Hero's Hour Faction's Definitive Tier List

listen up this is brian pond and we are doing the heroes action heroes our faction tier list maker boom yes i can words and anyways i've got some hot and spicy opinions for y'all got this set to zero got things to go and we're gonna start with the d tier and work our way up to the s tier and starting in the d tier i've repeated this repeatedly lament is the bottom tier they are the single worst faction in the game and i am not sorry to say it things on his own and we're gonna go over why so the quite simple answer the short answer is trogs and slave guns in a game where everything's relatively balanced pretty well these boys they hit hard they die hard and it's really comes down to sturdy not working um when you only have 41 health someone in the pvp meta doing a luck based build or a knockback based build is going to do enough damage to kill drugs to make making sturdiness trivial they do a lot of damage though so it confuses a lot of players who generally feel limits bad and then they go see a pack of trog berserkers and wonder why they get eaten it's because they aren't bad units they just don't do what you want to your these tier 1 units to do which is b chump blockers then the blockers you do have um obsidians and gorgons are great petrifications powerful they are chonky and they've got the arrow protection at the tier two this is a unit that's great and almost everyone gravitates toward leapy boys are decent and if you're up if you're up against swarmy boys like deckhands or the undead there's a argument to be made for the troggs so these units are fine nightmares are great because they have confusion and they do decent damage then we go back to the gorgons they have 205 hills they're sturdy they do what the trogzurkers attempt to do they might actually make it to range units but their damage is just decent for that level and retaliation yeah they attack faster after they're already taking damage which is not the greatest thing in this game because you don't want to just win a fight once and that that that's what lament is great at they're great at winning one fight and if you space it up and you'll be good and that's fine uh there's also if you're wanting to swarm bus there are trif tri-filarious uh you know builds where you do the lashing of venom that's decent we've seen it in play though it doesn't really have the pushing power you think it would and you end up just losing out because of it even with the uh bill even with a bill that focuses on them and there's not really much to talk about gold drake's in my opinion they are just harp they are just golden griffins but worse you have to upgrade them and essentially they have to upgrade themselves through combat but you're getting these guys at like week five week six it's just too late and with their bad early game it's it's not it's not going to happen uh you in the 60 hours or so of play we've had with lament on stream and off uh we we have yet to see a black dragon come out the best we saw was when serious cow king was able to get out red dragons and have a couple gold drakes for his lament victory the only recorded lament victory we have and that's it i'll idle oh adult shadows is great on offense but in defense you just can't use it because any season pvp player is going to send one unit and trigger it slave pins does not give enough gold and you don't have the unit supply to throw into the slave pins like it's non-limit units that's a big deal you have to get them from somewhere and you just in the current meta there there's there's no reliable source of them so it's it it's not that great and that's why i got to say about that all right next we have up on the list we're going to look at the bottom of the sea tier and of all these lovelies it's going to be wild and this might be a controversial pick because wild not a bad faction but they have major weaknesses there's two ways you can build them which is absolute anima spam where you pick four spirits satir minstrels bucks archdruids and ancient trents and you just have hundreds and hundreds of anima the problem is there's a lot of factions that eat on that there's a lot of factions that can swarm must and they are considered encountered there's the other build too where you focus on dead eyes and do a bunch of archery essentially you get this boy here crank up the archery crank up luck and obliterate things it's a really good build but there are problems here elemental gate requires an ability called overgrowth grizzly dens requires you to leave animal behind uh you don't want to leave your animal behind it's uh you need them especially in pvp i've i've had ffas before i almost lost because i tried to use grizzly den and well the horde almost ran over me because of it and then symbolic grove you need wood now how we're gonna show something a game that really shows their weakness so we're gonna hit escape real quick pop over here this is overgrowth these units right here there's 50 anima 20 dogs 10 confusing boys and two trans the they're the lower tier ones what this right here does is makes you a target and free for all going to attack wild is great because you can go and get extra experience and have several levels up on your way back there where almost every other faction in the game can clear an area and make it like a dead zone to go through where you lose momentum if you go to attack them that oh the over grow boys do the opposite this player was up again was craft kraken he did absolutely the right thing because f let's see backspace no backspace f uh this game had decay so he had the