NEW and IMPROVED Ultimate FTP Farming Guide 2019 v3.5 - Marvel Strike Force

With so many things to focus on in Marvel Strike Force, it can be easy to get diverted from your main goal.
In this video I provide an updated roadmap on who to farm. Whether you are a brand new player or someone who is approaching the endgame, this guide was designed to help you stay focused on the characters that are most important.
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[@_black_bird]

"Avengers Endgame is the audiovisual production most expected of this year" Valley: hold my Hulk

[@lumberjackbear2492]

Valley, I know I’m not the only one that would love to see an updated version of this! That would be really cool, especially with how the meta has changed and there have been a ton of new characters added since then, including some legendaries. Keep up the awesome work brotha!

[@TommyTrink]

Wow, I was looking for one of these YESTERDAY! Great timing, great video. Keep it up!

[@jameswalker7770]

Amazing been checking ever day to see if you had it up yet. As always great content. Thank you o much

[@Peter-kz7dm]

Great guide. Since you released this video last year I've been able to get every legendary (except Phoenix and Blackbolt). Still working on Phoenix unlock. Looking forward to an updated version of this guide. Thanks for all the work you put into this guide.

[@joeb4568]

Excellent farming guide strategy man, best one I’ve seen!

[@shadowkillerxd57]

Finally I've been waiting for this

[@maxducoudray]

Really well composed and organized. More KZbin videos should be like this!

[@benc8738]

These are always some of my favorite videos! One guide that I would like to see is a guide to orange gear. If you could do one of those it would be way cool!

[@SaviorInTheSun]

Great insight and advice for new players. As a veteran, endgame player myself, listen to Valley.

[@dallasshumaker6148]

I’ve gotten caught trying to farm and chase events. I’ve been throwing resources at shocker last minute to try and get 3 star rewards for current event. Before that I was throwing resources into previously ignored hero-controllers to get event rewards. I hope I can have the discipline to focus on a few rather than spreading my resources like I have been.

[@JonMDVisual]

Clicked as soon as I saw this! Big up valley🤙

[@rgpp123]

Thanks Valley! Awesome video per usual!

[@jrizz43]

Wish I had this when I started! Great content as always!

[@Locke19901]

Is there an updated one of these? Would be super helpful!

[@SaintoftheHonest]

Locke19901 The update is “skip the defenders”.

[@grimmior5339]

@@SaintoftheHonest I was waiting till the end of the vid to put a comment asking why he was saying to focus Defenders when alot of others were saying not to till i noticed this is 7 months old and saw your comment xD

[@Peter-kz7dm]

Damn good guide. Got all my defenders to 5 stars, and just got my Star Lord today. Looking forward to a new guide to include Asgardians

[@Deepwoodse]

Great guide and attitude. It's pretty simple and can be followed by anyone since each phase barely uses your daily energy. Just wanted to mention that if the player doesnt have a 5 star wolverine by phase 4 he's whaling too hard!

[@tanker0276]

Great Video man! keep em coming!

[@dhruvagrawal9471]

Thank you very much @ValleyFlyin for this, been watching your vids for a while now. Would you say Gear 11 is the right point of stopping my defenders or should I go gear 12 before focusing on guardians? Thanks.

[@Soliyah]

Dope and helpful video as usual! Thanks!

[@giannegarcia8567]

Thanks for this video. Please also make a video on how to gear up your toons. Which characters should we farm to finish heroes, villains, nexus, cosmic and mystic. Thanks.

[@2xPain]

Because of this guide I just started an alt account that will be a complete FTP thanks for the updated guide dude! Love your content

[@scottd99]

How do you start a second account on an iPhone?

[@traviss9612]

Thanks Valley for the great video as always. You talked about taking them to 5 stars before moving on. Is there a gear tier they should be taken too as well?

[@Jordyfones]

Thanks for all your content as somebody who started in August. I'm a little clueless as to what gear rank to take these teams to and at what pace/percent of my daily energy investment should be gear.

[@diygamer1396]

Thanks so much. Very helpful

[@jshin84]

Will you be making a new farming guide now that there are more farmable characters like heimdal?

