Puzzle Gauntlet

captainheath
captainheath Posts: 278 Mover and Shaker
in MPQ General Discussion

I'm noticing that Shang Chi can still do damage without doing the tug of war tiles. It takes a few turns, but when you get to 9 or so matches he starts doing damage. Mine is 550, so YMMV.

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  • Scofie
    Scofie GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 1,740 Chairperson of the Boards

    I wondered what happened. I was using him for the critical-tile one and the match just ended with a live tug of war tile on the board.

  • Borstock
    Borstock Posts: 3,230 Chairperson of the Boards

    Just for funsies, I was trying to see how high I could boost a strike tile, thinking I couldn't do damage that way in the gauntlet (not really, I knew how it worked). I got one strike tile to 760k before I won through brute force.

  • trenchdigger
    trenchdigger Posts: 266 Mover and Shaker

    @captainheath Thanks for pointing this out. Made this tedious gauntlet much quicker to complete.

  • Jash735
    Jash735 Posts: 208 Tile Toppler

    Even with Lucky on SC it wouldn’t work for me. My SC is only 467 though.

  • Codex
    Codex Posts: 527 Critical Contributor

    @Jash735 said:
    Even with Lucky on SC it wouldn’t work for me. My SC is only 467 though.

    For me, even with 550 shang 5/4/4, it did not work when making match 3s with critical tile. It worked 100% of the time when making match 4 with two critical tiles in Shang's strongest colors.

    I also tried with respec'd shang to 5/5/3; that also worked.

  • trenchdigger
    trenchdigger Posts: 266 Mover and Shaker

    @Codex Once you get his boost to 8, you can fire his pink between a pair of red, blue or pinks to make a match 3 and the pair of colours will both become charged tiles tripling their damage. Then it works on match 3s.

  • Alfje17
    Alfje17 GLOBAL_MODERATORS Posts: 4,336 Chairperson of the Boards

    I've tried a few things with SC lv462 and lv527:

    • making a match5 using Deadly Hands does often damage the opponent, but SC needs to have some Combo points (7 or more?).
    • as soon as SC has 10 Combo points, almost every match made with Deadly Hands, deals damage.
      It all seems quite random, but at least it made the Puzzle quest slightly more interesting
  • Codex
    Codex Posts: 527 Critical Contributor

    @trenchdigger said:
    @Codex Once you get his boost to 8, you can fire his pink between a pair of red, blue or pinks to make a match 3 and the pair of colours will both become charged tiles tripling their damage. Then it works on match 3s.

    Thanks. I should have mentioned. I paired with 1a5 HE and only fired 1a5 HE purple. For shang I only used his red, since it can remove teamup tiles.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 8,065 Chairperson of the Boards

    For the tug of war one I think Multiple Man works too.

    I bet Shang-Chi works because of how they implement the "nothing else can do damage" thing. Probably they are just reducing all incoming damage by some big number, and I bet he can get over that number.

  • Jash735
    Jash735 Posts: 208 Tile Toppler

    @entrailbucket said:
    For the tug of war one I think Multiple Man works too.

    I bet Shang-Chi works because of how they implement the "nothing else can do damage" thing. Probably they are just reducing all incoming damage by some big number, and I bet he can get over that number.

    You can do the same thing with 5* Evo if you can manage to fire his yellow enough. I think the threshold is, or was, around 900k damage per match.

  • KGB
    KGB Posts: 4,020 Chairperson of the Boards

    Seems to me it's a LOT easier to just win the tug of war than it is to boost damage output (maybe it's easy with 550 Shangs but not for the rest of us).

    4 star Gamora really helps with her dual stun on Blue so you can stop the enemy turn just before the tug of war tile goes off. I also used 1A3 Hawkeye with Cart (batons on another character) with her so I could match/destroy when needed. I went through all of them but the 1v1 with ease using those 2.

    KGB

  • Painmonger
    Painmonger Posts: 258 Mover and Shaker

    @KGB said:
    Seems to me it's a LOT easier to just win the tug of war than it is to boost damage output (maybe it's easy with 550 Shangs but not for the rest of us).

    4 star Gamora really helps with her dual stun on Blue so you can stop the enemy turn just before the tug of war tile goes off. I also used 1A3 Hawkeye with Cart (batons on another character) with her so I could match/destroy when needed. I went through all of them but the 1v1 with ease using those 2.

    KGB

    I have a 550 SC, but I still just used the ToW tiles. 1* HE shenanigans with 3* Spider-Man & 4* Gwen work pretty well at whatever ascension stage you're at. Easy to get web tiles on the board & HE gets enough purple for Gwen to stun 2 for 2 turns, then Spidey can stun the 3rd for 3 turns. I gave plenty of turns to let the ToW tiles resolve, but rarely let the them make a move.

  • trenchdigger
    trenchdigger Posts: 266 Mover and Shaker

    1 Hawkeye with 550 Shang and pink/red AP supports was so much quicker and easier than using the ToW tiles. As near to guaranteed as possible. I certainly didn't fail once.

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