⚔ [09 Feb 2025] - 303rd Raid Tournament - 4* Buff Booster, No Ice/ Blue

:spiral_calendar: Schedule

Preparation Phase Begins Battle Phase Begins Rewards Distributed
2025-02-09T08:00:00Z
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2025-02-10T08:00:00Z
(08:00 GMT)
2025-02-15T08:00:00Z
(08:00 GMT)

:no_pedestrians: This Week’s Restrictions & Special Rule

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Elements Allowed
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Hero Rarities Allowed
:person_fencing: :star2:
Troop Rarities Allowed
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No Ice/ Blue
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or lower
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or lower

:dizzy: Special Rule: Buff Booster

Each buffs adds an attack multiplier!

:timer_clock: History

=> Most Recent Occurrence of This Format: ⚔ [23 Jun 2024] - 270th Raid Tournament - 4* Buff Booster, No Ice/ Blue

=> Click Here for Log of Past Tournaments



:left_speech_bubble: Before, During & After the Tournament: Share & Discuss Your Teams, Thoughts, Feedback, and Questions!

:speaking_head: Some topics to start off with:

Click for some suggested discussion points
  • Do this week’s restrictions on hero/troop rarity and elements make your bench depth better or worse suited to this Raid Tournament than Regular Raids?
  • Are there heroes you’re likely to use for this Tournament that you normally don’t make use of anymore?
  • Are there heroes you plan to power level for this Tournament, or level before the next time a Tournament like this one rolls around?
  • Do Costumes affect your team selection at all?
  • What are you thinking about using for your Defense Team?
  • Are there heroes you expect to see on Enemy Defenses that you think you’ll have a harder time dealing with than usual because of the restrictions or special rule in this Tournament?
  • Which of your heroes will you be likely to use on your Attack Teams?
  • Will the restrictions or special rule of this Tournament change your usual approach to color stacking or team building?
  • Are there elements of this week’s Tournament that are unclear to you?
  • Do you have feedback on the Tournament matchmaking?

:clipboard: Defense Team Tracking

Hat tip to @wineybrit for originating this thread idea with the second Raid Tournament

Click for suggestions on information to include in Defence Team Tracking
  • Which day of the Tournament is it?
  • How may times have you been attacked today, and in total?
  • What is your Defense Team’s win/loss record today, and in total?
  • What Defense Grade does your Defense Team have?
  • Which heroes make up your Defense Team?
  • What is the Team Power of your Defense Team?
  • What is your current Tournament Score and Ranking?

:gem: After the Tournament: Share Your Results & Rewards!




:world_map: Log & Guide to Raid Tournaments

A Log of past Tournaments, and an overview of how Raid Tournaments work, including Special Rules and Restrictions, Attacking, Matchmaking, Defense Grade, Scoring, and Rewards.

=> Click Here for: :medal_sports: Raid Tournaments – Log, Overview, Attacking, Matchmaking, Scoring, Restrictions, Special Rules, and Rewards

JekylandHyde XXV medal:

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Looking forward to a week without Gregs and glass Grimms. Since glass Caedmon may be detered by the many reds, it could be the last week for Cyprian to shine in all his glory.

Hopefully my defence will run a bit better than the last weeks. It will be something like this:

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Here is my defense. As usual very optimistisch about it :sweat_smile: Let‘s see.


I‘ll give it a try with Ferrant instead of tCyprian. Curious how he‘ll be doing.

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First thought:

I wanted to load up on reds for defense, but then I noticed the top 10 teams average 1.4 red heroes per defense team…

Back to the drawing board

Note that exactly half of the tanks were Cyprians, whose counterattack can be bypassed by Glass Caedmons.
I don’t know how common this “new” card is, but I’ll bet on red Toons, which “punish” nature cards with additional damage :wink:

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You sold me. I leveled Toon Gormek to replace Cyprian. Can’t go wrong with 2439 hp, right?

You never know… Generally, setting up a defense for each BB is a big challenge for me, attacking in this tournament format is definitely much easier for me. To be honest I rate my defense at C (maybe B with a bit of luck) - let’s see if I was right :wink:

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5 wins on Day 1. Lots of Toons today. Continued with testing a 2-1-1-1 attack.

Used tMelendor - Shar’Khai - ? - ? - Anastasia, with the question marks depending on whether I’m facing a passive or aggressive defense. Against passive defenses with 3 or more healers, used 2 red Toons in tGormek and tScarlett. Against aggressive 4 hitter, 1 healer defenses, it was tCyprian and tBoldtusk.

With the max hp cut on critical tiles and earlier tiebreaker, could kill even the strongest healers just with tiles. 2 of the matches went into tiebreaker, but was never in any danger of not winning them. Haven’t faced any defenses with Wu Kong or the Shark.

My own defense is 0-1.

Good luck everyone!

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Quick 5-0, running Caedmon-shark-Cyp-Rigard-Boldtusk, all toons where applicable. Saw everything from glass to toons to Wu Kong, so far nothing seems too tough to deal with. Defense 1-2 early on. Good luck all!

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Day 1:
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O: 5-0
D: 3-2 (A)

Toons are definitely ruling epic tournaments.

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One fight was quite tight. Kalö resisted my efforts and as last hero standing, he finally knocked me out. So 4-1 so far. Defense is much worse with currently 1-3.


Good luck for everybody.

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Relatively easy 5-0 today , though one fight was tricky because lack of tiles.
Hope the def is doing better today, but I‘ve little hope :sweat_smile:

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O: 10-0
D: 2-3
(B/?)
Looking at the current results of my defense, I guess I wasn’t wrong in assessing its potential :thinking:

Good luck everyone!

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2-3 is a great start! I am a healthy 1-7 lol. I’m still too passive on defense, even though I know you can’t wait these out anymore.

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My son is already 7-0 :open_mouth:
But considering my previous results during BB:

I am actually very happy with the result :slight_smile:

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Wow! No idea how in this format, that’s impressive.

5 more wins on Day 2. No passive defenses today. All had 3 or 4 hitters so countered with an almost hitterless attack of tMelendor - Shar’Khai - tCyprian - tBoldtusk - Anastasia. Had a lot of Purple tiles and that was enough to tempt the hitters to damage themselves on tCyprian’s riposte and to be finished off with the crit tiles from the Shark’s buff. Having 4 different colours in the stack meant high chance of damage every move.

Defense is 1-6 to start but still a lot of time for things to turn around (super optimistic mode ON!).

Day Offense Defense Score Def Score Total
1 5-0 0-4 E 3,801 200 4,001
2 10-0 1-6 E 7,864 7,864
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Good luck everyone!

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After 2 days,

Offence 9-1
Defense 6-1

Lost a match against toon Cyprian. I didnt get any good tiles and Cyprian melted my heroes. I need glass hitters

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10-0 attack, did have one come down to Boldtusk against Cyprian, but it worked out fine. Defense lost ten in a row before a couple wins, now 3-10.

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