A good preparation is half the work. With this detailed guide you will set yourself up for both Phoenix, Black Bolt and Ebony Maw. So read on to prepare. After this one, it just gets easier.
Phoenix is one of the best characters in the game. She is a must for arena, war offense, tougher nodes in raids and Dark Dimensions. Getting this character earlier than your competitors will make you so much more ahead of them.
Phoenix is an end-game character and it will take months to prepare for her event but by following this guide you will unlock some of the best characters in the game and also get closer to unlocking other legendary characters and game content. You will also have the characters to position yourself better in the arena and to progress in raids faster alliance team mates.
So don’t postpone getting Phoenix and read through this guide to find out how to efficiently prepare for this event.
Phoenix Requirements
To get Phoenix you will need characters with Mystic, Villain and Controller tag. There are only 6 characters that meet the requirements. Mordo, Loki, Hela, Ronan, Nobu and Hand Assassin. We will drop Hand Assassin as it is the worst character and has hardly any use elsewhere in the game.
The lowest reported team power required to unlock Phoenix is about 85K and is below what we will need to get the other characters needed for this event so lets see what is needed to get these villain mystic controller characters.
What i have come to realize is that getting Phoenix is all about getting Hela. If you have a way to farm Hela, you probably have a way to farm every other character needed to unlock Phoenix so this guide will mostly consist of how to farm Hela.
Hela
Hela is probably the most complicated character to get because you need to clear villains chapter 7 missions 1, 2 and 3 which require Hydra, AIM or Sinister Six characters. Then To get to Hela you will need Mystic Villain characters to get to her node .
I have chosen AIM because I plan on taking them to Dark Dimension I and I think Scientist Supreme is an end game character available very early on and very useful in Ultimus 7.
Hydra is not a good choice because it is not really needed elsewhere but if you have Red Skull, they will probably 3-star these missions with least power (though only one star is enough).
Sinister 6 is also a good choice if you plan on going for Shuri and Invisible Woman. I don’t think they are a good choice for Dark Dimension I and they are a mediocre team with hardly any use after these 2 legendary characters are unlocked making me stick with AIM.
Feel free to mix and match these 3 teams but you may need a lot more investment to 3-star so I advise against it.
AIM
I have chosen Scientist Supreme, Assaulter, Security, Researcher and Graviton. They may not be the easiest to farm but this is the best composition that will provide best sustain and will be a better war team and Dark Dimension I team. However if you find Graviton to be too hard of a farm then replace him with Monstrosity but this is a worse investment.
To get Scientist Supreme you will need characters with cosmic tag as she is available at Cosmic 2-9. You will be developing Hela and Loki for Phoenix, so a natural fit here are Thor, Heimdal and Sif. With these characters you will need as low as 50K up to 65K power team to 3-star the mission.
If you had luck with orbs and unlocked Hela or Loki early on, feel free to use them as they will make your life easier in many modes early on. Alternatively replace Heimdal with Mordo as they are both arena store unlocks and Mordo will be more useful in this guide. But you won’t regret unlocking either.
AIM Assaulter and AIM Security will require both heroes and villains team of power 40K power so you can unlock these very early on. in Their respective nodes in Heroes 5-3 and Villains 5-3.
Graviton is a tough character to unlock as he requires you to be in a guild of at least level 20 and you need to be level 55 to participate in war. Then he is available through war store and this is a very hard currency to get. So if you feel like this is not for you, choose AIM Monstrosity which is available in blitz store and is much easier to unlock.
AIM Researcher is a very cheap unlock at the arena store so make sure to do this right after Heimdal or Mordo.
And back to Hela…
Once node 7-3 is cleared you will need to clear 7-4, 7-5 and 3 star 7-6. To do this you need characters with villain and mystic tag which is convenient as we can use the characters we are preparing for Phoenix. This only requires unlocking these characters so make sure to do this first.
Mordo is vital in this node for his blinds, heal blocks and stun. As mentioned, he can be used to get Scientist Supreme and can be used in villains, mystic and cosmic campaigns.
Ronan can be used in the same campaigns as mordo and as he is required for Phoenix, this is a no-brainer.
Nobu can be used here as he is required for Phoenix and if you have no other choices. Don’t feel bad for investing a bit in him as he will be useful in Relic Hunt as well.
Hela may not be available for you to farm but if you have unlocked her, she will help by spreading blinds and other negative effects making this node so much easier.
Loki is a better choice than Nobu as he can hide your team and force the enemy to attack the duplicates he creates but if you cant farm him you will rely on the luck of the orbs. To farm Hela you only need to unlock him but you should be able to farm him if you want to get Phoenix.
He is farmable on node 3-6 of the mystic campaign and will require a powerful team to 3-star at around 150-200K. Beautiful thing about it is that you can use any of the characters required for Hela or Phoenix including Asgardians you used to get Scientist Supreme.
Juggernaut is the only farmable tank up to this point in game usable for this mission. He is also required to unlock Magneto and they are a very good team together. He is a bit steep to unlock in the Arena store at 100 shards.
Thanos will probably not be farmable (Nexus 8-9) for you at this point but if you managed to unlock him through lucky orb pulls, you should use him.
Yondu is not the best choice pretty much like Nobu but in absence of other characters feel free to use him. He has use in mystic, cosmic and villains campaigns as well as Space Ace event to get Star Lord.
And that is it, by getting characters you need for 3-staring Hela’s node, you get characters to get Loki. If you have the characters to get Loki, you have characters needed to get Nobu.
Step by step
I know it is a bit complicated so let me put it in steps.
- Unlock Thor from welcome calendar
- Unlock Yondu from Heroes 1-9
- Unlock AIM Assaulter from Heroes 5-3
- Unlock AIM Security from Heroes 5-3
- Unlock Mordo from Arena store
- Unlock Sif from War store
- Farm Ronan from Raid store to 6 stars
- Unlock Scientist Supreme from Cosmic 2-9
- Unlock Graviton from War store or AIM Monstrosity from Blitz store
- Unlock AIM Scientist from Arena Store
- Farm Nobu from Villains 6-3 to 6 stars
- Farm Loki from Mystic 3-6 to 6 stars
- Farm Hela from Villains 7-6 to 6 stars
- Farm Mordo to from Arena store to 6 stars
- Wait for Phoenix event
By day 50 of playing I was able to unlock all of these characters except Loki, Graviton and Nobu. Hela was a lucky pull.
Here is the complete picture with connections even though there is so much re-usability that they clutter the image.
Summary
This guide did not only prepare you for the Phoenix event but made you set up a very viable end-game teams like AIM and Asgardians. These two teams will make you shine in Arena, Raids and you will be set up for Dark Dimension I and a little more of work II and III. And if you chose to opt for Sinister Six you strong foundation for 2 other very useful legendary heroes.
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