I only tried the double and double reverse. With those synergy plays much better from my limited experience because near allies can be all of them. As you know my reds suck. They still as Zim isn’t maxed. Even then, better. Not great. What I found was adding a second blue was better than Azlar who I had in for rainbow.
To me the difference was synergy and who the enemy has to target. My best team was 2 in front, 3 in back. Richard +19 and Elkanen +17 were the front two. Richard can live forever and when he goes off drops your attack to exacerbate that. Elkanen can take a lot of damage with self heal and fast mana. I then had Magni back center so when he fired my whole team got a D boost. Factoring in the reduced A, durable front two, and now they have boosted D they lived a long time. When my wings of Joon +19 and Quintus +13(ish) fired it was icing on the cake.
The part that made the middle 3 work was colors. If you stacked red for Elkanen then Richard and Magni destroyed you. I doubt many did go red heavy unless that is just their team they fight everyone with. I know some players that do that.
That means you’re likely stacking green. Elkanen can take neutral hits really well. If Richard lives to fire (likely as not as many columns of tiles hit him then standard tank spot), his odds get better as he dropped your A and if Magni fires us a D boost. Potentially a paladin boost to the D boost too.
On the off chance they stacked blue for neutral on them Elkanen can take weak hits all day and Richard can take neutral hits for longer then most would care to see.
It seemed to work. It played better than my standard formation D. I obviously can’t watch it play, but that’s what I envisioned happening based on results.
Yes, this D is not unbeatable. I will not go through the laundry list of “Just use this hero with that hero …”. General terms.
Try a 3 front with Krampus center. Also a 2 front with Heimdall middle back. It’ll take a lot to blow through the double tank and Heimdall will be half charged. Reviving either of the tanks or boosting the health or any still alive would be a set back for sure. Speed is a factor but Krampus helps with durability on top of all 3’s natural durability.
I am surprised you still use Buddy if you have Almur. There are so many good greens if I had elemental drop, especially running mono, I might drop Buddy as he only offers short terms A drop or a minion. You’re packing Heimdall so you don’t need the minion boost really.
My Elkanen +17’s feelings are hurt. He works. He’s not ideal.
@SamMe said something about them too. Not sure what they do, I didn’t look.
Truthfully I don’t have much to go after them with. I went “hard” on the last two costumes and got nothing. Even opened the bonus box in costumes. I will do my normal 3 costume pulls. I get bonus keys. Sometimes 4 happen. I will get my 2 ToL pulls. I should have 1-2 Valhalla coin pulls. Those may get me close to a bonus chest opening. Then I can maybe swing a single gem summon. Given I have some projects I wasn’t going to use the single gem summon mostly likely. Maybe 6 pulls makes the odds pretty low for the HotM.