I follow the same general rule for Spicy tokens with the addition that if it is a good feeder I will go for it. It never seems to hit quite right for me. I an up to 270 now, but it was not long ago I was over 400.

For tacos, I am still sitting. I will open if I mess up and miss getting all three for a day for some reason. If that happens I pull until I get down to where it is going to finish with the multiple of 15.

I figure at some point there will be another 4* limited toon. Or maybe it will get revamped at some point….or even just a special store…where it has a 5*.

I stand corrected. Infinite Pursuit did indeed end at 3PM local time, but Unstable ISO-8 will start and end at 4PM. So looks like it was an isolated impact of the time change.

-J

I am pretty much in the same boat. My only difference is that I don't have all of my 4*s champed so my pool of possible LT candidates is smaller. So it's mostly just for meta 4*s.

For the DDQ taco vaults I go with the Harpua method of waiting until the anniversary. The LT is a good pull, the HP goes towards the anniversary vault which can turn into the anniversary LT. The only other time I may pull on a non-anniversary is if both 4*s are wanted/needed. Other than that the odds are too much against me.

Ikaris is a feeder for Immortal Hulk. That is all.

I'm amused... there's this player in SHIELD Sim, and today he and I have been trading retaliation back and forth. It's a perfect illustration of why a team that works great for a human player can suck on AI. (My Strange/Iron Fist/Luke Cage against his Strange/SWitch/Ragnarok, all 3*)

-J

Ok, wow, Ikaris is annoying.
Unlike other resurrection toons, he can come back much later. I had not realized that at first. Yuck.
I was thinking it was just where if you had the AP when he died he would come back, but if you get it later, he comes back, too.

My thinking is that when I play against him, I will use the opposing yellow AP as a guide for if now is a good time to take him out or not.

You are also probably in the best place to experiment (Introducing event) with Ikaris/Hulkoye combo. Using yellow to resurrect takes a bit away from Okoye, but if he's airborne, he's not taking Hulk damage and he's laying into the back character like a boss (boosted by Okoye, maybe?)

I am not convinced that there is a great way to used the AP to guide when to KO him. If you KO him on turn one or turn twelve, the moment he gets to 9 he comes back (next turn).

I found that I would just take him out first and then worry about anyone else. The goal, of course, was to hope that I could take them out before they got the yellow.

I jumped in this morning and was lucky to be starting at 20th. I sped through to 1000 using 5X and Onslaught and shielded out for the 3pm est end. No experimenting here.
I am at 13th now with about 2 hours left. I figure I may take a work break close to the end and see if it is worth breaking my shield to climb. The placement prizes are not fabulous, so I probably will not.

Boosted 5X is amazing for PVP. Next week it looks like Onslaught will be boosted so the team may remain my PVP go-to.

Am I remembering wrong, or were they boosted together a while back?

That absolutely happened. Was a good week for PVP

So with five minutes left I found myself at 24th, so I broke shields, got a string of cake matches and went from 1019 to 1122 and got 8th, which got me an extra mighty and 200 extra Bishop shards and some extra 5* Cap shards.
It was worth it.
Both Mighty tokens were 45s, too. Prowler and Iron Fist.

In PVP I have not had the time on Wednesday's to try to get in for the 3pm final match. LAtely I have been going for that one that ends at either midnight or 1 am. I have consistently placed better in those than any other PVP. Unfortunately I was feeling rough yesterday and fell asleep at some point after 8:30.

Monday should see Gamora entering the LLs.
Right now I sit at 276 pulls.
59 LLs and 5433 CP.

Shang Chi is currently at 1/2/1
Ultron is at 3/2/1
Gamora is 0/0/0
Shang Chi will have over 1000 shards by the time the Simulator PVE is done.
Ultrin shouldnhave that, too, after the event after The Simulator.
I will be pulling until Shang Chi is at 13 AND I have at least one Gamora cover.
I figure the second one should be easy. If I manage to get 7+ SC covers before getting one for Gamora, that would be odd.

Anyhow, I figure I will open my first 50 LLs with the open 50 option. We will see how that goes.

I think I should be safe to do that. I need 7 SC covers.
Statistically it would be highly improbable that I would get them all in that 50.

It would be fun. I hope you also get bonus shards. While it is more superstition, I feel like I am more likely to get bonus shards if I choose the quick 50.

Simulator at SCL 10 is so hard and I am not enjoying it at all. I really wanted to get those covers for Blob because mine is not champed yet.