Let's make rainbow relevant again!

[ModernThinker]

@Benn

I think the real crux is maybe acknowledging that with a well synergized rainbow team, you should be able to win most raids against teams with a similar power level, but with a color stacked team (not necessarily mono) you have a shot at winning raids against teams with much higher power levels (sixty percent of the time, it works every time). So you’re trading the potential upside for the increased risk. But that’s somewhat anecdotal. I know rainbow works fine up through platinum, but I can’t imagine taking on teams in diamond with 60+ emblems using a rainbow. Maybe that’s just a function of my roster - I’d like to see how approachable rainbow raiding into the top 100 would be.

I routinely beat 4600+ Telluria tank teams with a 4100 rainbow attack team.

I also lose to them. But I can certainly beat them.

It doesn’t matter whether Rigard is your only purple, or is one of five purples in a mono team. Rigard’s mana fills at the same rate in either scenario.

Just bring Rigard (or equivalent), and let Telluria fire special first if that’s the way things go. So be it. Fill your Rigard (even if you have to match several more tiles because of mana delay from Telluria). Then you’re ready to heal and cleanse. The rest of your rainbow team has been filling mana too.

When some key specials are lit, then unleash your offense. Sometimes you might want to let Telluria survive and kill a pesky flank first. Sometimes you want to kill a flank and a corner, so you can have a good hole for ghosting. Lots of ways to win.

Even with rainbow.

Even against the very best of the very best teams.

And even with 500 TP power gap, or more. I can win with 1000 TP power gap fairly reliably, but admittedly I resort to a 3-2 colour team in order to do so.

[TGW]

[Quinn3]

@ModernThinker

Running rainbow means you have a variety of options for how you work your board

I don’t disagree with what you are saying. I am just saying it isn’t a solution for bad boards. For example, you could work the board for one color, then it dries up before it can fire, so you try another color, but by that time it could be too late.

@ModernThinker

You won’t win every fight, certainly not. But it is a viable way to play, if you have a large enough bench of maxed heroes to allow you to select good counter specials based on your enemy’s defenses

I agree. This can work if you have particularly strong heroes with game changing specials, or are fast/very fast mana, but for people who running S1 heroes going against Telluria tanks, this may not be the best strategy. Or rather, it would be difficult to be consistently successful.

[Kairhe]

The rainbow link seems like an interesting feature.

It could be like a buff to every other element on your team, similar to the element link. (Basically the same)

[Deadlift]

First time posting here but I raid with rainbow all the time. I always have and always will. Sorry if this is an old post.