🧪 Early information on the September 2021 HOTM -- Alexandrine

[Homaclese]

@The_Seeker

A bit out of topic since you’re the first one that I hear of using Gazelle for titans. How does she compare with Wu? I am thinking of the fact that she does not misses, but also you cannot add any extra attack up to her 100%, while Wu has 185% attack up + regular attack up. How did you decide on her?

I’d for sure use her over Ranvir, if I had her. I have recently stopped using Ranvir for most of my titans and using a high attack on color hero instead. My overall scores probably are roughly the same but with a lot more consistency… and more importantly a lot less frustration.

[Nightmare2048]

Ranvir is one of heroes I regret to ascend, because I managed to land Miki two months after I did. Those misses are pain in the Dark Lord when you miss with special that applies critical debuff.

Alexandrine will be handy in my blue team and I can finally have a team of Frigg + Odin + some healer, as most or all 5* healers I have are green or yellow (exception being Grazul, who has low healing, Emilio, whose healing is conditional and MT who is slow and not very reliable). If I manage to get her, that is.

[dansing]

@The_Seeker : (off topic experience sharing) I onLy use G. Gazelle with holy team for titans. I also have Gullinbursti for the overheal.
While Gazelle’s death hurts, most times she survives & with her maSSive buff / damage reduction active = a good score !

Gazelle BiG buff helps me take a healer like Gullin…to overheal & keep her alive while tiles don’t lose much power by not having an additional hitter.

There are no misses !

[dansing]

Alexandrine’s fairly good attack power (745 base attack) will give the tile damage along with healing & tile buff. With some emblems, this attack power will increase further.

I feel Jott & her will tango well alternating to keep the board buffed up & team alive = score well.

Since all don’t have Miki, this tango has potential to give high hits
while’
for me, (if I pull her) Alexandrine will replace Ariel in the TitaN team with Miki. I somehow still need to learn how to use Jott well… Miki has given me the luxury to not even try out Jott…!

[dawnsempires]

my best titan attack ever was with Wu Kong (and shockingly, no items were used on that hit–i just had the luckiest titan board i’ll ever get in my life ), and i will forever be a Wu Kong defender, but i much prefer Gazelle for the reduced damage taken–much less of a drain on battle items. Nordri can survive a 12* titan slash attack while dancing!

[EXULE]

Not that BK is not annoying sometimes but why would you be killing him just with tiles? Yes, he has beefy defense but there are plenty of heroes that dispell (could be one like Kageburado, three like Devana, Domitia, or all like Sonya, Caedmon, Melendor, Costumed Vivica). Then you can kill him anyway you want.
So I do not think it is necessary to go against BK with mono or stacking blue team, just have as many dispellers as possible.

[The_Seeker]

Thank you everyone for the feedback about Gazelle on titans, it was very useful! I will get her to at least 3.70 after I finish Costume Leonidas. and start testing her.

[Jomps]

not as good as miki, but on pair with tarlak, she is more consistent then ranvir at lest in higher titans as she protects the team very well

[EXULE]

@Ruskin505

Jott has a larger “buff” with 64% attack up. Alexandrine has 54% buff to crit. I’ll consider that essentially a 54% buff to attack. So jott wins this battle. Alexandrine will have better stats and will be average which gives her an edge.

Yes, you are right.

The Math should be as follows:
for Jott: 64% attack buff, tiles hits are 1.64 times stronger.
for Alexandrine: 54% buff to critical, on average this means 46% tiles hit regular and 54% tiles hit double, therefore 46% + 2 * 54% = 1.54 times stronger.

Alexandrine has better stats since she is a 5 star hero and can survive longer while attacking higher level titans. She does not have direct attack but direct attacks are not so important when fighting titans. Alexandrine is also average mana while Jott is slow mana. Of course mana potions can fix that.

So the big question is if using 4 star ascension materials for her is worth it?

[Nightmare2048]

Depends if you have other blue 5* healer. If you have Ariel or Raffaele, probably not. Especially if you have Ariel. I have none so I will max her.

