🧪 Early Information on the February 2020 HOTM (Jean-François)

[Sternman]

I am a bit surprised you chose that comment to show that forum was enamored with Margaret.

@Sternman

I can see how she helps teams stay alive but having a harder time seeing how she kills. Good tile damage for when you are initiating the attack but slash damage doesn’t have the upside from cascades.

I like her special but prefer the likes of Hel/Proteus with the mana control (albeit at a slower speed) or the defense down heroes if I had to choose.

@Sternman

Since Guin tends to die by tiles Margaret doesn’t help her tremendously which was probably intentional to keep game balance.

I find Margaret intriguing rather than a must have. Her role seems fairly clear, flank that improves the tank and protects the wing (so a slow, squishy, deadly wing is now viable again (Isarnia we’re looking at you).

I never pulled Margaret but having faced her in raids my concerns were proved correct: She was to be a flank that protects the tank and wing BUT the tank dies by tiles, not specials so she doesn’t protect the tank, wing doesn’t matter so much once you have the gap for ghosting tiles. She doesn’t do damage except slash and that isn’t enough.

She does have excellent tile damage for titans…perhaps offensive raids. Dunno.

I wish that I had pulled Grazul, I really wanted her, and still think she is excellent.

General comment on JF:
I have GM and yet can see how JF would add value to my roster since they don’t do exactly the same thing. I would just NEVER run them on the same team because they overwrite one another but I feel that JF’s defense debuff flip will be very helpful on offensive raids, especially vs. Kunchen tanks.

I believe a case can be made for him on defense as well, I personally wouldn’t expect to put him on my defense because I have other heroes which I prefer due to the fact that I won’t be able to emblem him for at least another year (Proteus +20 keeps his emblems, Hel +3 gets more, Proteus +5 will go to +20 as well).