I have actually found an interesting team composition that has been able to defeat every villain and their variant except for The Dreamer, so far…though it may be possible to beat her too with enough tries at it.
I thought of this team mainly because 4/5 of the characters on it are my favorite heroes in the game. The team is as follows in order from left to right:
Stuntman (Action hero variant)
Argent Adept (Normal version)
Captain Cosmic (Normal version)
Luminary (Normal version)
Void Guard Mainstay (Normal version)
The only one out of those 5 characters that isn’t my personal favorite is Argent Adept, although he is my favorite support character and is essential in tying that team together.
Action hero stuntman does his thing, setting up extra turn plays and abusing his power to boost damage by 1 and get an extra card play while saving En Media Res to use during the environment phase to loop the round all the way back to the start, giving everyone an extra turn.
Argent Adept, I find his best combo are his two extra card playing cards, the harmony one and the rhythm one, then bring out his lute to get 2 extra card plays. Though, he is also capable of getting rid of nasty ongoings, getting extra power plays and boosting defense and damage too as well as healing when needed.
Captain Cosmic loads up Stuntman, Argent Adept and occasionally Mainstay with Dynamic Syphons. Throws all of his defense buff construct at Mainstay. Gives extra damage to Mainstay and Stuntman, and helps out with heals. Those defense buffs and dynamic syphons are his most essential tools for this team.
Luminary is too much fun on this team. Play his cards that reveals up to 4 cards bringing out devices revealed this way and discarding the rest, abuse his base power to bring out even more devices and get more discards. His only ongoing card boosts the damage on his damage dealing devices by 1 and when a device is destroyed, he can either deal 1 toxic damage or discard the top card of his deck. The main plan here is to setup up his orbital laser doomsday device by filling your trash with as many discards as possible, then blow the villain off the map with one massive laser beam! If that doesn’t kill them, the next best thing to do is setup his other doomsday device that puts all of his devices in the trash into play at once, then rack up discards to shoot the laser again!
Mainstay, with this team setup, is by far, THE best tank in the game. With defense buff constructs from Captain Cosmic added with his biker vest card that gives him another defense buff and even with Argent’s defense buff, that’s -4 damage. Add that with his other card that redirects all damage to him whenever you choose to and he can soak all hits off all enemies and environments. He can be kept alive with heals from Argent or Captain Cosmic, can get extra card plays from Argent to build him up super fast with all of his ongoings and equipment cards in play after utilizing his motorcycle to get plenty of card draws. Then, when enough equipment cards are in his trash, spam Drop the Hammer cards to deal a TON of irreducible damage one play after the other.
With all of this going on, even villains like Spite couldn’t stand a chance against this setup.
This is, by far, my favorite team in the game to use. I am only missing a win vs The Dreamer and just realized I need to try this team on vengeance villains as well still too, so going to do that next.
Do any of you have a favorite team that can beat all villains too? I’m curious what your setups are.