New Character - Maximus (Inhuman Royal) 4*

LavaManLee

@WilliamK1983 said:
No comment yet on Max, but wanted to comment on the insane amount of banners every single match because of Max and BRB. I spend more match time waiting for banners to stop than making matches. Been taking him out first just to get rid of the opponent banners. My main problem then becomes I get rolled by Polaris if my gain purp ap support doesn't hit(so jubes can stun)or a bad board. Not having much fun but the grind continues.

Having the option to get rid of banners in all of MPQ has been a QoL request almost since the beginning. Many have played the game long enough that they are so unnecessary and take away from actual game play. For whatever reason, neither groups of devs have chosen to make it onto their roadmap other than "that's a great idea".

WilliamK1983

And everyone's favorite, "once the new engine."

Zalasta

Yea, banners also make it unbearable to use Coulson in a match as well. If the new engine doesn't live up to expectations, it's going to be pitchforks & torches.

bluewolf

The devs have already basically said they don’t want to remove banners because it makes things too confusing without them.

Maybe they can speed up and one hopes at minimum the Odinforsaken mindless ones place their stupid SAPs much faster.

Honestly a PvP match is more tolerable for me with banners and things than pve where you’re trying to grind through repeated content. Also banner spammers are a kind of speed bump and probably insert some team variety assuming they’re effective.

Maybe there should also be a toggle. Too confusing with them off? Leave them on. Downside: required to remove them to place better .

GrimSkald

The banners are a bit tedious, but I don't mind it really. Sure, it slows you down a bit, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing from a balance perspective.

In general, Maximus seems really good, particularly with or against SAP teams.

KGB

He was a beast in shield training. My Black Bolt is undercovered so was essentially useless. I used Valk as my 3rd to generate Black for Maximus and she is handy because she generates strikes for you whenever the enemy team does any kind of damage.

After a few turns and firing his Black and other powers suddenly he was doing 40k damage a turn and in a couple of cases outright killed full health Mordo and Mockingbird when his CD's expired.

I imagine he will be a monster when ascended.

KGB

Hellblazer666

@bluewolf said:

Maybe they can speed up and one hopes at minimum the Odinforsaken mindless ones place their stupid SAPs much faster.

Speed up the AIM soldiers for crying out loud. they are the worst. it takes what feels like 5 minutes for all 3 of them to do their abilities

KGB

I used 2/3/2 L147 Maximus as my 3rd along with a boosted 370 Polaris and BrB in the challenge node on day 3 of simulator (the one with 5 star Carnage, BrB + someone who did nothing).

I handily defeated the node 3 times (no health packs) with my supports being Lucky/Carols Communicator to heal Polaris/BrB, Leapfrog on Maximus (I needed no boosts). Once special tiles start leaving or enemies ones are made he fills the board with CD's and starts to melt away their health like crazy even with just these few covers and at such a low level.

KGB

entrailbucket

@KGB said:
I used 2/3/2 L147 Maximus as my 3rd along with a boosted 370 Polaris and BrB in the challenge node on day 3 of simulator (the one with 5 star Carnage, BrB + someone who did nothing).

I handily defeated the node 3 times (no health packs) with my supports being Lucky/Carols Communicator to heal Polaris/BrB, Leapfrog on Maximus (I needed no boosts). Once special tiles start leaving or enemies ones are made he fills the board with CD's and starts to melt away their health like crazy even with just these few covers and at such a low level.

KGB

I told you he'd be great with her! I'm not sure he's the best Polaris buddy, but it's a fun combo.

IrisRyu

Maximus with ascended Prowler is kind of bonkers. Once Prowler’s strike tiles are out, Max’s passive damage starts wiping out opponents and his blue turns into a nuke (mine is lvl 280-something and does upwards of 200k damage on a single cast). That may be more a testament to how nasty ascended Prowler is than Max, but the power interaction between the two is really strong.

Deathlok and Crystal are fun thirds to play off their respective affiliations, but ascended Colleen Wing is my favorite partner. I should do a separate profile on Colleen in the Ascended Winners thread, because she’s crazy good leveled up and is the perfect tank for this team. Colleen reduces damage equal to the strength of friendly strike tiles, so she takes zero damage with Prowler most matches and has 180% min. match damage boost, a true heal and team heal on the rare occasions that Tinkerer doesn’t trigger turn one.