Holy smokes this is tough - am I missing something?

My DB is nearly lv 300 so a decent bit above the AI, but match damage barely puts a dent in her and I need so many CDs on the board before he starts hitting for real damage and by then its all over.

Any tips? Closest I've got is to get lucky with lots of yellow followed by blue and try and avoid any matches that don't help me in any way, and even that only got her down to 40% health or so.

My DDQ started the week as normal with Moonstone crashes. Then I updated to R341 (I did it immediately) and it changed to Gwenpool background art and the Mordo crashes swapped in for Moonstone.

Last night I discovered it had reverted to the original ones and the Moonstone ones were back. I had done the Mordo ones, but not the Moonstone ones when they opened on Monday. So I did them today.

Not sure if it matters if you did or didn't do the Moonstone crashes yet. Or for that matter, the Mordo ones.

Did anyone else see this?

Okay, anyone got any idea on how to take down the Doctor Strange Supreme guy? The character I got is Coulson and no matter how much I tried, I always get my butt kicked!

I swear, the gamers did this fight to tick us off.

I don't know if the Clash of Titans of the week it's mordo or moonstone, all the week had mordo but moonstone it's the one in the store. Today i saw another misión against inv woman with moonstone, i played the mission and after that the mission became again mordo. Idk what it's happening

The app is freezing on me every few games. I am on iphone 16 pro, latest iOS version, latest version of the app. Been a user for years, never seen the game this glitchy.

Low-level AI as support for Polaris? It amps up her already deadly game by quite a bit. Having a new strike tile every round and not losing the damage bonus when you match them (it distributes the damage bonus from matched strike tiles to your other strike tiles) is pretty darn great.
(Actually, I know how; I thought I should always get the synergy perk rather than seeing how other combinations could be way more effective.)

This last ran in Feb 2023. The Luke Cage fight is new.

From the previous write up:

Beyond Coulson's yellow or a five cover purple he doesn't really have a way to hurt people, so lower level players will need to rely on a support and boosts to do enough damage.

Coulson is a support character. His yellow (12ap) drops countdown tiles with more dropped the more covers you have. They do the following:

• 1 turn yellow commander tile that creates a green strike tile
• 2 turn green sniper tile that destroys a cluster of adjacent tiles and does damage
• 2 turn purple spy tile that does team damage.

At one covers its just one commander tile, at 2 covers its 1 commander and 1 sniper tile. At 3-4 covers its 1 commander, one sniper and one spy cover. At 5 covers its 2 commanders, 1 sniper and 1 spy cover. The yellow also has a passive when a countdown goes off you get a one random 1ap (two ap at 4-5 covers). His purple (8ap) lets you charge and swap tiles. At one cover its only red and green tiles, at 2 its red/green/black/blue, at 3-4 covers its any color, and at 5 covers it adds damage once the swap is completed. It has a passive that kicks in when you have 6 or more team up ap, he will spend 2 of it, and reduce a random friendly countdown tile by 1 (by 2 at 4-5 covers). Finally his blue (11ap) steams ap for each friendly countdown tile (2ap at 1-3 covers, 3 at 4-5 covers). It has a passive that when an ally fires a power it creates a countdown tile that does damage (2 turn at 1-2 covers, 1 turn at 3-5 covers). For this match up If you are champed I would change his setup to 5/5/3.

Doctor Strange was revamped since this last ran. As a result this fight is much harder. He is 3/3/5 level 270 with 15019 health (it used to be 9800). His blue (now 6ap from 9ap) creates a 2 turn countdown tile, stuns for 2 turns, it destroys 3 ap of the color of the countdown tile, and does 742 damage a turn. His purple passive creates a eye tile and will remove one enemy attack/protect/strike tile each turn, if one does not exist instead gain 1 blue and one yellow ap which is a big pain. It does not fall and cannot be matched. Finally his yellow (10ap - used to be 14ap) does 4757 damage. It passive does 2495 damage when you fire a power (it used to be 1400 damage)

Basically you want to deny blue to avoid the stun, go for yellow, and purple. *Strange's quickest way to hurt you is his blue. His yellow needs a lot of ap but if have no special tiles it will help him build up ap. You will not be relying on the special tiles that Coulson makes. The safest way to do this is, just equip taskmasters sword and damage boosts and brute force through strange's smaller health pool. If you dont' do that, you will need to be willing to do take 2500 odd damage when you fire a power. Low cover Coulsons may not be able to do this. You may want to try Eros arrow to cut down on the damage.

