New Character - Moonstone (Meteorite) 4*

S0kun
S0kun ADMINISTRATORS Posts: 859 Critical Contributor
edited 15 May 2025, 16:13 in MPQ General Discussion

Health & Match Damage

Feeder Flow

Abilities

Ability: Play the Hero

Color: Yellow
AP Cost: 5

Select 3 non-Black basic tiles to convert to Black.

(PASSIVE) Allied Thunderbolts deal 45% more ability damage. If you have at least 3 less AP than the enemy, swap her Yellow and Black match damage and this becomes Act the Villain. Whenever you make a Black, Blue, or Green match, convert 2 AP of the matches color into Yellow AP and gain 1 Black AP.

270: Unchanged.
370: Unchanged.

Level 2: Deal 60% more damage.
Level 3: Deal 75% more damage.
Level 4: Deal 110% more damage.
Level 5: Deal 175% more damage.

Ability: Act the Villain

Color: Black
AP Cost: 0

(PASSIVE) Moonstone takes 15% less damage and deals 15% more damage. If you have at least 3 more AP than the enemy, swap her Black and Yellow match damage and this becomes Play the Hero. Whenever the enemy makes a Black, Purple, or Red match, steal 1 AP of the match’s color and gain 1 Yellow AP.

270: Unchanged.
370: Unchanged.

Level 2: Take 20% less damage and deal 20% more damage.
Level 3: Take 25% less damage and deal 30% more damage.
Level 4: Take 35% less damage and deal 40% more damage.
Level 5: Take 50% less damage and deal 70% more damage.

Ability: Blinding Flash

Color: Purple
AP Cost: 7

Stun the target and one other random enemy and a random teammate of Moonstone for 1 turns, then Drain 4 Yellow AP to burst heal her allies for 185 health and Drain 4 Black AP to deal 185 damage to the enemy team.

270: Burst heal for 356 health. Deal 356 damage.
370: Burst heal for 747 health. Deal 747 damage.

Level 2: Burst heal for 315 health. Deal 315 damage.
270: Burst heal for 605 health. Deal 605 damage.
370: Burst heal for 1270 health. Deal 1270 damage.

Level 3: Stun for 2 turns.
270: Stun for 2 turns.
370: Stun for 2 turns.

Level 4: Burst heal for 564 health. Deal 564 damage.
270: Burst heal for 1086 health. Deal 1086 damage.
370: Burst heal for 2278 health. Deal 2278 damage.

Level 5: Stun for 3 turns. Burst heal for 934 health. Deal 934 damage.
270: Stun for 3 turns. Burst heal for 1798 health. Deal 1798 damage.
370: Stun for 3 turns. Burst heal for 3772 health. Deal 3772 damage.

Ability: Photon Projection

Color: Red
AP Cost: 6

Deal 195 damage to the target, then Drain 4 Yellow AP to deal an extra hit to the target and Drain 4 Black AP to deal 195 damage to the target’s teammates.

270: Deal 374 damage to the target. Deal 374 damage to the target’s teammates.
370: Deal 784 damage to the target. Deal 784 damage to the target’s teammates.

Level 2: Deal 269 damage to the target. Deal 269 damage to the target’s teammates.
270: Deal 516 damage to the target. Deal 516 damage to the target’s teammates.
370: Deal 1083 damage to the target. Deal 1083 damage to the target’s teammates.

Level 3: Deal 344 damage to the target. Deal 344 damage to the target’s teammates.
270: Deal 659 damage to the target. Deal 659 damage to the target’s teammates.
370: Deal 1381 damage to the target. Deal 1381 damage to the target’s teammates.

Level 4: Deal 492 damage to the target. Deal 492 damage to the target’s teammates.
270: Deal 944 damage to the target. Deal 944 damage to the target’s teammates.
370: Deal 1979 damage to the target. Deal 1979 damage to the target’s teammates.

Level 5: Deal 799 damage to the target. Deal 799 damage to the target’s teammates.
270: Deal 1532 damage to the target. Deal 1532 damage to the target’s teammates.
370: Deal 3210 damage to the target. Deal 3210 damage to the target’s teammates.

