Combined Arms Discussion

hothie

First off, 2 things for the mods/devs:

1. If this thread is in the wrong place, please move it to the correct one.

2. Thank you for this format. I have enjoyed (and been frustrated) at the new combinations of squads that I am running and facing against. It is a welcome change to the normal meta squads, and as a 4* player, not having any 5*s in sight is very nice.



To everyone else, have you found any hidden combinations that work well together? or ones that you thought would but didn't?

I still see a lot of people running Polaris, although her dance partners now are Daken or 2* Bullseye. So I countered with a Morbius and 3* Hawkeye that worked amazingly well together. I added 2* Thor for better color coverage and some potential damage.

I thought that Polaris/Cage/Bullseye might be a pseudo-BRB/Polaris, but that didn't work out as I had thought because Cage didn't put down his shield until the start of my second turn, and by then Bullseye already had done so, so Cage was kinda worthless in practice with those 2.

I've run GSBW and Bullseye (with Juggs tanking) for the winfinite combo, although I still have yet to find a good 4* that will help with the board shaking/ ap generation (Hysto maybe?)

Overall, I'm happy with this format and would love to see it again at some point. And I'll continue to shake the dust off of characters and see if I can get some new combinations to work or not.

Mr_F

I run whatever 2* and IM40 + X-23. Laura is 5/5/3 not the common 5/3/5 as the high damage trap is highly situational.

hothie

Mr_F said:

I run whatever 2* and IM40 + X-23. Laura is 5/5/3 not the common 5/3/5 as the high damage trap is highly situational.

So IM40's yellow feeds X23's green, which should have enough red ap when fired. Plus she heals passively, IM uses the red and blue AP, maybe add 2* Black Widow for more healing (if necessary), and ap stealing? Hmm, I like it. 

Mr_F

@hothie Exactly this is my plan. Rainbow coverage and full damage and sustain. 2* is just a flavor here.

ThaRoadWarrior

There are some fun teams I like and have been messing around with:

Chavez/The Hood/Hawkeye - hood steals AP to keep the balance in your favor, chavez makes crits that may or may not facilitate Hawkeye's match-5 nonsense

P4nther/Cag3 [falcon works here too]/Bullseye - populate the board with protects, match them for hilarous damage

Sabretooth/Patch[or electra, or maybe hawkeye]/whoever, let's say Hawkeye for cascade stuff - create enemy strikes and then match them away

Nico/Daken/Wolverine (you can reverse the 2 and 3* here if you want, or substitute Blade) - make strikes, buff strikes

G4mora/Kamala Khan/Thor - do everything you can to turn all the purple tiles into something else, Deadliest Woman your way to victory

Rogue/Hulk/Hawkeye - Rogue will probably blast everyone in the face and keep damage to a minium while Hulk turns the board green to facilitate, which has a good chance of making cascades for you

hothie

ThaRoadWarrior said:

There are some fun teams I like and have been messing around with:

Chavez/The Hood/Hawkeye - hood steals AP to keep the balance in your favor, chavez makes crits that may or may not facilitate Hawkeye's match-5 nonsense

P4nther/Cag3 [falcon works here too]/Bullseye - populate the board with protects, match them for hilarous damage

Sabretooth/Patch[or electra, or maybe hawkeye]/whoever, let's say Hawkeye for cascade stuff - create enemy strikes and then match them away

Nico/Daken/Wolverine (you can reverse the 2 and 3* here if you want, or substitute Blade) - make strikes, buff strikes

G4mora/Kamala Khan/Thor - do everything you can to turn all the purple tiles into something else, Deadliest Woman your way to victory

Rogue/Hulk/Hawkeye - Rogue will probably blast everyone in the face and keep damage to a minium while Hulk turns the board green to facilitate, which has a good chance of making cascades for you

Thanks. I just ran Chavez/Hood/Black Widow (for even more ap stealing shenanigans.) Worked like a charm. Makes me want to run Peggy/Hood/BW to see how that would go.

Sekilicious

Peggy, IM40, BW would be interesting I think. Or maybe Thor instead of BW for feeding the IM40 beast. It would be terrible on defense though. 

hothie

Sekilicious said:

Peggy, IM40, BW would be interesting I think. Or maybe Thor instead of BW for feeding the IM40 beast. It would be terrible on defense though. 

Yeah, Peggy/Hood/BW didn't work, but I just left off with Polaris/Storm/Daken, so that worked well.

Anon

Dark Beast/Falcon/Bullseye is really fun too. Bullseye passively creates purple protect tiles on matches, and when you match those tiles, Beast generates extra purple ap for Falcon to perform his AOEs.

Not the best team probably, but its very fun.

acescracked

Sekilicious said:

Peggy, IM40, BW would be interesting I think. Or maybe Thor instead of BW for feeding the IM40 beast. It would be terrible on defense though. 

Years ago peggy/im40 was the undisputed Combined Arms champion.

These days with so many passive damage dealers in 4* that team is now middle of the road.

TheEyeDoctorsWife

As mentioned in another thread , basing a team with Chavez boosted with 2 AP in all colors and literally any other combination as cannon fodder is a quick and easy victory.  Karnak, Polaris and Juggs are the most common 4*s I lose to in retaliation.

supergarv

Combined Arms is the event where I wonder why we can only have 5 roster presets, and roster management that takes longer than the match itself?

Would be so easy to fix (20 slots, typeable name input for search. No, not text input like chat, but inline)

hothie

Lol! Using Executive Decision on a maxed out Iron Hammer will put a smile on your face, I don't care who you are. Especially against Polaris.

"Yeah, I don't like this board. New board. NOW!"

Omegased

C4rol/Loki/daken is a solid team. 

Mockingbird/im40/storm is also.

Those are my two picks

Anon

4* Juggs/3* Daken/ 2* Thor.

Daken gives out free strikes for Juggs AOE. Juggs tanks everything so every match is an AOE. Thor is just there to use up any extra ap.

hothie

The Thing and Deadpool are hilarious together, too, having a "Who can take more damage" contest between them.

Warbringa

No surprise, over half of teams are using Polaris as the 4*....

Anon

Now that I think about it, Juggs/Thanos/Daken could be the fastest team.

hothie

Warbringa said:

No surprise, over half of teams are using Polaris as the 4*....

I've seen a lot of other 4*s used, though. C4rol,  Karnak, Chavez, Juggs, to name a few. Many have been listed above. I've used at least a dozen different ones myself. There's lots of synergies that have yet to be tapped into, I think. It's fun trying to find some of them.

ThaRoadWarrior

I’ve been trying to use 4*s that released after I moved up to 5* play just to see what they do. 

ThaRoadWarrior

Here is a funny one:
Taskmaster 5/5/3: red= Oldest Trick
Blue= speedshot
black= quack fu
scarlet witch
hawkeye

have that cd resolve into a match 5 and laugh hysterically at the grip of purple and blue speed shot tiles that resolve. Use the purple to AOE and stun somebody. Use the blue to stun. Use the red to do damage that scales with friendly CDs in play. Use black to destroy all the greens and create more cascades (after those CDs resolve)