ark123 wrote: Except she will make you get to 11 black pretty fast once that shapeshift tile hits the board. She seems really good imo, maybe better than blade.
simonsez wrote: ... and her purple is pretty underwhelming too. Let's say on average, the cd tile survives 5 turns, and on average, the AI makes 1.5 matches per turn. So, on average you spend 8 purple for 7.5 AP. Not nearly as good as what you get from OBW.
CrookedKnight wrote: A 3* power that lets you trade purple AP for damage-dealing AP at a nearly 1:1 ratio sounds pretty good to me.
Kolence wrote: Has anyone who has her purple skill tried to see what happens if there are two shapeshift countdowns out? Do they stack, or just steal 1 AP as long as there is at least one countdown on the board? Is it possible to place more than one CD? And does her black destroy a random CD if 2 or more are present or all of them. All these are not as clear to me just reading the skill descriptions. It sounds like it would steal just 1 AP no matter the number of tiles, but who knows...
simonsez wrote: CrookedKnight wrote: A 3* power that lets you trade purple AP for damage-dealing AP at a nearly 1:1 ratio sounds pretty good to me. ... until, like I said, you compare it to Aggressive Recon. I don't see why a 3* should have an ability that's inferior to a 2*
skydivearcher wrote: I think that the blue is being underrated... much like many abilities for other characters that add certain colour tiles to the board... Here's my logic... xforce's black attack eliminates literally all the strongest tiles of the opposing team. when that happens there is a higher chance of matches because of an increase in ratio of other color tiles. Anyone who has used xforce's black attack will probably have seen how often it can cause long lasting cascades. Another one is 2 star Ms Marvel's yellow, this when used with a lot of teamup tiles already on board is actually quite devastating, probably not in actually damaging the opposing team but generating various AP and clearing out a lot of opposing special tiles (which is quite useful coupled with Black panther's yellow). Characters like Magento Now and Grey Suit BW (Capt America to a much lesser extent) have more control over clearing the board with more specific placement of color tiles. The downside to mystique's ability like 2 star Ms Marvel (or even Thor) is its very random and can literally do nothing in terms of cascades. When I look at Mystique's blue power I see it in the very same vain as (a weaker version of) xforce, in the sense that she denies the opposing team of more chances of matching green, red and yellow, all of which tend to lead to devastating attacks on many characters. So in that sense she is much more situational than xforce. Where she might actually shine is actually slowly feeding deadpool's purple or xforce's black with this ability. If anything I see it like an anti-Daken ability (indeed I see her as a very anti daken character), and given how often we face him in story events, that's a bonus! Overall not the greatest 3 star introduced but certainly one that has some interesting combos with other heroes when leveled up, right now I think her best partner in crime is probably Deadpool despite the overlap on purple, but I wouldn't use her on defense in Verses though, hood will outshine her in that regard.
ark123 wrote: like half the 3* abilities are inferior to mnmags purple and cstorm blue. 2*Thor yellow... Well we know what happens when he scales to 166. Instant top 5 characters in the game.
simonsez wrote: ark123 wrote: like half the 3* abilities are inferior to mnmags purple and cstorm blue. 2*Thor yellow... Well we know what happens when he scales to 166. Instant top 5 characters in the game. I'm not looking to compare apples and oranges, and what happens when a 2* is overscaled in a pve has nothing to do with this. I'm strictly talking about two skills that steal AP and cost 8 or 9 purple. Within this narrow comparison, I see no reason why the 2* should have the better version of that ability.
Phaserhawk wrote: Kolence wrote: Has anyone who has her purple skill tried to see what happens if there are two shapeshift countdowns out? Do they stack, or just steal 1 AP as long as there is at least one countdown on the board? Is it possible to place more than one CD? And does her black destroy a random CD if 2 or more are present or all of them. All these are not as clear to me just reading the skill descriptions. It sounds like it would steal just 1 AP no matter the number of tiles, but who knows... That's a good question, as the skill reads it says as long as the CD tile is out, but depending upon how it's programmed, does the tile trigger the steal? If so then the more you would have out, each tile would steal the AP, thus being able to steal multiple.
TheHueyFreeman wrote: Nothing about the fact that if shapeshifting is up for three turns, the team is essentially stunlocked?
vudu3 wrote: TheHueyFreeman wrote: Nothing about the fact that if shapeshifting is up for three turns, the team is essentially stunlocked? Huh?
Phantron wrote: vudu3 wrote: TheHueyFreeman wrote: Nothing about the fact that if shapeshifting is up for three turns, the team is essentially stunlocked? Huh? He probably thinks the CD stuns a target 2 turn each turn it's out? Although that's not the first thing I thought of when I read the ability I can certainly see how someone can read it that way.