Here is my mono-purple team I use in every war. Quintus is the finisher so to speak and 9 times out of 10 he will fire. You fire G.Panther and C.Rigard and he’s death.
I have also used C.Tibs in this instead before I got C.Sartana. It worked well but I had a Ranger emblem clash and I needed to change it around.
Since Quintus was one of the first 5* I had I’d say he’s now probably the most used hero I have. He keeps out other purples because his hit all is very powerful when set up right. If you didn’t have G.Panther I’d slot Tibs in there and the damage is just as strong. G.Panther is just great for the dispel.
Decent hero. Seshat + Sartana firing in the same team will almost always result in a dead enemy hero
Argument for Quintus:
You don’t really have any AOE
Quintus following C Rig and Tiburkiss is quite a deadly blow.
Very useful for VF wars/tournies. I use C Quintus as tank in VF wars and he does well (yes he is half a step up from Quintus, but not that different)
Lots of emblemes available to maximise his potential
Argument for Grimble:
Crit up is useful in raids, events and titans
In today’s meta with so many minions around (including minion wars) his skill is handy and potentially has a huge damage output (max potential if unemeblemed - hit each for around 200, plus 3 minions * 400 HP = 1400 per hero = 7000 total. This would be very rare, but something like 2 waves of Tel minions would be quite common which is 200 + 200*2 = 600 per hero = 3000 total damage output
The mana up portion of his special is one of the most useful skills around - as long as you are facing Tel or other multi minion makers. I have two Grimbles - I use one in my purple stack against Tel teams and he often fires after Tel, bringing my C Quintus to full mana where he can land the finishing blow. The other Grimble I typically run as the off color insruance policy in a 4-1 stack. Get red tiles? Win. Get purple tiles? Fills red heroes. Win. Link: This is why Grimble is so underrated
With respect to Grimble, I think he is most effective when he has a powerful slow to charge up, and then only when there are minions. I’m seeing fewer and fewer Telly tanks, and don’t always have a lot of minions to face
So personally I leveled Quintus first. I think Grimble/Quintus will have a nice synergy
Agree here, as mentioned I use the two on mono purple
But I still feel Grimble has greater application
Minion wars
Tel tanks are still there - in low through to high diamond I am seeing about 3 or 4 Tels out of every 10. In wars Tel still seems dominant (top 100 alliance, not sure how top 50 or lower than 100 look like)
Other summoner tanks are not infrequent - Bera, Freya, Delilah, Krampus (once you wait for the taunt to go) will all feed into Grimble nicely
Summoners in non tank position are also not infrequent - you get lots of Freya flanks these days
Yep. If the meta just shifts again to yellow tanks, I will be forced to utilize some of my heroes and split my dark heroes to 2 groups for me to form 2 formidable monopurple teams for war. Alas, I don’t see that soon, so i’ll settle for one solid monopurple team. Awaiting Sartana’s costume though.
@Homaclese I truly admire how you advocate for those less-loved or less-desired heroes, man. I truly do. Keep it up.
At the end of the day, the final decision rests in your hands, based on the available resources (food, feeder heroes, tabards, trap tools, etc.), play style, game stage, needs, emblems, usability, practicality, whether seeing yourself summoning in the future, etc.
Thank you! Someone has to speak out for those who have no voice.
My next project is Frigg. The poor lass is getting so much hate recently. I need to show the world how she is but a humble, underwhelming, bland, salt-of-the-earth, run-of-the-mill hero hardly worthy of anyone’s fear or anger
LOL. I dont have her. Tried pulling for her and wasted around 6k+ of hoarded Valhalla Coins when she was first released. Didnt even get an S3 hero back then. I regretted using those Coins when I already mentioned somewhere here in the forum early last year that I’ll be summoning at the S3 portals when all heroes are already available, a lessoned I learned from S2 (which kept giving me dupes like 3 Mitsukos and 2 Ariels). Now, I dont have enough coins to summon 5 at that portal. I hated myself for wanting Frigg.
