Marvel: Avengers Alliance 2 Guide: Tips and Strategy

MAA2 is the latest turn based marvel game to be out globally on both android and iOS. It resembles the first version but with some slight changes to the game mechanics. Here is a brief guide to help you progress through the game.

Game Basics

Let’s go over the basic mechanics of the game. You get to battle with 3 heroes in turn based combat. You got 2 heroes to start the battle while having up to 3 backup characters to switch in battle if you want. The third hero slot is an ally chosen at random. You can also switch the ally with your own characters from the backup team during battle.

Your leader skill gets unlocked at level 10.

Classes

There are 6 classes in the game, with the rock/paper/scissors relationship.

• Tactician – Strong vs Blaster, weak vs Infiltrator
• Blaster – Strong vs Bruiser, weak vs Tactician
• Bruiser – Strong vs Scrapper, weak vs Blaster
• Scrapper – Strong vs Infiltrator, weak vs Bruiser
• Infiltrator – Strong vs Tactician, weak vs Scrapper
• Generalist – No advantage or disadvantage.

Skills

Each character has skills that they can use. The first 3 skills can be switched to any available ability you have acquired in the game for that specific character. Each character also have an innate ability unique to them. Depending on your character, some may require resources such as rage, power or spirit to use their skills while some don’t.

Empower(Gain XP)

In order to level up your character, you can either fight battles or use Iso-8 and convert them into experience. Using the same colored Iso-8 for a character will grant you bonus points. For example, blasters(red) get bonus experience from red Iso-8.

Research

In order for your hero to increase the level cap, you have to research requirements to unlock them. You need to battle in specific maps to get the items to unlock the level cap.

Understanding Status Effects

There are buffs and debuffs in the game by wikia. Here are the descriptions:

Buffs

Name	Effect	Type
Adroit	Increases Speed by 25%	Tactical
Alerted	Increases Evasion by 25%	Tactical
Ambushing	Untargetable until this action completes	Buff
Blocking	Reduces Melee Damage taken by 30%; removed after attacking	Tactical
Bulletproof	Reduces Ranged Damage taken by 30%; removed after attacking	Tactical
Clarified	Removes and Prevents Mental Debuffs	Buff
Class Advantage	Increases Attack, Defence, Accuracy and Evasion by 15%	Buff
Fortified	Increases Defence by 25%	Physical
Frenzied	Performs a free attack after making a single-target attack	Mental
Guarded	Reduces the next incoming attack’s Damage and accuracy by 40%	Tactical
Hastened	Next ability is Fast	Physical
Heal	Restores some Health
Improved Shield	Absorbs a large amount of damage	Buff
Inspired/All	Increases Attack, Defence, Accuracy, Evasion and Speed by 10%	Mental
Inspired	Increases the next attack’s damage and accuracy by 40%	Mental
Major Heal	Restores a large amount of Health
Precognition	Perform a free attack prior to being attacked	Mental
Protecting	Defense increased by +20% and allies are protected from single-target attacks	Buff
Rampaging	Increases Melee Damage by 40%; Removed if damaged	Mental
Recovering	Restores health over time	Buff
Resilient	Reduces status effect Damage taken by 75%	Physical
Restore	Removes and prevents Mental, Physical and Tactical debuffs
Sharpshooting	Increases Ranged Damage by 40%; Removed if damaged	Mental
Shield	Absorbs a small amount of damage	Buff
Stealthy	Cannot be targeted by single-target attacks	Buff
Strengthened	Increases Attack by 25%	Physical
Stun Resistance	Stun has reduced effects. Increases each time a new Stun is applied.

Debuffs

Name	Effect	Type
Bleeding	Takes damage after attacking or after being hit by a Sharp attack; Stacks to 3	Physical
Clobbered	Unarmed attacks against this character do +25% damage	Physical
Crushed	Defence has reduced effectiveness against Blunt attacks	Physical
Confused	Removes and prevents Mental buffs	Debuff
Dazed	Decreases Accuracy by 20%	Physical
Demoralized	Reduces the next attack’s damage and accuracy by 30%	Mental
Distracted	Provoke a free attack after attacking	Mental
Exposed	Decreases Defense by 20%	Physical
Flat-Footed	Provoke a free attack after being attacked	Mental
Hindered	Decreases Speed by 20%	Physical
Intimidated	Reduces Attack, Defense, Accuracy, Evasion, and Speed by 10%	Mental
Ionized	Increases Damage taken from Energy attacks by 20%; Stacks up to 3 times	Physical
Minor Wounding Strike	Deals an additional 100% attack damage over time	Debuff
Neutralized	Removes and Prevents Physical buffs	Debuff
Off-Balance	Takes +75% increased damage from free attacks	Mental
Purged	Removes and Prevents Mental, Physical, and Tactical buffs	Debuff
Static Shock	Taking damage after an enemy shock attack	Physical
Stun	Next action is delayed
Susceptible	Increases Damage from Status Effects by 50%	Mental
Targeted	Projectile attacks against this target gains 25% accuracy and deals an additional 25% damage on a crit	Tactical
Traumatizing	Deals damage which is massively increased to targets below 20% health
Touch of Death	Deals a large amount of damage after a time	Physical
Weakened	Decreases Attack by 20%	Physical
Wide Open	Increases Damage and Accuracy of next incoming attack by 40%	Tactical
Wounded	Taking heavy damage over time	Debuff
Wounding Strike	Deals an additional 200% attack damage over time	Debuff

Resources and Currency

Let’s look at the main resources used in the game:

• Silver – Your main in game currency. It is used for upgrading heroes and acquiring some power cells. When you use Ally team up, you get bonus silver. You can also gain silver by selling leftover Iso-8s, logging in daily and from PvP respin.
• Gold – The real money currency. It is the pay to win currency. Use this to get new heroes and quickly complete tasks. Keep in mind you can gain gold as F2p by leveling up(10 gold), completing daily tasks(5 gold), connecting to Facebook(25 Gold), daily login(every 5-6 days) and story tasks.

General Tips

• If your hero dies in battle, they receive 50% less experience after battle is over.
• Don’t pay 5 gold for re-spins, especially on scouting missions. It is cheaper to use 5 gold to refill market surveys.
• Focus on leveling 5 heroes of each class. Quality is better than quantity.
• Team-up 2 similar heros removes your hero. Make sure to replace them.
• Never buy moves for ability points.
• When your commander level goes up you completely refresh your energy. Save your 300 CXP tasks until you have no energy and are close to a level up!
• Keep in mind Epic bosses can only be found in Heroic difficulty.
• When you switch heroes that have low health, they will regenerate health while in backup mode.

References: MAA2 Wikia