Himeros or Guardian Hippo

Due to materials being a pain to get, I want to make the right choice. Who should I ascend to the final tier first?

Himeros is a perfect sniper, but i think He/She can not compete with Hippo.
Hippo is more versatile and useful, so my choice would be GH.

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Hippo all day.

She rocks. LB2 her. Put some fast firing heroes around her. Watch her wreck.

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Totally up to you, but I’d consider neither as a third option. When you’re pressed for mats, you need to consider potentials as well as what you have in hand. Wait until you get a bit more flush before you bite. You might pull Luna or some other really important Blue.

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Definitely Guardian Hippo. She’s a staple on my blue mono team. I pair her up with other fast mana blue heroes and I can wipe out a team 1000 power stronger than me if I get the tiles. Which I usually do. She’s one of those game-changing heroes. Himeros is good, but at the end of the day, she’s just another sniper and will get outdated eventually. Guardian Hippo will last you a longer time and is also great for events/quests.

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Poll for you:

  • G Hippo
  • Himeros
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In a blank I would have said Hippo, but in today’s raids, his 350ish damage to all is puny. Unless you have a great blue mono which can feed on his buff, he is just ordinary. If you are not high in cups and competing against meta defenses he is still valuable.

BUT
He is fantastic when you are on events, towers and tourney where you still dont have 5* troops.

I have Himeros and he will be competing with Passepartout (no costume) for the mats when they get to 70. I am leaning towards Passe simply cos I have Persa/ Deadboot who do better than what Himeros does (Steal vs dispell) and I need more healers.
But at some point he will get the scope.

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I assume I raid and war lower than you, so this may be a moot point, but that 350 damage is additional damage to whatever your big hitters are doing, and is bonus damage when you are healing etc.

You charge everyone and that is 4 sets of 350, plus whatever your other heroes are putting out.

That’s not to be sniffed at. Unless you are spending a lot and running much better options, in which case they would be unlikely to be asking about Hippo and Himeros :man_shrugging:

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I agree to your points. When you fire other big hitters his buff adds up for the kill shot. I do use her on those blue mono for POG/POV requirements as I can use the colour synergy.
My observation so far with Hippo in raids is she doesn’t live long enuf to fire a lot of times. And if she does fire, she tends to die before I can leverage his buff. SO I rarely use her in raids.
I am not a spender; I pay just for POV/POG. But i float around 3100 to 3300 cups. Hippo is still valuable for me in towers and event. I pair her with 9HB, Becky Ludwig and Franz.

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She is often targeted in my raids, and currently carries my weakest troop so will die early if the opponent is tough enough and my luck with tiles isnt in.

So far, i have been unable to find anyone good enough to replace her on my team.

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Thank you all!! Hippo is great, the only downside is needing to make sure the other heroes get their boards too…

Guardian Hippo also helps with that as she’s fast mana and gives a mana regen buff to all your heroes. I have her at LB2 and she’s been fantastic for me.

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