Phantron wrote: daibar wrote: ... so if you destroy all Blues with a Polarity shift, or all Greens with a Deceptive Tactics, does it not do anything? Don't see why it wouldn't be any different from how you can't create a Recovery tile with no yellow tiles on board. I don't remember the timing on when Mischief triggers though, as some abilities trigger immediately on a match and some triggers at the end of a cascade. If it triggers at the end of a cascade new tiles may have been dropped that meet the requirement. I think the defense tend to trigger their passive at the end of a cascade though. That is, if you've Daken vs Daken you'll notice that your strike tiles get formed as you make your cascades but the enemy's Phermone Rage only comes at the end of the cascade, so in that case if you probably end up refilling those colors from the cascade you caused.
daibar wrote: ... so if you destroy all Blues with a Polarity shift, or all Greens with a Deceptive Tactics, does it not do anything?
MarcusGraves wrote: after playing against loki in gauntlet, he's pretty baller on defense. he's obviously not an AP steal over time kinda support like hood, but his ability to suddenly gather large chunks of AP can be very jarring if you aren't ready for it. he's incredibly good at keeping the board from going stale by constantly keeping it moving with illusions and mischief's CD tiles once they trigger and vanish making the board shift. -nice cheap 5 cost board shift on a color that isn't in high demand -illusions plays nice with strike tiles on the board (i've racked up a surprising amount of damage with illusions+strike tiles) -easy to get a green "tank" for him since its his 3rd strongest color -gathers AP at a nice pace with the new passive + illusions -850 more health than hood which is nice 10/10 very happy, loki came out really good.
GuntherBlobel wrote: Re: Loki on defense. It sounds like a simple strategy to match 3 until Loki is dead, but it's harder than it sounds. Match 4's and 5's just magically happen at the top of the board, which complicates matters. But there is something else, and this may just be a problem for me now, but finding and executing matches is now muscle memory for me. It actually hurts my head to avoid the "best" matches after so much training to the contrary.
Phantron wrote: Match 4s are overwhelmingly the best moves in the game. Godlike Power is just 2 match 4s that generate no AP on the match itself and you can find plenty of conspiracy theories about how AI gets unfair cascades but all it does is illustrate how good match 4s are in general. There is no such thing as a worthless match 4, unless your opponent is Loki. And Loki's power goes far beyond habits. There is often no safe way to break up a match 4 so you're pretty screwed either way. It is also not uncommon to have an opening board with more than one match 4s on the board and again no matter what you do here you're screwed when facing Loki.