**** Talos (Skrull Warlord) ****
Brigby
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"Talos, perhaps the most cunning spy in all of the Skrull Empire, is a master of shapeshifting and intergalactic espionage.
An integral leader to the Skrull's offensive efforts in the bitter Kree-Skrull War, the fearsome Talos will do whatever it takes to protect his own."
Check out the brand new 4-Star Talos, and find out how you can recruit him onto your roster!
4-Star Rarity (Legendary)
Villains
(Abilities listed at level 270, Power Level 5)
15,642 Health
85 | 74 | 65 | 
43 | 
13 | 
12 | 
11 | 
3.5x
Access Granted - 7 AP
Disguised as his foe, Talos infiltrates an enemy organization to gain access to their plans. Talos creates 1 Trap tile that shapeshifts Talos into the target enemy. While any of these tiles are on the board, Talos steals 1 AP in the shapeshifted target's strongest color any time you make a match of that color.
AP
With a swift blow from a stun baton, Talos leaves his opponent senseless. Talos stuns the enemy for 2 turns and creates a Blue 3-turn Countdown tile that destroys 2 AP in the enemy team's strongest color.
Passive
Talos uses his tactical prowess to set in motion a silent invasion, leaving his enemies unprepared and helpless to resist his force. For every AP Talos has in the enemy team's strongest color more than they do, his match damage increases by 7%. If Talos is shapeshifted, his match damage increases by 10% instead (max 150%).
What do you think is Talos's best build? Vote down below!
"Talos, perhaps the most cunning spy in all of the Skrull Empire, is a master of shapeshifting and intergalactic espionage.
An integral leader to the Skrull's offensive efforts in the bitter Kree-Skrull War, the fearsome Talos will do whatever it takes to protect his own."
Check out the brand new 4-Star Talos, and find out how you can recruit him onto your roster!
4-Star Rarity (Legendary)
Villains
(Abilities listed at level 270, Power Level 5)
15,642 Health
85 | 74 | 65 | 43 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 3.5xAccess Granted - 7
APDisguised as his foe, Talos infiltrates an enemy organization to gain access to their plans. Talos creates 1 Trap tile that shapeshifts Talos into the target enemy. While any of these tiles are on the board, Talos steals 1 AP in the shapeshifted target's strongest color any time you make a match of that color.
- Level 2: Talos steals 2 AP in the shapeshifted target's strongest color...
- Level 3: Talos creates 2 Trap tiles...
- Level 4: Talos creates 3 Trap tiles...
- Level 5: Talos creates 4 Trap tiles...
APWith a swift blow from a stun baton, Talos leaves his opponent senseless. Talos stuns the enemy for 2 turns and creates a Blue 3-turn Countdown tile that destroys 2 AP in the enemy team's strongest color.
- Level 2: ...Countdown tile that destroys 3 AP in the enemy team's strongest color.
- Level 3: ...and creates a Blue 2-turn Countdown tile that destroys 4 AP...
- Level 4: Talos stuns the enemy for 3 turns...
- Level 5: Talos stuns the enemy for 4 turns and creates a Blue 1-turn Countdown tile that destroys 5 AP...
PassiveTalos uses his tactical prowess to set in motion a silent invasion, leaving his enemies unprepared and helpless to resist his force. For every AP Talos has in the enemy team's strongest color more than they do, his match damage increases by 7%. If Talos is shapeshifted, his match damage increases by 10% instead (max 150%).
- Level 2: ...match damage increases by 10%...shapeshifted, his matched damage increases 14% (max 210%).
- Level 3: ...match damage increases by 13%...shapeshifted, his matched damage increases 18% (max 270%).
- Level 4: ...match damage increases by 18%...shapeshifted, his matched damage increases 25% (max 375%).
- Level 5: ...match damage increases by 28%...shapeshifted, his matched damage increases 39% (max 585%).
Recruit Talos!
