Week 14 Boost List Deadpool (Spirit of Vengeance), Doctor Doom (God Emperor), Thanos (The Mad Titan)

entrailbucket

Thanos week returns!

We can finally test the theory that Deadpool and Doctor Doom are Tier 1B.  I think both are.

A lot of players have extremely high level Yelena, if they unhoarded for Hulk and Apocalypse.  I'm not sure any of them have ever used her, I've never seen her and I have no idea what she does.

Should be a good boost week.  I predict a lot of Deadpool and Doom.

ThaRoadWarrior

Yelena has great AP suppression, with good passive damage to initiate a power booster, but without one unboosted she hits like a wet noodle. I could see her with Doom being an interesting AP siphon, but my prediction this week is Thano5/Doom and Thano5/Ghostpool will run the halls.

HoundofShadow

Yelena is interesting because she deals passive damage once per turn whenever any of your coloured ap hits 9 or more and she will reduce that ap colour by 4. Even if your team powers require at least 7 ap to work, you would still be eating some passives. Why 7ap instead of 9? It requires 3 match-3 unless you use ap boost or you luck into cascades or match-4.  

Dr Doom/Ghostpool is an interesting pairing because Dr Doom has true heal and burst heal. Dr Doom can tank damage and let Ghostpool unlease the Vengeance.

This seems like a good boost week for 550 Okoye/iHulk to make a comeback. They will wipe any of this boosted combination.

entrailbucket

I'm not sure, it depends on how the game counts power booster damage.  I don't think I've ever gotten an answer on that but maybe I'll figure it out this week.

If the damage Okoye adds onto powers counts as Okoye's damage, then Deadpool (and especially Deadpool/Doom) is a bad matchup for that team.  Doom would feed black to Deadpool and he'd easily oneshot Okoye.

HoundofShadow

It clocks under whoever fires the power. If those damages are clocked under whoever boosts their ally power in any form, they will be taken out so easily.  Think Apocalypse, Okoye, Kitty (boosting strike tiles). Therefore, Okoye is safe from Ghostpool. IHulk can eat Ghostpool's Vengeance a hundred time and he still be alive.

entrailbucket

Ah, not too good then.  I'll likely run Deadpool/Thanos or Doom/Thanos.  Thanos likes big single target hits to get Court Death rolling quickly.


An aside: Thanos, even unboosted, is extremely effective against Hulk.  Apparently Court Death's designer didn't anticipate an enemy who can die multiple times. 

I ran Hulk/Thanos (Hulkbomb) against Okoye/Hulk for the entirety of that meta (2 years or whatever) and had no problem beating 550s, and beating them fast, with my 520 Thanos and 450 Hulk.

fractalvisions

ThaRoadWarrior said:

Yelena has great AP suppression, with good passive damage to initiate a power booster, but without one unboosted she hits like a wet noodle. I could see her with Doom being an interesting AP siphon, but my prediction this week is Thano5/Doom and Thano5/Ghostpool will run the halls.

In 4* land, that wet noodle tends to feel more like an ultra-sharp needle even unboosted. That and the AP stealing have always meant that I'm very cautious about going up against her. Doesn't put me off entirely but I do feel the need to make sure I'm using characters with low cost powers and being very careful about which matches I make.

Still, at least I have Ghostpool. Better than the current week where I have none of the boosted 5*.

Anon

So Yelena is also boosted this week right? 5Pool/Thanos seems like the most obvious pairing for me (I have Doom fully covered but not champed), but Yelena was a lot of fun in PVE last time she was boosted.

Hard to imagine she'd be a game changer in PVP. Especially since most of the meta teams don't even need AP to ruin your day.

Cannibalqueen

Really like Yelena.  Currently she’s one of my least covered fives.  

Six covers,  tied with Havok and Infinity Cap.  But I have her favorited and also Red Guardian to make up for lost ground.
I just love her AP punish mechanic and wish I had her usable this week.

this week for me is pretty lowly.  Deadpool is my only champ. Probably resort to punching other BRBritty teams for the most part.  That’s okay, 
last boost was a very fun introduction into Warlock’s mechanics,  and made me like and understand him for the first time,  even on personal off weeks like this, I continue to love the new boosts.

DAZ0273

Well it has been a fun run but this week will be tough as I have none of these champed. My Thanos is decently covered though, so it looks like I will be leaning on him which means healthpacks. Deadpool is going to be a nightmare, he can one shot you under normal circumstances let alone boosted ones.

