Week 13 Boost list Adam Warlock, Carnage (Prophet of Knull), Havok, The Hulk (Bruce Banner)

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  • Tiger_Wong
    Tiger_Wong Posts: 1,057 Chairperson of the Boards
    Warlock/Switch have always been a really good duo. And wanda is almost a natural anti-Warlock/Carbage. 

    This is gonna be easy. 
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    AW is like the more aggressive version of Colossus, with true healing to boot. I hope there will be a store in the future with both AW and Heimdall in it. Feeders are not going to help me a lot.  :D
  • Captain_Trips88
    Captain_Trips88 Posts: 268 Mover and Shaker
    Huh, boosted Hulk. Pleasant surprise 
  • primetime21
    primetime21 Posts: 90 Match Maker
    HoundofShadow said:
    I don't think a lot of people will touch you if you use Carbage and AW.
    People keep on attacking me with this combo and losing.  Every time I log in I'm getting points in High Stakes without even playing.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    What teams are you using?
  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards
    How do you know what other players attack you with if they lose?
  • revskip
    revskip Posts: 1,010 Chairperson of the Boards
    entrailbucket said:
    How do you know what other players attack you with if they lose?
    My guess would be seeing what teams they have out unshielded.  While that can change drastically battle to battle, mosbunall of the time I see people climb with the same team over and over.  Not everyone has the sweet variety of 5*s you do.  ;)
  • primetime21
    primetime21 Posts: 90 Match Maker
    I'm sorry I should have clarified.  I have that team as defense; I'm not sure what everyone is attacking me with.

    I can see how I could have worded that better.
  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards
    primetime21 said:
    I'm sorry I should have clarified.  I have that team as defense; I'm not sure what everyone is attacking me with.

    I can see how I could have worded that better.
    That makes much more sense!
  • Bad
    Bad Posts: 3,146 Chairperson of the Boards
    I love this week. Pvp foes cannot stand AW's serious beating, plus I'm not wasting health packs thanks to his true healing, if allies passives let him the chance to heal. 
    And pve is passing like if I was pressing the fast forward button. 
    Today in the 4* node I killed all 3 on the first turn.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    It is a very fortunate event that AW wasn't that popular. The release of Colossus might have affected him as well. From my climb 0 to 1000 I don't see a lot of AW/Carbage. I saw only 1 Havok and 1 Bruce Banner Hulk during my climb to 1200. However, past 1000, AW/Carbage was crowding the higher point nodes. They aren't as scary as I thought but I used 3-4 healthpacks every 2 fights with them. I didn't use as many healthpacks as I expected. I used only 17 healthpacks, which wasn't as crazy as Wanda's boost week.


  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,454 Chairperson of the Boards
    that’s that’s interesting; AW/Carbage is mostly what I saw, very few variations featuring Havok or Banner. I couldn’t really figure out Warlock too well even still, but I rode my max-champ Chavez to 1200 with him and banked on match damage boost. A black match 3 with a crit was doing like 30k damage.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    I saw these teams along the way:

    Colossus/Wanda
    Wanda/Apocalypse
    Kitty/Carbage
    Carbage/Polaris
    Carbage/Wanda

    Past 1000, it's mostly Carbage/AW.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards
    I hadn't used Adam before this at all but he's great!  I ran him and Carnage all the way.  Did people skip him?  I didn't see very many.

    He's not that hard to figure out...match black and get his passive up and running quick, then go for yellow/purple.  Fire purple when you get enough, hold yellow till his health is low.  He needs health packs every few fights but it's worth it because he's just SO fast.  The match damage boost plus the passive is insanity.

    I did see a few people running SW/Colossus.  I had trouble with them until I changed the team order.  You need to put Adam on the left so his passive fires before Carnage does his thing.  Adam's passive will go first and hit one guy for 20k every turn.  Once I swapped them around the fights were very quick and easy.

    Enemy teams were a few mirror matches but not that many.  Mostly I saw Carnage + some unboosted partner.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,454 Chairperson of the Boards
    In this gator Loki event I’m riding Warlock/Thano5. Chase black, kill Loki through his invis, grind whoever has the next lowest health while stunned, get some points. Boosted warlock is much better for doing this sustainably than iHulk.
  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards
    Reading his release thread (I hadn't come back to the forum yet), it seems like Adam was simply a victim of the Okoye/Hulk meta.  Unlike Adam, Hulk's AoE doesn't require the player to match tiles, or do... anything, really.  Adam doesn't work with Okoye because he tanks her colors.  So there was no place for him at all. 

    He's a well-designed, fun, powerful character who was completely overlooked because he wasn't as good as the best 2.

    Isn't it nice that we've been freed from the tyranny of the best 2?  Boosted 5* are the best thing to ever happen to the 5* tier.
  • acescracked
    acescracked Posts: 1,197 Chairperson of the Boards
    entrailbucket said:
    I hadn't used Adam before this at all but he's great!  I ran him and Carnage all the way.  Did people skip him?  I didn't see very many.

    He's not that hard to figure out...match black and get his passive up and running quick, then go for yellow/purple.  Fire purple when you get enough, hold yellow till his health is low.  He needs health packs every few fights but it's worth it because he's just SO fast.  The match damage boost plus the passive is insanity.

    I did see a few people running SW/Colossus.  I had trouble with them until I changed the team order.  You need to put Adam on the left so his passive fires before Carnage does his thing.  Adam's passive will go first and hit one guy for 20k every turn.  Once I swapped them around the fights were very quick and easy.

    Enemy teams were a few mirror matches but not that many.  Mostly I saw Carnage + some unboosted partner.

    Don't use Adam/okoye/ihulk with black AP boosts in PVE...*the* slowest PVE team ever!!!
  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards
    acescracked said:
    entrailbucket said:
    I hadn't used Adam before this at all but he's great!  I ran him and Carnage all the way.  Did people skip him?  I didn't see very many.

    He's not that hard to figure out...match black and get his passive up and running quick, then go for yellow/purple.  Fire purple when you get enough, hold yellow till his health is low.  He needs health packs every few fights but it's worth it because he's just SO fast.  The match damage boost plus the passive is insanity.

    I did see a few people running SW/Colossus.  I had trouble with them until I changed the team order.  You need to put Adam on the left so his passive fires before Carnage does his thing.  Adam's passive will go first and hit one guy for 20k every turn.  Once I swapped them around the fights were very quick and easy.

    Enemy teams were a few mirror matches but not that many.  Mostly I saw Carnage + some unboosted partner.

    Don't use Adam/okoye/ihulk with black AP boosts in PVE...*the* slowest PVE team ever!!!
    I refuse to play cl10 on the clock, that's probably why I never used him.
  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 1,455 Chairperson of the Boards
    Boosted Carbage mirrors are so obnoxious. Maybe not as obnoxious as boosted Scarlet Witch mirrors, but it's still pretty bad.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2021
    Generally speaking, self-harmed characters are frowned upon. There are a few exceptions like Thanos and iHulk. 

    Between Colossus and AW, most went with Colossus instead. For AW, you need to make sure he's constantly in tip-top condition to maximise his black passive. So, there's a lot of micromanaging needed for him. Even if AW is compared to iHulk, he doesn't need constant micromanaging. You just need to make sure Okoye is x level higher than him.

    Still, I like AW, but too bad I was not at a point where can I can fully cover him. I think if Colossus appeared later, more might have pulled for AW because of the match damage increase.

    Havok is sad but he's pretty good if you can find a perfect combo that plays around his ap switching and charged tiles.




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