Proteus seldom kills bosses himself, just lets the team do it. And there is lots of competition in purple 4* heroes.
Wilbur
Wilbur needs Boldtusk + Falcon or 5* heroes to absorb the shared damage. Otherwise it is better to have a sniper, or titan, kill a single hero and waste the rest of the damage.
Classic 4* heroes
I was consistency beating quests and challenges long before then.
Wu Kong and Rigard are the two most powerful 4* heroes in the game if you learn to use them and have teams ( see below) to support them.
Both are available from Guardian and Atlantis if you need them.
Let me put here a question without opening a new thread.
Green is my weak color, having just Kingston as 5* (lucky me).
The other colors are acceptable and I donāt have any elemental debuffer except for Frida.
I was planning to skip january teltoc and try my luck in february for Lady of tha Lake (more for events than raids and wars).
Should I stick looking for LotL (to strenghten green) or going for as much debuffers as possible?
(I also plan to spend like 12 EHT this january looking for mother north)
Iām f2p without Proteus. Or Hel. My only mana controllers are the tc20 ones and Mitsuko. I beat season 2 and all hard quests and events easily without Proteus or Wilbur. I didnāt use mana control at all to beat s2. I used carefully timed time stops, revive scrolls, a resurrection scroll, and mana. Rigard heal, blind from joon, and then Wu at the right time worked just fine first try.
Donāt get me wrong I really want Proteus but not as much as Jackal and/or Falcon, so thatās where Iām focusing and thatās what I suggest to most others. Elemental defense down is insanely impactful on titans, events, quests, raids, wars. Everywhere. In my opinion itās the most impactful skill in the game, the way the damage formula works with the fact that lowering defense has the biggest effect on dealing damage. Gets you high titan and event scores, quickly dispatches enemies anywhere, and lets you bypass needing to color stack tanks in war and certain tournaments rules, or heroes that put up elemental defenses (Guin, Kunch) etc, and probably stuff I left out. It has so much power
The question boils down to: Do you want to try for Natalya or do you want the Guardians? Wilbur and Proteus (who the meat of this particular thread have been about) are there every month during Atlantis summoning time but when was the last time we could get Natalya? Thinking this way, Natalya seems to be the way to go, unless you donāt want her and in that case go all out for guardians. Thatās my thought process at least. (But I have falcon and panther and that may be skewing my perspective)
Piece of advice: you can beat any level of Atlantis (hard too) if you stack 3x or 4x (better of the opposite color of the boss) + Wu kong.
Prepare the board before entering the last stage (most important), take with you one or two time stops (as safe net), one or two healers.
To āprepare the boardā kill all the minions of the last wave (except one) without using specials, set some gems or wait many strong tiles on the board, kill the last mob with specials (or items)
You donāt need mana stoppers if the opponent is already dead before itās his turn.
Good news. You get even better rewards (and more coins) for finishing all of hard. Once you finish normal, youāll unlock a new mission for hard.
Frida is solid and an elemental defense down hero (which is the main debate going on in this thread). Delilah is at least average for a HOTM. If you consider the minions as part of her heal, she heals for 46%, and then gives a small attack boost, as well. And since minions stack, itās kind of like temporarily raising a heroās max health, which is something weāll see in S3.
Panther is a very good debuffers since can pair with Tiburtus 4*+18 . purple 4*+18 heroes are a very strong class. Classic Purple 5* heroes Sartana, and Domitia, work well with Panther.
Panther is strong yellow, weak purple and Frida is strong red, weak green, so they can cover each otherās weak color.
Frida+ Grimm 4*+18 ( or Athena or Isarnia) + Valeria 4*+1 ( or Triton or Magni) is already very good. So you got very lucky with Frida.
Evelyn and Falcon ( together they fight crime )
Evelyn works well with Lianna, but Buddy 's debuff is short compared to Ramming Pulverizer.
Falcon is a pseudo 5* hero, but vulnerable to counterattack and DOT which bypass Falconās high defense. Paired with Wilbur, 4*+18 powerful but hard to time. Paired with Gormek 4* 4.70 easy to time but no defense buff. Pairs well with fighter / monk Boldtusk 4*+18.
Season 3
Heimdall is a strong green 5* in season 3 according to Beta Beat. Possibly the best healer in the game.
Based on the percentages ā you have a very tiny percent chance for the 5* event heroes on Guardians, that divided by 5 heroes available. The total percentage for 5*s is higher in Atlantis.
But how good are those 3* event heroesā¦ Because of them I finished on leaderboard last two rare tournaments. Bauchan and Shrubbear are like Batman and Superman of rare tier Pixie is also extremely offensive and useful. And Wednesday we shall have the chance to pull for the best 3* defensive wing in the game. That purple may practically wipe out 3 enemy heroes at once if the rest of allies are dead. Is like a miniature G. Owl
Forget chances for 5*, Guardians have two unique and basically must have 4s great for (but not only) for titans, and as Rigs said, if you happen to pull 5, even better. Atlantis you can try next month.
On my alt vip only account Iām gonna make an exception and buy gems to try x10.
Also good point on the 3*, you donāt know that yet, but you want him
Iām going Atlantis. The returning HsOTM and featured 5*s are all top quality plus thereās Proteus, Wilbur and I still donāt have a Gato. While Guardians will come around again in June it may be a year before thereās this many great 5 star heroes available in Atlantis.
I have 2600 gems saved up. My VIP expires at the end of January, and I can easily get to 3000 by the end of the month.
Consider the following:
I have all classic 3*s and 4*s
Have Wilbur, Triton and Gadeirus
Have Buddy
Donāt have Proteus
Donāt have either of the Guardian 4*s
As you can see the main reason Iām going back-and-forth on this is because I donāt have Proteus, and I donāt have the Guardian 4*s either.
I donāt really care for chasing 5*s. The odds are so low that Iām not even going to bother trying until I save up a considerably higher amount of gems.
And besides ā Proteus, G. Falcon and G. Jackal are among the best 4*s in the game. I clearly see the value in them, and I know these are heroes that I will want to get soon.
Which one would you choose? Save gems for Atlantis? Or go for Guardians?
Jackal and Falcon are a combined 5.7% Appearance Rate.
Proteus is a 1.62% Appearance Rate. (14.6% divided by 9 heroes.)
In a 10-pull you have a 44.4% chance of pulling at least one of Falcon or Jackal.
In a 10-pull you have a 15% chance of pulling at least one of Proteus.
All three are excellent, and while Proteus is my favorite and likely most used hero, I think the better odds for one of Falcon or Jackal are more appealing ā unless there are other Season 2 3*/4* that youād be happy with too.
Totally concur with the thinking here, in addition to the fact that whatever other gems or coins you stumble upon can be used every month for Atlantis after this, but next Guardians is a long wait.
Pixie is also extremely offensive and useful. And Wednesday we shall have the chance to pull for the best 3* defensive wing in the game. That purple may practically wipe out 3 enemy heroes at once if the rest of allies are dead. Is like a miniature G. Owl 
