Good Teams List for Hero Wars Dominion with Notes on Uses

Formation Notes 

There are Front, Mid, and Backline heroes. Making sure you know your team's possible formations and their strength/weaknesses can help to make better teams. Taking a team with 2 members from below and matching them into one of these formations is how you can customize your teams to take on and defeat any other teams you may face in Hero Wars. 

General Tips 

- Choose a tank and level their health and protection (armor/defense) to enable them to take (all or most) damage 

- Know your best damage dealer and then aim to support their efforts by adding Nebula or Fenrir 

- Lower the enemy team defenses to further enable your damage potential (Lilith, Cornelius, Phobos, Amira, etc) 

- Only use a full healer when you need them. Teams that deal fast or pure damage don't need full healers, but rather choose supportive hybrid healers such as Nebula, Mojo or Celeste to enable quicker and more efficient damage dealing.

- Sometimes the best way to counter teams with high-damage dealers is to punish them; use heroes that steal energy, disrupt/stun or silence them; consider Jorgen and Nebula with a high pure damage dealer such as Heidi to lower the health bar before your heavy hitters power up for the kill (Kiera, K'arkh, etc)

- Support heroes that lower the defenses (magical or physical) of your enemies (such as Lilith, Folio, Amira or Phobos) can greatly assist the penetration of your damage dealers. OR you can utilize support heros that boost the attack or penetration of your team, such as Fafnir, Elmir, or Tristan. Be sure to build synergistic teams when using these supportive heroes; otherwise, they can fail to contribute significant aid. 

Physical Teams 

Featuring K'arkh 

K'arkh + Faceless + Grove Keepers (Kai, Thea, Alvanor)

Both Faceless and Kai throw targets into the air, allowing for K'arkh to deal more/extra damage.

Combined with the Grove Keepers! Magic defense from Faceless and Alvanor's protection from basic attacks. Thea to blind and heal. Aiden is a great sub for Thea, offering a shield. 

Replace Kai with someone if he is not a five-star or absolute (he is the weakest of this team). Recommended replacements for Kai: Aiden, Jorgen, Astaroth, Fafnir, Phobos. 

I recommend trying K'arkh and Faceless with Jorgen, Nebula, and/or Astaroth as quality replacements for the Grove Keepers. 

(HW: Alliance Note: This team is HILARIOUS to run in mobile as 3/5 members will throw enemies such as Kayla back to their side of the fight... SO great! *yoit!*) 

K'arkh, Nebula, Jorgen, Astaroth, and Aiden or Fafnir

 

This variant team drains the enemy's energy resources rather than providing protection and healing for themselves. Making either option a fabulous defense option in the Arena or War, as it is typically underestimated. 

This lineup deals significant damage, supports and keeps K'arkh alive for Total-Party-Kills (TPK), and Nebula can remove debuffs, heal, and boost all shields provided (3!) from Aiden, Jorgen, and Astaroth.

Additionally (3!), the energy disruption and steal provided by Jorgen, Nebula, and Astaroth severely limits their abilities from triggering. Highly powerful team with loads of survivability in most cases. 

Try it with and without Astaroth, as Aidn supports him as the front hero rather than K'arkh. If Astaroth can't survive at 90% efficiency in all battles, then replace him with Fafnir, as he provides attack and protection buffs from the backline. 

Dante + Fafnir, with Thea, Kayla, and Sebastian 

[POLULAR/META TEAM]

Annoyingly dificult to defeat in arena when placed as defense team. Kayla and Dante surround the enemy team dealing huge damage figures. Depending on the team pet you have several options for further damage or survivability that works well. This team does not rely strongly on any one hero for success. The only teams that do seem to beat it, are those that are quite similar to it; other Dante teams or other Kayla teams, however Fafnir gives an extra edge of damage that throws other non-Fafnir teams off. 

Thea is used due to her ability to blind magic users, as their only good defense against magic teams. However, Guus is likely to be a great healer to repleace Thea with! Additionally Aiden can be used instead of Thea, giving Kayla an extra edge however increasing the chances of Aiden being targeted along with Fafnir in the back line. 

