Marvel Avengers Alliance new meta, empowered isos here we go...season 11.

lol coaster --- Playdom just went and made the game even more pay to win.

Which is really sad. First of the pvp turn order was finally made intelligence something I been talking about for over a year. Made the PvP more skilled based,, then they made this move more money based. P2W. The tier list(separate post) is really not taking the empowered isos in considering but in the future maybe 2-3 season if there is a lot of specific character isos then everyone is using or its what you should use etc. That will have to also be counted in for the tiers, right now I can say right away that actually all Stunners are obviously much worse. More on that later.

 By adding in these new isos that give passive effects and they cost huge amount of golds. There are weaker ones for cp but come on... now the payer can set up a character with 8 x 20 gold lol.Nah Ok the user cant have 8 of the same iso but still, now the payer can get way better characters.

For example the vengeful protector is a bruiser iso for 20 hold that gives the bruiser a chance for an extra turn of they protect. It basically gives them Wolverines passive, set this on a character like wonderman and he becomes a loooot better.

It really is way to many of this stuff to. Honestly I believe there is no way Playdom have balanced tested this.

 Well paying 80 CP to become imune to stun is finally here at least.

Also now heroes can become level 13 so time to exp the best ones. 
 All heroes have 1 slot at any suit and 2 slots at their normal suit. The Agent seems to not be able to use empower isos.

This is an interesting fail balance. Because as most of the new heroes are made to be better then older ones including when they were suits. This makes new heroes like Ares and Wonderman even better as they are as powerful as a suited old hero but with 2 slots.

Well in the end excluding gold isos. Everyone will be using immune to stun I already bought 2. Using Stun characters seems pretty fail soon. And I who had such a progress with ares and Quicksilver...

Some of them are also worthless, like how often do you rest in PvP? The game ends to fast and with all the extra stamina(I been over htis a lot before) resting is like in one of every 100 battle for me.

 This really boils down to an optimal path solution issue, which I love to refer. I use this term a lot in my game research and I usually refer it to Ralph Koster which I think its kinda funny as he used to work at Playdom.... This means that there is no reason not using the stun immune, the relentless buff. As all others are shit, really. Not the gold ones don't get me wrong if u are willing to pay you can get a couple of really good empowered isos. But in the CP ones only the stun one is really worth anything.  Especially when the second best one is the one were all attacks can stun, is obviously negated by the best one. There is no real reason at all using any of the other Cp ones. And the most of the ones the player can farm game, which of course have an amazing low drop rate so people will spend money to respin are not so great. I would say only the Deadpool one is worth having over the stun one. This might be better in the next pve chapter but still.

 I found it funny, when I talked to some people and they claim, well this at least fixed Rouge??? What the stun of rouge was never the issue its the huge damage and extra turns etc. A relentless Rouge you cant stop I take any day over that she might stun you. Furthermore, this actually dident remove Ares strengthen really as his power is mainly in the Coordination, sure his ultimate is worse if everyone is always immune to stun but its still a removal all and cant be blocked. Hes actually arguably better now. As his ally cant be stunned mean higher chance of coordination kill.

 But in most cases this is a huge optimal path  issue as basically everyone is now stun immune. This makes ability's like Spider-mans ultimate useless. Thats a really bad attack slightly balanced that it might stun. Well now it cant no one who can afford the 160 CP would not pay team for PvP.

 Especially as the only good thing Playdom did was to make this isos actually non permanent, so you can remove them from the hero again. Well in a nice to player context its nice, actually nice in the non payer win context too. But I have to say I reason its actually fucks the Meta.
 Because of this it means if the player pay the 160 CP investment he/she can always have 2 stun immune characters and in the future maybe an Agent who cant be stunned either.

Furthermore we are coming back to the issue of the new character with no suit designed to be strong/stronger then the best suits. These guys have 2 slots. Like Ares and Thane, the team I sue. Of course I make them both stun Immune and then I will set good gold Isos on them. They are far better now then other characters. Another nice character now Stun immune Wonderman who gets extra turn when protecting....Its a lot of the rich get richer effect.

