Dryp’s Detailed Top Tier Hero Guide – 23/05/2017

Important: This is my guide and yes, I haven’t forgotten anything. So no, just because you like your 9* Mirage it doesn’t mean he's good.

I’m making this guide based on own experience and from looking through the stats of the different 9* heroes and their skills.

I'm solely describing the heroes mentioned as 9* heroes, since anything below isn't important. You should always have your final team in mind. (The order of the listed heroes doesn't matter by the way. The order isn't representing if the hero I talk about first that it's stronger than the hero I talk about last in each faction. Only the Top Tier and Almost Top Tier represents that)

The Artifacts I'm recommending are Red Artifacts but it will of course be best if you manage to get it as a Red Excusive Artifact for the Faction bonus.

The Stones I'm recommending are the Orange 2* Stone, which is currently the highest you can get them. I wouldn't swap for the correct stone until you hit Orange 2* because it's a waste of resources. If you swap, you'll have to swap it anyways once you level up the stone. A big no no.

 

Death Faction Top Tier

1. Aidan

• I’m not sure where to start with this first hero, because there’s quite a lot to say. Let’s first focus on his Passive skill “Vulnerable III – Gains 28 Armor Break and 20% Attack for each killed ally.” This skill screams “Put me into the front row 2nd spot!” (Which we’ll call the Safe Spot from now on) Because Aidan gains more armor break and more damage for every ally that dies, it’s logical to have him in the spot where he’s most likely to die the last to get most out of this Passive skill. Now combine this with his last skill “Last Wish III – Hero’s death deals (65%\Attack) damage against all enemies.”* This is a strong combination you can take use of when you’re setting up your defense team. Having Aidan in the spot said before, enabling him to die last, boosting his attack as much as possible and then dealing so much more damage when he’s killed? This is a strategy that can be used to have teams attacking you lose a battle, since if your last hero dies and the opponents heroes dies as well, it ends in a draw. And a draw results in the attacker losing and the defender winning.

Often seen strategies in Trials of the Champion can be a 9* Aidan together with 5 other heroes at level 1 either creating the Rainbow Aura, Death Faction Aura or Ruin Aura with 2/2/2 heroes of each Death, Fire and Dark, boosting Aidan just that much more as his team is easily killed. It’s often hard to determine what’s needed to kill a team like this, so either the opponent fails miserably by only putting in one 9* hero or he tries too hard by putting in maybe 5 9* heroes. Which even then might not secure them a win. The Ruin Aura with 2/2/2 will suit very well especially if you’ve managed to get your hand on Sleepless. When Sleepless dies he’ll boost Aidan. If he dies twice, because of his resurrection, he’ll boost Aidan twice, so Sleepless just needs to be level 80 for the resurrection skill. Aidan + Sleepless is a very strong hero combo

If you are to have Aidan, I’d put my focus on getting him leveled, since he’s one of the heroes that does the most if you were to pick any 9* hero into a team where that hero will be the only 9* hero. And another idea is to focus on trying to get rainbow aura since you can put your focus onto 1 hero from the 4 ‘main’ factions and then have a bad Light and Dark hero that doesn’t even need to be leveled. This is a great idea because the Light and Dark hero will be low-leveled which means they die fast which means your Aidan gets 56% armor break + 40% attack within either the first or the second round and then you can let the killing begin.

Recommended Artifact and Stone: In my opinion the best Artifact would be Damage reduction + HP Artifact, since it allows Aidan to stay alive just a tad longer as the last hero enabling him to get off as much damage as possible. This is my opinion on most heroes. Damage reduction + HP Artifact is usually what I find giving the best result. The best stone would be Attack or HP. HP because of him being able to survive even longer and Attack if you feel like you want the extra boost in bursting down the opponent. Some might say Armor Break is the best, but since Armor Break caps at 100% and Aidan starts off with 32% + he gains 28 whenever an ally dies, he’ll quickly hit 100% Armor Break. So the 44% Armor Break from the stone would be wasted.