Solo Coliseum

Who are you guys using for Havok? I'm not having any luck at all with anyone yet. The Plasma is doing me in.

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https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918032#Comment_2918032

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918038#Comment_2918038

Get a few intercepts in early - this is critical to build up his armour buffs, get to at least 5 to get his stinging swarm.

Build up to around 2 bars of power (but not too high) and try to bait a special so that they're BELOW 1 bar of power, then hit them with a light-ending combo (e.g. MLLLL) and then throw a special - the light-ender locks your power bar so that you throw an SP1 instead of an SP2 (or an SP2 instead of an SP3 if you end up with a full bar) - you WANT to throw an SP1 here to put the Disintegrate debuff onto them as it will not only deal damage with every hit but also speed up the recharge of the power detonation passive. (The reason for building the power up in this manner is to minimise the time between throwing the SP1 and the SP2 to give you a better chance of nailing it with the detonation passive still active)

Then, while the power detonation passive is still active (red, not grey), throw an SP2 and watch their health disappear.

That's the basic FAM rotation. For longer fights, you need to juggle keeping the disintegrate debuff on and timing your SP2 strikes for when the detonation is active - if they throw a special while it's active, it puts it on cooldown.

For this fight in particular, you also need to handle the protection passive to make sure it's not active when you throw the SP2 otherwise the damage will be halved.

Usagicassidy

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918111#Comment_2918111

The problem with the intercepts is that this AI is incredibly frustrating and somehow constantly rushing you when you're trying to rush him. I can get successful intercepts in 80% of the time - but it only takes that 1 in 5 that he effs up your intercept and suddenly you've taken a ton of damage.

TotemCorruption

I did about 8 runs with FAM to max out the 80 HBs.

I didn't read the nodes, apparently you shouldn't dex Havok's SP2? I dexed it and was able to get around 10 HBs per run, so I don't think the nodes are important.

Spartakan

My man Shocker finnaly proved useful, sat useless for way too long ,😁

Teds_1_Rooster

from what I can tell, if you don’t improve from the previous fight, you stop getting points. I’ve stopped getting points because I haven’t surpassed my best score. So one point per bar of health. 20 bars for first milestone, 55 bars to the next champion and 320 bars to get all the milestones. You can do the math for total energy needed.

SurfnSun

it’s a tarded fight, not even fun. Cost of entry to high.

done with it already

TheMostHated1

Fant, use fant

_wasabi_

another event for players with huge rosters. if you have 7 star FAM, you can do it in 7-15 runs depending on FAMs rank. if you are an average player you have 6 star FAM. 40 runs if you are a skilled player and AI actualy does what its suppose to be doing.

how is this fun? 7 star FAM is not even in the basic pool.

this game makes me wanna throw my phone against a wall half of the time. AI is so bad sometimes, its well known and yet some genius designs Enchantress who you cant properly intercept most of the time.

Monthly EQ is made for players with stacked rosters of course and even if you do have decent roster, it takes forever to do because they had to put there 16 fights with annoying nodes like mix master and what not.

How is that fun?

Incursions revives and potions are so overpriced and so useless and outdated, everyone knows that, no one cares. How is revive with 5k hp gonna save you?

Potions in the game are outdated, I mean how is 1650HP or even 5k HP gonna help you with curent health pools?

Ridiculous.

Arenas outdated.

AQ rewards? Complete joke, nobody wants to do AQ in our alliance anymore.

Banquet was great, thats the only positive in recent months and some fun champions have been added sure, but somehow everyone is forgeting that Kabam keeps making design choices that seem to be aimed for youtubers and whales instead of normal players who dont spend thousands on this game. I am not F2P, I spent few hundred last year and I spend now and then and yet, I dont have FAM and doing one flght 60 times is far from fun!

Usagicassidy

I've been using my 6* r4a FANTman and still every time I go in I'm only getting a single point per run.

At this rate, it would cost me 2000 energy just to reach the 80 points lol

TotemCorruption

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918226#Comment_2918226

Are you going for SP3 first to ramp up, then throwing SP1 then SP2 with the power detonation (red thingie) active and Havok's protection disabled?

SummonerNR

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918205#Comment_2918205

1st part of your comment. NOPE.

You get 1 point per Bar removed, across however many fights, no matter if you're doing better or worse than previous fights (so long as you get 1 bar down, to get a point).

