Houston, we have a match damage problem

HuracanDolor
HuracanDolor Posts: 61 Match Maker
in MPQ General Discussion

You guys really need to address these match damage exploits I.e. M’Baku & Namor. Why have a “match 3” game when the entire match ends in one, it’s not fair, and it’s really close to being a cheat because there’s no viable counter. Thanks

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  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,171 Chairperson of the Boards

    Banning Fantasticar has done a lot to weaken that team. They can still hit a lucky cascade but are a lot less likely to oneshot your entire team before you can move the board.

    If it's Sim that's the problem, and they're paired with Chasm, the Refreshment Cart support should negate his stun and give you a shot to try to kill Namor before they go off.

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,745 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 10 September 2025, 15:46

    @HuracanDolor said:
    You guys really need to address these match damage exploits I.e. M’Baku & Namor. Why have a “match 3” game when the entire match ends in one, it’s not fair, and it’s really close to being a cheat because there’s no viable counter. Thanks

    Their only gimmick is match damage and there are plenty of characters that reduce match damage enough to make mbaku/namor not matter. That's why in sim you see them with chasm, to stop those damage reduction passives for one turn. In regular pvp where they can't pick chasm as a third I almost never saw this team at all.

    Mostly I see boosted characters, but the only nonboosted teams I see are overwhelmingly hammer jugg with sam and then much less often the occasional mthor/polaris

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,745 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 10 September 2025, 20:02

    Snowballing off of what Whitebomber added, another great counter to them is Gold Nova and I hulk with green ap supports. Nova goes airborne turn 1 taking no damage and doing lots of aoe damage, and hulk gets hit repeatedly but just keeps coming back to life.

  • Pantera236
    Pantera236 Posts: 608 Critical Contributor

    Not sure is Colossus does this but Juggs for sure does, Namors hit that is usually huge because of Baku gets lowered by 90% as well if Juggs takes the initial match 3.

  • Ptahhotep
    Ptahhotep Posts: 456 Mover and Shaker

    Purple Man and iHulk, damage just gets redirected to Hulk.

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 746 Critical Contributor

    @HuracanDolor said:
    You guys really need to address these match damage exploits I.e. M’Baku & Namor. Why have a “match 3” game when the entire match ends in one, it’s not fair, and it’s really close to being a cheat because there’s no viable counter. Thanks

    Samjuggs. Eats Namor'Baku like so many Gummi worms.

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