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0:00Welcome back. This is Asylum Knight,
0:02checking in from Kingdom 274.
0:05A while back I made a video on heroes
0:07and formations, and honestly, looking
0:10back at it now, it barely scratched the
0:12surface. So today, we are doing the
0:14complete version, properly, start to
0:17finish. I am making this video so even
0:20beginners understand the basics. If you
0:22are playing from a while and know the
0:24basic things, use the pinned comment to
0:26navigate to the section that you want to
0:28watch.
0:29We will be covering what roles actually
0:31mean, what factions actually mean,
0:34including that five heroes from the same
0:36faction bonus a lot of you keep asking
0:38about. How skills actually work under
0:42the hood, including the difference
0:44between a passive, an active, and an
0:46ultimate. How troops fit into all of
0:49this alongside your heroes.
0:52And critically, how your formation
0:54should genuinely change depending on
0:56whether you are fighting the rat [music]
0:57swarm, reclaiming territory, leading an
1:00alliance rally, or stepping into PvP.
1:03This is going to be a long one, so get
1:06comfortable because by the end of this
1:08you are going to understand your own
1:09roster better than most people who have
1:11been playing for months. Let's start
1:13with the foundation everything else
1:15builds on. Every hero's total combat
1:17strength comes from four things working
1:19together at the same time. Their level,
1:22their star rating, their skills, and
1:25their gear. We already did a full
1:27episode on gear specifically, so today
1:29is mostly about the other three,
1:31especially skills, since that is
1:33genuinely the piece I think most players
1:35never properly learn. They just tap
1:37upgrade buttons without understanding
1:39what they are actually improving. Let's
1:41talk about roles first, and I mean
1:43actually explain them this time, not
1:45just give you a one-line definition. The
1:47heroes are divided into three roles,
1:49which are tank, carry, and support. A
1:52tank's entire job is standing at the
1:54front of your formation and making sure
1:56nobody behind them takes a hit they
1:58didn't have to.
1:59But, here is what actually separates a
2:01good tank from a genuinely great one in
2:03this game. It is not just raw health and
2:05defense numbers on a stat sheet. The
2:07best tanks have kits that protect the
2:09whole team, not just themselves. Arthur
2:12is the textbook example of this done
2:13right.
2:14His passive, called Tenacious Will,
2:18reduces damage taken by every tank on
2:20your team, not just him personally. His
2:23active skill, Solid as a Rock, throws up
2:26sized off his own maximum health.
2:29And his ultimate, Earth Shattering, hits
2:31everything nearby, while also cutting
2:34incoming damage for your entire squad
2:36for several seconds afterward.
2:38That combination, personal survivability
2:41plus team-wide protection, is exactly
2:43why Arthur is considered the best tank
2:45in the game almost universally across
2:47every guide I looked at.
2:49He is not just hard to kill.
2:51He makes everyone standing behind him
2:53hard to kill, too.
2:55Carries are your damage. That part is
2:57simple. But, here is something worth
2:59understanding properly, because not
3:01every carry kit works the same way, and
3:03treating them all identically is a
3:05mistake. Some carries, like Marlena, are
3:08built around consistent, spamable damage
3:11output. Her passive boosts her own
3:13energy damage directly, and she has a
3:15separate skill that reduces her own cool
3:17downs.
3:18Meaning in practice, she is throwing out
3:20abilities constantly, rather than
3:22sitting there waiting for energy to
3:23refill.
3:24Other carries, like Grenwald, are pure
3:27glass cannon burst units. Massive single
3:29hits, very little defense to speak of.
3:32Meaning his entire value depends
3:34entirely on your tank actually holding
3:36the line in front of him. And then you
3:38have specialists that don't fit either
3:40mold cleanly.
3:42Clare's buff scales off the attack power
3:44of your three highest attack heroes,
3:46meaning she genuinely gets stronger the
3:47further your account develops. She is
3:49not a static damage number.
3:51She is a multiplier that grows with you.