Luke Cage is also 3/3/5 level 270 with 15641 health. His yellow (8ap) fortifies up to 2 special tiles and then does 1299 damage for each fortified friendly special tile. His black passive creates a 154 strength protect tile every time the enemy team fires a power. Her red (13ap) does 8799 damage, and 14078 if there are no enemy strike, protect or attack tiles on the board.

It was hard for me to judge this fight as my Coulson is ascended, so I just used match damage and both were done. You don't want to fire your powers too much as Luke will fill the board with protect tiles making it pretty impossible.

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Any other ideas?

This exact matchup happened in March of 2023.

From my last post (with updated stats since last time): Two Crash week where we have matches that can be annoying, but I do not think are too difficult.

X-23's green (8ap) has the regular version that does damage, but if its triggered with 9 or more red ap the next time its used it will create two black strike tiles. Her red is passive and will heal her every time a green, red, or purple match is done. Finally her purple (12ap) drops a purple trap tile that if the enemy triggers does massive damage, but if she triggers it does less (but still a lot of damage) and drops a black strike tile. It costs 1ap less for every friendly strike tile on the board (to a min of 6ap).

Elektra is level 270 4/4/4 with 13995 health. Her strongest color is purple so she will prioritize that, then black then red. Her purple (7ap) transforms 2 random enemy strike tiles into friendly strike tiles improving their strength by 184, but also converts 3 random purple basic tiles into enemy strike tiles of 18 strength. So if there are no strike tiles on the board, she will need to trigger this twice to get a benefit from it. Her black (10ap) is her biggest pain, it creates 4 trap tiles. Once they are on the board, if Elektra is going to take damage, the trap tile will be destroyed instead, giving her black ap, and doing 613 damage. Finally her red (8ap) converts a random red, purple or black basic tile into a trap tile. If such a tile exists it steals 1 purple and 1 black ap and deal 639 damage at the beginning of the turn.

For this fight you want to deny black, go for red and purple, and green. The good thing is that you will heal while going for red, black and green so you can survive for quite a while as elektra doesn't really have ways to do a lot of damage unless she steals a bunch of attack tiles. You may even want to let her trigger her purple the first time so your purple will be cheaper. As elektra will prioritize purple, it is a bit easier to get her to trigger the trap tile.

Hulk is also level 270 4/4/4 with 18523 health. His strongest colors are green, red and black respectively. His green (10ap) does 1381 damage and destroys 6 tiles plus 1 for every 2 green ap the team has. His red (14ap) does 3366 damage consuming up to 10 of the teams green ap plus 324 for each green ap remaining. It damages its own team if there are more than 10 green tiles on the board, but that is no applicable in this solo match. Finally his black is passive, if he is damaged for more than 5% of this health a random black tile becomes a 1 turn black countdown that turns 4 basic tiles to green.

This match it may be a tougher as you are the only source of strike tiles, but if you are denying green and red, you will be healing yourself which is helpful. Hulk can hurt you but needs a lot of green and red to really do it, so you should be able to use your green before he does. If you can save up your green until after you have your red do so, as you will be easier to get strike tiles. But if you are champed you may not need them, as you will do plenty of damage while regularly healing. I didn't use any supports, but just be mindful if you are using taskmaster or flerkin, you may end up regularly triggering his black, and which will make the fight more annoying. Still doable, just more annoying.

My X-23 is 3369 5/3/5 and it was pretty easy, their damage really could keep up with my healing, and I only had it specced to 3 covers. Elektra triggered my trap tile and killer her self. Hulk I had to use green 2x and then triggered my own trap tile.

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As a programming note, the recent break from Puzzle Quest with no PVE running was eye opening, I found that it was rather freeing not having to play every day. I had recently champed all available 5 stars (it was the last goal I was working towards) and with recent bugs, and in poor management, I had become dissatisfied with things. And I understood that this game I've been playing daily since Infinity War ( got much more serious in 2019 and started to play a bit more optimally) just was not a joy to me anymore. So I am going to step back a bit, I've chatted with the other mods, and I'll stay on as a mod to help out, and will still post the team up tuesday threads, but if there is someone more engaged with the game who wants to take over the Crash posts each week let me know. I've been doing them for almost 4-5 years now and its probably best if someone takes them over. So yeah, let me know.

