Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-73.225.53.214-20150828182554/@comment-27381262-20151211140552

For defense, I'm partial to Falcon/Luke Cage team-ups. Luke's power is already strong enough to reduce most basic matches to one-point shots. Falcon can drive that defense even higher, to the point where you're laughing off four and five-tile matches, and even take some of the sting out of area attacks. Add in Iron Fist for some offense that also gets boosted by Falcon and it's a wicked combo. (Use IF's Purple match instead of Falcon's, though--you actually don't want Falcon's purple power going off, since that iwll potentially block Luke's much better Unbreakable from reappearing.)

As others have noted, on healing, you want KK and some folks who have low-rank attacks (I like her with Gamora, myself).