Forest Faction Top Tier

1. Rosa

• Finally to my favorite hero, Rosa! I absolutely love this hero and what he brings to your team. In my opinion Rosa is the hero that will make the biggest change to your team if you manage to get him. He is solely based on buffs and debuffs so let’s start with his Special Skill “Binding Vines – Deals 66% attack damage against all enemies, reduces the targets’ attack by 10% and increase all allies attack by 16% for 3 rounds.” Decreasing the opponent’s heroes’ attack by 10% each while increasing your own heroes’ attack by 16% is huge. Put on a Speed Stone or a Speed Artifact and count in the 60 Speed you get from Guild Tech and you’ll have Rosa attack first and create a 26% gap in Attack right off the bat and it’ll happen before your own heroes use their Special Skill and also before the opponent’s heroes use their Special Skill. This might not sound like much if it was the only thing, but there’s more. Rosa’s ridiculous Passive Skill “Shield Curse III – Attack reduces all enemies defenses by 20.4% for 3 rounds” and it stacks! So once again, if Rosa is the first hero to attack, your heroes’ basic attack will do somewhere around 20% more damage and their Special Skill the same. I can’t even explain just how good this is. But wait, there’s more!

Rosa’s last passive skill “Guardian Spirit III – Increases allies defenses by 42% for 3 rounds when HP drops below 50%”. Compare this to Lord Balrog’s skill that increases his own armor by 120%. This is 42% to 6 heroes if Rosa drops below 50% HP before anyone dies. It is 252% increased defense combined! That’s twice the amount of Balrog’s skill and it gets activated way earlier as well. Because of the way Armor scaling works it’s most likely going to block out 1/3rd or 2/7th of the damage dealt for 3 rounds.

Recommended Artifact and Stone: Because priests doesn’t gain any Hit from Guild Tech I’d recommend using Attack + Hit Artifact because if Rosa misses and doesn’t gain his energy for his Special it’ll be a pretty huge deal. The Stone I’d recommend is the Speed Stone to ensure that Rosa is the first hero to hit so his buffs and debuffs can take effect.

Important! I’m just writing this to tell you once again – Rosa is a hero you definitely want in your team. Never, ever, ever use him as fodder.

2. Demon Hunter

• Demon Hunter! The third fastest hero with some really good CC. Her Special Skill “Punishing Shot – Deals (85%*Attack) damage against all enemies and has 50% chance to silence them for 2 rounds.” will statistically silence half of the opponents team for 2 rounds every time she uses it which is so strong considering how much damage Special Skills usually does or how important they are. Just imagine silencing Ormus or Rosa for 2 rounds, neglecting them to support the team. Awesome, right? And that’s only part of what she does! Her Passive Skill “Demon Hunter III – Increases 30% Crit and 120% Crit damage” is really strong combined with her two other Passive Skills “Humiliate III – Gains 60% Crit damage for each killed enemy hero” and “Dual Arrow III – Normal attack targets 3 random enemies, dealing 85% damage” because attacking 3 enemies with 30% Crit chance results in 90% chance of getting at least 1 Crit off and having her Crit Damage so high when doing a Crit, she’ll deal a huge amount of damage. And the more enemies that die, the more damage Demon Hunter will do whenever she Crits.

Recommended Artifact and Stone: Because of how strong she is with her Crit and how important it is to get her to silence the opponent's team, I’d recommend using a Speed Artifact called Emerald Butterfly. It gives 42 Speed, 10% HP and if equipped on a Forest hero it’ll activate the special effect giving 9% Crit. If you don’t have this Artifact, any Speed Artifact will do just fine. The stone you should use is definitely the Crit Stone giving 13% Crit Chance and 44% Crit damage. It’ll bring Demon Hunter to 43% Crit Chance, which, statistically, will cause a Crit whenever she basic attacks.