Dormammu said: One suggestion, if you haven't already, is to set IM40 as your lone 3-star bonus hero. He's the linchpin of the tier, as I'm sure you've already discovered, with his AP generation. After that you need to get Dr. Strange covered - once you've champed him you'll hesitate to fight a goon battle without him.If you want a good partner for 3-star Storm, look no further than Iron Fist. He can keep her swimming in black with his purple ability. Her black attack tile generation is nasty and can provide all the offense you need and gets coupled with Iron Fist's big passive attack tile. A good third is Falcon - he'll buff her attack tiles with his yellow passive. Use Iron Fist's green over Storm's to generate strike tiles, which will boost all of those attack tiles individually. Blade is another option as a third since you won't be needing any red and can leave his strike tiles on the board. You could also bring Scarlet Witch to speed up the purple-to-black conversion between Fist and Storm..You need to get your Kamala involved and once you do you'll forget GSBW ever existed. Put her with IM40 and Captain America. Use Iron Man to fuel Cap's shield attacks and Kamala's big green AoE. IM40 and Cap also work very well with Bullseye - that was my go-to team against goon waves in PvE for a long time. In fact, IM40/Cap work amazing with any green user (Beast, She-Hulk, Rocket & Groot, Thor, Ares, Patch...)Re-spec your Punisher to carry 5 in red. Against a big opponent (boss events, Juggernaut, solo Hulk node in his event) he can end things quickly with his red. Daken is a great partner because his cheap blue will benefit from the strike tiles Pun will generate with green. Don't sleep on Daken's blue power - with a few strikes on the board he can do massive amounts of damage and he fits into a lot of teams. Try adding Psylocke as a third - strike and attack tiles will be everywhere. Storm is another option as a third.Deadpool and Scarlet Witch are a natural team. Switch generates purple and then Deadpool uses it to drop a few beluga whales. Game over.
Jaedenkaal said: Iron Fist / Magneto / Luke Cage was a nice easy combo that always worked for me; they were my DDQ finishers for the longest time. Magnetized Projectiles is a surprisingly powerful nuke, and Iron Fist -> Jab, Jab, Cross is a classic combo with some of the best damage in the tier.Daken/Blade/Thor should also work reasonably well, especially since your Daken is the highest level and should tank pretty well.
ZootSax said: This may not help your roster now, but the most effective 3* Storm team I've used is Storm (set to 5/5/3), 3* Hulk (set to 5/3/5) and Kamala Khan (set to 5/5/3). The goal is to use Hulk's black and KK's purple to help generate green, with Storms yellow/green to keep the whole process going (it's not quite a "winfinite" team, but it can get really close with a little luck), while repeatedly healing via KK's yellow. Unfortunately for you, Hulk needs to be tanking green for this to work best, so for the time being this would only work for you when he's boosted and the others are not. With where you're currently at, you sub 3* Black Widow for KK with the same basic principle. Not quite as good, but close... That being said, I always preferred 1*/3* Storm at 5/5/3 for maximum board shake/AP generation, so if you prefer to use her black at 5, the previous suggestion of her and Iron Fist is objectively better for you.
