I
been keeping this as a secret, but for 2 reasons now I will reveal who
is the absolute best character in Marvel Avengers Alliance.
I
will also review some of the new characters I guess, Fantomex. Omega
Sentinel and Vision. I ignore Black knight as he sucks, tanks are out
dated his skill requires another character who have AoE bleed attacks
and even then he can't counter stealth and physics what everyone uses.
And his ultimate removes tanking,,yeah since is the user not going with
people who can't bypass that anyway. And in PvE he is horrible, all his
moves are for a lousy pvp character, they have even less use in PvE,
Review of Blackknight finished: 2/10
Best Character in Season 7 Shadowcat(aka Kitty Pride) and Vision with a Phasing Agent.
For people who don't have specter you can still easily make the agent
tanky with different items such getting heavy metal, become mechanical
etc so thats easy to fix. Phasing with mechanical makes you immune to
everything expect Magik who no one ever plays but some danger from the
somewhat played Po5 Phoenix.
Kitty Pride
1
first reason, I am so tired of the systems fake PvP, I want a real pvp
or at least use any of the commander game design patterns I myself have
described in my research. Any of them would improve the game and as I
mentioned in an earlier article something like conditional statements
like how it is in Final Fantasy 12 with its gambit system would be best
for the game.
2.
I am so tired of reading from all retards out there who comment on how
Imbalanced Quicksilver is in offence or Emma Frost, so I can agree both
are good in defence. But neither of them are close to the power of
Shadowcat. Its ridiculous how people can say Pietro is the MVP of season
6, if anything Kitty is even better now as everyone is running Pietro
in defence and then he often will auto kill himself into by doing his
AoE. And now when wallet warrior are even stronger(which will make the
game die soon as I have already explained) the need for total safe win
is higher meaning Kitty got back on my team to ensure a win.
Because, otherwise sure I run QS and other characters but after you
reach somewhere around 1950-2000 rating its get kinda hard beating
people with 60x 64 gold items if you don't have Kitty(given that you as
me have put zero money to the game, I don't even have 60 x 2 gold
items).
Kitty
is the best character because she starts out Phased. This means the AI
can't damage her but they will still try. This also means the player can
set 100% attack on Kitty or maybe some accuracy(based on the users
armoury etc) but there is no need for Health or evasion and so on. So
she will almost always 1 shot everyone if she criticals with her sneak
attack.
Playdom boosted her and made her suit have the Sneak attack as a
counter, this means that if someone does an AoE attack they almost
always dies. So for example while I don't run any flyers, the most
common team I went was Kitty+ Natasha and I had as always a 100% win
ratio until somewhere at 1800+ where it became 90-95%. This means Broken
Captain Britain will often do his Smashing, while it can stun the
others(same with QS) he will die from the counter of Natasha and Kitty
often it's enough that just Kitty counters. My Kitty easily 1 shot
almost anyone expect if they have used their life savings for the game
then they die in 2 attacks which means if its AoE Natasha and Kitty will
kill them together.
Setting up a guaranteed critical for Kitty is not a must but helps a
lot, so Dark Sigil is great but when I was using Natasha its enough with
her Ultimate to Target anyone and she and Kitty will 100% sure kill
them.
Kitty
works with everyone she is just imbalanced simple as that, and actually
one of the main reason she is is not because she is phased nor is it
the counter as most people have scroll on bologna on and will remove her
counter....
Its that she is a Stealthed Scrapper. Stealth scrapping is awesome as
with Stealth Tactician as it gives 2 attacks or 2 turns in the tactician
case(which usually means 2 attacks).
Yep, this also means don't fucking get the Infiltrator suit for Kitty
it is much worse than the Scrapper one. Scrappers are only bad in
defence and that's arguable if they aren't still the best class in
defence as well as if they face a inf they will kill him/her. And which I
will talk about later you probably won't run Kitty in defence anyway.
Being a Scraper with a safe double attack if its an infiltrator is what
always one of the core overpowered traits of Quicksilver and which was
later added into Wolverine. And then Kitty and Kurt has with their alt
suits.
