you leave Fist to last it's possible it's not winnable. Ultimately for me it was a 15 minute battle using Miles in invisible

I used 4* Venom to create extra enemy protects.  Worked well.  

It must have gone a lot different for you than me. I tried 1st with a L300 Venom & Prowler and 266 Loki (just for cheap purple cast). I realized early on that Venom does nothing until you cast a power so Cage makes a protect and you can match it. For my 1st 2 powers (Purples), Cages protects were no where I could match and Prowler fortified them for Cage. By then Fist had dropped a Blue and they cascaded into a Match 5 for Prof X damage and next thing I know Cage was one shotting Loki with his Yellow and Fist dropped Prowler with his Green and I'm like 'Hell no, I'm not wasting health packs chasing this nonsense'.

So I went in with Miles and 2 randoms (don't even recall who now) to spam powers and I did it all invisible when my randoms died early on.

The problem is they can use all 6 colors and 5 of them hit hard so Venom is very unreliable if Cages Blacks aren't matchable.

KGB

Maybe I got a bit lucky with placement but I used Venom, Nova and Loki.  Nova fired up quick strikes that I turned into protects with Loki's black which mitigated damage.  Kept Prof X airbourne a couple of times to keep him from firing invisibility which helped too.  

HoundofShadow

Why not spam power and let enemy Luke Cage create protect tiles for you? Then let Venom create protect tiles from then on.

Blackstone

Gamora works because deadliest woman doesn't do damage, it downs the target, so the ignore all other damage stipulation really shouldn't apply.

As for the guy that came get Gamora to work.... Would need to see a video of what you're doing, especially in a 1v1.  For me, I nailed the first node very quickly with a really lucky board... The second node, I failed the time... Then then went back in denying green and red while saving blue and enough black to use twice... Then match purple, stun, use black, make match, use black, done.  No, it's not %100 reliably, but it's doable if you're patient.  Try to not get mad at others because it's not working for you.  Frustration is understandable, but being angry at others who made it work is unreasonable.

Separate topic: I found 5Magneto and Carol to be really helpful in several of the puzzles.  It was nice to put them to use.

fractalvisions

Out of curiosity, I just checked to see if 3* Punisher can also take advantage of this exploit. And yes, he can.

fractalvisions

KGB said:

What really sucks about Puzzle Gauntlet is already having the Support at Rank 3 (something I've had for every one of these so far) and then drawing Rank 3 supports. In fact this time was an extra kick in the nuts because I lucked out on my 3 vault draws and got the extra draw token for the support and went 0-3 on getting a Rank 4-5 support. That's what needs to be fixed or else just tell me up front my 2-3 draws are only Rank 3 support and I won't even bother with the event.

KGB

Yes, it does seem strange that they give you multiple tokens for the same support. 

On the plus side, I do like that only one clear of each node is necessary to get the progression rewards. I wish all PVE were like that.

Captain_Trips88

Didn't try it because Gamora tactic made it a piece of cake but has anyone tested to see if you can whale these ones complete? Guessing its the same as it doesn't have a damage amount attached to it. 

To the guy going on about smoking something because of Gamora tactic working for *everybody* else... You still need some tactics on when to launch your attacks, and yes that purple drop when you make your match is annoying but if you've used your blue properly your opponents are stunned so its just one drop you have to get lucky with, not two 

Yepyep

Heartbreaksoup said:

I got a 5* Taskmaster Sword, and am equipping it to 5trange for that sweet, sweet retaliation damage upgrade.

How big is the retaliation upgrade for a 5* sword? Very good idea to equip it to Strange — I just put my 3* sword on him. 

Heartbreaksoup

Yepyep said:

Heartbreaksoup said:

I got a 5* Taskmaster Sword, and am equipping it to 5trange for that sweet, sweet retaliation damage upgrade.

How big is the retaliation upgrade for a 5* sword? Very good idea to equip it to Strange — I just put my 3* sword on him. 

It'll be a while before I get enough red iso to get him that far, but:

• The supported character's powers deal an additional 1792 damage to enemies.

Siv75

Blackstone said:

No, it's not %100 reliably, but it's doable if you're patient.  Try to not get mad at others because it's not working for you.  Frustration is understandable, but being angry at others who made it work is unreasonable.

Just to clear the air here. I wasn't mad at anyone, that would be silly. People are here to help each other so getting mad at others for sharing is not something I do.

