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I’ve been opening titans instead of saving them just to pull Shathra. Finally paid off and it’s kinda crazy how good she is, I remember when she dropped and people were saying she was another letdown and her damage was mid but she’s an insanely versatile champ

Her damage source being so unique means that she can take pretty much anyone. With champs like Deathless Thanos and Serpent being in every deck, she’s a must have imo. Mystics are particularly great this meta but she‘s awesome outside of that too, shout-out to Liam Mcoc who has a video on Shathra where she pulls some crazy stuff and takes Onslaught, Serpent, Domino, etc super fast and safe

Instant r3 for me, happy to be a part of the Shathra club now. Definitely my favorite summoners choice winner so far

One last thing but her atrophy is genuinely insane, took ROL Wolverine with her despite having zero direct counters to regen and she just turns it into nothing. Pair her with the SW relic and you actually get a nice boost to your special damage and she hits pretty hard on her sp2 in addition to her wasp damage

Pls give me White Tiger next Kabam and I’ll love you forever, another instant r3 for me

Beat Glykhan last night (I was at 8.4 not 9.1 like I thought) and was able to get paragon this am taking Wiccan and Storm from selectors to r4 with the generic gems and used the r5 gem on sinister.

Glykhan didnt feel much different to me without a relic, he was still refreshing all the missions. 8.4 though maybe more than 8.3 is heavily relic based on the paths just had to ignore the nodes in some cases and smash through with Sinister.


Valiant will be a waiting game for a 7* selector type box or chase champs now. Doubt I’ll have a chance on phoenix as haven’t been thinking about getting the plumes etc. Can’t complain on the amount of free champs, selectors etc we’ve had since banquet, this challenge has been way easier than expected. Super daily is a huge win. Would also be easier in a big ally with more glory and other ally rewards

I was a former alliance leader that assigned all 3 battle groups of a 95% ftp skilled alliance and placed P1 multiple seasons meaning if nearly half of us spent at that time we would have most likely reached Masters. From this experience I can say after a couple years I got burnt out although I initially loved the planning aspect of AW. Top tier alliances need three things: Planning, Spending and 30 skilled players otherwise it's simply impossible to compete.

The planning and strategy aspect of assignments take place in P1 and Masters. Everything below are a set of alliances that do not have the competitive approach towards the mode and play the best they can without proper planning (just take a path) and have the most skilled players take on the minis and Boss.

The spending aspect for the most part, provides players with a better roster for both attack and defense while having the possibility to engage every fight nearly with 100% HP and full boosts which overall heavily reduce room for error by finishing fights faster and not allowing defenders to develope their kits. If mistakes are made (which happens), these resources can often mitigate the outcome of matches.

The skill aspect is a must have when playing for top tier ranks in competitive game modes. The problem with this is most players do not play the game at a competitive level and those who do are obviously playing at high tiers which means it's difficult for alliances in P2 and below to have full 30 members of competitive focused players with developed skill sets.

So to sum things up, unless alliances play AW at the top tier, the mode itself creates an unpleasant day to day burden and stress which rewards aren't worth the hassle. In essence, alliance war is also a very niche game mode. Alliances will play the mode but most will not engage with it.

So the question devs need to answer is how to remove the unpleasant burden and stress from AW in order for lower tier alliances to engage? And the hardest thing imo is how to manage this in a competitive alliance game mode without reducing the required skill aspect which is the nature of a competitive mode?

That's why they are aiming on reducing the Planning aspect of AW which ultimately is what makes AW different and engaging for those who do enjoy the mode. I've constantly read players in favor of AW say leave the mode as is for top tier players and I agree, however, if there would basically be two coexisting game modes (Wars and Raid Wars) under the same concept of competitive alliance PVP mode; how will P2 and below players ever want to aim at reaching Masters while playing a completely different game mode in essence? I don't think it's in Kabam's plans to create another PVP alliance game mode anytime soon since they're missing the PVE piece in solo competitive mode...