3:54Bestar is a bleed specialist, meaning
3:56her value climbs the longer a fight
3:58drags on, since damage over time needs
4:01time to actually stack up, which makes
4:03her weak in a fast clear and strong in a
4:05grinding boss fight.
4:07Support is the role I think most people
4:09genuinely misunderstand, because in this
4:11game it is rarer and stranger than you'd
4:14expect coming from other mobile strategy
4:16titles.
4:17Healing in the traditional sense barely
4:20exists here.
4:21Right now, Stella is the only dedicated
4:24healer in the entire roster, and even
4:26her heal is conditional. It triggers
4:28specifically when she herself dies,
4:30healing whichever ally on your team
4:32currently has the lowest health at that
4:34exact moment.
4:36That is a clutch once per fight safety
4:38[music] net, not a sustained heal over
4:40time you can rely on throughout a whole
4:42battle.
4:43Most of what gets labeled support in
4:44this game is actually buffing,
4:46debuffing, or utility effects. Things
4:49that make your other heroes hit harder
4:51or survive better,
4:53rather than keeping people topped up on
4:54health directly.
4:56Now, factions. Warrior, Ranger, and
5:00Warlock.
5:01This is the second half of every hero's
5:03identity, and I want to be clear about
5:05something. It stacks on top of their
5:07role. It does not replace it or compete
5:10with it.
5:11So, a hero is never just described as a
5:13tank. They are a warrior tank, or a
5:16ranger tank, or a warlock tank. And that
5:19faction tag matters for two completely
5:21separate reasons we are about to get
5:22into.
5:23One being the stacking bonus, the other
5:26being a counter system.
5:28Warrior is your entry point faction, the
5:30one the game clearly wants new players
5:32building first, and this is not an
5:33accident of game design.
5:35Arthur,
5:36Marlena, Bella, Claire, they are all
5:40warrior, and that is deliberate. This is
5:44intentionally the easiest faction to
5:46build a complete, functional
5:48five-hero squad around using entirely
5:50free-to-play heroes.
5:52If you have been following this channel
5:54from the F2P team episode,
5:56>> [music]
5:56>> that entire lineup we recommended,
5:58Arthur, Lucius, Claire, Kesso, Celia,
6:02every single one of them is warrior.
6:05That was not a coincidence on our part,
6:06either. It is simply how the game is
6:08structured for new players.
6:10Ranger heroes tend to specialize
6:12specifically against monsters rather
6:13than against other players, and this
6:15distinction matters a lot more than it
6:17sounds like it should. Griffith is the
6:19clearest example of this pattern. His
6:21spirit snake aura reduces monster damage
6:24taken by your entire team, which makes
6:26him absolutely incredible in rat swarm
6:28and territory reclamation,
6:30both modes where you are fighting
6:31monsters, but noticeably weaker in PvP,
6:34since his whole kit is built to counter
6:36monster-type enemies specifically, not
6:39enemy players.
6:40Bestar, also ranger, brings that bleed
6:43and damage over time specialty we
6:45already talked about under carries.
6:47Warlock is your magic damage faction,
6:49and it is genuinely home to some of the
6:51most extreme highs and lows in the
6:53entire roster.
6:55Grennwal is a glass cannon, incredible
6:57damage output, minimal survivability, a
7:00hero who lives or dies based entirely on
7:02whether your front line is doing its
7:04job. Stellar, also warlock, is your only
7:08dedicated healer.
7:09And there is a newer hero worth knowing
7:11about if you haven't already run into
7:13him, Brian, a warlock tank who actually
7:15reflects a massive portion of damage
7:18straight back at whoever attacks him
7:19while he is enraged. Plus, his ultimate
7:22grants the whole team a solid chunk of
7:24damage reduction on top of that.
7:26He tanks completely differently from
7:28Arthur, leaning on reflection and
7:30punishment rather than pure mitigation
7:32and shielding, and he currently sits at
7:34that same top tier as Arthur,
7:36just via a totally different mechanical
7:38approach.
