You both did better than me, 2 Heroic, 2 Assault, and I managed 4 unusable 2 star characters. Then, I got another Heroic for my daily reward, and it was another 2 star cover I don't need. At least I got a Falcon from the Hunt and another 3 star Magneto from the Doom tourney. I'm a little over a third of the way to the black Hulk cover for Shield event.
I'm not sure what the best team is for the general tournament where you can pick whoever you want. I have level 85 OBW, Thor, Ares, Storm, Cap, and Hawkeye. I've been using OBW, Ares, and Thor, but Thor and Ares use the same powers. I was thinking OBW, Storm, and either Ares/Thor depending on if I'm facing a Daken, but I think Storm would take the blue tiles over from OBW, and stop her from stealing 1 on a blue match. I do also have a Moonstone I could level to 85 when I have enough Iso. Depending on how high Hulk can go, I might start using him once I get a black star cover.
The Falcon and Magneto were good from the tournament, at least I knew I would be getting some 3* from that. Honestly I wasnt expecting to be in the top 25 for the Dr Doom Tournament, since I didnt try so hard. I guess everyone was more focused on the Hunt.
Got my progression rewards from the Falcon tournament & Shield season one: an Updraft token and a heroic once again more 2* covers I dont need. Pulls are really getting horrible, either that or Ive progressed to "that point", which I have. You know that point where all your 2*s are pretty much maxed & you need only a few 3*s to finish your team out. Well the way they add 3*'s I need more than a few now.
Anyone realize we're looking at SHIELD season 1 wrong? I caught it yesterday. The simulator isnt on the prologue tab anymore. What we have now is a retooled simulator that now gives you points towards a greater goal in addition to the regular tournaments. Werent you wondering why it was handing out 1* covers as the progression rewards? Now you know why. Unless you just want to gain extra points for SHIELD season 1, dont waste much effort in the simulator, put that into the tournament for the real prizes. I think because most people stopped using it, this was a sneaky way to pump players back into playing it.
Gravel to put together a good rainbow team you have to look at your colors. Thor/Ares cover red, yellow, and green so you're correct they overlap. As far as useable skills OBW does purple and blue, blacks passive. If you havent, try and make OBW black passive skill level 5, extra damage actually does count for something. The only color you're really missing is black, which there are only a few good characters that make use of it. Ares and Thor can be paired together and play off each other. Thors yellow creates green for Ares green power. Honestly I use Ares for red more than Thor when I play that team, since Ares Red at lvl 85 does the same damage to the enemies team as Thor does to one. The 3 random yellow tiles he creates isnt worth it. Ares yellow causes him to lose health, which is another reason I use Thor for the yellow power. Then there's green, although I love Thor's green for the team attack, I know that if I save up all my greens for Ares I can kill Hulk with 1 shot.
If you dont want to run Ares and Thor together; then my suggestion would be Ares OR Thor, OBW, and Modern Hawkeye or Classic Storm. The obvious 1st choice for everyone is Storm, which I get. Her passive yellow is great for knocking down the enemy, however playing on defense the enemy team will knock her out 1st. Yet if you're not using OBW's blue for healing you can use storm for the team damage and stun. Make sure to place OBW in the center if you want her to be dominant with blues for espionage (stealing).
Now for Modern Hawkeye, this guy gets no respect and I think most people hate him. He is VERY USEFUL if you play him correctly. Make sure you get his red & blue powers to 5 to reduce the countdowns, plus if you have high purple power he will use "avoid" virtually every attack. Avoid really sucks if the enemy uses a team attack move because it will hit 1 person on your team twice to miss the attack meant for Hawkeye. Now why do I say he's very useful if all he does is avoid attacks? I refer to him as my cleanup crew. If his countdown tiles dont get matched he can pretty much take down a whole team by himself. His blue attack is more powerful than storms but only hits 1 target, usually it kills that target so I dont remember how long it stuns for. His red does team damage and is actually more powerful than ares red. I know people hate countdown tiles & I think thats why people shrug Hawkeye off. Before I knew how useful OBW was I was running a Thor, Wolverine, Modern Hawkeye team. I really suggest just throwing Hawkeye on a team and experimenting. Save up the colors and use his powers to see his damage. Most people save up the red & immediately use Ares/Thors powers. Make the extra match and use Hawkeye's, then you might say hey, he doesnt suck that much after all.
As for Moonstone, dont bother, she does suck. Unless she's powered up for an event you'll rarely ever use her. Although out of the dark avengers she's the 2nd most useful after Ares. Third if you really think Daken is worth much, which aside from his strike tiles, he isnt. Her skill set is useful, problem is it takes too many colors to activate, especially her black. Her red can be as devastating as Ares green but you have to watch the tiles on the board before you activate it; since its partially dependant on the amount of red tiles currently on the board.
Im at 1600 points right now towards the 3000 point goal for the Black hulk cover, must get 2nd black hulk cover!