Since I’ve taken to playing casually, I’ve started finding other ways to have fun instead of pushing for specific progression/placement rewards. I really enjoy making a team based on a known comic book team; trying to get something with even a little bit of synergy and/or rainbow actives. There are quite a few powerful teams, and quite a few that have you praying to RNGsus. Mostly, I’m starting to notice a few gaps which still exist in the game’s roster.
I’m going to ignore the “affiliations” of existing variants, since most characters only have 1 version in the game currently. What this means is: I might list a character on a team even though the version in game is from a different story/timeline/universe/etc. It would be wonderful to have the correct costumes, etc. but we’re a long way off from that. However, I will list a variant if it’s necessary to round out the rainbow actives.
Anyway, I’ll kick it off with a few of the more obvious teams:
Fantastic Four
Invisible Woman
The Thing
Mr Fantastic
It’s really hard to find much synergy at all with the Fantastic Four. This team at least has ⅚ actives, although swapping IW for Torch might be a better team; he doesn’t clash with Thing on shields and is better at spamming special tiles for Reed’s passive.
There have been a number of other heroes that have been members of the Fantastic Four at one point or another, and more than a few of them are in MPQ (Spider-Man, She-Hulk, Luke Cage, Black Panther, Storm). Bringing Spidey would help achieve a rainbow team, but you’d need Original or Bagman if you wanted an active ability.
Uncanny X-Force
Wolverine (XF)
Deadpool
Psylocke
This team does have some slight overlap, but does feature rainbow actives even if Pyslocke’s blue is probably not ever going to see use. The 4* Wolverine variant is needed for the active Yellow, but it’s player’s choice for which variant of Deadpool to bring.
X-men (Original)
Cyclops
Jean Grey
Beast
Rainbow actives. Not too much synergy going on here unfortunately. As it stands, Beast is clearly the weak link in this team - he’ll just end up using AP that either Scott or Jean could use more effectively than he can. Technically, you could swap Jean Grey out for Professor X and still keep the rainbow active team. PC has slightly better synergy, as Beast’s blue is cheap enough to cast regularly and Cyke’s Yellow is both relatively cheap & has decent match-5 potential.
Avengers (All-New, All-Different)
Sam Wilson (Captain Falcon)
Kamala
Iron-Man (HB)
I’m taking some liberties here to get the rainbow, and Iron-Man has to be Hulkbuster or it won’t work, but this’ll do it. Kamala + IMHB do actually cover all colours, you just need the last team member to bring an active Yellow, which fortunately allows you to use anyone from the rest of the lineup: Thor, Vision, and Spider-Man. Nova’s also on the team, but not in MPQ yet. If you want to use a team as they’re presented in the comic, then FalCap + TGT + Kamala is your best option.
Kamala + IMHB is a decent enough pair, even if they don’t have any synergy with each other. FalCap is probably a marginally better teammate than TGT to round it out, but still nothing too fancy.
That Guy from That Movie
Wolverine
Deadpool
Blade
AKA the Ryan Reynolds triple pack.
For those playing catchup, Ryan Reynolds has appeared in Wolverine: Origins, Blade: Trinity, and the upcoming Deadpool movie.
An alternative spin on this theme would be Captain America + Deadpool + Human Torch, with Deadpool spending the entire match talking to two versions of Chris Evans.