Corvus/Ziri, Lyria Elmir, Kiera, and Dorian 

Pair well together because Elmir summons doubles and then jumps back next to Dorian to receive vampirism and heal. Another duo that works well with Dorian is Astrid, who stays healthy next to Dorian while summoning Lucas to deal damage in the frontline. Kiera benefits from Elmir with enhanced penetration. 

Why Ziri? Any tank would due (Corvus to boost the undead in this team), but Ziri pulls the attention towards herself and away from Elmir and Kiera - increasing their survivability and damage output for as long as Ziri is alive. She's likely to benefit from Dorian's blood-marked target as she deals damage to the same nearest enemy as Dorian. Lyria and Elmirs' doubles usually provide time for Ziri to recover and come back strong after healing underground. 

Critical Hit Teams 

Qing Mao + Aiden, Sebastian with Lara Croft and DD

Use Qing Mao and Aiden or Thea, with Sebastian and critical hitters Lara Croft and others to defeat most arena enemies. Meta team that has been dominant since Lara's release. Works when you swap DD for other damage dealers such as Jhu, Heidi, Fox or Iris. 

Ishmael and Jet Teams

Jet and Ishmael form a bit of a unique bond that results in Ishmael healing and recycling energy from hits while demolishing entire teams one enemy at a time

Replace Neb and Aiden with other supportive or tank heroes that will increase survivability:

- Martha offers increased speed and full healing. 
- Guus has full healing potential, especially with critical hitters 
- Cleaver can pull targets close to Ishmael for quick damage, works well with Martha's speed boost while Seb buffs critical hits 
- Add Fox next to Ishmeal to target the same frontline enemies, increasing the likelihood of all frontlines being demolished one by one 

Notes: Be sure that Ishmael has the highest penetration of all team members otherwise, Jet will target them instead of Ishmeal (such as Kiera, Qing Mao or DD...)

Engineers Isaac and Fox, with Dorian, Nebula, and Galahad

This team has three members who deal damage to the frontline/nearest or the lowest health targets. This team deals significant damage to the enemy frontline quickly and powerfully, then continues its way through the backline. 

• Dorian casts his mark on the nearest target, ensuring that the majority of the members on this team can heal from him. He also gives vampirism to allies nearest him in the backline (Fox and sometimes Nebula and Isaac too) 
• Nebula can provide some healing, disrupts energy gains and boosts attacks and Isaacs shields 
• Nebula attacks the lowest health enemy 
• Isaac will provide this team with suitable protection from magic damage. 
• Fox can deal critical hits and targets the nearest enemy 
• Galahad will deal some pure damage and mass physical attack 
• Galahad's Retribution skill attacks the lowest health enemy 

Magic Teams 

Dante, Nebula, Orion, Augustus, and Dorian with Khorus

[POPULAR/META TEAM] 

This deal dominates the leaderboards presently, dealing incredibly high amounts of magic and pure damage to any team; without Rufus, Sebastian, or Isaac to withstand it, enemy teams stand no chance.

Dorian keeps Augustus and Orion alive to continue devastating magic and pure combos. Dante aids survivability by giving dodge. 

Use Khorus or Merlin as a team pet. 

Replace Dante and Nebula with Galahad and Tristan, or Rufus and Jorgen, when faced with Lyria and the Undead. 

Krista + Lars, Nebula, Aiden, and Lilth 

Lilith (or...) in the backline - Lowers magic defense on the enemy team, allowing for further magic damage by your magic damage dealers. Replace Lilith with Cornellius, Folio, or Faceless, depending on the enemy being faced - Faceless or Cornellius will increase your magic defense and add chaos to the STORM that is Krista and Lars! While Lilith is a great option for aesthetics with demonic skin and in lowering the magic defenses, increasing the penetration and control from the twins. Finally, another replacement that is great is Polaris as she adds another shield in increases the duration of the control effects produced by the twins. 

Lars and Krista ("the Twins") notes - dealing significant damage when enemies are pulled through Krista's ice by Lar's storm, this ice and lightning duo can be weak unless placed with other control heroes such as the Turtles, Augustus, and Orion. Best used on accounts that have boosted their magic heros in Asgard, ect. 

Augustus and Orion - Create a devastating blast of magic that is hard to take/absorb and survive against. They can replace Krista and/or Lars and you have a great magic team. 