If you really need to improve to continue to earn ANY more points, just think what the implications of that are… 1st fight you ALMOST reach max, but get KO'd at only 75 Bars/Points. And to get those very last points (because each 2 week champ is capped at 80 points), you would have to basically duplicate that (plus some) and score at least 76 Bars in some subsequent fight. All just for a final 5 points because it is capped. Meanwhile other people could do fights starting at just 1 Bar, then 2 Bars in next fight, then 3 Bars…. (don't need DNA to do the math, I could here, but is pointless and not necessary), and finish at 80 points for the 2 weeks without ever reaching any more than 15 bars in any individual fight, while you had to follow up a 75 Bar fight with at least a 76 Bar fight. Ouch.

spidyjedi84

Fantman, especially when he cleanses debuffs on himself. I've gotten two health bars in many runs, but my Fantman is a rank 2 7 star. Avoiding Havok's SP3 is the main goal. Havok takes a lot of the Fantman crushing SP energy damage more than he gives. If I was a better player, I'd probably be doing better runs against him, but nickeling and diming when I have full energy is what I'm doing since I no longer have EQ to toy around in on auto because of Kabam.

Usagicassidy

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918230#Comment_2918230

I just did that and absolutely nothing about that rotation helped because it took way too long to ramp up like that, and even doing exactly that with the disintegration from SP3 and the disintegration from SP1 and removed the Protection and activated SP2 during the power detonation and it barely did more damage than if I just went straight to SP2.

And considering how long that cycle took, I was already having lots of health chipped away from the defender AI rushing back and rushing in when I'm trying to intercept etc.

My High Score is now a 2 lol. But that was a 4 minute fight for me to only get two bars.

I'm really not sure what else I'm supposed to do. There's so many things at play with the defender nodes and FANTmans kit - and I did all of them correctly and don't feel like it paid any dividends.

TotemCorruption

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918235#Comment_2918235

I was using a 7R4, but basically the SP2 won't deal much damage regardless unless:

(1) you have some disintegration debuffs already active on the opponent, preferably 2 or more;

(2) you're in surging swarm (6 or more armors active);

(3) power detonation is active; and

(4) Havok's protection is disabled.

That's a lot to maintain if you're not used to playing FAM, and since yours is only 6R anyway, I think you probably have better options?

MrSakuragi

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918239#Comment_2918239

I’m doing tons of damage even with his protection up

Teds_1_Rooster

disregard my earlier post, 1 point per health bar regardless. I figured out what was happening.

KillerM

fantman, quily 2099, shocker are good options. Besides that is pretty boring to fight atleast over 10 times the same champ over and over again 🤷🏼‍♂️

Zuro

Managed to get down 14 bars with r2 guilly 2099. Spent most of the fight just spamming sp1s to power burn and holding block to bait heavies to continue my combos so he could hardly through any specials. Though as you take down more bars, the power burn gets weaker, so I would then just push him to sp2, dex it, then hit him once to refresh the crumbling armor timer, swipe back and parry for the armor buff and repeat.

Usagicassidy

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918239#Comment_2918239

I'm used to playing FAM, but yeah the only viable ones I have above him that I have access to are a 7 r2 Shocker, 7 r3 Warlock, 7 r4 Bastion, and 7 r4 Starky who I failed miserably trying with.

thekemist

I am not seeing solo colosium on my phone i am usind android and i have the latest update

Slig

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918283#Comment_2918283

are you parrying specials? Have you read all the nodes?

Terra

Hyperion has been doing alot of work for me, reparry > heavies, Gamora relic for higher fury chance, sp2 loops with occasional sp3

captaincush

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918291#Comment_2918291

what progression title do you have? this may only be open to Paragon and Valiant

Elux

coliseum sucked as an alliance event still sucks

OldManHop

I've been using Future Ant Man and enjoying myself quite a bit. Once you get a rhythm going, it's a pretty fun fight. Got my 80 points fairly easily (after a bunch of trial-and-error with other champs).

A note on energy cost: I feel the energy cost makes sense (especially in relation to the value of the rewards and the length of the event) but now it's the only thing keeping me from continuing to play the mode for fun (and to get a better run). I just kinda wish you could keep fighting Havok for free once you've maxed out his points, but I have no idea how annoying/difficult it would be to code it that way.

MaxtheSilent

CosmicZen

I hate this node/champ/restriction/mode combo so very very much. Its not fun. Its just sadistic frustration.

Doing my best run yet: For whatever reason bastions shield randomly drops off while not timing out or dexing but dashing in to punish a special. Boom 10 plasma explode on que. I was not looking for a reason to quit the game but I should not be getting this frustrated at something that is supposed to be fun. 25 pts to enter makes it all the more enraging.

Messi421

Hey will the champion requirement refresh or it will stay for whole period ?

NARWH4L

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918332#Comment_2918332

Each boss will have a different limited pool, but otherwise it won't update.

Mother_Flerken

R4 shocker sp1 sp2 rotation, not even bothering with the nodes just pushing havok to sp2 always.

Takes off 1.6 bars every heavy charge and become an easy 10-14 bars in a few minutes pending ai.

Bonus tip: try get havok to a fresh new bar before each heavy charge so you can get the full damage amount allowed. Sometimes after your sp2 he'll be at 1-2% and you can do a quick heavy to knock him into the next bar then full charge for the 1.6 bars.