Week 15 Boost List Beta Ray Bill, Captain America (Infinity War), Rescue, Spider-Man (Peter Parker)

HoundofShadow
HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
edited August 2021 in MPQ General Discussion
These four are going to kick off the season this week. 

We have a meta, a relic, a bottom tier and a somewhere in between. What diversity we have here. 

If I had SMPP champed, I'll team him with BRB because he team stuns for 2 turns and creates critical tile.

If Captain America FA's yellow power has the same effect as Nick Fury's, he would be much better.

Rescue will be good if Polaris gets out of control. Watch the board turns red.

What's your strategy for this week boost and who are you going to put together?


Edit: thanks to Kwahder for noticing that Venom Bomb shows IWCap getting boosted instead of FACap.

IWCap can be a pain if he manage to revive his ally. His Coup de Grace is more or less signals the end of things.

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  • Anon
    Anon Posts: 1,455 Chairperson of the Boards
    BRB is the only one I have champed so my options are limited.
  • TheEyeDoctorsWife
    TheEyeDoctorsWife Posts: 829 Critical Contributor
    If possible , the amount of BRB opponents will increase from 90% to 95% this week . 
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2021
    I think Wanda is probably the best choice. Create green to take out opponents more quickly. That extra 55-60% power damage from Wanda increase should be significant. On top of that, BRB feeds green and blue.

    569 BRB's Skuttlebutt should deal:

    8371*2.5*1.55*4= 129, 750 or 32, 438 each.
  • Srheer0
    Srheer0 Posts: 510 Critical Contributor
    oh my.

    I have Rescue and BRB champed. Others have like 5 covers each at normal distribution.  

    Let's see how well Rescue, BRB and Polaris work together
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards
    BRB week is of course going to be a defensive masterclass but lucky me I do have him champed although no other boosted partners. From past weeks that has made things tough when up against dual boosted 5's but at least none of the other three are overly scary. Seems like Rescue might work OK with BRB though.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,454 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2021
    Silk is boosted on the 4* list, I suppose we may see some Parker/SIlk web teams around. I've only got BRB and Rescue champed as well. That team might be alright as a mirror match if you use Rescue's blue to get rid of enemy brb's protects for him - I suspect we'll see a lot of that team in the Shang-Chi release to promote red matching. I may try running Magneto with mine on the premise that BRB will keep his blue reasonably fed, and that shield percentage boost you get should make it an impenetrable fortress to basic matches.
  • Bad
    Bad Posts: 3,146 Chairperson of the Boards
    Brb could be one of the most popular classics. Possibly it will be the comeback of the britty or brolaris team. 
    It is expected to see SW there too, however she would eat huge smashes at the start of the enemy turn so his defensive magic could be broken.
    Colossus could be there too, as always. 
    BRB and rescue can be good defensively but rescue it's not so popular. 
    Oh, and there are the other 2 wich will be used by vets without better options. 
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards
    This week sees us return to the 2/2 format for Never been boosted/Boosted before characters. We are ticking down but presumably Knull has joined the list of available characters to boost - his week is going to be interesting (and by interesting I mean horrendous)
  • Theghouse
    Theghouse Posts: 334 Mover and Shaker
    This week is all about BRB Kitty and BRB Apoc.  You might see some Rescue from the champ em all folks but she's only mildly annoying unless you're one of the dozen or so people who have her at 550 so she's a 670 boosted.  Parker, FA cap, and other meta 5s will likely pale in comparison to Apoc and Kitty amazing synergy with BRB.
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards
    BRB/Apoc for attack, BRB/Kitty for defence.
  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards
    Theghouse said:
    This week is all about BRB Kitty and BRB Apoc.  You might see some Rescue from the champ em all folks but she's only mildly annoying unless you're one of the dozen or so people who have her at 550 so she's a 670 boosted.  Parker, FA cap, and other meta 5s will likely pale in comparison to Apoc and Kitty amazing synergy with BRB.
    There's no way there are a dozen players with Rescue maxed out.  I can think of one or possibly two players in the entire game.

    I have Rescue at lvl490 and haven't used her even one time, for anything, ever.  I just checked out her powers and it seems like she's awful, *except* when paired with someone who makes protect tiles...so maybe this is the week!  Her having a blue power will mess with Beta Ray Bill on defense though.