Anyway the tier list does not take this in to consideration but I would say that all stun attackers are much worse now, so its kinda false.
 However, one can reason if that everyone is using stun immune means there is no use to go stun characters(ye logic I know), but this actually means that there is no use to actually have stun immunity as no one will be affect by it. This leads to that everyone who uses stun immunity is actually wasting that sloth, so in theory the tier list is accurate as it take in consideration the variety of playstyles and not the specific current hard meta.
 This is all in theory and I believe this might be the case in the future, hopeful it will be.
 The issue right now still comes back to the optimal path, why would I not use the Stun immune, is what the player asks her/himself. Because really what else would the player use. The payer don't have this issue but for CP the others are all bad, this prevent the meta from evolving and right now the meta is just stuck on stun immune. And as I mentioned the balance fail on new characters just mean they are stun immune + something more, like protector = turn for wonderman or Magneto who can use magnetic field as quick action. But people will still run them with stun immune + that. There is not really 2 good isos, hardly 1 for some classes. 

 

Thats my team before the empowered isos. Quicksilver Ares.

 They actually still perform Ok, but my Agent was running items like Hotshot so now that build was worthless. 

OK, lets ignore these isos and analayze the current meta for the coming end. Well a last point why this change is a lot of pay to win is of course that as they increased the level max to 13. Whales, could buy them all 13 levels for everyone. While it takes like 3 months for a normal user to get there. So yeah,,,, thats a huge difference in stats.

Well ok, one thing I do think that Deadpool is actually playable now with his iso that make him work like Wolverine. But thats only if you have huge stats bonus.

 

 Of the new characters there is some Thane being played. Otherwise as I have mentioned its a lot of Rouges.

The most common team this meta and I am sure it will stay the same the last day is Rouge, Ares.
 But I will say right away that Thane Ares is much better and also counters Rouge, Ares. As Thane completely kills Ares.

 Well first of all, my tip is when you face a Ares team, this 2 teams or maybe Ares + Elektra(decently common). Kill Ares, its the war never change passive that can screw you over. 
 I mention this again as repeating stuff is supposed to teach people faster, I personal just found it annoying but a common Ares item synergy the Agent will have is Waraxe epically with Rouge. So you got to have removal. Ok all team should have at least 1  removal character. Removal also makes most other characters like Red Hulk etc worthless.
 On the other and if you have Waraxe use it with Thane, man hes crazy. I just had a game were he first killed my Ares(he was disoritned) then he one shot his agent(bruiser) and then one shoot his rouge. And  this was with no buffs on him! He gets them low and t hen they die from fatal blow.
 Thane is easily a top character and with his 2 iso slots hes a lot better then most.

 The thing with the meta is that as Blasters has been so weakened to Tacticians for so long its always been an abundance of Bruisers. Especially Bruiser agents. So now its so easy to wreck havoc with finally a good Blaster. (Of course I been going with Iron patriot Blaster for like 3 season but w.e)

Phoenix is completely gone from PvP as she as badly nerfed and there is not many Rescues, finally. I mean she was a 100% free win but it could be annoying at times. As Ares is the absolute main guy now(as I said he would be) and he counters them both hard its clear they cannot be played. 
 Its really just Ares + someone hes the new Emma Frost. And Playdom surprise me with this, they sundered Psylocke and she only had a better coordination attack, this is a guy with both attack and defence and its passive. Thats also why QS and Ares was so good really.
 Sure the stun helped but as QS always goes first, he could get in a double cord attack, as Ares cord is passive before anyone attacks, which is also only a thing Ares has. This would kill most, then QS has one more turn....and of course without the stun immune, they had and my also had agent triple aoe stun. It was really good that team. Now its like decent, usually puts me at adamantium. Because it was really about war never change passive and not the stun.

 Thane and Ares is the OP team right now(which I have in both attack and defense) but now when I have leveled some heroes to 13. I would say other good ones are Magneto, Emma Frost(as always) and a few more.

