Class of 2016/2017

DrClever

I've been trying to get BP's black and DD's stun bonus going at the same time - I think that would be fun.

ThaRoadWarrior

I'm riding Doc Ock/Thor/Daredevil pretty effectively. Thor is strictly a battery, all that green is going to Doc Ock, who gathers blue for a stun far more effectively than Daredevil can gather purple. With that amount of heeling it's been a pretty sustainable group so far.

LavaManLee

All I know is that leaving SL/Gambit/Chavez out on defense gets me a lot of defensive wins. Too bad points don't matter for the most part.

entrailbucket

I'm using Starlord Gambit Hawkeye... Hawkeye and Gambit actually work great together!

Starlord is fantastic since his rework. What's funny is that Starlord's active abilities are still just ok, but his health and match damage are enough to make him really strong.

MoosePrime

@MegaBee said:
I'm going Hawkeye/Coulson/G4mora.

This is my team, too. It's slow (so many countdown banners), but reliable.

DrClever

@MoosePrime said:

@MegaBee said:
I'm going Hawkeye/Coulson/G4mora.

This is my team, too. It's slow (so many countdown banners), but reliable.

Sell Gamora to me as opposed to D4nvers, what am I missing?

MegaBee

@DrClever said:

@MoosePrime said:

@MegaBee said:
I'm going Hawkeye/Coulson/G4mora.

This is my team, too. It's slow (so many countdown banners), but reliable.

Sell Gamora to me as opposed to D4nvers, what am I missing?

Stun for 6 blue.

DrClever

Yes, stuns are always good. I'll give it a go and see how it feels versus Carol's special tile boosting.

MoosePrime

Once you have them stunned, they don't move again. Coulson's 1-turn countdowns give you 3 blue for each power, Hawkeye has a cheap red to get even more countdowns from Coulson.

Gamora's black passive insta-down helps, too.

DrClever

Ah, right, yes, thanks. I was still thinking blue to get to Out of Arrows.

658_2

After a couple matches with Gambit/Thor/Star Lord, I played Gambit/Thor/MEH for fun and oddly got at least 10 defensive wins over the next few days. That was too slow though, so went back to the first team. Went from 7 wins to 50 in one session on 8 healthpacks. I healed Gambit a bunch, but I never healed Thor, and Star Lord only once or twice. Thor started with about 2k health the last ten matches. Gambit’s damage is so heavy and reasonably quick that you can start him with quite low health and get away with it, even against 600+ opponents.

entrailbucket

@658_2 said:
After a couple matches with Gambit/Thor/Star Lord, I played Gambit/Thor/MEH for fun and oddly got at least 10 defensive wins over the next few days. That was too slow though, so went back to the first team. Went from 7 wins to 50 in one session on 8 healthpacks. I healed Gambit a bunch, but I never healed Thor, and Star Lord only once or twice. Thor started with about 2k health the last ten matches. Gambit’s damage is so heavy and reasonably quick that you can start him with quite low health and get away with it, even against 600+ opponents.

I saw someone here, on some thread, say that Gambit's buff was bad/disappointing, and that he was still useless, and I just had to assume that person hadn't used him. He's GOOD! He's a little slow but the numbers are just crazy, and he feeds himself pretty effectively.

The lockout is still a little annoying, and definitely unnecessary, but when he's boosted I generally want to use his powers over anyone else's anyway. Like, I'm not missing Starlord's purple this week, or Hawkeye's red.

Bowgentle

@entrailbucket said:

@658_2 said:
After a couple matches with Gambit/Thor/Star Lord, I played Gambit/Thor/MEH for fun and oddly got at least 10 defensive wins over the next few days. That was too slow though, so went back to the first team. Went from 7 wins to 50 in one session on 8 healthpacks. I healed Gambit a bunch, but I never healed Thor, and Star Lord only once or twice. Thor started with about 2k health the last ten matches. Gambit’s damage is so heavy and reasonably quick that you can start him with quite low health and get away with it, even against 600+ opponents.

I saw someone here, on some thread, say that Gambit's buff was bad/disappointing, and that he was still useless, and I just had to assume that person hadn't used him. He's GOOD! He's a little slow but the numbers are just crazy, and he feeds himself pretty effectively.

The lockout is still a little annoying, and definitely unnecessary, but when he's boosted I generally want to use his powers over anyone else's anyway. Like, I'm not missing Starlord's purple this week, or Hawkeye's red.

I miss Thor's red a little, but yes, Gambit hits like a truck.

entrailbucket

@Bowgentle said:

@entrailbucket said:

@658_2 said:
After a couple matches with Gambit/Thor/Star Lord, I played Gambit/Thor/MEH for fun and oddly got at least 10 defensive wins over the next few days. That was too slow though, so went back to the first team. Went from 7 wins to 50 in one session on 8 healthpacks. I healed Gambit a bunch, but I never healed Thor, and Star Lord only once or twice. Thor started with about 2k health the last ten matches. Gambit’s damage is so heavy and reasonably quick that you can start him with quite low health and get away with it, even against 600+ opponents.

