After champing Riri I fell in love with her, she’s got a massive punch and so dang useful on her own both offensively and defensively if you use the green power just at the right time when needed. It took me a while to find her a good color match, I was using C&D because their colors covered the board perfectly, then I could just bring along 3Strange for added power.
However… even though I am not in 5* land, heck I’m barely in 4* land, I was doing things a little backwards early on and was rostering every 5* cover I got. Well I have since gotten rid of them in lieu of rostering 3’s and 4’s, but I did keep two because I have too many covers for them to just let go. One is 5* Strange and the other is Green Goblin, and boy am I glad I kept him! Not only do I get his black(2) and purple(1) (no yellow yet) but I get the added power of his matches over C&D and I can still bring Strange in the mix, 3* or 5* depending on what I need.
I only use this in PVE, sorry for not clarifying. I don’t do a lot of PVP, at least until the do the scaling change where I only have to win 16 matches to get 10 CP.
In my case it works out even better because Riri and 4Carol are at the same champ levels so I can pick who gets the bonus AP (Black or Blue) from Carol’s passive depending on enemy strongest color or whether I think Riri’s Blue or Carol’s Black will help me win faster/easier.
Bl4de makes strike tiles and a cheap AOE green, coupled with AV cheap 5 attack then coulson adding extra damage with CD tiles and what not, it’s a fun team.
If I could use HE5/ Coulson/ G4mora all the time, I would. Minimal health pack use and high win percentage. In fact, I would dare say its better than IM40/ Peggy or 4thor or Iceman. I use her at 3/5/5 and it’s too easy.
Riri, IM 40, & Spider Woman just got me through the entire system reboot event only using 2 health packs. Great balance of offense and defense.
Also started using Coulson, C4rol, & Nova. With novas cheap strike tile creation triggering Coulsons’ Best Laid Plans countdown and getting buffed by C4rol, damage totals get really high really fast.
For PVP I like using 5* Hawkguy, 4* Starlord & Coulson. They not only do a lot of damage but generate & steal/disrupt the oppositions APs. My other fav at the moment is *4 Gamora, Rocket & G, & Strange.
I run Riri, C4rol, and IM46. Riri’s blue is better than Tony’s. Instead of “Girl Friday”, I’ve taken to calling her blue “Bae Riri”.
My IM46 is 420, at 5/3/4.Firing her blue is a guaranteed Tony red, which is 19k damage for 9 red. And when you factor in 5* match damage (with charged or crit tiles), you can easily, EASILY do 10k from her blue.
I know there are lots of players who have had IM40 in heavy rotation in various teams for years at this point, but I’ve never been one of them. I’ve recently been using him, however, with Riri and Mordo and they make matches go by so very quickly.
Despite having other favorites, I played a lot with this team recently: R&G, G4mora & Medusa. Strikes, stuns, a juicy passive to strive for, decent red, heal, and so on.
Best scenario: first target killed in turn 3 or 4, stun the other 2 and cast black. With or without passive it’s gg either way.
I just champed Vulture this morning and had masses of fun with him, Cage and Fist in the big enchilada. I think that’ll be a fun team for the early part of next season’s Sim.
