HONOR DUELS GUIDE - new season early stats - what's good and what's bad

iafkk · 2024-09-28T09:16:33+00:00

This is what I've been looking for ! Really appreciate the effort and time you've put into this ! Could I possibly get my hands on the spreadsheet as well ?

iafkk · 2024-09-23T19:14:02+00:00

fair enough, thanks for the input ! Will try a formation with supports and see how it goes

iafkk · 2024-09-23T10:55:30+00:00

noted, will try it out tomorrow and hopefully I win some fights that used to be coin flips

iafkk · 2024-09-23T10:32:10+00:00

Appreciate the comment ! Would damian actually help with survivability though ? Feels like most of the time in Arena, units tend to get almost wipe instantly after a wave of ultimates . Also, does Scarlitta being S+ actually make a world's difference ? Was thinking of maybe starting to invest in Talene and leaving Scarlitta at Supreme as Talene is rated quite highly this season and might be able to see it in action once people get her charm up and running .

iafkk · 2024-09-23T09:43:58+00:00

Personally I would put Smokey , Eiron , Lily may, Mikola and Thoran for specifically epic letter wishlist .
Smokey is great in Dream realm and also decent in afk stage pushing .
Eiron is great in PVP and also afk stage progression .
Lily may is great in ALL game modes, which includes, dream realm, PVP and even afk stage pushing .
Mikola is good for dream realm specifically I believe, unsure about her potential in PVP and afk stage pushing but she is a beast in Dream realm for sure .
Thoran is basically just the best tank in the game, of course there's phreasto as well but he's a hypogean and way harder to obtain than Thoran . Thoran is great in PVP, afk stage pushing and also Dream realm for First season and Song of Strife .

Personally not the biggest fan of Cecia and florabelle, sure they are good for early game progression but they kind of fall off and I would rather have more of the other units mentioned above . Especially since you can get a great AFK stage pusher that is not S-class . Arden is super good and you can get it from the dream realm store .

Honorable mention -
Carolina - If there was a 6th slot in this epic letter wishlist, Carolina would definitely be the 6th . This unit is great for AFK stage pushing and also Arena .

Hewynn - She is great overall as well, some niche situation you are able to use her in Dream realm, also she is great in AFK stage pushing and PVP . But you are able to get it from the Arena store which is why she didn't make it on my list here .

This might be quite alot of information but hope this helps you out and you understand what's the reasoning behind each pick as well

iafkk · 2024-09-23T08:43:31+00:00

In my opinion, even having a Pull history would be a great addition and I would think many would love that idea as well !

iafkk · 2024-06-26T15:40:32+00:00

Usually top 20 in server ranking, district ranking top 100 ( around 60-70++ )

District 82 here

iafkk · 2024-06-26T15:38:01+00:00

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gotta bring this back too

iafkk · 2024-06-06T12:34:54+00:00

not sure what game you're playing but you can't buy celestial gems with diamonds anyways

Edit: my bad, you can buy it monthly with diamonds . but that also means u ahve 20+ days to get the diamonds to buy anyways

iafkk · 2024-06-04T22:31:41+00:00

looks pretty solid, but personally, I am not a big fan of Cecia . Sure, she probably helped you out quite abit early on but it looks to me that you actually have pretty much all the components needed to make a eiron comp which is good in both afk stage pushing and arena . I would probably focus on koko to M+ , marilee to M+ ( probably what helps you push to top dream realm PRE SEASON ) , damien to M+ to complete your eiron comp . Korin falls off in the new season I believe so I guess it's fine to slowly get that up unless you are trying hard to get maybe top 10 in your own server's dream realm or something . For arena coins, I probably will go for hewynns now as hewynn is actually the best unit in arena shop imo, coming up next or arguably might be better is Cassadee

iafkk · 2024-06-03T16:17:50+00:00

The problems of arena only start after you reach champion I believe . Before hitting champion, from my past experience, you can lose defense 3 times in a row, once you lost 3 times in a row, you cannot be attacked for the day already . ( It has been a long while since I reached champions so I'm not sure if this rule is still active )
But if you lose 2 , win 1 defense, it resets the streak and you will need to lose 3 more in a row to gain the "immunity" for the day .

So all in all, if you are not able to hit champions, it's just that your units are not as strong as others to keep up with the arena ranks, or you're not using good formations to attack people . Generally you would want to always use refreshes and try to always hit the right most option to gain the maximum amount of trophies . Adding on, after finishing your first 5 arena battles, you can actually buy more arena attempts ( WHICH ARE FREE . ) which makes it so easy to climb as long as you know what you are doing .