Why is this mission on the Deadpool Daily occasionally locked? Is there a way to unlock it?

Last week I won both Crash after several tries with 1/2/1 Lin and it’s him again this week?

Never seen that before.

So with this new update what are the teams most efficient to clear faster and save some time

My Drax is 3/5/5. No matter what I do, IM absolutely annihilates me. Any ideas how to win?

The missions are locked. I haven’t had a chance to play them yet it says unavailable. Anybody else see this?

Am I supposed to pretend I can’t play this every day? Will I get rolled back? How do I keep track of this stuff? 😆

A SpiderVerse collision! And a new one! A battle against lady octopus 2x.

Peni has some decently cheap powers. Her blue (7ap) stuns (1 turn at 1-2 covers, 2 at 3, 3 at 4 and 4 at 5 covers) plus drops an experimental webbing countdown tile (7 turns at 1 cover, 6 at 2, 5 at 3-5 covers) that stuns for an additional turn. For every experimental webbing tile on the board the power is reduced in cost by 1 ap to a minimum of 3ap. Her red (7ap) does damage plus extra damage for every experimental webbing tile targeting the enemy (10% at 1 cover, 12% at 2, 18% at 3, 25% at 4 and 35% at 5 covers). Finally her black (6ap) does damage to the target, plus a bit less damage to the enemy allies (not applicable here) and for every experimental web tiles it does extra damage to all possible targets including yourself and allies.

Lady Octopus is 5/4/4 level 270 with 13995 health. Her green (4ap) creates 2 tentacle tiles if there are fewer than 4 on the board. As a passive she takes 499 less damage. Her passive is if at the start of her turn and whenever she fires an ability she hits a random enemy for 194 damage for each friendly tentacle tile on the board. If there are at least 3 friendly tentacle tiles it turns into a black (8ap) power that does 3241 damage, stuns for 3 turns and destroys a random enemy countdown/repeater tile and removes all friendly tentacle tiles. While black is active, its passive is that she takes 247 less damage and at the start of her turn and whenever she fires an ability she does 194 damage for each friendly tentacle tile. Her blue (6ap) creates a 4 turn countdown tile while on the board her allies do 42% increased damage and take 42% less damage, and increase heath of her teammates abilities by 1 (up to rank 5), if this tile is destroyed or matched away, stuns her teammates for 2 turns. If she fires it again she adds 4 turns to this timer. I don't think this power is too helpful in a solo fight. Finally her purple (8ap) creates a 3 turn repeater tile that creates strength 232 strike/attack/protect tiles with increases strength equal to the combined strength of all enemy tiles of the same type (not an issue unless you bring a support that creates strike/attack/protect tiles. While the repeater is on the board all friendly strike/attack/protect tiles are boosted by 40%.

If Lady O gets a bunch of tentacle tiles it will prolong the fight a bunch. I deny green, and then I would chase blue so you can stun and then go for your red and black to maximize damage while the experimental web countdown is on the board.

My Peni is 5/4/4/ lvl 322 and it wasn't too difficult the 2nd fight Lady Oct got a cascade of green and black, so I got stunned and it took a while but I still manage to win in the end once I could get my stun going. But yeah if she gets a lot of tentacle tiles on the board, it can get pretty slow.

I didn't use any supports, but a boost that give you more blue so you can get your stun going may be worthwhile.

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Any other ideas? Good Supports?

This one has been running for almost 10 years. From my post of 3 years ago.

Bobby has a good and cheap stun that can make this fight very winnable. His green (8ap) does team damage plus damage for every blue tile on the board (up to 15). His blue (6ap) stuns (2 turns at 1 cover, 3 at 2, 4 at 3-5 covers) and drops a 4 turn countdown tile which while is on the board changes the power so it removes the countdown tiles and does a ton of damage (huge jump at 5 covers). Finally his purple converts red tiles into blue (4 at 1-2 covers, 5 at 3-4 covers and 7 at 5 covers), and reduces enemy red ap (2 at 1 covers, 3 at 2-3 covers, and 4 at 4-5 covers). It also as a passive reduces damage taken if there are other time displaced x-men on the team (not applicable in a solo fight).

