What are your strategy when intercepting? I'm still trying to finish Ares and the intercept's what's killing me. I've what's a lot of videos of YouTubers doing this fight and it seems so easy to intercept, what am I missing?
While intercepts are helpful. The best thing is to dodge his specials. You remove three charges for each special hit dodged, much more effective in the long run
But how am I gonna get him bars for specials if I can't hit him to get them? He's stun immune and his heavies as unstoppable and mostly unpunishable because he reacts too fast, plus he's unblockable
He gains power passively (slowly I know) so hitting into his block can take away the pressure to intercept every time. Use your striker and specials with the explicit intent to get him over two bars.
Sometimes the ai is super aggressive, and if you notice he is constantly charging at you, getting an intercept is much easier, even medium intercepts. Just don’t try this when he has haste.
If the ai is more passive. If you watch content creators, when they dash back, instead of medium intercepting, they’ll try a light intercept, and if the ai doesn’t charge, then they are not in danger, because they only light attacked. Hope this helps!
Planning the Sci/tech Hulkling path. Planning on using Silk & Photon, but can't figure out who to use for Jabari. Think I use Red Skull as one of her objectives, but that was an effin slog. Any suggestions?
Planning the Sci/tech Hulkling path. Planning on using Silk & Photon, but can't figure out who to use for Jabari. Think I use Red Skull as one of her objectives, but that was an effin slog. Any suggestions?
Planning the Sci/tech Hulkling path. Planning on using Silk & Photon, but can't figure out who to use for Jabari. Think I use Red Skull as one of her objectives, but that was an effin slog. Any suggestions?
Omega Sentinel is good for Jabari. Use the tracking pre-fight, get a couple of debuffs on and then just do light ending combos.
Planning the Sci/tech Hulkling path. Planning on using Silk & Photon, but can't figure out who to use for Jabari. Think I use Red Skull as one of her objectives, but that was an effin slog. Any suggestions?
OS and sentinel did well. I think prowler would work well there too? Cause he’s immune to falter.
Any suggestions for the Abs man fight? I can solo Hulking no problem, but Abs Man’s regen is so aggressive and annoying. I really don’t want to do the force quit method when he heals if I don’t have to. That feels so wasteful. He’s constantly popping off SP1 so it’s hard to keep him in check.
I have an awakened R3 Hulk and R3 Photon for Abs. My Photon is only a few weeks old, so I’m still learning how to play her. Should I bring someone else for him instead? I have an awakened R2 Sentinel and R2 Luke Cage sitting on the bench.
For Jabari, should I bring R3 Awakened Sentinel or R2 Unawawaked Omega Sentinel? That fight scares me and it sucks it’s last. I don’t mind restarting on Abs until I get a good run, but I don’t want to get caught at Jabari with a bad counter.
Honestly, I used hulk for jabari. I know it sounds crazy, but it actually works! just stick to sp3s, and get her down. took me around 4 or 5 revives.
Planning the Sci/tech Hulkling path. Planning on using Silk & Photon, but can't figure out who to use for Jabari. Think I use Red Skull as one of her objectives, but that was an effin slog. Any suggestions?
Planning the Sci/tech Hulkling path. Planning on using Silk & Photon, but can't figure out who to use for Jabari. Think I use Red Skull as one of her objectives, but that was an effin slog. Any suggestions?
OS and sentinel did well. I think prowler would work well there too? Cause he’s immune to falter.
I thought about using Prowler because of that falter immunity. Just wondering where damage will come from. I'm starting to think I'll use OG Sentinel cause he's got decent base damage iirc
Also planning on doing outer left next. Problem is that I don’t have Silk or Photon as 7 stars and have to take the 3 7 star gate. Thinking Luke, Fixit and maybe Jack? He should be able to do Onslaught and Jabari, no? Iron man and JJ seem to be doable with anyone if I remember correctly, even though Silk was so good for Ironman because of the easy access to stun.
I just did this kind of guide for my alliance, I know it's a few days late, but just wanted to drop it here:
1.- Photon R3, QS R3 and IronHeart R3(she was a mistake, and that last Jabari fight was by far the worst, just bring someone with no debuffs) QS solos Hulkling, QS for Absorbing (slow fight but he never recovers and doesn't get unstoppable), Photon for IIM, IH and QS for Onslaught, everyone for Jessica and Jabari
2.- Sentry R1, IronHeart and Hulk R3. Was by far the easiest one for me, just bring someone with a lot of debuffs. Almost everyone was a solo, but i should've used She Hulk D instead of Hulk. Nebula Sentry solo, NS IH solo, Destroyer Hulk solo, Photon IH solo, Adam Sentry, Aegon everyone.The Aegon fight it's by far the most annoying.
