The character rebalance game!

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ Character Discussion
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So the rules of the game are simple. I name a character and the next person has to state one way they would rebalance them. It could be a health buff, an increase to a power’s damage, decreasing a skill’s cost, or anything else you can think of. I just ask that you don’t re-do their entire kit, and don’t post a novel please! Once you re-balance said character, name a character you would like to see re-balanced (could be a nerf or a buff), and the next poster will have at it.

Wonder if we will eventually get to every character in the game?

I will start us off with:

3* Daredevil (Man Without Fear)

The Candidates:

Five Star
Archangel (Classic)
Black Bolt (Inhuman King)
Black Panther (Civil War)
Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff)
Daredevil (Matt Murdock)
Doctor Octopus (Classic)
Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme)
Gambit (Classic)
Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes)
Green Goblin (Norman Osborn)
Hawkeye (Clint Barton)
Iron Man (Mark XLVI)
Jean Grey (Phoenix)
Jessica Jones (Alias Investigations)
Silver Surfer (Skyrider)
Spider-Man (Back in Black)
Spider-Man (Peter Parker)
Star-Lord (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
Steve Rogers (First Avenger)
Thanos (The Mad Titan)
The Hulk (Bruce Banner)
Thor (Gladiator)
Wolverine (Old Man Logan)

Four Star
Agent Coulson (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
America Chavez (Young Avengers)
Ant-Man (Scott Lang)
Black Panther (King of Wakanda)
Blade (Modern)
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
Carnage (Cletus Kasady)
Cloak & Dagger (Classic)
Cyclops (Classic)
Deadpool (Uncanny X-Force)
Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile)
Drax (The Destroyer)
Elektra (Unkillable)
Gamora (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)
Gwenpool (Gwen Poole)
Howard the Duck (Howard, A Duck)
Iceman (All New X-Men)
Invisible Woman (Classic)
Iron Fist (Danny Rand)
Iron Man (Hulkbuster)
Jean Grey (All New X-Men)
Kate Bishop (Hawkeye)
Kingpin (Wilson Fisk)
Kraven the Hunter (Sergei Kravinoff)
Lockjaw (Royal Bulldog)
Luke Cage (Power Man)
Medusa (Inhuman Queen)
Miles Morales (Spider-Man)
Mockingbird (Bobbi Morse)
Moon Knight (Marc Spector)
Mordo (Master of the Mystic Arts)
Mr. Fantastic (Reed Richards)
Nick Fury (Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.)
Nico Minoru (Runaways)
Nightcrawler (Classic)
Nova (Sam Alexander)
Peggy Carter (Captain America)
Professor X (Charles Xavier)
Quake (Daisy Johnson)
Red Hulk (Thunderbolt Ross)
Riri Williams (Ironheart)
Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2)
Rogue (Classic)
Sam Wilson (Captain America)
Sandman (Flint Marko)
Shuri (Master Engineer)
Spider Gwen (Gwen Stacy)
Spider-Woman (Jessica Drew)
Star-Lord (Legendary Outlaw)
The Hulk (The Main Event)
The Hulk (Totally Awesome)
The Punisher (Max)
The Thing (Classic)
Thor (Goddess of Thunder)
Venom (Agent Venom)
Venom (Eddie Brock)
Vulture (Adrian Toomes)
War Machine (James Rhodes)
Wasp (Janet van Dyne)
Winter Soldier (Bucky Barnes)
Wolverine (X-Force)
X-23 (All New Wolverine)
Yondu (Awesome Mix Volume 2)

Three Star
Angel (All-New X-Men)
Beast (Classic)
Black Panther (T’Challa)
Black Widow (Grey Suit)
Blade (Daywalker)
Bullseye (Classic)
Captain Marvel (Modern)
Colossus (Classic)
Cyclops (Uncanny X-Men)
Daken (Classic)
Daredevil (Man Without Fear)
Deadpool (It’s Me Deadpool!)
Doctor Doom (Classic)
Doctor Octopus (Otto Octavius)
Doctor Strange (Stephen Strange)
Elektra (Assassin)
Gambit (Modern)
Gamora (Guardians of the Galaxy)
Hawkeye (Hawkguy)
Human Torch (Classic)
Iron Fist (Immortal Weapon)
Iron Man (Model 40)
Kamala Khan (Ms. Marvel)
Loki (Dark Reign)
Luke Cage (Hero for Hire)
Magneto (Classic)
Mystique (Raven Darkholme)
Psylocke (Classic)
Quick Silver (Pietro Maximoff)
Ragnarok (Dark Avengers)
Rocket and Groot (Most Wanted)
Sam Wilson (Falcon)
Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff)
Sentry (Dark Avengers)
She-Hulk (Modern)
Spider-Man (Classic)
Squirrel Girl (Unbeatable)
Star-Lord (Peter Quill)
Steve Rogers (Super Soldier)
Storm (Mohawk)
Thanos (Modern)
The Hood (Classic)
The Hulk (Indestructible)
The Punisher (Dark Reign)
Thor (Modern)
Vision (Android Avenger)
Wolverine (Patch)