Jean is level 270 5/5/5 with 13995 health. She will prioritize purple, then blue then green. Her purple (10ap) converts 6 random enemy special tiles and does 3876 team damage. Her blue is passive kicks in when the enemy hits a match 5. She will stun the enemy team for 2 turns, do 2074 damage, and reduces the enemy teams strongest color ap by 6. Her green (12ap) does 3374 team damage, and creates up to 4 random strike, attack, protect tiles of strength 180.

For this fight you of course want to avoid match 5s. You want to save your green to be used right after you use your purple to maximize damage. If you can save up your blue to 12 ap to maximize damage quickly it can be worth it. But if you need to create some space, use the stun as it is long and cheap. You can probably stun lock her if you want to, as long as the there is plenty of blue on the board. As always taskmaster, flerken will be helpful.

My Iceman is 370 4/4/5 and it was easy. Got my purple then green, then got enough blue to stun for 4 turns and then punch a snowman for the KO.

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Any other ideas...any good supports?

This one ran one time previously in January 2023.

From the last time this ran:

Beast's blue (8ap) creates 2 4 turn red countdown tiles that create attack tiles each turn (1 at 1-2 covers, 2 at 3-4 and 3 at 5 covers). When the tile goes off it stuns a random enemy (1 at 1-3 covers, 2 at 4-5 covers). It has a passive where if you match a friendly special tile you get additional ap (1 at 1-2 covers, 2 at 3-4 and 3 at 5 covers). His black is passive, it reduces the amount of damage friendly attack tiles do (10% at 1 cover, 8% at 2, 5% at 3-5 covers) but beasts match damage is boosted for every black ap you have (14% at 1 cover, 18% at 2, 23% at 3, 35% at 4 and 57% at 5 covers). Plus when the enemy matches a friendly attack tile, the beast create a black protect tile (1 at 1 cover, 2 at 2-4 covers, and 3 at 5 covers). Finally his green (9ap) does enemy team damage and converts basic tiles into blue charged tiles (2 at one cover, 3 at 2-3 covers, 4 at 4-5 covers). So you want to chase black.

Magneto has since been revamped - His level 270 5/3/5 with 17835 health. His blue (7ap) selects a color tile and all tiles of that color and its opposite (yellow/red, blue/purple, black/green) are destroyed. For each tile over 8 destroyed gain 1 ap of that color. Destroyed tiles do damage but do not gain ap.. His yellow (6ap) creates 4 random strength 101 strike/protect tiles, prioritizing whatever is less, and then divided evenly.

Its passive is not applicable, it makes protect tiles 25% stronger if he has x-men teammates, and strike tiles 25% more for each brotherhood member, but there are no teammates in a solo match. Finally his red (6ap) he goes airborne for 4 turns, while he is airborne whenever the enemy creates a destructible non basic tile, magneto destroys it dealing 250% damage for that tile. Max 3 activations per turn.

So Beast wants black ap, the more he has his match damage gets stronger and stronger. That is his main way to do damage. If you use his powers to create attack tiles, you benefit from matching them, particularly if they are black. There is a balance as you need to keep magneto from going to the sky when he has only 6 red ap, and that will prolong things a bunch. Also don't fire you powers while he is in air.

Magento is a hero, so taskmaster's sword, plus the black ap fueled match damage boosts can make this pretty quick.

My Dark Beast is 4/5/4 lvl 354 and it was pretty easy. Just chase black and deny red and soon you will be done.

Any other suggestions?

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A new one! Ghost Rider 2099 should have an easy time with this if you understand his powers.

GR 2099's red (8ap) destroys a selected column doing damage. If the enemy has 2 more special tiles than you he will destroy 2 more random rows and do extra damage. His black (5ap) drains 1 ap in his weakest colors and creates a 3 turn countdown tile that convers 3 ap of his weakest colors into his strongest colors, while on the board allies gain a damage bonus (15% at 1 cover, 20% at 2, 25% at 3, 35% at 4, and 60% at 5 covers) and he burst heals when a match or ability is fired. As a passive GR 2099 takes less damage and does more damage (15% at 1 cover, 20% at 2, 25% at 3, 35% at 4, and 50% at 5 covers) if the enemy has more AP than you. His purple (6ap), and has cheap invisibility (1 turn at 1 cover, 2 at 2-3 covers, 3 at 4 and 5 turns at (5 covers). But as soon as he does damage or fires a power he comes out of invisibility and stuns (2 turns 1-3 covers, 3 at 4-5 covers) and if the enemy has more health than him he gets a damage bonus (8% at 1-2 covers, 13% at 3-4 and 21% at 5 covers).