7:40All right, let's properly talk about the
7:42faction bonus, because I know a lot of
7:44you have heard the term thrown around,
7:46but maybe never gotten the actual
7:47mechanic explained clearly. So, let's
7:49fix that right now. When you run
7:51multiple heroes from the same faction
7:53together in one squad, you unlock a
7:55stacking attribute bonus that applies
7:57across your whole team. Three heroes
8:00from the same faction
8:01>> [music]
8:01>> gets you a 5% bonus.
8:03Push that up to four heroes from the
8:05same faction and it jumps to 15%.
8:09And if you manage to run a full five
8:11heroes from one single faction, that
8:13bonus hits 20%.
8:15Let that sink in for a second. 20% is a
8:18genuinely massive, completely free
8:21[music] power increase.
8:22And it costs you nothing except paying
8:25attention to who you are actually
8:26building instead of just grabbing
8:28whichever hero looks flashiest on paper.
8:31This is exactly why a lot of stronger,
8:34more developed squads deliberately stay
8:36committed to one or two factions rather
8:38than mixing and matching purely based on
8:40individual hero strength. A slightly
8:43weaker hero that keeps your faction
8:45count intact can genuinely outperform a
8:47slightly stronger hero that breaks it.
8:49Once you actually do the math on that
8:5120% multiplier applying across your
8:53entire team's stats,
8:55there is also a separate faction counter
8:57system layered on top of the stacking
8:59bonus where certain factions are
9:01supposed to hold an advantage in direct
9:02combat against certain other factions,
9:05similar to a rock, paper, scissors
9:07setup. I want to be completely honest
9:09with you here, though, because I dug
9:11through several different guides while
9:12researching this and they flatly
9:14disagree on which faction actually beats
9:17which.
9:18Some sources have warrior beating
9:19ranger, ranger beating warlock, and
9:22warlock beating warrior. Other sources
9:24describe the exact opposite direction of
9:26that same triangle. So, rather than
9:29confidently hand you something that
9:30might be flat out wrong and have you
9:32make [music] bad PvP decisions off it, I
9:34am telling you straight, verify this one
9:36yourself in game or treat it as
9:39something still being tested by the
9:40community rather than settled fact. All
9:43right.
9:44Skills. This is the part I really want
9:46you to pay close attention to because I
9:49genuinely don't think we have ever
9:50properly explained this before on this
9:52channel.
9:53And
9:54understanding it changes how you should
9:56actually be spending your upgrade
9:58materials going forward.
10:00Every hero has three layers of skill and
10:03they work completely differently from
10:04one another. So, let's go through each
10:06one individually. The passive is always
10:09on. It does not need energy. It does not
10:12need you to trigger anything. It is
10:14simply a permanent effect running
10:15quietly in the background the entire
10:17time that hero is sitting in your active
10:19squad.
10:20Arthur's team-wide tank damage reduction
10:22is a passive. Marlena's boost to her own
10:25energy damage is a passive.
10:27These are the skills making your entire
10:29squad stronger every single second of
10:31every fight completely independent of
10:33whether you are actively watching the
10:34screen or not.
10:36The active skill works differently. And
10:38this is where the energy bar comes in.
10:41It charges up as your hero deals damage
10:43or takes damage during combat.
10:45>> [music]
10:45>> And once that bar is completely full,
10:47their character portrait actually glows
10:49on your screen to signal it is ready.
10:51At that point, you have a choice. You
10:53can either manually trigger the skill
10:55yourself for precise timing, saving it
10:57for exactly the right moment in a tough
10:59fight.
11:00Or you can let auto activation handle it
11:03automatically if you are not actively
11:05watching that particular battle play
11:07out. Arthur's shield is an active skill,
11:10meaning it fires when you actually need
11:12it most in a dangerous moment, not on
11:14some fixed timer regardless of what's
11:16happening in the fight. The ultimate
11:18sits above both of those in terms of
11:20impact, typically the biggest, most
11:22dramatic effect a hero has available.
11:25Things like Arthur's earth shattering
11:27hitting everything nearby.
