Showcase Strategy

What teams are y’all going in with for each path?

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What's the strategy for the boss? I just tried with 6r4 Zemo and it was a disaster. One more run.
Be careful using Black Cat (or any other double medium attacker).

Mantis did best for me.

Dr. Zola

What's wrong with double mediums?

So far my best option is zemo and that's wasn't good. I still don't have herc.

Do you have to dance around until her counter goes to zero?

captain_rogers

What's the strategy for the boss? I just tried with 6r4 Zemo and it was a disaster. One more run.
Be careful using Black Cat (or any other double medium attacker).

Mantis did best for me.

Dr. Zola
What's wrong with double mediums?

So far my best option is zemo and that's wasn't good. I still don't have herc.

Do you have to dance around until her counter goes to zero?

There ain't no strategy. Just brute force her.

Also lately champs with double mediums are parried by opponent sometimes, that's why zola said to be careful with black cat.

Magrailothos

Ok, those aren't strategies Like when can you hit her, force her sp1 etc

The main thing is to work around her charges. She gets these when inflicting debuffs on you - Mantis can dramatically reduce this; potentially to zero if you're good with her (which I'm not...😉).

Once she's got over ten charges, if you knock her down she'll go into Pure Light Form. She should also switch if you make her dash back and hold block, but people have been finding that difficult for some reason. Pure Light will switch off your Dexterity, and give her Unblockable* Specials, so make sure you bait out her Power before she switches.

*You can actually block her SP1 completely with well-timed blocks.

Pure Light form is dangerous; but lasts longer, the more charges she has. So you're best off switching her often, when she's got 10-15 charges, rather than letting her build up to 25.

An alternative strategy would be power control - if you can largely limit her Power, then Pure Light form is much less of a threat.

Also, don't let her hit your block if possible - she has high block penetration if you're carrying debuffs.

ReignkingTW

Thanks. I generally knew most of those things, but now I know why zemo isn't so great - he still gets the debuffs, just cleanses them (until he can't).

Good to know on the sp1 blocking.

And we can't reduce her charges like with CMM?

willrun4adonut

Thanks. I generally knew most of those things, but now I know why zemo isn't so great - he still gets the debuffs, just cleanses them (until he can't).

Good to know on the sp1 blocking.

And we can't reduce her charges like with CMM?

Here's a good video. What you want is at 1:50. I'm not the best interceptor so I normally bait a heavy and then go in.

https://youtu.be/9y36SNGv3Jg?si=EHtssu6pgIKCNYql

ReignkingTW

Well falcon seems quite good, surprised he hasn't been mentioned a lot.

Cat_Murdock

Not a solution for everyone since having him s200 takes a lot of investment, but OG Daredevil saved me a LOT of headache. I can’t fight Photon properly for crud, but DD bypasses her Miss and auto dodges all of her specials. He’s slow, especially thanks to Adaptive kicking in, but he takes so much pain out of the fight and for me that was the most important thing

DrZola

Not a solution for everyone since having him s200 takes a lot of investment, but OG Daredevil saved me a LOT of headache. I can’t fight Photon properly for crud, but DD bypasses her Miss and auto dodges all of her specials. He’s slow, especially thanks to Adaptive kicking in, but he takes so much pain out of the fight and for me that was the most important thing

That’s awesome @Cat_Murdock

One of my personal favorite champs (and characters)—just a decent attack buff/tune-up and he’d be right where I’d like him.

Dr. Zola

DrZola

What's the strategy for the boss? I just tried with 6r4 Zemo and it was a disaster. One more run.
Be careful using Black Cat (or any other double medium attacker).

Mantis did best for me.

Dr. Zola
What's wrong with double mediums?

So far my best option is zemo and that's wasn't good. I still don't have herc.

Do you have to dance around until her counter goes to zero?
There ain't no strategy. Just brute force her.

Also lately champs with double mediums are parried by opponent sometimes, that's why zola said to be careful with black cat.

This is correct. I was parried by Photon twice in the showcase—once using Black Cat and once using Silk. I was also parried on the path using Silk (Bishop maybe?). @ReignkingTW

Dr. Zola

DrZola

I will add another Showcase tip: if you’re struggling to solo Red Skull, try KM. His true strike punishing specials makes the fight pretty straightforward.

Dr. Zola

Magrailothos

Path #2 (left/upper path)

Once again, #Decay attackers were pretty key. This path seems like it's harder, with zero margin for error; since most of the opponents either have Unblockable or crazy through-block damage for most of the fight.

Venom - Hulkling (solo, after a couple of attempts. Just don't get hit, bait SP1s, and it's fine)
Kindred - Photon (solo. By far the easiest fight. Just avoid parrying and there are no issues)
Longshot - Photon/QS (jeez, this one was brutal! Had to restart the whole quest three times; finally brute-forced it with Photon and two revives). This fight seems the most 'unfair', with no proper counter from the #Decay group who are supposed to counter #Sugar Pill: Longshot's 300% Ability Accuracy means he Inflicts Placebo buffs any time over of you makes any contact. All Decay attackers (even Titania) who supposedly 'counter' #Sugar Pill will therefore inflict Wither at every contact (blocking or attacking), so Longshot regenerates constantly; and whilst you can shut that down with Despair, he's passively Unblockable constantly. Shuri could do 'as well as' a #Decay attacker, if she never lets him hit her block, as she doesn't make contact with her own attacks, but playing without ever being able to block is basically exactly the same as him being Unblockable, so... Yeah, no actual counters.....
Bishop - Kushala (died quickly), Quicksilver (2 revives; push to SP2, and dash into it, to Evade)
Gorr - Kushala (solo, spam SP2)
Zemo - Hulkling (2 revives; just never block)
Mysterio - Photon (1 revive)
Photon - Mantis (2 revives)