Carina's 10 Year Challenge by a *well-below average reverse control valiant?
willrun4adonut
Member Posts: 4,960 ★★★★★
Everyone max boosted most of the time with mystic damage boost too, all with 6* relics
Wong r3 duped
Hulkbuster r3
Sentry 6r4 [had ascension dust if needed and could r5]
Wiccan r7 duped
Adam Warlock r4a [took to r5 during event]
Notes: Sentry was absolutely useless. Maybe I play him wrong, but I couldn’t get enough damage to solo a fight [not even close] so I would lose a persistent charge. Also, it was too hard to gain his solar flares or whatever as they would fall off before I could get to 20 or whatever was needed. So I didn’t use him [practiced on Titania and Odin, but still took him just in case something came up. It never did.
Notes 2: Warlock was my MVP. I would have been stuck without him [Psycho-man fight and, most importantly, Phase 3 GM]. Never used him before, but took hi to r5 once at Psycho-Man and seeing how Wong wasn’t the easiest.
Notes 3: Don’t throw sp3 against Guardian with Wong. You get a bug.
Notes 3: I had a difficult time getting a solo with Titania with a r2 unboosted Wong, so I decided to wait until Banquet to see if I could r3 him. Made a compete difference. You can take MANY combos to face due to the higher health pool and heal it back up. Ihad also never used wong before this, but he is able to learn on the fly. Read Grootman’s Wonger’s rotation [https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/383165/new-challengers-approaching-my-10-year-carina-challenge-guide#latest]. I mostly did 3 orange, 3 green then 3 blue.
All fights were about 10 minutes
Followed Grootman’s guide, who did the Guardian path instead of Apoc. Apoc path might have been easier, but still not a problem.
Trap node: Tranquilize on Parry – I actually had no problem parrying so it was fine.
Titania: solo Wong - Just watch the dash backs so you don’t get too many weaknesses. When she starts to root you, I would often take the special to the face if she was in unblockable mode and just heal back up. Yay for r3 health pools.
Vision: solo Wong – I thought it would be hard, but Vision did a good job of always throwing his specials. I got him very close to 3 bars several times, but he would throw them at the last second.
Omega Sentinel: solo Wong – I would get stunned and damaged, but r3 Wong would heal back nicely. I also didn’t have to just bait sp1 because Wong would gain back health so easily.
Airwalker: solo Wong – Just make sure you BLOCK his specials, don’t dex, and watch his timer. He did gain his galactus buff two or three times, but still got him down.
Captain Britain: 1 revive Wong: You can heal the damage back nicely, even when you are hit by a special, EXCEPT when she has 25 prowess. That’s what killed me.
Wiccan: Wong solo – Wiccan healed five times, but still was able to get the solo. You take no damage with all the spells going, and you heal nicely. Do try to get him to throw sp2 though and not sp1. The timer was close on this one due to Wiccan healing more than I would have liked.
Psycho-Man: 1 Wong death, 4 Warlock fights [so three revives] – I couldn’t get Wong to cooperate, so I stopped midway to research and learn warlock. He just did amazing for this fight, and I can’t even tell you why as I’m not Warlock connoisseur.
NOTE: I went Guardian instead of Apoc because I don’t like fighting Apoc nor Tigra, though I think Wong’s duped ability helps with their trap node.
New Trap Node: must have different combo enders or you get autoblocked. For these fights, I would often build up to sp3 as you get one of each spell, then go orange, green, blue. Just not for Guardian as I found out. To keep the spell I wanted, I just didn’t finish a five hit combo so they wouldn’t autoblock.
Guardian: 1 revive Wong due to bug – If you throw a sp3, then you get the gray screen Spiderham and Nimrod. So I died and healed up. Otherwise, fight wasn’t too bad. For this one, I built up 2 orange, two green, then did the rest of the spells when I could. Be sure to heavy while unstoppable so he doesn’t auto-block you. You can survive a sp2 also when blocking, even if he has massive shield charges.