11:29Or Marlena's sword wind barrage striking
11:31multiple enemies at once with heavy
11:33energy damage.
11:34Here is the part that actually matters
11:36for how you should be spending your
11:37limited resources. And this is genuinely
11:40the most practical piece of advice in
11:42this entire video. When you are
11:44upgrading a hero's skills, do not spread
11:46your materials evenly across their
11:48passive, [music] active, and ultimate
11:50like most new players instinctively do.
11:52Prioritize whichever skill actually
11:55defines that hero's core role first,
11:57every single time.
11:59For a pure damage carry like Marlena,
12:01that means her passive, specifically the
12:03one boosting her own energy damage, gets
12:06upgraded before anything else she has.
12:08Because that passive is quietly
12:10multiplying everything else she does for
12:12the rest of every fight she's in.
12:14For a tank like Arthur, his team-wide
12:16damage reduction passive comes first,
12:19ahead of his shield, ahead of his
12:20ultimate, because that is the skill
12:22protecting your entire squad
12:24simultaneously.
12:25Not just keeping him personally alive.
12:28Once that one defining skill is properly
12:30invested and pulling its weight, then
12:32and only then do you start branching out
12:34into their other abilities.
12:36And just like hero levels and gear, do
12:38not spread these skill upgrades evenly
12:40across your whole roster, either.
12:42Concentrate hard on your core five first
12:44before you even think about a sixth or
12:46seventh hero.
12:47One more genuinely important detail
12:49worth knowing, star rating and skill
12:52level are actually two connected but
12:54separate systems.
12:55Leveling a hero using metals increases
12:58the raw underlying power behind their
12:59existing skills. Bigger shields, more
13:02damage, that sort of scaling.
13:04But increasing a hero's star rating is
13:06what actually unlocks entirely
13:08additional skill effects, meaning star
13:11rank is not just a bigger number sitting
13:12next to their name.
13:14It can genuinely add new functionality
13:16to a skill that simply did not exist at
13:18a lower star level.
13:20So, if a hero feels like they're missing
13:22something a guide describes, check their
13:24star level before assuming the guide is
13:26wrong.
13:27Now, I want to take a detour here that
13:30we haven't properly covered before
13:32because heroes are only half the combat
13:34picture. Troops are the other half.
13:37And a lot of players completely ignore
13:39this side while obsessing over hero
13:40skills.
13:42The simplest way to think about the
13:43relationship, heroes lead the squad,
13:46troops carry the fight. Your heroes
13:48provide the skills, the formation value,
13:51and basically all the strategic
13:53decision-making you see play out on
13:55screen. Troops provide the raw numbers
13:57and combat weight [music] standing
13:58behind each squad, actually doing the
14:01fighting.
14:02If your troop base is weak, [music]
14:03undersized, or the wrong tier, your
14:06squad can underperform badly even when
14:08your heroes individually look strong on
14:10paper
14:11because there's simply isn't enough raw
14:13army behind them to back up what your
14:15heroes are doing.
14:16Troops run on a tier system, commonly
14:19discussed from tier one up through tier
14:2110.
14:22Higher tier troops are meaningfully
14:24stronger per unit, but they also demand
14:26stronger buildings, deeper research
14:28investment, [music] and more resources
14:30to train efficiently.
14:32Here's a mistake worth avoiding,
14:33training a massive quantity of low tier
14:36troops instead of pushing to unlock the
14:38next tier up. A smaller army built from
14:40a higher troop tier will generally
14:42outperform a larger army stuck on a
14:44lower tier across city defense,
14:46territory fights, rat swarm waves,
14:49basically every combat scenario that
14:51matters.
14:52Every extra day spent mass training a
14:54tier you could be upgrading past is
14:56combat power you don't get back.