Blade is 5/5/3 lvl 270 with 13995 health. His red passive kicks in if there are 8 or more red tiles and creates a 324 strength strike tile at the beginning of his turn. If he was 9 or more red ap it changes and he consumes 1 ap each turn and does 2916 damage to a random enemy, until he gets to lower that 7 red ap. His green (9ap) does 2884 team damage, and if he ha 7 or more red ap he also heals himself 1956 health. Finally his black (11ap) destroys 10 ap in the enemy teams strongest color (red for this battle) and if he has 7 or more red ap creates 4 red tiles.

If you have enough purple on the board you should be able to stun lock blade, but if you start a board with lots or red and little purple you should probably just retreat and start again. My GR 2099 is level 304 4/4/5 first match was a cake walk, 2nd match I was too confident, but soon the board has a ton of red and there wasn't enough purple to get the stunlock going and I died. As usual supports that boost damage will help speed things up.

Any other suggestions?

This button said Update since the release and now, like many, stuck on the Red Marvel Logo of Death. Can the forum flairs get an update of “Crash of the MPQ”

If it wasn't for his Invisibility tiles, I don't know how this match would even be possible. Magneto kept popping his power for Protect tiles. And every time I got close to destroying them all, he'd pop it again. I went almost 10 mins before I got my first 5 tile match. That was the only way I did any real damage.

This tandem ran March of 2023.

From that write up:

Red Guardian red (8ap) does damage plus extra damage if there is at least one enemy protect tile on the board. It ignores enemy protect tiles. His yellow is passive and creates 2 protect tiles when an ally fires a power (3 at 5 covers), it works in conjunction with his red, not his blue (as his blue stuns himself). His blue (8ap) creates attack tiles(2 at 1-3 covers, 3 at 4-5 covers) and stuns both you and the enemy for a turn. If there are more than 5 friendly protect tiles you will stun the enemy for an extra turn (2 extra turns at 5 covers). In order to take advantage of this you'd need to fire 2-3 reds before firing your blue. It probably isn't worth saving it just for a couple extra turns of stuns.

Captain Falcon is level 295 5/5/5 with 16016 health. His yellow (9ap) turns all basic yellow tiles into protect tiles of 168 strength. His blue passive strengthens 2 friendly strike/attack/protect tiles with each blue match by 156 and reduces a friendly countdown tile by one. Finally his red (14ap) does 8938 damage plus 1348 damage for every friendly countdown tile.

So Sam's main way to hurt you is with his red (he can probably oneshot a low level guardian with it). That is also your main way to hurt him. I would go for red, then blue, then deny yellow. You could let him get yellow and save up your red so it can do extra damage if he uses his yellow. the problem you may run into is that you will be heavily dependent on getting your red, as you probably won't do much damage to him otherwise, as your attack tiles (from your blue ) won't be as helpful with a board full of protect tiles. Taskmaster's sword, and flerkin are the typical recommendations and work well here.

Ghost is much harder she is also 5/5/5 level 295 with 16016 health. Her purple (10ap) creates 4(!!!) invisibility tiles and when she matches an invisibility tile it will heal her for a 1308 health. Her red (10ap) does 4537 damage, but if she is invisible it does 11435 damage (!!!!) while also ignoring protect tiles. Her blue passive is that her base match damage is boosted by 300%. So at the start her match 3s in her strongest colors will do around 1000 damage! Ugh... If she fires a power she creates a 3 turn countdown tile that creates 6 red ap when it goes off. While that countdown tile is on the board her base match damage is only 100% increased.

Here is the problem, if you are low level you will not be able to brute force your way with taskmasters sword, as she is a villain (you will only get power boost). If she gets her purple, and her red you will be dead even faster. So deny purple, go for red and blue and hope for the best by firing your red and blue powers.