 Really if there is one thing I always find amusing is people who wanna sound like pros and write stuff like, ooo I change my team everyday you have to adept to the meta. Thats just Bullshit, there is no need to change the tam much in Marvel Avengers Alliance the meta is as its always been very stable, very boring and predictable really. I gone this over before and its the same this season only a handful of characters are worth playing. And sure I might change my team a little, if I say a lot of Bruisers well maybe a Blaster but its really not much change one has to do.
 I don't know really what i want to say with this except making fun of fakers.

 But my theory for the last day is that the best team will be. Magneto and Emma Frost but stun immune and Magneto with QA for his buffs. With a Generalist tanky Agent. Or any older teams like Iron Patriot with Emma.
 The meta is moving back into older characters now when stun is useless. Furthermore as Ares is so easily used single target attacks is a big no no. This is why characters like Emma and Iron Patriot works, as both relay on AoE attacks. Also I see the change towards more Thane this means more Tacticians.
  There is no real good infiltrator especially not as Emma just use mental attacks like always.

 Ok tier list tomorrow.

Marvel Avengers Alliance: Best Team PvP season 11 and reviews of new characters

Elektra is a pretty good character, however I am really tired of all these characters with execution, brutal abilities etc. Stuff that kill people under low life and so on.(Another new character Thane,,,also has this). I mentioned in an earlier article as well, so its getting kinda ridiculous that so many characters now have this, Furthermore, for example Phoenix was nerfed(coming to this later as well) so its really wtf, when are this abilities every gonna be needed. This ignore resurrect etc is almost completely absolute, which also makes Thane's ability a lot better then Elektras.
 Well Elektra's assassinate is stealth  thats great, well all her move is stealth.
 Stealth and internal bleeding is the unique stuff of Elektra. Internal Bleeding is the same as bleeding but it cannot be removed. However, it can actually be overwritten by normal bleeding. Which makes her not coexisting as good with for example Ares as she should.
 Elektra is strong, she has a good primary attack as it has hemorrhage and adding more internal bleeding.As this is her counter and follow up attack its easy to constantly bleed and ravage people.. As with Ares. Her second attack has one of the best debuffs in the game Flanked, which makes everyone attack on that target become followed by a primary attack.
  This attack also adds bleeding, so does her third attack which is an AoE Internal Bleeder + ravage, which is really good, you should start with this ability to set everyone with ravaged/bleeding to set up a save minimum damage to all enemies.(while gaining Counter reflex if a tactician is in the game)The Hobbled debuff(characters attack are not stealth anymore) is actually kinda pointless. It more or less never has any effect
 Depending if you go for the strong max burst team then her second attack is really good as it sets up Flanked(but in most high pvp now everyone has a hard agent tank, so I usually go aoe first).

Her ultimate is as mentioned another execution is slightly better then x-23 as its a stealth but arguably weaker then Satanna as it does not heal her.

What I don't get with Elektra is why does she have a passive saying all moves are stealth and then all her moves also says stealth, this is clearly redundant. I first theorized it would make her immune to hobbled but I have not seen any confirmation on this.
 For me its just seems kinda bad that the tooltip don't make sense.
 And as I mentioned that her "unremoval" bleeding can be removed by allies is just retarded.
 This 2 factors really lower her score for me.

7/10, I get she kinda needed to have assassination but man this ability is so unique now.


When playing with Elektra, her best synergy is still Ares. They perform very good together.
 Its a lot of factors which makes them so good together. First of all its not the bleeding combo I mentioned but the Flanked + coordination.
 This is an old classic combo I have always used in pve with Psylocke and Union Jack(in the good old days when only he had Flanked).
 An enemy which is flanked attacked by anyone is pretty much dead as that invokes 1 extra attack from the attacker alone and can trigger extra attacks. SO its very easy to one shot people.
 And after that they got the bleeding combo going, so a lot of save stable hemorrhage and bleeding damage.
  Lastly they got the class synergy of Bruiser + Infiltrator.

 100% sure that Elektra's best team mate is Ares.

Black Bolt




Black bolt is not very good...

The only thing he has going is really his ultimate as it deals epic damage after a few turns.

 However, this is of course almost useless in PvP as the battle still goes to fast.