14:59Practically, that means keeping your
15:00training queue active constantly rather
15:03than letting it sit idle, upgrading one
15:05main training grounds building as your
15:06priority rather than spreading upgrades
15:09evenly,
15:10using promotion to convert existing
15:12lower tier troops upward when it saves
15:13you time compared to training fresh
15:15troops from scratch,
15:17and saving your speed up items
15:18specifically for event windows where
15:20that training translates into event
15:22points, as well as raw troop power.
15:25And don't forget the resource side of
15:26this, either. Keep your grain output
15:29comfortably ahead of your camp
15:30consumption rate, because if grain hits
15:32zero,
15:34your troop training and base expansion
15:36both stall out completely, regardless of
15:38how much you actually want to be
15:39training right now.
15:41So, let's get into where all of this
15:43actually gets applied in practice,
15:45because a formation that works perfectly
15:47in one mode can fall apart completely in
15:49a different one.
15:51And this is where a lot of players
15:52genuinely go wrong. They build one squad
15:55and just assume it works everywhere. Rat
15:57Swarm Defense is your core tower defense
15:59mode, and the entire design philosophy
16:01behind it is sustained survivability
16:03over raw burst damage.
16:05You are dealing with wave after wave of
16:07enemies, eventually culminating in the
16:10Rat King himself.
16:11A boss with a genuinely massive health
16:14pool, specifically designed to punish
16:16glass cannon squads that can't survive
16:17long enough to actually bring him down.
16:20This is exactly why the most commonly
16:21recommended Rat Swarm composition runs
16:23two tanks and one support, rather than
16:26one tank and a pile of pure damage.
16:29Arthur up front as your primary anchor,
16:31Griffith as your second tank,
16:33specifically because his monster damage
16:35aura is at its absolute strongest in
16:36this exact mode.
16:38Stellar in your support slot for that
16:40clutch emergency heal when things go
16:41wrong, and then Marlena plus a flexible
16:43damage slot rounding out the rest of
16:45your offense.
16:46Two tanks and a support means your team
16:48survives long enough for your damage
16:50dealers and your defensive towers to
16:52actually finish the job together,
16:54rather than getting wiped out partway
16:56through [music] a wave before the fight
16:57is even decided.
16:59A genuinely practical tip here, do not
17:01attempt the Rat King fight itself until
17:03your pre-boss waves are already clearing
17:05comfortably.
17:06If you're visibly struggling before the
17:08boss even shows up on screen, pushing
17:11into that fight anyway just wastes your
17:13materials on a loss you could have
17:14predicted in advance.
17:16And before every major wave hits, get in
17:19the habit of repairing your structures,
17:21upgrading your key defensive towers, and
17:23restocking medicine ahead of time.
17:26Strong preparation is what turns a
17:28genuinely difficult wave into a
17:29manageable one.
17:31Territory reclamation works completely
17:33differently from rat swarm, and this
17:35trips up a lot of players specifically
17:37because they just bring their exact rat
17:39swarm squad over and wonder why it
17:41suddenly underperforms.
17:43These fights run longer. There are
17:45[music] no towers backing you up here.
17:47Your five heroes have to handle
17:48absolutely everything themselves from
17:50start to finish.
17:52And enemy variety tends to be higher
17:54than what you typically see during a
17:55swarm wave.
17:57The formation logic shifts toward
17:59genuine balance as a result. One durable
18:01front-line unit to absorb hits,
18:03>> [music]
18:03>> one consistent range damage dealer
18:05rather than a pure burst unit, and one
18:08control or support hero [music] rounding
18:10things out for overall survivability.
18:12This is also exactly where Bestars bleed
18:14specialty genuinely shines, since her
18:17damage-over-time effect actually gets
18:18enough time to stack up meaningfully
18:20across a longer engagement, something
18:22that barely gets the chance to ramp up
18:24during a quick rat swarm wave.
18:27PVP is its own animal entirely, and it's
18:30worth understanding properly even if
18:32you're not deep into it yet, since the
18:34alliance versus alliance content in this
18:36game is still actively expanding. In PVP
18:40specifically, burst damage matters far
18:42more than sustained damage, simply
18:44because fights are short, and whichever
18:46team kills a key enemy hero first
18:49typically wins the entire engagement
18:51outright.
