Alright so i'll share with you my team i've been working on in the dark praying that they don't have this week's arena ban effect it to much. I've finished the last 2 weeks as number 3 and number 2 on the entire server for arena but man i want to beat this Ameer fucker who clearly is an beta player and oil tycon. This week the last 2-3 days i was beating him 40% of the time but not enough to over take him sadly. This week we go for gold!!!
Team Stategy - Outside of Venus there is pretty much no real fast global control spell that sets up time for your slower folks (even with max initial CDR). The closest is Morgana. This opens up a window for some huge burst damage before your team gets controlled and the other team has gotten any important skills off. Second, skill cancelation is critical because it keeps you alive plus burns their mana (having your abilities fire right before them and interrupting, the rain abilities of Yggdrasil, Morgana and Napolean are SO POWERFUL for this and no one realizes it).
So my plan is going to be to maximize global massive damage before any def skills can get used and take out 2-3 of the back line while having multiple methods in place to interrupt people's early skills that are bolstered by initial Cool Down cards. Also critical when going against the top teams with good cards and if minerva LS is in play I need some sustained damage to finish people off as this combo is going to be very mana hungry. So i'll need a mana battery as well. I'm a believer in a good defensive is a strong offense because if people are dead then they can't kill you! So its all about global damage to knock off the soft targets in the back side, you can dump 30 seconds of damage into a top tier Jeana or Minvera 1v5 and still hardly take them down so its all about killing the threats.
Team to do this and explanation below. Have a few variations but i want to try this initially; i'll probably have to back off my Napolean as LS due to causing so low of HP but if it works like I think they will all be dead! No front liners for the most part have any way to reach him in the short opening period so hoping we should be good.
Leader - Napolean; 102% LS damage while reducing HP by 50% when maxxed which it is. All in BOYS!
Team Member 1: Napolean; i have him at 5900 attack with cards plus an initial CD card to help get his skill ready to use asap. Before the 102% attack buff is applied and before defense is taken into consideration that is 16k+ global damage to everyone. I can't say for certain if the LS attack buff is factored in at a base level before cards or after but lets assume after for simple math its ~ 33k per person at max level and back tier defense do not mitigate that to well with low defense. Best bet is if they use the 30% migitationt o archer/priest/wizard which i strongly encourage you to do on your back line since 90% of damage to them comes from that type. I was worried his attack speed would limit his dps outside of this bomb BUT they are buffing it thank god, my auto attacks hit for 10k+ with 25k crits so game on. With his ability taking awhile to finish its perfect for interrupting any of the team finally getting abilities off as well which is key.
Team Member 2: Khremlin - The master race! 4 star and all, outside of Venus she is the most game hero their is and people haven't caught on for the most part. I run her double intital CD cards (have a 50% but only a 46% on her 2nd which is going to fuck me against Ameer i know it). Her ability reduces everyones CD by 5-7 seconds dependong on skill level. This is so huge and with double I.CD cards she fires it about 1 second after Venus so if Venus isn't in play hopefully then she basically casts her abilitly before ANYONE with a global skill from my testing thus i'll have a full team of abilities to use and the burst damage will commence.
3) Van Hellsing (the girl looking dude!) My sleeper, no one runs her or think err he is good. Fucking idiots! Think of it friends, if you get her skill up thats 8-12 seconds of DOUBLE ATTACK SPEED. Hi Mr. Napolean hitting 10k+ a hit, let me double your attack speed most the fight! She also has one of the top 2-3 attack speeds in game so I run her with mana theft to keep my starved team fed, so when SHE doubles attack speed for her self as well its like insta arrows non stop. Alot of mana, i run her 1 attack red, mana theft and a purple Prism Card for attack speed of +50%. So she still hits fairly decent and just hits non stop which is good for push back as well. I'm desperately trying to farm her pieces as my skill is only lvl 7-8 (been trying the last 4 days but like 1 piece in 10 missions usually so sad). I think she will be the game changer that people didn't think about, the overall team damage increase, mana sustain boost she provides is insane. With Khremlin on board we will have the dps boost early from auto's plus with high skill & Khremlin = almost 100% uptime!
4) Tank - Depends on bans and Meta honestly. Their only job is to stay alive through the burst and push back that is going to be coming their way which on a fully geared, optimal team can be really rough. If I can swing Napolean as leader then i'll probably go Jeane since her invuln is pretty insane and i have skill 20 on her so its 11 secs but sadly even with 8500+ defense she dies so fast to the melt squads as solo front liner. If i have to switch LS's i'll probably go Minerva since her skill of 40-60% damage reduction being up most the time with Khrem is pretty awesome but she still gets melted when its down. Arthur just can't compete unless he is leader with the +def/hp but its a waste of a LS spot since Tristan is the only other good one that his LS effects. I have a prism HP card on him to and have got past 260k HP but still melts like nothing.
5) As always this 5th pick will be determined by meta and bans. My goal is to have Yggrsdrasil as my 5th; she is the main thing i've invested actual dollars into this game for and IF you have her high skill plus fully commit to attack she is fucking insane. So she has low base attack but i have her with 40% attack card + Purple Prism attack (60% attack) + a blue skill card of +6. This results in attack of almost 4k before LS hits, now her ability witht he skill book and max does 621% fucking damage my friends. Hardest hitting ability in the game by far even with lower attack base. Oh did i mention it basically full heals my team outside of tanks? Oh and while fast the 10 hits it does count as interruptions so her + napolean = massive burst damage that with Khremlin will both trigger at the same time the way i have cards set up! Oh baby plus with both that is alot of skill interruption.
Good times! Hope bans get venus out some how but not Khremlin as a priest and not Napolean as water! And i honestly think i have a shot of top server honors this week with this team unless Ameer copies me flat out which he did this week finally when i started beating him consistently. That being said i'm sure Venus will be in play and completely fuck the meta again so you can't do fun things like this since you need Morgana as leader to not get butt raped by Venus AND her stupid fucking charm even when mitigated is bugged and will cancel abilities. Die venus, die!
Love to here anyones thoughts on different approaches i could take or what your dream team is going to be if left uncheck!