🌚 Vander – 5* Dark / Purple from Contest of Elements

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New Contest of Elements (Dark) hero is released: Vander

This thread is for discussing strategy related to Vander, as well as your thoughts on Vander.

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Vander

Rarity	Element	Class	Mana Speed
Legendary	Dark/Purple	Wizard	F Fast

Level	Attack	Defense	Health
4/80	1114	1100	1854
4/85	1201	1185	1998
4/90	1374	1356	2286

Origin	Family
Contest of Elements	Super Elemental

Image	Aether Power	Description
	Ailment Immunity	At the start of each battle, this Hero is immune to new status ailments for 6 turns. In battles with multiple waves, the effect is refreshed at the beginning of each wave.

Ability: Troop Mastery Passive Skill as attacking character: This hero’s Troops deal extra elemental damage against weaker element. - Dealt extra elemental damage: +100% Passive Skill as defending character: This hero receives less elemental damage from Troops of stronger element. - Received elemental damage: -10%

Special Skill: Gloom Grenades
Deals 450% damage to the target. The target gets silenced for 3 turns. If there are 6 or more Dark shields on the board , the damage and status ailments are dealt to the target and nearby enemies instead. If there are 12 or more Dark shields on the board , the damage and status ailments are dealt to the all enemies instead.

All-in-one still under construction. Card image to be added when available.

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Family Bonus

Heroes become stronger when teamed with other unique heroes of the same family

Super Elemental Family

Super Elemental family makes Mono teams even stronger.
This hero enhances Holy element.

• One or more shields are enhanced to Power Gems each turn.
• The amount is same as Holy heroes in the team. 5 Power Gems per element can be on board at the same time.

The Power Gem deal 20 damage to a random enemy each turn until it is matched. When Power Gems are matched , they deal 10 damage to all enemies.

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Changes from Beta

• Attack is increased from 1102 to 1114.
• Defense is increased from 1087 to 1100.
• Health is increased from 1812 to 1854.

Beta Information: 🧪 Early Information on Round 5 of Contest of Elements (Dark) Heroes - Vander [Part of The Beta Beat v68]

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What do you think of Vander ?

This thread is for thoughts and discussion on Vander.

Based on preferences Forum members have expressed, please try to stick mainly to Vander and not wander off topic too much to other heroes.

Some Popular Questions for Discussion

• Is Vander worth summoning for?

• Would you use Vander on Defense? Offense? War? Quests/Events? Titans?

• Which heroes on your Roster best pair with Vander ?

• What heroes would you take when facing Vander as an opponent?

• Would you give Vander Wizard Emblems? Which Talent Grid path will you choose?

• What do you think of special?

• What do you think of Vander’s character design?

• If you Summoned Vander and would like to post your results, please include some thoughts on why you Summoned Vander, and whether/how you plan to make use of them.*

*NOTE: Summon Results posted without any commentary/feedback at all should be flagged as Off Topic and removed, based on preferences expressed by the Forum community. Please include some comments about what you think of Vander when posting Summon Results. In addition to opinions about Vander, you are also encouraged to include how many Summons it took before receiving Vander (or how many Summons you’ve done without receiving Vander), so other players are presented with realistic experiences of the rarity of Legendary Event Hero.

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Avoiding Overspending & Heartache

More Insights & Reading

I highly recommend reading these three threads for more information and context on summoning odds:

• How much should I spend?- HotM cost, and odds, analysis

• [WARNING] A Summons Experience - Chasing Guardian Panther - A Warning for Chasing Heroes

• https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/t/what-exactly-is-a-gacha-read-before-posting-things-about-unfair-pulls/29490?u=playforfun

If you’ve read them a million times before, you may consider reading them again before deciding on your budget for summoning. A little time spent deciding on how much money you want to risk on summoning goes a long way to avoiding disappointment, frustration, and regret later.

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Wondering About Your Personal Situation?

Feel free to discuss your team and roster here, and ask for advice from other Forum members.

If you’d like more extensive advice on sorting out your particular roster, I recommend creating a new thread in Gameplay Help & Tactics, and posting screenshots of your hero roster, along with your questions.

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Related Threads You May Be Interested In

• 🧪 Early Information on Round 5 of Contest of Elements (Dark) Heroes - Vander [Part of The Beta Beat v68]

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Feedback Poll - Vander (post release)

Is Vander worth Summoning For?

• Yes, absolutely
• Only if you’re P2P
• Yes, but only when featured.
• Not really
• Not at all

How many copies of Vander would be useful to keep & Level?

Note - this is roster space dependent & isn’t the same for everyone!