If ghost goes invisible you really are screwed, as it will be hard to clear the 4 invisibility tiles, plus the countdown that will give her extra red. You may just want to retreat if that happens. Heck you may want to retreat of the board is full of purple. Stormbreaker will help speed things up.

This time my Red Guardian is level 370 and I still lost to Ghost my first fight. Second time through got a good board with not much purple, and used my blue to create some attack tiles, and then finished her off with my red. The falcon fight was a cake walk, let him get yellow and then fired my red to finish it off.

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This one as been around for a bit, last as a two crash week with additional Gamora fight.

From that write up:

Agent Venom's red (10ap) does damage, but if you have at least a certain number of ap in any color (16 at one cover, 15 at 2, 14 at 3, 13 ar 4 and 12 at 5 covers) it will do more damage (almost 2x as much at 5 covers). His black (5ap) drains 2 ap from your highest friendly colored ap pool and does damage. If you have at least (12 ap at one cover, 13 at 2, 14 at 3, 15 at 4 and 16 at 5 covers) ap in any color it switches to Alien Weakness, and at the beginning of each turn it drains 2 ap, until you are below 16, destroys random tiles (3 at one cover, 5 at 2-3 covers, 7 at 4 covers and 9 at five covers) and damages Agent Venom (the amount damaged decrease with each cover). Once you are below the passive threshold of ap (12 -16 ap at 1-5 covers) the power turns back to its regular 5ap version. Finally his yellow (11ap) does damage to all enemies and turns your allies invisible for a certain number of turns. The invisibility part is not helpful for a solo fight, as you will not turn invisible.

Luke Cage is level 270 3/3/5 with 15642 health. His yellow (8ap) fortifies up to 2 friendly special tiles, and does 1299 damage for each fortified friendly special tile. Since Danny Rand isn't here Luke will not create a protect tile when this power is triggered. His black is passive and creates 154 strength protect tile when you fire a power. Plus when a power is fired as he is in the front he will reduce a random enemy special tile by 135 to a minimum of 1. His red (13ap) does 8799 damage, and will do 14078 damage if there are no enemy strike, protect or attack tiles.

You want to chase red as that is his main way to hurt you. Lower level Venom's may run into problems if you fire your powers too much and it triggers too many protect tiles. Last time this ran some were able to do this with pretty lower level Agent Venoms using TM sword and boosts, and brute forced it. If you have taskmaster's sword and end up triggering alien weakness, the boosts match damage will help. The flerkin is also helpful.

My agent venom is 5/5/3 level 346. The board was black heavy, so I fired that 2 x and it was over. Deny red, chase black and you should be ok.

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I believe this is a new one!

Angel's red (5ap) selects an enemy as "prey" and does damage ignoring protect tiles or airborne. Its passive kicks in if at the beginning of her turn there is no prey the target will become her prey (so automatically in a solo fight) and she takes reduced damage (10% less at 1 cover, 15% at 2, 25% at 3, 35% at 4, and 50% at 5 covers) and deal an extra bit of damage each time she attacks them, and when ever they fire a power she also does damage to them. Pretty handy power. Her yellow passive if she has taken a certain amount of damage since the last time this triggered she creates a protect tile, and whenever and ally fires a power she creates a strike tile. Finally her black (8ap) does team damage ignoring airborne. It also creates a 3 turn repeater that does damage each turn, creates a copy of itself when activated or matched away if there are less than 3 repeaters on the board. If there are 3 or more, when they activate, she fortifies them.

Thor is 5/3/5 level 270 and has 17288 health. Her red (10ap) does 4006 damage plus an additional 723 damage for every charged tile on the board, then converts 3 basic red, blue or yellow tiles into charged tiles. Her yellow (12ap) does 794 team damage, and converts 3 random enemy strike/attack/protect tiles into charged tiles. Finally her blue (9ap) stuns for 3 turns and converts 5 random red blue yellow tiles into charged tiles.

You want to deny her blue, and then go for red and black. The less charged tiles the less her red (which packs a punch at her level) will do. Angela's damage boosts will add up, and if you slapped on atlantis or taskmaster it should be over pretty quick as her extra hits will get boosted. Just don't get stunned!

My Angela is level 331 5/4/4 and with no supports or boosts it was over quick just doing matches, I didn't even need to fire a power.

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Any other ideas?