18:52Control abilities, stuns, silences,
18:55debuffs that lock enemy heroes out of
18:57using their own skills entirely, become
19:00genuinely critical here,
19:02since they create windows for your own
19:04damage to land completely uncontested,
19:06and tank utility actually shifts meaning
19:09in this context, too. It becomes less
19:12about pure survival and more about
19:14active disruption.
19:16Protecting your carries long enough for
19:17them to land the kill, rather than just
19:19soaking damage indefinitely with no real
19:21plan.
19:22This is also exactly why Griffith, so
19:25dominant against monsters, loses a
19:27noticeable chunk of his relative value
19:29in PvP specifically. His entire aura was
19:32built to counter monster type enemies,
19:35not other players heroes.
19:37Now, rallies and alliance play more
19:39broadly because a lot of you have asked
19:42about this specifically and we genuinely
19:44haven't covered it properly yet.
19:46A rally in this game is essentially your
19:48entire alliance combining forces under
19:51one single player squad to hit a big
19:53target together. Whether that's a tough
19:55monster, a boss encounter, or an enemy
19:58structure out on the map. Here is
20:00something genuinely important that a lot
20:02of newer players get completely
20:03backwards. You do not need to be the one
20:06leading every single rally yourself.
20:08In fact, most of the actual guidance
20:10around this points the other direction
20:12entirely. Support strong, already
20:15established rally leaders within your
20:17alliance, rather than trying to initiate
20:19every rally on your own from scratch.
20:22Troop numbers alone do not guarantee a
20:24win here.
20:25A rally led by someone running a weak,
20:27mismatched hero lineup [music] can
20:29genuinely underperform badly even backed
20:31by huge troop numbers
20:33because the leader's actual hero squad
20:35and skill setup is what the entire
20:37rally's combat performance is built
20:39around. Everyone else is essentially
20:41reinforcing that one squad's fight.
20:44If you are the one leading or getting
20:46asked to lead by your alliance, your
20:48hero choices matter just as much here as
20:50they do in solo content, arguably more.
20:53Since you now have your whole alliance's
20:55committed troops riding on how well your
20:58squad specifically performs.
21:00A durable front line capable of
21:02surviving an extended fight paired with
21:05your strongest sustain damage dealer
21:07tends to noticeably outperform a fragile
21:09glass cannon lineup in a rally setting.
21:12Purely because rally targets tend to be
21:14tougher and rally fights tend to run
21:16longer than your average solo encounter.
21:19Your troop composition matters here,
21:21too. Entirely separate from your hero
21:23choices.
21:24As we covered, troops contribute
21:26directly to your overall might, your
21:28rally capacity specifically, and your
21:30raw combat performance in the fight
21:32itself. And just like with heroes,
21:35balanced troop formations tend to
21:36outperform simply training the biggest
21:38possible number regardless of tier or
21:40composition.
21:41Faction synergy actually extends to your
21:44troops as well as your heroes. The
21:46deeper you get into this game,
21:48which is one more reason staying
21:49reasonably committed to [music] one or
21:50two factions pays off over time, rather
21:53than diversifying purely for its own
21:55sake. All right, let's actually go
21:58through the roster properly now, hero by
22:00hero. So, you walk away from this
22:02knowing exactly what you're working
22:04with. Not just vague impressions.
22:07Arthur, warrior tank, you are rarity.
22:10The best tank in the game, full stop.
22:13And it isn't particularly close.
22:15Team-wide damage reduction passive, a
22:18personal shield on his active skill, and
22:21an AoE ultimate that also protects his
22:23allies on top of dealing damage.
22:25Build him first, no exceptions
22:27whatsoever. Every other hero in your
22:29squad performs noticeably better once
22:31he's properly invested in.
22:33Marlena, warrior carry, you are rarity.
22:38Your primary damage dealer, energy-based
22:40attacks, a passive that boosts her own
22:42damage output further, and cooldown
22:44reduction that lets her fire off
22:45abilities constantly rather than sitting
22:47around waiting.