[@hordeke82]

I’m intrigued in all these farming videos no one talks about the leveling and tier ratio. Ez to say grind a character to 6 stars but when should you stop the tier cap before moving on to the next phase? Or level?

[@giannegarcia8567]

I absolutely agree. Stars are not enough.

[@darbisd]

Specially because in this game what makes the character really grows are his abilities levels, not the star count. Sure stars up the stats, but 7* ability 1 is not good, but ability 4-5 and 3-4* is great... I've noticed it myself. Not just that but how many refreshes should we do? Should we refresh at all the nodes? Spend 300 tokens just for the one toon? The economy fails when one day you farm 4 shards but in the other you farm none...

[@LeoLikesLamb]

Very informative video thx!

[@jasonrice6966]

Let's go farming!

[@jackdier8624]

Pro Tip: Whale Harder.

[@heikofischer6961]

This Phrase will spread like fire. :D

[@darbisd]

GET HARD. WHALE HARD. - AhnoldT101

[@aljurabrenica2923]

What does whale means?

[@GRG-iu5sp]

i actually live for these guides XD

[@alexklota5589]

Hello ValleyFin, just want to say thank you for all the videos you do, they are super helpful. I am a new player, 20 days in just hit level 50 this morning, and I found this video and noticed it is a little out to date. With the new update later today I was wondering if you would keep everything the same or would you change anything? Also i have been very lucky with my orbs and have a lot of "teams" mostly unlocked and I have been trying to spread my resources evenly. Lastly I know you want to have your teams at 5 stars, 6 to get Phoenix, but what tier of armor would you recommend to go to? Thank you for taking the time out of your day to read this and again thank you for all of the fantastic videos you do.

[@Kineticfir3]

Well done sir! Sharing with the noobs in my alliance.

[@BarkingShark]

Ty, I figured Defenders were a good choice. Been working on all of them and Daredevil for Arena.

[@bubblegumdukem9758]

Crazy, I literally followed your guide without even seeing your video

[@sheriffkyogre2485]

Just noticed you had Mystique at Villains 6-3. She’s actually at Villains 5-6, so her farm can be more manageable early

[@jklom123]

love the video, its gonna help me so much with the future of my account :D

[@kriegmarshal]

@ValleyFlyin I’m sure I’ve missed this along the way if it has been mentioned, is there an idea if when Coulson is coming? I’m hording gear, gold, ability mats, etc. Thanks in advance

[@marcuscosta1988]

hello valley love all your videos man!! when its gonna be the next update to this?? thankyou

[@xandercage5935]

Hehehe talk about timing! Lets go smash it!!!!!

[@GavinSwick]

Great info as always, Valley. The only thing I'd interject is the following: in regards to the Blitz store, over the long term, it is FAR smarter to spend 350 Blitz credits on the orbs that also give some gold as opposed to 500 Blitz credits for 5 shards of one specific character. The same can also be said for the Raid Store for 900 Raid credits per orb as opposed to 1,400 for 5 character shards. Even if the RNG gods aren't in your favor with orb openings, both orbs will allow you to expand your roster efficiently and be better in the long haul. Agree?

[@MarcelHeldt1983]

Absolutely agree. That's what I'm doing. Raid characters take forever to farm but almost everyone of them is useful. So, great value overall.

[@bluzeman1975]

I agree to a degree. I think it's fine to focus farm (blitz ) a crucial character as needed for a bit, like getting those last few gamora or mantis shards for that 5th star for your Star Lord unlock. So, I agree 99%. Far more efficient to get the orbs. Even More so for the Raid orbs than Blitz

[@preuenthegreat518]

I would definitely agree about blitz, and it also is the only way to farm rescue. Raid on the other hand I wouldn't do, the math just barely works out in the long run, given the amount of truly useless(or node farmable) characters in the raid store, but usually raid characters are the one you lag behind on anyways, so you're basically resigning yourself to missing every legendary event till long after you could've gotten them, while in blitz you can afford to buy mostly orbs and just enough shards to keep current with your node farmed characters.

