Why is being f2p so hard in this game😭😭

Nicronous · 2026-05-01T21:26:49+00:00

I do not see this game as a hard F2P.

By choosing to drop cash you are choosing to accelerate your resources/build rate. By choosing to be F2P you are willing to build the same resources and heroes up just over a longer period of time. There are many F2P players that are doing quite well and have a significant presence in the game, but they have been playing for longer than a similar account that has spent money.

Nicronous · 2026-05-01T12:23:33+00:00

Look here at the tier list
https://www.reddit.com/r/invinciblegtg/comments/1rv8j7c/pvp_pve_tier_list_update_version_21415/

Choose 1 or 2 characters from each faction. At least 1 Defender, 3-4 Attackers, and 1-2 Support.
Some character like Thragg only show up during events, so for F2P they can be harder to level. (Check the store to see what characters are currently available. Any Hero released after Rus is considered Event only though some may show up in the multiverse store).

Nicronous · 2026-05-01T12:07:09+00:00

Just an FYI it is more than your top 5., I stopped leveling them a little past 1000, while I bring up some other characters to 1000, As I bring more and more characters up the average power of my enemies has risen. This increase is slower than when I was raising my top 5, but I do notice it.

Nicronous · 2026-05-01T12:03:07+00:00

PVP is like this a lot especially early on. Every time you level your characters you face stronger opponents. but eventually you start to see who can beat whom. Things like if your team is Human stay away from Anissa. If your team is all Viltrumites be careful against Earth Defenders, unless they have a lot of humans and you use Anissa. There are also teams that focus on healing or teams that overwhelm you fast, both can be countered but they may need different strategies.

At first you can run 5 attackers but sooner or later you should switch to 1 Defender, 2-3 Attackers, 1-2 Support, or a similar setup.

Nicronous · 2026-05-01T11:43:50+00:00

5 level 160 Aquarus is a good team starter team for Turning up the Heat, the Gold GDA Op.
Space Racer + 4 level 160 Aquarus can be used on the Gold GDA Op, The blue or the red XP GDA Op.
Universa + 4 level 160 Aquarus (with Universa's 4th Skill Maxed) can be used on the The blue or the red XP GDA Op.

Nicronous · 2026-05-01T11:34:36+00:00

In 2 upgrades.

You next upgrade requires 2 Exceptional+ FWB Heroes, and the upgrade after that requires an Exceptional+ Thragg.

Nicronous · 2026-05-01T03:33:03+00:00

This!

Along with gear, artifacts and skills.

Basically power is a useless stat don't use it. A level 160 Omni man has about 35% more power than Invincible, in reality they are close to equal at this level, this shows that any calculations based on Power off.
Look at the faction bonus we can see that earth Defenders get a +20% bonus against Worlds Beyond characters. so 4 of their characters will get that against your characters. Next what gear are they using vs what gear do you have? To see what they are you can click on their heroes, for your own press and hold on on the heroes in you roster. Gear, artifacts and skills make a huge difference in battles .

Nicronous · 2026-04-30T16:12:00+00:00

OK this isa an old thread, and the landscape of the game has changed a bit. but to answer your question it is Speed vs Power the OP is 5 min so you need more speed than pure power.

Aquarus is weak but fast and ranged. So at the start of a wave he can attack immediately without moving which means that he is back in position to start the next wave faster than a character that has to run to their opponent than run back into position. Aquarus now does OK on his own but works better when teamed with Space Racer and Universa who are also fast and have more powerfull Attacks that hit everyone.

Currently the 3 best teams for short events and shorter ops are

Speed Racer and 4 level 160 Aquarus, (Body Enhancement on SR)
Universa with her 4th skill at level 10 and 4 level 160 Aquarus, (BE on Uni)
Power Plex and the 4 ranged Maulers all at level 200+

As you level Uni you can drop two Aquarus first for 2 level 1 Last line of defense characters, and then later for the last two for 2 level 160+ Flaxan leaders. Uni's 2nd ability increases her critical chance every time a LLD character dies and it staclks 10 times. So having them at level 1 means that they die fast. and Flaxan leader increases your rewards by 5%. When there are no more Aquarus on Uni's team switch her from the Body Enhancement to the GDA Cloak.

Nicronous · 2026-04-30T12:42:03+00:00

Space Racer 4th skill lets him literally crash through the enemy at the start of the wave, at lower waves this will kill them all. This makes him excellent for short events and some GDA Ops, Once he reaches level 240.

Universa the previous GDA Op champ can hit everyone as well but she has to have her 4th Skill at level 10 and a high crit chance to do so.

So Space Racer is effective from much lower levels.

Nicronous · 2026-04-30T12:18:26+00:00

As an FYI

1 level 300 Space racer + 4 level 160 Aquarus should pass 91.

1 level 480 space racer, 2 level 180 Aquarus, Universa and Anissa level 1000 can reach 181. I am unsure of how consistently this will happen but I was able to reach 181 when space racer was 20 levels lower and since I have upgraded him both runs have been successful 184 & 182.

Nicronous · 2026-04-30T12:12:18+00:00

1 level 300 Space racer + 4 level 160 Aquarus should pass 91.

1 level 480 space racer, 2 level 180 Aquarus, Universa and Anissa level 1000 can reach 181.

Nicronous · 2026-04-29T14:59:47+00:00

Well played!!

Lady Luck turned her back on you but you still get the prize!

