[PART 2] LFW GAMEPLAY: FORMATION IS KEY
Author: Nhan Nguyen
How will formations affect your gameplay?
After experiencing Legend of Fantasy War (LFW) for a few minutes, it is time for you to start optimizing your heroes and put them in the best formation to increase your overall power.
However, given the vast number of heroes, skills, and playstyles in the game, it’s no easy task to create the perfect team. Furthermore, additional factors such as elements and an ever-growing roster of heroes make it impossible to create a team that will be on top forever.
Nevertheless, it certainly is possible to form an incredible team that can keep up with even the toughest dungeons and best players. To give you some inspiration, we have gathered essential information about team formations in LFW.
Different positions - Different effects
In LFW, you can deploy a maximum of 5 heroes at the same time. These heroes can be put in whatever positions you want them in, but keep in mind that all positions have unique buff effects that can greatly alter the outcome of a match if used properly.
As you can see in the picture above, there are 9 positions in total and each of them provides different buffs. The green lines below the heroes’ avatars in the “Party'' window are the buffs they receive when deployed in those specific positions. Choose wisely which stats you want to grant your heroes and how they will affect your power.
You can see the detail of each position below:
FRONT:
Defend: increasing both physical and magical defense of the hero.
HP: increasing the hero’s maximum HP.
Evasion: increasing the hero’s evasion.
MID:
Attack: increasing both physical and magical attacks of the hero.
Hit: increasing the hero’s hit chance/accuracy.
Critical Chance: increasing the hero’s chance to deal critical strikes.
BACK:
Oppress: increasing the hero’s chance to inflict debuffs and control as well as their magnitudes.
Support: increasing the effects of the hero’s buffs.
Resistance: increasing the hero’s resistance.
These buffs are improved when you upgrade your party level, the higher it is, the more powerful the buffs are. The material used to upgrade party level can be obtained in daily activities or trading in LFW’s Marketplace.
Everyone plays a role
Similar to every other turn-based card game, heroes in LFW have unique roles and contribute different values to their teams. Learning a hero’s role will help you decide where to put it in the squad and utilize it to its full potential.
Tank: incredibly durable thanks to their immensely high life pool and defensive stats. They are able to absorb a large amount of damage and protect their via shield effects or control abilities. For tanks, defense is the best offense as they have little to no offense power since they lack damage. Tanks are suitable for Front Line positions where they are granted defensive buffs such as HP, Defend and Evasion.
DPS: the main damage source of every team. DPS can dish out serious damage, either burst or damage over time, to finish off their enemies. Yet, these heroes are quite squishy and desperately need protection and support from their teammates to thrive. Mid line positions are the best for DPS as they can inherit amazing stats such as Attack, Hit and Critical Chance.
Support: at some point, you can notice that your team needs a way to survive long fights, outlive your enemies or render negative effects on them, hence the support heroes. They are capable of healing their teammates, providing positive effects that greatly boost their team’s power or even inflicting detrimental effects on the enemies to cripple them. That said, these heroes do not excel at anything, they can deal a decent amount of damage but they are far from being a DPS, they are also not tanky enough to be a tank. Supports will thrive when put in the back line where they receive bonus Oppress, Support and Resistance.
Diversity of the Five Elements
There are 5 elements in total, namely Metal, Wood, Earth, Water and Fire, each has its own strength.
Metal: High life pool and defensive stats, capable of strengthening allies with offensive or defensive buffs.
Fragile Wing, an R Rank hero from the Mystery Box II, is a desirable Metal tank that can protect her allies with strong defensive buffs.
Wood: Excelling at dealing damage over time and detering enemies.
Gentle Flute , an SR Rank hero from Mystery Box II, is a typical Wood DPS hero who can deal massive damage over time.
Water: High accuracy and survival, strong at supporting and healing.
Slayer Queen, an SSR Rank hero from Mystery Box II, is an otherworldly Water DPS, unarguably the strongest hero of the Water element.
Fire: Immense damage that can one-shot enemies in a blink of an eye.
Golden Lion King, an SSR Rank hero from Mystery Box II, is a top-tier Fire DPS who is able to land the deadliest critical strikes in the game.
Earth: High magical damage, great defense with air shields and capable of increasing skill damage.
Sorrow Witch, an SR Rank hero from Mystery Box II, not only has reliable stun but also deals substantial damage to the enemies.