• Zero
• Just one
• 2
• 3
• All of them

What do you think Vander’s Primary Purpose is?

• Damage Dealer (Immediate)
• Silencer

What do you think of Vander compared to other Heroes?

• Over Powered (OP)
• Little stronger than Most
• On Par with Most
• Little Weaker than Most
• Completely Broken (Under Powered)

How does Vander’s Special Skill and Intended Purpose match Vander’s Base Stats?

Note this means Vander’s Class, Attack, Defence & HP Stat

• Perfectly
• Better than Most
• On Par with Most
• Worse than Most
• Terribly

Is Vander worth giving Wizard Emblems to?

• Yes absolutely
• Depends on who else you got
• Hmmmm, not sure yet
• No I don’t think so
• No… Not at all.

In Defence, where do you think Vander is best used?

• Left Wing
• Left Flank
• Tank
• Right Flank
• Right Wing
• Not on defence at all.

How do you think Vander is best used?

• PvP Raids/ War attack
• Normal Defence
• War Defence
• Titans
• Farming
• Tournaments
• Event Teams

Choose up to 3 options

What do you think is Vander worth Limit Breaking ?

• Yes, but only once
• Yes, twice
• No

If you would emblem Vander then which Emblem Path would you select ?

• Sword path
  (Selecting Attack talent nodes when possible)
• Shield path
  (Selecting Health and Shield talent nodes when possible)

What do you think about the artwork ?

• Amazing
• Refreshingly new
• It’s ok
• It could be better
• Very bad

[Chadmo]

Looks like a beast. Will be tough on defense if you are stacking yellow against it and all the purple tiles are left over.

[Mattia64]

Will him really be released today? The calendar says August 7th…have they changed the release date?And in any case it seems like the last super Elemental hero, because unless one is put into beta tomorrow there is no time to release another one for September.

As he seems very strong, on average he will do 450% damage to 3 and silence 3.

[Mikal]

Can’t say I have numbers to back this up, but it seems like it would be incredibly difficult to fit 12 dark tiles on the board.

[Vandermar1979]

Well…I think I really want this one based on name alone . May not try too hard this portal and wait till it’s inevitable turn in Covenant.

[PlayForFun]

The polls are now enabled for this here.

[rebelsouljah]

If you bring mono yellow, it will. Or if you did your best to clear the board of all the purple tiles just before Vander’s mana bar starts flashing, and you make one innocent match that lights up the entire board and leaves 13 purple tiles. Anything is possible with this randomly generated tile maker.

Of course if you have Vander on your attack team, there will be no scenario where you will get more than 5 purple tiles when your Vander is good and ready to fire.

Should be fun though to have Farrah* and Vander in the lineup. If a miracle happens and there are more than 12 purple tiles when both are ready to fire, Vander’s silence ailment may not be needed. He should be very fun on titans.

**edit: originally said Hannah, but meant Farrah, the other dark elemental

[ProfessorBlaq]

Did no one get him???

[marki]

my teammate did, but ods is very low

[ProfessorBlaq]

I 1000% agree with the odds.

Im just shocked that no one is posting screenshots

[Shogo]

I been lucky, but as f2p i will need 3 weeks to level him

[bub102x]

Here’s his full picture

Figured I’d use my few coins I had since I’m about to pick my next purple to level, didn’t really expect him or anything good.

[Emperor2]

Is he worth it for level up? I am not sure… Maybe I can build some purple attack team. Besides, I have no silencer as 5*…

[drdare]

He is going to be a menace with a > 50% chance to silence and massive damage to 3 and a once in a while chance to silence all targets with a big damage to all at fast speed.
I would LB 2 him unless I have a massive dark backlog

[Nightmare2048]

On offense he’ll be good but not OP. From my experience you don’t have often enough 6 tiles of color of which you charged your hero, let alone 12, but even silence to single target is good to have. On defense he’ll be troublesome, especially as tank, since you’ll have to get rid of purple tiles to not have significant part of your team silenced. Granted, there are Toons, Cupido and many other heroes that resist such effect.

[Ragnarock]

Here’s mine. I got him with the coins earned from completing the event. I intend to LB2 him and use him as war tank.

[Soiden]

Just got one. I also got Grillka from yellow contest some time ago. The dependency on the number of tiles is somehow a throwback for these heroes, but still seem to be very solid (also for Vander being fast).

Will LB2, not sure if will use as a tank because of the tile dependency and since I have Odile.

[marki]

you think he is superior to odile? as tank and as enemies will not use dark heroes i think he can be great as it will stay more dark shields on board

will like to get him,30 pulls no luck,just boss wolf comes ,