Marvel Puzzle Quest 4th Anniversary Details *Updated (10/10/17)

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  • Phillipes
    Phillipes Posts: 431 Mover and Shaker
    Apokalypse is still doable and fun in round 5.
    Im greatly enjoying this boss battle so far.

  • Over__Flow
    Over__Flow Posts: 59
    To me this boss is boring as hell.
    The boss has horsemen mechanism that protect/improve him and what is the best way to deal with him? Do not do anything about horsemen and just pump AP to 1 shot him...
  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,913 Chairperson of the Boards
    I like it so far but I'm not sure that having him be able to be one-shotted before the Horsemen are dealt with was the best use of them. Not that I'm complaining too much!


  • STOPTHIS
    STOPTHIS Posts: 781 Critical Contributor
    Over__Flow said:
    To me this boss is boring as hell.
    The boss has horsemen mechanism that protect/improve him and what is the best way to deal with him? Do not do anything about horsemen and just pump AP to 1 shot him...
    Apocalypse being boring is rather fitting with the character. :p

    Trying to one shot him isn't going to work on the later rounds. I've been running 4* Jean, SW, and either Coulson or Prof X. The damage and AP threshold usually get passed about the same time thanks to SW's countdown and match-5s, which usually means enough purple to fire Jean's purple and rid the board of tiles and countdowns, which removes the last 2 horsemen. Into round 6 and it's holding up.
  • Over__Flow
    Over__Flow Posts: 59
    STOPTHIS said:
    Over__Flow said:
    To me this boss is boring as hell.
    The boss has horsemen mechanism that protect/improve him and what is the best way to deal with him? Do not do anything about horsemen and just pump AP to 1 shot him...
    Apocalypse being boring is rather fitting with the character. :p

    Trying to one shot him isn't going to work on the later rounds. I've been running 4* Jean, SW, and either Coulson or Prof X. The damage and AP threshold usually get passed about the same time thanks to SW's countdown and match-5s, which usually means enough purple to fire Jean's purple and rid the board of tiles and countdowns, which removes the last 2 horsemen. Into round 6 and it's holding up.
    I plan on 1-shoting him until end. 70k is not hard to reach with 25 or 30 AP in 2 or 3 colors(using im40/5pidey)
  • Orion
    Orion Posts: 1,295 Chairperson of the Boards
    If you want to beat Apocalypse the "right" way, then the classic Teen Jean / Switch is probably your best bet.  Jean gets rid of the attack tiles and Death cds, and if you keep purple as your strongest color, Switch will take care of Pestilence too.  I pair them with 5Hawkeye, but YMMV. 
  • Magere
    Magere Posts: 50 Match Maker
    Tony Foot said:
    Magere said:
    Oh a small cautionary tale before we begin the main event. In looking at how Apocalypse is set up...

    Every time you guys try to be provocative or challenging has not been good for you. I GET your trying to make a challenge and make us work at it, but given your track record, is that wise?
       Every time you guys try something new you get a tidal wave of negative feedback. SO ......
      I'm ASKING is there anything you want to change before we log in.

    Or in other words, if we can't beat it sub 3 refreshes the negative feedback comes in. If it's remotely puzzling, worst game ever.

    Two highest voted boss battles, easier to pass than water. I could understand people wanting no challenges if a pve was run alongside but there won't be anything else to do, why not enjoy working out a challenge with your alliance?

    Im convinced if the boss battle was log in, match 4 tiles, congrats you win it all, people would be over the moon.


    No, Tony, but way to go in making a wonderful strawman there. What I was getting at was EXACTLY what I said.

     I get the motive, and never said that was bad or wrong. I SAID given their track record, are they sure it's ready. 
      A challenging boss is no issue for me. But demiurges execution is lackluster at Best. It's only AFTER the event do we learn it was not tested/rushed/etc...
      We always see scaling issues, or technical issues after....something a few days of testing would have found. 
     So NO....I never said make it dirt stupid, I said, with good reason....are they sure it's up to par?
  • Jaedenkaal
    Jaedenkaal Posts: 3,357 Chairperson of the Boards
    Orion said:
    If you want to beat Apocalypse the "right" way, then the classic Teen Jean / Switch is probably your best bet.  Jean gets rid of the attack tiles and Death cds, and if you keep purple as your strongest color, Switch will take care of Pestilence too.  I pair them with 5Hawkeye, but YMMV. 
    Prof X works pretty well in there too. That's who I've been using so far. The match-5s from Switch get a lot done.
  • shardwick
    shardwick Posts: 2,121 Chairperson of the Boards
    Platty616 said:
    This to me seems like a ‘you are supposed to lose’ event, it’s stupidly hard.
    Do you have plenty of Deadpool points saved up? Whale him to death.

    I've been using Coulson, Switch and Cloak and Dagger, currently in round 7, and getting out of each fight with them relatively unscathed. Grab yellows for C/D to kill his attack tiles, use Coulson's purple to switch tiles around to get rid of his death tiles, use Switch's green if you need a particular color, like purple or yellow, or to try to get a little cascade to set up a match to take out a death tile. By this time Cloak and Dagger may start to have taken on a bit of damage so use their purple so you can flood the board with yellow to heal them plus you can start to use Coulson's yellow to get strikes and his sniper. Deny red to Apocalypse so he can't use his one offensive power. It's a long fight but it works.
  • Pants1000
    Pants1000 Posts: 484 Mover and Shaker
    I'm enjoying Apocalypse quite a bit.  Very well designed puzzle!  More events like this please!

