Why put yourself through it then? Why not skip the tournaments that appeal least? There’ll be another, hopefully more enjoyable one along next week. It’s not as if you need them for POV this round.
I have to say 5* rush doesn’t make me very happy either, or successful (I don’t have many good slows levelled). I’m working on it though, and even crappy loot is better than no loot.
p.s. My defence has been slaughtered so far. At least partly my fault for not making sure BK got the crit troops.
That’s why lol and filling my chest.
Or when the board is too dreadful, NOT filling the chest 
I usually enjoy all the tournaments, buy-in is not a problem at all. Last time 5* rush no red actually scored top 1% with only Horghall maxed at that time. But this time? First defence is slaughtered by players obviosly much more experienced and I assume with better rosters. At least their defences were 300 points stronger then mine, on average. At the same time, my mainly 4* teams had to fight 4300+ defences since day 1. My attacking teams are about 3800 - depends if there’s 1 or 2 legendaries. In rush attack, the power gap is so obvious. Plus bad boards all the way. As if something went terribly wrong this week for me. 
Sleeping over this one. 
Here are my day 1 and 2 videos. Santa has it out for me… used one of @Guvnor songs in yesterdays video. Thank you and @Olmor love the music you guys use.
Day 1
Day2
Maybe I’m stating the obvious here but make sure all your mana troops are up to lv 11 so you can charge in just two matches. Then try to got 2-2-1 or at the most 3-2 so you don’t get wiped out by the first wave of assaults if you get a bad board.
Fwiw I’ve been running Rigard-Mist+14-Telly+7-Malosi-Proteus+19 for almost all of my attacks and so far it’s been working out. You’ll note it’s pretty soft in terms of hitting power but with 3 mana controllers and in different colors it gives me some leeway when dealing with bad boards.
Happy to report I faced an Elena+14 tank again and used Telly+7 in lieu of Caedmon+18 and it worked out very nicely even with a mediocre board. Telly’s mana slow bought me a few more turns to work the board, and once I had Mist and Proteus charged it was game over for the opposing heroes. Towards the end each hero on my team had 3 minions and they couldn’t even break through the meat shield barrier. 
(team I faced was Viv+18, Obakan+16, Elena+14, Kadilen+12, Sartana+8)
Thanks, slowly moving to lvl 11 - currently 8.
Tried different combos, Mist included. Usually I don’t have issues with stronger teams, just made a bragging post in Telly/Vela rebalancing post (check it out).
But this was one of those days. Almost always running 3-2 combo… But today, nope. Nothing. No special skill for you, Mister. One more issue is that my strongest colour is green (because of Tell/Vella and a lot of blue tanks in wars). In this tourney, it’s actually the weakest element. So, this tourney may not really be for me atm. 
Gotcha. Yeah I think having multiple lv 11 mana troops available so all the heroes on your team can charge with 2 matches of their color is definitely a game changer for this tourney. As long as there are no unwanted cascades, you can charge your heroes faster than the defense can and remain one step ahead.
Costume bonuses also really help if you lack the feeder troops/hams, because with that 5% mana bonus, even a lv 1 mana troop is enough to charge in 6 tiles. Honestly part of the reason why I run with a 2-2-1 team is because I have the mana troops to charge everybody in 6 tiles, and that seemed far more important to me than worrying about stacking or what not.
Actually, I didn’t know this. I will have this in mind in the future. Thanks! 
2nd day, 2nd loss on att
Def 2:2
Do costume bonuses factor in during rush attack or is every single on an even slate requiring a level 11 mana troop to charge in 6 tiles?
They definitely factor in - that 5% mana bonus is permanent not conditional. My costumed Rigard/Tibs charge in 6 tiles with just a lv 5 mana troop. If my math is right I’m pretty sure even a lv 1 mana troop does it (5%+5% = 10% total mana bonus = over the 9% threshold needed to charge in 6 tiles for v. fast)
DAY 2 What a difference a day makes!
ATTAX
DAY 1 2W 3L
DAY 2 5W 0L
7W 3L TOTAL-
@rho, I’m not sure if this is a dumb question or not but I’m now thinking about the © +5% Mana bonus and how it affects different Mana speeds ( v slow slow avg fast v fast)
My example would be horghall for slow. I pushed his regular to 4.01, but I pushed his © to 4.80 and I get the 5% Mana bonus. (Good little tricky for those heroes that you don’t want to max their regs, but you do want to max their ©). If I put a lvl 5 Mana troop on his © it should bring it to avg tile requirements right?
I’m assuming you mean in general not for this tourney. Well slow is 12 and average is 10 tiles, so you’ll need a 20% mana boost to get slow down to average speed. Unfortunately that means you’ll need a lv 29 mana troop for that full 15% mana bonus on top of the 5% costume bonus in order for a slow hero to be average.
Excellent! I’d never considered this before but that really helps with me having no more than 2 level 11’s per color! Thanks
So I have gone 3-0 defense today.
Currently sitting at 6-1 which I am surprised at.
I feel bad though, my last defense win was against someone called Shrek, and I loved Shrek growing up!
Day 2 defense still a B - I’m happy with that considering my roster 
Undefeated so far attacking shockingly
Although almost died against this heimdall tank bc couldn’t kill him with tiles before him and ursena with attack boost went full blast at my team 
(Before I could charge elena too)
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1 loss today offensively so 7/3 overall. @rho, as much as I liked you yestarday, not so much today. J/k 
Day 2
5-0 on offense, defense picked up 2 more wins (5-1 overall) for a solid A. @BubblesUK
Starting to get matched with 4500+ teams now so things are getting crazier. Still did the usual 2-2-1 setup until the last team I faced which had a Drake+19 tank (team was Kage+19, Anzogh+19, Drake+19, Seshat+14, Telly+11)
Decided the 2-2-1 setup just lacked enough hitting power so said “screw it” and finally went 4-1 purple-green (cRig, cTibs, Jabber, Proteus, Telly). Glad I did because I was able to find two purple matches relatively quickly but not before Drake fired, but with cRigs there to cleanse that blind don’t matta!
I gotta say, the combination of cRig’s attack up, cTibs’ defense down made Jabber hit like a truck even against Kage+19 and Telly+11 wings. Kage succumbed to Jabber’s poison, while Telly needed to eat a few more tiles. But Proteus was there to make sure Seshat and Telly never had a chance to fire. When the dust finally settled, Anzogh was the only one left. Another purple match and he too was gone.
@Mr.Spock
I can now confirm with 100% certainty that yes even a lv 1 mana troop is enough to charge a fully costumed hero in 6 tiles. Gotta love those costume bonuses!
