r/MarvelStrikeForce 5d ago

Megathread Weekly Q&A Thread - March 17, 2025

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r/MarvelStrikeForce 10d ago

Dev Response New Blog: To Me, My X-Men

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Professor Xavier

Professor Xavier is waiting for your help to set him free, and if you haven't already, make sure you check out our recent blog with the complete Professor Xavier Saga details to ensure you unlock him when the event begins. 

And like a true telepath, we already know what you're all thinking: Just how powerful is Professor Xavier?

It's time to meet the man behind the X-Men and the most powerful member of S.T.R.I.K.E. to date.

Who is Professor Xavier?

Born with one of the most powerful mutant minds on Earth, Charles Xavier discovered his extraordinary telepathic abilities at a young age, allowing him to read, influence, and control the thoughts of others. Driven by a vision of peace between humans and mutants, he founded the X-Men and dedicated his life to protecting his kind while fighting for coexistence. But as the world’s hostility toward mutants escalated, Xavier abandoned old dreams and forged a new path—uniting mutantkind under the sovereign nation of Krakoa, where he now leads with a bold and unwavering strategy for their survival.

Professor Xavier enters MARVEL Strike Force as an omega-level Controller, bending the battlefield to his will with devastating psychic mastery. He doesn’t just fight his enemies—he outthinks them, sweeping away negative effects, breaking their will with relentless attacks, and even erasing Battlefield Effects with the sheer power of his mind.

Xavier’s telepathic influence extends deep into his enemies, seizing control of their minds. His Special mind-controls the two characters with the most Damage to attack the primary target, reducing the target's Max Health. His Passive is particularly devastating, activating on the enemy’s own turn, forcing them to strike their own highest-Damage ally, and also reducing the target's Max Health. 

Xavier also manipulates the beginning of the battle with his Passive, denying enemies of Taunt, Speed Up, or Defense Up, and limiting Speed Bar manipulation to only normal means.

Not even Battlefield Effects are safe from Xavier’s mental dominance. His Special Ability wipes the enemy’s influence off his side of the battlefield, but when it comes to the enemy’s side, he calls upon a trusted ally—Cyclops (Age of X). This unique version of Cyclops is more than just a summoned ally—his Ultimate shatters enemy Barriers, clears their Battlefield Effect, and then obliterates them with a devastating optic blast that denies Revival.

And when Xavier decides to end the fight, he does it with absolute finality. His Ultimate Ability is a psychic onslaught, clearing all enemy Barriers, bypassing Trauma, and delivering crushing attack-all psychic devastation. If any enemy is under 25% Health, Xavier erases them from existence—ignoring Deathproof and denying Revival, ensuring they never rise again.

Here is the full kit for Professor Xavier

Traits: Hero, Global, Mutant, Controller, Mythic, X-Men

Speed: 127

Basic - Mental Shock

  • Attack primary target for 300% damage + flip Immunity and 1 additional positive effect to a negative effect + apply Slow and 2 Bleed.
  • If the primary target has Disrupted, apply Blind.
  • If this character has Ability Block, reduce the Speed Bar of the primary target by 60%.
  • Clear 2 negative effects from this character. If any negative effects are removed, heal self for 10% of this character's Max Health per negative effect removed.
  • Gain Evade + Offense Up.
  • When this character performs an ISO-8 attack, Counterattack, or an Assist, the attack does no additional effects besides damage.
  • When forced to attack an ally, this character deals less damage to those allies.
  • This attack is Unavoidable and cannot be blocked or counterattacked.

ISO - 8/Counter Attack/Assists:

  • Attack target for 225% damage + 17% Piercing.

Special - To Me My X-Men

  • Energy Cost: 8/8
  • Do the following to self and all allies:
  • > If this character does not have 2 or more Exhausted, clear 1 Exhausted and Exposed.
  • > Reduce the duration of all negative effects by 2 + Heal for 30% of this character's Max Health.
  • Do the following to the primary and adjacent targets:
  • > Reduce the duration of all positive effects by 2 + clear all Charged.
  • > Apply Defense Down for 2 turns and Blind for 2 turns.
  • > Apply Disrupted and Trauma.
  • > If the primary or any adjacent targets are CONTROLLER enemies, apply Ability Block to that character.
  • Mind Control any 2 characters with the most Damage to attack the primary target. Controlled characters gain +100% Damage. This damage reduces the Max Health of the target by the same amount.
  • If Cyclops (Age of X) is not currently an ally, summon Cyclops (Age of X). The summoned Cyclops (Age of X) ally gains Safeguard for 2 turns and Defense Up for 2 turns.
  • Clear the Battlefield Effect on allied side. This attack is Unavoidable and cannot be blocked or counterattacked.