And especially Kitty which is safe to go 100% attack on, its extremely
likely she will stealth attack with Lockhead(keeping her Phase) get a
free attack and kill whatever infiltrator the opponent has.
Then the next turn you can hide or break the Phase for Sneak attack
with Phase advantage which will almost always kill someone right away.
Simple
said he is amazingly overpowered in this game system. I run her with
many different setups and they always works, last season the 2 best was
Natasha + Kitty and Emma + Kitty.
Vision
Very
likely Vision will be the best character after Kitty, he can go into
Phase when attacked and this is before the damage is dealt. He can also
go into it with a move.
Only problem ofc for this team which was true for the other team with kitty as well is psychic damage.
This would often, if not only be from Emma Frost. Sometimes Phoenix can
do a psychic attack is from psi-blast and that rarely happens.
But
Vision got a really nice debuff, the incapacitated. And he is a
infiltrator, while this won't stop Emma from using mental trauma as it
did before he will still get his counter ability and then he will
counter with his attack that has phase advantage just as Kitty does with
her suit passive and that attack gives them the debuff incapacitated. Which
is an interesting attack as the debuff always land were stun attack has
a % chance to land its stun. But instead the target might not be incapacitated when its their turn, still one of the absolute best debuffs in
the game and that its a counter attack makes it one of the best counter
attacks any infiltrator has I would even go so far and say the best as
the damage output if he is Phased(which he is of course why would the
user break the Phase) is huge.
What this means is that if anyone does a normal AoE most standarly in
the meta Quicksilver with Emma, QS will likely die. For my team, if QS
start with this vortex lariat, he usually gets 1 shotted by Kitty, as
long as she critical hit he dies. And as I mentioned why my team I used
the most was Kitty and Natasha who would rape anyone using an AoE
attack. Now with Vision this only works when there are a tactician(a
very common class) but as I said Kitty usually kills them alone, and the
only real issue is Emma Frost which very, very likely will be a
tactician. And if she is an infiltrator well then its actually still
easy as with Scraper Kitty which then hits her twice going through her
diamond body.
Vision can also use his third ability as a Blaster, without losing his
Phase. Which is not said in the game, but that is how it is right now
and if is to be changed by Playdom probably takes them a couple of
months so for now at least Vision as with Kitty can attack and keep his
Phase, it also adds a DoT, which is always nice. And the DoT is the
radiation which is unique to him right? Agent can have it but I can't
recall any other hero can so that further makes it a good attack.
Also
note that Vision's attack that makes him go phase as with Kitty(don't
matter as she starts phase but later in the rare long battles) is
stealthy as well. Super good, gives you the inf bonus so then all other
Vision moves are stealthy gives you the counter ability and then you can
hide and counter.
And overall it of course means you got Kitty with stealth attacks and
Vision with at least 1 stealth attack always, and then he got AoE moves
and so on. Which is the biggest thing to have in the PvP Meta, as
everyone and their mother is runing a Tank. Usually the Agent tank with
hoarfrost or kuzari and the many phoenix will give the tank ability to
someone. And rarely some other tanks like Captain America. Still huge
number of tanks. I would probably still go with Vision for the phase
even if he was not stealthy. But then he is that as well and it is with
the best attack for him, the attack that guarantees phase. So
ye,,,,overpowered a lot.
Furthermore,
As Vision is a Blaster or Infiltrator, he will help beat bruisers as
they can counter Scrapper Kitty, not normally a problem as even biffy
guys like Captain Britain usually loses 50% of his health from a
standard hit from Kittyes counter even when he then have 1 enrage + his
self buff.
In
the current retarded shit system, I don't see how the phase ability
will ever be overruled. Playdom did actually release an antiphase weapon
but it is so meek. If they buff that weapon heavily it might affect
this team but I don't see that happening.
What
could be an issue is powerful mental weapons for the Agent. The
Enciphilsier was this for like a day during the PvP Tour. And then got
massively nerfed, and then it has been buffed again or something. So it
goes down and up, this weapon is so far in the game the best anti phase
weapon. Even while nerfed I would say it is. But, I don't see it staying
at a powerful level, as then anyone can go the self buff way of 3-
gadgets giving stat increase and then always one shot the whole other
team with it. Which even when it is nerfed is still good.
