Your latest fun team combination

I'm fairly new to 5* champed land I only have apoc,kitty and killmonger champed but since the update to 4* panther I find the team of Apoc,panther and polaris great..

@PiMacleod I haven't tried Deathlok as a partner for Okoye Gorr, but one more for you to try is Okoye + Gorr + 1/2 Thor. I've basically cut my grind times in half on the CN vs my old winfinite team of Beta Ray, Polaris, and Th4nos. You'll be swimming in Yellow, especially if you use +2TU, +2R/Y, and +2 All, and equip RTF to Okoye and supports that generate Yellow at start of battle like Korg, Sanctum, SP//DR, Vintage Shield, or Avengers Tower to Thor and Gorr (Gorr can only wear Vintage Shield because the others are restricted to heroes but Thor can wear any of them). With all that Yellow, you can either add more minion tiles via Gorr's yellow, at least some of which are likely to get matched away during longer battles or heal Okoye and add to her boost. Plus, Thor is quietly gathering Red and Green for Okoye's nuke and Thor's AoE, and if you match enough Black, Gorr's Black boosted by Okoye can one-shot some pretty beefy enemies (better to have him at 5/5/3 if you're not fighting special tile creators).

This team is predicated on having Okoye tank as much as possible, especially since 1/2 Thor and Gorr are both kinda squishy, so any nodes where:

1) Okoye can get stunned, or
2) Okoye can get 1-shot, or
3) Someone on the enemy team has a power like an AoE that can hit more than just the character in front

you have to be a little more careful. This team only failed me once, that was the Venom Bomb Liberty Island CN node with BiB Spider-Man and his 2 batteries because Gorr's minion tiles target random enemies and BiB has enough Green to launch his multi-hit within like 4 turns.

@PiMacleod said:
I don't place teams here often (if at all, ever)... but lately, I've found two teams carrying me through PvE in record times for me.

First, Okoye - iHulk - Gorr (yellow @ 5)
...triggering Okoye's passive for the team hit and THEN THREE MORE TIMES cannot be overstated. Start with +2 TU AP, and that's major damage on round 2, not to mention any TUs you nabbed on the 1st turn.
Yes, we all know about Okoye & iHulk... but Gorr has been a real treat, IMO. No green tile requirement, no animation, no ****... just near-instant amped-up damage. Plus, if it's one of those challenge nodes with Rocket or BRB or 4* Carnage, his purple kicks in and just nullifies the whole team. The only time this goes slower if if greens aren't available. This also becomes an issue on longer fights.... which leads me to...

2nd option, usually for larger health teams... Okoye - Gorr - Deathlok (red & black at 5).
Same Okoye/Gorr fun I mentioned above... but add in Deathlok's passive. And I have to preface this... I wonder if it's bugged. It does NOTHING without matching a Red or Blue, but when it does, Wakanda Forever seems to add on to his Focus damage bonus! This, in turn, adds that WF-boosted damage to your MATCH DAMAGE, not to mention Gorr's 3 shadow minion tiles! Wanna make this more fun? Fire off Deathlok's black. Now you got 7 points at minimum, amped by Okoye, and a passive for a few turns that does that WF-amped team damage ON TOP of the Gorr tiles amped by WF.

Now, to be fair, I think this shouldn't be working like this. I mean, WF is amping up a damage amplifier! I've seen Okoye do match damage for 12k+ when it should've just done 2k-ish. There's no way Deathlok's damage amplifier is adding 8k onto Okoye by itself. So, they're working in tandem, and it's awesome. Works best for long term matches that IHulk wouldn't eliminate in just a round or two.

I've never went through PvE so fast.

This combination is actually pretty insane. It has obvious cons, but the damage ticks are crazy. I hope it's working as intended so it doesn't go anywhere.

Okoye, gorr and deathlok is fantastic. I have absolutely no idea why/who/what all the damage is but everyone just dies in a second. Great fun

@dokiy said:

@PiMacleod said:
I don't place teams here often (if at all, ever)... but lately, I've found two teams carrying me through PvE in record times for me.