Valk: 1 team revive, one Wong – I read Grootman’s guide and he did Warlock. I couldn’t get it going so I tried Wong. He did great. You just have to remember to hit her block as her specials are free only with passives pierces, which are gained when hitting her block. About halfway through the fight, I realized I could trigger her auto-block when needed by using the trap node, which gave her the pierce needed, and then could heal back the damage I took from getting smacked in the face.
Red Guardian: solo Wong – Easy fight. I went with 3 oranges first instead of sp3 this time.
Sam: solo Wong: Like Guardian, be sure to fire sp2 while heavy to gain the unblockable. This makes his use his armor ups to auto-block, which then fails since it’s unblockable. I think the sap charges affected Wong’s power gain, but I don’t really knw what those do anyways. Don’t be afraid of hitting his block and gaining rupture damage as you’ll heal it back. Just don’t let him get to sp2.
Dragon Man: solo Wong – I can’t remember if I did sp3 or three oranges first. I did restart two times without healing. My idea was to get the power gain to disappear by having max pacify, parrying right before his power charge activated, and hoping that the pacify would disable it. It finally happened on try three when Dragon Man was at 48% health. I started at 25% and ended up at 100%. The first two tries he held his sp3, but the last try he was much more cooperative.
CAIW – one revive Wong: I wasn’t the best at managing his charges. I got concussion like 4 times, and he killed me when he was at 19% health. Finished with Warlock.
Nova: solo Wong – if you read my other necro guides, you would have noticed that I spent like 70 revives all together on my 3 runs against Nova. Wong made him super easy.
Nameless GM – everyone, 40+ revives and heals [had to but the very last one for 40 units]: I brought HB for this fight. After remembering how to play against him [ I still get clipped often by sp1], everything went fine until phase 3 – reverse controls. I tried everything, but nothing worked. I had always used Aegon before and just brute forced it. However, I couldn’t brute force it with Wong, HB, Sentry [who was useless this necro run]. So I thought with all of my spare revives, I’ll just have to brute force him. I thought Wiccan might be good, and I would just heal up and take the 2% damage until he died. However, after several attempts, I realized I’ll use Warlock. Since he can go unblockable, I’ll just wail on him until I die. I forgot that Warlock gives him taunt, which lead to GM reliably throwing his special after being attacked, which meant I could dodge it sometimes. Warlock would be able to take off 1% to my best run, 7%, this way. I don’t know how people do this with prompts, or how I’m going to do it with Nameless champs. Phase 4 is easy for most. To reach the sp3, I revived Wong, died with him, brought in Wicca. Since Wong’s ability gives the next champion 1 bar of power, I only had to really gain two bars instead of three.
TL;DR – Bring Warlock for GM if you stink at reverse controls and will have to revive and brute force it. A r3 boosted Wong [especially duped] is very forgiving, even when you take combos and specials to the face. Just not a 25 prowess Captain Britain.
And I got my Incursion Incinerator profile pic and title during the run, but still seeking more Battlerealm Besties. Also, back to carrying people in incursions since everything else is done again.
Wong r3 duped
Hulkbuster r3
Sentry 6r4 [had ascension dust if needed and could r5]
Wiccan r7 duped
Adam Warlock r4a [took to r5 during event]
Notes: Sentry was absolutely useless. Maybe I play him wrong, but I couldn’t get enough damage to solo a fight [not even close] so I would lose a persistent charge. Also, it was too hard to gain his solar flares or whatever as they would fall off before I could get to 20 or whatever was needed. So I didn’t use him [practiced on Titania and Odin, but still took him just in case something came up. It never did.
Notes 2: Warlock was my MVP. I would have been stuck without him [Psycho-man fight and, most importantly, Phase 3 GM]. Never used him before, but took hi to r5 once at Psycho-Man and seeing how Wong wasn’t the easiest.