Release Events

All times in Pacific

Story

Infinite Pursuit
May 15, 2025, 04:00am – May 19, 2025, 11:00pm
Moonstone (Meteorite) Covers and Shards in Placement rewards, Event Token in Progression rewards

Welcome to S.H.I.E.L.D.
May 18, 2025, 04:00am – May 23, 2025, 11:00pm
Moonstone (Meteorite) Shards + Recruit Token for Shield Offer in Progression rewards

Honor Among Thieves
May 19, 2025, 04:00am – May 22, 2025, 11:00pm
Moonstone (Meteorite) Covers and Shards + Vault Token in Progression rewards

Versus

Firewall
May 15, 2025, 05:00pm – May 19, 2025, 12:00am
Moonstone (Meteorite) Cover and Shards as Placement rewards

Two-Faced Terror
May 18,  2025, 05:00am – May 21, 2025, 12:00pm
Moonstone (Meteorite) Covers and Shards + Recruit Token for Shield Offer in Progression rewards

Offers

Moonstone & Foes Vault
May 20, 2025, 04 00am – May 23,  2025, 11:00pm

80 Item Vault:
3x 4-Stars
1x Moonstone (Meteorite) cover
1x Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross) cover
1x Random 4-Star cover
7x Tokens
1x Legendary token
1x Mighty Token
2x Heroic Tokens
3x Beginner Support tokens
6x Iso-8
1x 5,000 Iso-8
2x 2,500 Iso-8
3x 1,000 Iso-8
15x 3-Stars
3x Ragnarok (Dark Avengers) cover
12x Random 3-Star covers
49x 2-Stars
10x Moonstone (Dark Avengers) cover
39x Random 2-Star covers

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Comments

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 658 Critical Contributor
    edited 13 May 2025, 17:38

    Hey, isn't that new bucky a Thunderbolt? It actually seems like this characters multi-hits are intended to trigger his extra passive (nice).

    The kit seems fun, I'm not a fan of the yellow and black draining, but I think you can play around (avoid) it and use her as a battery for others who want black and yellow. That yellow ability seems like we might be able to exploit it (in a good Agatha kinda way).

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 557 Critical Contributor

    Meteorite's passive: increase Thunderbolt allies' ability damage.

    "Yay!"

    Bucky's passive: this passive cannot be affected by strike tiles or other damage modifiers.

    "Oh..."

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 658 Critical Contributor

    Yeah, that part is a bummer, but fortunately it is only tied to his purple passive and there are multiple hits all over both of their kits. Also, who's to say that actually works? It could just say that and not function that way :smiley:

  • WhiteBomber
    WhiteBomber Posts: 658 Critical Contributor
    edited 13 May 2025, 18:37

    His red hits the whole team for like 5 (I think) then hits the priority target again. That 5 will now be quite a bit stronger. Maybe 425% stronger with IronMay? So... almost the equivalent of 1/100th of what Juggernaut4 can do (exaggeration, they seem good together).

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 3,533 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 13 May 2025, 19:04

    That purple is pretty sweet with stunning 2 enemies for 3 turns (plus one of your own team mates - LOL) along with doing AOE damage if you have 4 Black (should be easy with all the ways she generates it). Haven't seen a power like that before or I don't recall one.

    On the other hand, in the top pic she looks like a man with that jawline (if you removed the long hair it would easily pass as a male character).

    KGB

    P.S. How does everyone read this on her Yellow "Whenever you make a Black, Blue, or Green match, convert 2 AP of the matches color into Yellow AP and gain 1 Black AP." Does it mean she has to make the match (ie tank those 3 off colors) or just whenever you make a match in those 3 colors? If it's the latter, that's a horrible passive if you have a rainbow team or want to use those colors because you'll be handicapping yourself when trying to collect AP.

    P.P.S. Did we actually get a clue for her or is this another case of missing communication?

  • ThisisClemFandango
    ThisisClemFandango Posts: 1,023 Chairperson of the Boards

    Always good fun trying to decipher what the hell is going on
    If she has 5 black drains 4 yellow, but doesn't if you have 4 blue, attacks enemy team after the drain but not if she has been stunned for the last 3 turns

    Have no idea if this one is even good. And no we didn't get a clue because of reasons.

  • concillado
    concillado Posts: 121 Tile Toppler

    Moonston2 feeding Sentr3 feeding Moonston4 feeding Sentr5 ??? ;-)

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,084 Chairperson of the Boards

    @ThisisClemFandango said:
    Always good fun trying to decipher what the hell is going on
    If she has 5 black drains 4 yellow, but doesn't if you have 4 blue, attacks enemy team after the drain but not if she has been stunned for the last 3 turns

    Have no idea if this one is even good. And no we didn't get a clue because of reasons.

