⚔ [06th Aug, 2023] - 224th Raid Tournament - 5* Buff Booster, No Holy/ Yellow

Yeah i signed up and joined and then forgot to change … :roll_eyes: Had jabberwok in trials too …

Well this is the team … Least jabberwok is tank

Goood luck for the week folks … Also there are emojis to be got else where … Check out the community section :wink::green_heart:

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O - 9-1 (4-1, 5-0)
D - 3-1 (A)

Surprisingly a fairly good start to a 5* tournament, def didn’t start with D or E.

This is my def.

This is the def I lost against.

This was just 2nd def of the tourney.

I don’t think I’ve seen a bigger off-color ever, sadly didn’t take a screenshot. Took Grazul, Becky, C Marj, LoLo, Erebus. Board literally full of yellow and green, I couldn’t do any other color match but yellow and green… I wasn’t able to fire any of my heroes before C Alf fired, despite having 2 diff colors of very fast heroes. Neither Grazul to block C Alf or LoLo to copy C Alf… At the end I wasn’t far from winning, but I wasn’t able to kill Teti, because Milena kept healing and Teti targeted my 3 most hurt heroes… AI shown it’s intelligent side again. Despite horrible starting board I took 276 points.

I’d be fine if def didn’t go under C rank and every day was 4-1, I never had big expectations in 5* tourneys, I only hope for reasonable results :smiley:, but so far so good.

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Day 1
O: 4-1
D: 2-2 (B)

Day 2
O: 4-1
D: 1-0 (so far)

Total
O: 8-2
D: 3-2 (B, A)

Today i got a 0 score on the one I lost, it had LB2 Ludwig tank, with Franz and Diachian (spelling?) as flanks, I had no chance, and on their wing they had Misty who went off about 4 times.

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4-1 again on Day 2 and was a good result considering the teams faced. Continued mainly with the same team of Onyx - Khonshu - Kageburado - cVictor - Shrubbear. The team only comes in at 4884TP, but it punches above its weight when you get boards like these.


The single loss was against a rather passive team with the middle three of Hathor - Oniwakamaru - Myoin-ni. Briefly considered switching to a Green stack with El Naddaha to block buffs. In the end, I’d rather take my chances on getting 6 Purple tiles to 9 Green ones. The gamble failed and the tank fired at 2nd charge. Did manage to kill him, but not before Shrubbear’s taunt expired and the wing cGuardian Panther and Hurricane finished my team off.

Defense has flip-flopped between B and C the whole day, hanging in at 5-5 presently.

Day Offense Defense Score Def Score Total
1 4-1 3-3 (B) 3,265 650 3,915
2 8-2 5-5 (B) 7,288 7,288
3
4
5

Good luck everyone!

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Popping in to wish everyone the best of luck :fire:! :crossed_swords: I am still (barely) alive after 2 days, but really not much to write home about :wink: I can’t wait for the next 3* tournament at the end of the month. Those are my favorite. :slightly_smiling_face:

From what I’ve been reading the last few raid tournament threads, it seems I need to LB2 my Shrubbear ASAP.

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You might want to hold off a bit. The LB2 taunt is being reduced to 3 turns, though that is still good enough in my estimation.

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Thanks for the info! Somehow I missed that. That’s the main reason I held off for so long - was worried about a nerf. 3 isn’t bad but I’ll see how it works in practice first :slightly_smiling_face:

In all honesty, I am worried 3 turns of autotaunt won’t be enough in a regular play, but in rush it will still be viable.

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Depends on your team. 3 turns is still enough for my Hippo team to have to deal with it. That’s very often ready in 2 turns and having to go an extra turn brings in “massive cascade anxiety” just as much as 2 turns of it.

I have in fact lost in 3 turns with that hippo team due to that very scenario. Auto-Taunt should be a deterrent not an autowin.

Day 2
O: 4-1 (9-1)
D: 0-1 (0-3) E/E
Today I lost one fight against this team:


Bad board, good team, nobody fired, no comment :confused:

Good luck everyone!

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O - 9-4 (4-1, 5-0, 0-3)
D - 6-4 (A,A)

And there goes a great tournament, 3 times in a row I can’t even charge my red very fast heroes… 3 times ultimate off color and 2 for 0 and once for 143… screw this BS.

Def got a close A at 6-4, but I am not wasting my time with this worthless nonsense anymore. I really LOVE 5* tourneys… I literally lost 1 raid in last 2 days, but yeah it gives me all the horrendous boards in the tourney… I got screwed over nicely today. Thanks.

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And today I went 2-2
Both losses were to LB2 Ludwig and I had no tiles to charge my own heroes.

