🏅 [Feb 16, 2020] 43rd Raid Tournament! — 4* Buff Booster, No Nature/Green

[ApollosEmpire]

One of these 3 will make up my team or at least 60%- 80% of it. Might only use 3/5 blue or 4/5 blue for a better arrangement. DEF tanking boril and hoping Boril don’t tank

[Gregor.Jax]

Boril gets to shine in this tournament; no Caedmon or Melendo plus he buffs his immediate allies.

[Olmor]

1st one.
2nd looks redundant

@Gregor.Jax

no Caedmon or Melendor

Sonya & Sabs will counter the stealthy riposte dwarf.

[Wolfjack]

Is either Triton or Sonya worth swapping out for Grimm +19

[MD-DC]

@Guvnor

Emblems don’t play toooooo much of an impact on offence imo…

When facing +16 Gravemakers or 4400+ defense teams it really does…

Also my second Sonya is like 4-1/4-39+5/8 special so not exactly ready for primetime.

[bobiscool]

@bobiscool

Hey guys, I’m not sure about the last member of my team. Any advice?

I hate to tag @zephyr1 because you’ve already done so much to help… but, I could really use some input here

I was also thinking maybe switch out Grimm and use costumed Tibs (who has higher TP and def down’s all) instead? And maybe switch out Hu Tao for Proteus? And go:

Tibs - Kiril - Boril - Sonya - Proteus But then I’d be double purple so it’d be easy for the opponent to stack yellow? I guess Hu Tao could take advantage of tib’s def down the best, but he’s slow…

[Bronwynson]

So the majority of you are doing solid blue. That the ideal lineup?

[Olmor]

Without green you can’t go strong against blue.

I’m not sure if mono is better or a maximum of buffs, but I remember Wu was a real threat during the last epic buff booster. With a few buffs up even slashes became deadly, if Wu kicked in.

[BubblesUK]

There’s still Sonya.

Following on from previous tournaments, I’ll probably go mono with all neutral… So in this case, all blue attack
(Got me top 1% running mono-red in the previous tournament)

[BubblesUK]

Wilbur is an option… Lots of buff.

I wouldn’t normally use him on defence, but buff booster is the one exception, sometimes.
(At flank with Sonya at tank to remove the spirit link).

It’s a risk though because spirit link counts as a buff for the attacker…

[Olmor]

@bobiscool

easy for the opponent to stack yellow?

There arent many good yellows upon the epics for this one. No dispel, no heal, no buffs. Heavy yellow stacks won’t harm you much and the only fast is squish-boy Chao. Maybe Jackal, but he’s squishy, too and many players don’t have him. How scary?

[BubblesUK]

Depends who you have… And what troops you have.

Buffs help a lot, blues can’t be stacked against.

Blues that add buffs (Triton, Kiril, Boril etc) will be used wherever possible.

[zephyr1]

I wouldn’t put Hu in, especially in wing.

I think I’d run Kelile - Kiril - Boril - Tibs - Sonya

My thinking:

• Boril is your strongest tank by far, and the current Riposte bug is more dangerous to an attacker during Buff Booster

• Yellow in 4* are generally weak attack except Jackal and Wu, so purple is a decent choice for flank, and a defense debuff on all is very useful; Tibs will also hit decently hard if Kiril or Boril have fired before him

• Kelile is a bit risky with attackers likely stacking blue this week anyway, but Kiril can give her some cover, and you’re going to get matched based on her and your other Emblemed 4* anyway

• I considered Grimm, but that would mean pushing Kiril to wing (not ideal), or Grimm to wing (also not ideal)

[BubblesUK]

Depends on the yellow stack… But as you say, no dispel or heal and limited buffs.

Wu is first pick for buffs on attack, Gretel self-buffs, Jackal is mustard in attacking stacks and Li delays enemies building buffing specials…

[BubblesUK]

Looks good but I’d swap the order around… If nothing else, Sonya first for dispel (attacks likely to have Kiril, so could be defence buffed).
Kelile could be last after Tibs (hits harder than Sonya, no seconds utility to justify left side).

[Arthemis]

Blue 4* is the worst color for me.
Recently got Boril, so 1/1

[BubblesUK]

Is this the one use-case for Agwe?

AoE with buffed attack is always good… A unique buff that won’t get overwritten is also good.

[Elayanith]

Shouldnt Kelile and Sonjy swith places?
The early dispell seems to beat color synergie.

[Bronwynson]

I was gonna ask about Agwe! Haha

My third troop for blue is not so hot. Should I try bad use mostly healers and ripostes?

[BubblesUK]

Ripostes work… But you’ll get more out of it if you position better.

Double riposte:
X - riposte - X - riposte - X

Sonya is okay at tank, so consider:
Kiril - Boril - Sonya - Cyp - x

I think you want some more direct damage though… Another healer is just getting too passive, though slash could be huge!