Curious: Has anyone run the numbers to see which heroes Super Scientific Tachyon's ability will be more likely to work well with? I've been wanting to, but haven't been able to make the time, and if no one else has done it, I thought we could make it a community project?
I've given it thought myself but haven't looked into myself too much either. The hero deck breakdown on the spreadsheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/lv?key=0AprCZHVK0QvtdDVyV1VTTk54TEJ1RFBlSXlJV1p0SVE&f=true&noheader=true&gid=5 seems like a good starting point.
Haven't run the numbers, but here is what I have seen with her:
The good (so far)
Setback: because its all one-shots and ongoings, theres a good chance that you'll get something useful. it might not be exactly what you wanted....but thats Setback for you.
KNYFE: This is one of my favorites, given how nasty her one-shots are. Since some of her stuff shares the "Limited" keyword, you can get some very nasty stuff out at the same time.
Ra: Similar to KNYFE.
OX: Limited, equipments, components, platings... lots of keywords, most of which overlap in some form or another. All of which are highly beneficial.
Sentinels: Bar none, these have been the best recipients of Experimentation. They have so many one-shots that you are highly likely to get out something good.
Bunker: Decent chance for a match, solid performance for just about any card that gets played. The modes can be irksome if two come out at once.
Wraith also works wonders, so many equipments out makes her a strong contender.
Argent Adept. So many ongoings.
Chrono Ranger, so many one shots and bounties
Her wife?
You win today. Congratulations.
Rather than speculate, I have calculated the odds for each hero of pulling a matching pair (assuming we know nothing about cards in hand, play, trash). Here we go:
- Sentinels - 66%
- Tachyon - 65%
- Legacy - 60%
- Nightmist - 53%
- Setback - 53%
- Wraith - 51%
- Scholar - 50%
- Naturalist - 49%
- Expat - 49%
- Parse - 49%
- Visionary - 47%
- Tempest - 47%
- Fanatic - 46%
- KNYFE - 45%
- Haka - 44%
- Ra - 44%
- Chrono-Ranger - 43%
- Bunker - 41%
- Absolute Zero - 40%
- Argent Adept - 37%
- Omnitron-X - 34%
- Mr. Fixer - 32%
- Unity - 32%
I'd avoid Wraith personally, because a badly-timed Inventory Barrage could be devastating. And she usually doesn't need the help anyway...
Love the percentages, but you also want to be careful about what you get, not everything is optional.
Wraith and OX can blow up heir stuff, and putting Take Down into play when you've already played Mistbound sucks. Be careful out there.
Sucker Punch. Expat at 2HP. No other eligible targets. Have we told this story enough times yet? ;)
I Experimented on Baron Blade once, just because. Revealed Hasten Doom and Hasten Doom. One of the Hasten Dooms played a third Hasten Doom. The other played Devious Disruption.
So yeah, I don't recommend Blade's deck for Experimenting.
I just realized that argent adept could set himself up to be Super-Scienced with arcane cadence and with dark visionary you could make her offensive power into a support power. Not a great one but it would work.
Never, ever, under any circumstances, EVER experiment on the Ennead.
100% chance of success = pain and horror.
In the APP, I love to experiment on Voss especially when Haka is in play with Savage Mana and Taiaha. In most cases I'll get two minions. You have very low odds of getting two Forced Deployments (which is no worse than one), two Lts, two Warp Drives, or two Flagships. If Tachyon is first in the order, you'll have a few turns to deal with whatever comes out. It's very useful to put his Flagships directly in the trash if they don't come up together.
Also, to make Silverleaf feel better: I played a game today with Legacy, Haka, and SS Tachyon against Advanced Voss in Insula Primalis. I wasn't thinking that I wouldn't have much of a way to deal with the flagships and of course the TCF Conqueror came up on like turn 2. After a few turns, the Volcano came up and I was able to whittle both Voss and the Conqueror down by attrition and redirecting damage. Legacy fell during a Heroic Interception and Haka was down to 3, Tachyon 2 and Voss 14 with a Forced Deployment ready to burst. Haka played Ground Pound, then on Tachyon's turn I experimented revealing a Sucker Punch with Tachyon the only 2 HP target in play. She incapacitated herself, but I ended up winning in the next round because Legacy's incap power allowed Haka to draw a Rampage.
Final HP Tally: Legacy 0, Haka 1, SS Tachyon 1, but most importantly Voss 0
Experimenting with NightMist or Fanatic can be devastating. A poorly timed Oblivion or End of Days can wreck your game.
This was my favorite Experiment ever. It was in the late stages of a game against Advanced Voss. A close runner up in the same game was revealing Blinding Speed and Sonic Vortex while Forced Deployment was in play. Before this my favorite Experiment was revealing both of AZ's modules in the same round a Devastating Aurora had gone off.
Tryuly, a double barrage is a thing of beauty.
Unless you get it on the first turn.
Eh, it's still pretty.
Just not effective.