For no reason at all his third ability starts with a Cooldown, well his ultimate as well. But that is ok as why would you start with the ultimate anyway. Still his third ability should be able to use from the start but it is not...further making him weak.
 Lastly, he can gain more turns as his second ability gives the Kree Speed buff(2 turn next turn) and as hes a Tactician given its a Blaster on the field he can get up to 3 turns. However,m he cant do much with those 3 turns expect his first attack, which is not a very good primary attack ability.

Black Bolt really don't do much, his only way to be effective is if the games are very long. Meaning that you have to create a team sole around that. Because going with him and some kind of mixed aggressive/longevity is not gonna work. So in the end his synergy is with either 2 tanks or a tank healer as he himself is unfortunately not very sturdy.
 These teams are as most people now pretty shitty in the super high damage that is Marvel Avengers Alliance PvP. Well I will say hes a little easier as the new Atillan set makes the Agent such a good tank.

Ok, Fine is first move is decent as its another "you cant counter me even do I am a Tactician". But its a weak attack and doing it like 3 times on the enemy dont really help as you likely only have to debuff one of them,


I really don't like Black Bolt's design hes useless, which is sad because the base design of him with the ambiance particle increase is both interesting and very true to the comics. And who don't like Black Bolt, I always felt hes an interesting character in the comics, also his costume looks like Gene Simmons costume in Kiss which like on of the best bands ever.

Playdom change to pvp is sooo good, Finally they fixed my issue of crashes when the game started. Now when the game launches right into the battle and not first shows the stats I haven't had a single crash and this is with 3 different computers all which before would crash sometimes especially the laptop which crashed like 80%+ is now 0% so this is really good.


2/10


Thane




so...who is this guy? Its kinda interesting that they made a completely new character be introduced in MAA, on the same time its very confusing and I don't think a lot of people would pay to get the lock boxes for him.

Anyway Thane is really like how I have imagined Death(ArchAngel) to be like, which is something I have said about earlier characters. But this design is really like how Death should have been, a great brutal strike attack.
 Anyone remember my old article which covered Death? This is exactly what  wanted him to, seriously wouldn't surprise me if they stole my design...I also found spelling errors when I went back to check my Deja vu article-_-

 So thane is strong, he got the primary attack of dreams. A primary attack with Brutal strike is amazingly strong.
 It also adds a unique debuff, Amber which will stun in the future and turn of stuff like protecting and exhaust people. SO its really strong debuff.
 And then Amber stacks increase if he attacks more, so this primary is the best primary in the game. It really is.
  I can say right away that Thane + Ares is good, very good. I use this team currently and I stay in Adamantium with it.
 Giving Thane extra turns is also good to attack more with his primary and so on.(Agent with Sheppard + Ares people)

 Thane is really the doom of Bruisers, if I face a person with bad stats he will one shoot them. The usually they don't die from the pure damage but they get enough low hp so eh can kill them with the brutal effect.

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And this is the most noteworthy strength of Thane. While other characters with execute abilities have them doing very low damage so they have to be used when the enemy is already at low or else they wont die.
 Thane instead does huge damage, meaning if he attacks someone at around 60% hp they will die. If he attacks a bruiser for me he it usually takes them to around 50% HP. So even if they get some healing or some shield in between in 2 attacks he will kill them.
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Than Thane starts of with passive sheild that prevents all debuffs on him! This also really good in PvP really good his second ability is that he can cast it on an ally or himself. The sheild also heals when its destroyed so if you throw it on ur massive Agent tank(Attilan set I know u all use it).
 Its actually helps a lot.

His third ability is also really good but starts CD so its a decent ability as most games he will only be able to use it once. Its a quick action.

His ultimate is like eeeh a small damage and a small heal. I just spams his first attack all the time. Which really is a further testament to that is like his ultimate is his primary....broken.



Summary of thane really, he got he best Primary in the game. With character who have coordination he is an absolute beast, best then used with Ares for both Attack/Defend. Both also of course works with Coulssons and Avenger suits.
 Its also really strong with Flanked but that can be removed so(also the same reason why hes not good with Psylocke as shes basically worthless in PvP these days).