Two Star
Ares (Dark Avengers)
Black Widow (Original)
Bullseye (Dark Avengers)
Captain Marvel (Ms. Marvel)
Daken (Dark Avengers)
Hawkeye (Modern)
Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
Magneto (Marvel NOW!)
Moonstone (Dark Avengers)
Spider-Man (Bag-Man)
Steve Rogers (Captain America)
Storm (Classic)
Thor (Marvel NOW!)
Wolverine (Astonishing X-Men)

One Star
Black Widow (Modern)
Hawkeye (Classic)
Iron Man (Model 35)
Juggernaut (Classic)
Spider-Man (Original)
Storm (Modern)
Venom (Dark Avengers)
Yelena Belova (Dark Avengers)

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3*DD: Purple removes enemy countdowns and repeaters at 5 covers. I think that’s pretty much it, both blue and red are very decent powers. Purple is the worst because it’s useless against enemies who don’t make strike/protect/attack tiles.

For the next one: maybe Sandman?

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Sandman: Passively generates protect tiles while there are a certain number of yellow tiles on the board ala Blade.

Next one: Captain Falcon.

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I want to play!

4-star Falcon: Reduce his red AP cost by 4 (to a total of 10). Have his yellow behave more like his 3-star counterpart’s purple power. I have no problem with his blue passive.

Next up: Bagman

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Bagman: powers cost 1 AP less per web tile (minimum of 5)

Next up: Devil Dinosaur

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Devil Dino

red restores health as he takes a bite.

next: incredible Hulk

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I am guessing you mean Indestructible Hulk (3*).

Change his red power add-on (at cover 5) from 370 for each Green AP you have, to 370 for each Green tile on the board (like Iceman Green)

Since we fixed Hulk, how about Iron Man (Hulkbuster) next?

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Ooooh, fun!

Hulk-Proof’s tiles should be protected to make them truly “Hulk-proof.” Overdrive should cost 2 less.

I’ll take big green guys for 400, Alex. Let’s do Drax!

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Drax: Red threshold should be reduced by covers.

Next up: Professor X

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The Thing: Yellow passive now generates 3 Blue AP when the enemy matches a friendly special tile, but only if another Fantastic Four member is on the team. (the intent being to further synergize with Mr Fantastic and Invisible Woman, leaving out Human Torch since he’s not a 4* and these are 3-member MPQ teams)

Next: Beast!

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(Sorry to interrupt, but this would be so annoying to fight against if the invisibility tile was in one of the bottom corners every time, but it would cause a sharp increase in War Machine usage.)

Okay, please resume the game. I think Beast was up next?

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Beast: Blue becomes a repeater tile that creates 2 Strike/Protect/Attack tiles every turn.

Next: Main Event Hulk

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MEHulk: True healing and +50% damage on yellow.

Ragnarok next.

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Ragnarok: blue true heals, green damage increased

Next: BSSM

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Hmm, hard to do for a 5* I’ve barely used.

BSSM: Lower cost of Green to 10
Purple: Add passive that matches made by BSSM do 50% of the reduced enemy strike tile damage.
Blue: Always does higher damage + 1 turn stun, add passive that generates weak enemy strike tiles when enemy is stunned

Next: LockJaw

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Lockjaw royal escort will summon the most present color on the board but will also summon any color that has 2 charged tiles currently on the board.

Next: Kraven.

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Kraven: Black - destroys 3AP from enemy but only 1AP from players team and increases to 4AP at max level, buff damage. Blue - reduce cost to 7AP and buff damage.

Next: Vision

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Vision: Yellow and Blue powers generate protect and strike tiles instead of only affecting Viz himself. Red loses its different abilities and instead destroys enemy special tiles or does team damage if no special tiles present, like Cloak & Dagger.

How about Elektra (either or both versions)?

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Elektra: If no friendly strike tiles exist, create friendly strike tiles. If friendly strike tiles exist, create weak strikes for the enemy and steal and buff existing enemy tiles.

Next: Miles Morales

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Miles Morales:
At LVL 4, Power & Responsibility could overwrite non countdown tiles. At LVL 5, it could do countdown tiles.
Venom Blast would cost 8, but do extra damage for each web tile currently on the board.

Next up - Go down to the 1-star realm and redo Yelena Belova!