Hello, there. I am going to point some questions that people usually ask and that help to answer better.
1 Are you F2P, C2P or P2P? Judging your roster, I asume you expend to some extent.
2 Whats your situation with mats?
My advice for deffense would be (from right to left). Melendor Gormek Neith Raffaele Proteus. You may consider to use a weaker deffense though, as this would make hard for you to revenge/raid (because your lack of roster depth).
I see you did not mention 3☆. If you really did not have any, these are the reasons why you should (these advices helped me a lot). They allow you to complete rare tier of events, thus gaining mats. They help you to raid and to go to war (and even on titans) while you don’t have better options. They are quick and cheap to level and did not waste mats.
What would I advice you? Build 3 rainbow teams of maxed 3☆, after that build 3-4 teams of maxed 4☆. Go back to your 5☆. Finish a hero behore working in other of the same colour (unless you don’t want to spend mats on the hero or you have not the mats).
My favourite setup (war and raiding) is 3/2 stak. 1 healer in each colour, 1 deffense down and 1 attak up hero.
Firstly… Don’t take this the wrong way, but defence isn’t anywhere near your priorities list just yet.
Attack nets you more mats, defence doesn’t - so prioritize attacking depth.
Second… I would focus on more 4* heroes first, they’ll get finished much faster than the 5’s and being able to stack them (run several of the same colour) will allow you to punch above your weight.
You’ll finish 4* heroes much faster, too.
And… You can use 4* heroes in 5* tournaments. You can’t use 5* in 4* tournaments.
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Don’t necessarily look at just which is the best available in each colour in isolation, look at what they can do for your teams…
Wu Kong is the gambler - you can punch way above your weight with him when you get lucky rounds. You might sometimes have to try more than once to get lucky, but you can achieve things you can’t otherwise.
Max Wu Kong.
Grimm, Tiburtus and Gormek drop enemy defence, which helps everything hit harder (note Gormek is only worth doing if you dont expect to get Wilbur any time soon).
Healing is incredibly helpful and you’ve maxed the only two you’ve listed - good job.
You’ve also got a cleanser and a dispeller in the process (and a second dispel too) - good job.
Proteus is superb for finishing events and challenges, that mana stop is gold - good job.
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Here’s where I’d concentrate for now…
Yellow - max Wu Kong.
Purple - max Tiburtus.
Blue - max Grimm.
Red - if you pull regularly at Atlantis, max Scarlett first. If you don’t, max Gormek first.
Green - I’d probably do Peters first… Caedmon is great, but with Mel finished you have one dispeller, Peters gives you something different.
+1 To everithing @BubblesUK said. I just:
Would finish 3 3☆ of each colour first (priorizing healers, deffense debuffers and attakk buffers)
Would finis Ridgard and costume before doing Tiburtus.