Getting bored

Bustapup · 2 May 2025, 08:21

I'm really fed up of every single PVP seeing the same cheap, B.s characters in play. New strange event has powered up kitty and Hawkeye and my 1st three matches have been against ascended Polaris and Jane and I've been absolutely trounced by endless cascades and tiles being created. What's the point in having these different events, forcing a character in who you don't want to play and being murdered by the same old boring meta teamups over and over and over again.....?

Either that or you take your strongest team in only for an ascended spider-man, may and a few good supports come in and one shot you with critical tiles on turn one.

And to be clear, my account is no slouch I have loads of championed 5* and you just CANNOT compete unless you resign yourself to the fact you have to play the same counter characters to have a chance

The devs NEED to address this I don't understand how they think this is fun.

Scofie · 2 May 2025, 09:57

I've never been a fan of PvP for similar reasons. I think there's always been teams that were just annoying to fight, or utterly destroyed me. It's a massive problem during those transition periods in the roster where you find people at a much higher level and worth meta teams.

I'd say that the boosted characters are a good step in this but there are some issues - even the great characters that don't need a boost, get boosted as often as the others, boosted characters don't have synergy, or can't counteract meta teams.

It's a difficult one to fix though. I play PvP now more than ever because of rewards but rarely beyond 25 wins and even that's fairly irregular. Most times it's 7 (for support shards) or 12 (for CP) wins but it has a lot to do with time. I skip teams I don't want to fight. I try to have fun with it and if it's not fun, I do a much as I want and then skip the year of the event. In the grand scheme of things, I don't feel like I'm missing out on much when I do.

bluewolf · 2 May 2025, 12:41

My idea which may be impossible to implement would be to allow every player to add one boosted character per tier every week. It couldn’t be the same as last week’s and they would lock out the top 10 or so meta 5s and 4-5s so you didn’t just pick Polaris and Jugg every other week.

Let people pick a boosted character that synergizes with one the devs boost and maybe they use something other than these brainless meta teams.

Obviously if Jugg and other metas came up in the standard boost rotation they would be boosted by the devs.

Anyway that’s my idea.

entrailbucket · 2 May 2025, 16:40

The fix for this is to address BOTH the "meta" characters, and the ones who are still unusable when boosted. If Hawkeye +100 levels isn't good enough to beat unboosted m'Thor or whatever, that's a big problem.

It's a balance problem, and the fix is to actually do balance.

Warbringa · 2 May 2025, 17:36

Yeah PvP is not fun at all. Same boring teams and no incentive for players to use different characters. Even boosted characters by over 100 levels are worse than meta teams, which is a issue.

DAZ0273 · 2 May 2025, 17:45

I dunno, I got to 12 wins with Juggernaut in record time, thanks Mighty Thor!

DAZ0273 · 2 May 2025, 18:00

Another 5 wins since my last post. Yeah there are some **** teams out there but you just gotta keep going.

will7612 · 2 May 2025, 18:53

@DAZ0273 said:
Another 5 wins since my last post. Yeah there are some **** teams out there but you just gotta keep going.

Juggs and Mthor?

entrailbucket · 2 May 2025, 18:58

If the initial complaint was "I'm bored of facing and having to use the same few powerful characters every event" then "just use m'Thor and Juggernaut" is probably not the answer they were looking for.

Borstock · 2 May 2025, 19:02

PvP was better before supports.

DAZ0273 · 2 May 2025, 19:10

@Borstock said:
PvP was better before supports.

Agreed.

I am not using Mighty Thor BTW but am using Juggs coz why wouldn't you in his boost week?

DAZ0273 · 2 May 2025, 19:11

@entrailbucket said:
If the initial complaint was "I'm bored of facing and having to use the same few powerful characters every event" then "just use m'Thor and Juggernaut" is probably not the answer they were looking for.

I am fairly happy to fight Mighty Thor outside of boost weeks because that is a 95% win.

DAZ0273 · 2 May 2025, 19:16

This week demonstrates how far Kitty has fallen though, I think I have seen one team with her on. Considering how dominant she used to be it sounds absurd but she needs a buff.

entrailbucket · 2 May 2025, 19:17

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:
If the initial complaint was "I'm bored of facing and having to use the same few powerful characters every event" then "just use m'Thor and Juggernaut" is probably not the answer they were looking for.

I am fairly happy to fight Mighty Thor outside of boost weeks because that is a 95% win.

Maybe take it up with the person who posted that they were tired of facing the same characters?

BriMan2222 · 2 May 2025, 19:43

@DAZ0273 said:
This week demonstrates how far Kitty has fallen though, I think I have seen one team with her on. Considering how dominant she used to be it sounds absurd but she needs a buff.