    I agree that it's going to be a wall of Beta Ray Bill, and he's probably going to be seen mostly with unboosted 5*. 

    I wish we had a 5* Mantis or Morbius or similar, because there's no equivalent option in the 5* tier, and those guys are way too squishy to run.
  • Theghouse
    Theghouse Posts: 334 Mover and Shaker
    entrailbucket said:
    Theghouse said:
    This week is all about BRB Kitty and BRB Apoc.  You might see some Rescue from the champ em all folks but she's only mildly annoying unless you're one of the dozen or so people who have her at 550 so she's a 670 boosted.  Parker, FA cap, and other meta 5s will likely pale in comparison to Apoc and Kitty amazing synergy with BRB.
    There's no way there are a dozen players with Rescue maxed out.  I can think of one or possibly two players in the entire game.

    I have Rescue at lvl490 and haven't used her even one time, for anything, ever.  I just checked out her powers and it seems like she's awful, *except* when paired with someone who makes protect tiles...so maybe this is the week!  Her having a blue power will mess with Beta Ray Bill on defense though.

    I agree that it's going to be a wall of Beta Ray Bill, and he's probably going to be seen mostly with unboosted 5*. 

    I wish we had a 5* Mantis or Morbius or similar, because there's no equivalent option in the 5* tier, and those guys are way too squishy to run.
    There's only one active I know of for sure, I figured there were probably at least a couple other actives plus some casual ex-whales?  Dozen or so seemed like a safe rough number.
  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,454 Chairperson of the Boards
    It's too bad there isn’t a way to exploit GE Doom’s death wipe in this boost event; running him with Lumbercap to clear a board off is the way I used to try and defeat Gritty teams way back when.

    Rescue has a weak tile steal, and there are characters with other active powers that can remove or convert protects for you, as well as ones that bypass protects altogether like Apocalypse and Thor’s red moves. But that passive removal you get from those 4*s, even from Th4nos, would be pretty great in a 5*.
  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ahhh I see, we're thinking of the same player then!  Sorry, it's hard to tell who on here has what level of familiarity with the top-end players.

    Anyway, even the whaliest of those ex-whales only 550'd characters that are good, or were good at the time.  I'd bet a substantial amount of money that there's 1 Rescue over lvl500 in the entire playerbase.

    The particular brand of psychosis that causes a person to 550 literally everyone has only manifested twice that I'm aware of, and one of those players is gone now (although I have seen the account pop up occasionally in the last year or so).
  • Kwahder
    Kwahder Posts: 180 Tile Toppler
    According to the Venom Bomb preview, it’s actually Beardcap that’s boosted, not FACap.
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards
    Kwahder said:
    According to the Venom Bomb preview, it’s actually Beardcap that’s boosted, not FACap.

    That would put us back on the expected 3/1 formula as Infinity Cap has yet to be boosted.
  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    Based on your tracking,

    We are left with:

    Okoye, Hela, Wasp, C5rol, Mister Sinister, iHulk, Heimdall and Knull. 

    Week 18 will be the week that every non-latest 5* would have been boosted. 

    Week 19 will be a mystery then?
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,275 Chairperson of the Boards
    I guess we would still have quite a large pool of characters who have not had a second boost week.
  • Sekilicious
    Sekilicious Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited August 2021
    I was really worried that the Smash Hit PvP would eat all my health packs. Luckily BRB, Polaris, and Hulk have great synergy. I really hate how hard you need to hit a max level, boosted Hulk to proc his black though
  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,828 Chairperson of the Boards
    I thought this one would be awful too, but IW Cap saved the day!

    His purple power was the key.  Just stick one on blue and Beta Ray Bill is no threat at all.  If the match goes long you can stick one on green too.  I only managed to cast his red a few times but it's not bad.

    I don't think Cap is underrated or particularly useful outside of this specific situation, though.  I'm glad he was included in this list as a way to make Bill more manageable.

    Enemy teams were 100% Beta Ray Bill, as expected.  Mostly he was paired with Apocalypse, although I saw a few Kitty and a lot of Polaris.

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