🌞 Grilka – 5* Holy / Yellow from Contest of Elements

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New Contest of Elements (Holy) hero is released: Grilka

This thread is for discussing strategy related to Grilka, as well as your thoughts on Grilka.

Grilka
Rarity Element Class Mana Speed
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Legendary		 :sun_with_face:
Holy/Yellow		 image
Cleric		 S
Slow
Level Attack Defense Health

4/80		 :crossed_swords:
1007		 :shield:
1081		 :heart:
1854
4/85 1085 1165 1998
4/90 1242 1333 2286
Origin Family
Contest of Elements Super Elemental
Image Aether Power Description
taunt Taunt At the start of each battle, this Hero gets Taunt that prevents enemies from using Special Skills on the Hero’s allies for 3 turns.
In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.
:hourglass: Ability: Troop Mastery
Passive Skill as attacking character:
This hero’s Troops deal extra elemental damage against weaker element.
- Dealt extra elemental damage: +100%
Passive Skill as defending character:
This hero receives less elemental damage from Troops of stronger element.
- Received elemental damage: -10%
:dizzy: Special Skill: Holy Hibiscus Ale
  • If there’s 8 or more Holy shields on the board, then all effects cast in this Special Skill are undispellable.
  • The caster get Taunt that prevents enemies from using Special Skils on the caster’s allies for 5 turns.
  • All allies regenerate 1300 boosted health over 5 turns. Boosted health can exceed max HP.
  • All allies get +44% mana generation for 5 turns.

All-in-one still under construction. Card image to be added when available.

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:hugs: Family Bonus

Heroes become stronger when teamed with other unique heroes of the same family

Super Elemental Family

Super Elemental family makes Mono teams even stronger.
This hero enhances Holy element.

  • One or more shields are enhanced to Power Gems each turn.
  • The amount is same as Holy heroes in the team. 5 Power Gems per element can be on board at the same time.

The Power Gem deal 20 damage to a random enemy each turn until it is matched. When Power Gems are matched , they deal 10 damage to all enemies.

:test_tube: Changes from Beta

  • Attack is increased from 1001 to 1007.
  • Defense is increased from 1079 to 1081.
  • Health is increased from 1833 to 1854.
  • HP boosting over 5 turns is reduced from 1600 to 1300.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 4 of Contest of Elements (Holy) Hero - Grilka [Part of The Beta Beat v66]

:thought_balloon: What do you think of Grilka ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Grilka.

Based on preferences Forum members have expressed, please try to stick mainly to Grilka and not wander off topic too much to other heroes.

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

  • Is Grilka worth summoning for?

  • Would you use Grilka on Defense? Offense? War? Quests/Events? Titans?

  • Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Grilka ?

  • What heroes would you take when facing Grilka as an opponent?

  • Would you give Grilka Cleric Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

  • What do you think of special?

  • What do you think of Grilka’s character design?

  • If you Summoned Grilka and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Grilka, and whether/how you plan to make use of them.*

*NOTE: Summon Results posted without any commentary/feedback at all should be flagged as Off Topic and removed, based on preferences expressed by the Forum community. Please include some comments about what you think of Grilka when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Grilka, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Grilka (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Grilka), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.

:money_with_wings: Avoiding Overspending & Heartache :broken_heart:

More Insights & Reading

I highly recommend reading these three threads for more information and context on summoning odds:

If you’ve read them a million times before, you may consider reading them again before deciding on your budget for summoning. A little time spent deciding on how much money you want to risk on summoning goes a long way to avoiding disappointment, frustration, and regret later. :slight_smile:

:thinking: Wondering About Your Personal Situation?

Feel free to discuss your team and roster here, and ask for advice from other Forum members.

If you’d like more extensive advice on sorting out your particular roster, I recommend creating a new thread in Gameplay Help & Tactics, and posting screenshots of your hero roster, along with your questions.

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Feedback Poll - Grilka (post release)


:question: Is Grilka worth Summoning For?

  • Yes, absolutely
  • Only if you’re P2P
  • Yes, but only when featured.
  • Not really
  • Not at all
0 voters

:question: How many copies of Grilka would be useful to keep & Level?

Note - this is roster space dependent & isn’t the same for everyone!

  • Zero
  • Just one
  • 2
  • 3
  • All of them
0 voters

:question: What do you think Grilka’s Primary Purpose is?

  • Taunt Buffer
  • HP Booster (Over Time)
  • Mana Generation Buffer
0 voters

:question: What do you think of Grilka compared to other Heroes?

  • Over Powered (OP)
  • Little stronger than Most
  • On Par with Most
  • Little Weaker than Most
  • Completely Broken (Under Powered)
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:question: How does Grilka’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Grilka’s Base Stats?

Note this means Grilka’s Class, Attack, Defence & HP Stat

  • Perfectly
  • Better than Most
  • On Par with Most
  • Worse than Most
  • Terribly
0 voters

:question: Is Grilka worth giving Cleric Emblems to?

