First day, 4-1.
Lost the first match against Ulmer, Oberon c, jahangir middle. A unwanted cascade charged all 3, after that only nordri (the only one with emblems in my team) was standing.
The other teams all had at least one healer or support hero without damage in the middle 3, they were far easier. I think the worst (for the opponent) someone can stand in rush is 3 slow Aoe heroes in the middle.
Also double gramps works on offense too, I’m playing with 3 damage dealer and double revive without healer, worked so far and is extremely funny for someone who has never had a 5* revive hero
I go with 1-1-3, C Belith +6 / C Hawkmoon +20 / CB Gunnar +20 / Nodri +20 / Nodri +20 in 4 attack and go with CB Gunnar +20 / C Hawkmoon +20 / C Belith +6 / Mnesseus +19 / C Brienne +6 when there is CB Gunnar.
I have to say that both C Oberon and C Renfild are very powerful in rush attack. The board start with full of purple and yellow. It force me to charge C Oberon and C Renfeld. I think C Oberon is as dangerous as Sudri or more. C Oberon is deal about 500 damage in 3 turn !!! That even higher than C Belith’s and C Hawkmoon’s heal. His DoT is also can’t be cleanse. Even HoT + share damage can’t withstand any defense team with him. C Berden fire and Nodri fire 2 times on same Nodri(lowest def) and both have enemy C Hawkmoon atk buff even with +63% def and share damage it do pretty big damage and kill one of my Nodri and make my C Belith have only 90hp left. And I accidentally use that C Belith as well, because buff affect in order when it is applied. I didn’t think about buff/ailment order in that times. Because I use my C Hawkmoon 1 turn before C Oberon fire and I use C Belith (because she is about to die) when there is a C Hawkmoon’s HoT will simply make DoT affect before HoT which kill my C Belith. If I didn’t use C Belith, she will survive and I might win.
I went with 3-2 in almost all battles (red-blue/ red-green/ blue-green), changing healers depending on what I needed (Helo for cleanse or Belith for dispel).
C. Renfeld in the 3rd battle almost took me to desperation. He kept on charging mana just in one movement again and again. Luckily, it wasn’t such an offensive team.
Started off well with 3 wins, then cascaded into a Sudri tank twice in the next match. The last match, my 2 healers were quickly killed off and then just got slashed to death. This tournament will be quickly over if tomorrow is the same
Went 3-2 (cHawkmoon - Bauchan - Vollemork - Helo - Chick Jr) most of the time. Switched cHawkmoon out for Belith when facing Shrubbear.
Defense is 0-1 for an E. Unemblemed and low emblemed Paladins just not strong enough I guess
OMG I can’t believe this actually worked, defense is off to a good start at 4-2. I can only imagine how much swearing was going on in those losses, since it’s not a quick painless death but a very drawn out and agonizing one.
Well hopefully I didn’t jinx myself so knock on wood. I’ll do my hits in the evening today to help fill my raid chest faster.
One thing is for sure, bad boards in rush attack can be very hard to bounce back from. i lost - just barely -to a two Frosty - three Rudolph team. but much worse was Belith at tank, Gunnar and Frosty to the right, and Namahage and Berden to the left. I just got no tiles, and they basically slashed me to death because i just couldn’t keep up with all the healing. and barely - even in rush attack - got any of my heroes charged up even once.
So, 3-2 on O, defense is doing predictably poorly, 0-4. hopefully by the next 3* rush attack i’ll have some better heroes for it.
good luck everyone! i predict this may be another very short tourney for me if things don’t turn around tomorrow.
Laugh all you want, but once Gramps fires, he makes everybody charge faster. Once cOberon fired it was pretty much game over.
However by the last flag, I discovered that cRenfeld+Gramps has incredible synergy. That mana steal combined with Gramps’s mana regeneration means I can pretty much fire cRenfeld every other turn (or every turn if I can ghost 3 tiles). So by the last match my offense team was pretty much set at Helo-cRenfeldx2-Gramps-Grevle. Regular heal+cleanse, overheal+attack bup, revive+mana regen, and double mana sttealing. Not a lot of hitting power, but it sure is great at prevent the defense from firing at me.
Btw my very first match, everybody except one Nordri+Gramps died without having even taken out the Jahangir tank. Grampus actually brought everybody back to life, and then his mana regen charged up Helo who gave me a desperately needed heal+cleanse, and I went from the verge of scoring 0 points to winning. Grampus =
I lost a battle despite c.Renfeld constantly firing. In his defence, he was the only one I could charge, and his hit is pretty meh. So today, less stalling and tactics, more power - to kill first.
It is often like this: after a terrible day, playable boards all the way and no major issues in any battle. Changed tactics to 3-1-1, with 3 of blue or red, while off-colour heros were Grevle, Gil Ra or c.Renfeld. Let’s see if I can be back in the game.
Edit: I saw my first Gramps, he didn’t revive anybody in 3 attempts… I see he’s getting a lot of love here, but so far I wasn’t impresed. The only thing that he did successfully, is feeding c.Renfeld with mana even faster.
My trump card every single time is Renfeld, and just so I have it, the enemy takes priority on him and he dies right at the start
Thought I was going to lose but I managed to keep myself healed and kill them in the end with tiles due to that insane overtime multiplier.
@Slobix in this case Gramps was REALLY annoying because he revived the opposition constantly, and made me almost lose. I do see his value now. But only in rush formats though.
I had nothing to do. These tournaments are kinda extremes. I had one of the best results last week and today I beat my record losing 4 battles in a row. No way am I gonna use gems here. Just a single lost battle sinks you in the rank, although the defense got an A.
Still go with 1-1-3. Use CB Gunnar +20 / C Hawkmoon +20 / C Belith +6 / Mnesseus +19 / C Brienne +6 when there is CB Gunnar and use C Belith +6 / C Hawkmoon +20 / CB Gunnar +20 / Nodri +20 / Nodri +20 if there is no CB Gunnar. The board is still pretty bad to day. My 3 stack color doesn’t spawn many but at least I can constantly heal and wait until it come. I face Gramp in 4th and 5th attack. He is very annoying. In 4th attack, actually kill tank and flank and then blue tile doesn’t fall when I destroy about 30 tiles and charge Gramp 3 times. He revive tank and both flank and make me start all over again. It is 5 passive defense team so they can’t kill my team but take pretty long times. Overall, I never face Sudri, C Oberon and C Renfeld to day. I think those 3 heroes are the only heroes that can kill my offense team while HoT and share damage is active.
