AFK Journey Necrodrakon

Necrodrakon is one of the six available Dream Realm bosses you will encounter in AFK Journey. In this guide we will go over the boss mechanics and the best characters and teams to use against him.

Realistically speaking, your meta team will depend on your specific box, and your account focus, so use your highest rarity DPS carry characters, along with whoever can best boost their damage. Try running Dual carry, as currently there is no way to boost a Hypercarry’s damage high enough to make it worth running only one. Keep faction bonus in mind but don’t run suboptimal characters just to force it.

Still, below you can find a few example teams. Big thanks to

AFK Analytica for the team building tool. You can find their website here and their discord here.

• Team #1
• Team #2 - Endless

The boss will start by designating the player’s closest character as the “tank” and will start by attacking that character, but will switch target to the next closest character if the tank moves out of range. In early to late game, your best bet for the tank role in this boss will be

Thoran and surprisingly

Temesia. This is because Necrodrakon has two scary abilities that punish characters who just stand around in one place:

• In-between attacks, Necrodrakon will cast a “Crest” on every character. This crest is a bomb that will explode if the character doesn’t move for 15s, dealing high damage and also debuffing that character’s ATK and energy gain,
• Necrodrakon will also cast an Area Denial Attack on the biggest concentration of heroes (which depending on your team can be your frontline, or your backline). So you really don’t want to bring more than 2 backline heroes to this fight, or else they will have to deal with this attack for the entire fight. Though as long as your chosen heroes move around a bunch they will have no trouble dealing with this attack.

Other than these, Necrodrakon will also cast a big AOE attack, dealing heavy damage to all heroes, a total of 3 times during the fight. But there is a small issue. This stage is where

Smokey & Meerky and to a lesser extent other healers hits their first big wall, because of Necrodrakon last attack:

• A ranged interrupt attack which targets the 2 healthiest heroes, which naturally will often include your healer.

So your healer will be constantly interrupted, forcing us to go with a different healing strategy, one focused on heroes with life leech or shield abilities. Example:

• 
  Temesia
• 
  Korin
• 
  Seth
• 
  Shakir
• 
  Kruger
• 
  Thoran
• 
  Reinier

Of course, we can still fall back to using

Smokey & Meerky but he won’t be as effective here as he is on Skyclops and King Croaker.

Necrodrakon takes about 38-39 actions in the span of 90 seconds (the full length of the battle - if you survive through all of it that is). Here's a list of all possible actions:

• Basic Melee Attack,
• Basic Ranged Attack,
• Area Denial attack (9x – targets area with the most characters),
• Teamwide AOE Attack (3x),
• Teamwide Crest Cast (5x),
• Ranged Interrupt Attack (7x – targets 2 healthiest characters).

For more team idea, check this video: