Almost Top Tier

1. Miki

• Miki, the top tier hero that not only got directly nerfed, but also indirectly nerfed. After getting her skills changed, her dodge got lowered and after Blood Blade got introduced into the game, she got yet another counter hero besides Lutz. If you haven’t already you can read about Blood Blade and Lutz further up in this guide. But as most of you know, Miki is the Queen of Dodge. With Guild Tech fully upgraded (20%), maxed Stone with Dodge (16%) and at 9* with her skill “Ninjutsu III – Increase Dodge by 25%, Speed by 60 and HP by 15%.” she starts with 61% dodge. And because of the Speed she gets from the skill Ninjutsu she is also the fastest hero, which means she gets to attack first. This basically increases her dodge more because of her skill “Keen III – Each attack increases own Dodge by 6% and Attack by 16%” so she starts with 67% Dodge before a hero gets to attack her. And because she gains 6% Dodge with every basic attack, she’ll gain 6% dodge on round 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 and 10. She’ll reach 100% Dodge, which is the cap, in round 10. Notice she doesn’t get any Dodge on round 8, since she Special Skills doesn’t count as basic attack and Special Skills are used on round 2 and then every 3rd round after – Unless she of course gets stunned and what not, disabling her from attacking.

And now. Why is it so good that Miki can dodge? Because where do you even want to use her in the setup? You want to use her as a tank and let me tell you why. If you put her in the back row she won’t get hit that often and especially not by basic attacks. That’ll only happen whenever an assassin, like Karim or Walter, attacks. And even then, they attack a random hero so it’s 1 out of 4 that they’ll attack Miki. I’m not considering Faceless or Mirage here because there’s not reason to try and use Miki to counter heroes that doesn’t pose as a threat from the beginning. So! Using Miki as a tank means quite a lot of heroes attack her. Or at least try to. Warriors, Rangers (except DH since she hits 3 random targets), Mages and Priests all hit front row tank. Mages and Rangers get 15% Hit from the Guild Tech, which isn’t much and Warriors and Priests gets nothing.

Having the opponent’s heroes miss on their first attack neglects the heroes to gain any Energy for their Special Skill and this is really huge. Especially considering how important it is for heroes like Rosa (Can read about him further down in the Guide) who is solely in the team because of his perfect debuffs and buffs. So Miki really shines when you use her as a tank to counter and neglect the opponent’s Special Skills. The sad thing is that Blood Blade, Lutz and Aidan are all popular heroes and being from the Death Faction, they gain 15% Hit and 30% Damage against Fortress heroes + Lutz and Blood Blade are just perfect counters to Miki nonetheless. (You can read about that in their description further up in the Guide.)

Recommended Artifact and Stone: Since Miki serves as a strong tank you should definitely use the Damage Reduction Artifact on her without a doubt. And because you want her to stay alive you should also use the HP Stone as well. She’s nothing but a tank that needs to stay alive so she can neglects the opponent a chance to get Energy.