First, Okoye - iHulk - Gorr (yellow @ 5)
...triggering Okoye's passive for the team hit and THEN THREE MORE TIMES cannot be overstated. Start with +2 TU AP, and that's major damage on round 2, not to mention any TUs you nabbed on the 1st turn.
Yes, we all know about Okoye & iHulk... but Gorr has been a real treat, IMO. No green tile requirement, no animation, no ****... just near-instant amped-up damage. Plus, if it's one of those challenge nodes with Rocket or BRB or 4* Carnage, his purple kicks in and just nullifies the whole team. The only time this goes slower if if greens aren't available. This also becomes an issue on longer fights.... which leads me to...

Ok. So I don't know who's doing damage, but hot damn people are dying quickly. Nice group!

Just did some PVE testing: okoye/gorr/deathlok keeps up with or outpaces kitty/R&G/Polaris in clearing nodes. 6 turn finishes on the hardest nodes. (That's about 450,000 total damage done in 6 turns and no need for health packs) You don't even need the 4s to be leveled, just covered.

*Health pack results may vary due to enemy passives (kraven/carnage for example) but okoye should be tanking so shouldn't be an issue.

Anyway, it's a crazy group that I hope doesn't get adjusted at all. It adds something without affecting meta or fairness at all. I'm just worried someone will decide it's not working as intended and Nerf the group.

@Blackstone said:

@dokiy said:

@PiMacleod said:
I don't place teams here often (if at all, ever)... but lately, I've found two teams carrying me through PvE in record times for me.

First, Okoye - iHulk - Gorr (yellow @ 5)
...triggering Okoye's passive for the team hit and THEN THREE MORE TIMES cannot be overstated. Start with +2 TU AP, and that's major damage on round 2, not to mention any TUs you nabbed on the 1st turn.
Yes, we all know about Okoye & iHulk... but Gorr has been a real treat, IMO. No green tile requirement, no animation, no ****... just near-instant amped-up damage. Plus, if it's one of those challenge nodes with Rocket or BRB or 4* Carnage, his purple kicks in and just nullifies the whole team. The only time this goes slower if if greens aren't available. This also becomes an issue on longer fights.... which leads me to...

Ok. So I don't know who's doing damage, but hot damn people are dying quickly. Nice group!

Just did some PVE testing: okoye/gorr/deathlok keeps up with or outpaces kitty/R&G/Polaris in clearing nodes. 6 turn finishes on the hardest nodes. (That's about 450,000 total damage done in 6 turns and no need for health packs) You don't even need the 4s to be leveled, just covered.

*Health pack results may vary due to enemy passives (kraven/carnage for example) but okoye should be tanking so shouldn't be an issue.

Anyway, it's a crazy group that I hope doesn't get adjusted at all. It adds something without affecting meta or fairness at all. I'm just worried someone will decide it's not working as intended and Nerf the group.

Yeah you need more than 6 turns on that Kraven node in CL 10, but the team works.
Depends on how many hits your Okoye can tank, though.

I only tried it once then retreated when Kraven was down, my grind isn't up for another 2 hours.
I'll count the turns

I was using Jane/Big Wheel/Sersi, and that team is pretty fun if you like cascades. Use purple to lock out purple and then chase cascades as you like.

@Bowgentle said:

@Bowgentle said:
I only tried it once then retreated when Kraven was down, my grind isn't up for another 2 hours.
I'll count the turns

So yeah, after two wipes I went back to Shang Chavez Big Wheel.
Not reliable enough.

Maybe it just doesn't fit your play style?
I've been reliably using them. I had one game, out of several dozen, that I retreated because of a really weird board that I just couldn't do anything with.

But there's nothing saying everyone needs to use the same team.

As for reliability, I've used Okoye/Gorr/Deathlok exclusively throughout Fight For Wakanda (except for the essential pick 2s of course) and have breezed though every node.

In fact, a ten turn game feels really long with them.

Not meant to be an argument, just my experience.

The AP gain each turn is very useful, and I don't understand how his focus points work but they are doing something in the damage mix