[@nothingness863]

best ROI long time - maybe. but in reality, it will slow down important progress on RR, kree oracle, drax, gamora etc. which you will regret not having. also you want only 5-6 out of 16 toons in blitz store (also gold), 8/15 in raid store. so 50-60% of drops will be wasted.

[@toolshed47]

I wish I did it this way when I started 150ish days ago. It's a good starter guide.

[@wadal5846]

That's exactly what i need now after my defenders team are done!

[@demonicell]

This is a great guide but a couple of more tips. Don't sleep on Block Party and Payday Events. Block Party with 7 star unlock gets you orange ability mats which you're going to need. Gold is the biggest crunch in the game. I slept on the Payday event so right now I am going hard on my merc team which I let languish at 4 stars which just isn't enough gold for that event when I'm stalled all the time cause I don't have the Gold to max out my toons. Thanks, Valley. Whale Harder.

[@GRG-iu5sp]

also that valley club merch is fire!

[@matthewnoydens6240]

@Valley: Just new to the gameWould you recommend to purchase them with Blitz orbs for 350 (and get lucky with the rng to get Luke, Mantis, ...) or with 500 blitz credits in the store itself? You could save up 150 if you for the orbs to build up for some extra... so whats your advice? Thanks great videos btw!!

[@YogiXXL]

You should put in teams to build for each campaign. I know a lot of newer players have no idea who to farm for mystic campaigns and cant get to where they can farm loki

[@electroburstx3093]

Hey ValleyFlyin, I wanna know if we can get more campaign mode for marvel Strike Force?

[@dmitrij7876]

Thanks Flyin

[@goblinfoon85]

Can you make a video on what f2p villains to start with for the villains campaign....i have crossbones and yondu but not sure who to use for other 3

[@joeb4568]

Great video man! When are you going to update this?

[@Claimeduraxx]

Can you do a video for beginners who have the defenders, and what abilities to lvl up first?

[@kennylevijones]

I'd really like to know if anything would be changed for the way the game is now. In your current videos you have mentioned how good AIM and how Sinister 6 isn't much good but for the Legendary unlocks.

[@blu.mus1c]

Can you make a video about how to play catch-up and what characters to invest in? I downloaded it a while ago but just recently got into it again and I don't know where to even begin

[@guardiansoftyr4416]

On each character you've said get them to 5*, before pregressing to next phase. What Gear Tier should would you recommend getting the toons to?

[@flyany6682]

Been playin since launch get everyone to gear 4 to unlock all their abilities end game u want gear 9 plus hope that helps.

[@michaelluna8168]

So during phase 1. Do I SOLELY focus on getting defenders to 5 star? Like refreshing nodes on just them, or also starting other phases

[@MrGollysnake]

I think blitz orbs should be a priority, the bonus gold and all round characters, Luke cage also has a node.

[@mddr1day]

Where's a download of the full graphic? I'd like to be able to reference it going forward.

[@TheBigjjohnson57]

Screenshot

[@Cactus.C1069]

2 Words.... THANK YOU!!

[@jeffmcreynolds6755]

been playing for awhile. Raid currency seems to be hard to come by. Is there something I'm doing wrong?

[@vituhasspoken]

And when and what should I focus for ETD?

[@TheOmegaRing]

guys anyone knows how to fix a bug in bluestacks, where i play msf and some letters do not appear, making the words incomplete?

[@minesasecret]

Awesome work. I wish I realized this guide existed when I first started! Why is it recommended to get the minimum stars to unlock as opposed to 7 stars? I would think that it would be better to 7 star brotherhood for example since winning in arena gives you power cores which let you snowball further?

[@ValleyFlyin]

What you are saying is true. There are many different ways to build your roster and none of them are wrong. The main purpose of this guide is to unlock the legendaries as quick as possible and if that is your goal then 5 stars (or 6 for Phoenix) is all you need.

[@minesasecret]

@@ValleyFlyin ahh got it thanks so much for the reply and the guide!

[@Lostone004]

@ValleyFlyin Just curious, is there a reason why you suggest only one character per campaign to farm at a time if you recommend to not refresh unless your speed farming?

