Polares wrote: After playing for a while now with a champed PH I have to say that she is much better than expected, she is really really good. The combo purple+red makes her super strong. For the same reason PH is super strong, I think IM might be too, but his blue is a little bit more expensive and double cast may be useless so I might be wrong. I would love to hear opinions on his blue of people that has him maxed. SS is technically a battery, but in reality he is not. Too little charged tiles, and black is too expensive/slow, he doesnt help you get AP faster. Devs really need to fix him, he should be a much effective battery than PH, and it is completely the opposite.
Polares wrote: For the same reason PH is super strong, I think IM might be too, but his blue is a little bit more expensive and double cast may be useless so I might be wrong. I would love to hear opinions on his blue of people that has him maxed.
jobob wrote: Polares wrote: For the same reason PH is super strong, I think IM might be too, but his blue is a little bit more expensive and double cast may be useless so I might be wrong. I would love to hear opinions on his blue of people that has him maxed. The Phx Red/Purple combo is stronger than the 5IM Blue/Red, for a few reasons. Phx seems to create more cascades. If you fire her red first, the added strike tiles make those cascades soooo deadly. The real thing that makes the Phx purple so nasty is when you save up 14 AP and cast it back-to-back. I almost prefer getting no cascades the first time around, because it means the second one is likely going to land a couple criticals and do major damage. Cast 5IM blue, and you have to wait at least a few turns for the board to stabilize... it actually makes repeat casts WORSE, not better.
Polares wrote: jobob wrote: Polares wrote: For the same reason PH is super strong, I think IM might be too, but his blue is a little bit more expensive and double cast may be useless so I might be wrong. I would love to hear opinions on his blue of people that has him maxed. The Phx Red/Purple combo is stronger than the 5IM Blue/Red, for a few reasons. Phx seems to create more cascades. If you fire her red first, the added strike tiles make those cascades soooo deadly. The real thing that makes the Phx purple so nasty is when you save up 14 AP and cast it back-to-back. I almost prefer getting no cascades the first time around, because it means the second one is likely going to land a couple criticals and do major damage. Cast 5IM blue, and you have to wait at least a few turns for the board to stabilize... it actually makes repeat casts WORSE, not better. Then my question is, is it worth having a IM46 x/5/x build or is it better to use him with a 5/3/5 build? Recently I have seen some players with 5/3/5 builds, and I was surprised. Blue can still be useful with 1-3 covers to create cascades (not to get red AP of course) because it is still going to destroy all red in the board, so maybe this build is better, so both red and yellow do the maximum damage when fired (both can do 20k+ damage). Does the extra red AP that you get and the extra cascade potential with blue at 5 compensate for the damage lost?
KingDreadnaught wrote: Definitely 1. BSS 2. GreenGoblin 3. IMXL 4. OML 5. PNX 6. SS 7. Hulk5 **Speaking as all 550s Player lol** BlackSuitSpider became one of my favourite because of his match dmg and cheap Blue that push him back as invisible and undoable. Next is GG and IMXL because GG is so deadly for his Black. IMXL I only love his Blue to reshuffle the board and surely it gives a big damage as well *around 19-29000 after shatter all reds. His match damage is the Highest of all 5* (RED) and I care match damage because normally I win by just matching all colours... OmL, in my opinion he's good for Passive yellow to heal and strikes. The Black is very deadly of course and always create fear when he triggers it. I barely use the craws unless fighting with Dj Toesa, Ace, Gzilla and those high end players to finish the fight faster before stupidly wiped.. lol Pnx and Banner are actually at the same rank but as I tested Hulk at 550, I believe his heal and match damages are so lame. Even though he can come back over and over again (from Banner to Hulk) but the Aoe is not impressive. I like Pnx Red because of the strike tiles more than 19k Dmg of hers. Same as Banner that I like his black attack tiles because I'm in love with attack tiles more than strikes. I feel like it's very intimidating when there's some strikes on from Oml or Pnx. Silver Surfer is badass because duh he's the first and his blue healing is good. The red is cheap but a bit weak. Blackhole is good to gain Ap. However, the best of him to me is the Charged Tiles. When BlackBolt is coming out, I'll test BlackBolt with SilverSurfer first to see how the charged tiles rocking the gameplay. Stay tuned and keep checking my Youtube when BlackBolt comes out on Thursday.
KingDreadnaught wrote: Definitely 1. BSS 2. GreenGoblin 3. IMXL 4. OML 5. PNX 6. SS 7. Hulk5
Polares wrote: KingDreadnaught wrote: Definitely 1. BSS 2. GreenGoblin 3. IMXL 4. OML 5. PNX 6. SS 7. Hulk5 I am surprised you rank PH so low. If match damage is so big in 550 level as you mention, I thought cascades and her purple was going to be devastating for the other team. Also very very interesting that both jobob and you rank Spidey so high. I look forward to getting more of his covers. PS: And yeah, also very interesting that you don't even rank Cap
OneLastGambit wrote: Interesting to get the perspective of 2 heavy hitters like yourself and jobob KD. I never thought of pairing oml with Steve but that's a nice idea to power his blue for free.
jobob wrote: OneLastGambit wrote: Interesting to get the perspective of 2 heavy hitters like yourself and jobob KD. I never thought of pairing oml with Steve but that's a nice idea to power his blue for free. lol, don't lump me in the same category of "heavy hitter" as KDN. Playing at 550 is worlds away from playing at 455-475. And... FYI, I know I may seem tough on Craptain, but I don't think he pairs well at all with OML, and I still see him as being far and away the worst 5*. You can say that OML powers him for "free,"... but think about it. To get the max out of Cap blue, you need to cast 4 powers to get 8 OML tiles out. Who is casting those powers? Not OML, he doesn't have an active (other than black, and my God why would you want to remove those tiles?). Cap blue... you can't use, obviously because you are waiting for 8 tiles. Cap yellow?... if you get that much, just transform OML and end the match. Cap Red?... how are you going to get all that red AP without matching away OML strike tiles? And let's say you do get 8 OML tiles out. Yes, it makes Cap blue awesome, dealing 17k damage and healing for 12k (using my lvl 455 numbers)... except you have to factor in that you just lost 3300 in strike tiles (lvl 457). So basically Cap damage becomes less than it would've been once you make 5 matches/moves/attack tiles/whatever... that could be one move (or less with a good cascade). Which means it's best used as a finisher... but then, that completely negates the healing part of it. It's such a good, cheap move in theory that I find breaks down in practice almost every time. It will tear through PVE with MoStorm/IM40, but that's not a great PVE option. The only other combo I like is ****/OML/PX... because you can fire his blue, and immediately PX/Wolvie put 5 special tiles out. But those 2 teams are the only ones that can get enough tiles out (that you don't mind losing) for Craptain's blue to be effective throughout the match.
Vhailorx wrote: KDN: I am curious that you are so low on banner (lower even than 5*cap). Would I be right to think that,you don't care about defense very much? It seems to me that banner's best features are all defensive. I also think that the extra match damage from hull might be telling in a long match (since the player effectively gets 2:1 match damage when hulk is out). I definitely think that defense and long match utility are less valuable strengths in this game. But i think they may put him him above SS and 5*cap.
jobob wrote: My new favorite team is Bolt/5IM/GG.