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. 

- F: Tank, F/M; 2 damage dealers, B: Support and Healer 

- F: 2 Tanks, M: 1 major damage dealer, M/B: Support/Control and Healer 

- F: 2 damage dealers, M/B: 2 hybrid healers, 1 support/control

- F/M: 2-3 damage dealers. B: 2-3 support 

General Tips 

- Choose a tank and level their health and protection 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 rather choose supportive hybrid healers such as Nebula, Mojo or Celeste to enable quicker and more efficient damage dealing to the other team 

- 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 

Read this post for more about creating good formations. 

Physical Teams 

Galahad and Tristan - 

Galahad and Yasmine - 

K'arkh, Faceless, Kai - both Faceless and Kai throw targets into the air, allowing for K'arkh to deal more/extra damage. Combine with the Grove Keepers for magic defense from Faceless and Alvanor's protection from basic attacks.
Replace Kai with someone if he is not a five-star or absolute (he is the weakest of this team).
I recommend trying K'arkh and Faceless with Jorgen, Nebula, and/or Astaroth as quality replacements for the Grove Keepers. This 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.
(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!*) 

Qing Mao and Dante/Yasmine - either due will take care of tanks and warriors on the enemy team frontline

Cleaver and Ishmael - especially if placed with Sebastian or Jet they will pull everyone to the frontline and wreck them in the face real quick 

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.

Critical Hit Teams 

- Jet, Sebastian, Daredevil/Jhu, Ishmael, with a healer such as Aiden Dorian, Nebula or Martha, or a background pure damage dealer such as Heidi, Maya, or Jorgen, or a control punisher such as Amira, Satori, Iris or Helios

- Jet and Ishmael Duo - they form a bit of a unique bond that results in Ishmael healing from hits and demolishing entire teams

- Jet, Isaac + Fox (Engineers), Nebula, and Galahad. This team has three members who deal damage to the frontline or the lowest health targets. Dorian casts his mark on the nearest target, ensuring that the majority of the members on this team can heal from him. Nebula can also do that. Isaac will provide this team with suitable protection from magic damage. Fox can deal critical hits, and Galahad will deal some pure damage. This team deals significant damage to the enemy frontline.

Magic Teams 

Lilith in the backline - Lowers magic defense on the enemy team, allowing for further magic damage by your magic damage dealers 

Lars and Krista ("the Twins") - 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

Kayla and Aiden - see pure damage teams

Augustus and Orion - Create a devastating blast of magic that is hard to take/absorb and survive against 

- [POPULAR/META TEAM] Dante, Nebula, Orion, Augustus, and Dorian with Khorus.
This deal dominates the leaderboards presently, dealing incredibly high amounts of magic and pure damage to any team without Sebastian and Isaac to withstand it. 

Pure Teams 

- Galahad and Aiden Dou 

- 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. 

- Cleaver, Arachne, Heidi/Daredevil

- [POPULAR/META TEAM] Amira, Heidi, and Nebula with tank and healer - High magic and pure damage (watch out for Rufus counters, such as Morrigan to be effective).
Try with Astaroth and Arachne rather than Rufus and Martha too. 

- Kayla & Aiden with or without Luther make an effective warrior/healer bond when paired with other special teams or other high damage dealers

Special Teams and 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. 

Grove Keepers - High Defense Against Basic Attacks and Full Healing 
Kai, Alvanor, and Thea - Use Alvanor and Thea as a base to defend and heal your primary damage dealing [DUO]

Undead - Physical Damage Dealers, Counters Dodge Teams

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 - 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)

Polaris, Darkstar/Orion, Lars, Augustus, Krista, etc- these are all great heroes to pair together for better, longer control from Polaris 

Krista & Lars - pair these twins together with Augustus, and you have yourself a high magic control team (sometimes game modes require control heroes specifically, and in these modes they perform well however,r they do not compete well in Arena or Guild War modes) 

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 Heros

Helios - punishes critical hits 

Amira - punishes crits and dodges, 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 strength and physical damage dealers 

Iris - counters anyone who leaves marks on heroes (Dorian, Lars, Krista, Kayla, Aiden, Yasmine, Satori, etc) 

Folio - steals intelligence 

Dante - lowers main stat

Rufus or Isaac - absorb mass magic damage 

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

Galahad and Nebula - remove negative effects from allies 

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

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

LAST UPDATED 5/23 with Lyria info

Resources outside of this blog: 

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