MSF: Black Order Rework

MSF’s developer, Scopely, recently announced that the Black Order team received several updates to their skills, abilities and statistics.

Marvel Strike Force is an adventurous video game that enables players to procure a variety of Marvel characters to protect the Marvel universe from threats.

There are numerous teams that you can create to fight enemies, one of which is the Black Order, which consists of Thanos, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight.

Black Order Rework

Although the Black Order team was previously released in MSF, the game’s developer, Scopely, recently announced that the team will get a rework.

This essentially means that the entire team’s skills, abilities and statistics will be updated.

Scopely did not announce the reason for reworking the team, however, several MSF players believe that it is to prepare the team for a variety of MSF activities.

The following table lists the updated abilities and skills for each of the Black Order team members:

Team member	Updated abilities
Corvus Glaive	Shadow Slash: Attacks primary target for 240 percent damage Bloodletting: Attacks the more injured enemy for 700 percent Piercing damage Gain an assist from ally, Proxima Midnight Grim Glaive: Attacks primary target for 500 percent Piercing Damage Attacks all adjacent targets for 500 percent Piercing Damage Clears all Stun from all Cosmic Villain allies Gains an assist from ally, Proxima Midnight
Cull Obsidian	Obsidian Guard: Clear 2 negative effects from self. If a Legendary Villain is an ally, it clears all negative effects instead Payback: When an enemy attacks a Legendary Villain or Thanos ally, it attacks that enemy for 250 percent damage. The first time any character takes a turn while his health is below 30 percent and this character has Taunt, heels for 40 percent of this character’s health points
Ebony Maw	Needle Storm: Attacks primary target for 100 percent Piercing damage. He deals a bonus attack 3 times for 80 percent Piercing damage ISO-8: Attacks primary target for 248 percent Insidious Whisper: Clears all Counter, Deflect and Minor Deflect from all opponents Envoy of Thanos: Gains 20 percent max health while Black Order and Thanos allies gain 20 percent max health
Proxima Midnight	Starless Strike: This attack cannot be dodged and if Corvus Glaive is an ally, this attack cannot be blocked Star Throw: Chains to 3 targets within 2 spaces of the previous target for 250 percent damage and applies Offense Down for 2 turns. Proxima will also gain assistance from Corvus Glaive. Last Light: Gains an assist from ally, Corvus Glaive. Payback: Gains 80 percent Focus

Black Order Stat Increases

In addition to the ability updates, the entire Black Order team also received statistical updates. lists Their updated statistics are as follows:

Team member	Updated Statistics
Corvus Glaive	Base health is increased by 60 percent Base damage is increased by 35 percent Base armor increased by 33 percent Base focus increased by 29 percent Base resist increased by 30 percent
Cull Obsidian	Base health is increased by 14 percent Base damage is increased by 20 percent Base armor increased by 154 percent Base focus increased by 27 percent Base resist increased by 33 percent
Ebony Maw	Base health is increased by 29 percent Base damage is increased by 30 percent Base armor increased by 118 percent Base focus increased by 30 percent Base resist increased by 33 percent
Proxima Midnight	Base health is increased by 45 percent Base damage is increased by 30 percent Base armor increased by 44 percent Base focus increased by 29 percent Base resist increased by 33 percent

Thanos

As previously explained, Thanos is part of the Black Order team, but it seems like he got the most adjustments. Players should note that Thanos no longer needs all 6 Infinity Stones to become Empowered.

This allows you to theory craft with Thanos by being able to swap out Black Order characters with other characters.

Scopely revealed that they reviewed an aspect of Thanos’ base passive, whereby he generates ability energy for himself, or an adjacent Cosmic ally and evaluated if they wanted to bring that over to his empowered passive.

Scopely discovered that it will have detrimental effects to generate a lot of Ability Energy with Super Skrull.

Since Super Skrull is a very powerful character, Scopely did not want to introduce this mechanic with an empowered Thanos into the current Meta.

That being said, base Thanos still has that part of his Passive, but as soon as you bring in any Black Order character, he will become empowered and will lose access to that ability generation mechanic.

Do you need to procure the updated Black Order characters?

Players who already have collected the entire Black Order team do not have to procure the updated versions of the characters.

However, it is crucial that you ensure you have the latest version of MSF installed to benefit from the updated characters.

If you are yet to collect the Black Order characters, you will automatically get the updated versions of them instead of their original versions.

Black Order activity

Although you can essentially use the Black Order team for any activity in MSF, we recommend that you use them as a counter for Gamma in Alliance War.

Keep in mind that you have to upgrade the team quite a lot to have an influence in the war though.