Incursion 7 : Tips and Tricks

Antoseum10

Hi everyone,

I just completed zone 15 form incursion 7, and I realised something : almost everyone only talk about how great Silk and Mr Sinister are to get it done.

I really thought that by not having them above 5 stars, I would NEVER be able to reach zone 15, but I did and my team was far from being optimal : Silk 5r5 unascended (who ended up dead 80% of the time), Omega Sentinel 6r3 unawakened (who was way more useful than expected) and Domino 7r2 who carried me for most of it.

Of course you have to get some luck and not end up fighting a hard counter with impossible combination, but otherwise it doable.

So now, I wanted to create this page for people to give tips about usefull champions, hacks or tips so that player who ignore this content because they don't think they have the roster for it can try it in the best conditions.

I will start with two things : some new champions recommandations (so not Silk or Sinister) and a dumb tip.

As for the champions, Omega Sentinel was extremely useful with the hack which apply a heal block on second medium hit and double our damage when oponent is heal blocked. She can apply a long heal block debuff on her second medium, which is useful against regenerating oponents, and she deals double more damage with this hack.

Then, Domino is awesome. Her damages are insane (sp1 and Sp2, so no worries if you are stuck with either of them in some fights), her crits basically shred everything and her precision debuff on the opponent (which prevent them from activating effects they are supposed to active from time to time) saved me on many fights.

Now for my tip : It is not original but I feel like nobody insist that much on boosts. Just use basic ones if you don't have much, but they give you so many damage/health more which help you finish fights way faster (and prevent some last-second mistakes).

I hope many players will come here to give/seek advices. Hopefully this post will motivate some of you to try and do it!

willrun4adonut

Another useful tip that works with almost anyone is get the second chance hack coupled with a healing hack. You can get smacked, and still Regen and not stay at 1%.

I also don't use this, but it's helpful for lower level accounts especially. Don't forget to put on a power boost and specially attack damage increase boost (or wherever they are called). The health pools are low enough in zone ten and below (and even really 15) that any champ can gain back massive power because you're dealing so much damage. I do so much damage the one run I used them that I actually had to pause with my partner I was running with and wait for the boost to expire because it was messing up the carry, as crazy as that sounds.Glad that you said that as well @Antoseum10

Luke cage is great with toxic siphon, I just can't play him fast enough for how I do incursions.

Let's see what else people have to share.

willrun4adonut

@Antoseum10 just curious, but how did your Silk keep dying? I've had to use my 5* silk a couple times on the higher zones when I needed her duped ability over damage? Was it taking a direct hit, or the block damage, or something else?

Pikolu

Howard is ridiculously good with tide of combat because every hit of his heavy counts as the armor breaks expiring and you get a lot of furies really quickly with him

Antoseum10

willrun4adonut said:

@Antoseum10 just curious, but how did your Silk keep dying? I've had to use my 5* silk a couple times on the higher zones when I needed her duped ability over damage? Was it taking a direct hit, or the block damage, or something else?

Sometimes bleed damage overtime, I also encountered a lot of stun immune opponents. Also, I leveled up my 5* exclusively for this so I didn't play her perfectly!

willrun4adonut

Pikolu said:

Howard is ridiculously good with tide of combat because every hit of his heavy counts as the armor breaks expiring and you get a lot of furies really quickly with him

Hadn't ever thought of that one.

Ultron can stun lock if you can get to an sp3 with the correct hacks. He can also stun lock if you get to a sp3 with power boosts even if you don't have the best hacks.

Also, if anyone has suggestions for the next fisticuffs (ability accuracy) node and a champ that isn't affected by it (saga especially, but any champ suggestions would do), that has been the only time I've had to revive.

Squidopus

Pikolu said:

Howard is ridiculously good with tide of combat because every hit of his heavy counts as the armor breaks expiring and you get a lot of furies really quickly with him

You can also stunlock with Howard if you get the hacks that give increased stun duration and the one that gives power when gaining a fury buff. His sp3 inflicts a pretty lengthy stun, and during that stun you generate fury buffs, so you have enough time to shoot back to sp3 and repeat. If you can do the sp3 minigame reliably, that stun is also passive so it bypasses purify, limber, and debuff immunity (although I won’t be the one to tell you that that’s easy). The power gain makes getting to the initial sp3 easy too, just parry a few times for the fury buffs.

Between the buff/debuff spam, the 5 hit heavies (good for toxic advance and impact purge), the bleed immunity, and the stunlocking Howard is just a very good incursions champ in general with flexible setups depending on what hacks you roll. Just make sure you cover his problem matchups with the other 2 slots.

Antoseum10

I didn't think of Howard either, but his fury gain his impressive, he could work very well!

