Vhailorx said: Thoughtful analysis but i really think that both you and the devs are overvaluing random boardahake. 3 columns is nice, avoiding friendly specials is nice (r&g does this too), but 8k damage is inappropriate for a 12ap power. Kk does 1/2 damage for the same cost at level 166. SL is playing at a tier with 4x to 6x as much health, but only 2x more damage. Random boardshake doesn't fill that gap.
Vhailorx said:And while i agree that yellow is SL's best power, i still think 3/5/5 is his best build. 3-->5 in yellow only affects the burst heal.
Dayv said: Vhailorx said: Thoughtful analysis but i really think that both you and the devs are overvaluing random boardahake. 3 columns is nice, avoiding friendly specials is nice (r&g does this too), but 8k damage is inappropriate for a 12ap power. Kk does 1/2 damage for the same cost at level 166. SL is playing at a tier with 4x to 6x as much health, but only 2x more damage. Random boardshake doesn't fill that gap. The posted stats for Star-Lord's damage are all messed up, so I didn't consider them in my analysis. My basic assumptions were that the actual damage and health boost numbers made sense for their tier.And I think you undervalue board shake, especially multiple columns, as vertical matches and smashes are significantly more likely to cause cascades than rows are. Board shake removes enemy, special tiles, generates match damage and produces AP to fire more skills. With five stars, anything that produces extra match damage is far stronger than at other tiers. This will be one of the best shakers in the game, if not the best.
Thanks for your analysis.
I certainly feel like this is the "laziest" 3/5 duo we've received to date. I was certainly disappointed that the 5* does have any new/unique mechanics (which has almost been a hallmark of 5* characters). Destroying swathes of tiles but keeping any friendly specials is certainly unique in execution, but mechanically it's comparable to a lot that we have seen before - as opposed to, say, Thanos preventing tile change/destruction, Banner's whole character change, or Surfer's immunity to Stun. Your suggestion to give Peter "resistance" to Airborne status would have been a unique enough ability to make him interesting.
Before the reveal, I had been expecting that 5* Star-Lord would get a "Guardians Assemble!" type ability - while it's not unique for the tier, I think this would have been a better way to give him one of those "little bit of everything" type abilities which seems to be the flavour they were going for with each of his abilities. You could do Strike tiles from Gamora, CD bomb tiles from Rocket, Stun from Drax, Burst Healing from Groot (the dancing improves everyone's spirits), and crit tiles from Yondu.