I know there’s a million of these help me setup my defense team threads. I’ve read through a lot and have experimented quite a bit. In all my attempts, I struggle to build a defense team that can stay above 2400 cups overnight. Each morning when I log in, I’m down to 2300 cups or lower sometimes. All my troops are 4* mana and level 20+. I’ve stripped emblems from almost all my heroes (except for some 4* heroes) and will use them on the defense team that seems to work best.
One thing I do quite often is look at the defense team of the top 100 players for guidance. Unfortunately, I don’t have most of the heroes you see in the top 100 (i.e. Ursena, GM, Guin, Alby, etc.).
Suggestion
Maybe people can explain in their responses why they pick specific heroes and why they position them where they did. This could end up being a template for how to build a defense team.
My Thought Process
I recently tried a purple defense team that didn’t work out. I figured the yellow defense from Kunchen’s elemental link and Domitia’s special would counter a yellow stack offense, but that didn’t prove to be true. The team has defense down, dispel, buffs from multiple elemental links, resistance to status ailments, etc. But it didn’t work:
Current Defense
Guardian Panther | Domitia | Kunchen+8 | Aeron | Seshat. Kunchen has a +16 4* crit troop and Seshat has a +22 4* mana troop.
As you can see, I have decent heroes so I feel like a team that can stay between 2500-2600 should be a realistic expectation. Especially considering I raid every day to stay in diamond.
By looks: Master Lepus-Inari-Red Hood-Kingston-Gazelle, would like to see that, can you do that for me
By (my ) logic: Seshat-Poseidon-Ariel-Queen-Kingston maybe
One is to set annoying defences that attackers will want to just reroll - super defensive and slow, drawn out battles… But still with enough punch to grind you down.
The other is a “punchers chance” as they’d call it in boxing - a defence that comes out swinging, stalling you just long enough to strike and will punish you if you’re not lucky enough to kill it fast.
The former… Eg:
Lianna, QoH, Kunch, Delilah, Lepus.
The latter… Eg:
Kingst, Marj, Kunch, Poseidon, Lepus
In both cases went rainbow, but I’m definitely a fan of picking flanks to counter an expected stack…
I run the same, just Ursena instead of Kunchen and I haven’t visited platinum in over a month, I wake up to around 2500-2550 cups. Even when I make a run for 2800+ cups, 20+ attacks don’t take more then 250 cups …
Between the synergy of monochrome defense and rainbow, which do you think is more important. I really thought the synergy of my mono purple was very very strong. Obviously that wasn’t the case because that defense never won a match.
A mono defense with good synergy is IMHO too easy to beat, because you can counter with a mono, 4x1 or even 3x2 team in the strong colour.
I occasionally drop to Platnium when I’m just having fun raiding and tiptoe into the 2700+ . Experimentation is the key to building a strong defense team, and you’re already doing that.
Besides, I’ve also noticed there’s always some adjustment to the top teams when a new hero drops - any team can be beaten. GL
Interesting thought process regarding your two team choices. I never really looked at it from that perspective. I tried the first and won 3 out of 4 attacks. Still haven’t put emblems in heroes (except for the 8 that were already in Kunchen).
Gazelle is actually better than I thought! I hesitated on ascending her, but I had no other good yellow heroes to pick from. She’s a little tricky to use, but if she goes off and doesn’t get one-shot right after, the attack boost + damage decrease to the team is very powerful!
I usually pair her with QoH for the taunt. I’m probably going to give her my Druid emblems and buff her defense. She’ll be on my main attack team and probably most titans.
) logic: Seshat-Poseidon-Ariel-Queen-Kingston maybe 
. Experimentation is the key to building a strong defense team, and you’re already doing that.
