Ordeal Write-Up Featuring Medusa
TotemCorruption
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Ok, so I finally got around to doing the Ordeal.
Appreciate the earlier write-ups from other members including WillRun4ADonut, AverageDesi, and Disgruntled User.
I didn't have the exact champs as most other people so I had to read each node and make notes and plan it out for my roster, and that worked out.
My team: Unduped Chee / Unduped Sinister / Unduped She-Hulk / Duped Bastion / Duped Medusa.
1. Doom: Chee. Her specials and heavies don't glance, her SP1 slow prevents Doom's aura. Pretty easy fight overall, dex Doom's SP1, punish, apply bleeds, use SP3 halfway to top off health from the glance reverberation damage.
2. Terrax: Sinister. The only tricky part here is the spacing; when you parry stun and dash back to charge the heavy, you need to stay close enough to still connect with the heavy but far enough to keep the degen off. Once you get that spacing down, easy fight.
3. Vision: Medusa turns off the nodes for this fight and makes him a punching bag.
4. Modok: Medusa is good. Armor shattered will turn off his autoblock; you can get that either with SP1 or SP3. SP1 might get autoblocked and punished. Otherwise easy fight; dex Modok's SP1 and punish. Can hit through his autoblock but don't finish your combos to avoid getting punished.
5. Spider-Ham: Bastion. Turns off Ham's evade and has passive damage so works with the no debuffs node. Bait SP1, punish.
6. WPX: Sinister; normal WPX fight just with more regen. Eventually WPX will die.
7. Thing: Sinister; normal Thing fight; can use Chee too, but Sinister is faster.
8. Korg: Sinister. Died a few times from the block penetration node. Maybe there is a better counter but this is what I had.
9. Dragon-Man: She-Hulk. Use petrify, bait specials, punish with furies.
10. BPCW: Bastion worked well. Just have to pay attention to the HUD for when BPCW reflects stun, is unblockable, or is unstoppable. Long fight because of all the waiting but not hard.
11. Night-Crawler: Bastion turns off his evade and destroys him super quick. Similar to the Medusa-Vision fight as far as ease.
12. Spider-Gwen: Another Bastion fight where he turns off the evade. The nice thing about Bastion is that his heavy has a super long reach, so you can just sit back and charge it, and it will safely connect from a long distance. So that works well because you can't parry stun Gwen per the node.
13. Domino: Another easy Bastion fight; turns off her evade and just negates most of what she brings to the table.
14. Mojo: She-Hulk fight; died a few times from degen. I hate Mojo, but got it done ok. Better counters out there than what I used.
15. Ibom: easy Medusa fight. Don't worry about getting the bleeds thrown back at you; they don't do much damage, or at least not enough to kill Medusa before she kills Ibom.
16. Apocalypse: Medusa. Didn't really have better counters; Bastion is a robot so he wouldn't work. Just don't block him; bait specials and punish. He eventually died after a couple of revives.
17. Sassy: She-Hulk; this was becoming a stalemate because he kept regenerating all the damage at one point; had to channel my inner MSD and crank up the aggression to keep the petrify, slow, and furies up and that turned the tide. Easier counters out there probably as She-Hulk requires a lot of skill to play effectively.
18. Killmonger: Was originally worried about this fight, but the bleed damage from blocking is minor, so Medusa worked. Not necessary to even get armor shattered online, but was able to do it a couple of times by landing 6 mediums in 4 seconds. Easy fight overall.
19. Void: Sinister does crazy damage but I died twice from the degen myself. Chee would've worked safer but I didn't feel like doing a long fight.
20. Nick Fury: Sinister got him down to 20% of his LMD; it's a long fight because of the regen node and you lose a lot of self-bleeds to the internal passive, but Sinister stays at 100% health through it all so whatever...The last 20% was going to take a long time with Sinister because you can't charge his heavy safely, so I quit out and finished with Medusa due to her insane damage.
Thanos: team effort. I had never done the original Gauntlet and didn't study this fight, but after dying a few times while learning what's going on, it's a pretty easy boss fight.
Appreciate the earlier write-ups from other members including WillRun4ADonut, AverageDesi, and Disgruntled User.