However, this of course means just go for the freaking Agent.
But
even when the agent has the right anti weapon, the chance of them using
them is slim. And the other characters probably won't do anything, so
yet again back to as long as the pvp system is as horrible as it is,
there will be no defence versus Kitty nor Vision now.
And
why the fuck is people crying that he is he not as good as former
Special Operations characters? The only character that can be better
than him is Emma Frost in PvP that is in PvE he is by far the best of
all SO. What is the goal in a PvE battle? it is to take no damage to get
the best bonus. This is why Kitty always was a good PvE character even
better when she starts phased of course. Now with Vision and if the
Agent is running abyssal, all 3 can be phased on a PvE Boss. Which can
easily lead to a perfect win.
I
like Vision, I like his design it is true to his comic powers. He is
clearly overpowered and feels slightly boring abilities in his Blaster
form.
7/10.
Summary of best eam:
This
is the best team in Marvel avengers alliance season 7, Vision +
Shadowcat. If not some massively anti Phase thing is released but even
then the AI won't use it properly.
NOTE:
This is in Offence!!!. In defence team with epic proc rates are what
can still win as everyones loved Quicksilver and Emma Frost showed
appearing it like 90% of my offensive battles at adamantium league. That
team will still be one of the best. But I even foresee that this team
of Kitty and Vision could work in defence. Still better with Scrapper I
would say as people won't be attacking into her anyway so the inf
counter don't matter much. Vision can auto Phase away and Agent will
hide if the right item are set up, so then Kitty should be able to kill
at least 1 of them before they can damage your team, given that Vision
Phases but I assume his proc rate is high in defence so.
Another defence character I think will work(if the AI works) is Fantomex which I will go into shortly why.
Other new characters
Omega sentinel is really really overpowered so a lot of her
However, she is bad against the phase team, she will just AoE attack as
a Bruiser towards Kitty and kill herself, her heal can be a hassle but
going with scroll is standard so in defence I don't see her as that
great. Which of course means that Phase team will be even better people
will use Omega Sentinel a lot, especially I predict a lot of Quicksilver
and Omega Sentinel together for the double turn crazyness. Still in
defence the AI does OK but sometimes it really fails as for example
against Counter people. It do throw it heal and she does swap class for a
more correct one, so she is not horrible. If anything its like she has
the scroll of ozirosh so she kinda forces people to go with scrol of
bologna.
In offence she is really strong with the double turn + the 3 different
classes, you can start attacking the inf, get the scrapper bonus then
switch to Tactician and attack their blaster double as she got scrapper
bonus and get 1 more turn....of course this requires no tank(or tank
ability removed etc) but still she is really good when the player
controls her. She can heal, set up mirror images buff also her first
tactician ability is bugged(lets say its bugger that or bad design, I am
guessing its bad implemented). It will first lay the target debuff(a
great debuff guaranteeing critical hits on the target for 1 turn) and
then attack. This is all good in the sense that she will then always do a
hit and a crit on her target right. Well if its a tank on the opponent
team she can lay the targeting on whoever she wants and then the tank
will go in between. That’s just retard, now its like a half stealth
move. The first part of the move is stealthed but not the second one...
the tank should be the one getting targeted and attack. So a smart user
can use her, with for example Fantomex to Target the Blaster behind the
tank, hit the tank(agent probably) and then Fantomex can do a double
critical attack on the Blaster, so its kinda like she got the Black
Widow Strenght of being able to Target people but also a lot of other
utility.
In
PvE Karima is really great as with Punisher the user can freely swap
around to the right class and easily benefit from them, e.g planning for
wave 2. To use her in PvP will be great with both heavy offence teams
as she takes 2 turns however she has no stealth attack so she is
actually far worse than Quicksilver, which is definitely what she is
most alike if the user go full attack on her. I would say she is better
actually in a full defensive mode and focus on her support skills, she
can shield herself heal the team and give the mirror image. This will
result in a long battle but a sure win. So teaming her up with a Damage
over time strategies for attack seems much better. Of course at the
highest of money spenders she is really epic as I had to face a lot of
her + Quicksilver and they have 64x60 gold spend she is both hard to
kill and does huge damage.