choice between overgrowing which gives you like wood wood each day and then the nerf to mild the resource of the week but he had to actively choose not to do it because if he had chosen to do it it would have fed decay the single worst matchup in the game is decay versus wild and because of that massive weakness and because of against decay and the weakness in general of feeding experience to the enemy they are the bottom of the sea list all right next we're going to take a look at the top of the seedless because the seedless is it is not very packed and that's going to be our boys in the order and i adore order i haven't played enough with it admittedly but there there are very visible issues so we're going to go to the options rule we're going to go to lexicon real quick look at our boys in the order and it's got strengths and weaknesses uh halbers haldiers are the tier one units we want in our life they are just little beefy boys not quite as beefy as you would hope but they're halbed ears the ship great ii have protect so yeah they're shielded from the first attack against it that's huge that means f8 they are hit by something like a paladin a jouster a dragon anything that hits them they're gonna be protected against once they they stand their ground a lot better in addition to that they get herbalist which is a great com early combo to knock back and protect the halibut ears in addition to that they have the friars that can heal them or the knights that can protect them and then the halberdiers be used for flanking or the dragon they can be used for tanking and the dragon slayers go in there to do it like it's a very dynamic well-rounded faction whereas their weaknesses the conscription center and accounting house are great savings plan that it's a good thing to get gold each turn problem is is we are in a payday economy where you want your you want your gold and you want it now not later not good decisions for the future because games end in the first few weeks to the first month and these usually end up not paying off better than doing the actions like getting a market and getting as big an army as you can and their heroes all around are none too impressive really the best you can do we used to be friar strategy but that was nerfed and that's a a big problem with it like this this guy was kind of cool but he was nerfed and let's see right now like get if the bodyguards get yeah give you jousters yeah calvary this guy's probably one of the better ones synergy wise these heroes just don't really have the synergies they used to but if you have halibuters and you're rallying them and you've got this you're doing you're doing better than wild is there we go now we're going to go alt tab here and we're going to go up to the beat here now we're starting to get to stuff that has a bite and in the b tier we have our boys at the bottom of it tied tied now the beat here i believe is is meta this this you can take a bite out of people with these so we'll go ahead and take a look at our boys in the tide click the conch respect it first off deck mates are one of the very few tier ones that you can comfortably fight undead with because they run away and if they're running away and not getting eaten they're not turning into zombies so that that you ideally want to attack the undead when they're mana down anyways but they have accounting to that next they have a tier 2 that's a swarm buster having white attacks is great having yeah yeah having wind-up white attacks is pretty good yeah you'll be happy with having blast masters cannon ears jellyfish are savage swarm busters having lash and venom and all this on a tier 3 is great the cultists are great swarm makers themselves they have enough hp to stick around they do swarm busting and death strikes an unprepared an unprepared player can get wiped by by the uh cult system ferryman tempests are all right um i really haven't seen charm turn battles i've seen it work kinda and it's just okay then you have the capri which are good swarm busters and the magnum ones which no one ever picks then of course you have the phoenix's which are good but i rarely see them picked and they are a tier vi that explodes which i think is exciting but yeah it's hard to get so all around solid picks where they really get weak is pearl shrine and pearl market sunk and these are two highly expensive buildings that are there also temple of tides comes in at a time where it is incredibly powerful late game but the time you're starting to use it it's too late to use ships to explore because you're usually getting it week two day five at the earliest and at about that point most pvp players are squaring up to fight so tempest of tides tends to be too late too often and you need to be doing anything else but hunting pearls that's why they are lower on the tier but what makes them great of course is siren song getting good units in siren song you can snap through and almost guarantee that you can clear your start zone and have a strong setup in the weak zone uh they they are capable of pushing almost almost as hard as the best of them cause of that and if you get multiple siren songs even better all right so i think that wraps up tide and now next on the b tier we are going to go with earthen earthen are the boys they're really good they're really good they are they are definitely the i think it's safe to put them in the middle of the bead here and boom there is a good reason why let's see they are let's hop on over to them one they're the newest factions so they got some of the coolest art two they have rune forge which gives you some really