Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Marvel Avengers Alliance PvP Season 16 Recap

God this season felt like season 1-2 all over again. Except for it being Emma Frost 99% of the game it was Psylocke another physic mutant chick.

So it was a lot of Quicksilver and Psylocke them. This team was common last season since the e-iso was released which gives Psylockes buff rights way, now with the new suit for Psylocke making her even better this team was played like 90% of the games.

I still managed to prevail.

Here are Drax recruit lines.






So facing this team all the time it more about having the stoic perseverance then they actually being hard to beat.

Yes a lot of people tell me all the time how broken Psylocke and QS is. But first of all, its really not a good defensive team if everyone is doing it!
 In any game if everyone would use strategy A to try and win. Then you can just use the strategy, lets call it B. That counters A all the time and you get a great win ratio.

Luckily while Marvel Avengers Alliance is really imbalanced, QS and Psylocke has a glaring weakness. Its all about the first 2 moves of QS. After that its over.
 I first combated this with Iron patriot and Magneto. IP will set his shield all the time and survive QS then as this team got low defence IP would just kill them with one AoE.

But there was an issue with using Ip (coming to that later).

So Instead I switcher to Emma Frost and wow did she work wonders vs this team.

Using Emma with Diamonds are forever, so she never loses diamond form. She can take the beating of the whole team with a mental coordination while taking like 1% damage. Sometimes it does not trigger but if it do triggers for QS or who ever does the first attack it will trigger for all of the attacks.

So from this I got an amazing B >>>> A. That works great also against the second most popular team combo of Pestilience + X character ( some variation here) as Emma can just Mental Tap him.

This is again why I never get why people wont change up their defene teams. Almost everyone set themself in A strategy or Strategy C who also loses to B. Then using B I get like 99% win ratio.
 Truly it only becomes about not falling as sleep fighting the same team over and over again.

Tl: dr Emma beats Quicksilver and Psylocke.



Another cahracter that started popping  up was Iron Fist, he really is annoying when using Iron Patriot as he will interrupt his ultimate. That being said, he never beat me in defence even while he can use this. The problem with Iron Fist is that most people put him in way to survive oriented teams, like agent with extra heal, pestilence teams to try and live for a long time. As long as Iron Patriot just saves his Ultimate the Iron Fist team dont do much, however they dont lose as fast to Iron Patriot and the reason why I swapped him way for Emma to win games faster.


Magneto as always was a real Mvp, both being able to reduce the opponent teams damage and giving more turns while doing huge damage alone as well. He was one of the common characters played (after excluding the QS + Psy teams....).

Well not much more to say then that it people really should started using better attack teams - you see the same team over and over again. Play a team that beats it. Especially in this case were this A team is used so much that even if team B would lose to all other team that exist it would still have a 90% win ratio...
 Of course in this specific scenario it almost felt a little shameful that it was imba Emma that was the perfect counter to it.