Favorite Sentinel/Villain??

I don't know if this has already been done yet, but I was just curious to see which heroes or villains people like or play with the most! My vote goes to Tempest. What do you guys think?

Tempest for me as well.  I love fighting against Gloomweaver.  Zombie army?  Crazy cultists?  Dark God with ancient Relics?  It's like I'm playing Games Workshop's HeroQuest all over again!  With superheroes!

My heroes are in five tiers:

Top tier (AWESOME):

-Argent Adept

-Absolute Zero

-(promo) Fanatic

2nd tier (Yes please!):

-Nightmist

-Haka

-Tachyon

3rd tier (sure, why not!):

-Expatriette

-Mr Fixer

-Unity

4rd tier (hm, if we really need them and no one else wants to):

-Legacy

-Ra

-Tempest

5th `Bunker' tier:

-Bunker

Villain-wise, I'm not the greatest fan of no-target villains like Spite and Plaguerat, though they can be fun. I really like The Ennead, Akash'Bhuta, Apostate and Citizen Dawn.

My favourite hero is absolutely, definitely Nightmist :D. Heroes I enjoy playing to various degrees are Wraith, Ra, Tachyon, Ab' Zero, Legacy, erm, maybe Mr Fixer and Expatriette. Most of the others I'm not too fussed about, or am willing to play in certain circumstances (ie against certain villains) Not so keen on Bunker or Haka. Or Fanatic - I never seem to be able to do anything with her that doesn't involve killing myself because she's not good at healing.

I'm okay against any villain, but have to play certain heroes against some. For example, Nightmist versus Omnitron so I can Mistbind his deck whenever he's gonna flip to "draw a card at the end of the turn" mode and thereby have full control over his deck for the entire game (playing Astral Premonition when he's in the mode that only lets hiim draw one card on his turn). Played Tachyon versus Spite last night and that worked well - he couldn't punish me for using a power (once that drug came out) because I didn't have any, and then I used my Lightning Reflexes/Lightspeed Barrage chain-combo-thingy to deal 30 damage and obliterate him in a single turn (yes, I only had 10 Burst cards in my trash at that time :() :D. Stuff like Ra versus Voss/the Chairman is good 'cause of the AEs against all the bad guys. We do find some villains more difficult to beat than others, but sometimes we're doing fine against the villain and it's the environment that screws us up - we were managing okay against the Chairman once and were getting close to beating him, but ended up getting finished off by Anubis instead :(.

Heh.

Fanatic (not Promo) is my favorite hero still. And you have to understand when playing her that your life is just another resource, and use it. And push push push for Wrathful Strike to do a butlaod of damage in one hit. *laughs* She can be insanely powerful if you play her right, with a good team to back her up with some damage boosts. 

Picking a favorite after her is hard to say, really. I enjoy Unity and I enjoy Tempest. tachyon is kinda fun as well. Truth be told all the heroes are fun to me, even when you never draw a gun on Expatriaret, simply because the /game/ is so much fun.

My 5 favorite heroes are:

Haka

Bunker

Tempest

Tachyon

The Wraith

(honorable mentions for Promo Legacy, Ra, and Fanatic)

The only hero that I will never play is:

Absolute Zero

5 Favorite Villains:

Dawn

Voss

The Chairman

The Ennead

Apostate (though I haven't played him yet)

Least favorite villain:

Omnitron (too swingy as he is either too easy or too difficult depending on which cards come out)

As far as my favorites behind Tempest (first Hero I ever played), I also love Tachyon, Visionary, and Legacy.  I don't think there are any heroes I outright dislike (I do feel, however, that Bunker has fallen a little behind on the power curve and that a poor hand from Absolute Zero makes for an absolutely horrible game).  I like playing a lot of other heroes, but these are the heroes that most consistently reward my preferred style of play and how I like to contribute to the group.

Like many others, there aren't many heroes or villains that I outright disdain. My favourites are as follows.

Tip of the Top:

Fanatic, Visionary

Fantasticly Fun:

NightMist, Unity, Tachyon, Ra

Love to Lead:

Legacy, Wraith, Argent Adept, Mr Fixer, Tempest

Could Coexist:

Haka, Expatriette, Absolute Zero, Bunker

The only heroes I would probably turn down would be Bunker, whose play style is not what I'm interested in, and I've never enjoyed heroes in mechanical suits, Absolute Zero, because...I find him frustrating and then a joyous blast with little in-between, and Argent Adept, who I thought was going to be my favourite hero ever, but required more knowledge of his deck and re-reading of all of his cards than I had anticipated, and thus, he's amazing, but not my top.