Aiden - is key to the success of this team above due to his shield protecting Krista as the Tank -- she will not survive well at all without support or a tank with her with smart leveling on the back end for her survivability. 

Pure Teams 

Rufus and Martha, with Amira, Heidi, Nebula and Albus

[POPULAR/META TEAM]

You can swap Martha or Rufus, but the meat of this team is HAN! 

-  Amira, Heidi, and Nebula with tank and healer - High magic and pure damage (watch out for Rufus counters, such as Morrigan to be effective). Great team to go up against magic dealers with. 

- Cleaver , Amira, Heidi, Nebula, Lilith - Amira does magic damage and punishes all enemy team members in various ways, while Cleaver and Heidi deal magic damage (increased when Albus is used as team pet). Nebula increases the physical or magic damage hits of Amira or Heidi while providing healing, clearing negative effects, and disrupting the enemy team's energy gains. 

Special Teams and Unique Heroes

Counter Healing Team:

Jet, Yasmine, Celeste, Aurora , Lilith and Biscuit or Cain - Halts and punish healing on the enemy team (can use Cleaver to further displace the healer from the backline instead of Aurora). This is a magic-dealing version of the team, but it can be switched to Phobos instead of Lilith, and swap Aurora/Mushy for a physical tank/warrior that will benefit from Jet. Relies on magic defense. Martha can be a good replacement for Lilith if the team needs support from a full healer or a speed boost. 

Lyria, Kiera, Celeste, Sebastian, Lara Croft. A seriously fast-hitting and fast-healing team that can dominate most battles in arena, dungeon or campaign settings.Can swap pets depending on needs, lots of variety there to play with! Khorus, Albus and Axel all make great main pets for the team. 
Thanks @OlympusYT for this team discovery during Celeste Battles 9/2025. 

Undead: Corvus, Lyria, Kiera, Morrigan, Phobos

Physical Damage Dealers, Counter-Dodge Team

Lyria, Corvus, Morrigan, Kiera, and Phobos - effectively counters dodge teams with Lyria's aura, Phobos and Corvus reduce defenses of the enemy team, Morrigan heals all her skellies and undead allies, and Kiera wrecks the enemy with mass damage and silence while bonded to Lyria. 

Control Teams 

Lian & Oliver/Albus - leave Lian alone on a team and watch her charm the entire team to sleep! Destroy them with pure damage with a maxed Lian or full effectiveness (make sure she has max skill and is higher level the team she's against). She pairs well with Dorian alone, without any other heroes in arena and survives a high number of battles. New players that are unfamiliar with her are usually taken by surprise at her power to take on a team 1:5 or 2:5 and win 90% of the time. 

Counter Teams

Dorian, Phobos, Cornellius in backline - put 2 high damage dealers such as Galahad and Yasmine/Tristian or Dante and Ishmeal in front to deal tons of damage with this highly supportive backline (swap Cornellius with Helios when up against critical hit teams) 

Counter Hero Summary 

Helios - punishes critical hits 

Amira - punishes crits and dodges, and intelligence, while enemy buffs are stolen from strength characters 

Cornelius - targets mages; deals high magic damage to magic heroes, and lowers their magic defense while adding to your team's magic defense

Phobos - targets and deals damage to the strength and physical damage dealers of your enemies 

Lilth - reduces enemies' magid defenses, allowing for your magic team to deal more damage 

Folio - steals intelligence while Cornellius deals magic damage to the hero with the highest magic damage score, dealing magic damage based on their intelligence score  (so don't pair them together!) 

Dante - lowers main stat and gives dodge to all allies

Rufus or Isaac - absorb mass magic damage 

Sebastian - protects team from debuffs/control effects with his shield (first ability) 

Galahad and Nebula - removes negative effects from allies 

Satori - punishes any enemy that uses/gains extra energy (Orion, Jorgen, etc) 

Lyria - reduces enemy dodge with aura (more undead means larger aura of effect) 

Celeste, Yasmine, Jet - All reduce or block healing 

LAST UPDATED 9/9 with Lyria and Lara Croft info

Resources outside of this blog: 

• Defense Trends for Arena and Clash of Worlds
• Cosmic Battle Meta Teams