Before, During & After the Tournament: Share & Discuss Your Teams, Thoughts, Feedback, and Questions!
Some topics to start off with:
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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?
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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?
After the Tournament: Share Your Results & Rewards!
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.
Attacks are probably going with 3 reds using C2 Gormek+C2 Kelile and someone. Maybe Junaid? Would prefer 2 healers for the remaining spots. Regular Kiril for the superior jinx for sure.
5-0 start to the tournament but it wasn’t easy. Other than the gimme first opponent, the other 4 defenses were fully level 80 heroes.
Attacked mainly with 3-1-1, stacking the strong colour against non-Purple tanks. Used 2 healers each time, mostly c2Rigard and c2Kiril for the boost. Struggled against Green tanks. My Red stack of cGormek - Sun - tBoldtusk are average speed and had trouble finding the 10th tile. Fortunately was facing passive tanks in Mielikki and Melendor, and managed to squeak through in the end.
Faced my first c2Cyprian tank in the last match. Had to sacrifice the overheal by using cSabina and cMelendor along with Sonya - c2Caedmon - Xiahou Dun. With the reduction of his minions, c2Cyprian was a bit easier to handle this time as I had multiple heroes who could block his buff.
First day of the tournament… first fight… and immediately a hopeless board
None of my heroes even had time to charge… The only positive from this fight was the cascade at the end, thanks to which I managed to at least kill the tank and miraculously avoid “0”.
Fortunately, later it was better and I finished the day with a score of 4-1. I take the defeat as a good sign, because I started the previous tournament with a 5-0 result and ended up only in the top 10%
The defense has been attacked only once so far and won
Day 1: Feels like I’ve got in a time machine. No yellow means I lose my Li Xius and my strongest available TP drops 300pts. Face three Cyprian/Rigard combos, but only one full LB2 team. Can’t complain!
Defence… regretting prioritising 5 stars over double costume sabina and rigard, but we’ll see how they get on.
4-1 on Day 2. Continued with cautious tactic of 3-1-1 with 2 healers and picking off the non-healers in the defense first. 2 of the first 3 matches went into overtime, but with only healers remaining was in no danger of losing.
Lost in the 4th match against a triple Toon defense of tBoldtusk - tCaedmon - tGrimm - c2Cyprian - Xiahou Dun. Probably should have gone with a Green stack, but my Blue stack had been doing so well that I stayed with it. And definitely should have read the fine print, that tCaedmon does extra damage vs Blue. He killed my injured c2Kiril with a 1100+ hp snipe. With my c2Rigard not being able to charge either, just managed to kill the tank.
Defense is terrible again at 1-7, meaning lots of pressure to keep winning.
And the defense targetted Mulgog exclusively, so he died before firing a special. But I won! It turns out that petulantly firing an off colour gem will occasionally gift you an epic cascade that completely flips the match. Yay for total fluke! I lost the other bad board.
I’ve decided to stick with 3-1-1, stacking red, which is basically a gamble on the board not being awful for red. All opposition in 5.1k - 5.2k band. Currently in top 5% with score of 10.8k, but don’t think defence is good enough to get close to top 1% this week. Might make it to Friday - depends whether I get one bad board for red tomorrow or two!
4-1 again on Day 3. Same cautious 3-1-1 attack teams as before. Lots of multiple healer defenses today. 2 of the wins went into overtime.
The sole loss came in the last match of the day against a c2Melendor - Tiburtus - c2Rigard - c2Caedmon - Koda team. No chance once the tank boosted the health twice. Just don’t have the offensive firepower to overcome that. I should start levelling up my c2Tiburtus and Fura + costume for use whenever Goldie is not allowed.
Defense is still E, but not as ugly as it was earlier.
Jumping on with a mid week update and (eventually) a question.
I really wanted to get C2 Cyprian ready to tank this tournament, but I read the calendar wrong and thought I had another week to prep. Just got him to 75 today, but still need to max the first costume for the full bonus. Not sure if I will use him on attack at this point. This is who I’ve had on offense (and also defense) thus far:
I’m really liking the double healers and all their subsequent buffs.
Offense is 13-2 so far, with the highest buffs I’ve been able to stack at 7/140% attack. (Shown below) I’m wondering what the highest number of buffs others might be stacking? Riposte is one I am clearly lacking, but there are so many buffs I forget about these days. I wonder what else could be squeezed in there
Day 1 started off at a solid A at 3-0 but has been dropping ever since. Stayed at a B day two which was very lucky, now at 4-6 which is exactly at a C. Any additional loses and I’m in trouble for these last days.
The extra defense points really help the scoring gap for the easier opponents I face from the start. My first win was only 686 points and I finally faced a 5K team today for 734. A bit worried for tomorrow
A better result could be achieved by stealing buffs with Villers or Felton, but then you need a suitable opponent
(I only write about the cards I have - except Villers, but I have 3* Felton)
Schedule
This Week’s Restrictions & Special Rule
Special Rule: Buff Booster
History
Before, During & After the Tournament: Share & Discuss Your Teams, Thoughts, Feedback, and Questions!
Some topics to start off with:
Defense Team Tracking
After the Tournament: Share Your Results & Rewards!
Log & Guide to Raid Tournaments
Raid Tournaments – Log, Overview, Attacking, Matchmaking, Scoring, Restrictions, Special Rules, and Rewards 