As for villains? They fit in even broader categories for me. It's pretty much this.

Villains I will play whenever they are there:

Everyone not mentioned below.

Villains I'd probably pass up if given the opportunity:

Chairman, Matriarch, Spite, Plague Rat...yep.

My top villains are probably Akaash B'huta, Dawn, Baron Blade (I want to marry him. It's tough with these guys, as they can swing so drastically depending on the evnironment and heroes. I take it as a sign of a good, fun time.

For my favorite hero, I can never decide between Tachyon or Unity. I love them both equally.

But my favorite villain would have to be Spite.

favorite villian i really love the Eniead. Oh sure, even on normal mode they kick our butts often, specialyl if a bad combination of colors comes up to trigger off all the ones up, but it still is a blast..

I hope one day to play advanced against them.

Playing alone, they're all great, I just randomize it.  In groups, I usually also just play a random hero, because I like them all well enough.  If I have to choose, the order is probably something like this.

1: Visionary, Argent Adept, Legacy (America's Finest) - If I can help people be awesome, I usually will.

2: Tachyon, Haka, Unity, Nightmist, Fanatic - Great power, great utility, fun games.

3: Tempest, Wraith, Expatriette, Ra - The first two are good enough that I sometimes feel like I'm cheating.  The second two have less finesse than I prefer.

4: Bunker, Absolute Zero, Mr. Fixer - They take so long to set up, and have too little utility for my liking. 

Villains?  Again, I'll play any of them, I sometimes shy away from the last tier.

1: Spite, Citizen Dawn, Plague Rat, Ambuscade - A game against one of these villains never ceases to intrigue me.

2: The Ennead, Apostate, Baron Blade, Grand Warlord Voss, The Chairman - These games are usually tough, satisfying matches.  Blade is not so tough, but will probably always tell the most satisfying story.

3: Akash'bhuta, Omnitron, The Matriarch, Gloomweaver - Akash and Omnitron just take too long.  The Matriarch is tough in a way I don't embrace.  Finally, it's a nice thematic fight, but I'm not convinced Gloomweaver works correctly, mechanically speaking.

Out of the ones I've played:

Great Heroes: Fanatic and Tempest. Mostly because they're the only heroes where I feel like I can do decent damage right off the bat but still contribute to the fight in ways other than just punching things for massive damage.

Okay Heroes: Mr. Fixer, Visionary and Absolute Zero. Mr. Fixer has some really great cards, but his limitation of only having one tool and one style at one time limits his capabilities severely. His grease gun is really the only reason I don't rank him alongside Bunker.

At her best, Visionary can basically cripple the villain deck. At her worst, Visionary dies three turns in or just sits around in her coccoon half the game.

I like the concept behind Absolute Zero, but I feel like the small amount of damage he deals out early in the game (as well as the fact that even doing small amounts of damage ends up hurting him) makes him inferior as a damage dealer to Fanatic or Tempest, and that his healing capabilities are not particularly useful in the long run, since he can only heal himself. Thus, his only real use is as a tank; a role which can also be fulfilled by other heroes that have better offensive or support abilities than Zero.

Worst Heroes: Bunker. When I played as Bunker, his setup took so long that, by the time I could make decent use of turret mode, the villain was already about two turns away from losing regardless. In the end, all he did was absorb damage and help deliver the coup de grace (which the other heroes could have done next turn without his assistance).

Great Villains: Apostate and Citizen Dawn. Challenging and fun, but usually not overwhelming.

Okay Villains: Grand Warlord Voss. Voss just seems like a weaker version of Dawn at times.

Worst Villains: Baron Blade, Omnitron. Blade is just easy to beat. The only time I lost to him was when I used only two heroes, neither of which was capable of reliably dealing more than three damage to a single target in one turn. As for Omnitron, maybe I've just been really lucky when playing against him, but all my battles with him have just consisted of the heroes easily destroying every card he plays for an hour before he finally died. His main challenge is his massive amount of HP, so fighting him is fairly boring.

I play a lot of random solo games, and have a hard time chosing one hero above the others. Haka is a hero I like playing, though : I like his background, and he is always useful.

I also like Absolute Zero a lot : like for Bunker, the cards you have in your hand on the first turn completely change your strategy. But I prefer his "theme" than Bunker's.

Argent Adept is powerful, but he is the hero I would rather not play - he asks for too much brain power, not  a problem in solo plays, but not very fun when playing with someone.

