Grand Experiment 2: Treading Water in the SCL 10 Post-Shardpocalypse

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  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards

    I’ll probably start doing that after I finish Rocket here in a few levels.

    In other news - I rostered a duplicate Gamora and hit 300 slots.

  • St_Bernadus
    St_Bernadus Posts: 645 Critical Contributor

    Curious why you push 4 stars to 370. There are nice rewards there but no 5 star shards. And once they are 370 the next cover is a dupe, meaning a new roster slot.

    Personally I push to 360 (the last 5 star shard reward) and let RNGeezus take them the rest of the way.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited February 2023

    I’m specifically only pushing Juggernaut and Rocket to 370 because that’s my fast “easy clear” team in PVE. Otherwise it’s typically just for feeder purposes. The other 370s I have are either old feeders that have organically gone the distance, or a couple RNG heroes that just happened to get there on their own.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards

    Pulled a saved cover for Riri, I was pretty hype for a brief second that I'd managed to finish a 5* pulling all cp in classics, but still one more to go I guess lol. I did get an organic Wong as well, so he is finally on roster.

  • Grizwald
    Grizwald Posts: 140 Tile Toppler

    @ThaRoadWarrior with both your 4* Juggernaut and 4* Grocket at 370, are there any easy nodes that you don't clear in one move?

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited February 2023

    Yes, Rocket is still only 369 1/2, but any trivial node with a character that has more than 4,666 hit points needs to be shuffled to the front so they get hit 2x times, and any node with two such characters will need a second swipe. Similarly a trivial wave node by design takes more than one swipe since a cascade will resolve before the new batch swoops in. I think Enemy of the State will be a good test, it’s swimming in wave nodes in my memory. With animations off, I could replace this team with Rocket/5* GotG/Thano5 probably and not have these problems at all I suppose.

    Nodes with health that high are limited to that one type of Maggia goon, I think the bald one or the hat one, I can’t recall, and 1* Juggernaut. There is also that one node you have to shuffle Nightcrawler forward or he dodged the AOE.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards

    Just went into a PVE sub and tried it - it was the hat guys who have 4485, I no longer need to shuffle that guy to the front for the splash damage to kill him. I also tried upgrading to 5*s, and my Thano5 is doing so much team harm that Rocket would have died on the 8th swipe;

  • Sekilicious
    Sekilicious Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited February 2023

    I’ve been running Chasm and 3* Thanos whenever Grocket and Juggs don’t work. The best part of the pair is that I only need to make one match on two round wave nodes, though sometimes Emma is needed to boost both passive damage. Also, I can switch in deadpools for dailies. Of course, I still have to rotate to Nightcrawler

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards

    Yeah I imagine there is some other non-rocket based Thano5 solution that just hits hard enough to drop someone in a single swipe to trigger court death. My 5* does about 15k offensive damage so no easy nodes would stand up to that.

  • HoundofShadow
    HoundofShadow Posts: 8,004 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited February 2023

    Chasm + Colossus + 3* Thanos do the job.
    One match and done. I can't remember anyone with more than 6.5k health in easy nodes. 5 main colours are covered so you don't run the risk of dealing a few hundred damage.

  • Bowgentle
    Bowgentle Posts: 7,926 Chairperson of the Boards

    You're all weird.
    Just stick to Juggs, those 2 seconds you waste on making another move is meaningless.

  • Sekilicious
    Sekilicious Posts: 1,766 Chairperson of the Boards

    What? Meaningless? Those are valuable seconds I can spend ignoring my family!

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,003 Chairperson of the Boards

    I use two boosted 5* plus 3* Thanos. 266 Court Death wipes 99% of the easy nodes, and boosted 5* match damage is a one move kill. I just pick the two boosted 5* that most closely approximate a rainbow of match damage.

    I think there are two or three fights where this doesn't work, but the fix is just to hit a different enemy with your one move.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards

    I don’t keep any max champed 3* characters, so I prefer something that I can keep as a saved team.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards

    I pulled an organic 13th hit monkey this morning, and got my 4* riri high enough to finish 3.0, so both are now champed. This leaves me with Wong at 1/0/0 and 716 shards (5* fav) and a still NEW Kang at 2/2/2. I moved my 4* to Abomination, who is currently 274.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,003 Chairperson of the Boards

    Dude. It's working...just admit it.

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards

    So far it appears so lol. Still really curious how Wong will play out over time. I've stopped pulling LTs till hit monkey drops out, but we'll see if that lasts beyond Riri leaving I guess.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 7,003 Chairperson of the Boards

    It's the 4*. I always knew it was about 4*. You went from one max-champ to like a million in a relatively short time -- that's what's making it all work.

  • Zarqa
    Zarqa Posts: 484 Mover and Shaker

    I’ve read all 50+ pages of this thread during the holidays (thanks for sharing your journey!), but I must admit I am not entirely sure anymore what your current strategy is. Using CP for classics only?

  • ThaRoadWarrior
    ThaRoadWarrior Posts: 9,564 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited March 2023

    @Zarqa said:
    I’ve read all 50+ pages of this thread during the holidays (thanks for sharing your journey!), but I must admit I am not entirely sure anymore what your current strategy is. Using CP for classics only?

    Yes, I’m now attempting to pull all my CP in classics to see if I can stay current on latest while still only hitting full progression in PVE and PVP. The jury is out, but it is showing promise.

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