3.- Silver Sable R2, Scream R3 and Odin R1 for the prefight on Scream. Same as the last one, just spam the debuffs and you'll be alright Scream with prefights solos Nebula, NS Sable, Destroyer Sable, Photon everyone, Adam Scream, Aegon Scream
4.- Serpent R5 6*, Bullseye R3 and Thanos R3, Serpent it's made for that Cassie, Gwen can be solo by anyone. Bullseye destroys Iron Fist, Thanos for Toad. Heimdall it's still the worst, and the fact that he's second to last in the path it's just to consume your revives. Prowler easy Serpent solo
5.- Onslaught r3, Juggs r2 and Domino. This was the last one I did, some say it's the easiest but they have Deadpool XForce, if not that Cassie sucks, Gwen by anyone,Juggs solos Toad and Onslaught Iron Fist. Heimdall still reeks and Prowler with Onslaught
6.- Kushala r3, Storm OG r2 and Dazzler r3 unduped. Storms solos Ham, Kushala solos Viv, Storm gets to do great damage to Annihilus but it's hard to parry him and if you get cornered it's hard to recover, Kushala for Moleman, anyone for Dani and Dazzler for Tigra, you just have to time it right against the unblocklabe
Ares it's depends. Well the best strategy imo it's to get a strong champ that can deal and resist a lot of damage and crits. You just have to use that one champ for the entire fight, until the last phase when you need everyone. I used Photon, Sentry, Scream, Serpent, Juggs and Dazzler. By far the best runs against him were the one with Serpent, Juggs and Dazzler.
You must remember the combos to avoid the damage in his specials and time it right. When the fight stars it's annoying because everything goes slow af, so use the sounds as a queue. The second phase will be hard because you need to see the sword or the axe. I saw some post saying that he starts with the left arm up or down and that's how you can identify them, but that never helped me. In my experience if you see blue right after he kicks then parry
The combos are Sp1: Dex》Parry》Parry》Light》Dex Sp2: Parry》Parry》Light》Dex》Dex》Up
There's always 2 Parries followed by a Light, so if you remember that you just have to worry about the Dex. The Up it's weird, in my experience if you just do the up as soon as Ares attacks you, you might get hit by the gun, you gotta keep swiping up for almost the entire attack
The last phase it's made to suck. First of all theres a bug, every time you enter the fight hes supposed to loose a immortality charge but that doesn't happen. You gotta intercept him as much as you can until he gets the special, then just avoid the damage to make him loose those charges. And that's it. The worst part imo it's the fact that he's very hard to intercept, he gets the advantage almost every time, then he might just dex you for no reason in the middle and attack you. And the fact that no matter the health if you're higher than him he'll just degen you just makes it worse because if you screw up once he just kills you with a combo.
Ares was the most frustrating fight I've ever done so far, but with practice he was doable and easier. Still the whole thing sucked.
And as rewards pulled a Tech AG, Jack, IIM (maybe I'll give him the AG), and a Cosmic 3》4 and since I don't have Serpent and my BRB isn't awaken I might use it on Thanos. The generic I want to use it on Thing since it's my fav character, but I'm resisting the temptation
hard to tell which team is best because we don't know what ppl have . but for the far right path : need a champion with 3+ buffs for anihilus or you can't take him down, a champion that do dot damage for mole man. for nebula path: you need champions with buffs for nebula and adam. the whole path require debuffs to do damage. other than that, i don't think there's anything that stop you move on the path. for the boss, just dex his sp
hard to tell which team is best because we don't know what ppl have . but for the far right path : need a champion with 3+ buffs for anihilus or you can't take him down, a champion that do dot damage for mole man. for nebula path: you need champions with buffs for nebula and adam. the whole path require debuffs to do damage. other than that, i don't think there's anything that stop you move on the path. for the boss, just dex his sp
Cat did a good job with this infographic that shows potential roadblocks.
just here to say thanks Kabam for making sure my Light attacks fail during Ares' specials. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. dex fine. parry fine. light attack nope. smashing the screen trying to get it to register and nothing. yet any other light attack works just fine but they shut down during the special.
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Planning the Sci/tech Hulkling path. Planning on using Silk & Photon, but can't figure out who to use for Jabari. Think I use Red Skull as one of her objectives, but that was an effin slog. Any suggestions?
Planning the Sci/tech Hulkling path. Planning on using Silk & Photon, but can't figure out who to use for Jabari. Think I use Red Skull as one of her objectives, but that was an effin slog. Any suggestions?
Iron heart is great option. She can inflict tracking (avoiding miss) passive with 5+ debuffs ..also reduces opponent ability accuracy when hitting her block by 100% as long as tracking passive is up (prevents the Regen and cleanse)
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Nah its probably just a bad fight. You had max despair tho right when you tried with silk?
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Nah its probably just a bad fight. You had max despair tho right?