I like the Matriarch for thematic reasons (The Birds is a movie I really like a lot), but she is always a hard fight, and often a depressing one. But random draw has me playing a lot against her avian majesty, and I begin to feel more comfortable against her. I don't like the Chairman much, his deck rarely gives you a weakness to exploit, he is worst than the Matriarch. I think I prefer Villains who don't ask you to be too "serious" and focused on finding the perfect move to survive and maybe win.

Omnitron may well be my favorite : he is not "too" hard to fight, but you have to adapt to what he does to win. Akash'Bhuta is a long fight, but always fun for me. I like Blade, but he is too often not challenging, alas. He can be a walk in the park, or an invincible juggernaut - but when he decides to play weakly, well, it is a little boring.

Gloomweaver... I don't find him fun to play against. I find myself always playing in the same way, with this one.

Edit: By the way... I just had two hard fights against Plague Rat, a complete defeat, and a hard won victory with the same team. While playing, I sudenly understood why fighting all the Rook City villain always seem "strange" to me : fighting them on their non advanced side feels just like fighting the non-Rook city ones on advanced. Plague Rat feels like he deals just a little too much damage, like if he had a permanent +1, for instance. It's like if the Rook City villains had an "advanced" and a "very advanced" gameplay instead of "normal" and "advanced".

Visionairy and Nightmist are so very similar to the characters I play in D&D where I just debuff.

Then Legacy and Expat are behind them if I want something different, then argent adept if I'm in the mood.

Favorite Villain I really like the matriarch, chairman, and Dawn. Apostate is fun too.

Spite is just rude.

I'm surprised by the lack of love for Bunker. He's not my favorite, but I still like him.

The few times I've played as Bunker, I just don't seem to be able to do anything with him except stack up the Omni-Cannon, provided he lives long enough for me to be able to use it.

Grenade Launcher, Gatling Gun and Maintenance Unit in Turret Mode is a viable card set up, too, especially if you're playing the Engine of War version.

I think that, when playing Bunker, many people become focused on something that hampers their enjoyment. For example, I hear people complain about not getting "the right mode" or "it took forever to get up Turret Mode". I've found Bunker is fun to play because I can almost always use the cards I get. If I happen to get a mode that is useful at that point, even better, but he generally always has something fun and interesting to do if I focus on what he has in hand.

That's just me, though.

I think Rabit is right. When I first played Bunker, I used modes a lot, but now only when it fits the situation. Even with just a flak canon, Bunker is already outdamaging most of his companions. Modes are very useful, but not mandatory, he has a lot of possible "configurations".

Last time I played Bunker, by the end of the game he was in "full tank mode 2" versus the matriarch : plating, maintenance unit*2, turret mode.

Bunker is one of my absolute favorite characters. I almost always end every game with his whole set up on the table, the rest of his deck in my hand, and to make it even sweeter I usually score the finishing blow on the villain.

I do think that the key is being willing to swap modes out as needed, rather than throwing everything towards getting into a single mode. I also tend to use the extra mode cards in hand as discards that don't hurt my capabilities or things to charge my laser/keep my gattling gun around. I love having an upgrade mode in hand during my open, and if I have an ammo drop, then I am immediately set up. (and if someone else is playing Haka, who is my favorite character, then I am going to kick serious butt)

Armor plating and the maintenance unit allows Bunker to tank pretty darn well, especially with all of the lower HP heroes that have come out since the base set.

I also really like Mr Fixer, and I regularly see people hating on him on these forums too. One of the things that I love about this game is the vast diversity of heroes, so that everyone has some choice in regards to who/what they are playing. I will never play Absolute Zero because of all of the math involved, but he is my room-mates' favorite character, so to each his/her own I say. 

For me it's this:

Top 3 Hero(ines as it seems)

1) Nightmist

2) Tachyon

3) Expatriette

Top 3 Villain

1) Spite

2) Apostate

3) Omnitron

Though heroes like Haka, Tempest and Legacy are really good, and can be necessary to win, the three i chose I enjoy the mnechanics. The quick card play, and doing many things at once

What about Wraith, then? Surely she ranks alongside Tempest as being able to do loads of stuff and get set up fairly quickly? Plus she can do deck control which is always helpful :D.

Absolutely. I don't dislike Wraith, and her Batmanesque style of "I have a thing to handle every scenario" is perfectly done, I just prefer the 3 i mentioned more. I played a game where we had Legacy, Wraith and Nightmist. We dominated. It was amazing. There's just something about her that seems to be missing something to make her qualify in my top 3. 