    FWIW, I'm using SS/Vulture/Cyclops.  Into round 7 and I've only let 1 CD hit me.  Vulture is great at CD removal, similar to JG/Switch, except Vulture feeds himself.  I started out 1 shotting him, but in round 6+ I've found it easier to take out the horsemen first.  Although if I get enough red to blast him, that works too. :)
  • Beer40
    Beer40 Posts: 826 Critical Contributor
    He's been no trouble with 5* Star Lord and boosted XFW and Scarlet Witch in round 7. A good SW cascade, followed by XFW black, and then SL green and its over. I only take out the Horsemen while I wait for that sequence.

    If I was running 4* only, 3* only, or a combo of both, I would probably use the boosted list. They really set up that list nicely to beat Apocalypse in this event. There's several combos from that list to choose from that would work well. 

  • Platty616
    Platty616 Posts: 39 Just Dropped In
    shardwick said:
    Platty616 said:
    This to me seems like a ‘you are supposed to lose’ event, it’s stupidly hard.
    Do you have plenty of Deadpool points saved up? Whale him to death.
    420,000 (or somewhere around that). Can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that earlier. Been playing for 2 years and only have 1 4* champ (Blade), have been very unlucky playing this game (not complaining, just an observation) so seem to struggle on these boss events as the boss levels up way above my characters, so far I’ve been scraping by using Patch 3* Cyclops and Daken, trying to build up enough AP to try and have him in one move.
  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    Platty616 said:
    shardwick said:
    Platty616 said:
    This to me seems like a ‘you are supposed to lose’ event, it’s stupidly hard.
    Do you have plenty of Deadpool points saved up? Whale him to death.
    420,000 (or somewhere around that). Can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that earlier. Been playing for 2 years and only have 1 4* champ (Blade), have been very unlucky playing this game (not complaining, just an observation) so seem to struggle on these boss events as the boss levels up way above my characters, so far I’ve been scraping by using Patch 3* Cyclops and Daken, trying to build up enough AP to try and have him in one move.
    Potentially helpful suggestion: Pick one node of DDQ (either Dat Required Character or The Big Enchilada) and use 3* Deadpool in it every single day. Then you can hoard the whales for such times as these. 
  • shardwick
    shardwick Posts: 2,121 Chairperson of the Boards
    Round 8 cometh, and round 8 taketh away my Deadpool points.
  • Steirerbua
    Steirerbua Posts: 27 Just Dropped In
    I found two teams that work well agains Apocalypse:

    * XFW / 3*IF / 4*Cyclops:
    Focus on Purple and Black at the beginning. Eventually one of the horsemen will go down and put a 6-turn-clock on the board. When this turns to 1, you should have gathered enough of these two colors. Use purple either to find a match for the CD-tile ... or to punch. As Apocalypse's strongest color is black, Wolverines Black will have a fundamental impact.

    * ProfX / Switch / Riri
    Switch sets up 5-matches for ProfX to deal nearly 10k damage at once. Plus, it boosts my team's strongest color, blue ... to be used by Riri.

    What do you think about those teams?
  • Bulls
    Bulls Posts: 141 Tile Toppler
    It's by far best boss event so far. It's doable in r8 by plently different setups of 4* but still keeps that puzzle aspect.
  • smkspy
    smkspy Posts: 2,024 Chairperson of the Boards
    I ended up using Medusa, 4clops, and IM40 for round 8. Worked great and was pretty fun having to focus on taking out the horsemen first rather than just one-shorting him in earlier rounds.
  • halirin
    halirin Posts: 327 Mover and Shaker
    Platty616 said:
    shardwick said:
    Platty616 said:
    This to me seems like a ‘you are supposed to lose’ event, it’s stupidly hard.
    Do you have plenty of Deadpool points saved up? Whale him to death.
    420,000 (or somewhere around that). Can’t believe I hadn’t thought of that earlier. Been playing for 2 years and only have 1 4* champ (Blade), have been very unlucky playing this game (not complaining, just an observation) so seem to struggle on these boss events as the boss levels up way above my characters, so far I’ve been scraping by using Patch 3* Cyclops and Daken, trying to build up enough AP to try and have him in one move.
    Have you tried hulk, kk, and beast/storm? Hulk tanks and makes green, storm can use green a million times, and kk keeps everyone healthy. There are other folks you can use here, but that's a basic three star team that should work if the match damage triggers hulk. 
  • shardwick
    shardwick Posts: 2,121 Chairperson of the Boards
    Steirerbua said:
    I found two teams that work well agains Apocalypse:

    * XFW / 3*IF / 4*Cyclops:
    Focus on Purple and Black at the beginning. Eventually one of the horsemen will go down and put a 6-turn-clock on the board. When this turns to 1, you should have gathered enough of these two colors. Use purple either to find a match for the CD-tile ... or to punch. As Apocalypse's strongest color is black, Wolverines Black will have a fundamental impact.

    * ProfX / Switch / Riri
    Switch sets up 5-matches for ProfX to deal nearly 10k damage at once. Plus, it boosts my team's strongest color, blue ... to be used by Riri.

    What do you think about those teams?
    The Riri team sounds good though you're kinda playing with fire by having the charged reds out there. 

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