Photon’s petrify doesn’t last long at all but it’s powerful. That combined with despair probably did the trick.
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Nah its probably just a bad fight. You had max despair tho right?
Photon’s petrify doesn’t last long at all but it’s powerful. That combined with despair probably did the trick.
Yeah i was considering photon after hearing how many had issues with silk. However my silk is r3 sig 60 silk but photon is only r2 unduped
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Nah its probably just a bad fight. You had max despair tho right?
Photon’s petrify doesn’t last long at all but it’s powerful. That combined with despair probably did the trick.
Yeah i was considering photon after hearing how many had issues with silk. However my silk is r3 sig 60 silk but photon is only r2 unduped
The leader, count nefaria, Titania(great for ares boss)and MVP Jessica Jones (great for ares boss)...all great for abs man also
Just finished left path with Luke, Fixit and Jack. Luke is just a beast. Great damage against Hulkling, keeps abs man regen in check nicely and shuts down the unstoppable for the most part, because you have to use your sp1s as well. Used fixit on iron man (his sp2 stun is great for the heavy knock down) and Jessica and Jack for Onslaught and Jabari. I was afraid this path would be a pain since I don’t have the obvious candidates like Silk and Photon as 7 stars, so I was positively surprised that this path ended up being one of the paths I used the least items on.
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Nah its probably just a bad fight. You had max despair tho right when you tried with silk?
Even with all that, since you can't deactivate the forms without an interval, healing does slip through. I tried my r4 and still found it hard to overcome the healing
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Nah its probably just a bad fight. You had max despair tho right when you tried with silk?
Even with all that, since you can't deactivate the forms without an interval, healing does slip through. I tried my r4 and still found it hard to overcome the healing
Edit: you can actually. She just can. Damn she's good. But it requires a bit of fine playing
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Nah its probably just a bad fight. You had max despair tho right when you tried with silk?
Even with all that, since you can't deactivate the forms without an interval, healing does slip through. I tried my r4 and still found it hard to overcome the healing
Edit: you can actually. She just can. Damn she's good. But it requires a bit of fine playing
Yeah she can but its tricky and may take a while. Do you think im better off using an r2 unawakened photon or r3 sig 60 titania instead of silk?
Titanias debuffs stick so they should mitigate the regen, not sure about unduped photon since shes lower rank and wont inflict as many debuffs
My 7* photon is r1 since shes unduped. And sadly cant bring the 6*
Someone said they did it with silk, she should counter the unstoppable but for the regen i assume they would hold block to prevent certain specials being thrown
I have a R3 silk and she couldn’t out damage the regen. Even with the awakened ability
@TheUglyone123 were u alternating his specials and then heavy countering after he used them? That would deactivate abs mans modes. I havent done it yet but this is what someone told me
I was and it wasn’t enough. Could totally be a skill issue, but photon just worked way better for me
Nah its probably just a bad fight. You had max despair tho right when you tried with silk?
Even with all that, since you can't deactivate the forms without an interval, healing does slip through. I tried my r4 and still found it hard to overcome the healing
Edit: you can actually. She just can. Damn she's good. But it requires a bit of fine playing
Yeah she can but its tricky and may take a while. Do you think im better off using an r2 unawakened photon or r3 sig 60 titania instead of silk?
Titanias debuffs stick so they should mitigate the regen, not sure about unduped photon since shes lower rank and wont inflict as many debuffs
Her awakened ability does not make a difference on offence. You can use the r2. Since AbsMan is the second fight, you can practice with both if you want.
just here to say thanks Kabam for making sure my Light attacks fail during Ares' specials. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. dex fine. parry fine. light attack nope. smashing the screen trying to get it to register and nothing. yet any other light attack works just fine but they shut down during the special.
Where are you tapping for the Light attacks?
I’ve had a similar issue—taps where I would normally do a light intercept are unreliable at best. I’m wondering whether it’s a timing issue (probably) or placement issue.
just here to say thanks Kabam for making sure my Light attacks fail during Ares' specials. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. dex fine. parry fine. light attack nope. smashing the screen trying to get it to register and nothing. yet any other light attack works just fine but they shut down during the special.
just here to say thanks Kabam for making sure my Light attacks fail during Ares' specials. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. dex fine. parry fine. light attack nope. smashing the screen trying to get it to register and nothing. yet any other light attack works just fine but they shut down during the special.
Where are you tapping for the Light attacks?
Dr. Zola
He probably means for the spear
Right—I meant where *physically on the screen* is he tapping for that attack. I had a mate who was tapping too close into the middle for that part and had to adjust to tap like a normal L intercept. Was wondering if he was doing the same.
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Sometimes the ai is super aggressive, and if you notice he is constantly charging at you, getting an intercept is much easier, even medium intercepts. Just don’t try this when he has haste.
