Sorry in advance for this stupid question, but I cannot find anywhere (and don’t have time to read the 15 page long Thoress character thread) an explanation of exactly what charged tiles do. I understand that Thoress has specific abilities that do dmg based on the # of charged tiles on the board, but they do extra damage just when matched right? Is it double damage? Do they only do extra damage if matched by her?
Thanks for enlightening me.
They do triple damage and you get triple AP on a match, so if you match 1 charged + 2 other, that’d be 5 AP, but match 3 charged tiles and that’s 9 AP. Anybody, including the enemy team, gets the triple bonus for matching them, so it’s got a risk element too.
Thank you! One more question - do you have to match them to get the benefits? What about an ability that gains ap when destroying tiles like Storms green or MMagneto’s red? Do you get either the damage or ap boost from that?
Basically, if the way they are taken off the board generates ap normally, you get the triple bonus (lightning strike, magnetic flux). If not, then they are just destroyed, like a tile over-written by one of cap’s shields, or smashed by a thunderous clap.
All you have to do is tap one and read, it’s explained in the tile description
Thanks, but I’d have to actually have a thoress cover for that. I can’t win one with my roster and all 4 of my 4* random pulls so far have been IW 
i’m sure you’ve fought one somewhere along the way.
Ah yes, let me just run right over and grind to the top of the nearest pvp leaderboard while hoping that when I find a thoress to fight (and lose to) that the explanation on the tile that I’ll be able to click on after waiting for her to accumulate the ap she needs to fire off the power is actually complete and informative instead of just asking here and getting a couple quick replies from the people nice enough to take 30 seconds to type one out.
Although it’s hard to verify exactly, it appears abilities that destroy tiles and do damage also do triple damage for destroying charged tile. I think I’ve gotten 5.5K X Forces on the initial hit with the board saturated with charged tiles and I don’t recall getting close to that without charged tiles. An ability like Surgical Strike or Lighting Storm will collect triple AP, but note that Surgical Strike does not generate tile damage for the tiles destroyed (it uses a flat value provided by the skill instead) so it gets no bonus to tile damage there. An ability like Power of Attorney that does not do damage nor collect AP based on tiles destroyed will get nothing out of destroying the charged tile.
Or, you know, just click on the leaderboard, and view any of the decks in the top ten… No need to fight them.
Edit: typo
Last I checked viewing someone’s roster or the bio for a character doesn’t tell you what the special tiles they create do.