Next to be rebalanced *cough* Nerfed???

Mr_F said:

ThaRoadWarrior said:

 she seems strong but not Problematic to me mechanically, but i"m a 5* player so my perspective is skewed.

TY for advices. Yes, exactly. In 4* land Polaris is a beast. Its not like there are no options but those are limited.

Lets look at Bishop: he was hard. But he required from me a bit of strategy how to approach him. I had few dozens of option who to bring to deal with him. I could use same team and do 3 times in row Peggy/XF Deadpool/prenerf Bishop with 1-3 healthpacks used.

But Polaris is kinda different. Unless I use BRB or other protect tiles spammer I may not survive or will need to use health packs if I have to use same characters for whatever reasons. And it is no matter who will I use as 2nd (& 3rd) option. Thats the problem.

Nebula may not survive long enough to collect & use Green. Dazzler... I dunno. Mine is 3/3/3 lv 131. Juggernaut is shredded. X-23 (x/5/x build) may not keep up with healing (4k damage per turn from Polaris requires for Laura to make 3 moves per turn to keep. 4k Polaris can do easily with Rocket). Karnak is too squishy and later he tanks. I may not be even be able to use invisibility. Medusa... Maybe. But I have to bring Carnage or Polaris. Iceman and other stunners are risky (I may not be able to collect AP). Etc.

Basically: forget what ya have. Bring own Polaris.

That is the problem for me. The only viable counter for Polaris requires Polaris and Rocket/Medusa/Carnage/whatever to reduce the healthpack used. Its like prenerf Gambit for me. Use hammer to deal with hammer.

We're always caught flatfooted when you don't have everyone champed and usable. The good news is that as a 4* player, you can purposefully finish up any given counter character in a much more reasonable amount of time through sharding than you can when you're caught flatfooted by a new 5*. When Kitty/Rocket first became a problem for me, i tried all kinds of things because I didn't (and still don't) have a functional Black Suit Spider man, and we were a year or so away from Sabretooth. I was convinced it would be Dazzler, but because i only had a champed Ghost Rider, she didn't tank anything being 100% overlapped, and the opponent teams I was seeing had max-champ rockets anyway due to some other roster leveling decisions I'd made. So I then started messing with a suicide GE Doom/Lumbercap play, but my Lumbercap build was too weak to solo it without a partner. 

Dazzler works really well - I've used BRB/Kitty/Dazzler to take out Hulkoye before, because the AOE will trigger her. The big limitation I've always found using Dazzler is that her health is low at low champ levels, and she needs to be tanking. Since she came out really late relative to other characters, she doesn't tank anything at the 4* level and certainly not at the 5* level. From  roster management standpoint, we all have to say "is growing this counter up worth derailing whatever other roster growth plans I may have had?"

TH4nos removes tiles very well too - you may think about finishing him instead.

HoundofShadow said:

I find it unlikely that Polaris's passive is dealing 4k damage per turn

PiMacleod said:

I think it's a slang for "easy" teams.  

Like, when someone throws an easy pitch for you to hit, "...he's serving him up a fat meatball!"

It's an older term, but used for easy-to-hit-out-of-the-park stuff.

Of course, I could be wrong... maybe it's a team name for him! 

All these rounders terms!

Michael1957 said:

MrPlow said:

iHulk totally nerfed for the latest PVP.

You won’t see Hulkoye teams should be interesting 

It is what a world without iHulk would be.

BRB/Kitty
BRB/Polaris
BRB/Apoc

By far the three most common teams I saw. So....just a 'normal' pvp, but with even less variety because iHulk wasn't an option. Instead everyone switched to the slower (and arguably stronger) character.

Well, this has now been answered.  Carol5

Came here to see if anyone commented about Carol.

I don't think anyone could have seen it coming.