  • Yes absolutely
  • Depends on who else you got
  • Hmmmm, not sure yet
  • No I don’t think so
  • No… Not at all.
0 voters

:question: In Defence, where do you think Grilka is best used?

  • Left Wing
  • Left Flank
  • Tank
  • Right Flank
  • Right Wing
  • Not on defence at all.
0 voters

:question: How do you think Grilka is best used?

  • PvP Raids/ War attack
  • Normal Defence
  • War Defence
  • Titans
  • Farming
  • Tournaments
  • Event Teams
0 voters
Choose up to 3 options

:question: What do you think is Grilka worth Limit Breaking ?

  • Yes, but only once
  • Yes, twice
  • No
0 voters

:question: If you would emblem Grilka then which Emblem Path would you select ?

  • Sword path
    (Selecting Attack talent nodes when possible)
  • Shield path
    (Selecting Health and Shield talent nodes when possible)
0 voters

:question: What do you think about the artwork ?

  • Amazing
  • Refreshingly new
  • It’s ok
  • It could be better
  • Very bad
0 voters
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Well, quoting myself:

But s/he’ll be perfect for me.

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Saved up all my elemental coins since the last holy CoE and got grilka on my second pull. Interested to see what everyone else thinks of them but they seem like a solid taunt hero. I’m drowning in yellow mats, so they’ll definitely get to 4/85.

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The OP is adjusted with the changes.
Polls are enabled.

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Well this came as a legit surprise after all the disappointing pulls

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Yeah she seems like a solid tank. Better on defense than offense in my opinion unless you want to want to charge+8 tiles to get the dispellable on offense. Fighting against her will be hard unless you bring some good yellow heros because you want to match enough yelliows to prevent the dispellable. Hmmm.

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I hate that she’s another freaking cleric healer. Oh god anything but a cleric I would have maxed in an instant, but she just had to be one…of all the ten classes

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Why do you not like the cleric class of healers? Just too many cleric healers and that is a emblem issue? Or you rather healers come in other varieties than cleric lol?

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Cleric healers are so overdone to death. Right now my main team has three holy clerics, two of them even freaking cleric healers.
It’s my niche as well. I just roll my eyes whenever a new cleric healer is announced

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Makes sense thanks for sharing.

For me there are wayyyyy tooooo mannnnyyyy FIGHTERS lol. Just got Sparklight whixh i really wanted but fighter ughhhhhhhhhhh

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Is it just me or are all the holy elemental champions dog-water in comparison to the other elements? This hero is nothing special and is too slow for both offense and defense for what she does. I’d gladly take a third Cleopatra over this one because taunt heroes don’t do well with heroes like G.Elephant, mad hammer, Quintin and Farrah, and those are just the heroes who can kill her after she fires. Other heroes like El naddah will chew Grilka up before she even fires. In the end she’s another Queen Anne, nothing special.

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Everyone of these portals range from bad to just okay, except for dark. This hero at least has something interesting going on. She is quite unpredictable, if you’re complacent around her, you will be punished for sure

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I feel like Dark, Fire and Earth all have excellent heroes to choose from with water being a mixed bag. This portal has zero great heroes and one decent hero.

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Nah ice is easily the worse one. Zengar was so embarrassingly bad he was replaced by satori when his portal arrived. Imagine being replaced by a hero that’s a different family in his own portal, that is just wild. Only one that I want even till now is Quinn. But then again quinn is also another freaking cleric healer
Jequn is unique, this hero is too. The rest of the yellow cast are bland and forgettable. So that’s 2/5 for now

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I’ve never been able to pull any of the good taunt heroes. But with a 1300 heal and mana boost, why is this not the next standard of taunt hero? Any decent defense up until very recently, had to have a taunt hero.
At 2LB even at slow she looks incredibly strong, what am I missing?

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Not bad … but only for aliance war in fast mode and for attack with full upgrade :crossed_swords: :nerd_face:

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You miss maybe the fact that she is great only if there is at least 8 yellow tiles on the pitch. She is slow and it has a lot of heroes who can dispel buffs after she will be killed. Compared to Ludwig and his +84 DEF again special skill, this one will get no defensive bonus.

I just want to say that it is okay to taunt but you have to take the shots and I am not sure she will after 2 snipers

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Point taken. I see what you mean.
I just saw the +44% mana gen as the next best thing after Ludwigs 100% mana. But with the large heal and High stats require quite some hits to take down… but yes, even Kara gets 74% defense against special skills, so the heal is in place instead. I Think she will be quite the PITA to take down at 2LB, even at slow.
I am missing a Yellow 5* but can’t pull anything at the moment, so will look at her from the sidelines.

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For me, it’s sorcerers. I’m happy with my sorcerers, but i have 7000 barbarian emblems, and not enough sorcerers to do another.

As for grilka… She’s seemingly amazing… She’d work with all kinds of teams… Except counterattack.