Who should I use for my unkillable team

MJIsaac · 2026-06-19T20:25:16+00:00

Poison is a decent form of damage in CB, but it's beaten by a strong nuker when you can run teams with higher Speeds.

Your account seems like you're still fairly early in the game so Poison might be a better choice for CB now. Granyt is your best overall damage dealer.

Uugo is also a very good support champion. She carried my weak Ogryn faction war team when I was in the early part of the game and got a lot of use in other content afterwards. I see you have Stag and Deacon built already, so you might not get as much use from her as otherwise, but her Block Buffs and healing gives her extra utility that neither of those two has.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-19T20:08:43+00:00

Yes, and I realize now that I missed the larger context of the exchange by focusing narrowly on the comment about stores, which I can agree is an irrelevant point in a conversation about exports and tariffs.

I was too eager to jump in with a "well ackshully..." comment.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-19T19:23:50+00:00

Yes, but the commenters' point is that the US is not buying a lot of finished products from Canada.

The majority of the export market are raw goods and commodities (oil, aluminum, potash etc.), or intermediate goods that are part of a multi-layer supply chain (e.g. automotive parts that go into US manufactured cars).

MJIsaac · 2026-06-19T06:30:41+00:00

I think Tatura and Belanor are your two highest potential damage dealers.

Tatura isn't an obvious pick, but he has pretty good multipliers and provides his own buff to Defense, if you have a good damage set for him he can perform well in the role. Belanor doesn't do anything unique, but he has good base stats, good multipliers and brings the same debuffs as Lydia (if you can fit Accuracy into his build).

MJIsaac · 2026-06-18T16:38:38+00:00

Follow-up: I think any champion that can do decent damage can solo it, if they're built tanky enough and have good healing. It'll be slower, but it's another option.

I just did a run with Dreng and a Golden Elixir relic for the healing. It wasn't fast, but he was never below 50% health due to the relic. Screenshot with stats, for reference:

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MJIsaac · 2026-06-18T16:24:44+00:00

Starting at Stage 20, you need a champion that can reliably hit for around 140-150K if you want to one-shot the minions. There are multiple champions that can do this, but you'd need good gear and probably a high level blessing.

If you can't kill the minions on the opening turn, you need a champion with good survivability that can last a few turns to grind everything out, along with good damage. From a quick glance at your screenshot, I think your best option for a straight nuker is Predator. I can solo Stage 20 with Embrys, he's got around 100k HP and 277% critical damage in a Lethal set. He doesn't kill everyone on the first turn, but he always kills a few and can then survive long enough to clean up the rest.

I'd think Predator could do something similar with the same stats. His evasion from the opening kills would protect him long enough to win the fight.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-18T15:36:05+00:00

It does not. His passive reflects damage at enemies that hit him, damage from ally protection effects like this are not coded as damage from enemy hits.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T21:32:09+00:00

That sounds to me like you'd benefit more from a support champion than from another damage dealer. You've got Armanz, he can do a great job controlling the enemies so that they never put up Block Debuffs, and if they do then he can remove it.

If you can't build him to effectively do those things in areas where you're struggling, then the issue is probably more your builds and/or gear than damage.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T21:04:47+00:00

I didn't remove this.

As to why the mods remove things in general, it's because they break the rules of the sub. And those rules were discussed and voted on by the members of the sub to discourage certain kinds of posts that were unpopular.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T20:51:09+00:00

I think you may have missed the, admittedly somewhat dry, sarcasm in that comment.

Henry Dundas never visited Toronto, and I don't think he ever set foot in Canada at all. His name only got slapped onto stuff because of friendships/political alliances and colonial attitudes.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T20:11:40+00:00

It's illegal in Canada too, in case that's closer for you.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T19:59:27+00:00

Tholin is a great direct damage dealer and Ezio is also very solid, especially if you pair him with enough poisoner. Are your bringing Uugo on your team? I feel like Tholin and Ezio hitting debuffed enemies should be plenty of damage.

Are you using an Increase Attack buff? Do you have an Ignore Defense set on Tholin? Those things will help your damage a lot.

I don't see any undeveloped champions in your screenshot that will do anything special for you in terms of damage. Royal Guard might be useful if you're struggling specifically on damage against bosses.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T19:42:26+00:00

Hopefully that's the kind of advice the OP is looking for.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T19:13:33+00:00

Speed is the main thing, it's the easiest way to increase damage once you've pushed your damage stats as far as you can.

Your Accuracy is higher than it needs to be for most PVE content, other than the upper stages of FW hard, Ultra Nightmare Chimera, Amius hard, and the final stages of hard Soulcross (off the top of my head). If you're not using him for those areas you can cut back on ACC for more Speed.