Fair enough. She's probably one of my favourites. Good damage, good utility, good stuff in general :). I do enjoy the arse-kicking the two of us give when we play Ra and Legacy though. I felt like we were being horribly unfair to Akash'Bhuta the other day, the thrashing we gave her when we fought in Insula Primalis and at one point had all three Obsidian Fields out alongside all the damage buffs it was possible to get from both Legacy and Ra at the same time. She played her "destroy all environment cards" card about a turn later, but it was epic while it lasted :D.

Ra's lots of fun. Fire. Kill it with fire!

Muahaha yes, the burning is fun :D. In that game I just mentioned, I ended up with nearly all of my deck out - I'd been playing Living Conflagration's power pretty much every turn in order to draw a card (and still doing about seven damage with the nuke due to damage buffs :D), in order to get out as many Ongoings as possible (and have as many spare Staves of Ra in-hand as I could get...which was very quickly "all of them") just in case Akash'Bhuta decided to play that card where you have to lose H ongoings between you. Can't remember whether that's Rejuvenating Entropy or the other one - one does ongoings, the other does equipment. Either way, we wouldn't have done too badly as we both had spare cards. It was a bit of a shame when she nuked all of the Obsidian Fields ("Disrupt the Field", I think) but we still kicked her arse handily and both ended the game with over 20hp each (Legacy's Motivational Charges helped with that) :D.

FOr my Akash game I had Nightmist, Legacy and Wraith. Will + X to damage. So, when Wraith hits 2 targets, she shot niightmist, who redirected that (+3 damage) to deal another + 3 damage. Galvanzie, the ongoing that increases damage, targeting sensors, and nightmists signet is essentially a crazy amount of damage. 

Yeah, Nightmist is cool for damage, though I tend to hurt stuff by using the Amulet to redirect damage when things try to hit me. Also when I use Oblivion, unless it's only one or two damage on the first card, I'll redirect the bit that would hit me onto another target. I don't actually use the Ring that often, since I like to use Investigate to get my cards out, and of course I'll be doing myself extra damage from that with the +1 from the ring. The way I play Nightmist, I don't really take much advantage of damage buffs. I tend to focus more on deck control and on getting cards out in order to achieve that. And to redirect stuff. And to heal off the Starshield Necklace if I don't have Master of Magic out yet. I suppose, basically, my tactic with Nightmist is to get as many cards as possible in my hand, but not so many that I can't look at the top couple from my deck when using stuff like Oblivion or Heedless Lash. That and get the Amulet and Necklace into play, and Astral Premonition. Pretty much everything else is there to be discarded when using stuff like the Necklace, Mistbound, etc.

My problem with Bunker is that you often get in situations where the best thing to do is *really* boring. Just going into turret mode and use the same limited set of powers every turn.. meh. Still, he can be fun, if you get several mode cards to play around with. I've been considering an alternative way to play him, where you remove the modes from his deck and replace his base power with a mandatory choice between modes every turn.

Redirection with Amulet of the Elder Gods do not double the buff the damage redirected. So, Wraith deals say 1+3=4 damage to Nightmist, Nightmist discards 2 cards and redirect the 4 dmg to villain target.

Isothermic Transducer do that because AZ takes the damage first then deals another instance of damage.

Although he could have meant: Hit Akash'Bhua and one other target then hit Nightmist who redirects to an already hit target, effecitvely hitting them twice.

Tempest: I hate that he is super powerful, but I love the character himself. I just feel like I'm picking Ryu in street fighter.

Tachyon: Great mechanic, character, visual and powers. Never boring.

Haka: an original approach and he makes me think of Hercules (Marvel), he loves battle.

Nightmist: She has been described as a white/black Magic the Gathering Deck. I agree, with a side of great art.

Mr. Fixer: Basically I love the art on his cards, all the styles are super original.

The rest are great but I would say that is my core five.

I essentially hit Akash twice using the redirect. I might ahve misread the Elder Gods Amulet and whether it says "Nightmist" deals the damage or if its the damage is "redirected". If it's the former then any damage boost nightmist gets, gets applied to the redirect, potherwise it doesn't/. ANywaus tis is getting off topic. I apologize. 

I've played Tempest, and felt he's quite versatile. But is he as great as everyone says? I haven't used him THAT much. 

Yeah, Tempest can be very overpowered. We don't play with him every game, but when we do, he does absurd amounts of damage.