We also have a major buff for 4 characters and a nerf for one of the most classic meta characters phoenix.

Right away I can see that the buff did nothing to change the game at all excluding rouge.

I have talked to around 30 people, and then I mean talked like discussed the meta etc. All together I have talked to like 300+ this season about this  game.
 Regardless no one I have talked to have ever seen Spider Women, Cable nor Deadpool in the meta since they become better. While as I am sure we all know Rouge is overly used like hell.

  I am surprised we don't see any Cable or Deadpool because Deadpool actually had some use in really defensive set ups(mainly making the opponent quite as it would take to long time to win)
 While Cable has always been decent.
 But with Spiderwomen,,,, it makes 100% sense shes still not played.

 Its really simple, if they toke the worst character in the game a completely 100% useless character and improved it, but its like math. If u take 0 multiply it with 10 you still get 0.
  The buff she got was not nearly enough to make her any contester in PvP. However, if likely get an alt suit eventually that one + her new abilities and passives could be a playable character.

Lets go on a little for Rouge, then I will post another article covering the Meta more and explain how the games old meta was 100% fucked by the new empowered isos.(there I cover my teams etc)
 Ok so I have gotten easily 100 mails this season only about how Rouge is imba and than people asking how to beat Rouge.

 To be honest I don't find rouge that hard to beat. She is clearly much, much better now. And she was always kinda good I have been one of the few saying she is playable before the buff.
 Her strength is actually easily exploited. First of she pretty much needs the bruiser buff to get good damage or a good Atillan Tank can just take her attacks and take no damage, so her having tactical(extra turn e.g) dont matter.
 Secondly what makes her really wicked is that if she get bruiser and Warbringer which is the common gameplay with her she does insane damage, this is true even for me with very, very high defence stats she can one shot me. However, I have alway said use removal.
 If you don't have removal in your offensive PvP team you are doing it wrong. I just remove those stacks, try to not give her classes bonus(mainly enrage as that what matters) then she don't do much.

 Lastly Phoenix, is much worse now as her real strength was always in how she could save the player form an unlucky start.(First of all Playdom finally fixed that turn order fiasco which I been saying for like 1.5 years) But now its a luck if she revives people she has become so bad. She can still deal some decent damage but she was the best anti luck character pretty much. Huge nerf. Tier list is coming out soon for this season and she will drop significantly.

Tip for Fighting Special Operation Group Boss 13. Thanos Marvel Avengers Alliance

Ok First of all they made this boss in a such bad way. Man he lacks coherency.

Like Blackhearth he will summon help which are based on his weaknes.

Thanos can be any class and if hes a Scrapper he will summon the first boss of the special operation as shes a Blaster. Which is then good agianst Brusiers.
 If hes Tactician he summons the second boss as hes a Scrapper.

However, as Playdom is lazy as ever. They dident bother doing more then 2 bosses even if they have more of Thanos Liutenent in the game,,,,,,
 So if you face Thanos as a Inflitrator for example you can just go with Scrappers.

 Well the help he gets is usually not so dangerous anyway so.
 Blackhearth was much harder as he also had a passive counter to his weakness class.

Anyway what I really wanted to point out with this article is the order of figthing Thanos as a Group Boss.

No matter of class he is the order of turns will always be the same!!!

Its always top - bottom - middle.

And he last, what this means is that you can set up your team very easily.

I for example start with Psylocke to use Mind coordination, as then the next person will have chance to trigger coordination. Then I go with Union Jack to set Flanked on him. Leaving the agent with both extra stats a double attack and a chance to trigger the others to join in(Union Jack will almost always trigger his Allied force).

Of course he almost always do Black hole first will remove all debuffs/buffs so it can be worth saving some moves.

Another team I use is Ares Elektra, then I let Elektra go first as she got flanked Ares can be last as his coordination is passive.
 This team is really good agianst Thanos, he cannot remove internal bleeding, both Ares and Elektra can use the hemorrhaging effect on their attacks to always dmg him. + You can just not attack him when he is to escape and he will still take damage by the bleeding. He will attack when he is waiting to escape but this can still be used to deal a couple of thousend more damage.