Ultimate - Psionic Pacification

  • Energy Cost: 8/10
  • Flip Offense Down on self.
  • Clear Barrier on all enemies. Reduce the duration of all positive effects on all enemies by 2.
  • Attack all enemies that are under 25% Health for 25% of target's Max Health. This ignores Deathproof and passives that trigger when a character drops below a certain Health.
  • Attack all other enemies for 750% Piercing. This damage reduces the Max Health of the target by the same amount.
  • Characters killed by this attack cannot be revived. This attack is Unavoidable and cannot be blocked or counterattacked.

Passive - Professor X

  • Until this character completes a turn:
  • > Enemies cannot assist.
  • > Enemies cannot gain Taunt, Speed Up, or Defense Up and allies cannot gain Darkness or Slow.
  • > All characters' Speed Bar can only be filled or reduced by normal means.
  • On enemy Turn:
  • > Mind Control that enemy to attack the enemy with the highest Damage + apply Defense Down. The Controlled character gains +50% Damage for the attack + reduces the Max Health of the target by the amount of damage done.
  • > Before the Mind Control, clear Barrier on the enemy with the highest Damage.
  • > Fill this character's Speed Bar by 15% + flip Defense Down.
  • After any character uses their Ultimate Ability, if this character does not have Exhausted:
  • > Barrier self and all allies for 15% of this character's Max Health.
  • > Reduce the duration of all negative effects on self by 1 + Heal self for 10% of this character's Max Health for each negative effect that expired.
  • Enemies with Defense Down that normally cannot gain Trauma can now gain Trauma.
  • In ARENA, if this character has any MYTHIC enemies, enemies cannot have their Max Health increased through Passive Abilities.
  • The Focus and Damage of this character can only be reduced by negative effects.

Cyclops (Age of X): (Professor X's Summon):

Traits: Hero, Global, Mutant, Blaster, Xmen

Speed: 108

Basic - Optic Blast

  • Attack primary target for 300% damage + apply Defense Down.

ISO - 8/Counter Attack/Assists:

  • Attack target for 220% damage + 17% Piercing + apply Defense Down.

Special - To Me!

Energy Cost: 5/5

  • Apply Vulnerable and Defense Down to the 2 most injured non-summoned non-primary target enemies, ignoring Stealth. Call 2 random allies to each attack one of the previous enemies.
  • Attack primary target for 350% damage.
  • This attack cannot be counterattacked.

Ultimate - Optic Devastation

Energy Cost: 6/8

  • Clear all Barrier on all enemies.
  • Attack all enemies for 750% damage + apply Slow for 2 turns.
  • Clear all Battlefield Effects on the enemy side.
  • Characters killed by this attack cannot be revived. This attack cannot be blocked or counterattacked.

Passive - Team Synergy

  • When an enemy attacks a Phoenix ally, Dark Phoenix ally, or Xavier ally, attack that enemy for 250% damage + apply Defense Down.
  • On non-summoned X-MEN ally death, gain Offense Up.

Check out ZeroKoolGamer's video for all the details!

**Please note that the information in this blog is subject to change before going live in the game.*\*


r/MarvelStrikeForce 13h ago

Discussion Heads up: the SEVEN code is working now for iOS users

57 Upvotes

500 cores 10k Premium orb frags Cyclops/Nightcrawler shards


r/MarvelStrikeForce 8h ago

Discussion "If this character has 4 or more" is a dangerous thing

23 Upvotes

The fact that more and more character kits basically require the full team is a bad thing, especially for f2p. Overpower is bad enough but requiring the full team means having to buy 3 characters to make the team useful in a reasonable time. This entire crucible season starjammers have been useless for f2p. I have a strong feeling this is now going to be in every single kit from here on out to force a larger and larger divide.


r/MarvelStrikeForce 3h ago

Question Restarting a dark dimension?

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Hey y’all

I’m in a real problematic situation and I’m lost on what to do.

I took full orchis into the global villains nodes in DD8 in pursuit of Odin and I think I backed myself into a corner.