22:48Position her safely behind your tank and
22:50let her do the work she's built for.
22:53Bella, warrior tank, SSR rarity. The
22:56best Arthur alternative for anyone who
22:58hasn't pulled him yet. Heavy physical
23:00damage from her axe, plus skills that
23:02reduce monster damage taken and lower
23:04enemy attack power.
23:06Once you do eventually get Arthur, she
23:08doesn't get benched entirely. She simply
23:11shifts into a very capable off-tank role
23:13instead.
23:14Grenwald, warlock carry, SSR rarity, a
23:18true glass cannon, devastating magic
23:20damage, very little defense to speak of.
23:24His passive boosts your entire team's
23:25damage against monsters, not just his
23:28own personal output, which is a nice bit
23:30of hidden team-wide value people often
23:32overlook.
23:33He absolutely needs a real tank standing
23:35in front of him to function properly,
23:37but once protected, his output genuinely
23:40rivals some UR tier heroes.
23:43Stella, warlock support, SSR rarity, the
23:47only dedicated healer in the game
23:48currently.
23:49Her passive triggers specifically on her
23:51own death, healing whichever ally on
23:54your team has the lowest health at that
23:55exact moment, a genuine clutch survival
23:58mechanic for tough boss fights.
24:00Her ultimate also buffs your team's
24:02overall damage against monsters, a
24:04priority support investment, especially
24:07for rat swarm content specifically.
24:09Griffith, ranger tank, currently sits as
24:12a somewhat underrated pick relative to
24:14how strong he actually is.
24:16His spirit snake aura reduces monster
24:18damage taken across your entire team,
24:20making him an excellent second tank
24:22behind Arthur, especially in rat swarm
24:24and territory reclamation.
24:26His value drops noticeably in PvP since
24:28his whole kit is built to counter
24:30monsters specifically, not enemy
24:32players.
24:33Claire,
24:34warrior carry with a support lean, SSR
24:37rarity,
24:38a single target specialist whose buff
24:40scales directly with the attack power of
24:42your three highest attack heroes,
24:44meaning she genuinely gets better the
24:46more your entire account develops over
24:48time.
24:49Her large sword AoE skill also functions
24:51as a solid wave clearer [music] when
24:53needed. Best suited for boss focused
24:55content where sustained single target
24:57damage matters more than pure area
24:59coverage.
25:00B star, ranger carry, SSR rarity. Your
25:03dedicated bleed and damage over time
25:05specialist.
25:07Her ultimate summons ghostly cats that
25:09strike multiple enemies and apply bleed,
25:11and her passive increases her own damage
25:14further against anything already
25:15bleeding. Shines hardest in longer
25:18fights like territory reclamation
25:20specifically, where that damage over
25:22time actually gets the time it needs to
25:24stack up meaningfully. Brian, warlock
25:27tank, UR rarity, and genuinely new to
25:31the roster if you haven't run into him
25:32yet.
25:33While enraged, he reflects a massive
25:35portion of incoming damage straight back
25:38at whoever hit him, and his ultimate
25:39grants your entire team a solid chunk of
25:42damage reduction on top of that.
25:44He tanks completely differently from
25:46Arthur, leaning on reflection and
25:48punishment rather than pure mitigation
25:50and shielding, and he currently sits at
25:52that same top tier as a result.
25:55Kesso, Siver, Lucius, and Celia. All
25:59warrior, all SSR rarity, and all heroes
26:02a lot of you already have sitting in
26:04your roster from our free-to-play team
26:06episode. I want to be straight with you
26:08here rather than oversell them. Tier
26:10lists consistently rank these as solid
26:13single-target or multi-target tools that
26:15get you comfortably through the early
26:16game,
26:17but they do lack the scaling [music] and
26:19deeper synergy of the higher tier heroes
26:21we just covered in detail. That doesn't
26:23mean bench them immediately the moment
26:25you finish this video. It means treat
26:27them as the genuine bridge they were
26:29always meant to be, not as your final
26:32long-term destination. Billy, warlock
26:35tank,
26:36Cynthia and Red Lady, both ranger
26:39carries.
