[Pseudo 5*] Blue, Classic 4*, Boril

[Gryphonknight]

[Pseudo 5*] Blue, Classic 4*, Boril

Riposte heroes

@Player A

defense approach, makes the Riposte twins much more resilient in the Hard stages of Season 3

I agree ( see notes )

Riposte costumes

I got lucky with costumes for both Riposte heroes, Boril and Cyprian, which makes them even sturdier

Boril, Pseudo 5*

Boril is a Pseudo 5* especially with a 4* crit troop to boost his defense stat

Costume bonus, aethers, troops, some class nodes, and invisible defense team stat bonuses can be multiplicative, further boosting Boril’s nice defense stat

I am waiting for my first live server Blue LB quest to level Boril to 75 ( a very good friend of mine in Beta says Boril was helpful in Blue LB quest )

Defense stat

Defense stat is not linear

To add bacon on top of both a chocolate malt milkshake and a cheeseburger ( Five Guys will put bacon on anything, including shakes ) the defense stat, of my costume Boril c+4*+18, increases from 905 to 1,255 on a defense team with a 4* Lv15 crit troop ( v39, see notes )

Boril, loot to get loot

With my roster, and play style, Boril helps with 2x Class / 3x LB quests, mono attack team ( war, titans, some raids ), all war defense teams ( but especially War rule undead hoarde ) and auto play ( see notes )

Notes

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Riposte heroes, base and costume

@Gryphonknight

Counter attack and Sturdiness

@DaveCozy

While higher defense does mean you counter less damage per hit, you can survive by taking more hits and thus keep countering damage for longer durations. That’s where the high defense helps

I agree 100%

This is why ZS nerfed Titanium Shield and 1* 1.1 heroes

You also want to consider the Defense stat, and HP, of the other 2x to 4x heroes getting counter attack buff

Dead heroes

Once a fragile hero dies on your team, they are no longer targeted by enemy special skills, and normal damage / tile damage / matching damage

This concentrates the attacks on fewer heroes

Counter attack nearby versus all

Counter attack all is helpful once one of the heroes next to Boril dies, since that immediately cuts

b.Boril counter attack from 3x 1.25 to 2x 1.25 ( effectively 3.75 for whole team to 2.5 for whole team )

c.Boril is cut from 5x 0.6 to 4x 0.6 ( effectively 3.0 for whole team to 2.4 for whole team )

Boril, Auto play

([Guide, Auto play team ] Wilbur Wonder Bots or Wilbur + Boril / Falcon + 3x Healer = Team that even the AI cannot screw up or Current favorite auto play team ( especially for VF.6-3N & VF.1-3N ))

Loot to get loot

Boril, Class quest

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Boril, Limit Break quest

@Gryphonknight

Purple Aether quest

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Blue LB quest

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Yellow LB Quest

But not Green ( Blue is weak to Green ) and not Red ( Red gets Blue defense buff )

Boril, War defense teams

Boril is currently on all my War defense teams

Especially nice with 4* crit troop to boost defense and minions from War rule undead horde

@Gryphonknight

War defense, Undead Horde War Rule

Defense team defense stat

@Gryphonknight

Defense team attack bonus equation v39 ( edit )

( 1 + ( 0.3655 - ( 0.0002 * 1095 ) ) ) * ( 1095 ) = 1,255

Merciless RNG

I did not have Boril ( or Cyprian ) for years ( and thousands of USD )

While I do not care for Academy, at least updated HA08 Epic hero recruit training gives new players a better chance at Pseudo 5* heroes ( Classic and Old Challenge events - Rigard, Wu Kong, Boldtusk, Falcon, Boril, etc. )

PS Red has 2x Pseudo 5* heroes, TZS please create a green 4* hero ( preferably available through HA08 ) that is a Pseudo 5* hero

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[Draerius]

Hansel could be the green you are looking for in HA8, the fast mana control on a 4* hero can be clutch. Proteus is better for PVE generally because he blocks 3 but some events reflect purple.

Got 2 of him out there so far, #happy.

[Gryphonknight]

Pseudo 4.5* heroes

@Draerius

Hansel could be the green you are looking for in HA8, the fast mana control on a 4* hero can be clutch. Proteus is better for PVE generally because he blocks 3 but some events reflect purple.

I love both

But Hansel, and Proteus, are very fragile, with short duration debuffs

I rank them among the Pseudo 4.5* heroes

Melendor, Proteus, Kiril, Buddy, Grimm, Tiburtus, Scarlett, costume Scarlett ( I am told ), Sabrina, Jackal ( v2 pre costume Leonidas, v1 was a Pseudo 6* hero until they nerfed the game’s defense debuff damage formula ), Valeria ( v2, pre Undead Hoarde ), etc.

see also

([Repost] Twin Scarletts, Boldtusk, Falcon and Wilbur walk into a Diamond raid bar OR 3x Pseudo 5* heroes and 2x Pseudo 4.5* heroes OR Saros' Atomic mono red 4* team)

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