I don't think it's so much that she needs a buff, as it is that mthor is every where and kitty needs to keep things on the board. Kitty and Beta Ray Bill actually counters hammer jugg pretty well. Kitty will buff all the shields until he's doing -1 damage each turn, and if you get her red out she's adding 9 attack tiles to the board every turn.

Unfortunately, Kitty/Bill is an easy target for mthor/polaris

DAZ0273 · 2 May 2025, 20:55

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:
If the initial complaint was "I'm bored of facing and having to use the same few powerful characters every event" then "just use m'Thor and Juggernaut" is probably not the answer they were looking for.

I am fairly happy to fight Mighty Thor outside of boost weeks because that is a 95% win.

Maybe take it up with the person who posted that they were tired of facing the same characters?

Not sure there is anything to take up? We can each have our own experiences and thoughts, no?

entrailbucket · 2 May 2025, 21:20

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:
If the initial complaint was "I'm bored of facing and having to use the same few powerful characters every event" then "just use m'Thor and Juggernaut" is probably not the answer they were looking for.

I am fairly happy to fight Mighty Thor outside of boost weeks because that is a 95% win.

Maybe take it up with the person who posted that they were tired of facing the same characters?

Not sure there is anything to take up? We can each have our own experiences and thoughts, no?

If someone posts that they're bored of seeing the same characters all the time, saying "who cares, they're easy to beat" has nothing to do with their complaint.

DAZ0273 · 2 May 2025, 21:27

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:
If the initial complaint was "I'm bored of facing and having to use the same few powerful characters every event" then "just use m'Thor and Juggernaut" is probably not the answer they were looking for.

I am fairly happy to fight Mighty Thor outside of boost weeks because that is a 95% win.

Maybe take it up with the person who posted that they were tired of facing the same characters?

Not sure there is anything to take up? We can each have our own experiences and thoughts, no?

If someone posts that they're bored of seeing the same characters all the time, saying "who cares, they're easy to beat" has nothing to do with their complaint.

But I never said that.

entrailbucket · 2 May 2025, 21:49

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:
If the initial complaint was "I'm bored of facing and having to use the same few powerful characters every event" then "just use m'Thor and Juggernaut" is probably not the answer they were looking for.

I am fairly happy to fight Mighty Thor outside of boost weeks because that is a 95% win.

Maybe take it up with the person who posted that they were tired of facing the same characters?

Not sure there is anything to take up? We can each have our own experiences and thoughts, no?

If someone posts that they're bored of seeing the same characters all the time, saying "who cares, they're easy to beat" has nothing to do with their complaint.

But I never said that.

Fabulous.

I am curious about the strategy you're using to kill 550 Polaris/m'Thor (the combo mentioned in the OP), because I don't find it easy to beat at all.

That team is relatively low on HP (I guess? Is 150k per character low now?) but always comes with Leapfrog, and it's an incredibly fast clock. You need to kill Polaris within 3-4 turns (through Leapfrog) or you eat a guaranteed cascade for somewhere between 500k and a million damage.

Borstock · 2 May 2025, 21:59

@DAZ0273 said:
This week demonstrates how far Kitty has fallen though, I think I have seen one team with her on. Considering how dominant she used to be it sounds absurd but she needs a buff.

I'm on record as saying Kitty was never the problem. When she was dominant, the problem was Rockett. And then Polaris.

DAZ0273 · 2 May 2025, 22:00

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:

@DAZ0273 said:

@entrailbucket said:
If the initial complaint was "I'm bored of facing and having to use the same few powerful characters every event" then "just use m'Thor and Juggernaut" is probably not the answer they were looking for.

I am fairly happy to fight Mighty Thor outside of boost weeks because that is a 95% win.

Maybe take it up with the person who posted that they were tired of facing the same characters?

Not sure there is anything to take up? We can each have our own experiences and thoughts, no?

If someone posts that they're bored of seeing the same characters all the time, saying "who cares, they're easy to beat" has nothing to do with their complaint.

But I never said that.

Fabulous.

I am curious about the strategy you're using to kill 550 Polaris/m'Thor (the combo mentioned in the OP), because I don't find it easy to beat at all.

That team is relatively low on HP (I guess? Is 150k per character low now?) but always comes with Leapfrog, and it's an incredibly fast clock. You need to kill Polaris within 3-4 turns (through Leapfrog) or you eat a guaranteed cascade for somewhere between 500k and a million damage.

Dude, you are off in la la land. I am not fighting those teams. Y'know it is possible that players here are not all 550? Anyway I will leave you to your insanity and my strategy is I am not you. 🙄

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