A bunch of buffs happened

@entrailbucket said:
Moonstone is preposterous.

Bring widow batons + quantum realm + soul stone and you're essentially doing 370k AoE turn0.

Plus you get a one-tile board destruction per cast, so with a tiny bit of luck you can do a mini Shang-Chi thing and cascade into another purple match (just in case anything survives the nearly 400k AoE damage).

Unboosted, at 550, her purple damage is 144k, which is still enough to oneshot almost anybody else who's unboosted. Get ready for Moonstone Puzzle Quest!

I’m ok with that. She should be powerful based on the source of her power.

Serious question: In your opinion, if you can't get that one big hit off quickly, how does the rest of her kit play?

@entrailbucket said:

@Blackstone said:

@entrailbucket said:
Moonstone is preposterous.

Bring widow batons + quantum realm + soul stone and you're essentially doing 370k AoE turn0.

Plus you get a one-tile board destruction per cast, so with a tiny bit of luck you can do a mini Shang-Chi thing and cascade into another purple match (just in case anything survives the nearly 400k AoE damage).

Unboosted, at 550, her purple damage is 144k, which is still enough to oneshot almost anybody else who's unboosted. Get ready for Moonstone Puzzle Quest!

I’m ok with that. She should be powerful based on the source of her power.

Serious question: In your opinion, if you can't get that one big hit off quickly, how does the rest of her kit play?

I have no idea -- not being snarky, but I ran her with the above supports and wiped every single fight turn0.

Fair enough.

Her red is also one heckuva a deathray. Roughly 10x the dmg/AP of 2Cap's red. Why do they hate 2Cap so, so much?

Typical player doesn't have all the supports, or if they do they aren't maxed, nor do they have 2>5s up to 550.

But, for those who do ....

A couple of these characters are a bit of fun now.

Based on Moonstone, I’m really hoping 2 Wolvie gets similar treatment.

I’m about 3 covers from a 550 and he’s almost completely useless with a 12 ap power doing his main dmg.

I know it’s big dmg, but come on.

@Borstock said:
I profoundly hate that there are even MORE annoying ascended 1* and 2* characters with cheap demon powers.

PvP is rapidly leaving me behind, it feels like everybody at least has a boosted 550 1* and the 2* will be coming soon I can feel it. And my two highest 5s are about to get nerfed! The worst thing is I didn't even chase them to the 527 and 525 level they are at, it just happened organically! Not looking good, lol!

@entrailbucket said:
So, Moonstone is completely shut down by anybody who makes a special tiles turn0. I ran into this against 5* Kingpin -- you only get the 400k damage if the enemy has no special tiles, otherwise she just moves the tile.

You still get a decent amount of damage at lower purple levels (especially when boosted) and it'll only move certain colors of tiles, so that might be worth trying. Otherwise she can't faceroll guys like Rocket, Kingpin, Scarlet Witch...dunno who else. I think some supports create stuff turn0 too.

Yes, of the two ... more interesting ... buffs, 1HE is the reliable one.

I think with some of these buffs, 5Sunspot might get a second look. His passive when Moonstone or HE (or anyone) match their purple could be huge at 550. Just not sure if anyone has him at 550 yet to know what his passive damage does. And I'm too lazy to look it up on the forum (if his numbers were listed).

@Painmonger said:
I thought HE isn't entirely reliable since you need to always have a purple match available, but it's more consistent than I expected when I tried it. Throw in someone like 3 or 5 Storm for extra utility on green & yellow & it keeps rolling.

I only have a 1a3 HE at 266 & dupe at 255, but tested on all the DDQ nodes I could & even without boosts/supports it worked well. Once I could fire purple I rarely had to give the other team a turn.

I'm using 550 Hawkeye boosted to 672 with soul stone support which returns 5 ap in your strongest color every time you down an enemy, which is purple in this case. Then iron may with quantum realm and Falcon with widow batons and then also ap boosts. Most matches I'm starting with 16 purple ap.

It's extremely reliable. The only issue is the very rare occasion where both ap supports fail to fire.

@BriMan2222 said:

@Painmonger said:
I thought HE isn't entirely reliable since you need to always have a purple match available, but it's more consistent than I expected when I tried it. Throw in someone like 3 or 5 Storm for extra utility on green & yellow & it keeps rolling.

I only have a 1a3 HE at 266 & dupe at 255, but tested on all the DDQ nodes I could & even without boosts/supports it worked well. Once I could fire purple I rarely had to give the other team a turn.

I'm using 550 Hawkeye boosted to 672 with soul stone support which returns 5 ap in your strongest color every time you down an enemy, which is purple in this case. Then iron may with quantum realm and Falcon with widow batons and then also ap boosts. Most matches I'm starting with 16 purple ap.

It's extremely reliable. The only issue is the very rare occasion where both ap supports fail to fire.

Even w/o the Soul stone, the revised 1HE is a machine. Played 100 matches. Terrible boards, supports let me down, didn't matter. Can't miss.