Hello all,
It looks like things are getting interesting. There are a lot of previews and the official announcment of Wolverine and the X-men. Fear Itself will be coming out soon. So now is the time to prepare for what is coming next. I will say that from what I've seen so far we are seeing days similar to Collateral Damage era. We are see things getting powered down and getting more expensive. This means that bruisers are going to tempt us at their over 150 point cost. It also means that what used to be cheap is not expensive. I know Fear Itself will have us thinking big. This is time were stuff sneaks past us. I've seen it many times.
One of the figures that will sneak past will be Tony Stark from the Iron Man 3 movie set. The main reason is that promotes and doesn't AE. As a support piece that is risky. But when you look at him he has a lot of new meta elements that just scream play me. With support being more expensive to get the same effects of the past he really is a cheap deal.
Another figure that will slip by people will be Sarah Rainmaker. She ignores characters for movement, two targets, 11 attack with rce, smoke cloud and oh yeah 80 pts. She will be over looked because she is on a team dial that is not super strong nor popular. She will surprise people big time.
Aldriach Killian will be really annoying. He shuts down ata. He has support that modifies attack and damage until your next turn. Hydra tA is always good. Can't forget he is 35 points. People will not see him coming.
The meta is changing. Keep your eyes open. There are going to be major upsets. Some cool stuff like Madam Web are proving to be weaker then we had hoped. But now is the time for the crafty!
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka. Darklogos
Monday, April 29, 2013
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Iroman Man 3 movie experience
Really quick. I played 1200 game against some of those new Iron Man movie clix and I had a tough time killing them. Each figure preformed well. That Tony Startk is killer! Enjoy your Iron Man 3 movie clix because they are better then I thought.
Friday, April 26, 2013
HAMMER TIME! OH OH OH HERE COMES THE HAMMER!
Hey all,
We got book of the Red Skull preview today. I think that it is awesome. I just recorded a show talking about it. It will be up some time this weekend.
First impressions is that it is really strong. I understand it is not broken. What it does is power up your whole team and not one character. The problem is this. It takes to long to fully power up. That is where I am concerned. It will take 14 actions to get 7 hammers into play. That is bad. Slow build up I understand. But bad.
The hammer swapping can be really broken. I think the idea of having a figure with the second phase hammer is going to be the big thing. Lets say that you get character 1 who is your main attacker and has a hammer that is good while they have power A. You have the support character or just an ok secondary attacker holding the second hammer. When the primary attacker no longer benefits from the hammer it has you then have your other character swap hammers with the primary attacker so it can synch with power B.
That is my first thoughts. It will get better over time. I will also remind you that The book of the Red Skull does not require you to have 7-8 different hammers.
Thanks for your time,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos
We got book of the Red Skull preview today. I think that it is awesome. I just recorded a show talking about it. It will be up some time this weekend.
First impressions is that it is really strong. I understand it is not broken. What it does is power up your whole team and not one character. The problem is this. It takes to long to fully power up. That is where I am concerned. It will take 14 actions to get 7 hammers into play. That is bad. Slow build up I understand. But bad.
The hammer swapping can be really broken. I think the idea of having a figure with the second phase hammer is going to be the big thing. Lets say that you get character 1 who is your main attacker and has a hammer that is good while they have power A. You have the support character or just an ok secondary attacker holding the second hammer. When the primary attacker no longer benefits from the hammer it has you then have your other character swap hammers with the primary attacker so it can synch with power B.
That is my first thoughts. It will get better over time. I will also remind you that The book of the Red Skull does not require you to have 7-8 different hammers.
Thanks for your time,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
What's next
Yo,
I hope you all have been going through some old sets and looking at old figures to see what is going to be awesome in the near future.
Just some stuff really really fast. The ROC West Regional is this weekend. If you are going let me know. I would like to know about the experience.
My two venues are playing TT sealed for the Batcave. That sucks!
BUNKER IS HELLA STRONG!!!!!!!! Perma barrier for the win!
Lets look at smoke cloud now. Smoke cloud will be under estimated in the future. The -1 to attack will be an offensive option. So here are some characters that have a great use of smoke cloud that will be really strong.
Brother Voodoo
Mysterio
Skrull Commando
Astral Doctor Strange
The Question
Shadow Assassin
Out of this modern age list I would say that Mysterio with his fakes became really really strong. With a bunch of fakes he can cover the map with smoke cloud. This could be a really strong control element. Large point games would benfit from Mysterio as something more then novelty.
