Now don’t get me wrong - I LOVE matching the Infinity Stones and getting the cool effects from them but isn’t it a bit strange that in this battle Thanos actually helps us out?!?!? He has been mighty careless with those Stones, spilling them all across the board for us to gleefully exploit. With the talk of what could be done if Thanos got rebalanced it made me wonder whether his Boss battle needs re-doing too (no chance).
So (mostly) hypothetically - how could we help Thanos out and maybe land him a date with Death? Could we use the Black Order in someway? Or should the stones be countdown tiles and then maybe they switch back to Thanos ( a bit like it was in one of the Wakanda levels). Give a Mad Titan a hand?
Ultron is a mean guy, he likes to draw out his conquest of humanity and also he can only buy his bombs in job lots of 50 so he has to be careful not to run out too soon.
And yes it is easy - waaaay too easy because Thanos is sabatoging himself! I guess maybe his heart isn’t really in it?
The difficulty of this event gets thrown out of whack, mostly because the natural boosted list includes 4* Grocket and Gamora, and they can do an incredible amount of heavy lifting.
I was actually thinking about this recently, so here’s my idea.
Start with all six “Infinity Stones” on the board, as it works now.
Match them, get a benefit, like now. But weaker, partly so it doesn’t end the match so fast. And then they respawn.
But if THANOS matches them, he gets a permanent buff of some sort. So each time he acquires a Stone, he becomes more dangerous.
Ideally, you’d want it to be a tough fight (higher health/damage), but not too difficult (not a healthpack sink if you have a decent team) when he has no Stones, but borderline nightmarish when he has all six. I’m not sure if it could be balanced that way, or how you’d do it (thematically each Stone should provide a different buff, but it might be easier to apply buffs to Thanos based on the number of Stones he has, and not worry so much about linking certain Stones to certain game buffs).
But then it would make the fight for the Stones more important to the match (more the way dealing with the Four Horsemen is more important in the Apocalypse fight).
Or if the X-Men (specifically, Kitty and Polaris) had teamed up with Grocket. Even if the match damage doesn’t kill Thanos off by the third turn, Kitty’s passive removes the Infinity Stones one at a time.
If your Venom is only 150k HP consider yourself lucky. Mine is over 250k.
Boss events are (I think?) the last place they still use the old roster-based PvE scaling formula. The bosses don’t scale though. They have to be super easy so that lower level players can still win the fights.