I took top ten in the last tournament and got screwed out of my reward. They better fix it.
you sure you didn't get bumped out before the end? i got mine just fine
anyway here's a guide about the character and what they do so you can also understand how it differ from other puzzle quest game,each character usualy deals more damage in 3 colors,they are listed from their strongest color to their weaker
1-star
Iron Man
Colors: Red,Yellow,Blue
Iron Man is your most reliable guy,he's got a nice HP pool and all of his skills deal damage and the game give you tons of free copies of him so he's really easy to level up (i got mine to 27 so far) you are going to see him everywhere and he's always the first guy you should kill! his yellow skill also turns 2 tile on board into shield which reduce damage (the higher iron man level,the higher the reduction),the reduction is not big enough to make a difference for big attack but it helps with reducing damage from matches
Storm - Modern
Colors: Green,Red,Black
Storm is your board clearer,her first skill clear 8 random block and the red one clear all the city one and deal damage (which can be usefull in stage that have usefull city action) the damage will never be as big as ironman so basicaly it's there most for the free matches (in this version of puzzle quest using skill do not waste turn) the black one turn several tile into punch title's,which deal damage based on storm level,at level 17 they only deal around 2 damage per tile for less than 40 damage per turn which isn't much but still happen every turn but with a high level storm they deal 5 damage instead making it quite strong
Blackcat - Modern
Colors: Blue,Purple,Yellow (No Yellow Skill)
Black cat is usefull to put together with ironman and storm just so that she cover the last color in purple,coincidentaly her purple skill just steal mana from the opponent making spamming ironman attack easier,the blue one is a 2 turn stun that can be easily upgraded to a 3 turn stun,if the cpu is with just a last character standing stunning it will result it in losing his turn so it can be usefull in those situation but most of the time it's better to spare the blue mana for iron man biggest nuke
Hawkeye - Classic
Colors: Purple,Red,Yellow (No Yellow Skill)
hawkeye is your other alternative into covering purple,he's more squishy than black cat but he deals more damage with multipler,frankly i don't like him... his red skill let him destroy a whole row and deal damage equal to the value of that line but it will never deal as much damage as iron man,his other skill is awesome and let you put a critical (basicaly a jolly that let you deal 3 time the damage of a match) into a place of your choice which often leads into 2 critical (which combine's well with hawkeye since he deals 4 time the damage instead) but it's expensive as fuck and rarely get used
Venom
Colors: Black,Green (No Green Skill),Purple
venom is an annoying character to use... his purple skill stun the enemy and place a web tile on the board and his black one deals crappy damage... but if there are 7 web titles on the board instead he insta-kill enemy,the only other character that generate web titles is spider man so basicaly you either use both or none but the spiderman comics are all rare and hard and annoying to get
Juggernaut
Colors: Red,Green,Black (No Black Skill)
basicaly kind of a mashup of iron man and storm,the red skill deal more damage but also hurt juggernaut itself and the green one destroy more tiles but you don't get any mana for it unlike storm
Yelena Belowva
Colors: Purple,Black,Blue
a variant of black widow,her steal skill is more costly but steal more and deal damage on top of that,the other turns special tiles into critical tiles so it's usefull against the like of wolverine and iron man
2-Star
Thor
Colors: Red,Green,Yellow
like iron man,thor feature a full set of damage skill,unlike iron man each of his skill transform tile on the board into the color to use the next one,so the red one generate yellow tiles,and the yellow one generate green mana,the green one unfortunately doesn't generate red tiles but it also deals damage to the whole enemy group instead of just one
Storm - Classic
Colors: Green,Blue,Yellow
some of the single player level drop comic of this so it's in the category of 2 star character that you can jump start easily... the green skill is exactly like modern but more powerfull,the blue one damage and stuns (but again,iron man does it better) the biggest attraction come in the form of a counter that happens everytime a character take big damage
Spider-Man - Bag Man
Colors: Purple,Blue,Yellow
this is a version of spider man where spider man dons a fantastic four costume,a plastic bag on his head and gets a "kick me" sign sticked on his back... i... didn't know that was a thing,the purple puts web tiles on board for venom,the blue stop a special tile (which i guess help with wolverine,that guy love special tile) and the yellow delay the timer of skill with a timer which isn't often if you aren't playing single player,basicaly he's situational as fuck
Bullseye
Colors:Purple,Black,Green (No Green Skill)
basicaly a better hawkeye,the black skill is like hawkeye purple skill but it also deals a truckload of damage if somehow you end up with 4 critical tile on the board... he also generate a defense tile (up to 3/4 depending on level) everytime a purple match happen
Hawkeye - Modern:
Colors: Purple,Blue,Red
all of his skill sets a countdown tile on the board which deals pretty big effect upon exploding,his other gimmick is that he can't be targeted,because he's a wussy
Wolverine
Colors:Green,Red,Yellow
Wolverine is OP as fuck and i'm totaly jelly i don't have one,the red skill hits super hard,even better than iron man nuke,the green one puts sword on the board which increase damage,the more red mana you have,the more sword you get,if you do it with a full red mana bar it easily ends up doubling your damage,his last skill heal him a little if there are a lot of yellow tile on board
Daken
Colors:Green,Black,Purple (No active skill at all)
a nerfed version of wolverine,he generates sword tiles when any green tile gets made instead,his healing skill is better but unlike wolverine if there aren't enough yellow tile on board he lose health instead
Captain America
Colors: Yellow,Red,Blue
basicaly his gimmick is that his skill also set a countdown on board which upon triggering returns him some of the mana,like iron man he also has a yellow skill that generate protect tiles... he's actualy the last character added so basicaly he's pretty rare to see at the moment
Magneto - Marvel Now
Colors: Blue,Purple,Red
another countdown character
3-Star
Spiderman - Classic
Colors: Yellow,Purple,Blue (No Purple Skill)
the blue one stuns,the yellow one actualy heals equal to the number of web tiles on board... timer on this game are based on healing your character so i guess that's the reason they made spider man rare as fuck
Black Widow - Grey Suit
Colors: Purple,Blue,Black (no blue skill,get green skill instead)
various board explosions + damage,tons of damage
this has gotten pretty big and it doesn't even have all of the 3 star character
