It’s time once again for “Fun With Stats”! Last time we took a look at how and where mobile players were enjoying Marvel Puzzle Quest (https://forums.505go.com/discussion/18156). This time around, we dive deep into Super Hero usage and abilities. Thanks go out again to IceIX for digging into the details and compiling this list.
Activated Abilities:
iOS
Player - 89,134,220
AI - 65,622,235
Android
Player – 113,735,295
AI – 87,005,599
PC
Player – 13,495,620
AI – 9,323,543
Total
Player – 216,365,135
AI – 161,951,377
Hero/Villain: 81,502,529
Minion: 70,448,848
Player Stats:
Top 5 Characters by activated ability
Thor (Marvel NOW!) - 9.62%
Black Widow (Original) - 7.32%
Iron Man (Model 35) - 6.76%
Daken (DA Wolverine) - 6.17%
Storm (Classic) - 5.96%
Espionage cannot be third, after an ability that costs 12 AP. Espionage is free. A team consisting of OBW and Storm would need to use Espionage four times before Wind Storm would become available.
While I appreciate the stats for the whole mpq population, is it possible to give us data of specific populations?
Example I would be interested to look at the abilities for the top players. It may be difficult to filter out, but the top 100 alliance data would be a good way of querying the data.
I think it is better to show specific population data, cos it gives a better indication of the way the games are played by the top echelon of the population.
Sentry: World Rupture - 0.37%, which places it just below Psylocke’s Psychic Knife and just above Moonstone’s Gravity Warp.
What the hell… just that? just a minority has sentry maxed covered or what?
Nick Fury: Demolition - 1.68%
Nick Fury: Avengers Assemble - 1.29%
Invisible Woman: Force Field Crush - 0.51%
Invisible Woman: Force Bubbles - 0.36%
Invisible Woman: Grant Invisibility - 0.19%
Remember a majority only use to shield hop, so that represents less than about 1.5% players per pvp. On top of that, about 75% or more of fights are done before senty hopping. Remember for most shield hops, you are getting 40-50 points a pop, so these are less fights than getting the same fights on the way to shield hop territory. So 0.37% sounds about right.
Also, many casual players don’t realise how powerful World Rupture is. The ability isn’t obviously powerful from its description, is a teamhurting ability, and you have to understand how it works with strike tiles to understand how powerful it actually is. People on the forum are more in-the-know but I’ve seen people on Facebook complaining that they should buff his “useless green ability”.
I don’t see the point of usage statistics on World Rupture. It’s like saying statistics show that only 0.2% of PvE players are crazy so the insanity for the top 2 in PvE events only applies to a very small subset of players. Beyond his lack of availability, it’s not always the best ability to use in every scenario but it’s pretty much the best ability to use in every scenario that matters.
I’m surprised Star Spangled Avenger is that high for 3*.
That’d mean no character is used roughly 2-3X as often as Captain America, which seems surprising to me. I wonder how the PvP/PvE breakdown goes. I can definitely see him being #1 in usage in PvE by the defined metrics but PvP would be quite surprising.
If it’s just out of that character’s games that’d mean World Rupture is used one out of roughly 200 games that involves Sentry. That just seems completely unbelievable given the ability’s extremely low AP cost.