Marvel Avengers Alliance Tier List Season 10 + Ares and Squirrel Girl

RAGE!!! I urge everyone to not give any money to Playdom until they solve all the crash issues tx.
 I lost 400 points getting 3 wins in PvP to get Squirrel girl. When I go for a pvp battle it keeps loading for ever, and what I mean is that the swirl in the middle will keep spinning around and it says loading this never ends and happens 9/10. Started for me last season but was not as all this frequent(like 1/8 after 1 week of season 9). Of course it makes it better when I report this for the 10th time to Playdom I get an auto respone telling me do X or Y even when I write in the report that I have alreayd done A-Ö, I have even formated my pc(dident help).
 Anyway if you have the same issue or similar, note PvE runs perfect for me. I havent had one PvE crash since like Januari. Please spam them with reports.
 So I have done like over 2000 games this season to get boxes for Elektra. The worst part is really that it takes so long time getting the 5 wins every day.
(I have a ratio from 600-1500 depending on how much I get attacked, the more people attack me the more ratio I gain so I can than drop like 200+ points trying to get 5 boxes so the last days I will stop attack to at least get Vibra by defending)

So before I go into the tier list of season 10. I will review the 2 new characters, Ares and Squirrel girl note....because I cant play pvp(without commiting suicide) I have not yet got Elektra, guess I have to spend gold for her later(got 7 issues at least so)

Anyway scroll down after Squirrel girl for the tier list.


ARES:



Ares is really, really strong in PvP. I would say easily one of the best characters in the game.
 Just need more testing on him from people,  likely set him at higher rating in the future.

His overall design I like, the 1000 yard bully stare make sense as he is the god of war. Also that he has a combo of cordinated attack and defence is coherent with this god power.



Gameplay wise this 2 passives are one of the best for pvp. The yard thing can reduce a strong charged attack to very low damage. This includes attacks like 2 stacked Thor, Iron Patriot, Agent with arc system etc. Sure its luck to stop those mega attacks but this makes him workable in defence.

Furthermore, the other passive is even better to get lucky wins of. I always say that Avengers Captain America is better then ww2 as of the cordinated attack bonus. Same for Thor. Its one of those passive that suddenly make you win, great for defence.  And Ares got both attack and defence cordination!!! This is easy one of the best passive in the game.

Ares first move is a decent bleed/ravage attack. It also got some synergy with slash attacks which is kinda whatever
 Realy were his strenght is in his other 3 moves especialy the ultimate.


His second move is a despair AoE! This is what Death should have had!(read last article on this) a good move to beat phoenix teams or other rarer reviers like Angel. And as we know its a lot of phoenixes. you know what there is a lot of too? Rescues, which is ilogial as she sucks. And she sucks even more know. Despair also stops healing, this ability alone effectly stops one of the absolute most common meta team phoenix + rescue. So its realy safe using Ares, hes also a bruiser(the safest class), well his ultimate makes him even more safe, coming to it soon.

His third ability is intresting is a quick time action weak point debuffer with no CD. This means each turn he can apply weak point to one enemy. Its also a free attack, which can trigger an allies cordination with him and given your other characters should be the damage dealers they can deal huge damage following as he has set up weakpoint(cant miss and critical)

Ares only real drawback is that his attacks are weak, why they are all  have great debuff effects the pure attack damage is low.
 Of course I would recommend a tanky or a chaotic build for Ares utilizing his passives as they are better in longer games.
 Also every character hits like a truck anyway if you max blasters in pvp so.

Lastly his ultimate.....

BEST IN THE GAME!!!

Pure debuff wise based on that it can be used right away I would easily say he got the best ultimate of everyone. Iron Patriot is better pure damage wise, but if we go for effect this is the best one.

I always liked Gambits AoE removal. The weaknes of Gambit is that if e.g Cap is tanking you will remove Caps tank ability and all other buffs on him but as Ares attack has catostrophic it will always hit everyone. Removing the tank and the others buffs. Making it the best buff remove attack in the game (after scroll of angolob but thats an Agent item so). It also adds in the chance ot stun, clearly game design wise its just another Brusier ultimate copy pasta, but what it means for use players is at least that is an amazing ultimate.

