***** Ultron (Age of Ultron) *****

Ultron boosted isn't going to look that great. His red will do more damage, but it's already low and if he doesn't have enough specials on the board the damage can be reduced.
His black won't scale when he is boosted. And his strike tile generation can and will be neutralized quickly. So, the only thing you have to worry about really is his match damage.
Going up against him I would probably leave a 550 ultron on the board until the end.

Thanos said:

I was gonna make some videos but playing with him kept putting me to sleep. This guy can go on top the already massive pile of mediocre drek that is the 5* tier. If the next 5* is also **** I may just quit the game.

I feel the same. Plus with boosted 5s I feel like they care even less if they totally miss the mark on tuning characters these days, because they juat say, well the character won't be so bad boosted. 

I know every release can't be meta, but they don't have to be undertuned garbage either. Nothing worse than when they release some of the more popular characters as well and botch them. I have no idea how they mess things up so bad.

HoundofShadow said:

If majority of the game modes in MPQ is pick-1 or 1v1, then it makes sense he's not good. However, the name of the game has always being about synergy.

If you don't want to wait 4 or 5 turns to create 4 strike tiles, pair him with someone who can do it passively. If you want it fast, pair him with R4G. If you want to take it slow, there are a lot of options. And people forget about one advantage of strike tiles and take them for granted: they increases your match damage. As the turn goes on, your match damage increases even more: 1028, 2056, 3084, 4112... That's an extra 10k damage which is approximately equal to an extra 4 match-3 made.

With that being said, R4G/Kitty/Ultron is probably the fastest offensive team based on strike tiles. An extra 4193 buff to your strike tiles is significant. And all these buffs compound each turn: 4193, 8396, 12, 579, 16, 772, 20,965. On turn 6, you would have dealt at least 62,905 in match damage. 

And like you mentioned elsewhere that damage boost is added to his red. And Kitty’s pink. Even as a 4* player switching Kitty for Polaris, Ultron would be good. A step below Kitty with that duo, but there is still an excellent chance that the match is over before Ultron finds 8 black to fire his pathetic stun. I would prefer a mechanic that more closely simulated sentry bots (Ronan’s repeater and maybe black tile destruction would have been fun) but I am not making the game.

If Ultron is making people question whether they want to continue playing the game it is because they are bored. It won’t hurt to take a break from grinding daily, in this game anyways I haven’t found a mobile game that doesn’t have some sort of grind unless it can be beaten in a short time. If you have meta characters, then you will still have meta adjacent characters if you decide to return since nerfs are pretty rare in this game.

I like Shang Chi and I like ultron more than odin. So I will probably pull for shang chi when odin rotates out.
The major problem with ultron is he struggles to get anything going for himself which is a shame and his best partners are 4*s like several of you have pointed out. As several of you have suggested he's more of a PvE stepping stone to 5* than anything else.
It seems unlikely he will be able to get the huge numbers thrown out from strike tiles that the math suggests are possible, but if it happens it will be fun to watch no doubt.
From the roughly 9 or so runs on his two Introducing events I've seen his strike tiles wiped more than half the time. Maybe I'm unlucky, but it seems far less spectacular than say BRB with his 6ap blue or even Knull's summon dragons. On paper it looks better than summon dragons, but the adjacent tiles creates a greater chance of matching 2 tiles instead of 1.

I don't know why people would quit over this character, maybe they are already getting a bit exhausted of the cover chase grind that this game is /shrug.

Don't get the quit threat.  Ya I think he blows, but that just means my CP/LL hoard grows and grows.

Just to offer a what if: the previous scrum wasn’t about a new character (they have had him for years,mostly) but to work on a new feature that will be announced on the livestream for Anniversary? #mpqanniversary   #bestever

If only he was immune to stun from the start like the enemy Ultron is.

Knull
Ultron
Dark Beast

i like this team

wymtime said:

entrailbucket said:

wymtime said:

entrailbucket said:

wymtime said:

For everyone hating on Ultrons red it is pretty on par with many 5*.  

JJ gives one more strike tile an a little more damage for 9AP. 

 Carnage for 6AP does 9K damage but also does self team damage

Hela for 9AP gives 4 strike tiles only slightly better than Ultron.

it might not be Apocalypse or IHulk level red but it is not bad.  Plus you will be able to get out a lot of very strong strike tiles if you pairing him with a strike tile producer making his red do a lot of extra damage

Those other characters are unusable trash because they're not as good as the 3 or 4 good characters. 

If Ultron isn't at least as good as Apocalypse or Hulk, he is also unusable trash.

With boosted 5* it is not about 3-4 good characters it is about is the boosted character useful.  Ultron will be useful when boosted

This just isn't true.  I wish it was.

An Ultron boosted to 550 will be about as good as a 450 Apocalypse.

An Ultron boosted will get more play in PVP than an un boosted Apocalypse.  Any 2nd tier 5* gets played more in PVP when boosted.  SW/Colossus would be the PVP meta if there were no boosted characters.  Now with Boosted 5* there are typically one to 2 5* that will be played in PVP over the regular meta.

It was this way for awhile but it's not now (for me, anyway), unless one of the best few characters is boosted.  People tried using the boosted characters but seem to be back to running meta teams.