**** Morbius (The Living Vampire) ****

Theghouse said:

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Michael1957 said:

I’ll say one thing , in his PvAI , in the first 22 matches I drew , not ONCE did I see BRB, Kitty, Grocket or Polaris. All those tinykittys who I’ve seen playing them for 6 months are either skipping this event or playing lame teams that iHulk tramples through . He will definitely change the meta heirarchy 

Your MMR is too high. As a 4* player I still see tons of those teams. Not only that, I’m still successfully using Polaris Grocket in this PVP. I don’t see why that will change even when people have 5 black Morbius. I believe that everyone predicting the death of Polaris in PVP are probably not actually playing her in 4* land. I will still use her because there is nothing faster. The existence of Morbius does not change that. She was already terrible on defense. Morbius doesn’t change that.  Morbius does add another defensive deterrent, but those already existed in the form of Sabre and Medusa and a couple others. He basically adds another team I’ll tend to skip, but his adoption rate would have to be extremely high for it to affect my game, and I’m not sure why that will happen since he doesn’t seem to speed up killing in any meaningful way. In fact, he probably won’t even replace Sabretooth on my Grocket-hunting team. 

The thing about Morbius and Polaris in PVP is that they are excellent in the hands of the player who can target the special tiles, and only moderately dangerous in the hands of the AI who does not consider special tiles when determining tile matching selection.

Morbius won't make Polaris disappear from PVP, as you said she will still be very fast.  But Morbius will absolutely bust defending Polaris teams with the player vs AI advantage.  This will make going up against them much less of a hassle, and will drastically lower the float point for Rocket/Polaris defensive teams.  Even if they still climb with Polaris, this will force players to think about putting a different team out on defense to float higher, and will result on seeing less overall Polaris teams on defense.