It also obviously means Ares super hard counter characters like Rescue and all other tanks in the tanks in the game. While his passive can protect from any hard attack and his other passive can make for an upset win in afk.

Ares is clearly one of the best character in the game, like I mentioned that hes a Brusier as well dont hurt.

The only thing I dont like about Ares is the storuy in the game.....man he just changed side in a hearbeat also the overall Dark Reign stor is one of the worst game adaption of Marvel comcis

9/10





Squrriel Girl:



Squirrel Girl on the other hand has like the best storyline in the game. Its completly retarded which fits her perfectly, gave me a lot of good laughs.

Following this her abilites are also pretty nutty, reminding me of Deadpools wity abilites. Luckily SG is actually playable and not just a gimmicky character like Deadpool.


Still it not much to say about her shes pretty straight forward.

She got a high chance to avoid melee attacks. Obviously making her counter characters who have a lot of melee attacks.

Her offensive strenght lies in 3 things. She can increase her damage with acorn stacks. Which can take some time(not good in PvP).
 Luckily her ultimate is a stealth attack which uses all the acorn for huge damage so easy to utlize them.

However, the real power is of course in that its that its stealthed. I been over this before and a real good Scrapper should have stealth. As that makes sure it can attack the inflitrator easily.
 Her second ability is also really good as it gives the debuff Flanked of one the strongest debuffs in the game. I am of course, find it silly Union Jack cant keep this debuff unique to him(yes I Cykes got it to....). But yeah a really good ability.

Very straight forward character, which will also be her downfall in PvP. She is good agianst some characters, agianst ranged characters she basically has no affect.


8/10 good story, good design.


Tier list season 10 Marvel Avengers Alliance

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuZscKPza-4jdDRrMlZDNGRMd3NydjBoT3Ffd3N5a2c&output=html




Well what can I say about this season tier list which is not redudant becuase there is nothing much new this season.

Its easier to say what characters did not make it to any good rank. Which is like in my last article. The new characters, Daimon, Angel,Death and Satana are all pretty shit.


Ares is godlike on the otherhand

Squirrel girl is a pretty niche character, maybe teaming her with Elektra will set you wining at adamantium as facing a heavy melee team can give a lucky win.

phoenix, keep becoming worse to use as more and more characters get brutal/despair.

 Iron Fist is a lot better now and have a top spot.

Lastly I as always urge people to stop using Rescue epicly bad character in defence.

Well what can I say about this season tier list which is not redudant becuase there is nothing much new this season.

Its easier to say what characters did not make it to any good rank. Which is like in my last article. The new characters, Daimon, Angel,Death and Satana are all pretty shit.


Ares is godlike on the otherhand

Squirrel girl is a pretty niche character, maybe teaming her with Elektra will set you wining at adamantium as facing a heavy melee team can give a lucky win.

phoenix, keep becoming worse to use as more and more characters get brutal/despair.

 Iron Fist is a lot better now and have a top spot.

Lastly I as always urge people to stop using Rescue epicly bad character in defence.

Marvel Avengers Alliance Tier List Season 9

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AuZscKPza-4jdEdZenpoX1huOEVvUHNFamNuNTY1cWc&output=html

Dum dum-- I wont get Angel, as Playdom cant program. I only got my laptop with me right now, while given its not the state of the art gaming laptop one would think it could play flash games on Facebook-_- I keep getting the shockwave flash error(which many have already reported to Playdom for months) so I lose around every second pvp game to crash, before the game even starts. So its been really annoying to even get my 5 dailies this season, I am just outside adamantium with my afk team(Emma and X-23 or Emma and Wonder Man) so as always it would be no real issue to get into adamantium but I cant go up by doing attacks as I get constant crashes fun.

Anyway, since last season of Marvel Avengers Alliance it has not been many new characters and a few got some upgrades. Also none of the new characters see much play, which is weird as how good Wonder Man is(less weird as no one has Red Hulk)(and I will hate to wait for Angel,,,well it would be even worse if they dident design him after the ugly Wolverine and the X-men "modern" outfit").