Srheer0

I don't have 5nos or Yelena champed, but I do have d5adpool and Geddoom champed, so this week won't be a huge disaster.  

Geddoom is a great accelerant for Apoc too. 

And from memory, D5adpools final passive power is boosted by okoye and maybe by Wanda's pink. Lots of fun  

kimo_star

Their boosted "week" is just one event in PvP the Cyclops event and because the two after that are off season with different boosted lists and in PvE is one maybe two events since the next one is a boss.

DAZ0273

Yes, it is a very limited week for players with these guys champed which is a shame for them.

ThaRoadWarrior

Oh there is a Mutant event? Thano5/Apocalypse then so that you can boost Court Death with Shared Strength.

entrailbucket

kimo_star said:

Their boosted "week" is just one event in PvP the Cyclops event and because the two after that are off season with different boosted lists and in PvE is one maybe two events since the next one is a boss.

Lame!!!

They need to use these short weeks to boost meta characters, not the kinds of fun characters people want to try out.  Why did we have to slog through an entire week of boosted SW when they could have given her a one-event week?

Bad

I have only ghostpool and yelena available.
Ghostpool passive will hurt a lot, however his black not really depends on his level and his red is expensive. 
Still I will have fun.
Thanos and Ged are way more popular so it's expected for them to rule.
An interesting week but indeed season ends. Like happened with colossus this group will have 1 less pve with the boss event, and less pvps to shine.
My suggestion for not hurting new groups that could not see the light until no one knows when: 
the off season week could be a repeat of all 5*s boosted during the month, each pve or pvp changing the 5*s for the other group released later.
I think that could be a funny end of the season.

Srheer0

Bad said:

I have only ghostpool and yelena available.
Ghostpool passive will hurt a lot, however his black not really depends on his level and his red is expensive. 
Still I will have fun.
Thanos and Ged are way more popular so it's expected for them to rule.
An interesting week but indeed season ends. Like happened with colossus this group will have 1 less pve with the boss event, and less pvps to shine.
My suggestion for not hurting new groups that could not see the light until no one knows when: 
the off season week could be a repeat of all 5*s boosted during the month, each pve or pvp changing the 5*s for the other group released later.
I think that could be a funny end of the season.

D5adpool black is very underrated, I've seen a few people with the same viewpoint as you here. VS things that do AOE or can't stop doing AOE dmg, you can get the dmg up quickly.  

If you put 5 points into it, it goes to 150% scaling I think. Instead of 100%.

If you pair him with Wanda, you can get an additional 3-5% damage per coloured AP you have at the time of firing.  

When you put a % increase, ontop of another % increase, it makes for very big final numbers.

DAZ0273

My Deadpool is only 0/3/2 but I am actively trying to get his black and am only 27 shards short because that power hits hard under normal circumastances and will be painful when boosted.

DAZ0273

In other news, we are now down to the last 10 who have yet to be boosted (11 if you factor in Knull who will move to Classics before the cycle completes) and we have quite the mixed bag including Okoye, BRB and iHulk at one end and Wasp, Captain Marvel and Rescue at the other.  Are they going to give those Hulkoye lovers a grand ol' week?

Anon

They did it with the Cascade Bros so it wouldn't be unprecedented.

Bad

Srheer0 said:

D5adpool black is very underrated, I've seen a few people with the same viewpoint as you here. VS things that do AOE or can't stop doing AOE dmg, you can get the dmg up quickly.  

If you put 5 points into it, it goes to 150% scaling I think. Instead of 100%.

If you pair him with Wanda, you can get an additional 3-5% damage per coloured AP you have at the time of firing.  

When you put a % increase, ontop of another % increase, it makes for very big final numbers.

Was I underrating him? I think hardly I was, being the fourth champed character more leveled I have and one I use to play often in SIM.
Simply stating the truth. His black deals the same amount of damage if it fires it a ghostpool lev 450.or another l 500: the damage the enemy deals. It only changes the topping, however it is not too relevant.
His 8 AP red is expensive. It will hit hard with a godboost, however it stuns too and then it is hard to choose wether to kill one, or to stun it another one and continue stunning if there is a good board. Too conditional usually black and blue are better choices, it could change with the godboost. 
And his passive it is his best dealing possibly 15k damage and stealing AP.
The goodbost possibly will fix a great flaw he has, one of the smallest health pool, and will increase his huge match damage.