Arena and Rushing Guide

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Hey guys, welcome to my Arena Rushing guide!

This is going to hopefully be a pretty in depth guide and mainly tailored for people that want to break into Conqueror arena or generally improve their arena rankings. While a lot of the information and teams here will be the same at Guardian ranks, the difficulty does increase significantly.

So we’ll be going over all kinds of meta offenses, defenses, targeting slash rush hour break down, and a few tips/tricks.

Now let’s jump straight into the meta offenses. It's important to note that there are two types of offenses, with various subtypes, that is cleaving and bruiser arena offenses (or AO for short).

Within the branch of cleaves, we generally have the following:

• Lushen cleaves

• Speed cleaves

• Dots cleaves

• Bomber cleaves

• Slow cleaves

Lets break down each cleave, starting with Lushen cleaving. There are three versions of this cleave, fat lushen, double lushen and quad lushen.

• Fat Lushen teams consist of either a 33% lead or Attack lead followed by a primary booster and either Teon/Konamiya or a secondary booster if your lushen is faster enough. This team is stronger the better your lushen is, but I would recommend avoiding this team at lower ranks as it is difficult to make a lushen hit hard enough to cleave most AOs nowadays. If you can make a lushen able to hit at least 13K+ then this is an option, but you’ll want to make sure you can speed tune your teon/konamiya to your primary booster.

• Double lushen teams are one of the best ways to cleave most stall defenses, even those that have several fire units as the raw damage output is very high. This usually incorporates either double boosters with a damage lead like Bernard or a speed lead with a single booster. In either case, you’d have to run high speed swift Lushens to avoid getting cut by double nemesis healers. The idea of this team is that you’d be running two 8K+ Lushens (or the faster one even weaker to decrease nemesis cutting) dealing at least 48K damage in total to each enemy.

• Quad lushen teams are composed of a Jamire lead, Bastet and double lushen. This team is a very very strong stall team killer but can be easily outsped. You will need to speed tune your lushens to a single booster and preferably be on will. Jamire will have to go immediately after your Lushens and it helps to have him on high resistance and will to avoid being stripped/stunned by junos.

Now that the all powerful Lushen cleaves are out of the way, let’s get into speed cleaves. All these teams consist of a similar premise, but the team can vary greatly depending on your box. The goal is to not only to out speed the enemy team, but also to cleave. So you will need things like a strip, speed lead, buffs, defense break and your damage dealer. There are hundreds of different combinations, but here are just a few. Please note that generally all these run into a similar issue of potentially being outsped or stalled out without enough damage.

• Chiwu (L), Savannah, Charlotte, Bernard

• Chiwu (L), Galleon, Charlotte, Pungbaek

• Gemini (L), Dark Homunculus, Galleon, Leah

• Psamathe (L), Bernard, Bastet, Alicia

• Akhamamir(L), Clara, Luer, Lagmaron

• Shimate(L), Iselia, Bastet, Beth

With that being said, we’re moving onto Dot cleave teams. These are pretty effective and can be very easy to build for early to mid game players. There are effectively a few variants, depending if you want to take the first turn, then strip into dots or run a slow second turn team so you don’t need a stripper if they don’t bring immunity. You will want to bring either a reset unit, tatu or a hard CC if they have a cleanser.

• Akia (L), Tiana, Sath, +1 Dotter

• Verad (L), Clara, Sath, +1 Dotter

• Tyron (L), Sath, +2 Dotters

Bomber teams are very similar to dot teams, but it would be ideal to take the first turn. Carrack, but ideally Seara would be needed to blow up dots to avoid them being cleansed or killing units like Triana and Juno. With units like Molly being used a lot more in arena defense, this is actually one of my favorite offenses.

• Chiwu (L), Ganymede, Fran, +1 AOE Bomber

• Seara (L), Clara, Bastet, +1 AOE Bomber

• Fran (L), Triton, +2 AOE Bombers

Last of the cleave teams would be the slow cleave or 2nd turn cleave team. These teams are built intentionally slow to burn units and often filled to the brim with double shield/will. The most common 2nd turn cleave team would be the Tiana/Galleon cleave, which is pretty reliable up until high conqueror ranks as teams with strippers counter this team. Tiana does not have to be used, but is the most reliable in terms of not only stripping but speed tuning.

• Alicia (L), Zaiross, Galleon, Tiana

• Akia (L), Julie, Galleon, Clara

Moving onto bruiser teams, there are a few common teams but mainly these consist of just very HP or Defense tanky units that are able to tank and spank ADs, or out sustain them. While these teams are very effective at low conqueror arena and early rush hour, they are not recommended to finish up rush hour with as they usually take a lot of time to clear. A couple of the common bruiser teams are

• Leo (L), triple Skogul or double Skogul with an Amelia. Very effective against teams with squishy units, little sustain or only one form of control. It can easily be busted through by Pernas or high control teams. Also very good against teams with beast riders.

• Xing She (L), Molly, Vigor +1. Strong into almost any kind of arena defense, as long as there isn’t too much attack bar control and heal break. Only real downside is just the ungodly amount of time it takes to clear defenses.

Now onto meta arena defenses, there are hundreds of thousands of possible combinations so on screen I’ll show a few common ones I’ve seen while we talk about the different types of defenses.

• Stall, typically designed to be anti-lushen by having a lot of damage reduction, revives, or other tricky passives designed to survive a lushen S3. One down side is typically these are able to be easily double lushen’d, but a double nem/will healer like Ariel or Praha can prevent this if fast enough. Even if the point is just to stall, you will want a fire threat to deal with killing the Lushen so he doesn’t get another S3 off eventually.

  • Xing She (L), Molly, Vigor +1 Fire Threat

  • Halphas (L), Triana, Jeanne, +1 Fire Threat

  • Vanessa (L), Harmonia, Triana, +1 Fire Threat

• Speed, Strip and Control (or SSC for short), these teams are designed to take first turn with either 33 or 24 speed lead, a stripper like triton or clara and then some form of control, typically Jeanne. You will need to have both a fast stripper and control unit, in order to disrupt the enemy speed tuning and win.

  • Vanessa (L), Clara, Savannah, +1 Damage or Control

  • Psamathe (L), Triton, Jeanne, +1 Fire Threat

  • Halphas (L), Triton, Bellanus, +1 Support

  • Seara (L), Iselia, Rica, +1 Support or Control

So now we can move onto targeting, which is basically just knowing what you can or cannot hit. A majority of this you’ll learn as you do arena throughout the week, but here are the basics:

• If you’re only pushing for C1, then focus on having ONE good AO and learn the ins and out of what you can or cannot hit. At C2, try for at least 3 different AOs.

• Best way to secure points is to clear the bottom three of your list then refresh as these offer the biggest point gain.

• 30 minutes before rush hour ends, it helps to switch up your AD incase someone is farming you and then again 10 minutes before it ends to a super stall team.

• If you’re using a slow or second turn team, then you want to avoid the SSC teams and look for any team that is either stall or has no follow up even if they do outspeed, such as Woosas or Frans.

• If you don’t have will on your lushen, then I’d highly recommend to avoid teams with amduats or antares, as they can lucksack hard.

• Any ADs that you see with Leo, you can freely get first turn with a double nemesis/will megan at 5* even if it is a Leo/Lucifer team.

Hopefully someone finds this little guide useful!