Skrull Commando is another surprise. I think that he has a lot of potential for both wildcard and smoke cloud abuse.
Astral Strange is by far the cheapest and easiest to abuse. I would watch out for him because now people have a reason to ko him as fast as possible.
Thanks for reading,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos.
Side note: If you want to watch something hilarious watch the show "Find me my man" it is on OXYGEN. I had to laugh hard at the show and women who the match maker is trying to set up. The show is not for kids. I would even say teenagers shouldn't watch this.
I hope you all have been going through some old sets and looking at old figures to see what is going to be awesome in the near future.
Just some stuff really really fast. The ROC West Regional is this weekend. If you are going let me know. I would like to know about the experience.
My two venues are playing TT sealed for the Batcave. That sucks!
BUNKER IS HELLA STRONG!!!!!!!! Perma barrier for the win!
Lets look at smoke cloud now. Smoke cloud will be under estimated in the future. The -1 to attack will be an offensive option. So here are some characters that have a great use of smoke cloud that will be really strong.
Brother Voodoo
Mysterio
Skrull Commando
Astral Doctor Strange
The Question
Shadow Assassin
Out of this modern age list I would say that Mysterio with his fakes became really really strong. With a bunch of fakes he can cover the map with smoke cloud. This could be a really strong control element. Large point games would benfit from Mysterio as something more then novelty.
Skrull Commando is another surprise. I think that he has a lot of potential for both wildcard and smoke cloud abuse.
Astral Strange is by far the cheapest and easiest to abuse. I would watch out for him because now people have a reason to ko him as fast as possible.
Thanks for reading,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos.
Side note: If you want to watch something hilarious watch the show "Find me my man" it is on OXYGEN. I had to laugh hard at the show and women who the match maker is trying to set up. The show is not for kids. I would even say teenagers shouldn't watch this.
Monday, April 22, 2013
New Meta tactics that will suprise your opponents.
Hey,
I wanted to get back to new meta thought. I saw some cool old tactics that are really strong now. I also am thinking that with the new changes certain things that were going to be crazy good are just ok but not weak.
GL Tank
I would say that the whole GL tank comes back as really strong with the new changes to rce. To be able to shift the +2 to attack instead of damage means that those AIM Renegades help make up a 4 attack deference.
Plasticity Zone out
I mentioned it in the podcast that plasticity you can zone out major players with plasticity because they have to stop when they become adjacent to you unless they ignore characters for movement.
LAMP
LAMP is on the come up. Even with precision strike coming out here in the future with the right taxi line of sight will be tough.
This is just the start.
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka darklogos
I wanted to get back to new meta thought. I saw some cool old tactics that are really strong now. I also am thinking that with the new changes certain things that were going to be crazy good are just ok but not weak.
GL Tank
I would say that the whole GL tank comes back as really strong with the new changes to rce. To be able to shift the +2 to attack instead of damage means that those AIM Renegades help make up a 4 attack deference.
Plasticity Zone out
I mentioned it in the podcast that plasticity you can zone out major players with plasticity because they have to stop when they become adjacent to you unless they ignore characters for movement.
LAMP
LAMP is on the come up. Even with precision strike coming out here in the future with the right taxi line of sight will be tough.
This is just the start.
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka darklogos
Friday, April 19, 2013
Cosmo, Incap and other random things
Hey,
New rules running through my brain. I've done a bunch of searches and realized that some power combos are seen way less then others. Good luck finding a lot of EE and Forceblast on the same click. Today we are going to look at incap. Incap changes means that running 2 incapers becomes an actual threat. Add in 2 or more targets you get into some crazy stuff.
So why look at Cosmo as our first template? Well mainly he gives us a lot of things we should start looking for. First off incap is strongest early to mid game but not at the start of the game. So having it on click 1 doesn't serve us until turn 3 or even 4. Cosmo starts with enhancement and tk. This means he can be of major use early game and can serve a purpose as an enhancer until he pushes off of tk. I'm not going to touch mind control or barrier right now. Those things are a bit more complex now. Having a 6 range and 18 defense is not bad. With the 6 range we see Cosmo hitting the current average interaction zone for heroclix.
Now when we take this understanding to the next step we can point to some very interesting conclusions. First off incap of 6 or higher range has a lot more lock down potential then before. Next we see is that running shot and will power becomes mandatory for high level incap play. The last element we can see due to the new rules making it so incapers can do 1 penetrating if an opposing figure has 2 tokens makes our average desired figure to be point costed no more then 80 points. I know the 1 penetrating is great but it is not a lot of damage that can be consistent. So that means we can't invest more then 80 points in an incapper. To be more clear we can only spend over a little over a quarter of our build total on incap. Incap and EE could be crazy good in the future but EE with everything range right now is crazy good.