[@Xandermatthews1]

Do you think we're going to get Ghost Rider for Halloween or maybe Hela

[@Eisa125]

It’s helpful 👍

[@MagicalKid]

I've started defenders and guardians but I don't have a strong team to do the villains campaign. I've only managed to unlock Yondu so far and my other stronger Villains are Crossbones and Elektra, I also have Nebula and Bullseye but if not sure if they're worth spending resources on. Who else should I start building up for the campaign?

[@zmirburger]

how high should i up my gear & level for each of the phases? If i reached 5* already should I just move on to the next phase or focus on farming gear for the current phase?

[@jonsolo32]

ZmirBurger that is what I did. Getting 500 shards for six and seven star for each team takes forever. Get an unlock for each event character and then work on getting them upgrade in subsequent events. Then you’ll have more feasible teams.

[@Courtj89]

Thanks Valleyflyin for this. Before this I was putting resources into random characters. But now i have built up my defenders, after 4 months to 120k. Im now ready for the starlord event, when that comes back I can finally unlock him. Plus I have 3 mutants at 5*. So hopefully i can get magneto soon. But could you please let me know if I need around 1500 blue and purple mats to be confident upgrading abilities? I only have around 400 each and dont want to waste them. Thanks again dude. Keep on SMASHING!

[@ValleyFlyin]

Only use the blues and purples on the characters you are currently building and building in the background. Save the rest. After a while you’ll have enough of a surplus where the blues and purples won’t matter and you won’t have to be as selective.

[@damienpadilla352]

I enjoy your videos, but one question I have and the biggest set back I get from the game is shared drops. Maybe I am just unlucky, but it seems like I can spend all my energy trying to farm a character and barely get 2 shards. Is this normal? I want to enjoy playing and leveling up my teams, but it seems a bit ridiculous to not be able to do anything after spending all my energy and not getting a payoff for it.

[@williamrau5768]

When first starting, how often do you farm those first couple? I'm new to the game and don't really know how to properly manage my recourses like energy and cores. Should I use my cores to refresh the nodes and if so, how many times?

[@ValleyFlyin]

The best place to use cores is for energy refreshes. If I’m trying to farm a character quickly I will refresh the nodes but that doesn’t happen to often.

[@luaifelemban6974]

Hi im level 43 for now, for how long should i farm the defender ? Still missing iron fist and daredevil, The other 3(luke,jones and punisher) are tier 7 Im also struggling with my villains team, as for the start i dont want to waist my recourse on heroes im not going to use in the future, currently running (bullseye, eliktra, rhino,crossbone and nebula)

[@zodiaccurse12]

Phase 6 for Ronan is it better to buy 5 shards or get the orbs, hes at 61/130 for me right now.

[@richardwestwood1812]

Rocket isn't Available in raid store and you emphasize how important he is have you got any alternatives please.

[@momohead2798]

not going to lie that shirt looks clean

[@charliejkeen]

I understand that we should get characters to 5* what gear level would you say we should get too?

[@BrutallyHonestBloke]

This is great guide, but could you please update it to current game state? I am a new player and it would be extremely helpful to me and loads of others.

[@briancornell1720]

Good Video but if it is truly for new players: maybe instead of saying 'you will unlock StarLord at the end of phase 2, say instead 'you will be able to unlock StarLord when his event comes around' just to avoid confusion for new players who may see this and finish phase 2 and wonder where the hell their StarLord is (same with other legends).... just a suggestion.

[@felipegallardo8544]

What do you think about getting blitz orbs instead of specific characters after doing 5* Luke Cage? Same with raid currency

[@dericofdorking]

You'll get a decent amount of gold for blitz orbs and more shards with raid orbs, will help newer players long term.

[@brucez9163]

The orb luck is the wild card in this which he purposely said he was omitting. I think going for orbs in blitz and raid is reasonable until you get 7 star for some of them. Then that starts getting Ultimus shards which might be good until you have too many 7 star and then start getting backward progression with Ultimus shards.

[@nothingness863]

I was doing blitz orbs exclusively during 2 month, and had some progress. then I switched to shards and quickly upped everyone that I needed. looking back I regret buying orbs, as I don't care about most characters there. when they added rescue with higher drop rate, it is even less appealing than before.