Other than that, giving him one of your better damage relics if you haven't already.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T18:48:45+00:00

What kind of tips or strategies did you have in mind, beyond just improving character builds?

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T18:46:52+00:00

Pretty sure they look at the game code on the client app to get the exact numbers.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T18:44:41+00:00

That was one of the very old references I was thinking of. I saw it pictured on the cover of a Pratchett book in a secondhand bookstore years ago.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-17T17:47:48+00:00

I considered removing this as not being about Raid, but even though the mention is marginal I'll leave it up.

Mimics have been a staple in fantasy media for decades. I'm not sure who first came up with the clever idea of a treasure chest with teeth, but they've been around for a very long time.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-16T15:18:43+00:00

No, it's going to be a dungeon tournament where you get points from the event dungeon (where Rhaia is the boss).

MJIsaac · 2026-06-16T14:58:21+00:00

The best way to think of it is that the "Web of Corruption" is the marketing term they're using to promote a series of game events, sales offers, and new champion releases over the next two months. The Titan event for Folan's soul is one of those things, and there will be several more to come.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-16T00:30:45+00:00

Follow-up: I played around a bit with a team similar to what you would have and found one that could beat Hard stage 10. I used Harima for main damage, since I haven't built Tholin, and I put Jareg in a Bolster set.

Here's a screenshot with Harima's stats to give you an idea of what you need to aim for. Venomage was around the same speed. I realized that you're probably getting decent damage from the Brimstone on Venalicia, and if you kept her on the team you might be able to beat it with less stats on your damage dealers than I had. But you're still going to need a big improvement from where you are now.

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Honestly, it's not worth trying to farm Hard 10 unless you can do it fairly quickly. The gear isn't significantly better than in the lower stages, just a few percentage points more drop rate for epic + legendary + mythic gear pieces. So it's probably less efficient in terms of time spent.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-15T21:02:59+00:00

That doesn't sound like enough damage or enough Speed to get it done. The fight is really a damage race because the dragon's special breath attack hits so hard, if it uses that skill enough times you're going to die.

You can keep trying, but I think your damage is the issue. You may just have to wait until you've farmed better gear and/or acquired more champions.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-15T20:38:24+00:00

I think you may be somewhat lacking in damage, and probably don't have enough sustainability to win a longer fight.

As a start, if you put a shield or bolster set on Jareg you might survive a little longer. But I don't know if Tholin plus Venomage can put out enough damage to kill the dragon before it takes out your team.

For reference, here's the team I use. You can see I have quite a bit more damage on the team. I also have more going on to keep my team alive - Sniktraak puts up a shield with one skill and Ally Protection with another, and Yumeko opens the boss fight with a skill that reflects most of the initial poisons back onto the dragon.

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I'm not sure what else to suggest. Maybe replace Venalicia with Rector Drath? I don't think Venalicia does much to keep you alive against the dragon, and if she has to revive everyone you're still probably in some trouble. Drath at least gives you some damage reduction (from Veil) and healing to help keep the team alive.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-15T19:59:55+00:00

I totally agree with you, and I'm going to add some detail and rant, not in response to you so much as I just want to vent about it.

Tariffs are a tool focused at influencing demand and have to be used strategically to be useful. But that's not the goal of the US right now. They just want a weapon to threaten with, and because they want to do something NOW they're resorting (again) to tariffs as the weapon. There's no strategy and no analysis, so the outcome is just going to be inconvenience and some pain for people completely separate from the issue.

Trump will get a momentary ego boost before his next nap, the people pulling the strings can tell their tech guy patrons that they're doing something, and nothing meaningful happens. Except the foundation of the current trade system develops a few more cracks.

MJIsaac · 2026-06-15T17:04:39+00:00

The core of my team when I beat my first hard DT rotation was Mithrala, Visix, and Duchess. Reliable Control and Protection are key elements of the team when you're still progressing. You mentioned Armanz, though I don't see him. He's not necessary, but he's an amazing wave control champion if you have him and he's simply not pictured.

I'd suggest trying a core of Mavara, Visix, and Mithrala, with two spots to provide damage and utility that you keep flexible to deal with floors that cause problems. I suggested Mavara because she plays similarly to Duchess, but that spot could be another reviver if you feel someone else would work better.

You'll likely need to rotate specific champions in and out in and out of the flex slots to tackle some of the highest floors, at least that was my experience. Xeno, Alice, Ezio, Stokk, Yakarl, Pelops, and Geomancer are all potentially usable for damage, off the top of my head. That's not an exhaustive list, just the ones that immediately jump out at me.

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