MSF: Cosmic Crucible Season 8 Defense

To ensure that you defeat your opponents during the 8th season of Cosmic Crucible in MSF, we recommend that you use specific Defense setups.

One of the activities that you can enjoy in Marvel Strike Force (MSF) is Cosmic Crucible. This Swiss-Style Tournament matches players against each other to complete a Trial. Tournaments are part of a season and each one has different rules and distinct rewards.

If you are level 60 or higher, you have to prepare your roster for the 8th season of Cosmic Crucible. To ensure that your opponent does not defeat you, we recommend that you use specific characters to enhance your defenses.

Choosing a defensive setup for Cosmic Crucible is not an easy task. Since you earn Victory Points based on the number of turns you take to clear the Stage, we recommend that you use your best teams for Offense.

Your Defense team should therefore come from the remaining teams. Commanders have to pick the best Defensive setups for every stage, but keep in mind that your Defense team is meant to slow your enemy down and decrease their efficiency score.

It is worth noting that you will not be able to win the Tournament with Defense only, which is why picking teams for Defense is always secondary. You should always select your Offense teams before selecting your Defense team.

Season 8 will last approximately 3 months, but Scopely introduced new Global and Stage Rules that you have to follow.

Defense recommendations

After selecting your best characters for your Offensive teams, you have to choose your Defensive teams from the remaining characters. That being said, the following team lists the recommended Defensive set ups:

Stage Recommendations
1
  • Best: Mercs For Money and Black Knight
  • Optimal: Secret Defenders
  • Budget: Infinity Watch or Unlimited X-Men
2
3
  • Best: X-Treme X-Men and Super Skrull
  • Optimal: X-Treme X-Men and Vahl
  • Budget: Bifrost
4
  • Best: Spider Society
  • Optimal: Out of Time
  • Budget: P.E.G.A.S.U.S
5
  • Best: Superior Six and Super Skrull
  • Optimal: Darkhold
  • Budget: Black Order
6
  • Best: X-Treme X-Men
  • Optimal: Spider-Society
  • Budget: Infestation

Alternative recommendations

If you do not have any of the above-mentioned teams, we recommend that using the teams listed below to advance in Cosmic Crucible:

Stage Alternatives
1
  • Darkhold
  • Gamma
  • Unlimited X-Men
2
3
4
  • Infinity Watch
  • Unlimited X-Men
5
6
  • Black Order
  • New Avengers
  • Infestation
  • Spider-Man (Big Time)
  • Tangled Web

Stage Effects

Every season of Cosmic Crucible introduces new rules and stage effects. Before you start season 8, you should consider the following stage effects:

Stage Effects
1
  • On Defense and Offense, all characters:
  • On Turn, it clears Vulnerable from self and heals
  • Characters with Vulnerable gain -25% Resistance
2
  • On Defense and Offense, all characters:
  • On Turn, gain Bleed
  • Characters with Bleed gain 5% damage per Bleed
  • When applying Bleed, gain Defense Up
3
  • On Defense and Offense, all characters:
  • On successful hit, if the primary target has Exposed, perform an additional attack against the target
  • Characters with Exposed have -20% Resistance
4
  • On Defense and Offense, all characters:
  • On Turn, clear all negative effects
  • On Turn end, gain Defense Down, Offense Down, Slow and Disrupted.
5
  • On Defense and Offense, all characters:
  • On spawn, gain Revive Once at 50% max health.
6
  • On Defense and Offense, all characters:
  • After using an Ultimate Ability, spread all Positive Effects to Adjacent Allies
  • Ultimate Abilities cost 2 less Ability Energy

Offensive setups

Although you can use any characters for your Offensive setups, some teams will perform better than others. The recommended Offensive teams for every stage are as follows:

Stage Offensive teams
1 Infinity Watch
2 P.E.G.A.S.U.S
3 X-Treme X-Men
4 Out of Time
5 Darkhold or Black Order
6 Spider Society

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