POLL: Most Overused Color Set

I put in an update at the Characters and Skills Compendium and noticed a few color combos that seem way overused, if the Passives were considered neutral. So I made a poll out of it.

You missed 2* Cap.

And 2* Torch.

Everytime I see the color list, I am boggled we don’t have a red/blue/black spidey.

Not sure why we need a poll for this, it’s pretty easy to count how many characters use each combination of colors.

I’m really tired of seeing red/green/third.

Like a lot.

Red alone is everywhere in this game, it’s creepily excessive, followed by green, I’d argue yellow/ blue after.

"By DuckyV » Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:21 am

I’m really tired of seeing red/green/third.

Like a lot."

My first maxed chars were, in that order:
Punisher, Thor, Patch, and a healthy Hulk. I used OBWidow for ages icon_razz.gif

icon_captainamerica.png
icon_daken.png
icon_daredevil.png
icon_mystique.png
all have pretty great blueflag.png
powers.

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icon_hood.png
both have blueflag.png
passives that are incredibly powerful.

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I believe it’s more useful to point out the colour pairs that are overly represented in comparison to others, something I noticed while working on my Two Colour Combinations thread. For example, the combination Yellow/Black and Purple/Green are stacked with active abilities and most of them are great. Blue/Green and Blue/Black, on the other hand, are very poorly represented.

Im curious, is there some unwritten rule about what powers are allowed to do for their color?

IE, most of the AP/board manipulators seem to be purple, most of the attack tiles tend to be black, most of the st direct damage seems to be red, most of the boardshakes tend to be green.

Does each color have some unwritten “Rule” about what it’s allowed to do?

Blue is stun and light board manipulation, Yellow works with protect tiles and health.

Give us a yellowflag.png
blackflag.png
blueflag.png

And another purpleflag.png
redflag.png
blueflag.png

I think there is another color set that hasn’t been represented yet, but those two are very under represented.

Yes, I do know those are Hood and Daredevils colours, but that’s it. And hoods blueflag.png
is passive.

ETA: Kingpin is the other one. He is the only purpleflag.png
yellowflag.png
blackflag.png

And quicksilver is the only blackflag.png
greenflag.png
blueflag.png
I think

Black Panther has the same combination as Hood and Doc Ock has the same combination as Quicksilver. When in doubt, always refer to the excellent Characters and Skills compendium thread linked in the first post. According to it, these are the combinations that only have 1 or less representative:

yellowtile.png
redtile.png
purpletile.png
none.png
icon_starlord.png

bluetile.png
purpletile.png
greentile.png
none.png
icon_scarletwitch.png

yellowtile.png
purpletile.png
blacktile.png
none.png
icon_kingpin.png

redtile.png
bluetile.png
purpletile.png
none.png
icon_daredevil.png
(If you are ignoring characters under 3*s)

If we were to count colours without characters with all three actives in those colours we’d add to that list:

purpletile.png
greentile.png
blacktile.png
There are 4 characters in this combination but not a single one with three actives.

bluetile.png
greentile.png
blacktile.png
2 Characters but none with 3 actives.

Crossing my fingers for redflag.png
blueflag.png
blackflag.png
Miles and redflag.png
blueflag.png
purpleflag.png
Ben Reilly. Heck, a greenflag.png
purpleflag.png
redflag.png
Doc Ock Superior Spider-Man would be cool.

And I’m hoping Black Cat purpleflag.png
yellowflag.png
blackflag.png
makes the rounds.

I am just boggled that spiderman doesn’t tank red. It’s kinda like psylocke not having purple, or original loki not having green, only much MUCH worse because Spiderman is the A-1 marvel property and has sported that predominantly red costume for what, 50 years now? But at least purple and yellow make a ton of sense for him!

Thing is that under the colour pie of MPQ, Spidey (Peter Parker) is not red at all, neither mechanically or philosophically. The only red Spideys I can think of would be his symbiote “Black Suit” version (he’d likely be blackflag.png
blueflag.png
redflag.png
) or Superior Spider-Man ( blueflag.png
greenflag.png
redflag.png
). Miles, I think, would be blueflag.png
yellowflag.png
greenflag.png
and Ben Reilly, blueflag.png
greenflag.png
purpleflag.png

Actual colouration of the character’s illustrations has no bearing in their MPQ colours.

Not sure if it’s a sign of overuse or just my relative roster build (eternal 2*-3* transition), but I usually go for greenflag.png
or blueflag.png
almost out of instinct. yellowflag.png
usually follows, depending on who I using.

It’s so ingrained, I have to remind myself that another color might be better if I happen to be using specific characters (Doom, Mystique, etc.)

As for redflag.png
, whenever I see a match, I’m thinking, "Meh. At least it’s something. Of course, I don’t have a fully functional HB either. icon_e_wink.gif

DBC

I’d vote for greentile.png
purpletile.png
PA, not only are there 4 of them, and 3 of them who are top tier star.png
star.png
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characters, but you effectively have 2 more of them.

icon_blackwidow.png
star.png
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and icon_squirrelgirl.png
are basically that because they have almost completely unusable third powers.

Yeah, Im slowly making my way out of that “new player” phase where every day Im surprised by something I find. The color themes dawned on me weeks ago, but not sure on the specifics.

I so badly want Superior Spider-Man at some point, but I worry that boat has already passed. But in all other games, Spidey’s always been single target scrappery, so I dunno why Red seems an odd choice for him?