We all have our own favorite characters and teams and outside those 10 or so characters we sometimes wildly underestimate some of the others. The gauntlet is great because Demiurge gets to roll out their newly released characters in nodes that can spotlight them. Anyone have a character they thought was meh before that they changed their opinion on because of the gauntlet? I’m not talking the Carols or Medusas of the world which are clearly t10 characters.
For me 5cap was a big surprise. I only wiped once and it was on the node with him Switch and Falcon. A weak 5, nerfed 3 and recently buffed but still mid-tier 3. Hah, no problem. Wrong. I’m still not sure what happened but cap just started assembling earths mightiest left and right and next thing I knew it was a lost cause. Any other characters that you see the light on now?
Peggy did make it hard to get a feel for some of the new characters, thanks to using her at 5 yellow thus slowing down a lot of the powers. But it was nice to see King Panther’s red in action. It was enough to stop a normally one shot kill (boosted champ Xpool’s Slice and Dice), even if I did finished him off before he could wake up. And I always forget about Gwenpool until her Plot Armor throws off my plans.
as far as i got i mostly did with X-23 Peggy Carter and IM40 so as you can guess most of the fights weren’t terribly long
only wipe was the node with 4 Star cage and Spider Woman (and all I did there was adjust priorities)
Pretty much this, but I used Hood/M40/Peggy for all nodes. Once I got about halfway thru the first sub, the levels were so high that any team that might be “fun” to play was probably also suicide, so why bother? Yay!! Scaling
None. I burned through almost all of it all with Peggy, Hood, and IM40, so the AI rarely fired a skill, let alone lived long enough to display any sort of synergy.
Had some fun with Mr Fantastic + QS + PX. Swap tiles, make match-5, get free blue AP to swap some more. Then my full health PX got one shot by an overscaled enemy Carol Danvers, at which point I just switched to Peggy/IM40 like everyone else.
No real surprises for me on the main lines. I did oml/medusa/strange for survival and tactics, then switched to xpool + carol + medusa for domination.
Carol and medusa were confirmed as terrifying opponents when overleveled. Watching my team melt after an early cascade allowed carol + WM to go all black + red + green on me was sobering.
I also did the quake essential node via quake + xpool + im40 (i.e. easy mode). Still have to finish the remaining essentials, which may pose more challenges. Look forward to seeing if 3be + peggy + medusa is any good.
In general, gauntlets have rarely surprised me with characrers that i thought were crap, but thet do frequently demonstrate why some characters wouod be very OP if they had high health pools (e.g. hood). And they often highlight the most effective pvp defensive combos. They are also a great, low stakes way for us 4* (and lower) players to try fighting well covered 5*s. I have probably still only faced a 13/13 BB in a handful of matches, and he is what, 8 months old now?
I have always enjoyed playing with Stormneto, but genuinely had no appreciation for just how powerful they can be until this gauntlet. Wiped on a couple of nodes with my strongest teams of boosted characters, and had seen a mention of Stormneto plus Hood doing the job so gave it a go, expecting I’d be destroyed.
To respond in line with the OP about newly appreciated characters, as opposed to blah blah team was easy/cheap-win/blah, I truly appreciated a buffed Quake who I champed just about 2 weeks prior. Her green power Earthquake was truly amazing, 9k+ AOE. Also, usually people play her blue to deny the enemy team of a specific color, but I used it a lot to align more red and purple matches for Xpool (champed right before the event). Bring along any yellow and/or black user like Hood and it was a very efficient team. Also since 3Thor was buffed his yellow helped acquire green even faster, and a buffed Blad3 is always great.
Separately, Squirrel Girl’s green is quite good if you don’t have Quake yet. Some alliance mates didn’t realize that you gain AP each time her Furry Friends shatters tiles. If 3 or 4 of her CD’s go off it hits pretty hard. Don’t forget her purple is very powerful when enemies spam special tiles against you (sentries, symbiotes).
I’m fairly critical of 4* Blade as a one trick pony that doesn’t even do his one trick very well. Fighting him did remind me though that when he’s max covered, the strike tiles he generates are really powerful. Then I matched away enough red, and the fight was basically over for him.
Medusa continues to surprise me with how powerful she is.
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I also did the Peggy + IM40 thing, so it was hard to tell if anyone without passive powers had anything to throw at me.
You mean there were other options beyond Peggy/IM40/?
Seriously, those two pretty much won everything. I added XFDP to tank a bit of red to save some health, but i probably could have plugged almost anyone in there. Peggy boosted is just amazing.
Ditto. I have a 9-cover Blade that I’ve never used except for essentials. I don’t even think I’ve read his powers all the way through. But all I know is that for 1 fight, he was dropping massive strike tiles and doing 10k damage a turn while mocking my Peggy with his passive.
Easiest Gauntlet ever. Actually, I usually can’t even finish the Gauntlet. Finished this one early on the second day. Probably the first one I’ve completed in the last 4 times they ran it. Made me realize all that matters is that you have the right boosted characters.
Recent PVP matches have definitely helped me respect Medusa, though.