I saw someone here, on some thread, say that Gambit's buff was bad/disappointing, and that he was still useless, and I just had to assume that person hadn't used him. He's GOOD! He's a little slow but the numbers are just crazy, and he feeds himself pretty effectively.

The lockout is still a little annoying, and definitely unnecessary, but when he's boosted I generally want to use his powers over anyone else's anyway. Like, I'm not missing Starlord's purple this week, or Hawkeye's red.

I miss Thor's red a little, but yes, Gambit hits like a truck.

I dunno, Thor is sorta...bad...now. His passive AP generation is obviously still great, but his active powers are kind of terrible.

nwahs086

Hawkeye, Coulson, and Gamora was the best team to get to 50 while using minimal health packs. Stun lock as soon as possible and slowly finish them off. Also don't go against Gambit. He hits too hard. I also boosted red/yellow and blue purple with them. At the end I used Star-lord, Hawkeye and Gambit. Gambit's countdowns help Hawkeye's blue and Gambit's red.

ThaRoadWarrior

Thor's yellow is a bit slow, but it actually hits quite hard if you find yourself with enough to double fire it. I do miss Gambit's red destroying the charged tiles rather than converting them to basic. Now the cascade synergy with Negasonic is gone.

BriMan2222

@entrailbucket said:

@Bowgentle said:

@entrailbucket said:

@658_2 said:
After a couple matches with Gambit/Thor/Star Lord, I played Gambit/Thor/MEH for fun and oddly got at least 10 defensive wins over the next few days. That was too slow though, so went back to the first team. Went from 7 wins to 50 in one session on 8 healthpacks. I healed Gambit a bunch, but I never healed Thor, and Star Lord only once or twice. Thor started with about 2k health the last ten matches. Gambit’s damage is so heavy and reasonably quick that you can start him with quite low health and get away with it, even against 600+ opponents.

I saw someone here, on some thread, say that Gambit's buff was bad/disappointing, and that he was still useless, and I just had to assume that person hadn't used him. He's GOOD! He's a little slow but the numbers are just crazy, and he feeds himself pretty effectively.

The lockout is still a little annoying, and definitely unnecessary, but when he's boosted I generally want to use his powers over anyone else's anyway. Like, I'm not missing Starlord's purple this week, or Hawkeye's red.

I miss Thor's red a little, but yes, Gambit hits like a truck.

I dunno, Thor is sorta...bad...now. His passive AP generation is obviously still great, but his active powers are kind of terrible.

Yeah, but if his powers weren't terrible (hit much harder or were cheaper) he would probably be over powered. Right now he's just a battery for someone else, if he was worth fueling himself he would probably be too strong.

entrailbucket

@BriMan2222 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@Bowgentle said:

@entrailbucket said:

@658_2 said:
After a couple matches with Gambit/Thor/Star Lord, I played Gambit/Thor/MEH for fun and oddly got at least 10 defensive wins over the next few days. That was too slow though, so went back to the first team. Went from 7 wins to 50 in one session on 8 healthpacks. I healed Gambit a bunch, but I never healed Thor, and Star Lord only once or twice. Thor started with about 2k health the last ten matches. Gambit’s damage is so heavy and reasonably quick that you can start him with quite low health and get away with it, even against 600+ opponents.

I saw someone here, on some thread, say that Gambit's buff was bad/disappointing, and that he was still useless, and I just had to assume that person hadn't used him. He's GOOD! He's a little slow but the numbers are just crazy, and he feeds himself pretty effectively.

The lockout is still a little annoying, and definitely unnecessary, but when he's boosted I generally want to use his powers over anyone else's anyway. Like, I'm not missing Starlord's purple this week, or Hawkeye's red.

I miss Thor's red a little, but yes, Gambit hits like a truck.

I dunno, Thor is sorta...bad...now. His passive AP generation is obviously still great, but his active powers are kind of terrible.

Yeah, but if his powers weren't terrible (hit much harder or were cheaper) he would probably be over powered. Right now he's just a battery for someone else, if he was worth fueling himself he would probably be too strong.

This is a really good point. When everyone was using Thor, they were using him for his passive (feeding red to Gambit), and later, for his green (boosted by Okoye). Even when Thor was absolutely everywhere, nobody was using his active powers without a booster.

Bowgentle

@Tony_Foot said:

@entrailbucket said:

I saw someone here, on some thread, say that Gambit's buff was bad/disappointing, and that he was still useless, and I just had to assume that person hadn't used him. He's GOOD! He's a little slow but the numbers are just crazy, and he feeds himself pretty effectively.

The lockout is still a little annoying, and definitely unnecessary, but when he's boosted I generally want to use his powers over anyone else's anyway. Like, I'm not missing Starlord's purple this week, or Hawkeye's red.

I assume you are referring to me and that's not what I said at all in this thread. In fact you have just agreed with the point I made that his lockout doesn't need to be a thing anymore. I would also argue that having his two purple countdowns overwrite would be a good idea again. He still wouldn't be meta but he would be fun to play.

He was referring to Vhailorx from another thread.

entrailbucket

Yeah, I saw someone actually say that Gambit was useless and that his buff was bad.