BEST CHAMPS to REPLACE (upgrade) YOUR STARTERS!

@13:00 FRONZEN BANSHEE is upset you didn't mention her here. @13:48 also Rowan has an attack that attacks 4 times placing 5% poison each hit. Single target of course.

Fantastic and well thought out video, Ash! Obviously there are many more poisoners in the game, but my replacement for Kael was supercharged in Venomage - the key debuffs and damage mitigation passive was a huge boon everywhere, including PvP where the 3 turn heal reduction allowed me to finally topple the always prevalent Ultimate Deathknight teams. Athel was my primary nuker, and was strong for me until I finally reworked my Genbo with your help! One overlooked aspect with Genbo that seems to be overlooked as a nuker is his sneaky way of stealing buffs that would otherwise save his target (Block Damage, Unkillable, Revive on Death, Strengthen).

Ash, I would like to point out one caveat to Saurus as a campaign farmer for new accounts/players. He needs to have good gear to hit the desired numbers. I saw your videos as a new player and leveled up a Saurus very early on as my 3rd or 4th champ to 60. It was an immediate regret as I did not have the gear necessary to clear 12-3 Brutal. I have since pulled and used a Felhound but the Saurus attempt was a regret for my account because I chased that farmer too early and he ended up being a 60 that I never used other than faction wars. (now in a stun set)

Hey Ash! First time commenting but I appreciate your videos a lot. I've gotten so much useful information to cut my learning curve down in this game. The encouragement you provide is a personal touch that bring me first to your channel for anything I'm looking to learn about Raid. Would love to see you put out some content on "Budget" versions of teams that can take on higher-level content. I'm a F2Per on day 178 now, so I'm just starting to develop a stable of champions to tackle areas like Iron Twins, Sand Devil, and Phantom Shogun. Strategy guides for those areas, along with some champion recommendations focused on the needs and limited resources of a player just beginning to develop teams for those places, would be a must-see for me. Also wanted to say, I'm shocked you didn't mention Venomage as a poisoner/debuffer alternate for Kael OR Galek, especially since you preach about finding utility in a champion's kit. She was one of the first epics I pulled and she is a Toxic Fortress for me. An AOE double big poison A3, a single target Def and Atk break both big versions on her A2, and instant activation on her A1. And that accuracy Aura! She is the all-star and Leader of my Demon Lord team, and I would not have been able to beat the final Frost Spider for the first time without her.because Artak wasn't going to land his HP burn without that little bit of extra Accuracy. She wrecks DL, Spider, Dragon, Doom Tower, Ice Golem, and especially Fire Knight. She's even strong against Sand Devil with all the debuffs she brings. I even use her in arena against some of those pesky mega-healers because of her AOE heal break.. She's dangerous to face when built well. Where's the LOVE, Ash?!?! And before I go, Keep on doing what you're doing. It's helping.

Another good quality about Soulbond Bowyer is the fact that she only needs 75 percent critical rate, as all of her skills have a extra 25 percent chance to crit. She hits pretty good for a rare.

Good call on telling people to focus support. Honestly an AOE rare with Stun would be an excellent early build. Keeping waves under control is key. Kael can nuke hard enough to get you all the way through the mid game if built right.

Great idea for a video. Glad you mentioned Myciliac Priest Orn, since he is from the Sylan tribe, which is up and coming.

You are so right about Genbo! He changed my live arena team as only my second void nuker. Makes my choices simpler. Genbo, Skullcrown and Arbitor are every bout with Pythion or Duchess as the back-up reviver and Artak in bolster or Zavia based on what the opponent shows.

A tip for those in the early game in the chase for Yannica, who can do at least the first boss or two in doom tower . In the elite section of clan quests there are usually a couple that you might not think you can do but are relatively easy. One is crafting legendary artifacts from materials in the doom tower, as these can be 3 or 4 star pieces to complete the quest. The second is crafting a specific gear slot such as craft 5 legendary gloves with ATK percentage. At 350 coins per quest they'll help you get the fragments quicker and getting the materials is pretty easy.

This is a cool video. My campaign farmer was shaman, Deliana, UDK, & Ronda. Kael. Athel, Elhain, & Galek didn't see much action. UDK usually travels with commons & uncommon to use for food. Frozen Banshee gets the most love. 10 uncommon are getting some love too thanks to market/mystery shards. Have fun.

Thanks for these recommendations. Super early game only 2 60s (Kael & Alsgor) don't wanna waste my resources. My 50s are High Khatun Swk Warmaiden Fanatic and Kunoichi. Doing good in CB and Hydra with Alsgor block damage and don't know what I need...

Ash, talking about razhin, and Myciliac preist orn, Meanwhile FROZEN BANSHEE: AM I A JOKE TO YOU?!?!?! PUT ME IN YOUR CLAN BOSS TEAM NOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!! lmao XD also 18:38, so Elhain, what have we got XD 💀💀

Honestly I'm just happy you brought up tarshon and arndulf these two are champions I have always used and Honestly tarshon is a personal favorite and was my most used champion in my video. It's just like instant vindication and puts a spotlight on 2 champions almost no one talks about. I put so much here sorry to anyone who reads this and feels like it's nothing

This is awesome!!! To show upgrading of teams and champions is genius. Maybe create a branching diagram of champions that follow this concept.

Kinda a new to the game and use Keal for poison in CB, but just pulled Orn and Urogrim should I replace one of them as my Poisoner.

First of all: shoutout to both you and your editor! Great work, as always!! Thank you for all the time and effort both of you put in this for us! Just a question: could you do eventually a guide on Faction Wars? Like how to 3 star those? As I'm (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) quite struggling on some factions to get past 40 stars so far.

I've been looking for a replacement for Kael since I started playing and just pulled Orn a few days ago, but I have Frozen Banshee too and you didn't mention her--is Orn still better?

18:25 I believe Athel is better than Kael as a starter now. There are a number of reasons for this I will list below. 1) She can 3 star brutal as a 50. This allows you to get both hard and brutal sacreds in that opening 24 hour window where everyone is guaranteed 2x sacreds. 2) Kael is considered great for poisons. But there are a lot of poisoners who can do a similar or better job, and you can get access to generally early on (worst case scenario is Yaga at 2 months, and if you don't have Kael he works comparably). Until you get a better one, Outlaw Monk can do poisons. 3) Unlike poison getting a decent weakener is very hard. And this can bring substantially more help to your dungeon teams and Demon Lord than many alternatives. 4) She has self-buffing which is great overall, but especially means she brings more dmg in Arena. 5) The extra turn mechanic on the self-buff means she can also cycle the AOE faster (essentially getting a 2 turn cooldown on the first deployment if you set it up to do the AoE, then the A3. 6) She has the highest base defense.

I loved starting the game with Galek, his Aoe damage in lifesteal just kept him going on the harder early game stuff, i replaced him with Zargala, later down the line got Dhuk but i orefer Zargala, her A2 hits very hard si she is getting extra triple aoe hits all the time. She sped up my dragon 20 because she would just mop up on the waves.

Arndulf carried my account in arena with his weakens and fears. Eventually, he got hard replaced in everything when I got UDK