ThaRoadWarrior said: Looking at your roster, I'd suggest that you have far too many 1*s on roster. You only "need" one of them, and there are at least 3 that will do the job alone(juggernaut, Iron Man, or Spider-Man can easily solo the ddq node). I have a fully covered but only level 40 1* spider-man that I use to solo DDQ. I would also encourage you to spend all your iso on one character at a time to start champing them. Ideally you'd start with characters that get fed by your 2* champs so you can begin earning "compound interest" as it were, but you could just champ them in whatever order and start to see a difference right away.That aside, here are some interesting 3* teams you could try fielding (this thread is a cool window into various play styles I find, kind of fun to see the advice you're getting):Wolverine (Patch)/Falcon/Hawkeye (Hawkguy) - fire off patch's green, chase the purple strikes for Hawkeye. hawkeye generates red/blue AP in the background whenever you match away any enemy special. You can then choose to keep some of that AP in the bank so Falcon eats enemy specials, or just fire it off from Hawkeye. Falcon is mostly here to buff tiles and eat enemy specials, but you can do AoE on purple and drop defense tiles in a pinch. This team has 2 characters with great true heals, so it has a high survivability. Hawkeye and Patch are both fed by 2* characters, and are going to grow faster than other non-bonused characters.Patch/Dr Octopus/Hawkeye -> again, use patch's green to create enemy strikes. Match them away, and Octopus will split them into friend attacks while Hawkeye gathers AP in the background. Keep Hawkeye doing his nonsense, or use Octopus to shuffle the board and destroy any extraneous tiles you have around. Iron Fist/Luke Cage go really well together, and you can insert a number of third characters to that team depending on how you like to run them. I like to use SWitch as a battery for this team set to 3/5/5: Get purple for Fist, create tons of black. Keep using Fist's purple once it changes to doing damage until you run out, then burn through all that black you have stored up with Cage. It doesn't take too long to have 24+ black AP in the bank with this team. Use SWitch's green situationally to accrue a few more AP in some color you want if you're just short of firing a power, or use it with Fist to make strikesSame team, but you can try swapping out SWitch for Mystique to get an active blue -> Mystique's blue creates black and purple, which is not as effective as using SWitch to create all purple, but helps the team just the same.Same team, but replace Mystique with Falcon. he buffs everybody's shields on yellow, uses the blue to eat enemy specials, and you can safely burn all that yellow with Cage's uppercut. Blade/Falcon are an excellent duo. Put them with any third that creates strike tiles. Daken or Patch probably. Blade's attack tiles do pretty big damage for the tier once enough strikes are on the board (as much as 1k each if 6 friendly strikes are in play), and his black does damage with minor ongoing AP denial until the repeater gets matched away. Daken gives you an active blue, but Blade's specials happen on colors that Patch will use to create opponent specials; you'll need to manage that when you fire off your powers so it works to your advantage rather than your detriment (meaning if all the reds on the board are full of friendly strikes, patch can't put down enemy ones, or if all the purples are full of enemy strikes, Blade can't create attacks so use the powers in the right order).
TPF Alexis said: 3* Thor is someone I often sort of forget about, but any time I do think to put him in a team, I'm very happy with his performance. He's hard to give specific advice for because he doesn't really do anything unique, but he's just all around solid on health and damage dealing. Plus he's self-accelerating, so he's pretty much just plug and play in any team that needs at least two of his colours. Also, if you end up with the three of them at usable levels at the same time when you're doing the 2* nodes in DDQ, try Thor/Magneto/Storm. They were always my favourite 2* team.
TPF Alexis said: Magneto's purple definitely started feeling less impressive once I got access to 3* BW's purple
DanielleL said:I've been thinking about making a thread just for respec recommendations. Sometimes because I don't know what the best one is but also because I just forget to change them when I champ them.
Waddles_Pines said: DanielleL said:I've been thinking about making a thread just for respec recommendations. Sometimes because I don't know what the best one is but also because I just forget to change them when I champ them. Since you're using MPQ Gamependium, if you click on "characters" it'll show you the top build for each character. If you click on the individual character link, it'll show you how popular each build is. It'll give you a good sense of how ppl have the characters covered, but it doesn't necessarily show you how certain alternate builds are good if you're running certain teams, but it's a good place to start. **oh, one more thing, if you see on old threads here, or gamependium's builds, just keep in mind that if a character was reworked that the favorite builds might not apply anymore **
jtsings said: I've got two sleeper picks for you. Don't count out Rocket and Groot. I used them all the time because it's fairly easy to keep them alive almost indefinitely with a yellow match once they're down below 25% health, their green can cause some good board shake up and pretty decent damage, and they put out pretty strong strike tiles with their blue. If you used IM40, R&G and Patch you have two true healers that should tank every color to protect IM40 from damage; at least at the level IM40 is now. Bullseye, I know is not too popular, but he can be really handy in wave nodes. I used him all the time in DDQ, the Big Enchilada, at 3/5/5 with IM40. Let him take down an enemy with his green and watch the board fill up with friendly strike tiles. If you keep him in front to take out more enemies, it's not uncommon for you to not be able to make a match without taking out a strike tile, because he'll litter the board with them.