Your latest fun team combination

I really love this new duo with the 3rd being fluid.

Ascended Karnak 5/4/4
Killmonger 5/5/3
3rd character depends on the enemy

Ascended Karnak is the goods. His match damage rivals the strongest of those in the 5* tier and he starts every turn off with a VERY strong shield tile if one doesn’t exist.

But once turn 4 hits, his match damage is OUT OF CONTROL he still gets the 560% match increase tacked on so he’s one shotting full life 5*s with match 3 with a crit. Ph5 Colossus IS NOT strong enough to hold up for long. He won’t get one shotted but he still takes incredible damage from match 4s from Karnak. To further put it in perspective, my Ascended Karnak is at lvl 454 with 1034 black match damage. After turn 4, that black match damage jymps to 7000. That is not a typo.

Killmonger adds a couple vicious twists to Karnak. First off, he adds 150% more damage if make a match in the enemy’s strongest color. This tacks on to Karnak’s insane match damage after turn because Karnak’s match damage gets added to his static match damage and KM’s only prove on the match.

2ndly KM and Karnak are 2 of the best crit makers in the game outside of America Chavez. And KM’s black passive punishes enemy crit matches by either stealing up to 5 red or by dealing a big chunk of damage. You can pick and choose whose red power you want to use. KM’s create 2 crits. If there’s a crit or 2 on the field, use Karnak’s red to get a good bit of damage and cascade AROUND the crit and then probably get a free match with that crit tile. And his blue creates 3 crit tiles.

Now the 3rd character pretty much becomes what you want to help that duo or shut down what the opponents team has. I’ve used……

Ph5 Collossus (if the opponent has a character or two who’s strongest color is yellow)
HiEvo (if the opponents strongest color is red)
Bruce Banner/Hulk (extra turn and some cheeky damage early)
Wanda (defense vs AOE and a little bit of tile manipulation)
Ascended Rogue (a great green outlet and a great anti-cascade character and defensive tank)
5* Jeffrey (another great green outlet vs special tiles that aren’t CDs or repeaters)
Crystal (great green outlet and defensive healer)

Apocalypse - Omega Red (5) and Vulture (5).

Been looking for a partner for Vulture since he is a decent battery with some other utility and tried him out with what is already a pretty great pairing that suffers from complete color overlap. Vulture makes them a rainbow team and his purple passive when maxed feeds Apoc perfectly.

With +2b/p +2r/y and +2 all you can make 1 purple match turn 1 sending Vulture airborne for 2 turns. 1 yellow match on the next turn gets you Apoc repeaters out so all your damage is boosted. Once Vulture returns from airborne you can fire Omega's red and Apoc's black and it is pretty much a done deal.

New Team Alert!

Ph5 Cyclops 3/5/5 (Fantasticar Support lvl 3)
Ascended Talos 3/5/5
America Chavez 3/5/5 or 5/3/5

I’d been messing around with the Fantasticar Support and I really don’t think it’s that great on any of the FF. But I really like the level 3 perk where if the equipped character makes a match, you swap some pairs of tiles and add 1 TUP.

What happens often is, if your character makes a match in the first 4 turns, 2 pairs of tiles will swap, and you’ll gain 1 TUP. When the tiles swap, you’ll get another match, gain another TUP, and 2 pairs of tiles will swap AGAIN and you’ll gain another TUP. You’ll have turns where you gain 6 TUP after making only 1 match. During the first 4 turns, you’ll often end up with 7+ TUP without making ANY TUP matches. But who uses all that TUP well? Obviously Okoye, but she’s already equipped with a support (Royal talon fighter).

Enter Ph5 Cyclops.

His yellow swaps a pair of tiles for every TUP you have AND your teammates gain 65%-75% increase in base match damage. It’s cascade city. So who do you want choose as the partner? You don’t want someone who will tank Cyclops’ color at least until after turn 4.

That’s where ascended Talor comes in.

Talos sucked before his rebalance last year. His rebalance made him a really good AP thief and his black gives him a 12%-17% bonus match damage increase for every AP Talos has more than the enemy in any color. Combined with cyclops’ yellow, that damage gets out of hand. Then you add America Chavez, and you’re popping crit matches really early and nuke match 3s.

This may not work as well once I can ascend AC next Tuesday.

5 Evo, 4 Northstar, 4 Night Crawler

I've always really enjoyed Evo and Northstar, but I decided to put them together today despite the complete color overlap so Evo could tank for NS and NC, and oh boy was it fun. NS and NC already go very very well together, but Evo was the missing piece.

If there is anything Northstar does very well is, get AP (usually in his/Evo's colors), and fast. Prioritize black, and airborne someone who will net you a lot of AP moved to the top. This will cascade quickly and get your AP combos / NC pink going (I used it when yellow was the top color). Before I knew it, Evos yellow had been thrown like 15 times, he was full health / unkillable, and the cascades destroyed the level 10 "difficult" fight with no friendlies injured.

It's definitely not the fastest team, but it was super fun, and I love teams like this; teams that implement weirder lower level characters and destroy the hardest fight. Your NC and NS don't even need levels (but Evo does ).