26:40Bell, ranger support, Jester, warlock
26:45carry, and Zoya, warrior carry.
26:49These round out the wider roster, and
26:51they all fill the exact same role and
26:53faction grid we've been discussing this
26:54entire video. Useful in the right
26:56specific context, but more situational
26:59compared to the heroes we've covered in
27:01real depth. Worth keeping in mind as
27:03flex options for your sixth or seventh
27:04roster slot rather than as core five
27:06material.
27:08For most general content, the most
27:10commonly recommended core five looks
27:11like this.
27:13Arthur as your tank, Marlena for damage,
27:16Stella for support, Griffith as your
27:18second tank, and a flexible fifth slot
27:20filled by Claire, Bestar, or Grenwald,
27:24depending on exactly what content you're
27:26facing that day. Your core three,
27:28Arthur, [music] Marlena, and your
27:30support hero, should stay consistent
27:32across almost everything you do in this
27:33game.
27:34It's specifically your fourth and fifth
27:36slots that flex based on the mode in
27:38front of you, leaning more defensive for
27:40rat swarm content, leaning more towards
27:43sustained damage for territory
27:44reclamation,
27:46and leaning toward burst and control
27:47once you're genuinely deep into PvP.
27:50If you're still building toward ideal
27:52squad and working with what you've got
27:54right now, your free-to-play foundation
27:56of Arthur, Lucius, Claire, Kesso, or
28:00Siver
28:01and Celia still holds up completely
28:03fine. And remember that entire lineup is
28:06warrior faction, meaning you're already
28:08banking that full faction bonus without
28:10even trying to.
28:12And a genuinely practical piece of
28:13advice to close this section out, don't
28:16try to build seven or eight heroes at
28:17once. Spreading your attention that thin
28:19helps nobody.
28:21Focus on five to seven heroes maximum,
28:23with your core five receiving the
28:25overwhelming bulk of your investment
28:27across level, skills, and gear.
28:30And two additional flex heroes, giving
28:32you just enough room to adjust for
28:34different modes without spreading your
28:36materials so thin that nothing ever
28:38actually finishes.
28:40Let's do a fast recap before we wrap up,
28:42because this was a lot of information.
28:45Tanks protect the whole team, not just
28:47themselves. The best ones have team-wide
28:49effects built into their kit. Carries
28:52come in different flavors: consistent,
28:55burst, and scaling, and they are not
28:57interchangeable. Support in this game
29:00means buffs and utility, far more often
29:03than it means healing.
29:04Factions stack on top of roles, and
29:06running three, four, or five heroes from
29:09one faction nets you 5, 15, or 20%
29:13attribute bonuses, respectively,
29:15completely free.
29:17Skills come in three layers: passive,
29:19active, and ultimate. And you should
29:21always upgrade whichever skill defines a
29:23hero's core role first.
29:25Troops matter just as much as heroes.
29:27Heroes lead, troops carry the actual
29:30fight.
29:31Rat Swarm wants survivability. Territory
29:33Reclamation wants balance. PvP wants
29:36burst and control. And rallies want you
29:38supporting strong leaders rather than
29:40always leading yourself.
29:42That is the complete picture.
29:44Roles, factions, the faction bonus fully
29:47explained, how skills actually function
29:50under the hood, how troops fit into your
29:52overall power,
29:54and how your [music] formation should
29:55genuinely shift depending on whether
29:57you're holding the line against the Rat
29:59Swarm, grinding out a Territory
30:00Reclamation, leading or supporting a
30:02rally for your alliance,
30:04or stepping into PvP.
30:06If you made it all the way through this
30:08one, drop a comment and let me know
30:10which mode you're building toward first,
30:11because I'm genuinely curious how many
30:13of you are rally leaders versus rally
30:15support [music] right now. See you in
30:17the next one.

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