As
a in game character to play with I kinda like Karima, but I do feel she
is such a weird choice for a golden lockbox character. She cannot have
been on anyone's top list for “villain” to get. Furthermore, she again
is another x-men related character(just like Magneto..X-23, Fantomex and
so on).
I don't at all like that she was the games lockbox just does not make sense.
Then she got like no new moves they are all rematch of other ones.
So she gets a 4/10. A lot of bad moves, means shes good to use but boring design.
Fantomex is so far for me amazingly good.
Any person that is into selfcest is ok in my book.
Fantomex
is one of my favorite marvel character, overall the whole uncanny
x-force I would say is the best Marvel series since Exiles.
He
like the other top broken Tactician has a stealth move, this means 2
things. He can attack infiltrator and not get countered, which as I have
mentioned before is really fucking stupid. Such a bad design idea as it
of course means it is a character with no weakness then. Still he only
has 1 stealth move he is not like Emma with 2 physic and 1 stun attack
or Natasha with only stealth moves.
However, his stealth attack is the best stealth tactician attack in the
game as it pretty much gives the best(worst?) debuff in the game
disoriented which makes the character sometimes attack their team mates
instead. This is of course a proc rate thing, but I seen it happens a
lot. And that is in offence, I have never faced a Fantomex but I would
say its very likely the proc rate is very high on defence.
Secondly as with other tactician with stealth this means he can always
secure his second turn. Most Blasters are runned with a tank, most
commonly phoenix blaster. So its hard to land that second turn, and why
Natasha is so good. Well Fantomex can then use his Fantöme move on the
Blaster and then another move, which in most cases would be a Fantöme
on a second character. I would not be surprised to see that ability have
a 1 round cooldown as now its easy to apply the disoriented debuff to 2
enemies in 1 turn.
His
passive while the % feels low(it is probably better on defence) the
real issue with this move is that it doesn't make the character avoid
the whole attack, so if it triggers on e.g Quicksilvers blinding punches
5 out of 6 of those hits will likely land. So thats kinda bad, I wanted
him to especially counter QS.
However,
it happens enough even in PvE to make it great and if its a 1 hit
attack as most are they completely avoided. Furthermore the most
important thing with this Passive buff is that it is not removed by
scroll of angolob! It is neither removed if he dies actually which just
seems like another mistake from Playdom as they have removed proc rate
stuff after characters death, so that will likely be changed.
But I am very pleased so see a character that is not auto countered
with Scroll. That would really suck,... which means he probably soon get
the nerf bat to make him useless like 90% of the characters. But right
now his passive is really good, but it wouldn't surprise me if he got
nerfed before the end of the next tour.
Still his other abilities are kinda meeeh. As I mentioned his third,
Fantöme awesome the others not so much. But the second one does give him
Human Torch Annihilus passive(pretty much exactly the same thing) and
it can't be removed(right now at least and it last forever). I can
definitely see him in defence as long as the AI uses his Fantöme a lot,
then he has a lot of strong proc rate abilities.
I
am testing him right now with X-23 and I have not issued any one of
them but I still haven't lost one game(not I only face Adam league
players at practice so they all got huge bonuses etc). He automatically
protects the team a lot and I spam Fantöme, so she has yet to die one
game.
If the AI uses Fantöme in defence a lot and gets Eva going so she does
her extra attack like Human torch bugs. I think Fantomex will be really
good in defence if he is built super tanky. I will go 8 spry on him and
just outlive people letting them kill himself on being disoriented.
What
I don't like and its very disappointed with Fantomex is how boring his
ultimate is and how it has to be set up, so I hope god I hope they will
boost him before his release to the public as right now its just set up
eva and spam get everyone disoriented rarely do I ever use the ultimate
or the first move.
Still what this means is you got a character with a amazing passive and 2 abilities who are good enough to warrant his use.
5/10. He looks good, Eva does not. His animation are good,,,her is not. And his skills are very unfinished.
