With the previous puzzle gauntlets I avoided using the Gamora exploit where she downs an opponent with the ‘The Deadliest Woman…’ passive, but since she was one of the options for the 1v1 this time, I figured I’d take her against Wolverine. He filled the purple tiles with friendly strike tiles, the passive activated at the start of my turn and removed those strikes … but Wolverine was still standing. It seems they finally fixed the exploit and then made her one of the required characters to make sure we’d notice. 
i laughed at that too; i eventually did it with Prowler lol
I think it has to do with the win conditions. You need to match your friendly strike tiles to do damage, so Gamora’s passive won’t work here.
It used to work regardless of the win condition though
There were a few win conditions it didn’t work on before. I remember it failing me at least once (ended the match, failed the win condition).
It didn’t work for win conditions like have X amount of strike tiles, but it worked on any node where the aim was to down the opponent even if you couldn’t hurt them with powers or match damage.
I think they might have changed the code to have her do massive damage instead of downing the enemy. Like with whales. I tried her on the protects one and, of course, Hobofist shrugged it off. Luckily, the SC winfinite worked like a charm as Cage kept dropping black protects which I was happy to find matches for to feed black to Hulkbuster.
Did find it funny that they fixed gamora and had her as a required, touche devs, touche.
Got an upgrade on chewie to level 3 so that was nice, and appreciated it being a proper challenge this time round.
Anyone else think these puzzle missions would be better if the same rules applied to both sides? I find it frustrating when a series of enemy powers/matches in a single round will and take down part of my team, forcing me to restart if a necessary piece of the strategy is now gone. It feels cheap that their powers and match damage count while yours doesn’t.
The ai is not equipped for puzzles. It would become just matching until you eventually win instead of any sort of challenge
There is another character who can down an enemy with less than 40% health for 8 red AP, I wonder if they “fixed” him as well.
It’s a LOT less exploitable than 4*Gamora passively downing an enemy from full health, and I’m not particularly eager to drag him into one of the fights to find out. I never even used the Gamora trick while it worked although I did know about it.
BTW, Deadpool whales doesn’t work in these “down all enemies / prevent all damage” fights?
The only one I found difficult was the 1v1 against Patch and that’s partly because I sold the max-champs that would help me in that fight. But you can whale him, so…
Thanks for that info! I managed to get very lucky and take out Patch on the first try, but that fight is stacked against the player. For those having trouble with it, Whales might indeed be a better option than having squishy Loki repeat the fight over and over and over and over again.
I did it with my own Patch first try. Luck was certainly a factor. I focused on his strike tiles to mitigate the damage hedealt, figuring he would match my strike tiles.
On another account I wasn’t that lucky, yet after a few tries, I brought the Wasp Gauntlets support, which heals an extra amount every time Patch heals (always, thus).
Carol’s communicator would work too, if you match a friendly tile.
I won the match against Patch using Prowler. It was tedious and I thought I would lose but then a match of three fortified purple strike tiles appeared (hitting him six times) and I stole away with victory.
I won the match against daken with Loki. But the mvp is actually the support, vibranium ore. It produces a Defence tile when there is a match 4. With the no of black tiles falling from the top, I really have a lot of match 4. Which gives me sufficient no to kill off daken.
I did it with patch first try with gamora. Just save black and blue and let him fire his strikes.
Got a 3* Chewie already, so won’t waste any time on this. I just find them frustrating and I get enough of that during my workday, but if you like these puzzles, more power to you!
Chewie is one of the best supports going for 1v1 battles or certain puzzle gauntlet modes. Well worth the effort and it’s the 2nd time it’s been featured. This time I upgraded mine from a 3 to a 4 so I’m happy with the 1 hr it took to clear it.
KGB
Did anyone track all the the supports that have been featured since Puzzle Gauntlet was a thing?