Unofficial Forum Contest: Emperor's Wrath

rainkingucd
rainkingucd Posts: 1,419 Chairperson of the Boards
in MPQ General Discussion

Let's try this again! Here's one that should be fun and shouldn't break immediately (unlike Hotpool's strike tile):

How many Emperor's Wrath points can you get on Namor (Phoenix Five)?

We know now the technical maximum (2 billion) but let's see what's achievable before tile destruction downs the enemy.

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  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,272 Chairperson of the Boards

    2 Billion?!?!?!?

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,451 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 18 November 2024, 15:39

    This is hard without a puzzle gauntlet running! Namor's counter continues to increment if he is dead though, so if you have some sort of "send them away" capability you could probably do a decent job. So far i've tried to get a 2* ascended to 4* Magneto going, and Wiccan, but all the nodes available to me with health-ful enemies are too strong for them to last.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,451 Chairperson of the Boards

    best I've been able to do so far is like 45 or so

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,451 Chairperson of the Boards

    Found a rocket/polaris team on the Namor event and brought an ascended Sabretooth with Colossus.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,451 Chairperson of the Boards

    Tried ascended Medusa and sabretooth against another rocket/polaris and got here:

  • y4747
    y4747 Posts: 165 Tile Toppler


    5mags onslaught. mag blue > namor green and red untill everything is dead.
    nuke-wise, still less damage than a 3/4may+vision+5kang, vision yellow/blue > kang purple :)

  • Codex
    Codex Posts: 304 Mover and Shaker

    Good challenge.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,451 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 18 November 2024, 20:09

    anyone try anything especially novel to keep enemies alive, like sending them Away with Kang?

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,451 Chairperson of the Boards

    I used 5* Vulture/Namor/Shang-Chi is the cheat code for this, but it isn’t very efficient. Drag someone airborne with 5* vulture and then use Shang-Chi to kill the other two, just make sure to leave the countdown alive. You can use Namor’s green or red if you have a surplus, but I did it on a team with boosted strange, who i threw airborne, and when he landed he would flames of faltine my unleveled Namor, and once he died it stopped incrementing the counter. But you could do this as long as you have the patience. Chase match-4 or linear match-5 if you want to maximize destruction with Shang, it doesn’t count regular matches.

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 519 Critical Contributor

    @DAZ0273 said:
    2 Billion?!?!?!?

    The integer overflow on the variable type the game uses for value of strikes and protects .... 2^31, or 2,147,483,648

    Don't know if the same applies to this variable .... 2billion tiles destroyed ... could take a while to test!

    So far the most wrath I have noted was .... 18. Got a ways to go on this 'challenge'.

  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,640 Chairperson of the Boards

    This probably needs to wait for the next puzzle gauntlet.
    Health pools are too small right now.

    I hit like 250 not trying, but I am trying to build Namor right now so wasting time with him isn't up front right now

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 352 Mover and Shaker
    edited 18 November 2024, 21:14

    Stopped just over 1200 but here's an infinite:

    Darkveil, Free Aquaman5, Storm5 (or any board shaker really, Nighcralwer4 might be best if you can keep him alive)

    • Target a team with Strange if you want it to truly be infinite
    • Start with some AP to speed things up
    • Recommend Krakoa and Car for safety at beginning
    • Target Strange so he sends himself away first, then throw Darks yellow
    • Kill / alternate sending away and killing the other 2 baddies
    • Once it's just Strange left throw Darks yellow, Strange will counter and send himself away without taking damage
    • While strange is away board shuffle all of your other abilities without him taking damage
    • Repeat the last 2 steps to your liking
  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 519 Critical Contributor

    @JoeHandle said:

    @DAZ0273 said:
    2 Billion?!?!?!?

    The integer overflow on the variable type the game uses for value of strikes and protects .... 2^31, or 2,147,483,648

    Don't know if the same applies to this variable .... 2billion tiles destroyed ... could take a while to test!

    So far the most wrath I have noted was .... 18. Got a ways to go on this 'challenge'.

    well, w/o resorting to troll-y teams, I have managed to repeatedly raise my 'high score' ... 18 ... 48 ... 65 ... 112 ... 205 ...

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 352 Mover and Shaker

    Took about 25 mins to get to 3,055. Due to boredom, I can't recommend going beyond.

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