I see a lot of defenses in top 100, some with 3-4 wo3k heroes and some other minion maker. Seems like it does it job but isn’t it too niche and thus weak against anti minion heroes, especially Eloise, Grimble and Topaz.
Why I am asking is because I have had Hulda as a successful tank for a long time but when my alliance mates try it out they say with an anti minion it’s a pretty easy target.
And now I’m thinking (since a lot of top players have minions all over the place) if a should have both Hulda and M&M in my defense team (war and ordinary).
My def team at the moment is Khufu, Tethys, El Nadddaha, Kullervo and Hulda.
Well you are talking about 2 completely different defs: W3k and Halloween. Both are based on a family bonus that gives mana, but they work differently.
W3K needs minions to boost mana, so that def is all about getting as many minions as possible, which is why they have that fast minion tank (CFreya) and also all other heroes make minions.
halloween defense gives the mana speed directly, it doesn´t need any minions. It´s just a “coincidence” that M&M also makes minions. She is simply an insanely powerful tank and gets speeded up by having 2 other halloween heroes in the team.
So if you want to go Halloween def, you don´t want Hulda, instead you need halloween heroes and fill up with fast heavy hitters.
For W3K you need 4 W3K heroes and a fast minion hero (so preferably CFreya), Hulda would be an inferior option, but a possibility for tank. No place for M&M here.
As to your team, no don´t play both, either of them can be your tank, but I think M&M is the better of the 2.
Yes of course, the basic with the family bonus I understand. Thank for a well explained answer tho, always appreciated!
I probably didn’t explain well enough (maybe a language barrier thing) but my thought was if it would be worth having Huldas minion protect M&Ms minion and thus having a real meat wall protect the team. But the downside would be more weak against anti minion heroes and that I lose one more hitter.
So as you said it is probably best to pick one.
Edit: I do have cFreya but only got one maxed (almost) wo3k heroes - Liu Bei.
Kinda makes sense as Huldas minions give a pretty good defense buff. Could see M&M’s beefy minions become a little more troublesome.
For someone like me however, it would make little difference. I have Grimble, Guan Yu, Skadi, Uraeus, Gobbler, C.Gormeck… Mulitples of a few of those. Minion teams are a blessing for me
nah, no point protecting minions at the cost of attack power. Minions are there to protect you, not the other way around.
The more minion makers you have the less dangerous your team is. It becomes very simple to just throw all the tiles at you charging heroes. Sure you have 15 minions there, but that doesn´t help you if I have all the time in the world to charge my CGormek or Gobbler or whatever cheap anti-minion hero. Then all your minions are dead and my other 4 heroes kill you.
1 defense hero is a good idea even as a tank, but you need to have threats behind that hero to make sure you can kill the attackers before they all charge.
