I have two teams both around 4000. Should I keep working on my bench or focus on getting better mono teams? Right now I don’t have much of anything in any color as far as mono color strength.
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I recommend mono solely because titans are a fantastic source of mats (even if not each individual titan doesn’t drop much). As long as you maximize your titan team, you generally will bringing along top heroes in each element with important elements to their design.
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The only place mono is viable is titans. Playing mono severely detrimental to you learning synergies of most set ups and is a horrible board reliant playstyle.
Dont get sucked in by the damage mono is one of the most least respected playstyles by any true players here.
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^^^ This (DoctorStrange’s post)
Some additional comments:
3-2 (not mono) is what many (most?) top players play. Team composition and synergies between the heroes is key.
Board skills/tile movement. You need to learn how to win with a less than ideal starting board. So build some survivability into your teams in order to ride out some additional moves.
Build up your troops diligently. This will seperate the men from the boys so to speak.
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What Blue said. Mono is either very frustrating or overkill.
If you have several hotm on a mono team, those elemental links stack quite well. There is nothing wrong with 3-2, 4-1, 2-2-1, etc. And nothing wrong with mono.
If you have say several avg mana speed heroes in a color and only one mana troop to get the break, that could be an issue.
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Plenty wrong with mono for new players. Why do you people lie to them like that?
Yes u can stack some links with mono and do good damage but the finer points of the game are lost because atbthe end of the day, mono is a slot machine with only one bar to win and teaches very horrible hard to break habits.
There are just to many skills in this game now to even ruin someone’s learning curve by teaching them such a substandard style of play.
3-2 and 2-2-1 require less work on troops and give you tons of options for multiple colors in every single facet of the game. Mono and 4 -1 have very little wiggle room and lead to very one sided matches over 50% of the time.
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Going mono in raids is IMO a very good idea if you are f2p or vc2p, meaning your access to premium 5* and even certain 4* is severely limited. It requires a certain playstyle however it definitely doesn’t mean you have to get the perfect board to win. My winrate with mono had been overally above 66% on DIamond, the percentage of course varies with the amount of trophies.
I think that going mono is good for starters, afterwards you can stick to whatever playstyle you prefer. There are many successful mono players. Nothing wrong with mono.
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I was using my mono teams in war when I didn’t had enough hero’s levelled, usually when we use mono war score will depend completely on board and you can score anywhere between 120-300 if you are in an alliance of 30 members. Now I have enough hero’s levelled so I use 3/2 most of the times and my score is consistent between 270-300+. Overall 3/2 is better.
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Mono just for titans/events etc.
Raids/wars - every other setup like 3-2, 2-2-1 etc. Synergy of heroes is what is essential, tile damage is secondary.
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As someone who plays mono i can comment on a few points presented. I use mono on raids and wars and have about an 80% win rate- yes, i spend ham to cycle thru raids but mostly just to skip the reverse formation. All other formations and colors i am usually ready.
I am not a whale (i think) but have been lucky to get heroes with good synergies/combos- my favorite team is my blue mono (milena-cMagni-frida-athena-lepus). This has good synergy and getting 3 tile matches usually wins the match for me. I also have 4 other mono teams for the other colors. I have decided that creating good mono teams of each color will be my main goal for this game.
To be fair, i also use rainbow specially during season maps/events- as i will note later…
Pros
- Playing mono gives you a punchers chance against top tier defenses, where (depending on your spending or luck) most will usually have less ideal heroes/teams.
- The elemental link gives a good boost if you have hotm
- You can predict and time your special skills since they would fill with the same tile matches.
- Speed is the key- getting 3-4 tiles down a tank of the appropriate color already kills it.
- Perfect for titans as long as you have the key elements- defdown/edd/attack boost/damage multiplier/tile manipulator etc…
Cons
- You will need to level up 5 troops of the same color. Its hard enough to get 1 mana troop let alone 5 per color
- Speed is also the key… having average/slow heroes can really slow down your special skill firing, specially when there is a drought of your colored tiles
- You have to play a certain way- more strategic in my opinion since you have to sometimes forego a diamond/dragon combo just to setup your colred tiles
- Hard to play on maps/tournaments since you usually use up the tiles to win in a wave, you end up with a few files left on the next/last wave- hence i play rainbows on most maps/events
At the end of the day, you should really find a playstyle that suits you. I do not agree that mono is least respected by “true players”. We are all players of this game and the main goal is always to have fun.
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Does this apply to wars as well?
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I generally play 3-2 with the exception of War of 3 Kingdoms where I went mono to great success
I would recommend mono only if you’re signicantly underpowered compared to your opponent - and on titans obviously. 3/2 is typically a good compromise between tile damage and board dependency.
Then again, there are great mono players, so it’s up to you to figure out what your favorite playstyle is.
One thing I will say, is that it’s tougher to put together a team adapted to the one you’re facing when you play mono. For instance, I don’t have dispellers or cleansers in all colors, so it’d be a terrible idea to bring a mono team against an ailment or buff heavy defense in the colors I’m lacking those.
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Thanks for acknowledging you don’t understand mono.
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Great, balanced respectful reply! And thanks for pointing out the very important bit - it’s a game, it’s meant to be fun 
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I fully understand mono and the negatives outweigh the positives in every way. It is the absolute laziest form of play in empires for anyone not ftp, and that has been my opinion since i started this game 4 years ago. Nothing more need to be understood. If mono is your thing, there is a whole group of we love mono people out here and more power to them, i will never hang with them and vice versa, our game stories will always be conpletely different and im glad for it.
There is nothing i want to learn from anyone who relies soley on mono and hope they dont poison new players with it, but to each their own
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Im surprised at the hate of mono here since almost everyone who hits me uses mono no matter how dated my defense is (F2P). My previous alliance mostly used mono too.
Personally, im a big fan of 3-2 or 3-1-1 due reasons people mentioned like synergy and also retains some strategic elements on an already random game. Also, running mono s1 and some s2 generally means trouble since they’re not tanky enough to take a beating from bad opening boards.
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Keep telling yourself that. Mono is an option that players should consider. As are the other formations. If you don’t want to play mono, you don’t need to.
It never ceased to amaze me when joining top war cycle alliances (played in ten that ranked 1st) the amount of pro 3-2 and anti mono. Never understood how those with better rosters running 3-2 would typically have an appreciably lower war score average. And the acceptance of “bad board” with 3-2 players having lower average war scores versus mono players.
Players not doing well 3-2 should try something else, including mono. Players not doing well with mono should try something else, including 3-2.
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Yes. It does… for wars i sometimes use a mono team strong against the flanks when i run out of tank-specific colors.
I would like to reiterate that this playstyle suits me and i enjoy playing this way. Everyone should be allowed to play the way that they like. I am also strangely surprised at all the hate that mono playstyle gets.
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