I like both of these PvP events. Season-PvP gets a bit tiresome with required characters and facing the same boosted characters all week. The only place to experiment with picking 3 characters of your choosing during the season is the SHIELD sim, and that’s a hot mess of either Grocket & Gamora if you’re a 4-star player, or Gambit if you’re a 5-star player. True variety is hard to come by in PvP. But then the off-season comes and we get Balance of Power and/or Combined arms. I see a lot of team variety from my opponents in these events and they both have fun mechanics which make both events very unique.
Combined Arms is fun because it mandates you play with lower tier characters. Balance of Power, while fun, I find to be a bit of a slog with the scaled up health pool, and I will still try and use my “best” 4* champ teams in it. that being said, I still love all these novelty PVP formats. I like the BFFs one where you just get to pick a duo also, and wouldn’t mind trying out a 1-on-1 format at some point.
BoP is terrible. Always is terrible. CA while can end up with many of the same teams, allows for much more flexibility and for once puts 5* on the bench.
Combined arms forces the interesting team building. BoP does not, although I do prefer it to the other off-eason pvps. Also a major negative for BoP is that it’s really really hard to find characters. At least in combined arms they are ordered by level.
Combined Arms is so much fun, because It lets me play with a variety of teams that I never thought would work out so good. Balance Of Power is so time consuming, because of the huge health boost. It gets boring after a while. I don’t envy the players who have to play 5* PVP land.
While this may be true for characters with the same number of covers, I like to use this event to try undercovered characters, which means a lot of searching to find them.
At least with Combined Arms I’m rewarded for having some max champs. Both are bad though. BoP would be a lot better if it were “everyone is boosted” as opposed to “everyone is 550.” Or even better if they locked out 5*s.
Boosted Vulture is a nightmare in BoP; I’ve been running Vulture/Medusa/G4mora, and his green AoE is doing around 54k damage to each enemy while G4mora keeps them stunned and medusa keeps the health up. It was an easy jump to 575, and I may push it as far as I can given today is a 2-day sub in The Hunt.
So far, the majority of teams I have seen are Gambit/Thor with a 3rd piece like America Chavez.
In the past, you could expect to see a wide variety, and as you mentioned no one would run 5’s since they don’t boost to a similar level as the 4’s do. That variety is pretty much dead.