Newbie looking for roster advice (esp. for 3*)

HailMary wrote:

Just started playing a couple of weeks ago, and have only played Events for about a week.

I'm still relying on IM35 & mBW as my core team, but I've gotten a number of 3* single covers lately.
I don't have the roster space. Who should I get rid of?

Roster:

IM35 - maxed
mBW - maxed
Thor - 38 - 3/2/5
Wolverine X-Force - 30 - 1 yellow
Bag-Man - 29 - 3/2/3
Cap. A - 29 - 0/3/2
oBW - 9 - 1/1/1
c Storm - 8 - 1/1/2
Moonstone - 8 - 0/1/1

The 3*'s: (some in roster, some in reward queue)
IM40 - 25 - 2/0/0
Spiderman - 25 - 0/0/2
Daredevil - 1 cover
Hood - 1 cover
Punisher - 1 cover
Hulk - 1 cover
BW grey suit - 1 cover

(2 Astonishing Wolverine covers also in the reward queue)

I have 14 roster spots, possibly a 15th coming in a couple of days, so I need to get rid of at least two characters total to accommodate my roster limit.

Also, any leveling advice would be greatly appreciated, since this doesn't seem to fit a normal 1* team -> 2* team -> 3* team progression(?).

Ignore this post and see next.

HailMary wrote:

Thanks for the advice!

I plan on keeping Moonstone, since I'll be getting a couple more of her through Blind Justice, and her red power looks decent...? Great tip on the Dark Avengers aspect. I didn't even consider that. (Should I work on a Venom or Bullseye for those situations? I've just been tossing those covers so far)

I've kept Bag-Man mainly because he's good at countering henchman countdowns, but I've never used him in PvP. Alright, he's getting tossed, though turning a lvl 29 char into 2-3 levels in Thor just feels wrong.

Classic Spidey: I keep hearing about how great he is, but I honestly can't figure out why. Does he become amazing when you upgrade his powers to the 3+ range?

I'm surprised that you rate IM35 below, say, Captain America. I don't really see Cap's strengths. Could you elaborate on them? (I tried a forum search, but to no avail) Honestly the only reason I've kept Cap is because I won his covers in a tournament.

Classic Spidey is one of the best characters in the game because his blue at 5 covers costs 2 AP and potentially stuns for 5 turns, which is incredibly powerful. Think about it this way. Lets say you make 2 blue matches to 6 AP and downed one of their guys so they have 2 guys left. You cast your blue on the first guy who becomes stunned for one turn, and then cast blue on the other guy so hes stunned for 2 turns. Now you can match a blue, and restun the first guy for 3 turns. Make another blue match, and now you can stun the second guy for 4 turns, and the first guy for 5 turns. So now, if you make 2 blue matches every 5 turns, you can keep them permanently stunned. Oh, and at the end of the match, you use his yellow and recover all of the hp that you lost throughout the match. Match a purple and you reduce all incoming damage by a good amount too. He's just a really powerful character.

Ignore my last post, it seems like you have 17 characters with 15 slots available. In this case, I would say that Bag-Man definitely needs to go, but the other cover is trickier. My prime candidates for removal would be Cap. A and Moonstone, but those covers might be useful for you while you're in 2* land. IM35/mBW are not options because you're going to need them until you can get a 2* roster above 60 or so. The funny thing is that the 3*/X-Force covers will be useful to you down the road, but they're just going to be sitting in your roster for a very long time doing nothing. Regardless, it's probably worth keeping them just due to hard it is to get them (it took me maybe a month or so to finally complete my spidey, for instance). Between Moonstone and Cap. A, I really think it's Moonstone that has to go at this particular point in time. Historically, PvE events have always buffed heroes, so the chances of Cap being relevant in a tournament is a lot higher than Moonstone would be. Her abilities aren't even all that good: the black wont be used due to how insanely expensive it is, the purple is decent damage if they don't have special tiles/mediocre if they do, and the red is fine damage if you don't have any other red abilities. However, since you're going to be using IM35 and mBW for a while, you have a good purple and don't really need the red ability. Also consider that as soon as you get enough OBW covers, she instantly replaces Moonstone (as she is a ton better and covers the same colors except red, which doesn't matter because all the characters cover red), wasting all of the iso that you put into Moonstone. That being said, I would wait until the last minute since they've been strangely giving out a lot more 3* villain covers now than before (which implies that villains might be the next PvE event) just in case Moonstone somehow becomes relevant.

As Linxis said, this does follow the 1*->2*->3* progression. It's going to be really hard for you to finish off 3* covers until you can consistently place in the top 15 of a tournament, so you need to go into 2*s. I would just put all my iso into Thor/A. Wolvie/oBW/C. Storm: whichever ones you get more covers of.