🧝 Lemonwood – 5* Holy / Yellow from Astral Elves

[PlayForFun]

New Astral Elf hero is released: Lemonwood

This thread is for discussing strategy related to Lemonwood, as well as your thoughts on Lemonwood.

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Lemonwood

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed
Legendary	Holy/Yellow	Ranger	F Fast

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80	1042	1036	1668
4/85	1123	1116	1798
4/90	1285	1277	2057

Origin	Family
Plane of Astral Elves	Astral Elves

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Dodge	At the start of each battle, this Hero gets +20% chance to dodge Special Skills that deal damage for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Resist: Resist Poison This character has innate resistance against Poison.

Ability: Share Received Damage 20% of damage received by this charater is shared with other allies.

Special Skill: Wandering Star Shot
This Special Skill never misses its targets. Deals 380% damage to the target. Reduces the mana of the target by -20%. If the target has more than 30% mana after mana reduction, the Special Skill repeats targeting a random enemy. The damage is reduced on each consecutive hit.

All-in-one still under construction. Card image to be added when available.

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Astral Elf Family Bonus

Heroes become stronger when teamed with other unique Heroes of the same family.

Astral Elf Family
Bonus for 1 / 2 Heroes:

50% / 70% chance to dispel a random dispellable effect buff from an enemy who deals Special Skilll damage to this character.

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Balance Changes

Apr 2024

@EmpiresPuzzles

Passive Skill changed

• Resist Blind → Resist Poison
• Affects all Astral Elf heroes

All offensive Astral Elves’ Special Skills now always hit their targets

Lemonwood

• Direct damage increased: 350% → 380%

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Changes from Beta

• Damage is increased from 275% to 350%.
• Mana treshold for additional hits is reduced from 50% to 30%.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 2 of Astral Elves Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v65]

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What do you think of Lemonwood ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Lemonwood.

Based on preferences Forum members have expressed, please try to stick mainly to Lemonwood and not wander off topic too much to other heroes.

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Lemonwood worth summoning for?

• Would you use Lemonwood on Defense? Offense? War? Quests/Events? Titans?

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Lemonwood ?

• What heroes would you take when facing Lemonwood as an opponent?

• Would you give Lemonwood Ranger Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

• What do you think of Lemonwood’s character design?

• If you Summoned Lemonwood and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Lemonwood, and whether/how you plan to make use of them.*

*NOTE: Summon Results posted without any commentary/feedback at all should be flagged as Off Topic and removed, based on preferences expressed by the Forum community. Please include some comments about what you think of Lemonwood when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Lemonwood, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Lemonwood (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Lemonwood), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.

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Avoiding Overspending & Heartache

More Insights & Reading

I highly recommend reading these three threads for more information and context on summoning odds:

• How much should I spend?- HotM cost, and odds, analysis

• [WARNING] A Summons Experience - Chasing Guardian Panther - A Warning for Chasing Heroes

• https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-gacha-read-before-posting-things-about-unfair-pulls/29490?u=playforfun

If you’ve read them a million times before, you may consider reading them again before deciding on your budget for summoning. A little time spent deciding on how much money you want to risk on summoning goes a long way to avoiding disappointment, frustration, and regret later.

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Wondering About Your Personal Situation?

Feel free to discuss your team and roster here, and ask for advice from other Forum members.

If you’d like more extensive advice on sorting out your particular roster, I recommend creating a new thread in Gameplay Help & Tactics, and posting screenshots of your hero roster, along with your questions.

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Related Threads You May Be Interested In

• 🧪 Early Information on Round 2 of Astral Elves Heroes [Part of The Beta Beat v65]

[PlayForFun]

Feedback Poll - Lemonwood (post release)

Is Lemonwood worth Summoning For?

• Yes, absolutely
• Only if you’re P2P
• Yes, but only when featured.
• Not really
• Not at all

How many copies of Lemonwood would be useful to keep & Level?

Note - this is roster space dependent & isn’t the same for everyone!

• Zero
• Just one
• 2
• 3
• All of them

What do you think Lemonwood’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Mana Reducer

What do you think of Lemonwood compared to other Heroes?