S.H.I.E.L.D. Training - Heroes for Hire- Starts: 3/14/19, 7:00am EST
- Ends: 3/23/19, 2:00am EST
- Price 7,000 Hero Points
- Contents:
- Cyclops (Classic) Red Cover
- Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2) Red Cover
- 16x Elite Tokens
- 6x Command Points
- 20,000 Iso-8
- Starts: 3/14/19, 7:00am EST
- Ends: 3/21/19, 7:00am EST
- 80 Items:
- 1x Legendary Token
- 3x Beginner Support Tokens
- 1x Random Talos (Skrull Warlord) Cover
- 2x Random 4-Stars from the Call for Backup missions, with an option of the following characters:
- Namor (The Sub-Mariner)
- Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
- Cyclops (Classic)
- 21x 3-Star Covers
- 3x Featured
- 18x Random
- 52x 2-Star Covers
- 10x Featured
- 42x Random
Event Schedule
Thick as Thieves - Story Event- Starts: 3/14/19, 7:00am ET
- Ends: 3/18/19, 2:00am ET
- Talos (Skrull Warlord) in Placement Reward
- Starts: 3/14/19, 7:00am ET
- Ends: 3/21/19, 7:00am ET
- Rewards tokens to Thick as Thieves, random cover of Talos, and more!
- Features Talos (Skrull Warlord)
- Starts: 3/18/19, 7:00am ET
- Ends: 3/22/19, 2:00am ET
- Talos (Skrull Warlord) in Progression Reward
- Rewards tokens to the Talos & Foes Vault
- Starts: 3/17/19, 8:00am ET
- Ends: 3/20/19, 3:00pm ET
- Talos (Skrull Warlord) in Progression Reward
- Rewards tokens to the Talos & Foes Vault
**** Talos (Skrull Warlord) **** 37 votes
5/5/3
48%
18 votes
5/4/4
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5/3/5
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4/5/4
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2 votes
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3/5/5
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17 votes
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Comments
Can someone sell me on Black? It honestly looks really bad.
The combo potential is interesting. Blue destroys 5 enemy AP, Purple lets you match 3 and Steal 2, which can be heavy swings in your favor (especially if it's a color you don't need to spend), which bumps up the bonus damage from Black. And that's where most of his direct offensive power sits. Keeping the enemy in check and boosting your match damage through the roof could be nasty in the right circumstances.
I think he could be fun paired with America in 4* territory.
*edit*
@TPF Alexis , yeah if black actually increases the match damage number (like Ghost), then there's some potential. If it's damage that's tacked on after the fact (like PunMax increasing strike tiles), then not good as he'd have to tank the color to begin with.
@Brigby does his black power increase his match damage numbers, or is the damage increase calculated after he makes a match.
Good question. I'll have to ask the team about that one! I'll update this post once I hear back from them
Update: It would appear that his Passive is "non-tanking". It increases the damage done, but doesn't affect his base match damage numbers when the game determines who has the strongest colors.
And depending on which team you're playing, it might not even matter if the AI steals your strongest color. For example, when I run Thorkoye, black is my strongest color. Sure, AI, steal my black. Take it all, because odds are I'm fighting another Thorkoye team and they can't use black either, or a Gritty team, which also can't use black. Though if *I'm* fighting the AI's Gritty team I'll be stealing yellow (again, provided the AI has yellow to steal). So it's not all bad. Just would be better if it stole random AP (to ensure you get something) or from the highest AP pool.
Next 5* after that likely to be Endgame related. I'd guess Thanos and Iron Man so we get one before and one after the movie.
Frustrated that this purple doesn’t feel like an upgrade of Shapeshift. It’s just harder to hit traps than a Countdown, but only affecting one AP Pool doesn’t sound great right now.
I'm really curious as to who D3 has testing heros again.....
When you cast it and he shapeshifts does he shapeshift into the target enemy and steal 'that' enemies strongest color or is it just the enemy teams strongest color? If it's the former then you potentially have 3 target pools to steal from by rotating to the character who's strongest color you want to steal It would make his Purple much more viable as a denier.
KGB