[EXULE]

Costumed Kiril has similar stats and the heal is more consistent, plus gives attack and defense down.
And it is cheaper to take him to level 75.

Currently I have him at level 75 fully emblemed:
Attack 793
Defense 869
Health 1399

I agree if there is tons of blue tiles she could be a monster but if there are few then you do not have sufficient heal, tiles are stronger but not many so not much difference. The link is garbage anyway.

Where is the help from this hero?

[raistlin76]

I think you should watch this video Alexandrine – 5* Ice / Blue - September 2021 HOTM (Hero of the Month) -- Initial Release - #29 by freetgy Kiril is not near what she does.

[yelnats_24]

@EXULE

The Math should be as follows:
for Jott: 64% attack buff, tiles hits are 1.64 times stronger.
for Alexandrine: 54% buff to critical, on average this means 46% tiles hit regular and 54% tiles hit double, therefore 46% + 2 * 54% = 1.54 times stronger.

Incorrect:

@yelnats_24

As there might be an accuracy issue of the formula, I also put observed data:

Observation	Normal Tile	Jott Tile	Increase
None	529.50	874.67	65.19%
Critical	789	1272	61.22%
Frida	845	1330	57.40%
Wu Kong	1556	1996	28.28%
Wukong + Frida	2408	2986	24.00%

Nb: all data taken from puzzle without combo bonus.

@yelnats_24

@BigLordF

However, under Alexandrine each tile has a 54% chance to deal 300% damage (100% base + 100% elemental + 100% crit). Otherwise, it will be 200%.

On average, Alexandrine seems like it will raise damage to 254%, but she has the potential to raise that damage all the way to 300%.

Without Alexandrine, it is 200% (ice to fire), after Alexandrine, it because 254% on average. That means Alexandrine cause (254% / 200%) - 1 = 27% increase.

@raistlin76

Kiril is not near what she does.

True, when not combined with Wu Kong, Kiril 28% attack increase did increase the damage by 28%. However, with Wu Kong, the attack increase actually only increase the damage by:
(100% + 185% + 28%) / (100% + 185%) - 100% = 9.8%

[EXULE]

May be I am wrong but I read somewhere that they fixed the healing to be only for new status ailments and not every time status ailment is renewed.

If every moth hit heals her then there is hope for her at least for RAID attack.

Can anyone confirm this?

[Jomps]

also, for those who dont have “the perfect titan team” might be worth to use both on the team. I know the overwrite each other but they are diferent speeds and you can make sure almost every tile will be buffed

[Homaclese]

@EXULE

If every moth hit heals her then there is hope for her at least for RAID attack.

Confirmed… tested it out.
5 maxed alexandrines should be able to take out a bera tank team almost regardless of the starting board

[EXULE]

Great. Now we just have to pull 5 Alexandrine and have 5 x 6 = 30 scopes.

Jokes aside as a completely FTP, my only source of somewhat good heroes is HOTM and recently they were not so good. May be this one will prove to be better than she looks.

And then lets hope NERF is not coming for her, if she threatens Bera too much.

To be able to take out almost any Bera team with mostly healers only, I think SG may have made a mistake and the NERF is coming.

But then again Bera tank should be bad because if you kill Bera, no moths, no moths no constant healing.

Perhaps it will work best if Bera is flank.

[Homaclese]

@EXULE

and recently they were not so good

To each their own. I think both chakky and elradir are great. And al3xandrine too from what I have seen so far

[EXULE]

Lets hope so. I got both of them, not maxed yet but soon hopefully.

So far when I face Eladir, I did not have any problems but I do not have DOT dealers in my team.

Hopefully he is better on RAID attack, when I max him.

As for Chakky he seems a bit too slow even with his ability to gain mana faster.

[Homaclese]

@EXULE

So far when I face Eladir

Elradir does much better on offense. Just choose the right team (and there are more of them around than you think) or stack greens to get use of the elemental link

challenge

@EXULE

As for Chakky he seems a bit too slow even with his ability to gain mana faster.

Do you have grimble, malcina or any other mana boosters?