Guide to the BRB/Polaris Protect-Tile Winfinite

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  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,743 Chairperson of the Boards

    Does anyone have any clue what's going on here? I give up.

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 592 Critical Contributor
    edited 8 July 2025 04:30

    @entrailbucket said:
    Does anyone have any clue what's going on here? I give up.

    @entrailbucket said:
    Does anyone have any clue what's going on here? I give up.

    The comedy of err continues and lengthens!

    Slide being replaced even before he supposedly leaves. :D

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 6,743 Chairperson of the Boards

    BTW, "Winfinite" is a proper noun referring to the Mystique/2* Magneto team (before Magneto ate his nerf) from something like 10 years ago.

    Any other team that goes infinite is just an infinite team (unless someone comes up with a creative name for it that sticks, and no, "berblaris" or whatever you guys call it is not a creative name).

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 592 Critical Contributor

    @entrailbucket said:
    BTW, "Winfinite" is a proper noun referring to the Mystique/2* Magneto team (before Magneto ate his nerf) from something like 10 years ago.

    Any other team that goes infinite is just an infinite team (unless someone comes up with a creative name for it that sticks, and no, "berblaris" or whatever you guys call it is not a creative name).

    Beta Babe & Bill

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,601 Chairperson of the Boards

    Kill Bill: Volume Polaris

  • Zarqa
    Zarqa Posts: 426 Mover and Shaker

    @entrailbucket said:
    Does anyone have any clue what's going on here? I give up.

    Yeah, I’m out too. Although someone questioning whether you of all people know how an ability works gave me a good chuckle…

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,110 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Daniel2121 said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @Daniel2121 said:

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @bluewolf said:
    Despite being necro’d it’s funny how relevant this post/team basically remains.

    Well regardless of how many fantastic 4* we have had since the only one who even comes close to stealing Polaris throne is Juggs in what I guess you could call is a game of thrones (new episode reviews coming soon (tm)!)

    Oh, but you can still use Polaris BRB Juggs (4* version, ascended or not) actually. It's still a valid winfinite variation. Gotta get his blue at 5 covers tho.

    A..."valid winfinite variation????"

    Setting aside the fact that m'Thor does indeed have a blue ability that blows up the board, and so can actually go infinite fairly easily, you don't get extra points for using a team that gets infinite turns. The point of the game is to down everybody on the other team.

    Yeah it's a valid winfinite... as in, you hit his blue, smash a bunch of friendly protects, get the blue AP refunded by BRB's passive, cast Jugg's blue again, and again ad infinitum... Is it effficient? Maybe not... Is it effective? As a "winfinite" certainly yes... didn't you figure BRB recovers blue AP as well as green when friendly protects are destroyed? It doesn't have to be strictly a green ability that destroys the tiles for you to spam. This may also be a blue ability as you can see.

    Mthor cannot spam her blue once she runs out of charged tiles to destroy the board, she CANNOT spam the ability, that's why it does NOT work as a winfinite... its ability to destroy tiles is tied to the condition that charged tiles must exist on the board and, even at that point, it still can't really be spammed as she also needs to be at less than 8 blue AP for it to destroy tiles. With BRB refunding your blue AP pretty easily (and getting other colors AP through cascade matches) that means you cast Mthor's blue a few times during your turn and that's it... it can't go infinite. You have to give up your turn to keep going. Can Mthor still work? Yes. In a winfinite way? Absolutely not.

    I want you to realize that unlike Juggs, Mthor here is NO winfinite, Juggs can spam his blue without giving up his turn... Mthor can't.

    Now, the point of going Polaris BRB winifinite as stated earlier is to 1) secure the win (as you just try to fill the board with protects, reducing the enemy's match damage and possibly ability damage to just 1, clogging to board for the enemy team so they don't get their special tiles, they are forced by BRB to give you AP which in turn gives you the chance to use more your abilities etc etc) and 2) saving health so you get to use the same team again and again without spending health packs if possible (this through the use of the corresponding supports and by doing multiple tile matches after tiles get destroyed by the spammable ability). A winifinite team can do this. One that isn't a winfinite (i.e. one that has Mthor as a third) may still FLOP ocassionally. My original question was why people use Mthor in this team... granted it works still as a team, yes the point of the game is to get the enemy team down... it can still down the enemy team... but it doesn't work in the most efficient way at that. It can't be that people hasn't figured that they DO have much better characters suitable for an actual winfinite team and use one of those instead of Mthor.

    This one is easy - all you need to defeat a winfinite team of Polaris/brb/Juggs is Chasm and he does it turn zero. However Chasm can't stop Jane blowing up the board which gives AP and special tile replication for Polaris. You don't really need BRB to be honest.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 11,110 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Daniel2121 said:

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @Zarqa said:
    I’m still confused why we’re talking winfinites for PvP when the original thread is about punching up in PvE

    Well once the winfinite started the original thread didn't get another go...

    Because people obviously still use these winfinites for PvP. It doesn't work against ALL teams, but it does for some against some. Nobody said you can't "punch up" in PvP as well. I'm confused about your thinking that winfinites for punching up in PvP can't be used. People do that all the time, be it with Polaris BRB ones, or other types of winfinites (notably 4* Moonstone ones).

    If you're confused imagine poor old me, I don't recall ever saying that?!?! Just coz I don't use them doesn't mean others can't.

  • Blazpheme
    Blazpheme Posts: 33 Just Dropped In

    Hammer & Spammer.