Anyone else find this side quest hard?

I was doing the side quest lv5 with the mutants and I ended up facing Emma Frost with the node where you have to knock her over with heavy after she specials.

Kept taking damage because I can’t heavy punish her heavy and I also can’t stun her in diamond form, made me have to abort 2 runs and lose my entries, I guess not all side quests are meant to be easy.

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SummonerNR

Is it a normal Emma, where an Armor Break takes her Diamond form away ?
Parry with Corvus, or CapIW(+cosmic) ?
(edit) Someone else said HB too.

captain_rogers

Duped FAM can cap her burst damage to 10% health so use him if you can. Or use armor break champ like Ironman, hulkbuster or warlock. Alternatively use power control champ like vision deathless and ensure she never throws a special.

And yeah she sux

Ortoun

Have been lucky enough to only have nightcrawler there, and prowler rinses him.

Java_Junkie

Is it a normal Emma, where an Armor Break takes her Diamond form away ?
Parry with Corvus, or CapIW(+cosmic) ?
(edit) Someone else said HB too.

I believe (may be mistaken), the quest preview had the attackers hidden, and “key lost on quit out of quest”. so if you planned for the “heavy knockdown after defender special” node, and didn’t pack an armor break champ (it’s ALL mutant defenders, so may not have been your priority), that Emma was a bit of a surprise. AND defenders reset after completion.

don’t have any entries currently, so cannot peek into the quest to verify right now.

[Deleted User]

Is it a normal Emma, where an Armor Break takes her Diamond form away ?
Parry with Corvus, or CapIW(+cosmic) ?
(edit) Someone else said HB too.
I believe (may be mistaken), the quest preview had the attackers hidden, and “key lost on quit out of quest”. so if you planned for the “heavy knockdown after defender special” node, and didn’t pack an armor break champ (it’s ALL mutant defenders, so may not have been your priority), that Emma was a bit of a surprise. AND defenders reset after completion.

don’t have any entries currently, so cannot peek into the quest to verify right now.

I think the first couple times with the entry keys we got the other day, it was a magneto and someone else that was easy so I just came in and thought I'd smash the quest with same champs as last time and boy was I wrong.

90% of side quest content is brain-dead easy to beat, and tbh I don't mind when I get a rude wake up call to pay attention to enemies and nodes haha

[Deleted User]

Thanks for the tips and suggestions all, I don't have a Future Ant Man but if I get him, I'll be sure to make him a rank up priority

Bosley

Week 2 is garbage. I'm still saying the even using my 6 star Nimrod, 6 star Omega Sentinel and 7 star Shuri. I skip the Emma fight. I don't need those shards that badly. And I'm also not doing lvl 5 week 2. Not worth the BS.

The game is getting worse and worse with limiting viable counters in a sad attempt to increase spending......

Herbal_Taxman

It’s a deliberately annoying week. Several node / opponent combos are clearly designed to trap you into a stupid and frustrating matchup.

Bugmat78

Any tech did the fight for me - just time her to not be unblockable when she has her special.

Trwblue

If you stick to sp1 and fire it off right before she gets to a bar of power, she'll be in telepath form after she throws her special. Then you can parry heavy. A bit slower but it's safe as long as you watch the unblockable timer

SirGamesBond

The professor is much more annoying.
Emma was hard, which I don't have a problem with. But that PX fight just keeps dragging on and on for no reason.

Sunstar19

This side quest seems hard for…. a side quest. Most fights were ok until I faced Nightcrawler. Probably because I forgot to throw heavy after his special. Did not want to use a revive just ended my quest.

Nightheart

I used CGR to Destroy Emma