What happens in a red color stack when Marjana is blinded, Ares has a crit buff and Gravemaker has 30% wound? OR Color stacking and RNG ( buffs, debuffs and talents )

[Gryphonknight]

What happens in a red color stack when Marjana is blinded, Ares has a crit buff and Gravemaker has 30% wound? OR Color stacking and RNG ( buffs, debuffs and talents )

Color stacking

Color stacking

Color stacking, Empires hidden buff

@Gryphonknight

Double strong color, no weak color, teams==

Now that you have two rainbow teams ( one 3* 3.50 and one 4* 3.60 ) you can create double strong color, no weak color teams.

If you are attacking a Green Boss, then Red heroes are better because they are strong against green, so Green bosses takes double damage. The opposite is true of Blue heroes. Blue heroes cause half damage to a Green boss. The other colors ( Green, Purple & Yellow ) do neutral damage or no increase or decrease in damage.

When attacking a Green boss, remove your BLUE 4* 3.60 hero ( half damage against Green ) from your rainbow 4* 3.60 team, and replace it with your RED 3* 3.50 hero ( double damage against Green ) for a double red, no blue team.

You will do 1 HP of damage with blue matches/ board damage, since you are missing a Blue hero. But your two Red heroes will do double damage. Even if your Red 3* 3.50 hero dies against a Green boss, twice its attack stat will still be added when doing matching/ board/ physical damage.

==Weird color teams==

Other teams:

triple strong color,
quadruple strong color,
double neutral color,
double neutral three color teams and
single color teams.

Once you have more experience with rainbow teams and double strong color, no weak color teams, you can learn more about these weird alternatives.

==Elemental shields or Reflect color enemies==

When you fight an enemy with an elemental shield, it is weak to a color, strong to a color and REFLECTS a color. Example: A Reflect green boss takes double damage from Red heroes, half damage from Blue heroes, and reflects all damage from Green heroes back to that hero. So a triple red, no blue, no green team OR a double red, double yellow/ double purple, no blue no green team works better than a rainbow team. Example you can remove your Blue 4* 3.60 and Green 4* 3.60 heroes and replace them with one Red 3* 3.50 hero and one Purple/ Yellow 3* 3.50 hero.

So having a rainbow 3* 3.50 and a rainbow 4* 3.60 lets you take on Reflect color enemies until you level up a second rainbow 3* 3.50, second rainbow 4* 3.60, etc.

Attack stats

Normally color stacking adds all the attack stats for the same color heroes and treats them as a single mega hero ( see notes ).

Fixed Buffs

This works for fixed buffs.

Increase red Marjana’s attack stat, just adjust the total attack stat for red shields/ tiles.

Fixed debuff

This works for fixed debuffs.

Decrease red Ares attack stat, just adjust the total attack stat for red shields/ tiles.

RNG Debuff

Accuracy debuff can be tricky when color stacking since it involves RNG.

Gambler’s Stance increases all ally attack stat and gives them the same accuracy debuff.

What is Gambler’s stance is dispelled from some heroes in a red color stack due to an accuracy debuff on the dispeller?

What if a hero in the red color stack have Joon’s accuracy debuff?

RNG Buff

Crit buff can be tricky when color stacking since it involves RNG.

What if Ares has a crit buff but Marjana does not?

What if Melia’s crit buff is dispelled from some of a yellow color stack due to an accuracy debuff on the dispeller?

Fixed Stat Troops

Fixed stat troops only effect their hero when color stacking.

Healing bonus / Mana bonus / Attack bonus / Defense bonus / HP bonus only effects the matching hero.

RNG stat troops

Crit troops can be tricky when color stacking since it involves RNG.

What if some red heroes have a crit troop and some red heroes have a mana troop?

Talents

Talents can be tricky when color stacking since it involves RNG.

What happens to Gravemaker’s 30% wound in a red color stack?

What happens to Sabina’s 15% delay in a purple color stack?

Color stacking and RNG

Color stacking treats each shield/ tile as randomly assigned to a hero ( see notes )

If the hero is accuracy debuffed, that applies.

If the hero is crit buffed, that applies.

If the hero has a talent, that applies.

Example
In a five red color stack ( mono team ):

red center Ares currently has a +36% crit buff and 0% accuracy debuff

red left corner Marjana currently has 0% crit and a -40% accuracy debuff

red right corner Gravemaker currently has 0% crit, 0% accuracy debuff, and 30% wound

Each red shield/ tile is randomly assigned to a red hero. You can see this if you assign them different looking troops.

If a red shield/ tile is assigned to Ares, it gets a +36% crit, +0% accuracy debuff and 0% wound.

If a red shield/ tile is assigned to Marjana, it gets +0% crit, -40% accuracy debuff and 0% wound.

If a red shield/ tile is assigned to Gravemaker, it gets +0% crit, 0% accuracy debuff and 30% wound.

Notes

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Shields/ tiles

@Kerridoc

Some further information from staff has illuminated how this mechanic works with stacked colors.

Each tile that drops is assigned to a particular hero of that color. If you are running a rainbow team, the assignment is 1 to 1. If you are stacking heroes of a given color, the assignment is random. You can see which tile is assigned to which hero by the graphic display of the troop.

@Kerridoc

The tile as it hits has a critical hit chance based upon the troop underneath the linked hero and any specials on that hero. For example, if you are running Ares tank and Marjana wing, and Ares’ special is running, red tiles linked to Ares have a 36% crit chance, while those linked to Marjana have 0% (unless she’s paired with a crit troop). This mechanic effectively reduces the crit chance in a stack with mixed crit and mana troops.

Color stacking talents

@Kerridoc

When you color stack, each tile is assigned to one, and only one, hero for the purposes of resolving talents. You can actually see which hero is linked to a troop if you use different troop types for each hero. Let’s say you have both Proteus (Wizard with Jinx) and Rigard (cleric), and you drop a purple match-3. Only the one or two tiles associated with Proteus can proc Jinx, though the increased damage that occurs will, as usual, reflect the combined attack strength of Proteus and Rigard.

Color stacking damage

@Gryphonknight

Missing link

Garanwyn:

So instead of your 3-stacked tile attack being 3x as powerful as a single-hero tile attack, it’s 4.4x as powerful. That’s huge.

Fudge. Totally missed this. But it follows from the base design of MMOs. Usually in MMOs a 5* hero does exponentially increased damage versus 1* enemies to encourage updgrading heroes.

Color stacking just turns this effect up to 11. Further increasing the euphoric rush.

Damage calculation

Not complete, attack stat soft cap still unknown, but good enough.

( Damage Calculation)

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