For sure Wasp stands on top of the incap meta with Batgirl from the Batman set. Misty Knight, Hobogoblin prime, 100pt Ronin the Accuser, SOG Black Canary,piloted Robin Cycle, Mr Freeze, nml Poison Ivy, DC 10TH Batman, Maxwell Lord, Silver Banshee, and you can't forget....ZIRAN THE TESTER!
Needless to say that incap getting better has really threatened a lot of common safe fall back powers and team abilities. Willpower, power cosmic, quint, indom, and anything that allowed you to ignore pushing damage doesn't help you any more against incap. The only thing that got more powerful was Battle furry.
Hope this helps. Just a side note about EE it does damage equal to the number of targets it has. So if a person only has 1 target it will do 1 splash damage. Also if you read the power closely now the splash only effects the untargeted parties.
xx
abx
If you target a and b you would only do splash to x's. If you target only b all other figures would get splash. Since EE can now trigger off of psyblast the splash would be penetrating as well if you used it with psyblast.
That's it have a good weekend. I'll try to get you some more content soon. The next podcast will be about No Man's Land month 6.
Check you all later,
Edward Shelton aka darklogos
New rules running through my brain. I've done a bunch of searches and realized that some power combos are seen way less then others. Good luck finding a lot of EE and Forceblast on the same click. Today we are going to look at incap. Incap changes means that running 2 incapers becomes an actual threat. Add in 2 or more targets you get into some crazy stuff.
So why look at Cosmo as our first template? Well mainly he gives us a lot of things we should start looking for. First off incap is strongest early to mid game but not at the start of the game. So having it on click 1 doesn't serve us until turn 3 or even 4. Cosmo starts with enhancement and tk. This means he can be of major use early game and can serve a purpose as an enhancer until he pushes off of tk. I'm not going to touch mind control or barrier right now. Those things are a bit more complex now. Having a 6 range and 18 defense is not bad. With the 6 range we see Cosmo hitting the current average interaction zone for heroclix.
Now when we take this understanding to the next step we can point to some very interesting conclusions. First off incap of 6 or higher range has a lot more lock down potential then before. Next we see is that running shot and will power becomes mandatory for high level incap play. The last element we can see due to the new rules making it so incapers can do 1 penetrating if an opposing figure has 2 tokens makes our average desired figure to be point costed no more then 80 points. I know the 1 penetrating is great but it is not a lot of damage that can be consistent. So that means we can't invest more then 80 points in an incapper. To be more clear we can only spend over a little over a quarter of our build total on incap. Incap and EE could be crazy good in the future but EE with everything range right now is crazy good.
For sure Wasp stands on top of the incap meta with Batgirl from the Batman set. Misty Knight, Hobogoblin prime, 100pt Ronin the Accuser, SOG Black Canary,piloted Robin Cycle, Mr Freeze, nml Poison Ivy, DC 10TH Batman, Maxwell Lord, Silver Banshee, and you can't forget....ZIRAN THE TESTER!
Needless to say that incap getting better has really threatened a lot of common safe fall back powers and team abilities. Willpower, power cosmic, quint, indom, and anything that allowed you to ignore pushing damage doesn't help you any more against incap. The only thing that got more powerful was Battle furry.
Hope this helps. Just a side note about EE it does damage equal to the number of targets it has. So if a person only has 1 target it will do 1 splash damage. Also if you read the power closely now the splash only effects the untargeted parties.
xx
abx
If you target a and b you would only do splash to x's. If you target only b all other figures would get splash. Since EE can now trigger off of psyblast the splash would be penetrating as well if you used it with psyblast.
That's it have a good weekend. I'll try to get you some more content soon. The next podcast will be about No Man's Land month 6.
Check you all later,
Edward Shelton aka darklogos
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Some picks to think about.
Hello,
I'm going to list out some figures that I feel are new meta. I will list the characters that will be modern age when this goes live. I will post the combo of powers so you know what you are looking at. I will try to make notes on things that stand out.
