Have completely different experience with him. He is in my defense and quite often in my attack teams.
Use him in 4/1 and also in 3/2 and mono and am extremely happy with him even though not yet at 23 lvl mana troop.
Talking for normal boards
His main purpose in my attack teams is protecting in the middle of the raid when a special can change the outcome - usually he will charge when there are 3 heroes from the opposite side ready to fire specials - have taken out 2 heroes already, am down on health due to slash attacks and a special or two.
In mono with him, Wilbur and Falcon once charged - one 3 match wipes out the whole board.
Is one of my favorite heroes.
P.S in the very fast tourney now, BK at 6 tiles was ridiculous in attack
Interesting. In 4/1 do you use him as the 1 (or the 2 in a 3/2)?
Itās possible that Iāve gone so far into the all-out attack frame of mind that I have to re-adjust how I think about teams when I use BK. For the all-out attack mindset, teams are about doing as much damage as quickly as possible to prevent the opponent from even firing a special.
Iāll have to think about some slower builds and see what I can come up with.
Have a style very close to yours than. Huge amount of attacks I donāt have even a healer. So it took some time adjusting to BK being slower. He is in my teams to protect against bad boards.
4/1 purple Kage, Seshat, Hel and Ursena/Rigard and BK - use this team for everything 4500+ almost every time with great success and BK is key in most of the fights when the board is not very good
3/2 started using him with Grazul as the 2. Quite fun - almost immortal- however not as per my liking - fights are too slow this way
Mono red - anyway my mono is average so donāt have an issue with him being average - if 10 red tiles exist in the first 6-7-8 moves is game over
I thought I would LOVE him when I first saw his card but when playing a bit I became a bit disenchanted once it became clear that spirit link meant the rest of the team takes damage. Just a three turn effect and average mana speed meant that I soured on him unfairly (especially considering Kunchen is standard in my raid attack teams).
This past war he save my skin, he was part of a team that I hoped would break the tank but no hope of winning the battle. He taunted and knocked damage down to so that the scrubs won.
I need to play around with him more, I feel I have misused him so far once my ādreamā lineup (Aegir w/BK flank) proved to be mediocre. Perhaps the shared damage to the team from spirit link is less important than the attack buff increase that spirit link guarantees.
Defending, he IS a good tank and can cause problems. Thank goodness he only lasts three turns when facing him. Just donāt see him replacing anyone on my defense since I canāt feed him enough emblems due to the three way fight between him, GM and Kage to outshine my existing Kunchen tank.
Would generally agree with you, as before I got BK my defense and attack in raids were only based on Kunchen and Guin tank. Only about 40-50% success in Raid defense.
But after combining above team with BK I found out that my defense is more then 60-65% successful in win rate.
I still think Drake is better then Rana for my BK team, but donāt have him.
Yea with spirit link thereās still shared damage, but not necessarily full damage shared aroundā¦
Hit with a sniper shot, yes, full damage gets shared around.
Hit with AoE, taunt pulls only one hit to BK, then it gets sharedā¦ That can be lifesaving.
Itās not quite as OP as I thought it was going to beā¦ But the damage getting spread gets the beserk going, so Iām not unhappy with it.
I created an experimental farming and raid team to try and see how BK is when given a proper chance. I am NOT using a spirit link with him in this series and was also testing other heroes.
MN (4th ascension but not maxed) - Morgan - GM - Zimkitha - BK
Wanted to see Zimkithaās AoE with BKās attack buff - Verdict - Becomes very effective. Her attack buff overwrites BKās so not really a good pairing. I would hold her until BKās buff was in final round, higher buff and overwrite is less important.
Wanted to see Morgan in action before taking away the emblems - her life drain is deadly.
GM - I donāt raid with him in regular team so wanted to get a feel for him on offense. Emblems are certainly making him less deadly (Defense and Health bumps mean his damage and DoT are a smaller percentage of enemies overall HP than pre-emblems) but he still leaves them in a world of hurt. BKās attack buff helps but his upfront damage is small, his tiles thoughā¦mmmmm.
BK makes cascades deadly which is delicious. Wu does too but BK is a proper 5* with amazing secondary skills.
2 months of playing, I love the guy. New favourite (used to be the Monkey King in 4* land). But I have to admit better in attack than defence. I thinkā¦ My happy moments are when the big AOE guys fire to absolutely no effect. Heās so dependable!
I am seriously jealous I couldnāt pull Grazul when going for BK. That combo has to be amazing; especially with shutting down special effects and healing at the same time. BK changes a lot when raiding; I typically run him with Alby, Tarlak, Evelyn and Zim. Thereās a lot of healing/revives/and tunneling damage directly towards BK that makes this team highly versatile and able to come back from near losses in amazing ways.
I noticed an amazing synergy for Black Knight and any Riposte Hero (by accident) in the last alliance warsā¦
I did an attack with BK & Elena (next to each other) and noticed that when both specials were active, the Riposte dealt back the FULL 125% of incoming strikes REGARDLESS of if BKās Flesh Wound reduced it to 1 damage or notā¦
Stepping it out:
So for example, I have BK & Elena next to each other.
I fire BKās special off, activating the Taunt & Flesh Wound, then Elena (this order so I get the attack buff on Elena).
Then say the enemy have a Magni or Joonā¦ They charge their special up & fire it off.
BKās Taunt Kicks in and directs the Sniping Special at himself
BKās Flesh Wound then activates and reduces the damage received from 600 damage down to 1 damage.
Riposte (counter) then activates and sends the full 750 damage back at the sniper (joon or magni)ā¦ they die
After discovering this synergy I have adjusted my teamsā¦ Grazul got kicked outta my Red-Stack main raiding team & Elena got put in insteadā¦ Itās just too awesome to not make use of!
That is pretty cool. Especially nice because itās really annoying when AI doesnāt hit a hero with riposte buff. This combo rules that possibility out. So costumed Elena will be even more desirable then as it bumps to 155% I believe.