I did believe people when they say it worked for them. I don't need them to prove it. On that same note, I don't have to prove to others that this strategy didn't work for 100% of the time for me for over 20 to 30 tries for doing exactly what you did. Only wished that it would work for me like it did for you guys. 

I Was mad at the game though ... understandably ... if you can relate to what I shared. 

In the end, I did get over these nodes though by using better supports for the single nodes and BRB and Kitty to tank all other nodes...whereby reducing my team's damage to a max of -1 per turn levelling the playing field. Cheers

Waddles_Pines

Used Legion to clear the ProfX, Cage, IF node.  Figure any invisibility character would work...

Blackstone

Siv75 said:

Blackstone said:

No, it's not %100 reliably, but it's doable if you're patient.  Try to not get mad at others because it's not working for you.  Frustration is understandable, but being angry at others who made it work is unreasonable.

Just to clear the air here. I wasn't mad at anyone, that would be silly. People are here to help each other so getting mad at others for sharing is not something I do.

I did believe people when they say it worked for them. I don't need them to prove it. On that same note, I don't have to prove to others that this strategy didn't work for 100% of the time for me for over 20 to 30 tries for doing exactly what you did. Only wished that it would work for me like it did for you guys. 

I Was mad at the game though ... understandably ... if you can relate to what I shared. 

In the end, I did get over these nodes though by using better supports for the single nodes and BRB and Kitty to tank all other nodes...whereby reducing my team's damage to a max of -1 per turn levelling the playing field. Cheers

Perhaps I read too much into the "whatever you guys are smoking" comment.  To me that sounds like an insult.  However, after rereading the comments, I think you were just frustrated that it wasn't working for you.

I'm glad you found another way to get it done.

I do have one question though, if you don't mind.  You said you were using black 2-3 times to get all of the purple.... Were you using black multiple times because there were more than six purple on the board, or were you matching away purple until there were less than six, using black then moving (after stunning the enemy) then using black a second time?  Only asking because I'm trying to figure out how things were working for you.

And, when I mentioned seeing video of what you were doing, I wasn't suggesting I needed proof of anything, that would be absurd.  Just thought fresh eyes on the board might be able to pinpoint something that would help you.  Which, as you say, is why we're here.

I apologize for taking something out of context and thinking you were angry.

I'd appreciate the same consideration from you that I was trying to be helpful.

And, that got way too long.

Cheers.

Phumade

Using Gamora takes some finesse.  I don’t go for insta win unless I can double fire the black and get the full stunlock.  The other trick is only doing matches on the top 3 rows.  It helps minimize cascades that expose purple

Siv75

Blackstone said:Perhaps I read too much into the "whatever you guys are smoking" comment.  To me that sounds like an insult.  However, after rereading the comments, I think you were just frustrated that it wasn't working for you.

I'm glad you found another way to get it done.

I do have one question though, if you don't mind.  You said you were using black 2-3 times to get all of the purple.... Were you using black multiple times because there were more than six purple on the board, or were you matching away purple until there were less than six, using black then moving (after stunning the enemy) then using black a second time?  Only asking because I'm trying to figure out how things were working for you.

And, when I mentioned seeing video of what you were doing, I wasn't suggesting I needed proof of anything, that would be absurd.  Just thought fresh eyes on the board might be able to pinpoint something that would help you.  Which, as you say, is why we're here.

I apologize for taking something out of context and thinking you were angry.

I'd appreciate the same consideration from you that I was trying to be helpful.

And, that got way too long.

Cheers.

No worries friend. I do apologies too if that smoking statement caused anyone to feel insulted. I guess we are from different cultures and perhaps that phrase is best kept within closer circles. 

As for what I tried, I waited till I had 18 black APs, and 6 blues at minimum, whilst matching away as much purple in the interim. Once ready, if there were more than the 6 purples on the board, I'd fire the black twice. Then blue to stun. If there were fewer than 6 purples I'd fire the black once and keep another as backup. In every case for me... after all purples are covered... I needed to make a match to end the turn. This is when one purple always popped up for me. In fact I had an abundance of blues so I could keep the opponent stunned many times...so was able to repeat the above sequence between 2 to 3 times before dying out. 

Both me and my son were playing this whole thing together ... we tend to enjoy the game together ... and we were both flabbergasted! He got annoyed at me for just refusing to give up and he kept predicting to me.... 'just you wait and see ... one will pop out now' ...lol. and it did every time. 

Cheers

shardwick

I got a level 5 Taskmaster and a level 4 Chewie. Also, my red iso is under a million for the first time in over a year.