I didn't have the exact champs as most other people so I had to read each node and make notes and plan it out for my roster, and that worked out.
My team: Unduped Chee / Unduped Sinister / Unduped She-Hulk / Duped Bastion / Duped Medusa.
1. Doom: Chee. Her specials and heavies don't glance, her SP1 slow prevents Doom's aura. Pretty easy fight overall, dex Doom's SP1, punish, apply bleeds, use SP3 halfway to top off health from the glance reverberation damage.
2. Terrax: Sinister. The only tricky part here is the spacing; when you parry stun and dash back to charge the heavy, you need to stay close enough to still connect with the heavy but far enough to keep the degen off. Once you get that spacing down, easy fight.
3. Vision: Medusa turns off the nodes for this fight and makes him a punching bag.
4. Modok: Medusa is good. Armor shattered will turn off his autoblock; you can get that either with SP1 or SP3. SP1 might get autoblocked and punished. Otherwise easy fight; dex Modok's SP1 and punish. Can hit through his autoblock but don't finish your combos to avoid getting punished.
5. Spider-Ham: Bastion. Turns off Ham's evade and has passive damage so works with the no debuffs node. Bait SP1, punish.
6. WPX: Sinister; normal WPX fight just with more regen. Eventually WPX will die.
7. Thing: Sinister; normal Thing fight; can use Chee too, but Sinister is faster.
8. Korg: Sinister. Died a few times from the block penetration node. Maybe there is a better counter but this is what I had.
9. Dragon-Man: She-Hulk. Use petrify, bait specials, punish with furies.
10. BPCW: Bastion worked well. Just have to pay attention to the HUD for when BPCW reflects stun, is unblockable, or is unstoppable. Long fight because of all the waiting but not hard.
11. Night-Crawler: Bastion turns off his evade and destroys him super quick. Similar to the Medusa-Vision fight as far as ease.
12. Spider-Gwen: Another Bastion fight where he turns off the evade. The nice thing about Bastion is that his heavy has a super long reach, so you can just sit back and charge it, and it will safely connect from a long distance. So that works well because you can't parry stun Gwen per the node.
13. Domino: Another easy Bastion fight; turns off her evade and just negates most of what she brings to the table.
14. Mojo: She-Hulk fight; died a few times from degen. I hate Mojo, but got it done ok. Better counters out there than what I used.
15. Ibom: easy Medusa fight. Don't worry about getting the bleeds thrown back at you; they don't do much damage, or at least not enough to kill Medusa before she kills Ibom.
16. Apocalypse: Medusa. Didn't really have better counters; Bastion is a robot so he wouldn't work. Just don't block him; bait specials and punish. He eventually died after a couple of revives.
17. Sassy: She-Hulk; this was becoming a stalemate because he kept regenerating all the damage at one point; had to channel my inner MSD and crank up the aggression to keep the petrify, slow, and furies up and that turned the tide. Easier counters out there probably as She-Hulk requires a lot of skill to play effectively.
18. Killmonger: Was originally worried about this fight, but the bleed damage from blocking is minor, so Medusa worked. Not necessary to even get armor shattered online, but was able to do it a couple of times by landing 6 mediums in 4 seconds. Easy fight overall.
19. Void: Sinister does crazy damage but I died twice from the degen myself. Chee would've worked safer but I didn't feel like doing a long fight.
20. Nick Fury: Sinister got him down to 20% of his LMD; it's a long fight because of the regen node and you lose a lot of self-bleeds to the internal passive, but Sinister stays at 100% health through it all so whatever...The last 20% was going to take a long time with Sinister because you can't charge his heavy safely, so I quit out and finished with Medusa due to her insane damage.
Thanos: team effort. I had never done the original Gauntlet and didn't study this fight, but after dying a few times while learning what's going on, it's a pretty easy boss fight.
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[when I saw her in the titan nexus, I didn't even look at the other two options, and don't even recall what they were at this point...]
And my XP went from 335,808,836 to 345,808,836.
Not sure who I'm going to R3 with the T4 rewards. Maybe Sinister, or Dazzler, or Enchantress. Probably Enchantress.
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