Running shot/Energy Explosion
M10 V Ironman 225
M10 Green Goblin
CW Avengers Prime
AVM Ironman 160
Avm Odin
GG Chase Doom
TT Starfire
TT Burnout
TT Gen 13
SOG Deathstroke
SOG Starfire
BM Rocket Red
BM Socialist Red Guardsman
NU52 Green Arrow
SM Livewire
SM Wildfire
M10Ironman gives us the running shot pulsewave and EE combo that is oh so broken. This means that in big point games it doesn't matter if there is a resource dial or not he is worth using. His value on the secondary market will go up.
Odin and Ironman are sleeper agents that have been primed. I think most people wont see them coming until they deal out the additional damage.
Burnout's ability when he uses EE is way stronger then it looks. CATCH FIRE: Burnout can use Energy Explosion; when he does, characters successfully hit are dealt damage equal to the number of times it was hit by this attack times two.The question is does this power remember who it hit during the game or does it only go off when it is attacked. I think that this may be the hidden danger from Teen Titans.
Rocket Red. I knew his day was coming. It is coming soon.
Socialist Red Guardsman falls into that new support world. He will do lots of damage and he has enhancement.With 2 targets his splash will be ok. The big thing is that he finally has value.
Next blog will be on more figures worth noting. Also new show going up soon.
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka darklogos.
I'm going to list out some figures that I feel are new meta. I will list the characters that will be modern age when this goes live. I will post the combo of powers so you know what you are looking at. I will try to make notes on things that stand out.
Running shot/Energy Explosion
M10 V Ironman 225
M10 Green Goblin
CW Avengers Prime
AVM Ironman 160
Avm Odin
GG Chase Doom
TT Starfire
TT Burnout
TT Gen 13
SOG Deathstroke
SOG Starfire
BM Rocket Red
BM Socialist Red Guardsman
NU52 Green Arrow
SM Livewire
SM Wildfire
M10Ironman gives us the running shot pulsewave and EE combo that is oh so broken. This means that in big point games it doesn't matter if there is a resource dial or not he is worth using. His value on the secondary market will go up.
Odin and Ironman are sleeper agents that have been primed. I think most people wont see them coming until they deal out the additional damage.
Burnout's ability when he uses EE is way stronger then it looks. CATCH FIRE: Burnout can use Energy Explosion; when he does, characters successfully hit are dealt damage equal to the number of times it was hit by this attack times two.The question is does this power remember who it hit during the game or does it only go off when it is attacked. I think that this may be the hidden danger from Teen Titans.
Rocket Red. I knew his day was coming. It is coming soon.
Socialist Red Guardsman falls into that new support world. He will do lots of damage and he has enhancement.With 2 targets his splash will be ok. The big thing is that he finally has value.
Next blog will be on more figures worth noting. Also new show going up soon.
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka darklogos.
PAC MAN
Hey,
As everyone knows the new PAC is out. Also with the rules update. I'm reading them now. Lots of stuff. Lots off stuff. Did I forget to tell you lots of stuff. I had some shows recorded yesterday now they are worth slag. That is why there was no blog posts the last few days.
Back to reading. New stuff coming soon.
Rush rushing rushest,
Darklogos
As everyone knows the new PAC is out. Also with the rules update. I'm reading them now. Lots of stuff. Lots off stuff. Did I forget to tell you lots of stuff. I had some shows recorded yesterday now they are worth slag. That is why there was no blog posts the last few days.
Back to reading. New stuff coming soon.
Rush rushing rushest,
Darklogos
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Its amazing how vaction ruins blogging.
Hello,
I'm sorry for the delay. I've been caught up being on vacation or something like it. I've played way to much League of Legends. I hear "Welcome to Summoners Rift" in my sleep and Teemo and Lulu saying "Silly noob more AP." Anyway I haven't been fully lazy. There is a new show up as most of you may know with Normalview. Also there is going to be an special episode going up this week as well. So be on the look out for that. I'm also going to get started on NML Month 6 analysis and what it means with the elements we know about now.
Winter is Coming! Many League of Legends is calling me.
Check you all soon,
Captain Teemo...I mean Edward Shelton aka Darklogos.
I'm sorry for the delay. I've been caught up being on vacation or something like it. I've played way to much League of Legends. I hear "Welcome to Summoners Rift" in my sleep and Teemo and Lulu saying "Silly noob more AP." Anyway I haven't been fully lazy. There is a new show up as most of you may know with Normalview. Also there is going to be an special episode going up this week as well. So be on the look out for that. I'm also going to get started on NML Month 6 analysis and what it means with the elements we know about now.
Winter is Coming! Many League of Legends is calling me.
Check you all soon,
Captain Teemo...I mean Edward Shelton aka Darklogos.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Ray of Hope
Hello,
Late blogpost I know. I just getting some other things done and trying to get some interviews lined up.