Notes 3: Don’t throw sp3 against Guardian with Wong. You get a bug.
Notes 3: I had a difficult time getting a solo with Titania with a r2 unboosted Wong, so I decided to wait until Banquet to see if I could r3 him. Made a compete difference. You can take MANY combos to face due to the higher health pool and heal it back up. Ihad also never used wong before this, but he is able to learn on the fly. Read Grootman’s Wonger’s rotation [https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/383165/new-challengers-approaching-my-10-year-carina-challenge-guide#latest]. I mostly did 3 orange, 3 green then 3 blue.
All fights were about 10 minutes
Followed Grootman’s guide, who did the Guardian path instead of Apoc. Apoc path might have been easier, but still not a problem.
Trap node: Tranquilize on Parry – I actually had no problem parrying so it was fine.
Titania: solo Wong - Just watch the dash backs so you don’t get too many weaknesses. When she starts to root you, I would often take the special to the face if she was in unblockable mode and just heal back up. Yay for r3 health pools.
Vision: solo Wong – I thought it would be hard, but Vision did a good job of always throwing his specials. I got him very close to 3 bars several times, but he would throw them at the last second.
Omega Sentinel: solo Wong – I would get stunned and damaged, but r3 Wong would heal back nicely. I also didn’t have to just bait sp1 because Wong would gain back health so easily.
Airwalker: solo Wong – Just make sure you BLOCK his specials, don’t dex, and watch his timer. He did gain his galactus buff two or three times, but still got him down.
Captain Britain: 1 revive Wong: You can heal the damage back nicely, even when you are hit by a special, EXCEPT when she has 25 prowess. That’s what killed me.
Wiccan: Wong solo – Wiccan healed five times, but still was able to get the solo. You take no damage with all the spells going, and you heal nicely. Do try to get him to throw sp2 though and not sp1. The timer was close on this one due to Wiccan healing more than I would have liked.
Psycho-Man: 1 Wong death, 4 Warlock fights [so three revives] – I couldn’t get Wong to cooperate, so I stopped midway to research and learn warlock. He just did amazing for this fight, and I can’t even tell you why as I’m not Warlock connoisseur.
NOTE: I went Guardian instead of Apoc because I don’t like fighting Apoc nor Tigra, though I think Wong’s duped ability helps with their trap node.
New Trap Node: must have different combo enders or you get autoblocked. For these fights, I would often build up to sp3 as you get one of each spell, then go orange, green, blue. Just not for Guardian as I found out. To keep the spell I wanted, I just didn’t finish a five hit combo so they wouldn’t autoblock.
Guardian: 1 revive Wong due to bug – If you throw a sp3, then you get the gray screen Spiderham and Nimrod. So I died and healed up. Otherwise, fight wasn’t too bad. For this one, I built up 2 orange, two green, then did the rest of the spells when I could. Be sure to heavy while unstoppable so he doesn’t auto-block you. You can survive a sp2 also when blocking, even if he has massive shield charges.
Valk: 1 team revive, one Wong – I read Grootman’s guide and he did Warlock. I couldn’t get it going so I tried Wong. He did great. You just have to remember to hit her block as her specials are free only with passives pierces, which are gained when hitting her block. About halfway through the fight, I realized I could trigger her auto-block when needed by using the trap node, which gave her the pierce needed, and then could heal back the damage I took from getting smacked in the face.
Red Guardian: solo Wong – Easy fight. I went with 3 oranges first instead of sp3 this time.
Sam: solo Wong: Like Guardian, be sure to fire sp2 while heavy to gain the unblockable. This makes his use his armor ups to auto-block, which then fails since it’s unblockable. I think the sap charges affected Wong’s power gain, but I don’t really knw what those do anyways. Don’t be afraid of hitting his block and gaining rupture damage as you’ll heal it back. Just don’t let him get to sp2.
