So, I'm getting ready for today's Random Punks event, and I'm having a little trouble deciding on which of the two I prefer. Flying Kick is a personal combat pump, as well as formation breaker. No Man is a utility card that can either be used to lower a defender's defense, or can be used to hate on hidden characters, and even on my own characters, should I feel the need to use it for such.

I was liking airborne assault at first, but it just seems more and more likely to not use it, and instead go for the individual combat manipulation.

Which one should I use?

Depends on your build:

1. Aggro: Kick
2. Anti-Hidden Hate: No Man's
3. Reservist: Air Strike

I agree on all points.
I personally go for No Mans because I have been abused by the hidden area enough.

later

I'd go with No Man's... but a lot of the decks you want to No Man's also have Huntress, Reluctant Queen.

Or... you can go two and two!

I like Flying Kick. Essentially has the same effect, but if needed, you can pump up your guy to do 3 extra breakthrough to maybe win the game for you.

Play 56 cards. ;) Be daring! Be dashing! Be DQed if we sit down across from each other! :p

Um, seriously though, I'm assuming Avengers, and with no Captain America on 6 you'll have plenty of reservists... Air Strike for card draw?

-Mike

Uhm ... I believe you can do that with No Man's as well.

-3 Def = +3 Breakthrough

Not to the facehole though - lots of concealed ninjas ftw.

Touche'

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The thing about No Man is you have to target they're character and when you got things in the environment such as Cloak, Huntress etc. you have to "hope." Where as Flying kick you can do before the attack becomes legal and it gives you flight.

Well not always. You have to have a target to do that.

So I opted for No Man's, and it didn't work out so well, not because of untargetability, but instead, just plain not drawing the damn things.

2 losses to lack of combat pumps, even after going ahead and running almost 20 of the damn things.

Oh well, nothing can be said for rotten luck, right? lol

If you ran Flying Kick... you would have drawn them.

Because it is the best combat pump in the entire set.

(except if you are running Reservist... then that nod goes to Air Strike... heh)

Exactly. And with Flying Kick, you can have the +3 for when you directly attack.

I think Airstrike would have been a good choice as well, but my biggest concern was hidden characters plucking my nerves. I did run more reservists, and 2 of my losses were due to not being able to kick in 1 more combat pump. ( Sure, one of the times hurt because my opponent missed his 6 and 7 and still one due to some burn effects and 3 last stands < read: gain 30 END>, and if I'd thought for a moment he had drawn 3 of the damn things, well, maybe I'd have attacked differently to begin with)

In the final analysis, for me, I think the kick is better than no man, since it just isn't as conditional, you know?