Anyone have a 5 red Cap Marvel by chance??? 
Awesome. That worked. I didn’t get off windstorm until near the end, but I still beat the node and it’s been kicking my butt. Thank you!
NP, happy to help. I had tried the first time using Falcon, but since I only have one blue and one purple coer for him currently, he was pretty much dead weight. On another thread, people are suggesting Loki with at least 1 black cover and are having luck with that too.
As a matter of fact I do! Good thought for when this nonsense starts to scale up.
For im35, Cmags, Don I used Lcap, Patch, Hood. With everyone saying how brutal it was I boosted 3 RY and took out Cmags first. My ned was normal level 161 and I left with very little damage. Cmags does all the damage in this team. Take him out fast and the rest is fairly easy.
That node’s difficulty is also very dependent on scaling. I have it at level 260, so Polarized Force will one shot The Hood and Magnetized Particles hits for 7K, so it requires a pretty different strategy compared to if they’re only level 160 where you can actually survive a Magnetized Particles.
I"ve had most success boosting green/black and running strong TU"s I’ve had saved up. and running X-Force/Hood/Hulk. Hulk tanks TU’s and red for me. He can at least absorb enough to trigger Anger to get me Green which helps me down Mags quickly. You can also try Human Torch with boosting, he won’t last long but he can take C.Mags down fairly quickly between him and X-Force. Then do all you can to take iron man down.
I got a 2900 match 3 on the essential nodes. Pretty sure would’ve hit 3K after my final cascade (hit several yellow) but the opponent ran out of HP to verify. Payback time for all the Threaten abuses!
An OP character is OP even if underutilized by AI.
Sentry is still OP as an AI.
cMags/Im40/Don were 170ish when I joined. I went Xforce (173, optimal build) Lcap (134, 4/5/3) and OBW. OBW tanks blue with that lineup, so prioritzing that slows down their blue generation and fuels Cap’s stun. Stun Don until Mags is dead, then stun IM40 so they stop moving the board. Easy peasy. (on paper, I’m sure I’ll wipe on a few of these clears)
If you don’t have a usable XForce, then Thor/LCap/OBW should work just as well, since Recon will be stealing a bunch of yellow too. Only thing imperative to any build is a stun to slow down Don, even if it’s a MBW TU stun, it will help immensely.
Found out the hard way myself.
Multiple Coercive Fields and Magnetized Projectiles wiped my team that was successful the first time around.
I have strong doubts that my under-covered LCap, single-cover X-Force will do anything to this node that scaled another 10 levels from the first time I cleared it to 100/101/101 
“An OP character is still OP even if underutilized by AI” is not an axiom. Pre-nerf Magneto did not get infinite turns when controlled by the AI, so removing his ability to get infinite turns does nothing to make fights against the AI easier.
(Hypothetical: an ability that destroys a chosen tile, dealing no damage unless that tile is in the top left corner, and if it is you instantly win the fight. That power would be an automatic win when used by a player, but since the AI targets abilities randomly its use of the power would fail 99% of the time, and thus not OP.)
Can someone update these times as they become available? With 26 hour subs, I intended to enter about the midpoint of Sub5 on Monday, but since Calvinball rules are in effect this time, I have no idea when the right time to get in will be. Appreciate all help. Thanks.
Captain Marvel does really well against Mags/Don/IM40. She can spam red like crazy although 5 in red would be sweet this time, and Hypersonic Punch is nice. Or have her feed L.Cap
The subs are 36H not 26H like usual, at least based on a sample of one sub so far. It sure doesn’t look like another sub is going to run concurrently since it’s 8H left for the first sub and nothing else has popped up yet. Looking at the time it’d be impossible to squeeze 6 36H subs in the remaining time staggered by 24H, so either there will be less subs, or later subs will be shorter, or the later sub will be staggered closer together.
2nd run through and I have only used one health pack. IM35, Cmags, Don only at 164 now. This is the only node I am using Hood for. Everything else has been Ddaken, Falcon, Psylock. They are just strike tile people to death!! I know in 3 days my life will be tinykitty with this event.
I kill Don last. I don’t care how much AP he can generate if no one is there to use it.
I kill Mags first, IM second, Don last. Works everytime with a basic 2** team for me with weak low scaled opponent lvls. If you can, Kill magneto before anyone on enemy team gets off special power. Once Magneto gets defenses up you’re done son.
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Also doesn’t the main board open at the end?
Re: That cmags/im35/don node
For some reason, sometimes the Don starts pushing out his tiles, sometimes Cmags starts destroying me. If the Don keeps placing countdown tiles, I usually tend to do pretty well. Although frankly, at this point, I’m just sentry-bombing it because why the heck not.