I did get 2 kills in one of them, and 0 in the other. I don’t have 75 gems and wouldn’t buy back in anyway.
My defense is B, A, B

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Sorry to hear about your back luck @Roland56 and @notyou87 :confused: I had what I can only consider pity RNG and somehow went 5-0 today to live another day. 12-3 on offense with a defense too sad to mention :flushed: If I’m not knocked out tomorrow I’m buying a lottery ticket!

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Stopped using Shrubbear today, though it’s more because I had to use either Xiaotu (against Phorcys and Cao Cao) or Lord Loki (against passive but buffy Belladonna and Hawthorn tanks) as the 1 in my 4-1 attack.

Boards were terrific today. Even the one bad starting board of the day quickly turned on a cascade of Purple tiles.

In the first 4 matches, neither Xiaotu or Lord Loki needed to use their SS for me to win.

Faced a fully LB2 Waterpipe - Phenexa - c2Elkanen - Diaochan - Viselus team in the last match and a chance to use my Red team of Grazul - Ruby - El Duque - Xiaotu - Khonshu instead. Got a Red diamond in the first move and another easy win.

Defense has dropped 4 in a row to go from B to D (5-9). Offense will need to keep scoring points. However, the last 2 teams today were over 5900 TP. I dread to think what tomorrow might bring :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Day Offense Defense Score Def Score Total
1 4-1 3-3 (B) 3,265 650 3,915
2 8-2 5-8 (D) 7,288 400 7,688
3 13-2 5-9 (D) 11,775 11,775
4
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Good luck everyone still in this!

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It’s fine… Oh this tourney day really pissed me off when I was posting my results. I never had this happen before, ever. 3 flags in a row literally 0% chance of winning. I seem to get the worst of the worst in 5* buff booster tournaments too, I remember going 10-8 in one of them once with using continue. Haven’t even finished day 4 of the tourney with using 1 continue.
You would think bloody battle and rush are harder 5* tournaments, for me it’s buff booster.

I also had one that was also buff booster one and started 3-2 on day 1 against easy defs and I literally didn’t play afterwards, gave 2 free wins to someone on day 2, that’s how I didn’t care.

Something just always has to go wrong for me in 5* tourneys. I had 1 tourney offense 21-4 not long ago but def was just E. This time I have a good def, but horrible boards screw me over.

Def continues being A at 7-4, still not going to continue, don’t have gems anyway.

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Day 3
2-3 and I’m out… :frowning:
The best comment for today may be this picture:


Good luck everyone!

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All the good board luck ended today with 3 losses. Other than the first defense with a middle 3 of Aramis - Oniwakamaru - Phorcys, the other 2 weren’t super hard, but when the tiles don’t come your way :person_shrugging: At least they weren’t zero point losses.

Defense closer to E than C at 6-12, but bought back in anyway since I was filling my Raid chest. Hopefully a good last day and top 5% is still reachable.

Day Offense Defense Score Def Score Total
1 4-1 3-3 (B) 3,265 650 3,915
2 8-2 5-8 (D) 7,288 400 7,688
3 13-2 6-11 (D) 11,775 400 12,175
4 15-5 6-12 (D) 14,396 14,396
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Better luck everyone!

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2 losses on the last day to finish 18-7 for the tournament. First loss was against a LB2 Ludwig flanked by Hawthorn and Waterpipe. Killed the middle 3 but just couldn’t find the tiles to finish off the Bastet and Barkley, cat and dog wings. One of those times where a healer in my attack team would have helped.

The other loss was a c2Obakan special. He just kept reviving until the rest of his team charged :rofl:

Currently in top 1% but won’t stay there with a D (6-13) defense.

Good luck with the loot tomorrow :four_leaf_clover: :crossed_fingers:

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So I spent the week running ccLianna-Augustus-ccMagni-Lord Loki-2LB double bonus Grimm. The boards were fairly kind to me so I survived the week at 22-3. Defense was solid E’s, but I’m in the top 1% now.

I may need to make Loki my first 2LB 5 star. He’s so much fun.

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Making a return to tourney threads to vent.

I was soooooo mad/frustrated on day 2 with my first three boards. I was 5-0 day one with same attacking team on all flags. Those first three on day 2 were sooo bad, lack of tiles (using 2-1-1-1), combos at bad times, my heroes killed with full mana, everything bad with rng.

After calming down and not breaking my phone, I figured I must have been lucky day 1 with the 5-0. But won my last 2 that day to stay in. Then won my last 15 attacks as well.

In the end, it makes my frustration justified, I think. If my team won 17 attacks in a row, it really must have been bad luck on those 3 attacks.

My attack team for whoever may be interested

Anyways, thanks for listening to my mini-rant!

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