Dragon Man: solo Wong – I can’t remember if I did sp3 or three oranges first. I did restart two times without healing. My idea was to get the power gain to disappear by having max pacify, parrying right before his power charge activated, and hoping that the pacify would disable it. It finally happened on try three when Dragon Man was at 48% health. I started at 25% and ended up at 100%. The first two tries he held his sp3, but the last try he was much more cooperative.
CAIW – one revive Wong: I wasn’t the best at managing his charges. I got concussion like 4 times, and he killed me when he was at 19% health. Finished with Warlock.
Nova: solo Wong – if you read my other necro guides, you would have noticed that I spent like 70 revives all together on my 3 runs against Nova. Wong made him super easy.
Nameless GM – everyone, 40+ revives and heals [had to but the very last one for 40 units]: I brought HB for this fight. After remembering how to play against him [ I still get clipped often by sp1], everything went fine until phase 3 – reverse controls. I tried everything, but nothing worked. I had always used Aegon before and just brute forced it. However, I couldn’t brute force it with Wong, HB, Sentry [who was useless this necro run]. So I thought with all of my spare revives, I’ll just have to brute force him. I thought Wiccan might be good, and I would just heal up and take the 2% damage until he died. However, after several attempts, I realized I’ll use Warlock. Since he can go unblockable, I’ll just wail on him until I die. I forgot that Warlock gives him taunt, which lead to GM reliably throwing his special after being attacked, which meant I could dodge it sometimes. Warlock would be able to take off 1% to my best run, 7%, this way. I don’t know how people do this with prompts, or how I’m going to do it with Nameless champs. Phase 4 is easy for most. To reach the sp3, I revived Wong, died with him, brought in Wicca. Since Wong’s ability gives the next champion 1 bar of power, I only had to really gain two bars instead of three.
TL;DR – Bring Warlock for GM if you stink at reverse controls and will have to revive and brute force it. A r3 boosted Wong [especially duped] is very forgiving, even when you take combos and specials to the face. Just not a 25 prowess Captain Britain.
And I got my Incursion Incinerator profile pic and title during the run, but still seeking more Battlerealm Besties. Also, back to carrying people in incursions since everything else is done again.
13
Comments
Not the greatest pulls, but I got a cosmic gem, which I'll use on Maestro so I can then take the titan Nexus.
Till GM i used 8 revives
1 for OS
1 for Psycho man
3 for Tigra
3 for herc
Soloed 8 fights with Wong
My team
R3 cheeilth
R3 adam
R2 wiccan
R2 Wong
R2 ironheart
Chee got titania till 17% and Wong finished
Solo on arkus with wong
Adam got OS in 1 revive
Airwalker solo with wong
Ironheart got capt. Britain to ~40% Wong finish
Wiccan solo with Wong
Psychoman 1 revive with adam
Apoc solo with Wong
Tigra took 3 revives with Wong messed up one time early on
Herc had trouble getting protection down but read the nodes then got him with Wong 3 revives
Everyone else was Wong solo
Adam and wong got GM first two phases
Finished with ironheart
The 3rd phase is a bit difficult to get all the prompts
GM took ~ 10 revives
bait many sp1s and try to get the prompts
There is also luck factor
Like if you get prompts like dash back, stand still and hit GM's block you can wound him easily
The parry one is hard but ironheart with bullwork was good
Also if he gets to sp2 don't block just take it to face
Used somewhere in the ballpark of 30-40 revives, all stashed up, plus a bunch of health pots.
Team was:
R2 awakened Wong
R2 awakened Vox
R2 Chee’ilth
R1 Wiccan
R1 Knull
Currently saving my rewards so I have plenty to open on Christmas Day.
I know someone else must have brute forced it besides me, right?
You are not the only one feeling that way. I keep trying to motivate to use the expiring items, but just can't do it. I enjoy a challenge, but the monotony is just too much...
https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/384675/my-carina-challenge-experience#latest