I saw The Ray preview and it made have a glimer of hope. Hope for something awesome in Teen Titans. Then I saw he was a super rare and a bit of me cried inside because he will be a 20.00 super rare. Simple he is going to be really helpful for all your Justice League and JLI teams because he can give them stealth. Add in HSS and descent damage. Ask yourself what stops you from playing him in sealed or constructive. There is very few reasons. Being a super rare and able to have multiples is pretty cool.
Hope is coming from Teen Titans but sadly I don't think it is enough. If the next few previews are awesome they haven't sold me not to cherry pick.
Thoughts?
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos
Late blogpost I know. I just getting some other things done and trying to get some interviews lined up.
I saw The Ray preview and it made have a glimer of hope. Hope for something awesome in Teen Titans. Then I saw he was a super rare and a bit of me cried inside because he will be a 20.00 super rare. Simple he is going to be really helpful for all your Justice League and JLI teams because he can give them stealth. Add in HSS and descent damage. Ask yourself what stops you from playing him in sealed or constructive. There is very few reasons. Being a super rare and able to have multiples is pretty cool.
Hope is coming from Teen Titans but sadly I don't think it is enough. If the next few previews are awesome they haven't sold me not to cherry pick.
Thoughts?
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Call of the wild
Hey,
Sorry for the delay on the blog post. I've had a couple of things starting to wrap up around here that caught my time. I also have another writing and research article for another website I write for.
I hope everyone saw the Beast Boy preview. I think they are doing a good job with Beast Boy. This is the first time I said to myself for this set "I can really use that." At the same time the Red Beast Boy messed me up a bit because the old outsiders version will be retired soon. It looks like animal keyword is getting some power.
What would get me to rally back into wanting this set is really simple. First give me something I can use frequently. I'm not asking for broken. I haven't seen anything that really should motivate me to play the figure outside of character preference. The second thing I need to see is something that fills out some under used or coming up mechanics. Where is the anti-resource dial tech. We got 2 figures and that is it. Where is something that can help our poison figures or even help out or even something that messes with map choice like Nightmare. I think there is a lot they could showcase that would get me excited. Lastly, I've never thought I would say this, show me chases and how awesome they are. That is how desperate I am at this stage.
That's it. It is a bit in flux this week. SORRY. SORRY. SORRY.
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka darklogos
Ps. I'm looking to do the beta for infinite crisis. If you like LOL or DOTA then check it out and sign up for beta.
Sorry for the delay on the blog post. I've had a couple of things starting to wrap up around here that caught my time. I also have another writing and research article for another website I write for.
I hope everyone saw the Beast Boy preview. I think they are doing a good job with Beast Boy. This is the first time I said to myself for this set "I can really use that." At the same time the Red Beast Boy messed me up a bit because the old outsiders version will be retired soon. It looks like animal keyword is getting some power.
What would get me to rally back into wanting this set is really simple. First give me something I can use frequently. I'm not asking for broken. I haven't seen anything that really should motivate me to play the figure outside of character preference. The second thing I need to see is something that fills out some under used or coming up mechanics. Where is the anti-resource dial tech. We got 2 figures and that is it. Where is something that can help our poison figures or even help out or even something that messes with map choice like Nightmare. I think there is a lot they could showcase that would get me excited. Lastly, I've never thought I would say this, show me chases and how awesome they are. That is how desperate I am at this stage.
That's it. It is a bit in flux this week. SORRY. SORRY. SORRY.
Check you later,
Edward Shelton aka darklogos
Ps. I'm looking to do the beta for infinite crisis. If you like LOL or DOTA then check it out and sign up for beta.
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Just to clear the air
Hey,
Yesterday's post was an April's Fools joke. I couldn't think of anything good. Oh well maybe next year.
check you later,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos
Yesterday's post was an April's Fools joke. I couldn't think of anything good. Oh well maybe next year.
check you later,
Edward Shelton aka Darklogos
Monday, April 1, 2013
New anouncment
Hello,
I got some great news for you. I've struck a deal with HCRealms to put out exclusive content and help drive some of their media branding.
It is a tough decision but I think it is one of the coolest things I have a chance of doing.
Check you later,
Edward Shelton
I got some great news for you. I've struck a deal with HCRealms to put out exclusive content and help drive some of their media branding.
It is a tough decision but I think it is one of the coolest things I have a chance of doing.
Check you later,
Edward Shelton
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