    2. The clues are typically released via/with the app updates in the store, and they have (presumably) paused publishing updates due to trying to resolve the Amazon situation along with beta development.

  • MegaBee
    MegaBee Posts: 1,127 Chairperson of the Boards

    Whoa, Meteorite! I honestly didn't expect any of the OG Thunderbolts to show up in MPQ.

  • Seph1roth5
    Seph1roth5 Posts: 465 Mover and Shaker
    edited 14 May 2025, 02:52

    Some of her kit looks nice, but it also looks way too convoluted. Kind of like trying to juggle hunter's light/dark ****.

  • Blackstone
    Blackstone Posts: 694 Critical Contributor

    I'll wait to use her in game before forming any opinions on her kit... First impressions based on reading kits have been inconsistent...

    But I'm super excited to see OG Thunderbolts getting some love.

    The art in the top pic does seem off though... The arm behind her seems like it was pasted to her back... The angle of her body just doesn't match having the whole arm trailing behind her. Maybe it's just me.

    I'm going to focus on the positive here though as I've been waiting a long time for Thunderbolts in the game. (With Dark Avengers being so prevalent early on, and the Thunderbolts being what led to them)

  • UnityGamer
    UnityGamer Posts: 53 Match Maker

    Moonstone... er, Meteorite has a balance beam act going on. If she's in Hero Mode, you only have to worry about Black, Green and Blue tiles; those you match, but I think it comes at a price if I'm reading this right. You don't actually earn Black, Green or Blue when you match, you really get two Yellow and one Black. If that's the case, only match-4s and up will grant you the affected colors.

    Your best bet in getting the other colors is by being in Villain Mode. Now the enemy team has to be weary of matching Black, Purple or Red tiles, for Meteorite will pull a Mystique on them, stealing 1 AP of said colors and getting an extra Yellow. Add Mystique to your team, and you're really stunting the enemy's ability to build AP.

    Meteorite's allegiance will probably depend on your teammates. If you love the villain role, 3-star Doctor Doom, 3-star Mystique, 3-star Magik, and other characters whose ability allow them to create Black tiles via conversion will be great (even 4-star Domino and her 100% Black tile drop passive can help). If you'd rather have Karla embrace her hero side more, try a 4-star Sandman, 5-star Storm, 4-star Jubilee or the like.

  • toecutter3095
    toecutter3095 Posts: 76 Match Maker

    They look like they're trying to grab their own behind with that wonky arm :D

  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 6,084 Chairperson of the Boards

    If nothing else, Meteorite is a character who’d help you gather yellow AP in a Puzzle Gauntlet node. Assuming you’re trying to follow the rules and not cheese it with Multiple Man.

  • Chrynos1989
    Chrynos1989 Posts: 417 Mover and Shaker
    edited 14 May 2025, 11:03

    Maybe she‘s holding Wintersoldiers prostetic in her left hand?

    „Got your arm Bucky, wait till I go for the nose!“

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,907 Chairperson of the Boards

    That arm is either hideously dislocated or growing out of her back.

    Powers - who knows? It's a lot of buggering about, gain this, drain that, watch what AP the other team has. I'm tired already.

    Purple stun, Purple stun, I only want to see you stunlocked in the Purple stun.

  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,547 Chairperson of the Boards

    @KGB said:

    P.S. How does everyone read this on her Yellow "Whenever you make a Black, Blue, or Green match, convert 2 AP of the matches color into Yellow AP and gain 1 Black AP." Does it mean she has to make the match (ie tank those 3 off colors) or just whenever you make a match in those 3 colors? If it's the latter, that's a horrible passive if you have a rainbow team or want to use those colors because you'll be handicapping yourself when trying to collect AP.

    I read it as:
    If anyone makes a standard Blue match-3, you gain 2 Yellow and 1 Blue.
    If anyone make a Blue match-5, you gain 2 Yellow and 3 Blue AP.
    If anyone has Omnipotence City and anyone makes a Blue match-3, you get 2 Yellow and 4 Blue.

    I got very excited about using Daredevil's Yellow stun to stun lock the team but then I actually read the power set and I don't think it'll work like I'd want it to.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,554 Chairperson of the Boards

    This is yet another one who's complicated enough that I really have no idea. Time to play test!

  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,765 Chairperson of the Boards

    Honestly I think this is an L. If you want to make it work it will be pretty strong. But, there is too much going into it like Mr Negative.

    This will be a semi-strong character lost in the shuffle. Not good enough to ascend and not strong enough to make problems in their tier.

    Please prove me wrong.

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