Power Play Your Lineup

We're going to consider this post (a) and this post (b) and this post (c) to help guide us into building better teams. And understanding why the most popular meta teams are effective. We can also then build custom teams with more awareness for different modes and reasons. Knowing when to use counters and when to push through by adjusting a support hero. 

First we need to reference the table that tells us what the weapon artifacts do for our team for each hero, when they use an ability. 

Note: Qing Mao's weapon gives Armor Penetration (not magic) 

Common Considerations that Work Wonderfully 

Physical Answers to other Physical Teams

• Fafnir provides Armor bonus
• Isaac provides Armor Penetration bonus
• Isaac absorbs magic damage
• Fafnir provides protection shield
• Fafnir buffs physical attack buff
• Fafnir buffs armor penetration skill after any allied hero stuns
• Isaac produces stun effects 
• Adding other stunners and pet Fenris can be devistating to physical or magical teams

Answers to Magic Teams

• Isaac absorbs magic damage 
• Sebastian protects the team from debuffs and control effects such as stun, keeping you free to attack
• Sebastian's weapon gives critical hit bonus, while Isaac gives armor penetration bonus. 

Magical Teams that Turn Pure

• Augustus turns magic damage into pure damage instead (meaning it doesn't get reduced by magic defense or armor scores!) 
• Dorian provides Physical Attack bonus rather than magical, but he consistently keeps Orion alive by vampirism due to his high hit rate, even if Dorian goes down in the battle the healing persists. 
• Augustus' weapon gives Magic Attack bonus 
• Orion's weapon gives Magic Penetration bonus 

Worthy Defenses 

• Fluffy's weapon provides magic defense bonus
• Dante's weapon provides dodge bonus
• Dante provides dodge to entire team (passive ability) 
• Fluffy produces a wide range or protection for his allies, making it an excellent defensive choice for burst teams (physical or magical) 

• Both Aiden and Bryna protect a hero with a shield 
• Bryna benefits from others being healed, so pairing her with another healer is essential 
• Bryna's magic attack increases the longer she is alive, the longer she is allive and the more she and her allies are healed the larger her health bar becomes. Her health bar determines how much extra magic damage she does. 

• Any magic attack can benefit from this Grove support duo due to their healing capacity alone 
• Alvanor blocks all basic attacks, useful against physical or magic enemies 
• Thea's weapon artifact provides Armor bonus 
• Alvanor's weapon artifact provides Magic Attack bonus, making it ideal to build a magic team around 
• Cascade is ideal for any magic team healers because she increases their magic basic attacks into viable damage dealers (Cascade + Thea is becoming more common because of this) 

Powerhouse Damage Dealers 

There are several power-couples in the game. Some of which we have already covered. Let's break down some of more of them, and why they are working SO effectively at nearly all power levels and in multiple game modes! 

• Qing Mao's weapon artifact provides Armor Penetration bonus
• Lara Croft's weapon artifact provides Physical Attack bonus

• Krista and Cascade weapon artifacts provide Magic Attack bonus 
• Martha or Thea weapon artifacts provide Armor bonus 
• Cascade makes basic magic attacks hit WAY harder for magic damage.
• Pairing Cascade with Martha or Thea and you have yourself some powerful healing warriors. 
• Augustus causes magic damage to become pure... watch out for the storm with or without Lars...

• Iris glyphs reveal her secrets which is that she uses intelligence and magic attack, as well as armor penetration to do mass amounts of pure damage (which doesn't get reduced by defenses) 
• Lyria (and others) PROVIDE Armor Penetration with their weapon artifact. Lyria is a good choice because she, like Iris, can deal physical or magical damage. 
• This dou can perform well within a physical or magic based team. 
• Iris' weapon artifact gives Magic Attack bonus 
• Choose Fenris for Lyria to give her better physical scores, or choose Biscuit to give her better magic scores. 

Reduce Their Chances 

Use heros to reduce and manipulate their scores. While you choose specific means of damage dealing. Find the most useful meta teams for all game modes by applying these strategies. 

We need to study a few heroes (this is not a team suggestion): 

• These heroes debuff enemy physical attack, armor or armor penetration skills 
• These heroes will offer passive support to any physical team because of this 
• Fafnir actually provides buffs to those skills rather than reducing enemy scores, offering a huge advantage 

• These heroes debuff enemy intelligence, energy resources, or abilities 
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