Marvel Strike Force: 8 Beginner Tips (2024)

Marvel Strike Force starts off easily enough. Manage a small team of heroes, work through a few missions... what tips could you possibly need, right? Well, my friend, you may not realize that you are not putting your best foot forward. As more modes unlock, and as you gain access to additional currencies, you may begin to realize that you have played your hand poorly.

However, it doesn't have to be that way! These tips will help you manage your priorities better, while also helping you save precious time while maximizing your Strike Force gains. These are all the things I desperately wish I had known earlier. Learn from my mistakes!

Increase The Combat Speed

I can't stress enough how incredibly important this is. Not just for the sake of saving time. Some battles are times in the world of Marvel Strike Force. If you are stuck in a close match, where you are slowly chipping away at your opponent, you can absolutely time out and lose. Especially with how incredibly lengthy some of the attack animations are in this game.

Thankfully, if you increase the animation speed, that doesn't also make that clock count down any faster. For that reason alone, I recommend always having the speed set to 3X. It may be a bummer losing those animations, but you will also save hours of your life not having to watch Nightcrawler flip around the arena for fifteen seconds a shot.

How To Efficiently Work Through Your Daily Objectives

Every day you'll be looking to cash in and quickly complete your daily objectives. You'll also likely want to clear those free orbs you are accumulating, and level up certain characters you are currently building. This can take a frightful amount of time if you do it inefficiently, so let me give you the streamlined order to approach these tasks that has worked well for me.

1. Start by taking your strongest team to the arena (you don't need to win with them, just enter a battle).
2. Clear your challenges. Auto-win them if you have the option.
3. Next, complete three Villain campaign missions and three Hero campaign missions. Make these quicker by auto-winning them.
4. Engage in three Blitz battles using your third-strongest team, second-strongest team, and strongest team in that order.
5. You will have some money from the blitz battles and campaign missions, so go to the supplies store and purchase three things. This can be character shards, or upgrade materials. The cheapest stuff is found in the "Main Supplies" shop, if you are looking to save money.
6. Head to your roster, and level up one character of your choice, and equip one character. If you have unlocked ISO Orbs, this is a good time to search for ISO orbs for any given character you are building up as well (more on that down below).
7. Finally, go back to the arena and your team will likely have regenerated (they were on a 15-minute cooldown). Use them to fight another battle.
8. At this point you will have completed all the primary Daily Objectives. Claim all your rewards in the Daily Objectives tab. Then, head to the milestones and claim all your rewards, and finally head to the shop and use all the orbs you have earned.

Once you have done all of this, you can circle back every five hours or so and complete a round of blitz battles, and spend your campaign currency in order to work at claiming the secondary Daily Objectives.

Positioning Matters!

An easy mistake to make in the early game is to just assume that team positioning is, more or less, irrelevant. It isn't like being in the back row will reduce damage or anything, and there is no restriction on targeting characters in the back row, so what does the position of a character matter?

Well, keep in mind that attacks come in basically three forms: They can hit a single enemy, a cluster of enemies, or all enemies. For positioning, the cluster-type of attack is what I'm going to focus on. There are tank characters in Marvel Strike Force. One of the primary jobs of a character like Colossus is to taunt the enemy team, and take shots on the chin. Once a team has been taunted, they can only attack the tauntee. However, if they want to hit a character who is right next to the tank, they can use one of those attacks that hits a cluster of characters.

So, you will want to position your tank on one end of your team, and your more vulnerable characters on the other. By positioning your troops this way, you will be able to protect your extremely important, yet typically fragile, controller-type characters.

Pay Attention To Synergies

In the early goings, you are probably going to want to just build a team using your favorite heroes. And hey, that will definitely work... at first. In the early goings, power is all that really matters. However, as time passes, and you level your team up, you'll start finding that a team cobbled together from all across the Marvel universe is probably a little lacking when facing off against foes in the arena or in blitzes. That is because your team's composition is extremely important the further in you get.

This goes beyond having a tank, a healer, etc. You want to pair characters together that share traits. An X-Men team will work, but an all Astonishing X-Men team will have even better synergy. Building set teams will flat-out yield better results. So, when possible, that is what you should aim for.

Build Multiple Teams For The Blitz Mode

The more teams you have to duke it out in the Blitz mode, the better. Every time you use a character in the blitz mode, you'll find that they are put on a cooldown timer, and it will cost the Blitz currency to use them again. However, you don't need your highest-level teams to succeed in the Blitz mode. Team synergy is WAY more important, as the teams you battle against scale to your level.

I've found that it works best to build teams up to level 30, as that is when they'll gain access to their ultimate attacks. While you are working toward that goal, feel free to take even lower-level teams in. If they lose, they lose. Every time you get five members that belong to the same group, save them as a team in the Blitz mode. That'll make it easier to cycle through them quickly.

Plug And Play Characters To Keep Your Eye On

I know I just talked about the importance of team synergy, and it is super important, but there are some characters who are pretty damn effective no matter where you slot them in. Some of these characters are relatively easy to get, as well.

Here are a couple of strong characters who fit this description: Apocalypse, Doom, Dormammu, Emma Frost, Kang, Kestrel, Quicksilver, Skrull, and Spiderweaver. These characters slot in anywhere really nicely. They can be a real lifesaver when you haven't collected one member of a specific team yet, or when you are trying to cobble together a Blitz team from scraps. Look for their shards in the supplies shop, and when you encounter them in the campaign, start dumping your Campaign Energy into their mission.

In Combat Aim For The Frail First

There are a lot of things to consider when trying to prioritize who you want to attack. Sure, healers can make life miserable, and naturally, you will want to take out heavy damage dealers before they crater your team, but not every character is built the same. If you see a Storm, for example, and you have the chance to strike first, you can take her out before she ever gets a chance to attack. That is devastating for the rival team.

How do you know who is fragile? A good indicator is if they are a controller-type character (like the aforementioned Storm). Browse your roster of characters and familiarize yourself with the controller archetype. Then, when in battle, target them ruthlessly. Use attacks that hit clusters of characters to get around any tanks using their taunt to pull attention away from them.

With Strike Force adding new characters all the time, the meta can shift pretty dramatically. However, there is one thing you can count on: other players will sniff it out faster than you could believe. Sure, you could join a discord, or hang around one of the popular Strike Force Reddit threads, but the more efficient method is to just keep an eye on what teams other players are building in the Arena. In that regard, every loss will be a win, as you will get to see what these teams are truly capable of.

Additionally, while some of the more effective teams will lose some of their bite over time, you can typically bank on the new team being pretty strong. When new characters drop, you are typically given a number of opportunities to earn them. Make use of those opportunities, as you will get some potent squads this way.