My core of 3Thor, Doom, Loki did not do well on many nodes, i finally learned how to Hulkbomb successfully, and found that Hulk, Kamala, Hood is a monster team! Even with only 4 covers, LCap’s red is very nice boosted.
I also figured out how to use Mystique properly.. My arsenal has grown nicely, this is why i love the gauntlet, sometimes you have to get creative and end up finding things you really like, that you would never have used before!
On boards i couldn’t hulkbomb, Mystique, Kamala, Hood!
I successfully used Loki to defend against teams with a lot of Strike and Protect tiles.
In particular, I really liked Loki’s Black for that Cage, 3aken, Falcon node. I survived the initial onslaught and then quickly turned the tide after letting Falcon make a couple of Yellow matches and stole the 800+ point Cage protect tile.
I only wish I had let Falcon unleash a bird strike before I stole all his precious special tiles.
Boosted Human Torch with Hood and Cage worked really well.
Collect Yellow, Black, and Red. Use 8 Red AP for 3,100+ damage (and collect 2 Red AP), then use Yellow, then use Inferno (assuming you have made at least 6/8 middle spaces usable).
Any real danger gets burned and punched, then the Cage protect + AP denial and 1,500 to 2,000 damage for turn from the Inferno finishes off the rest.
I was also surprised how often I could win with Hood, Loki, and Cage. No AP for the other team, match damage mitigated, Cage unleashed Yellow and Black attacks, Loki did board shake and special tile management.
With my IMHB sitting at 0/1/4, I’m thinking of feeding red to Human Torch and then AP denial with Hood. No Cage means match damage will be an issue until I can fire off my IMHB blue protect tiles.
And I agree with the above comment about Mystique+Hood. I actually used Mystique + Hood + Loki purely for the Massive AP denial and theft.
You match three, shapeshift takes one and DA takes one.
You match four, shapeshift takes one, DA takes one, and after one more turn Mischief takes about eight.
Edit: shapeshift will be turned into shapeshit if you forget the f.
Then when you have enough AP to fire Masterstroke + Shapeshift + Infiltration + Illusions… Fire Masterstroke to deal massive damage (even with only four covers I was doing over 5000), use infiltration, match any 5s, fire illusions once, match any 5s, and then use Shapeshift again to keep the other side AP locked.
With five covers in Infiltration (plus 4 in Shapeshift and 5 in Hood’s DA) I was able to start firing the above mentioned combination every two to three turns.
Lazy Cap/Scarlet Witch/Hood. This team’s a bit slow to get going, but it has full rainbow coverage, and you can get a really good rolling stunlock going on two enemies. Once the first enemy’s downed, it’s all over. Hood accelerates everyone, and ticks down the CDs for both Cap and SW. Great against overscaled, but slow heavy hitters. Not a team I’d use if I need to burst someone down fast, though.
I found HT, Loki, and Cmags to be absolutely devastating in the gauntlet. Rainbow coverage, good board shake, special tile steal, AP steal, and some nice high damage abilities. It worked very well for me.
Professor X, Magneto (MN), whoever (usually Mystique just because she’s got purple as her highest match which makes it easier to run broken combos, but Deadpool would’ve been fine too).
One of my new favorite teams is She-Hulk/Cyclops/Kamala Khan. I don’t have Cyclops or KK fully covered yet, so if I need to, I’ll swap in Capt. Marvel or Luke Cage for Cyclops, and/or GSBW for KK. I used this team structure in Fly-Fight-Win as well–it worked great as long as I remembered to smack the enemy Carol with a Hypersonic Punch before using Power of Attorney.
Crazy to still not see it at all, but an alliance mate and I Captain Marvel bombed the crap out of this event. My high was 5 red countdown tiles on the Iron Fist node, as absorption proc’d on every turn.
LStorm is 5/5/3, I usually chased Jane’s colors once I got 9 yellow my cascades rolled in, it’s a little slow to get going but once it does its infinite turn
She-Hulk/Loki/Hood. Oh my word, they shined so brightly during the gauntlet. As long as the other team made protect or strike tiles, I could pretty consistently come out of a match with very little damage.
Luke Cage, OBW and Thor**/Ares. Full rainbow actives, heal, steal and protection. I found it one of most effective teams in my transition roster.
Although it fails miserably against She-Hulk. It turned out I don’t have any effective counters to Shulk.
I had to go CapA/Loki/Hood on the toughest nodes… did Cmags/blade/Falcon for goon nodes… and did XF/CapA/Hood for nodes with more than one “Danger Danger” characters.
