[Incomplete, Draft] Costumes, color stacking, war, and 4* 3.60 / 5* 3.70 heroes

[Gryphonknight]

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[Incomplete, Draft] Costumes, color stacking, war, and 4* 3.60 / 5* 3.70 heroes

Farmable ascension items

4* 3.60 heroes are the most powerful with farmable ascension items.

Unlike emblems, costumes can be used for 4* 3.60 heroes.

This makes duplicate 4* 3.60 heroes with costumes the most efficient use of costumes.

Example
2x Boldtusk 4* 3.60
2x Sonya 4* 3.60

Not necessarily the best use. That ( as always ) depends on your roster.

Same color leveling

Using the same color to level a costume is roughly 66.66% of the Costume XP and 66.66% food as using off color leveling.

same color 1* heroes

Unless you are taking the base hero to 5* 4.1, 4* 4.1 or 3* 3.1, only use same color 1* heroes to level costumes.

Costumes get 1.5x Hero XP from same color and
2x Hero XP in general,
for a total Costume XP of 3x Hero XP if using same color base heroes.

This is similar to leveling a base hero with same color 3* heroes.

Color stacking

4* 3.60 second copies of a hero with costume are good for color stacking.

Example
Grimm 4* 4.70 and Grimm 4* 3.60 .

Color stacking

Color stacking, Empires hidden buff

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Double strong color, no weak color, teams==

Now that you have two rainbow teams ( one 3* 3.50 and one 4* 3.60 ) you can create double strong color, no weak color teams.

If you are attacking a Green Boss, then Red heroes are better because they are strong against green, so Green bosses takes double damage. The opposite is true of Blue heroes. Blue heroes cause half damage to a Green boss. The other colors ( Green, Purple & Yellow ) do neutral damage or no increase or decrease in damage.

When attacking a Green boss, remove your BLUE 4* 3.60 hero ( half damage against Green ) from your rainbow 4* 3.60 team, and replace it with your RED 3* 3.50 hero ( double damage against Green ) for a double red, no blue team.

You will do 1 HP of damage with blue matches/ board damage, since you are missing a Blue hero. But your two Red heroes will do double damage. Even if your Red 3* 3.50 hero dies against a Green boss, twice its attack stat will still be added when doing matching/ board/ physical damage.

==Weird color teams==

Other teams:

triple strong color,
quadruple strong color,
double neutral color,
double neutral three color teams and
single color teams.

Once you have more experience with rainbow teams and double strong color, no weak color teams, you can learn more about these weird alternatives.

==Elemental shields or Reflect color enemies==

When you fight an enemy with an elemental shield, it is weak to a color, strong to a color and REFLECTS a color. Example: A Reflect green boss takes double damage from Red heroes, half damage from Blue heroes, and reflects all damage from Green heroes back to that hero. So a triple red, no blue, no green team OR a double red, double yellow/ double purple, no blue no green team works better than a rainbow team. Example you can remove your Blue 4* 3.60 and Green 4* 3.60 heroes and replace them with one Red 3* 3.50 hero and one Purple/ Yellow 3* 3.50 hero.

So having a rainbow 3* 3.50 and a rainbow 4* 3.60 lets you take on Reflect color enemies until you level up a second rainbow 3* 3.50, second rainbow 4* 3.60, etc.

War

For powerful heroes, especially healers, I like a 4* 4.70 copy and a 4* 3.60 copy for war.

Example
Grimm 4* 4.70 and Grimm 4* 3.60 .

2x 4* 3.60 heroes are zero non farmable ascension items and roughly the same Hero XP, and food, as 1x 4* 4.70 hero.

So duplicate heroes at 4* 3.60 are a good investment for war, or any situation that encourages color stacking, especially with the limited number of good 4* heroes.

4* 4.70 and 4* 3.60 healers

Usually I run two different color healers on a single war attack team, one copy 4* 4.70 and one copy 4* 3.60 .

Example
green Melendor 4* 4.70, blue Kiril 4* 3.60

5* 3.70 heroes

5* heroes take roughly 3.84x the food and roughly 2.12x Hero XP of 4* heroes.

5* 3.70

4* 4.70

Costume skill roll

The most powerful costumes are

Note to self

@Gryphonkit finish this later, link to leveling post

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