🌑 Khepri – Season 5 Hero – 5* Dark / Purple: Thoughts, Discussion & Summon Results with Feedback

[Zack]

@Math-Teacher

Although offensive breakpoints are easy to determine, defensive is not at all the same beast.

Right, it takes quite some effort to do.

There are already threads that started investigations on the mana gain for the defense:

According to SG:
However, do note that the Mana needed for each mana speed is not the same for offensive and defensive heroes in raids.

New mana per turn calculation on defense? We investigate Vol 2

So I just got a response from Petri via my submitted ticket where I asked the exact same question as quoted above. Unfortunately, he cannot “disclose exact game design specifics such as numbers”. However, Petri did not leave us with nothing and gave us a very important hint at the end of his mail (Thank you @Petri! ) : However, do note that the Mana needed for each mana speed is not the same for offensive and defensive heroes in raids. So this could mean, that a fast hero th…

Current theory is:

combo 1 tile (1c1) is 66.66% of a tile in offense, and End of Turn (EOT) bonus is 1.30 of a 1c1.
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Mana gained from hits depends on current number of combo. Combo 2 hit gives 90% of Combo 1 hit, and Combo 3 hit gives 90% of Combo 2 hit, and so on.

Mana mechanics with almost exact numbers

I’m starting a new guide topic, so I can add put results of my research to the top post later and it’s easier to find. I created a small program that can analyze screenshot from the game and measure almost exact amount of mana that heroes have. This topic summarizes with (almost exact) numbers mana mechanics of different heroes that can add mana directly (like Misandra, Alberich or Fenrir). I use team of heroes with different mana speed, paired with troops with no mana benefit. Direct mana-g…

I continued from there and did my own analysis, results shown here:

Mana in E&P - Sheet and Descriptions

Warning: long post incoming The past few months I collected data on several hero speeds by counting turns and avoiding tiles to hit the target heroes. This basically consisted of looking for raid teams with an interesting hero on a wing, then throwing tiles everywhere else except this hero until charged, then counting the turns and verifying again from the recorded video. Some of the data required certain mana bonuses and a certain combination of -24%, -34%, -44% (= previous Treevil) and -64%…