The ring increases the damage that Nightmist deals.  Redirection only changes the target, it does not alter the source, so, since Nightmist is redirecting damage that is about to be dealt to her, if she wasn't dealing herself damage, she is not the source, and thus her damage modifiers do not apply.

Okay. That makes sense. A lot of sense. It still doesn't change my opinion of her. :P. I still love her playstyle. 

Favorite Heroes:

Haka: He just seems like he is really having fun every battle. 

Nightmist: I really like the little gambling sub-game that goes with her mechanic. 

Absolute Zero: His whole mechanic is one big gamble... but it feels so good when it works. He really just feels like he is going all in every battle. 

Favorite Villains:

Citizen Dawn: I actually kind of wish shed have a playable deck. She doesn't seem quite so evil... I could see her working with the heroes to stop some of the other villains. 

i love haka's art, espially Elbow jab, and i think its Haka of Restoration? Where he is eating a sandwich. *snicker*

The sandwich one is Haka of Shielding - Haka of Restoration has him standing against a green background. Someone's got a made-up quote from the sandwich scene as their forum sig :D.

That was my former signature.  Thanks for noticing!  That card art is a personal favorite of mine.  My group cracks up every time someone plays it.

Hehe :). Off the top of my head, I can't actually remember whether I have a favourite pic from any of the cards. But I do like the quote at the bottom of the erm, bugger I've actually forgotten the name of it, but it's the Distortion in the Realm fo Discord where all your stuff comes to life with 6hp. The quote is Maia's hairdryer invention talking to her in a squeaky voice, while her response is basically just "/sigh" :D.

Imbued Vitality.  I love that card!  My friends and I quote the flavor text to each other CONSTANTLY in squeaky, cartoonish voices.

That's the one :D. I just think the hairdryer is cute, both from the image and the dialogue. I'm sure it's probably got a very annoying, squeaky voice, but I can't help but picture it as cute and childlike :).

He seems a lot like Clippy from Microsoft Word. If only he had 6 hp too....

"Writing a suicide note? Try to avoid cliches like 'Goodbye Cruel World' and be sure to blame your parents!" - That Annoying Paper-Clip Guy From Word Processors

That is now the only thing I'll be able to think when I see this card crop up.

Bonus points if you know my reference!

A robot chicken reference perhaps?

Drawn Together, I believe.

Why yes. Yes indeed! One of those shows that really tried hard at being awful, and was super hilarious throughout its (short) run.

Have you seen the anime "Panty and Stocking with Garter Belt"?  The premise is "What if Drawn Together was an anime and the Powerpuff Girls at the same time?"

But back to the subject at hand.  After playing a game in which Bunker's Adhesive Foam Grenade saved us over and over again (THANK YOU Vernal Sonata!) against the dreaded Akash'bhuta, I wanna back him up.  He's been devalued by all of the card draw innate powers that trump his and he is a slow set-up, but External Combustion and AFG are amazing, and he's the only character that can reliably get a static DR of 2 (Recharge Mode and Heavy Plating).  He's not my favorite, but he's a pretty cool guy.

Hey Guys!

Favorite Heroes:

I would say my favorite hero, style-wise is Absolute Zero. I am a sucker for knights in sour armor, and it's cool that there's a Mr. Freeze-like hero out there. Gameplay-wise, he's a bit of a slow start, but he can be awesome. (Kind of want to try out his promo version for more consistancy.)

My favorite Support Hero is the Argent Adept. Sure, his character is a bit on the bland side, but he's so versitile. I'm glad Greater than Games makes Bards that aren't so spooney!

I'm also big fans of Bunker, Visionary and Fanatic, but I'm a fan of diversity, so I'll go with anything.

Favorite Villians:

I'm thinking right now: The Ennead. I'm a bit of a sucker for Egyptian Mythology, and I do love the gameplay for them. Fighting a team of superpowered villians is pretty cool on the table!

Favorite heroes:

My absolute favorite is Nightmist, and Argent Adept is a close second.

Third is Mister Fixer.

Fourth is Absolute Zero, and fifth... probably Tachyon.

My favorite villains are the Ennead, Akash'Bhuta, Voss, and GloomWeaver.

My least favorite heroes are Bunker and Fanatic, and my least favorite villains are the Matriarch, Ambuscade, and the Chairman.

I LOVE the Realm of Discord and Insula Primalis. I dislike both Rook City environments and mars, and have a love-hate with Megalopolis, Atlantis, and the Tomb of Anubis.