by BananaCrapshoot
Hello Champions, today we are gonna continue High Fives by looking at the five best Protecruon events. Let’s dive right in.
Fighting Fit
I’m expecting this one to be a less than popular choice. But I really enjoy this card. With heroes coming with cards that buff their health and honorary cards and other cards like endurance and soon to be the symbiote suit it’s really plausible to be able to keep our HP higher than our starting HP. As a result 5 damage to the villain for 2 resources is great value! I’d never play it at the 2 for 2. You have to build with that high hp strategy, but when you do this is a great one to throw in.
Side Step
I’m a fan of protection cards that do their thing and a little bonus. Side step fits right in. As long as you pay for it with an energy resource, you get to prevent 3 dmg and ping for 1. That 1 is great for finishing off a low health minion or kicking tough off someone.
Subdue
I really like this card. What I like most is that it can be used on minions too. So if you just blocked a hit and are exhausted or want to be ready for the hero turn, you can most of the time just blank an attack, even the beefier minions you can blank an attack. It’s like a stun on a stick for minions and some villains, still can boost but I’d rather get hit for 1 or 2 than 5 -6
Preemptive strike
This card has been great since it released with Ms Marvel. A staple card in that deck and many protection decks since. Canceling the boost icons and reflecting that damage back is so clutch. Especially with the beefier minions we are getting with more and more 3 boost icons. Note this doesn’t count the boost ability stars just the triangular pips. This also combos well with subdue on a villain attack.
Desperate defense
The thing about protection that makes it so slow, especially in solo, is the fact that you will be exhausted a lot in the player turn. Desperste defense is a great way to avoid that. Throw on an armored vest and play desperste defense and most times you’ll block all the damage and be able to ready your hero. This also enables cards like unflappable and hard to ignore so you get some card draw and threat removal! Giving you more options on your player turn.
That’s it for this high fives, let me know what your five highest protection cards are! And as always stay scheming Champions!
Extra nice boost for Preemptive Strike, is that it is the only non-hero defense event which can pull an attack off of someone else without having to exhaust to defend, given the 1.4 RRG update.