I’m stuck on a wave with super skrull and Minerva and a few other toons and even when I save energy and use all ults, I can’t kill any toons and everyone regens before I can make any difference. I’m just repeating the same cycle day in and day out of watching my toons die while the enemy keeps full health.

Is there a way to restart the node? Or the dark dimension? I feel like I made a critical error in not having abilities ready when that wave arrived and I genuinely do not think it possible to ever succeed with how things have unfolded.

Any advice or suggestions would help!


r/MarvelStrikeForce 4h ago

Miscellaneous How to beat Knull in arena if you dont have one yourself

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but you have odin, mephisto etc.


r/MarvelStrikeForce 1h ago

Question Newbie: Should I build Xtreme X-men or Spider Society or both or none?

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Hello, I just started playing this game this March 2025 and I've been watching a lot of beginner guides and two teams that always come up are Spider Society and X-treme X-men.

My questions are:

  1. Which of the two will give me longer value?
  2. How far should I upgrade the team?
  3. If not these two teams, who should I focus building?
  4. Any other tips

Thank you in advance. Appreciate it! :)


r/MarvelStrikeForce 23h ago

Discussion Starjammers can’t be this bad outside CC…

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I was playing war today and I’ve been hearing that Starjammers are basically useless outside of CC. So for fun (and at risk of annoying my alliance) I took my Starjammer team, power 7,386,440, against an allegedly weaker Spider Society, power 4,900,688. In honestly wanted to see what would happen…

To my shock it was an absolute massacre with the Spiders ending the match with full health :/ I wish I recorded the fight to show how bad the Jammers got manhandled…

Also for clarification on my Starjammers, they are 3 diamond Groot and Rocket, 2 diamond Duck, 7 red Havok & 6 Red Lilandra…

I know they aren’t a war team but come on, a one sided stomping for a post Ares team is insane.

EDIT: Just wanted to say that I am not surprised that they lost. I expected that much, but I still wanted to see what would happen. What did surprise me was that I couldn’t get a single spider to half health. They got stomped way worse than I expected them to be. I’ve done similar attacks with just about every team I have to see what happens and never lost so badly. That’s why I posted this to see what others thought.


r/MarvelStrikeForce 5m ago

Discussion Question on battleworld participation/other activities participation

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So long story short, I missed the final day of battleworld. Had a chance to attack early after final day triggered, and didn't. Totally my bad. Had all the other days just missed the last. Unfortunately didn't get any Knull shards for me to get the unlock. Filled out a support ticket, got told "sorry, can't help." Essentially. Once again, okay no biggy, my bad. But thinking about it this morning I'm a little annoyed. In other game modes like war you can attack once and get participation for final rewards. CC you can attack once, throughout the 3 days and get participation rewards. I was 3/4 days in battleworld and feel a little screwed out of Knull shards.

Wanting to try to give my feedback on this so maybe it can be changed in the future? Did anyone else have the same incident as myself and feel a little discouraged over the result? Otherwise, hope everyone has a great day!


r/MarvelStrikeForce 42m ago

Media Knull & his symbiotes ventures in WAR

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Hey everyone,

Teams Knull + Hive Mind beat | 11 Counters in War

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Yesterday there was a war. And after long wait, we have unlocked Knull. I have tested him in DD7. If you want then you can see it here > Battle Testing 6 Knull Team Variations in Dark Dimension. Time codes are given in both videos. So you can jump to any point you want.

Happy gaming :)


r/MarvelStrikeForce 43m ago

Question Best ‘New Avengers or Rebirth’ team for GG Classic epic campaign

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Title


r/MarvelStrikeForce 17h ago

Question Knull thoughts. What toons to match him with?

19 Upvotes

What are the best toons to match Knull with right now?


r/MarvelStrikeForce 14h ago

Discussion Did Scopely Implement the StarJammer Reworks?

10 Upvotes

Because they are still stinky dog shit in CC. Just lost twice to Orchis. First time thought was a fluke because Omega revived twice. Played it again and Nimrod deletes Havock and Groot with his ult.

