Do I remove emblems from costume Vivica for Ariel?

Hi everyone

I have been levelling up Ariel, hoping she would be an upgrade on Costumed Rigard (who comes with me to almost every fight), but now she is finished her stats actually look worse because of his emblems
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So my question is do I take the emblems off of Costume Vivca +15 to move over to Ariel? Do I just give Ariel any new emblems that come in and keep Viv as she is? Viv is park of my yellow stack for titans and raids, alongside Jackal+19, Leonidas, Malosi and Justice/Mist

I personally prefer Ariel over Vivica since she has normal speed. I would move the emblems.

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If I were you, I will switch Vivica emblems to Ariel.
Leave Rigard as he is.

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It depends, if your alliance using yellow tanks in wars and you don’t have top yellow tank C.Vivi is good and should stay with emblems

I would remove emblems from Vivi if you not using her often, like only for titan and rarely/never in wars/raids

Ariel with average mana have better chance to charge without emblems than Vivi(even with costume buff), specially if you have 23mana troops what will charge Ariel in 9 tiles

Also if your blues are high emblemed and your yellows aren’t I wouldn’t took emblems from Vivi

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You are in a similar situation as me. I have Vivica, costumes rigard, and Ariel. My Ariel and costumes rigard have emblems, Vivica does not. It’s really because I only have so many emblems and there’s a lot of resources involved in swapping them. While not as impressive without emblems, they are all good heroes. I still use my Vivica a lot. They are good with color stacking as well. I’d suggest that if you use them all, just let them be due to the resources involved. But I would decide - do I want to continue my Vivica for depth or go Ariel for breadth. I don’t think there is a wrong answer.

As a caveat though, if one is on your defense, that may sameay the decision towards maxing those emblems.

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Do I remove emblems from costume Vivica for Ariel?

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But with costume bonus it only takes a 5* mana troop to make Viv average mana too.
Unless you have a level 23 to make Ariel fast, it’s a dead heat.

At that point it’s whether you value defence debuff or mana regen improvement more highly…

I’d probably start giving Ariel all new ones, not because Viv deserves them more but because I’d probably split 50/50 and it’s a waste to strip and then put them back again.

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Not exactly. Slow (12 tiles) to Average (10 tiles) is a 20% mana speed improvement. It won’t happen with just costume bonus (5%) and L5 troops (another 7%).

@OP, I have all 3 at various levels of emblems (sub-10). I use Ariel in almost every Raid, because her mana boost and cleanse are very valuable. In War, since i have limited Ariels, I find cRigard’s effectively fast speed, attack buff and yes, cleanse, very important and I always use the 3 copies I have.

cVivica I use ONLY with a yellow stack. I especially like her since I don’t have White Rabbit, and defense down is one of my favorite attack buffs. That said, she will be on fewer teams than the other two and I think she will work just fine unemblemed.

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Please. …always Ariel. Best healer in the game.
Cleaning + healing + mana buffing. All inclusive in average mana.
Amazing. No comparison.

Yeah, I believe you need lvl 29 mana troop to make C. Vivica medium, without any other type of bonus besides costume.

I’d only make the case for that if you had a lvl 29 yellow mana troop and do not have a lvl 23 blue mana troop. Making Ariel charge in 9 tiles is more powerful.

I’d leave them on rigard and prob strip viv to Ariel,cleanse is the probably the most important thing in the game.
Can always give new emblems back to viv

Unfortunately my yellow mana troops are level 19, while my blue mans troops are level 11, so I am not close for either of them

Mmm I seem to go against popular opinion but I say leave on Viv unless Ariel is on your defense team. Viv is a starter for you and Ariel will not be replacing her on your yellow stacks. As a slow hero she needs to survive longer so it makes sense to beef her up more than Ariel.

I use cViv without emblems and a level 8 mana troop. She always goes in the left wing position, seems to get hit a little less there, and I don’t have too much trouble keeping her alive long enough to fire. I have cRigard at +20 and all the other cleric emblems go to Ariel.
I agree with the other comments about war tanks. Tanks need the emblems so that should be your deciding factor. If neither cViv or Ariel are war tanks, give the emblems to Ariel.
It would be a huge resource eater, but you could reset cViv, take her to +6, then give all the rest to Ariel.

I removed from Ariel to Vivica since Ariel is amazing and can handle everything without them. Also made Vivica my tank since I had did not had any better.

Agreed that Ariel is a better use for the emblems. Not sure how much it matters, but I did notice your C. Rigard has 75 less defense than mine, I assume you emblemed him for his non-costume form?

Yes, I emblemed him before the costume was released, so unfortunately he isn’t optimised for his costume (I use costume version 90% of the time)

One day when I have an excess of ham I might replace the emblems in a better way!

My war tank is Ursena as our alliance tends to run purple tanks.

One argument to keep things as they are is that Vivica is probably my best yellow hero (I have Malosi, leonidas, justice and 11 unused darts waiting for any yellow to be pulled) whereas my blue team is stronger (king arthur, vela, magni, costumed richard)

A costumed Viv is already strong enough to be used imo. So if she is not being used as a tank, I would move the emblems to Ariel, she needs them more…

As something of a middle ground, I could take Vivica to +6 and Ariel to +10.

Perhaps this might give me the best of both worlds?

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