Grimm, Tib, Hatter, Li, Colem. Similar reasoning: rainbow team of multi-hitters. I prefer Colem to Scarlett despite his slow speed because his special will take out the entire field where Scarlett often only kills one.
You know, I’d posted this in the Community Content forum, but it got lost because the audience there doesn’t have much interest in this, obviously, but I’d often wondered what would be the fastest possible 8-7 clear team with the criteria of being full rainbow auto only.
This is my team I’m currently using. Red Hood is 3/70, Quintus is 2/60. I’m going to swap out Elkanen for Kadilen once she can one shot a field, but for now I’m still using Elk. Sometimes Hood can really slow down the team if she builds up a lot of foxes, but she’s the only all-hit red I have. I’m sad because a 3/70 Hood is just BARELY not enough to wipe out a field sometimes. Maybe once my mana troop gets higher level. Who knows. Quintus almost immediately got on my 8-7 team because even at 1/1 with the mana troop I had, he was practically one shotting entire fields by himself most of the time, so he’s been great for that.
I chose Li Xiu because there is no better all-hit yellow in the game. The only reason I chose Elena over Azlar is because the riposte might matter, but it really comes down to preference there. When watching the team do auto, I’ve found all-hitters to be preferable to area hitters because on a 3 spread, the area hitters have a 66% chance of targeting suboptimally, and on a 4 spread a 50% chance which can slow down the rate a lot. With all-hitters, it’s impossible for them to make an incorrect target, so those I’ve found are better for an 8-7 clear.
Eh, better exposure here. It’s not like I own the patent to fastest 8-7 clear or anything. I’m more surprised there isn’t a thread about it before recently.
It doesn’t mean anything to really clear 8-7 at a world record pace on average, but it’s just a fun thought experiment.
I guess just to walk back my statement a bit, I’m surprised nobody posited a “fastest” 8-7 clear which is more specific and one of those internet arguments about nothing because there’s a lot of teams that can do 8-7 adequately.
Once again, no prize for fastest time obviously, but I personally like speedruns because they often showcase mind boggling levels of skill… or breaking bugs, but still. So it was on my mind.
The problem with my 8-7 team… is that it really sux at Atlantis hard levels… so I now include a healer no matter what so that I have a minimal chance of surviving my senior moments