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Rainbow teams are overrated.

That's not snark, that's simple truth. The further I got in this game, the less I cared about color coverage for either AP use or match damage. It was somewhere in the early days of my 4-star career that I stopped caring about rainbows entirely. Passives and synergy between characters are all that matter to me now. Three characters can have the exact same colors for all I care, as long as they work well together.

boss events can be tricky because of the unique chars and the effects of various buffs.  

and when the devs didn't allow mirror matching in pve, it could be incredibly tricky to build good teams when various chars kept getting locked out.

My advice to you is ask your alliance or talk to some people who can send you appropriate TUs.

There were plenty of times, when I had to step out of the training alliance I was helping and go back to a T25 alliance to get appropriate TUs for various types of battles.

The next time you have a hard boss node / wave come post here, and list out your roster and scl.  Its actually pretty straightforward for us to give team suggestions and recommendations.

In any case,  There are already several color wheels for abilities, but I don't know if thats been maintained or updated.

Ed_Dragonrider said:

Phumade said:

youll get much better mileage and efficiency if you pick your pairs for synergy and coordinate around the featured/essential

I do try to do just that. But for instance the recent Sinister-six event really had me pinned. Sandman was nearly unbeatable, and the only thing I could do was try to collect as much yellow out from under him as possible. That's when I started looking at yellows, looking for someone that can actually use them. I ended up using star lord, but he wasn't boosted so he went down really quickly. Looking for a good yellow, whether active or passive or whatever was what made me realise, there aren't that many characters with yellow, of any kind. This is why I made the list... and why I'm harping on about yellows specifically. It's not that there aren't any characters at all with yellows or that I don't have a single character with a yellow, it's just that there are less options to choose from. And against some enemies, that can be fatal.

In a case like S6/Sandman, you also have to look at characters that use his yellow generation against him.  Don't know your roster, but XFW Black, Mordo Purple, 3* Thor (if you have a 4* green user), etc. can help.  Most of the time Bosses respond to brute force, but the wave nature of S6 makes it a little more puzzly than others.  The event was a lot harder when they didn't reset enemies AP after each wave.  

I’m still deep in 3* land and mainly only using 4* during PVE essentials.

For me, I have a hard time covering black.   But, I discovered that I don’t care because of the synergy between the three characters I am using. 

I rely heavily on Dr. Strang3 right now (though, I am slowly being able to move away from him as my 4* tier builds).  I found two great teams that will win me a lot of matches and relatively fast and neither of these teams has black.  First team:  Strang3, Switch, and CMags.    Second team:  Strang3, GSBW, and IM40. 

Side note: I really like Cmags yellow because of its powerful protect tiles.  IM40 yellow is really cheap and feeds Strang3 and GSBW wonderfully. 

BTW, I like your chart.  It's informative.  

 

In 3-star land, here is a list of the characters with active yellow abilities:

• Beast
• Black Panther
• Colossus
• Cyclops
• The Hood
• Iron Man
• Luke Cage
• Magneto
• Sentry
• Spider-Man
• Squirrel Girl
• Star-Lord
• Steve Rogers
• Storm
• Thor
• Vision

While normally I'd put Iron Man's yellow head and shoulders above everyone else's on this list, it's kind of a dud vs Sandman, as his yellow matches will inevitably match two of your yellows, leaving one yellow to go off and stun Iron Man for two turns.  The same issue holds true for Black Panther, Colossus, Squirrel Girl, Sentry, and Steve Rogers: Their yellow special abilities make yellow tiles.

From this list, I'd probably say your top three choices would be:
Storm - With lots of yellow on the board, there's a good chance and the board shake provided by her getting rid of the team-ups, there's a good chance you'll get enough yellow to cast it again in a turn or two.  Her Green will also help with the other AP your team will need.  3-star Rainbow team with Deadpool and Daken. Added bonus of DROP ALL THE WHALES if things get messy

Thor - Gets rid of some yellow on the board, and the yellow helps speed up his green.  3-star Rainbow team with Daken and Loki/Blade.  Loki's mischief will go off several times a match, and you'll certainly get a good amount of yellow matches with Loki's Illusions. If you go with Blade, Daken's strikes will help power up Blade's attack tiles...if you ever get eneough purple for it to work.

Luke Cage - You don't need AoE for a one person enemy team. Set his passive to 5 if you can, to help mitigate some of the match damage.  Quasi-rainbow team with Patch and Falcon.  They don't use blue, but Falcon wants you to have a lot of blue for his passive.  All the yellow matches will boost Cage/Falcon's protect tiles, as well as Patch's strikes.  Dr Strange could also work here. Although Sandman doesn't get stunned, you can put the countdown tile on a yellow to try and drain some of the Yellow AP he uses. Just hope it doesn't get matched away immediately.