Just throwing this out if anyone wants to commiserate (and to mock my comically incomplete roster and bad luck on weekly buffs)! I imagine many other players aren’t in the same boat, though.
I have NO boosted 4* champs this week, and my Peggy Carter is 1/2/1. As much as I want the 900 point cover, it’s basically a pipe dream this event, and even crawling to 575 points is going to be a pain in the doopah against armies of champed Peggy/Thoress/Moon Knight/Xavier/etc.
It’s almost enough to make me want to blow my meager HP load to try and get Peggy from the Exiles vault and/or pay $20 for the covers for sale. ALMOST.
My Peggy is champed but the only other 4* I have that is champed and boosted is Quake but she is not invited to this party. Champed Mockingbird and MEH have been putting in good work, so I probably won’t get murdered, just won’t get as far as I’d like to.
I was grinding real hard up to 575, but it’s not been easy. I am in the same boat as @NotBAMF having no boosted 4*s to speak of. My peggy is 4/1/3, and i just spent the 45k iso to level her to cap so she at least has okay health. I’ve been able to climb with 4ocket/Nico, Medusa/4ocket, Nico/Medusa - basically variations on teams that are doing auto damage escalating it. Hiding behind defense tiles has helped some, but if they manage to drop Nico then the team falls down pretty quick. It hasn’t been a legendary defense squad either, so I think this one is going to be more trouble for me than most lol. Even my usual fallback of Vulture/G4mora suffers for having that AP tax.
My Shuri is 12 covers but un-leveled, but I was thinking she’d be good in here to reduce friendly ap and add a stacked tax over peggy. I’m not seeing any in here at all though, so either i’m the only one who thought of that, or people with champ shuri’s have better options?
I’ll have to try Mockingbird/MEH, I momentarily forgot I just champed them both a week or two ago lol.
Because in a regular PVP, I’d at least have a champed 3* to bring to neutralize everyone else’s champed mandatory character (as would, I assume, every single other player in the 4* tier). Here, everyone is going to have champed flank 4*'s AND champed Peggy, and I’m going to be running an underpowered Peggy and two 270-280 power flanks.
Also, it’s just a bad timing issue. What are the odds I’d be able to use three 4* characters and NONE of my options are champed? Not that likely.
It’s a pretty big difference.
Shuri, you say? I do have her champed… I might try it out in the early going and see if it helps. I figured I was stuck with Grocket/Gamora flanking my crappy Peggy, but hey… anything that helps at this point!
The difference here (for me) is that most of the 4* pvps feature a new release, and therefore there is some parity with all opponents. This one features a legit top-tier older 4* that a lot of folks appear to have at very high levels. The delta between a loaner 4* and a highly champed and boosted 4* is pretty extreme, particularly if you don’t have any good boosted wingmen to pick up the slack. I was discussing with an alliance mate earlier if this difficulty is based off of it being specifically Peggy’s pvp event, or if any PVP that featured a 4* who’d been around long enough to be champed would be like this. I’m not entirely sure.
Let us know how that goes with Shuri; ideally somebody else who can fortify tiles for cheap/passively (is that goblin and haw5eye only?) would get that team moving; maybe C4ge or Hobofist? My C4ge isn’t very good either or I’d attempt it. Either that, or somebody that can jumpstart red since Vibranium Virtuoso is as likely as not going to cost you 11ap
I’ve been seeing some already with 45k-50k hp that can 1-shot any single character I bring off their red, that’s high enough level when coupled with similarly boosted Lady Thor and Quake to make it a tough go for my roster.
For 5* players, everyone has a level 450+ Peggy with 50k+ health. My Peggy is level 476 with 68k health. And with Gambit’s abilities costing 4 more, it’s going to be a long, long grind indeed.
I got in early enough to get a few seed teams, and the first wave of real opponents were all like this. I saw a few 30k health, seemingly fully covered but unchamped 5s matched up with Peggy and Lady Thor as well. Then after around 400, it kind of settled down, but if I hunt around I can queue up those killer teams still. I was up near 600 earlier but now I’m at 511. My retals are unchamped 5 teams like a lvl 390 panther/Star Lord combo, stuff like that. So it’s not what I’m seeing exclusively, but the 37+pt matches I find look like this.
I feel for you @NotBAMF I really do. That always seems to happen in events where you really want that 900 progression cover, doesn’t it?
(Oh, hang on… I need to slaughter this 3-star team with my champed/boosted Peggy and Moon Knight. Thanks for all the red, blue, and green AP, IM40, that made things easy…)
Okay, sorry about that. So as I was saying, my heart goes out to you, man. Not having Peggy champed is a real bummer. She’s like, my favorite 4-star. She’s one of those 4-stars that makes you feel like your roster just got better rather than just bigger, after you champ her.
I’ll be sending positive thoughts your way. (And seriously, it’s just $20. Eat ramen for lunch this week. Peggy’s worth it.)
I wasn’t meaning to indicate my MMR was somehow broken so much as a boosted Peggy is especially challenging to have as the featured character because of her AP tax. She makes equalizer characters with cheap stuns or AP gains, like Vulture/G4mora or even Spid3r-Man who is boosted right now, relatively ineffectual.
My strategy of boosting specials with Nico is working so long as I’m able to deny red and get some shields out early. These teams have a lot of health to chew through so have extra expensive powers are what is making this PVP more challenging than a typical “no boosted 4*s this week” pvp.