🏅 [Mar 1, 2020] 45th Raid Tournament! — 5* Buff Booster, No Ice/Blue

[zephyr1]

Schedule

Preparation Phase Begins	Battle Phase Begins	Rewards Distributed
2020-03-01T08:00:00Z (08:00 GMT)	2020-03-02T08:00:00Z (08:00 GMT)	2020-03-07T08:00:00Z (08:00 GMT)

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This Week’s Restrictions & Special Rule

Elements Allowed	Hero Rarities Allowed	Troop Rarities Allowed
No Ice/Blue	or lower	or lower

Special Rule: Buff Booster

Each buffs adds an attack multiplier!

@zephyr1

Buff Booster adds a stackable 20% attack buff to each hero for each active buff on that hero. Using heroes with special skills that grant buffs or multiple buffs can lead to very high attack boosts. These buffs stack with each other and normal attack buffs.

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Before and During the Tournament: Share & Discuss Your Teams, Thoughts, Feedback, and Questions!

Some topics to start off with:

• Do this week’s restrictions on hero/troop rarity and elements make your bench depth better or worse suited to this Raid Tournament than Regular Raids?

• Are there heroes you’re likely to use for this Tournament that you normally don’t make use of anymore?

• Are there heroes you plan to power level for this Tournament, or level before the next time a Tournament like this one rolls around?

• Do Costumes affect your team selection at all?

• What are you thinking about using for your Defense Team?

• Are there heroes you expect to see on Enemy Defenses that you think you’ll have a harder time dealing with than usual because of the restrictions or special rule in this Tournament?

• Which of your heroes will you be likely to use on your Attack Teams?

• Will the restrictions or special rule of this Tournament change your usual approach to color stacking or team building?

• Are there elements of this week’s Tournament that are unclear to you?

• Do you have feedback on the Tournament matchmaking?

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Defense Team Tracking

Hat tip to @wineybrit for originating this thread idea with the second Raid Tournament

When posting, include:

• Which day of the Tournament is it?
• How may times have you been attacked today, and in total?
• What is your Defense Team’s win/loss record today, and in total?
• What Defense Grade does your Defense Team have?
• Which heroes make up your Defense Team?
• What is the Team Power of your Defense Team?
• What is your current Tournament Score and Ranking?

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After the Tournament: Share Your Results & Rewards!

• What was your score and ranking?

• What did you get for loot?

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Log & Guide to Raid Tournaments

A Log of past Tournaments, and an overview of how Raid Tournaments work, including Special Rules and Restrictions, Attacking, Matchmaking, Defense Grade, Scoring, and Rewards.

=> Click Here for: Raid Tournaments – Log, Overview, Attacking, Matchmaking, Scoring, Restrictions, Special Rules, and Rewards

[CoreyOfTheIsland]

meh another 5* tournament. Let’s get back to 3 and 4* tournaments.

[DracoLovesRi]

If this format projection holds, it’s a good tournament for 25 tournament POV credit.

[Ebonest]

I will suck at this tourney, my best heroes are green. The only good thing is, i have richard with emblems for a tank.

[BubblesUK]

Most of my fives are heavily offense-minded and lacking in buffs.

BK at tank is a given… But beyond that, the only buffs I have are Vivica (non costume) and Guardian Kong.
I’m not running a second red and I don’t think slow hero’s will get to fire enough in this one so Vivica is put too.

Probably going to have to just go with a powerful attacking lineup and cross fingers.

[MD-DC]

If that’s what it is, I’m just gonna go with my standard war defense:

[jinbatsu]

I will setup just like my raid defense:

[Guvnor]

Initial defensive lineup:

Other options

Buff Makers:

• Morgan Le Fey - 4/80 +19
• Khiona - 4/80 +5
• Costume Rigard - 4/70 +15
• Grazul - 4/80
• Elena (costume) - 4/80
• Inari - 4/80

Other 5*

• Yunan - 4/80 +16
• Onatel - 4/80 +11
• Drake Fong - 4/80 +9
• Kunchen - 4/80
• Lianna (costume) - 4/80 +9
• Rana - 4/80

[Duckman4903]

If u care for advice I would swap kingston with seshat. That way since specials fire off left to right when kingston hits the remaining heroes will go after reducing their attack even more before there next turn.

[Aunty_Krauser]

If this does happen, I am shocked to not see Snow White for this kind of tournament. I can imagine she can be devastating in this kind of rule set. I personally don’t have her but as soon as I see this modifier I immediately think of her.

[the100thmonkey]

I feel like we will see many use their raid defence… my likely team will be:

Other buff booster options would be frida +7, hatter +0 or costume Viv +0

[FrenziedEye]

If it’s another 5* tourney I may struggle!

[bobiscool]

we need a petition to get rid of 5 star tourneys and bring back 1 and 2 star tournies.

[zephyr1]

First draft ideas (EDIT: from before we found out blue was disallowed)

Open to ideas…

[FrenziedEye]

JF Melendor Richard Seshat Joon?

Although it’d be nice to have JF closer to the centre

[FrenziedEye]

This could be my team but Magni is a little fragile

[zephyr1]

@FrenziedEye

Although it’d be nice to have JF closer to the centre

Yeah, I think so, both for Buff Booster, and for getting enemies within range of sniper kills.

To that point, there’s always:

(EDIT: from before we found out blue is disallowed)

[Bruno1]

No blue in this one for some reason (probably so I can’t make Aegir tank)

[zephyr1]

Definitely fascinating that we finally broke the cycle after 7 weeks — but it’s still the same rarity and Special Rule.

Perhaps we’ll see the color restrictions vary, in order to balance out. They haven’t been even across the Tournaments so far.

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For me personally, that inclines me more toward JF as tank, as in my post above, but I’ll obviously modify to drop Magni.