Solo Coliseum

GroundedWisdom

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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ActOfGod

How i can unlock solo coliseum?

MrSakuragi

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918439#Comment_2918439

Become paragon

doctorb

Just curious, I know Vision AoU is not on list of heroes u can use but would he be a great counter to Havok?

Havok's profile says he loses all plasma charges if power burn / drain. I would imagine u can just keep using Vision's sp1 to keep him from building up plasma charges.

Buttehrs

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918460#Comment_2918460

TThat's..….exactly the same thing as guilly99

doctorb

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918464#Comment_2918464

The thing with G99 is u power drain but not power steal, so it takes longer for her to build up to sp1 again. With Vision, u power steal so u can get to sp1 more quickly. I've had entire fights where I've managed to keep enemy from using any sp attack except first one at beginning. I guess that's why kabam is not letting us use him. 😕

Usagicassidy

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918298#Comment_2918298

Yup been parrying specials. And I'm certainly not getting burst damage with FAM like I might occasionally with others depending on how the fight is going - but I'm still never taking off more than 2 health bars.

Oakenshield

I used my R4 Fantman and he did great. I’m a pretty mid player, but even with that had one run with 9 bars and another with 8 or 7. Averaged 4-5, and that crept up over time as I got the rhythm down.

As others have said, you need to line up surging swarm up while protection is down with a few disintegrations up and Power Detination red. It can be very tough to line all of those up - particularly because you lose the power detination if Havok throws a special. However, when you do line them all up I was taking essentially a full health bar with one SP2.

Took some grinding but got to the 80 points without too much pain and suffering.

Usagicassidy

Shocker was laughably bad for me. I don't understand how people could clear multiple health bars with him (I cleared 1). Even with parrying every hit of the specials, the amount of times he loses an Armor or it expires or get armor broken and then the plasma burst is just chipping away massively at his health…

And with G2099 it was even more of a disaster. I 'finished the fight' (ie got KO'd) after about 3.5 minutes with him still at 60% health having cleared 0 health bars lol.

Gizzilla

13.89 health bars with the IDoom power lock rotation. Safe and easy.

YodaKaj

Serious Question:

Why not

Red Skull? (Armors up easily)
Collussus? (Has passive armor)

Squidopus

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918587#Comment_2918587

Because you literally can’t use them. Solo Coliseum only allows you to use champs that meet specific tag requirements. Neither of them qualify.

captain_rogers

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918343#Comment_2918343

With shocker r4 what is the ideal charges to consume on heavy after sp2? Like 100-150 often seems like a overkill. And you don't go for sp3, then sp1 spam and heavy whenever possible? I had emore succes with that.

Slonerko

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

I have no idea what his optimal rotation is, but I just kept spamming SP2 into Havok's face after removing his protection with a heavy. It worked fine with a 6* Fantman.

You can parry all three waves of Havok's SP1 if you're quick, but if you're feeling lazy, you can hold block for the first two waves and parry the third. His SP2 is even easier to parry.

Once I had about 7 or 8 armor ups on, I stopped caring about losing them and dexed whenever I felt like it. FAM is really forgiving for this fight, so you can eat a special or a combo or two early and not worry too much about it.

phillgreen

7r2 guardian with 99 charges took off 5 bars with the SP2.

I've been messing around while doing other things so I had a lot of 1-3 bar runs with bastion/guardian/warlock before reading nodes became a thing.

The way I see it, with 14 days, 6 bars a day is doable so none of us should be panicking about the suckiness of it and the rewards are worth the effort.

YodaKaj

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918601#Comment_2918601

problem is random unblockables for some of his SPs.

IRQ

I don't like how this mode looks. This Havok feels like a diet EoP Abs to be honest. As in, you know what you need to do in the fight and it's not particularly hard to do skill-wise but you still get clowned on because it all boils down to AI being cooperative. At least this one keeps progress so it's at worst waste of some energy. Imagine getting 60 points wiped off your score after one bad take like that Abs did.

Don't have fant, best results with Shocker so far. A couple bars at a time but it works. Sp2 into a full-powered heavy of a 7r2 takes about 120% of a bar so that's basically one guaranteed point even at the biggest screwups, so there's that.

Mother_Flerken

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918600#Comment_2918600

The charges usually end up anywhere between 75-100 (depends on havoks power and if a few extra hits are needed to push to sp2 etc.)

Sp3 rotation wastes time as far as my testing went. You can't take off more than 1.6 bars with a heavy chatge anyway and 75-100 charges was already doing that.

The energize to spam sp1s and do shorter heavy charge bursts? Eh it's ok at chipping away but sp1 sp2 removes 1.6 bars, can get into a nice rhythm, it's easier to manage with the M/L prompts after 5 bars as well imo instead of sp1 spam and trying to stay under sp2 while juggling prompts and havok power.

Whatever works and is most efficient for the user is best i guess. After the novelty of the fight and testing some champs is gone I went the consistent 10+ bars in the shortest time possible for each run to get the milestones.

SirGamesBond

Omega Sentinel is the most ideal for Recoil users.

I pulled her one day before coliseum and duped her from shards from first coliseum milestone.

R2 works, I r3d cuz I like her. She does 10+ bars/run. Best was 16.

Nuclear

Try to parry the specials and most +1 armor up champs should work (with +1 I mean they already have a base armor up and you get one extra for parrying the special)

Fantman is ideal obviously = 18 bars

But others like Silver surfer and Maestro work too = 9-10 bars

doctorb

https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/2918601#Comment_2918601

Apparently my FAM is not cooperating or didn't get the heads up cause all I'm doing is 1-2 bars if I'm lucky.