AFK Journey Team Building (Advanced)

Information about the team

• This team composition functions and is viable in PVE and PVP as soon as
  
  Eironn reaches Mythic+, becoming stronger as Eironn and the damage dealers paired up with him gain EX weapon levels.
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  Eironn is the main enabler of the “Nuke Team” archetype, and the rest of the team is built around him. His ability to cast his ultimate at the start of the battle at mythic+ synergizes well with Arden, Carolina, and even Thoran, as he often gets to use his counter against a tightly packed group of enemies. His EX +10 is a big upgrade as it increases the duration of his CC.
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  Arden is usually the first damage dealer you’ll think of when building the Eironn Nuke Team. He charges his ult rapidly when the enemy team gets hit by Eironn’s ultimate and then deals massive AOE damage and CC.
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  Carolina capitalizes even further on Eironn and Arden’s CC attacks with her snowballs, and is the main choice for the second dps carry.
  
  Parisa also functions in this slot by taking full advantage of Eironn’s ultimate grouping up enemies to deal massive damage, though she does not particularly synergize with the rest of the team’s CC the way Carolina does. All these damage dealers are at their best potential at Mythic+ and EX weapon upgraded as high as you can go.
• For the flex slots there are many choices, but ideally we want to bring a Wilder, Graveborn or Celehypo hero for faction bonus purposes.
• If running a healer, our first pick would be
  
  Damian at mythic+ EX +5, as it allows him to start healing shortly after the start of the battle while also providing haste.
• If running a dedicated tank,
  
  Thoran will be our first pick due to his resilience and high damage potential with his Counter. Mythic+ helps protect one of your damage dealers while also allowing Thoran to survive longer.
• If running an additional damage dealer,
  
  Silvina will be our first pick, as a situational assassin option in case the enemy has a high priority backline character she can quickly eliminate. At Mythic+ EX +10 Silvina gains the ability to inflict the Fear debuff on kill, same as Berial, which is very strong against a packed enemy team. Use the Enlightening Spell artifact if running her.
• If running a Celehypo,
  
  Scarlita will be our first choice since she helps shield our frontliner long enough for the backline to kill the enemy. At Mythic+ +10 Scarlita starts to really “pop off” by unlocking her instakill ability.
  
  Reinier is a good option that works at low dupes, and can help disrupt the enemy.

Other picks

• Tank:
  
  Granny Dahnie - We can replace Thoran with Granny in a pinch for her tankiness and CC potential, but watch out for Odie! A highly invested Odie will absolutely chew through Granny’s health bar.
• Flex Position:
  
  Hewynn - We can also run Hewynn as a second healer option in one of the flex slots to help increase the team’s sustain potential.
• Damage Dealer:
  
  Florabelle - Flora can be worth running in this team, especially for the more sustain-heavy variant running Scarlita, a tank and a support. Her ultimate offers great synergy with Scarlita’s slam, as long as you can survive enough to see it happen.

Information about the team

• This team is build to survive against Eironn’s initial burst of damage and push ahead with self heal and damage resistance, taking advantage of their faction advantage. Assume everyone is at least mythic+ rarity.
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  Shakir can be seen as a core unit in any melee-based team, as he provides powerful defensive and offensive buffs, as well as being quite tanky himself if he survives long enough to get his ult out. You’ll want to get his EX weapon to +10 so he can share Lupine Aura with the rest of the team.
• As for the tanks, our first pick would be
  
  Brutus, for his invulnerability which guarantees that he will at least survive against the initial burst from Eironn and maybe heal himself back up.
  
  Thoran also provides a powerful counter attack, along with his survivability, but his faction is not ideal for mauler teams.
  
  Antandra can also be used for her sheer defensive potential, to hold the line long enough for Shakir to get his ult out.
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  Odie, especially with his EX weapon unlocked, is an absolute menace and will absolutely melt any wilders unit he comes across, as long as he survives long enough to build up his damage. A popular resource management strategy is to pour most of your weapon upgrade resources into Odie to help with both Dream Realm and pvp.
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  Satrana and
  
  Seth are both good choices of melee damage carry, with great sustain mechanics. Seth can very easily snowball out of the enemy’s control, but that requires getting kills.
• For our support flex slot,
  
  Koko is a great option for sustain seeing as her kit is tailored specifically for supporting melee teams. The same can be said of
  
  Kafra, who heals allies around him on kill, and can rush down enemy supports. Scarlita remains an universal support option who also offers high damage.

Other picks

• Tank:
  
  Granny Dahnie - If running Kafra, it might be worth considering running Granny here to help close out the faction bonus, and her CC can also be useful.
• Flex Support:
  
  Smokey & Meerky - You might have problems with your characters running out of Smokey’s healing cloud, but if they manage to stay with him he will provide great healing while also contributing to the Mauler faction bonus.
• Flex Support:
  
  Hewynn or
  
  Damian. Both offer great healing and haste buffs, good options if you seek a team with more sustain.

Information about the team

• This team is built around
  
  Dionel, providing enough buffs to quickly get his intoxication stacks up so he can destroy the enemy team. Reasonably tanky team thanks to multiple supports, but requires high investment on Dionel, at least Mythic+ and EX +10.
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  Lyca is used for her ATK SPD buff at the start of the battle.
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  Smokey & Meerky is used for his ATK buff and healing. His haste only comes online after channeling for a while.
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  Damian is used for his HASTE buff and healing, completing the 3 required buffs for Dionel to reach his maximum potential.
• For our tank, we can run
  
  Granny Dahnie or
  
  Brutus for the faction bonus, or
  
  Thoran because he’s just that good.
• Granny is good due to her tankiness and CC potential.
• Brutus is actually viable here since Dionel Hypercarry fights tend to be on the shorter end.
• Thoran, despite not contributing to the faction bonus, remains a solid choice due to his revival mechanic.