Pikolu

willrun4adonut said:

Pikolu said:

Howard is ridiculously good with tide of combat because every hit of his heavy counts as the armor breaks expiring and you get a lot of furies really quickly with him

Hadn't ever thought of that one.

Ultron can stun lock if you can get to an sp3 with the correct hacks. He can also stun lock if you get to a sp3 with power boosts even if you don't have the best hacks.

Also, if anyone has suggestions for the next fisticuffs (ability accuracy) node and a champ that isn't affected by it (saga especially, but any champ suggestions would do), that has been the only time I've had to revive.

Does Lady deathstrike work? Her ability accuracy cannot be modified. I know that also creates the funny interaction with the armor stun hack since it can't lower the chances below 50% for the stun

willrun4adonut

Pikolu said:

willrun4adonut said:

Pikolu said:

Howard is ridiculously good with tide of combat because every hit of his heavy counts as the armor breaks expiring and you get a lot of furies really quickly with him

Hadn't ever thought of that one.

Ultron can stun lock if you can get to an sp3 with the correct hacks. He can also stun lock if you get to a sp3 with power boosts even if you don't have the best hacks.

Also, if anyone has suggestions for the next fisticuffs (ability accuracy) node and a champ that isn't affected by it (saga especially, but any champ suggestions would do), that has been the only time I've had to revive.

Does Lady deathstrike work? Her ability accuracy cannot be modified. I know that also creates the funny interaction with the armor stun hack since it can't lower the chances below 50% for the stun

Hmm, I'll try that out. Lady D is great with the armor break on debuffs hack, and the heal when heal blocked hack. So that could work. I will try it out.

And I personally hate the armor stun hack and never choose it. the one eye node (or whatever the node is that you take damage when stun) always appears when I select it.

captain_rogers

if anyone's using sinister, get draining degen hack. Sinister was able to pause the powerful degens from the hack.

Also defensive cascade allows you to stun lock with any tech champ with armor buffs. Pair it with draining degen and you don't have to worry about most fights.

Antoseum10

Also maybe prepare a bit of units for revives, but don't spend too much as the Cyber weekend and Banquet will arrive in the coming weeks!

As the timer for champions reset is 5 minutes this month, it's not too bad if you fail a few times before getting a good run worth of investing a couple hundred units in revives.

willrun4adonut

captain_rogers said:

if anyone's using sinister, get draining degen hack. Sinister was able to pause the powerful degens from the hack.

Also defensive cascade allows you to stun lock with any tech champ with armor buffs. Pair it with draining degen and you don't have to worry about most fights.

Similar to Sinister, but I just found this one by mistake last night.

With second chance hack, if you are using Ultron against energy attacks, you can get KO'd to get second chance to kick in. Then he will Regen his health back, typically to full, if you let them smack you hard enough.

willrun4adonut

Pikolu said:

willrun4adonut said:

Pikolu said:

Howard is ridiculously good with tide of combat because every hit of his heavy counts as the armor breaks expiring and you get a lot of furies really quickly with him

Hadn't ever thought of that one.

Ultron can stun lock if you can get to an sp3 with the correct hacks. He can also stun lock if you get to a sp3 with power boosts even if you don't have the best hacks.

Also, if anyone has suggestions for the next fisticuffs (ability accuracy) node and a champ that isn't affected by it (saga especially, but any champ suggestions would do), that has been the only time I've had to revive.

Does Lady deathstrike work? Her ability accuracy cannot be modified. I know that also creates the funny interaction with the armor stun hack since it can't lower the chances below 50% for the stun

@Pikolu Your insightfulness saved someone's run last night. I didn't want to tell them I was trying out an untested strategy, but it worked perfectly with Lady D. Thanks.

Antoseum10

willrun4adonut said:

Pikolu said:

willrun4adonut said:

Pikolu said:

Howard is ridiculously good with tide of combat because every hit of his heavy counts as the armor breaks expiring and you get a lot of furies really quickly with him

Hadn't ever thought of that one.

Ultron can stun lock if you can get to an sp3 with the correct hacks. He can also stun lock if you get to a sp3 with power boosts even if you don't have the best hacks.

Also, if anyone has suggestions for the next fisticuffs (ability accuracy) node and a champ that isn't affected by it (saga especially, but any champ suggestions would do), that has been the only time I've had to revive.

Does Lady deathstrike work? Her ability accuracy cannot be modified. I know that also creates the funny interaction with the armor stun hack since it can't lower the chances below 50% for the stun

@Pikolu Your insightfulness saved someone's run last night. I didn't want to tell them I was trying out an untested strategy, but it worked perfectly with Lady D. Thanks.

Glad that this post at least helped one person!