Well, that was the time when new season was thrilling enough for a lot of players back then since we were fed up dealing only S1 maps. Most of the players back then did summon monthly, either using free Atlantis Coins obtained from the newly-finished maps or from various chests, or through gems doing single or x10 or x30 pulls. Getting dupe heroes would be highly likely if one summon every month.
As someone with both C Sartana, and C Quintus, considering your roster and emblems, if you must choose between either I vote for Quintus. Even without costume, once highly emblemed, he packs a good punch. You already have Seshat to snipe and C Dom.
However, since you do not have a costume for either Sartana or Quintus, I would pick Grimble from the three. It’s unfortunate that S1 5* without a costume are junk IMO.
Not really junk, but not as powerful in comparison with recently released heroes. And this for very same reason that my 2 Magnis and 1 Marjana will be at 3/70 even if I have enough ascension materials to ascend them, unless their costumes landed on my lap. My Sartana was already maxed in 2018 long before costumes were introduced or made known. I was just lucky to be able to pull the costumes of Lianna, Joon and Domitia, heroes who I also have already maxed months prior to the advent of the new skins.
For me, what’s unfortunate is for Small Giant to “force” players to get the costumes of their Season 1 heroes in order for them to be at par with these new heroes. They should have been given through some quests or missions instead of summoning for them.
I agree, but maybe because my roster is not bursting with S2/S3/costume heroes I do find uses for S1 heroes still. For example, I often take Marjanna along with Gefjon. Gefjon is a great hitter, particularly as she takes away minions, but she will never kill an enemy hero on her own. Her + Marjanna however is enough to take out most heroes instantly, otherwise Marjanna’s burn will do it over time.
That would have been nice, but totally against the rest of their product offering. I do think that there should have been some sort of benefit or bonus in already owning a hero - otherwise apart from qiuck levelling there was no benefit at all to already owning the hero, and it completely disassociates the costume from the base hero, making it feel like you are trying to get a new hero (which you are, really) rather than enhancing an existing hero
I know there are other forum posters who agree that S1 5* - no costume - are junk. I can see why you think they are not really junk. I’d say Marj could be considered as an exception to the rule.
If I may, allow me to give you an example:
When I am raiding with a mostly purple stack, purple being my strongest colour, it can be like a knife going through butter.
When I am raiding with a mostly red stack - my second strongest colour - it can get the job done, just nowhere as easy. Obviously, Falcon is a 4* red elemental defence down, and he is average speed. Vanda is very fast; there are no v.f. S1 heroes. Both Falcon and Vanda are non-trainable, paywall heroes.
I think that S1 5* without costume, can be somewhat carried by non-S1 5*.
But, S1 5* without a costume, against most of the old HOTM/Ninjas/S3, there is no comparison in my mind. Look at Vivica and Ariel who is only S2. Similar healing % and dispell at average speed instead of slow.
Well, maybe in the near future if I have enough hoarded mats to ascend 3 blue legendaries. As mentioned in another thread, I already have Athena, Frida, Master Lepus (those 3 I love the synergy, I just need to support my Frida with my level 25 mana troop and Athena with a level 17 mana troop as she has mana node talent so they can charge their skills in 9 tiles; currently working on my level 13 mana troop to get to level 17, i just need only a few feeder troops and the next ninja tower event will I be using my almost 30 hoarded ETTs to hopefully get enough blue feeder troops), Vela, Ariel, Miki and Snow White, the latter my luxury hero. Currently, I only view the scopes to be invested only to Cobalt, Finley, Lord Loki, or perhaps to Skadi and Krampus. My 2 3/70 Magnis, 2nd Vela, 2nd Ariel, 3/70 Aegir, 2 3/70 Glendas, 2018-acquired Richard at 3/70, and Thorne are not my priorities as my blue legendaries are already solid enough, not necessitating me to ascend any of those in my bench. Right now, the legendary dupe I really am happy to do so is Guardian Gazelle. Second is the 2 Gravemakers maxed, flanking Ares on my 2nd monored team in wars against green tanks. Not so much with my 2 maxed Lianna with MCB, one is decently emblemed. Was bound to ascend a 2nd Joon with costume but refrained to do so.