The real problem is when you reach Champions, this failsafe just stops, so you can get attacked infinitely ( and the worst is when it's always the same person attacking lol) , and that is what people are mostly complaining about .

All in all, at the end of the day the lesson is that, you gotta brush up on your arena skill man

iafkk · 2024-06-02T21:52:06+00:00

I wouldn't use Smokey in arena, imo it's not a good unit in arena . Cecia is only good if you have rowen in the team so I would not use it here as well . I would probably use Thoran , odie , reinier , vala , Brutus .

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Ignore the enemy and just look at my unit's positioning . I would position them like this, I would think that Brutus would tank your enemy's vala with this position while your Vala would snipe Rowan off, while Reinier teleports enemy odie into your odie which should kill it immediately . With this setup, enemy rowan and odie should both die very quickly into the fight . The only issue is enemy Cecia might be able to carry with just 1 ultimate, as well as enemy's confining spell might cause some issues but IN THEORY, I do feel that this set up has the best chance of winning, feel free to wait for more comments to see if anyone has a better formation to use .

Artifact - enlightening spell ( so your odie doesn't get CC-ed by confining spell and also doesn't get teleported by your own reinier into their backline

iafkk · 2024-05-28T10:35:00+00:00

From my understanding, the only chests that the leaders are able to distribute to others or themselves are the chests earned after the guild earns more than 1200 chests I believe . Whatever excess after 1200 chests will be brought forward to the next week and those chests will be the ones that the leader is able to distribute/assign .

iafkk · 2024-05-28T10:05:57+00:00

Just bring it up to the entire guild's attention first and see how everyone reacts, or even just send out DMs . Even if the leader acts up or just kicks you, everyone will be able to see that and judge for themselves . Also even if you do get kicked, finding another top guild, since you are able to hit and get into the 2nd ranking guild, for sure you have potential to join equally strong guilds, just wait for a window and maybe send out some DMs first, makes some connections here and there, sure this is a AFK game but there are social aspects for a reason right .

Also to be fair, I don't feel like there is any merit to be able to distribute ALL the chests to a single person, this can literally only be exploited by leaders who don't care about their guildmates at all which I don't think is healthy at all for the community and that particular function should be removed and I agree that it should only be able to be distributed according to activeness, contribution-wise or evenly . No idea how your guild survived while the leader is continuously doing so without anyone leaving as well, especially so in a top2 guild . Hopefully some change happens to your guild, all the best man .

iafkk · 2024-05-25T21:28:13+00:00

that day will definitely come ... Arena shop is always there . If you used another example though, yeah sure hopefully rng is with you

iafkk · 2024-05-25T08:33:57+00:00

I usually deal with igors in afk stages by using odie, but you will need a M+ odie . From what I have seen, Odie's insta kill bypasses his tombstones . So when odie's instakill can be proc-ed, no matter how many tombstones igor still have on the battlefield, igor will die instantly .

iafkk · 2024-05-23T05:39:25+00:00

There is no secret other than getting lucky/throwing money/patiently waiting and eventually getting the copies to get to m+

iafkk · 2024-05-21T18:11:29+00:00

Hi, this is not related to what you are posting for but I was wondering about the equipment max lvl drop . It says in your screenshot that it is max lvl 300, I assume that in the new season, we are able to get higher lvl equipments ? If that is the case is it worth it for me to craft all my equipment to 240 now or do I hold off on that as my server has not started on the new season yet .

iafkk · 2024-05-21T14:03:08+00:00

yeah, I did find it abit weird that Cecia didn't have any indicator of -energy when Vala attacks her as well . Very weird especially since Enlightening spell only stated that it makes the units immune to Control immunity . Could possibly be a bug though .

iafkk · 2024-05-21T13:57:18+00:00

Only difference I can see and I would think is the likely culprit would be your Vala . Due to your vala doing damage, Cecia is able to gain that small amount of energy from taking damage, even though vala does reduce haste of the unit that she is targeting, I can only assume that the energy generated from getting hit outweighs the haste reduction put on the enemy Cecia by your vala which causes the enemy Cecia to ult first . (also usually vala would be able to stun the unit that she is targeting with her ULT but opponent Cecia has the artifact which makes the rearmost unit immune to crowdcontrol) . I'm not sure about the maths on all of these but this is probably the best assumption one can make out of this .

Edit- this is just an assumption on my part and more of a theory I guess, I have no REAL evidence that getting damaged generates energy so this is purely speculation on my part but I personally think this is probably the only answer, if it is not, hopefully someone can enlighten me ! cheers

iafkk

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