Why are there so many slow, red 3 star heroes

Good day forum peoples,

Looking at my roster I had always wondered why so many red rare heroes are slow. Started with Jahangir then Sudri - Vollermork - Li -Waqas. New Mighty Pets come out, and there’s slow AF Rufus staring me in the face. I know reds started slow right when the game came out with Khagan and Elena, but why the unproportionate amount going to red? Is it a Slow Burn?

I know there’s not an answer for this, but when setting up my three star rush no blue defense…I have too many reds!

Cheers!

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Hmm…this made me curious. I think you’re right that there are noticeably more red 3*s that are slow compared to other colors, but there are more than a handful fast/average as well. I checked my roster and these are non-slows that I currently have:

Skrekok - average
Bauchan - average
Namahage - fast
Rudolph - fast
Squire Wabbit - fast
Ei-Dunn - average
Phonicus - average
Hawkmoon - average

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I’m waiting for someone to come out with statistics on mana speed per color :stuck_out_tongue:

on a not very related note: Green also seems to be the devs’ fave in terms of numbers … for the S1 classics anyway. Five Green 4* and six Green 3*, definitely more than any other color (where most only have four 4* and four 3*). .

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Odd coincidence but they keep piling up for every new batch of heroes!

You’re welcome :wink:

Speed Blue Green Purple Red Yellow Sum
Very Fast 3 3 7 6 5 24
Fast 26 31 23 26 28 134
Average 39 31 39 39 34 182
Slow 12 17 14 16 12 71
Very Slow - 2 3 - 2 7
Slayer 2 2 2 3 1 10
Charge* 5 6 7 8 6 32
Sum 87 92 95 98 88 460

*Charge = those with mana overload as Magic, Ninja …

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Thank you for putting g an end to my wait :wink: well done @Torgin

Awesome! Yeah there are a lot of slow 5 star greens!

Thanks Torgin

Here’s the breakdown by speed, color and stars:

Speed B3 B4 B5 G3 G4 G5 P3 P4 P5 R3 R4 R5 Y3 Y4 Y5 Sum 3* Sum 4* Sum 5* Total
Very Fast - 2 1 1 - 2 1 1 5 - - 6 - 1 4 2 4 18 24
Fast 4 5 17 6 7 18 5 3 15 6 7 13 7 5 16 28 27 79 134
Average 12 6 21 8 8 15 9 12 18 4 12 23 5 6 23 38 44 100 182
Slow 2 2 8 3 3 11 3 1 10 5 3 8 3 3 6 16 12 43 71
Very Slow - - - - 2 - 1 - 2 - - - - - 2 1 2 4 7
Slayer - - 2 1 1 - 1 - 1 - 2 1 - - 1 2 3 5 10
Charge 1 1 3 1 2 3 - 3 4 2 1 5 - 2 4 4 9 19 32
Sum 19 16 52 20 23 49 20 20 55 17 25 56 15 17 56 91 101 268 460
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This is extremely helpful. So the breakdown of Amount of slow vs. total 3 star heroes is:

Purple 3/20
Yellow 3/15
Blue 2/19
Green 3/20
Red 5/17

This shows I’m not crazy. 3 star Red has a much larger percentage of Slow heroes.

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With all of those slow reds, your attacking team might be marooned!

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Same reason there are so many heavy blue hitters:

They want you to summon again for a new hero for that role.

Same reason they nerfed xnolphod: make you summon for another dark tank

And so on.

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Beta just came out with new Xmas heroes. We are getting a new rare red hero. He’s slow…

I’ll quote this thread in my feedback.

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Red heroes are mostly slow and yellow heroes are mostly support.

My stock response to a statement like this - your suspicion being correct doesn’t mean you aren’t crazy :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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You are not wrong at all. I save all my crazy for non forum activities

I would say that colors are meant to be different. It would be rather dumb to have 5 colors and make them all exactly the same. What would be the point?
So each colors have their specialties, some have lots of blind or mana steal or fire/poison damage, some have lots of AoE hitters, others have lots of snipers or lots of healers… No matter what you look at you will (hopefully) always find a color imbalance.

So red 3 stars have lots of slow AoE hitters… nothing fancy about it.

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What you say is absolutely true. But I’m at the point where really I need to get rid of the ones that aren’t as good as the top two. The game wants us to buy more roster space, but having 5 three star slow reds makes thing a little too muddled.

Always enjoys your post Gargon. Game discussion is really something I enjoy

Nobody says you have to keep them all :smiley: Pick the best ones get rid of the rest.

I am not keeping all the heroes I get, but I do keep the newer ones, as they are the most likely to get buffs after a while :wink:
For example I have been holding on to Li (even though I think he´s probably the worst of the lot, but with the constant buffing and nerfing of W3K, one never knows when he comes out on top. I´ll probably do the same for the new one. Don´t think he´s a real improvement over my Waqas and Sudri. But who knows what happens when Pet sales go down :wink: I have Jahangir since before, and I don´t like feeding away maxed heroes, so he´ll just sit there gather dust, maybe he gets a second costume some time?
tough choices…

and yes talking shop is the whole reason for being here :slight_smile:

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My yellows are: Devana, Leonidas, Joon, Poseidon, Zekena, Justice, Jackal, Griffin, Gretel, LiXiu, Chao, Hu Tao, WuKong.
Almost only (quite) strong hitters.
I think it is the color I have the least support heroes. Where are they?

Agreed!

If also like to add the other disproportionate amounts of:

  • 4* Healers in Holy
  • 5* Healers in Nature
  • Absolutely so few 4* - in general - in Ice
  • Too many great purple 5* vs other elements

…I’m probably missing some, but man, these all bother me so much…

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