Or, you actually tell people when they sign up that if they level their top characters too high too fast they will get stuck in a high MMR.
Giving out a max 4 to new players is just going to mean that’s their only playable character for at least a month and they can’t engage in PvP because their MMR is lopsided.
It’s a really difficult problem. For PvP, leveling is bad, but for PvE it’s a real bonus. So telling people not to level is not strictly right.
Admittedly I did effectively lock myself out of the “golden ages of PvP” for about 5 years and that’s maybe why I forget it exists most of the time, but I probably wouldn’t have listened had the game told me not to level up. It’s counter- intuitive.
Personally, I think matchmaking needs to be fixed rather than telling people how to workaround it’s failings.
I’d gladly take a compromise: let me choose characters not to use in a pvp season, and then don’t include them when calculating my opponents. I can grind out my 25 wins or whatever that’s fine, but Id rather play than not
You’d lock yourself out of the game. The game can only show you other players’ teams that actually exist. Other players are only using the best characters.
Which characters can’t you beat? Most of the current ones are pretty easy to win against – just ask here and people can give you advice.
Krakoa, Krakoa, Krakoa! Prioritizing that support will do wonders for your mpq life.
4 star Krakoa and 2 star Nightcrawler with +2purple ap? More than enough to start 1 star Hawkeye
5 star Sunspot and +2red ap? Enough to get Sunspot to fire his red
4 star Polaris with +2blue ap and 4 star Melinda May? Enough blue to get Melinda to fire her stun.
Any x man first color and Krakoa is a fantastic boost for your life and Krakoa is a support worth getting!
I can’t forget about 3 star Namor and +2black ap starting the critical tiles!
Good luck!
Ahh I see what this was about.
PvP matches you with your peers, and that’s how it should work. Matchmaking exists to stop vets from stomping noobs all the time. Somebody with a champion 5
shouldn’t be given 3 fights. 5 players fight other 5 players.
If they did something else, THAT would be unfair to newer players.
Yeah I’ve read the first post with the common teams and counters, I just don’t have the AP starters leveled.. . No Krakoa, rank 2 batons, yaro root, arc reactor, omni city, AI, avenger tower, beads, refreshment cart.. only rank 1 quantum.. 22% chance feels WAY lower.. rank 3 chimichanga. I guess supports are pure RNG so I’ll focus on getting as much as possible.
In terms of characters I have a 1a5 storm and 1a5 iron man in the 490s; I have all the 3s and working on 4s with the occasional 5 here or there.. my hawkeye is only 1a3, and with just 22% on the +ap, any team damage (4jugg, 5omega, namor) is generally bad news; vs frankie everyone seems to always start with 6 green, and again not having reliable purple. If I can kill aunt mays on turn 1 then I usually have a fighting chance vs those (many aunt may + whoever teams). Kangveil I understand what happens but can’t really do much, that’s okay. Right now iron man and storm are boosted so thats been a big help lol.
In truth, I am pvp’ing level 9 and at least with boosted iron man and storm (my highest chars) I can get top 10.. and pve I can do top 5.. so I am probably doing fine, and am making good progress, more than fine, and just need to put in the time.
It sounds like you’re doing pretty well!
Just keep grinding and you’ll get there eventually. A lot of these things are ways to make winning easier/faster, not requirements to get wins.
Damn… the game shouldn’t even let you have Ironman and Storm at 5 before any of the others, they are so bad. Sorry this is your intro experience.
A great option (and maybe the safest for Frankie) is Multiman with Cuckoos, she will never go airborne. If you just want to shut down any team and get to your wins, thats one way to do it. If you’re playing pick 2 you only get 1 carry, Hawk and MM are likely the best 2 solo carries in the game if you just want to punch up.
They just announced again that they will be buffing the lower level poopies, I would seriously hope Ironman would be soon.
If you have anymore specific questions definitely drop em hear, we will do our best. Oh. And welcome to the Burger Bank!
Huh… well, I went to find a low level solution for your Unfortunateman, then it hit me, yes… by golly Borstock, yes, the red!
I can’t wait for that person to see that team pop up in retaliation. Thank you 
, for my most embarrassing victory yet. Im gonna leave that 
out for days!
You might see some luck with horsey and the arc reactor in pick 2 also. Just quit out if you dont start red 
. No one tell Bucket I used Sidewinder!
so I do have multiple man but never used him.. I just got lots and lots of shards because somewhere I read he’s good to pick up. I dont understand his powers, I mean I do but.. they cost zero? What is the limit? Like I assume I cant just drain all their AP every turn…
He has more options ascended to 5, but his conditional win is great at 4, and YES, you can drain all of their AP every turn, starting turn 1
https://forums.505go.com/discussion/92745/holy-ship-a-friday-multiman-guide/p1
Don’t ascend MM to 5. His autowin requires waaaayyy more tiles then, and since he’s only used for PG, why do that to yourself?
(current X-men heroic for strike tile generation not withstanding)
S.H.I.E.L.D. rank exists for each player. This has probably been mentioned already, but would it make sense for PVP matchups to be based on that, or at least as a contributing factor along with highest character levels?
This would be great because it would match me (something like 200 550s) with softcappers who have high shield rank but refuse to level up their characters.
Hey how do I set an alert on my phone for when someone hits me in pvp? I gotta get more aware of retails so I can hit them on a climb. Thanks
Go to the in game settings and then look at notifications and make sure “Versus” is turned on
Thank you. I appreciate it a lot.
First couple lightning rounds show that you get the red and the score drop. However you can’t retail the person who hits you. The red doesn’t show up on the node to hit back.
If you are above mmr in s1 can you see people in s2 or s3. Or you are just limited to s1?