Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Best Teams And Their Bonuses

The best teams in Ultimate Alliance 3 for crowd control, boss damage, and pure utility, as well as great individual characters.

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With over 30 characters to mix and match into whatever dream team you can fathom, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 provides freedom to form all kinds of groups, but which team combinations and bonuses stand out as the best of the best?

Players have quickly learned that while the easiest difficulty can be breezed through with eyes closed and any four random characters, Mighty is a little tougher, and the later unlocked Superior difficulty can feel downright punishing. It is at these points that optimizing teams for bonuses and also individual strengths, not just preference, becomes integral to success.

Synergies and Team Bonuses

If you are new to the series, head over to Hero Select and hit “Y” to get to the Team Bonus screen. Here you will see every possibility combination of bonuses awarded depending on which characters are grouped together, over a total of 32 named teams. The original Avengers incorporate those first characters from the comics in 1963, whereas another group gives a bonus for all Spider-People. These bonuses can provide more strength, vitality, or a range of other effects to help you along.

Here are three of the strongest teams evaluated purely by their stat bonuses:

Elektra, Gamora, Psylocke, Wolverine

• Strength: +17%,
• Mastery: +5%
• Vitality: +4%
• Energy: +2%
• Total Cumulative Bonus: +28%

Daredevil, Elektra, Psylocke, Wolverine

• Strength: +15%
• Durabililty: +4%
• Mastery: +3%
• Vitality: +4%
• Energy: +1%
• Total Cumulative Bonus: +27%

Elektra, Iron Fist, Psylocke, Wolverine

• Strength: +15%
• Durability: +4%
• Mastery: +3%
• Vitality: +4%
• Energyy: +1%
• Total Cumulative Bonus: +27%

Note how Elektra, Psylocke, and Wolverine are in each of those teams, leaving a flex spot in many cases for preference or one of the three top-stated options above. With that said, team bonuses are considered to be less important than team synergy. By synergy, we refer to how well a character compliments another in the role that they fulfill, as well as the ability to coordinate special attacks together.

Consider for a moment that we may want a high DPS character, and another that can cast status effects, and another that can heal the group. The default plan might be to pick three characters with those traits, while the superior option would be to pick Scarlet Witch, which can fulfill all three roles.

By then selecting three other characters that excel in more than one role, you develop a well-rounded team that can do anything and everything. The following are some examples of strong synergistic teams, but by no means the only options.

Team Avengers: Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye

The Hulk is an all-around strong tank that we get at the beginning of the game. His high health pool means he we can sustain a lot of punishment, he has good stagger potential to get the boss into prime synergy attack position, and his charged attack is strong.

Along the same lines, Thor is also a strong front-line character that can take quite a bit of damage and synergizes his attacks with the Avengers.

Hawkeye meanwhile is strong in his keep away game and has charged attacks. This allows for safe kiting when one looks to avoid getting up close and personal with the enemy.

Captain America does decent enough damage and has a strong defense capability through his special attack.

Where Captain America shines in this and other team combinations, however, is through his group-wide damage buff that last but a short while. Instead of using this randomly in a boss fight, a strong tactic that works for most bosses is to near the point when the stagger bar is about to deplete, pop the damage buff, and then once the boss is stunned begin unleashing the teamwide synergy or extreme attacks that are augmented in their damage. Boss characters won’t know what hit them.

Combined together this team can easily take you through the Mighty difficulty with few problems.

Team Mutant: Wolverine, Magneto, Scarlet Witch, Psylocke

Wolverine is a fan favorite right now for several reasons. His DPS is strong, he has a regeneration that is defaulted into his character and only gets stronger as team-wide enchantments are applied, and perhaps most important of all, his second special ability combines damage with the grouping of enemies together. This type of utility is perfect for allowing allies to keep laying down a beat down in one area.

Magneto is not unlocked until later but shares this same form of utility with Wolverine by grouping foes together. On Superior difficulty, the ability to control where the enemy is positioned makes the difference between a difficult play through and a walk in the park.

As mentioned above, Scarlet Witch brings the damage down from a distance, but she has great utility in slowing enemies down or healing allies. Once enemies are grouped together thanks to Wolverine and Magneto, Wanda can cast her slowing Area-of-Effect (AoE) ability or simply use her attacks that hit grouped foes from a distance. Psylocke can contribute as her melee attacks have enough AoE damage to warrant an inclusion on the team.

Finally, like the Avengers team above, there is enough synergy with Wolverine and Magneto to guarantee that bosses will take a flurry of damage all at once with coordinated special moves. Although this team is great, remember that one needs to unlock Magneto through an Infinity Trial, so check out this great guide by Tony Bing, as he always creates great content on Marvel related games.

Individual Characters

When we stated that stat bonuses are not everything, we meant it. There are several characters that in their own right are fantastic in terms of raw power and utility. Deadpool for example is often compared to Wolverine for his regeneration which may be key for players who execute playstyles rooted in attrition.

Dr. Strange, The Sorcerer Supreme, falls under the radar of some players due to how late one unlocks him in the campaign mode, but you can be sure that he is strong with arguably the highest DPS at the moment. Since his attacks are all ranged, you can kite enemies for a safe encounter. In addition, Dr. Strange can also heal, giving him great utility.

Ghost Rider offers efficient crowd control, and we stated above with Magneto, that can be something that an entire composition and strategy is based around.

Black Panther is one of the quickest characters in the game, perhaps even too fast in some cases where one can accidentally isolate themselves from a team without meaning too.

Without a doubt, many of these characters can be mixed and matched, and others are likely to become popular once the game has been out for a while longer, but for now we can say that the above teams and characters can surely take you all the way through Mighty and Superior difficulty with a little practice. Surely, we glazed or skipped over some other strong characters, but this simply goes to show how diverse the options are to tackle the hardest parts of this game.

Now if only the developers would surprise everyone and make Nick Fury a playable character, we could start synergizing even more for S.H.I.E.L.D.!

Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 is available now for the Nintendo Switch.

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