[@Courtj89]

Does anyone think they will make starlord a 3* unlock, after or before iron man event finishes? Also will iron man become farmable after his event ends?

[@nastyzea]

Thank you! This is very helpful. All of these phase ideally I need 5 stars for each character?

[@johobo2038]

5 is what you need for the legendaries so that’s why they say to get there. All but pheonix. She is 6 Stars.

[@ValleyFlyin]

If you are looking for getting these legendaries as quick as possible, yes. You’re eventually gonna need build them all up past 5 stars at some point tho.

[@nastyzea]

@@ValleyFlyin what's the ideal level to train my heroes? Since gold is hard to come by. Thank you again 👊🇵🇭

[@americanprimate189]

Woot!

[@Abdrfy]

Also, how do i unlock villan 6-3 by using defenders or gaurdians ? :|

[@tylerb7353]

I just found this and think it is great. Has anything changed in the game since this came out that would shift stuff around? I have been guided to farming kree before sinister since caulson came out. Thoughts?

[@ValleyFlyin]

There are some other good teams that came around since the guide like Supernatural but the main purpose of the guide is to get the legendaries as quick as possible and if that is your goal, I still think the guide gives you the fastest route.

[@tylerb7353]

@@ValleyFlyin thanks man. Appreciate the time and effort to help people out. I did unlock SL so well on my way!

[@micahharris3202]

YESSSSSS

[@beastb83]

Do "phases" apply to your progress or state of the game?

[@despacitogaming9311]

Could there be a updated version for 2020

[@andrewoberg]

i’ve had that boneyard cigar from the ad lmao

[@loudibels8523]

What tier should i stop if i want to go to another phase????

[@fromdagroundup23]

I have defenders at 3 star should i take them to 5?

[@aaroncharles1374]

Is it better to do the 900 raid orb? Or do arena 350 orb?

[@AlexJade]

Once you knock the nodes out and campaign for the day do you then suggest using campaign energy just for gear?

[@ValleyFlyin]

If you are struggling to clear your current raids or your arena rank is low, then yes, build your team up so you don’t struggle in those game modes. If you are doing well in raids and arena then farm shards. Move onto a character from the next phase if you aren’t in a rush and refreshing the character in your current phase.

[@robertbethel4341]

Also a good reason to wait until later for Phoenix is you have to farm and build trash characters to 6*. Not beneficial to newer players at all

[@b.bogdan1438]

just started the game, free to play

[@MrNomadman]

i would still argue Kree minions after Defenders earlier easier farmable than Guardians and gives u Villian and cosmic team (more of PvE i guess)maybe i am bit bias i got ME and Ronan on it

[@nothingness863]

drax, mantis, gamora - are quick store farms, youndu and groot are early accessible (and groot is mandatory long term anyway). it is much easier than farming kree oracle in a raid store. I started farming kree first, than side farmed guardians and as of today I have guardians ready for SL and kree are all around 3-4 stars. so in no way kree are easier.

[@UnluckyJellyfish]

Make sure to get on discord and find a decent alliance as well

[@ethanwon2529]

Johnathan Walton where do you go to find a good alliance?

[@CodexWolf]

Why did he didnt get gamora to her guardians team? I didnt understand

[@tiger1559]

What's RNG? and Does each Phase last until the character is at 5 stars? Why 5 stars?

[@williamtovar8860]

Very helpful, the only question i still have is what are the best teams to use for the normal campaigns hero, villains, nexus, cosmic, and mystic?

[@giannegarcia8567]

I've been asking the same thing. Even messaged him on IG. No reply. Lol

[@rebellionj3400]

I watched hundreds of KZbin videos but never got answer to this question

[@yvd619]

Who should I use for mystic campaign? Which characters to rank up?

[@flood3464]

Loki, Mordo, Scarlett Witch, Hand Sentry, Vision.

[@stormcrow4805]

Craig Post Vision is not Mystic homie, he’s Tech.

[@flood3464]

@@stormcrow4805 I know, hes farmed through mystic campaign though. Maybe that's where i got confused. I meant Dr.Strange.