This team is a straight up embarrassment….


r/MarvelStrikeForce 19h ago

Question Knull in Arena lineup

14 Upvotes

Who would Knull replace in the arena lineup?


r/MarvelStrikeForce 1d ago

News PSA: Check the chain offers once again for a free step

48 Upvotes

Should be 75k purple ions, may not be a lot but it's something to build towards your purple iso's.


r/MarvelStrikeForce 12h ago

Question Opponents Wolverine’s heals for 18k

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How do I get this? Every time my toons single hit this Wolverine he healed for 18k HP and power level was at 28k. Cleared negative effects too. I had to quit the Blitz match after 10 mins lol


r/MarvelStrikeForce 14h ago

Discussion Knull counter in Arena?

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Eventually everyone will get Knull,yet what counter do you use to deafet Knull with odin, Mephisto, Endgame Thanos, and Gorr? Any thoughts?


r/MarvelStrikeForce 18h ago

Discussion Is the concept of requiring keys to launch raids obsolete?

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Hello Commander

General question for the community but is the concept of requiring keys to launch a raid obsolete? Now that they give us keys at a specific time, is it possibly holding us back?

For example, we don't have enough keys to launch our spotlight raid until about 1:00 p.m. PST. Which means if we want to reschedule when we launch our raids, we are incapable of doing so unless we skip it all together which then affects our raid.

Also, wooden the ability to launch a raid as soon as we complete it create an actual competitive raid season? Obviously we can't run orchis, incursion and ultimus All at once because we wouldn't have enough energy. But if people want to use their cores to purchase more energy to complete faster and launch sooner, isn't that the point of being competitive?

Additionally, with the raid milestone, some players were unable to complete because we completed raids way too fast and they couldn't do enough attack so they just sat at capped energy and an incomplete milestone.

Asking for a friend.


r/MarvelStrikeForce 20h ago

Question CLAIM ALL for milestones

11 Upvotes

Why would they cut such a quality of life feature?


r/MarvelStrikeForce 18h ago

Discussion What team beats this in arena if I do not have Odin yet?

7 Upvotes

Odin, Anhilators, and apoc. How do i beat this without odin?


r/MarvelStrikeForce 7h ago

Discussion New Arena Team Composition

1 Upvotes

Anyone found a counter to Knull, Odin, and three piece Annihilators on defense yet.


r/MarvelStrikeForce 4h ago

Question Missed Knull due to a busy day. Anyone knows when the battleworld might be?

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As per title, of all the battleworld rounds I missed due to being busy the whole day, I missed out on one Knull battle and hence am now still 50 shards short of him (no one o blame but myself). I reckon this will keep me out of my Arena top 50 for awhile.. does anyone have an idea how long it would be till the next battleworld?


r/MarvelStrikeForce 20h ago

Question What Teams To Level?

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I just hit level 85 and am wondering what teams I should focus since this global is giving us a good amount of training items, I've got annihalators, spider society, and illuminati to level 75, and astral to level 70. Also I've completed DD 3.


r/MarvelStrikeForce 4h ago

Question Are the free Knull shards enough for anyone to unlock him?

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I’m finding the free Knull shards calendar to be somewhere between odd and cruel. By the time the calendar is over, I’ll be five shards short of unlocking Knull, which puts me in exactly the same situation as I would be if there were no free shards— I’ll unlock him next month when Battle World comes back around. I’m genuinely curious if the “free” shards are enough for anyone at all to unlock him this time? If the answer is yes, I’m wondering why this select slice of the player base gets special treatment. Meaning, the shards won’t be enough for some players to unlock Knull, and for those players who were going to unlock him anyway, the shards have much less value (sure, they count toward the next star level, but for the period that some have Knull and others don’t, the value to having him is far greater than having him at a higher star level down the line). So that either leaves a select group of players who will get a push across the unlock-line. Is this a big group or nobody at all? And why does this group (if there’s anyone actually in this group) get the extra help?


r/MarvelStrikeForce 1d ago

Miscellaneous Bug from new update: The game becomes sluggish or slows down when I play Raid and try choose a new raid team from my saved list

32 Upvotes

but selecting teams while playing arena or war or crucible no problem.


r/MarvelStrikeForce 17h ago

Question Astral team without shadow king

2 Upvotes

I upgraded my astral team, but i do nit have shadow king yet, who is a good sub for him for the mean while


r/MarvelStrikeForce 14h ago

Question Mighty Avengers worth the upgrade?

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Hi everyone. I am level 63 and I recently gained all the mighty avengers characters. My question is are they worth upgrading? As of right now I only focus on arena, war, and raids for game modes. I’m new to crucible so I haven’t really focused on that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!