Wonder Man is clearly the best tank in the game by far. Like I have already mentioned in earlier articles he is basically the only tank. As he is the only one that wont lose his tanking ability. He does also do high damage, have max hp/def but still have some evasion stats making and he can turn of the critical chance of blasters and stop stealth attackers(yes repeating/summary of review of WM) needless to say he obviously hard counter many characters and gets a very high score in the tier list.

I been playing a lot with Constrictor(mainly leveling him in PvP) hes not very good. Already from the start you need high bonus to make him work, what I mean by this is that you need high HP and High Def/eva so that the battle last long, as they rarely do in Marvel Avengers Alliance. As Constrictor is a character based around using items at random the longer the battle is the better he becomes. This means he negates characters who are also healers like him or characters that need to build up. Because while he needs some luck he will almost always use some items in a long battle. And he got very good items. The best to get first is the double turn(gives him 2 turns like Quicksilver and Omega Sentinel) this will double the chance to get more items going and he can still get the Tactician bonus, giving him 3 turns.
 But hes not very effective, as bottom line is. Even with good stats you dont know how good he will perform. Some battles he basically does nothing.
 Hes a luck based character that also need high stats(massive gold spend or at least all heroes at 12). I definitely dont recommend him in attack but in defense hes good(given you have that base stats for it).

Red Hulk as I mentioned before is on paper the best tank in the game with this aoe tanking and that he gains Health when he gets attacked. But as all other tanks(expect WM) he loses his tank ability to debuffs so hes kinda pointless just like Cap etc. Still he do have some use as his ultimate can win games(but its also luck based then).


The buff to Cyclops has not made him playable(maybe in some specific team) he is a decent character now. While he was a absolute useless character before. I guess if you use him with someone that wants high critical chance it can be good.

Magik got a small boost but it dont matter much.


THE BIGGEST CHANGE is that mind lick is now an quick action.
 This move has always been the bane of Phoenix!

Overall this of course makes her better now you can mind link your agent or Kitty pryde etc. But, this makes her so much better now in AFK. As now she wont just waste her turns. She will do the Mind Lick and attack someone. Shes a lot better in AFK and she was already one of the better ones.

Note that for example Emma Frost is still the Queen of Pvp, even more so. Why is this=? Well the new characters were mainly tanks which she of course demolishes. Further increases her chance to win. Kitty is also good against all the new characters further increases her usages as well.

Other meta stuff:::

Well Rescue is starting to become the new Emma Frost being so ridicules over used, which is so stupid in as how really bad she is. One removal and she dont do anything. Even without removal she is barely doing anything. Also there is a lot of Juggernauts, so maybe its time to stop using Emma. But hte funny thing is as how people often combo Jug with Kitty and who beats Kitty? Emma-_- so its not very needed.

Another thing is how as there is a lot of Jugs, there is very few Emmas in defense this days meaning using Jugs on your on in attack is not very good anymore. Juggernaut was never really any A+ character. He is mainly a hard counter to Emma. When there is no Emma around hes decent. Hes only real use is how he gives surge of cytorak and strengthened to the team, which is a buff that boost unarmed melee attacks. This makes his team ups very limited. But what makes him easy to beat is how almost no one is using it correctly synergiezed with the Agent, while people usually have as mentioned Kitty or someone like Nightcrawler. Their Agent dont use unarmed. I mentioned in his review-- its so obvious that agent with techno organic is perfect to synergy.
 Anyway hes easy to beaten even do I use Emma + person who needs experience

What is hard to beat this season is double unremovable tank teams for example Wonder Man and Wolverine. However, yet Again the game comes back to that Emma Frost can beat that.
 Remove Emma already and make the game more interesting.

Summary:

Of the new characters Wonder Man is really good,
 Stop using low tiers like Rescue(she might work for you in attack but guess why you have -300 after a night)
-Mix up your team, there is actually several valid characters now all A Tier and S tier etc. Such as Fantomex, X-23, Wolverine. Phoenix(is so much better in AFK now)

Last words--- were is all the Thundras, I seem to be the only one using my Thundra she is freaking awesome.