It even goes deeper than that, one element is the bane of another one and every element has its own “bane”. To be more accurate, a specific element will deal more damage to and take less damage from the element that is weak against it, this is called the “element advantages”. Here is the full rundown of the element advantages system:
Metal is strong against Wood but weak against Fire.
Wood is strong against Earth but weak against Metal.
Earth is strong against Water but weak against Wood.
Water is strong against Fire but weak against Earth.
Fire is strong against Metal but is also weak against Water.
What is more, these elements not only counteract their regulating counterparts but also promote other elements:
Metal supports Water.
Water supports Wood.
Wood supports Fire.
Fire supports Earth.
Earth supports Metal.
This creates interesting synergies between the heroes of different elements, resulting in various formations. Even though the element advantages system is important to keep in mind, other factors should not be ignored. Having the right combination of roles, the best heroes, and a strong team synergy is more important than having a perfect mix of factions.
The Ultimate Formation
If you are looking for a formation that can dominate every content in the game, you will be disappointed as there is no such thing. Additionally, LFW has an array of contents for its players to conquer and some of them require specific formations to achieve victories, so one formation can handle one content effortlessly but may be ineffective against others. That being said, there are still several heroes that stand out and excel in various contents in both PVE and PVP. Nonetheless, owning powerful heroes and acknowledging how they work are the best ways to stay on the top.
During our Mystery Box II event, you can participate to acquire godly heroes that can be your game-changer. Here is several noticeable heroes of the event:
Golden Lion King is an SSR Rank Fire hero who can dish out an absurd amount of physical damage thanks to his remarkable innate critical chance and damage. There are not a lot of heroes who can compete with Golden Lion King for the DPS role. Moreover, unlike traditional DPS who are squishy, Golden Lion King is relatively tanky as his base stats are quite impressive, making him an ideal choice for any formation. The Crit position is the Mid Line is the obvious choice for Golden Lion King.
Along with Golden Lion King, Slayer Queen is one of the only 2 SSR Rank heroes in the Mystery Box II event. She is a Water hero who is capable of delivering a massive amount of burst damage which cannot be evaded. Moreover, Slayer Queen deals increased damage to Fire units, making her a fearsome enemy for the Fire element. You can deploy her in the Mid Line for Attack or Crit positions, the Hit buff does not mean much to her as her abilities are guaranteed to hit.
If damage-over-time playstyle is your cup of tea, Gentle Flute is perfect for you. Gentle Flute is a top-tier assassin who is SR rank and can deliver a swift and painful death to his enemies with his deadly poison. Furthermore, Gentle Flute can attack up to 3 targets at the same time and his abilities ignore the targets’ defense, which means Gentle Flute can easily shred even the best tanks in LFW.
Sorrow Witch is an SR Rank Earth hero who is able to stun the whole enemy team in one strike, significantly disrupting them. In addition, Sorrow Witch is quite of a slippery target to grab as she has very high evasion, making her a decent semi-tank when put in the Evasion position in the Front Line and she can also be played as a sub-DPS. Sorrow Witch is a valuable asset for your team as she can fit multiple roles.
Don’t be fooled when you see Fragile Wing being only R rarity hero. She is a Metal hero who is remarkably tanky. The ability to significantly enhance her allies’ physical and magic attack makes her one of the most flexible heroes in the game who can fit in both physical and magical team compositions. But that is not all, Fragile Wing can also increase her team’s defensive stats and regeneration. Overall, despite her rarity being R, she is a must-have hero in your team. As a tank, Fragile Wing can be put in all positions in the Front Line as she benefits from all of the buffs. Or you can definitely deploy her in the Back Line’s Support position to improve her buffs on the team.
You can find more information regarding the Mystery Box II HERE.
READ MORE:
[PART 5.2] LFW Gameplay: UNDERSTANDING HERO’S EQUIPMENT
[PART 5.1] LFW Gameplay: Account Level vs. NFT Hero Level
[PART 5] LFW Gameplay: NFT Enhancement - To Be The Most Powerful
[PART 4] LFW Gameplay Series: GEM - A Important In-game Currency
[PART 3] LFW Gameplay: GUILD - Stronger Together, Conquering & Earning More
[PART 2] LFW GAMEPLAY: FORMATION IS KEY
[PART 1] LFW Gameplay: In-game Overall Features
About Legend of Fantasy War
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