• Over Powered (OP)
• Little stronger than Most
• On Par with Most
• Little Weaker than Most
• Completely Broken (Under Powered)

How does Lemonwood’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Lemonwood’s Base Stats?

Note this means Lemonwood’s Class, Attack, Defence & HP Stat

• Perfectly
• Better than Most
• On Par with Most
• Worse than Most
• Terribly

Is Lemonwood worth giving Ranger Emblems to?

• Yes absolutely
• Depends on who else you got
• Hmmmm, not sure yet
• No I don’t think so
• No… Not at all.

In Defence, where do you think Lemonwood is best used?

• Left Wing
• Left Flank
• Tank
• Right Flank
• Right Wing
• Not on defence at all.

How do you think Lemonwood is best used?

• PvP Raids/ War attack
• Normal Defence
• War Defence
• Titans
• Farming
• Tournaments
• Event Teams

Choose up to 3 options

What do you think is Lemonwood worth Limit Breaking ?

• Yes, but only once
• Yes, twice
• No

If you would emblem Lemonwood then which Emblem Path would you select ?

• Sword path
  (Selecting Attack talent nodes when possible)
• Shield path
  (Selecting Health and Shield talent nodes when possible)

What do you think about the artwork ?

• Amazing
• Refreshingly new
• It’s ok
• It could be better
• Very bad

[FluffySlothicorn]

This guy seems pretty baller, especially on defense. Accidentally got a cascade and charged all your heroes without killing Lemonwood? No worries, he’ll make short work of you, and make sure you won’t have any specials ready next round.

[Valanos]

He is going to end up being the strongest hero. From the portal with the green 5* in close second. I anticipate both could be top 100 ply and potentially shift the meta a little

The fact he can cascade is such a huge deterent on defense for all those mono teams and 4-1 teams. When he goes off and you’re almost charged or fully charged you have a very high probability to take a ton of damage and go back get your mana cut in half before he hits one target that is sub 30 mana. Balanced because if the RNG of random hits but very impactful hero

Him and Luna are going to be fun to build around and a head ache to go up against. I see the appeal of softskin being more desirable now. But even if you negate the mana cut you still take damage and he will continue to fire until he hits a target that ia sub 30 mana or if there is only 1 target left.

Pop hits soft skin may actually kill him and the 3 around him lol

. I anticipate he’ll see a lot of top tier playin in the top 100 and may become meta. 10/10. Art is awesome too

[Ripobin_The_First]

Yeah, I rarely want any of the new breed of heroes but everything about this one is right up my alley. My favourite of the elves.

[MountainMann]

2 non featured with free coins. Lemon is definitely moving to the top of my ascension list

[MountainMann]

Taunt heroes- he will just keep hitting them until their mana is at or below 30%

If there is only one hero left he will keep hitting them until their mana goes down to 30% as well

[Wotan2019]

So that’s why SG did not mention ‘each enemy can only be hit once’ in his specials, right?

[dansing]

Lemonwood is Finley cousin….

Most exciting & lethal of the Astral family…. Possibility to stop the whole team with that special….

[MountainMann]

[Wotan2019]

Thx, pretty nice evidence! 20 characters.

[Tidyup]

Not exactly, he can keep firing on the same target as long as it meets his own requirement.

[ahbombim]

This can be a superb mana controller, another choice besides mana-cut minion

[MountainMann]

So, if he hits an enemy with a " resists negative mana effect" buff ( mana cut defense like Poseidon) he will just keep firing until the damage count on the attack reduces to zero

March 7, 2024

[Ufeel]

Congrat to win a one in a million prize!!
An ordinary people like me will get this legendary Belith from the free pull

[Yomagn-tho]

Too bad they didn’t listen to us in Beta. Pretty much everyone said he should have his 350% damage bumped up…oh well, whatever…

[Tidyup]

Yeah, the damage isn’t good. Should have at least been a flat damage without it decreasing. Wouldn’t mind it being lower in damage, but it would be consistent in damage

[Tidyup]

Give those clerics a taste of their own medicine

[ahbombim]

A killer to those resist negative mana effects, including those passive

[Tidyup]

Technically this hero’s skill in a way indirectly counters dodgers as well.