Support Heroes in Hero Wars Dominion

 

Behind every good set of damage-dealing warriors and/or marksmen is their support cast. This could be tanks and healers, but in this post, it's about specializing your team with the right defensive or offensive support heroes to get the point across. 

Support Heroes in Dominion 

Here are all the "Support" Heroes in Hero Wars Dominion Era (link to HW site list: 

Alvanor, Amira, Andvari, Cornelius, Fafnir, Isaac,
Morrigan, Nebula, Sebastian, Astaroth, Dorian, Helios, Jet, Jorgen,
Markus, Martha, Mojo, Peppy, Thea, Judge 

We're also going to talk about other heroes who I personally consider support heroes: Celeste, Phobos 

Support-Healers

Let's point out the Support-Healers and Hybrid-Healers from them: 

Alvanor, Morrigan, Nebula, Dorian, Martha, Mojo, Thae 

By including one of these healers, your team or the lowest health member of the team will get some healing. 

Note that Oliver can heal your team if he is your main pet. Oliver will benefit a team without a healer, or any hybrid healer who also doubles as a support hero (Nebula, Mojo, etc). 

Axel will require a healer to be of most benefit and will do better to support a full healer such as Markus, Thae, or Martha. 

Counter-Support

There are several useful support heroes who over great counter abilities: Alvanor, Amira, Andvari, Cornelius, Helios, Jet 

We'll look at each COUNTER` ability of them here:

• Alvanor - he can block all basic attacks 
• Amira - has an ability that targets and reduces each stat type (magic, agility, strength) 
• Andvari - defends against movement by Lars, Kai, and K'ark,h who can displace heroes, doing damage or putting them in dangerous locations (such as Augustus who deals more damage when enemies are close together) 
• Cornelius - deals damage according to their intelligence stat, being a BEAST against the BEST mages 
• Helios - punishes every single critical hit an enemy team makes against you 
• Isaac - he doesn't reflect anything; however, he does absorb magic damage, reducing the effectiveness of any magical enemy team (other heroes such as Rufus do this well also) 
• Jet - he gives the team the critical hit stat however, he can also stunt the enemy team's healing ability 
• Celeste - she is a mage who can punish the enemy team's healing 

Check out the article on How to Counter Each Hero and this one to know Who targets the Front, Mid, and Blackline!

Protection-Support 

Several heroes offer the benefit of shields, protective barriers, etc. Some of them are: Rufus, Julius, Judge, Aiden, Astaroth, Isaac. 

Other heroes can remove harmful buffs, and these are: Sebastian, Galahad, Nebula. Each of them can remove negative buffs, which becomes important against certain abilities. 

There are heroes such as Iris that will punish heroes who leave marks on heroes (Kayla, Yasmine, etc). Getting to know each hero and who they are built to defeat will be useful in building teams, as well as recognizing team synergy. Knowing how to defeat certain types of strategies and who you need to accomplish it can make the difference in certain game modes. 

Learning to Think in 2s and 3s for Team Building.

Defunk-Support 

I am terming this 'defunk' because anything that reduces the enemy team's defenses or offensives highly reduces their potential. Therefore, making your team more effective against them! Here are heroes that can support your team, regardless if they are entitled to the 'support' stat or not. 

• Corvus - reduces defenses 
• Lilith - reduces magic defenses 
• Folio - reduces magic/intelligence 
• Cornellius and Satori can steal intelligence or use their own high intelligence score against them 
• Phobos - paralyzes and reduces offensive and defensive abilities 
• Lyria - reduces the dodge score of anyone near her/in her aura (aura increases in size/proximity with undead allies)