If the ai is more passive. If you watch content creators, when they dash back, instead of medium intercepting, they’ll try a light intercept, and if the ai doesn’t charge, then they are not in danger, because they only light attacked. Hope this helps!
I thought about using Prowler because of that falter immunity. Just wondering where damage will come from. I'm starting to think I'll use OG Sentinel cause he's got decent base damage iirc
1.- Photon R3, QS R3 and IronHeart R3(she was a mistake, and that last Jabari fight was by far the worst, just bring someone with no debuffs)
QS solos Hulkling, QS for Absorbing (slow fight but he never recovers and doesn't get unstoppable), Photon for IIM, IH and QS for Onslaught, everyone for Jessica and Jabari
2.- Sentry R1, IronHeart and Hulk R3. Was by far the easiest one for me, just bring someone with a lot of debuffs. Almost everyone was a solo, but i should've used She Hulk D instead of Hulk. Nebula Sentry solo, NS IH solo, Destroyer Hulk solo, Photon IH solo, Adam Sentry, Aegon everyone.The Aegon fight it's by far the most annoying.
3.- Silver Sable R2, Scream R3 and Odin R1 for the prefight on Scream. Same as the last one, just spam the debuffs and you'll be alright
Scream with prefights solos Nebula, NS Sable, Destroyer Sable, Photon everyone, Adam Scream, Aegon Scream
4.- Serpent R5 6*, Bullseye R3 and Thanos R3, Serpent it's made for that Cassie, Gwen can be solo by anyone. Bullseye destroys Iron Fist, Thanos for Toad. Heimdall it's still the worst, and the fact that he's second to last in the path it's just to consume your revives. Prowler easy Serpent solo
5.- Onslaught r3, Juggs r2 and Domino. This was the last one I did, some say it's the easiest but they have Deadpool XForce, if not that Cassie sucks, Gwen by anyone,Juggs solos Toad and Onslaught Iron Fist. Heimdall still reeks and Prowler with Onslaught
6.- Kushala r3, Storm OG r2 and Dazzler r3 unduped. Storms solos Ham, Kushala solos Viv, Storm gets to do great damage to Annihilus but it's hard to parry him and if you get cornered it's hard to recover, Kushala for Moleman, anyone for Dani and Dazzler for Tigra, you just have to time it right against the unblocklabe
Ares it's depends. Well the best strategy imo it's to get a strong champ that can deal and resist a lot of damage and crits. You just have to use that one champ for the entire fight, until the last phase when you need everyone.
I used Photon, Sentry, Scream, Serpent, Juggs and Dazzler. By far the best runs against him were the one with Serpent, Juggs and Dazzler.
You must remember the combos to avoid the damage in his specials and time it right. When the fight stars it's annoying because everything goes slow af, so use the sounds as a queue.
The second phase will be hard because you need to see the sword or the axe. I saw some post saying that he starts with the left arm up or down and that's how you can identify them, but that never helped me. In my experience if you see blue right after he kicks then parry
The combos are
Sp1: Dex》Parry》Parry》Light》Dex
Sp2: Parry》Parry》Light》Dex》Dex》Up
There's always 2 Parries followed by a Light, so if you remember that you just have to worry about the Dex. The Up it's weird, in my experience if you just do the up as soon as Ares attacks you, you might get hit by the gun, you gotta keep swiping up for almost the entire attack
The last phase it's made to suck. First of all theres a bug, every time you enter the fight hes supposed to loose a immortality charge but that doesn't happen. You gotta intercept him as much as you can until he gets the special, then just avoid the damage to make him loose those charges. And that's it.
The worst part imo it's the fact that he's very hard to intercept, he gets the advantage almost every time, then he might just dex you for no reason in the middle and attack you. And the fact that no matter the health if you're higher than him he'll just degen you just makes it worse because if you screw up once he just kills you with a combo.
Ares was the most frustrating fight I've ever done so far, but with practice he was doable and easier. Still the whole thing sucked.
And as rewards pulled a Tech AG, Jack, IIM (maybe I'll give him the AG), and a Cosmic 3》4 and since I don't have Serpent and my BRB isn't awaken I might use it on Thanos.
The generic I want to use it on Thing since it's my fav character, but I'm resisting the temptation
but for the far right path : need a champion with 3+ buffs for anihilus or you can't take him down, a champion that do dot damage for mole man.
for nebula path: you need champions with buffs for nebula and adam. the whole path require debuffs to do damage.
other than that, i don't think there's anything that stop you move on the path.
for the boss, just dex his sp
Titanias debuffs stick so they should mitigate the regen, not sure about unduped photon since shes lower rank and wont inflict as many debuffs
Photon works well for hulking too.
I’ve had a similar issue—taps where I would normally do a light intercept are unreliable at best. I’m wondering whether it’s a timing issue (probably) or placement issue.
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