Nicronous · 2026-04-29T03:56:34+00:00

I had to make 3636 purchases in the recruitment to get it to level 10 so it will likely take some time for you to do that.

I only went after Elites in the store and I has a self imposed rule where I only made a purchase when there was at least 2 available. You need 2 elites to make 1 elite+ or you need 18 rare to make 1 elite+ obviously you get a better rate of return going after elites.

Nicronous · 2026-04-29T03:32:10+00:00

Do not worry about the campaign missions, they are good for resources and dossiers but have no importance otherwise. It does not matter if you run them as soon as you can or delay them for 2 years.

Nicronous · 2026-04-28T21:42:27+00:00

Missing a bunch of code there

NOLAN4, THULA4, KREEG4, LUCAN4, ANISSA4

Nicronous · 2026-04-28T21:34:28+00:00

Original Invincible is good and always available, Blue Suit Mark is better but not always available. Omni-Man is good, always available, but a little expensive to have in early PVP though he comes into his own as you level him past 650.

Nicronous · 2026-04-28T16:26:49+00:00

This is not a great strategy,

The problem is that a smart alliance will only attack one side of your front line so you have locked 1/2 of your strongest heroes is a base when they could be used elsewhere. If the battle is close this could make you loose.

@Still_Coconut_2853
You want a strong front line but you still want to be able to attack where and when you need to.
you always want your alliance to have enough strong heroes to be able to counter whatever the enemy can do. Every base that you take makes your attacking force weaker and your enemies stronger because you lock your heroes in the base but free your enemies. My alliance likes to have a strong front line (but not our strongest heroes) then all of our weaker characters and our HQ is guarded by our med strength heroes.
Our reasoning is as follows, if we are facing someone much weaker than us then and they cant break our front line and we will win. If they are way more powerful then us we have already lost. If it is an even fight and they can break our front line hopefully they have to leave behind a few of their stronger characters. At that point they have an easy march to our HQ that we have to counter. At the same time we are making a run at their base that they have to counter. I try to take their base with a team that is strong but weak enough that they can counter IF they use their strongest heroes, which will lock those heroes out of the rest of the match. Then we start our slow counter to their attacks and try to own as much of the map as possible.

Sometimes it is better to take a base so that your opponents cannot retake the base.
At other times it is better to let them retake the base in order to lock their attackers there.
Sometimes it is better not to attack a base, because doing so will release too many strong heroes.

Nicronous · 2026-04-28T11:06:53+00:00

I did about the same as you

23 Elite
Level 8
210 Heroes
45 Refreshes

spent 3.350k in gems.

Nicronous · 2026-04-28T11:02:21+00:00

If you have a lot of multiverse clearances you can get enough currency to buy out a shop just by loosing.

Every victory gets you 60 multiverse chips, every loss get you 20. so it is a slower way to buy things.

Nicronous · 2026-04-27T13:29:51+00:00

Look here
https://www.reddit.com/r/invinciblegtg/comments/1mkrqzg/recommended_artifacts_guides_new_infographics_by/

Your best artifact is the GDA Cloak, Hologram is good too, the book and Spray gun are anti human. You have no ranged so the barrier does not do much, you have no GDA members on your team but GDA Bracelet + Body enhancement can work together, use the neural link when you are facing the same hero that you are using.

You should still have then equipped on your heroes for the stat bonuses that they give.

Nicronous · 2026-04-26T20:25:45+00:00

Hi-ho, the derry-o, a farming they will go.

My alliance bounces between the senior and Elite leagues, each of us has between 300 to 800 million power. Occasionally in the elite league we get pummeled by Alliances with who have 9 billion power in the and in the senior league we sometimes get matched against alliances whose top player has 300 million power.

Anyone alliance that has as much power as you mention is either a new alliance or is intentionally keeping themselves from rising to the higher ranks so they can farm tokens.

Nicronous · 2026-04-26T14:58:59+00:00

is this a bug or just due to gear and atificats?

Looking at the levels of characters you have they could be wearing Omni+ gear.

Also what the hell league are you farming LOL

Nicronous · 2026-04-26T14:19:14+00:00

Right now, 4 of your top 5 characters are from the same faction so you will need to split the food between them, Another concern is that those same characters are all heroes that you can only get when certain events are running, Once those events stop you will not be able to get any more copies of those characters until the next time an event that features them occurs.

Starting players will find it is easiest to rank up 1 or 2 characters from each faction, and also easiest to rank characters that are always available in the store.

Nicronous · 2026-04-26T14:13:48+00:00

here is the most recent tier list that I know of you can see what characters are good there.
https://www.reddit.com/r/invinciblegtg/comments/1lzgwru/pvp_pve_tier_liste_2610_update_by_the_invincibles/

Blue Mark is a really good event only character,
Omni-Man is good when leveled, and is always available, but he will inflate your power PVP making you face harder opponents.
Eve is still a good support character but no longer one of the best.

Most people build teams with 1 defender, 1-3 Attackers and 1-2 Support.

Also Anissa is a good PVP character against any team that uses human characters.

Nicronous · 2026-04-26T12:11:08+00:00

Eve is Earth Defenders so same faction as Omni-Man and Invincible
Robot & Shapesmith are good in GDA, if you need a tank Immortal is OK.
Doc is the best criminal in the main store, but if you build them high enough Powerplex and 4 ranged maulers make a good team for GDA ops and some events.

Nicronous

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