I’m sure someone else has probably had this happen before, but it’s new to me. In the Sinister Six event, Boss Venom only becomes visible after he gets 6 invisibility tiles on the board. I brought Gritty+Polaris, so I had the board flooded with special tiles to the point where it was impossible for Venom to ever get that many on the board. I also couldn’t get Grockett’s green down to hit him with AoE.
By the time I cleared his final invisibility tile, I had 30 of all AP and 88k/27k attack and strike tiles respectively.
Whenever I get to Venom, I try not to match my specials. If the board is already full, focus on matching TUs and hope purples fall. It doesn’t usually take me too long to get past him and I usually run the same team.
I’m thankful for the tips, but this wasn’t really about me asking what to do to counter this problem as much as it was me just pointing out a funny little thing that happened.
Always happens to me on the first fight of Sinister Six - i forget about Ock & Venom - show up with no tools to deal with them and it takes forever. Then I remember and it’s plain sailing. TA Hulk for Ock and any AOE for Venom
I had the same thing happen. Took forever to match away the three Invis tiles on the board. One match at a time, trying to force cascades that would maybe get lucky and create more purple on that side of the board so I could remove them naturally. Funny complication for an old boss against the newer meta.
Dr Ock is the worst of the lot. I brought Polaris/Kate Pryde/R4G into one of the wave nodes in Round 1 because I’m basically one-shot every member until Dr Ock stepped in. He stopped me dead in my track. I have neither ability nor teamup that can destroy chosen tiles and his tiles
are counting down with each move I made. Thankfully, a match-4 destroyed his tile. I know you can see who are in wave nodes but it’s Round 1. It’s like playing Prologue.
I can’t speak for others and I used Polaris because she can one-shot everything with R4G. Of course, there are a lot of 5* characters I could use to one-shot them. Probably I just like seeing R4G because they are cute.
Knull ignores Venom’s invisibility, so he clears all 1v1 battles in the Sin6. For Doc I use Quake to destroy select colors and reshape the board for unmatchable targets . Or if I was lazy I’d just toss Okoye’s spear at the 20 to activate InstaKill
Vulture set to 5/4/4 is historically the MVP of this alliance event, but I’ve just been powering through with Hulkoye + Profe$$or X. If I need to clear a specific tile I’ll use X’s purple on a blue tile in it’s row.
Are you really matching venom’s invisibility?
I always let him do his show as he deals low damage, and after his performance is done it’s my clobbering time.
One good thing about Venom is that if he appears before Dr Ock, you can use the time to collect aps to destroy his countdown tile the moment he enters the battle.
