Fire Faction Top Tier

1. Queen

• Queen, the hero that, out of nowhere, became a Top Tier Hero. Very unexpected but much needed for the Fire Faction since there was none good enough to match the requirements to be a Top Tier Hero. So, what happened that suddenly made Queen make the cut? First of all I think it was her skill “Counterattack III – When attacked, has a 100% chance to perform a counterattack dealing 120% Attack damage” so imagine her with Damage Reduction Artifact and an Attack Stone. She’ll be dealing quite a lot of damage while staying tanky because of the Artifact. Now, second of all. I think we all of a sudden found a use of her because we hadn’t experience the true horror of teams with 9* Asmodel, and a sweet little countermeasure against these teams is Queen because of her skill “Eye for Eye III – Each attack grants self with 20% Crit and reduces the target’s Crit by 20% for 4 rounds” and her Special Skill “Storm Blade – Deals (102%*Attack) damage against all enemies, reduces their Crit by 24% for 3 rounds.” Cutting off 24% Crit chance from all the opponent’s heroes is really huge considering how Asmodel’s stacks are triggered by Crit. (I'll write about Asmodel later.)

I have found Queen to be very useful because of her high Attack stat and her debuffs. I did test her out as a tank in a lineup with Iceblink, but I wasn’t fond of her tanking considering the fact that I had Iceblink *(Can read more about him further up in the Guide) so I started using her in the Safe Spot because I didn’t have a healer or Rosa to help Iceblink tank properly. This made up for a nice combo since Iceblink tanks while Queen is reducing the opponents Crit chance and once Iceblink dies they still need to go through the counterattacking Queen. If you are to have Iceblink + Rosa and or Ormus, I’d not recommend putting Queen in Safe Spot, but anywhere in the back row would suffice.

Recommended Artifact and Stone: I really do like Damage Reduction Artifact on my heroes, but considering Queen with her counterattack, I’ve come to realize I’ll most likely rather use Attack + Hit Artifact on her together with the Attack Stone. Unless you of course do plan on using her as a second tank, then definitely use Damage Reduction Artifact.

Almost Top Tier

1. Karim

• Karim, the hero that, out of nowhere, disappeared as a Top Tier Hero. So, what happened that suddenly made Karim disappear from the top? The main reason I think this happened is because of how squishy he is. He is one of the lowest HP heroes at 9* but also the hero with the highest Attach, which makes him what we call a Glass Cannon – Dealing a bunch of damage but will easily break. And because we’ve never realized that he isn’t as Top Tier as we thought is because we’ve never really had the full 9* teams consisting of Top Tier heroes as we do now, and these Top Tier Teams deal so much damage that Karim won’t stay alive long enough to actually get hit Attack buffed, so he dies within very few rounds. And because of Karim’s skill “Smash III – Gains 30% attack for each killed enemy hero” he is definitely a hero that’ll gain more and more as the fight goes on, so he’s a strong hero for the Safe Spot. But if you happen to have a hero like Aidan, Aidan is definitely the hero that you want there instead. (You can read more about Aidan further up in the Guide.)

So for me, if you want to use Karim, I’d definitely say for him to be useful you need either Ormus or Rosa. Very likely you’ll even need both, because they’ll work in unison to keep Karim alive. (You can read about both of them in this Guide)

Recommended Artifact and Stone: Either use the Attack Artifact, the Damage Reduction Artifact or an Artifact that gives Crit Chance. And I’d recommend using Crit chance Stone since he already has 30% chance from his skill “Demon Power III – Increase Attack by 35% and Crit by 30%” and another 20% from maxed Guild Tech, so 13% Crit chance + 44% Crit damage from the Stone will serve him really well.