Other picks

• Support: You can mix and match supports as long as you can guarantee Dionel gets 3 buffs. Anyone who can provide a stat-boosting buff, be it an offensive buff or defensive buff.

Information about the team

• The traditional stall team, an inpenetrable wall. This team is unique in its gameplan, as it is primarily tailored to waste the enemy team’s timer, rather than outright kill them, but it is still perfectly capable of doing that, should it be used in an attack formation, as long as the enemy team doesn’t also have high sustain. Not ideal for story pushing, as you might run out of time yourself in high deficit stages.
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  Thoran and
  
  Granny Dahnie are the tanks of choice, with pros and cons to each.
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  Thoran offers higher damage due to his counter, but using him can also be risky if the enemy happens to also have Thoran, because your counter might be reflected right back and deal enough damage to kill your tank before you can heal them.
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  Granny Dahnie, on the other hand, is actually tankier than Thoran in a stall team, as she offers a slightly higher team bonus due to her faction, and has powerful CC and defensive tools built into her kit, and she would be the perfect choice, that is, if Odie didn’t exist. If the enemy happens to have a highly invested Odie (Let’s say, EX +15), his massive single target damage combined with faction advantage will absolutely shred through Granny’s health faster than our supports can heal.
• For our supports,
  
  Damian and
  
  Hewynn offer consistent, CC-resistant healing, as well as haste buffs. Hewynn also provides damage resistance to the team while healing to boost our survivability even further.
• In the third support slot,
  
  Rowan is the first pick, since he allows our other supports to get their ultimates out faster, but he is also squishy and vulnerable to graveborn damage dealers such as Carolina, Viperian and Silvina. Since we don’t particularly care about faction for this last slot, we can also run
  
  Smokey & Meerky, for his continuous healing and offensive buffs, or
  
  Koko for her jack-of-all-trades kit of defensive and offensive buffs, and as a bonus, being of the mauler faction, they are resistant to Wilder damage dealers.
• For our flex slot, the best unit you can run is a highly invested
  
  Scarlita, as she offers extra sustain while also single-handedly solo-ing the entire enemy team with her powerful attacks and instakill abilities. But realistically you can run pretty much anyone here, preferably someone with significant damage potential, who also completes our faction bonus. We’ll go through some of the options below.

Other picks

• Flex Position:
  
  Eironn - His ultimate can group up the enemy team to possibly set up a team wipe when combined with Thoran’s counter.
• Flex Position:
  
  Reinier - His ultimate can disrupt the enemy team enough to stop them from ever having enough damage to finish your tank off, by teleporting one of their damage dealers away, or remove their support.
• Flex Position:
  
  Carolina
  
  Arden - Both benefit greatly from crowd control, and fit perfectly in the Granny variant of the team.
• Flex Position:
  
  Viperian - Known for his great burst damage potential, he can help thoran finish off low health enemies after a counter.
• Flex Position:
  
  Cecia
  
  Florabelle - Both have great solo carry potential, as long as they have enough time to let their summons do their job, which our stall team should offer plenty of.
• Flex Position:
  
  Berial - Berial can pick off isolated enemies, and leave the enemy team in low enough health to perish at the hands of Thoran, if they didn’t bring enough sustain to heal back up. His summons also divert some of the enemy team’s damage buying us extra time to outlast the timer.

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• This variant focuses on abusing immortality mechanics, rather than raw healing numbers, while offering slightly higher damage potential than the Heal variant.
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  Thoran,
  
  Igor and
  
  Niru are the core of the Graveborn variant of the stall team.
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  Thoran can revive twice, while also protecting one other character.
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  Niru can cast his ultimate right away, giving either Thoran or Igor another life, and the ghosts stay as long as your allies don’t die. Requires Mythic+.
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  Igor completes the trio, being nigh-unkillable through his tombstones, often the last to die, allowing Niru’s ghosts to stay active for the duration of the fight.
• Even though we rely on the immortality gimmicks, this is still a stall team, so we’ll want a support or two to give us some extra breathing room.
  
  Hewynn or
  
  Damian are the first picks if we want consistent healing and haste.
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  Scarlita gives the team extra sustain and has great damage potential, but generally speaking, we want someone to guarantee a faction bonus. We can use the same options recommended for the Heal Stall Team.
• For arena defense, you can bring an extra support in the Flex Position.

Information about the team

• The Zoo Team. Here we take advantage of
  
  Florabelle ability to grant allied summons sizable shields, allowing us to overwhelm the enemy with summons, and offering plenty of tanky targets for the enemy to waste damage on.
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  Florabelle is the one who enables the archetype.
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  Berial is constantly summoning shadows, which all get Florabelle’s shields, allowing them to survive longer to deal more damage, and absorb more hits.
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  Cecia ultimate, Mr. Carlye, also benefits from the shields, doing his job as a secondary tank.
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  Thoran and
  
  Granny Dahnie remain our first picks for both being top tier tanks, and also helping us gain the Graveborn/Wilder faction bonus.
• For our support slot, we’ll want someone who offers a lot of healing, while also contributing to our faction bonus.
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  Hewynn is the first pick here for her map-wide healing ultimate, which allows us to heal all our summons at the same time.
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  Damian is another viable option, being able to provide his AOE healing sooner than Hewynn, with the tradeoff of having a relatively small AOE for his heals.