powerful abilities abilities and carvers are a bit weird again they have the sturdiness curse which really doesn't do much for relatively low health units they also have knockback yeah yeah dylan knockbacking with them is arguable but they have bear guards which i used in tournament to clear my zone one bear guards are an s tier unit and then they have enchanters which are another s tier unit they also have caribou elites which used to be an s tier unit but they nerfed my hero or did they is this the old version yeah but yeah they did they put blood warping down here creation's okay but blood warping's too late anything in row four does not exist in in the meta in my opinion because by the time your hero reaches level you'll want to have already had your abilities your abilities such as blood warping or creation working so could this still be a build yeah but the caribou elite strategy that on this channel no longer exists there we go uh so overall i think they are solid where what is their weakness monument of war and temple of war are a great building after you have purchased every single other building in the tower they're essentially additional unit buildings but you'll want all the other unit buildings first so they come in way too late late to matter the roon and then lastly grudge and soul of the earth only work on dwarven units and that's a huge weakness especially in the latest updates with the uh side neutral heroes and things like that they just really lack energy to put them in the top tier and that that that's really what holds some of these powerful factions that can win in tournament in into the b tier right now we'll take a another look at our lovely tier list we're going to take a look at the next on the tier list and i will be shouting out another youtube fresh jory is an amazing player but there are just other factions that i feel can overpower power his his pick horde i think horde is a solid beat here and i think it is the pinnacle of the beat here i would almost put it in an a tier four and i'll put in the reasons why it's it's the borderline and i i could definitely be convinced otherwise let's see so there are positive major positives major negatives one it's yeah it's a lot of their builds almost everyone is going to was going to pick this hero the problem is is he used to have access to combat early and he no longer does so i'm gonna yeah so yeah and it comes down down to it like the voodoo boys their weakness is that they have to fight in combat to upgrade their people and it's also a good strength economy wise but sky yeah sky pillared pillars comes in too late you don't you don't really worry about getting some extra elementals and plus one luck nomad hall is great you get a cheap hero for 1000 that you can go have go do things for you that that's great uh banner of champion it's the strength and the it's a strength and a weakness because as you're buying your week two week three week four units you're buying units that are unupgraded to uh go upgrade them in combat that's that's a vulnerability that's what keeps them out of the eight here what they're really great at is that they have voodoo they have the goblins with leap so they can get over walls they have the harpies slash furies that can fly over the walls they have the centaurs slash horseman nomads out are really fast can kite and can shoot over the walls so you and shoot over the walls and jump over the walls so as far as their big thing is and fresh jewelry can definitely show they can zoop right through a fort like they they are the best counter tech in the game against sports specifically which is amazing in pvp because it allows you into the second zones and third zones quicker than the opponent where you can go pick up an ultimate weapon have your upgraded army that you jungled with and run them over so that's what what they're really really excel at um if there's better builds i need to see them because obviously having archery on hers probably fantastic yeah i'm sure the troll build is is at least passing the problem is they they got rid of her blood warping which really hurts but yeah that's probably a good build but i think it's a b-tier build not a a tier and if any of you lovely horde players want to prove me wrong we can pvp together here we go and now next we're going to the eight here these are the best in the game these are the ones and the current version of the game and you will see constantly at the bottom of the egg tier we have decay and of course it is a very spiffing lovely faction and it is still very powerful calling it a tier is absolutely not an insult these are tournament winners these are the best of the best and with that in mind we are going to hop over here and look at the necropolis why are they great they're weenies while almost categorically all of these heroes are much weaker than the other factions and that's because male addiction and bain allows you to get units on demand um what not to the these guys in previous versions and even in 1.65 for which the tournament recently was it was played on and it's currently being played played on that time of video we have just confirmed that uh yeah they got weaker units but they get units on demand through male addiction pain they also have the soul biction and soul transmuter and to them with silence which essentially replaces your medical so it's debatably it's pretty dang good it gives you your access to your ranginess you'll notice only the liches are ranged here that's because you're going to be getting your your your bone shooters which are range units with slow which makes them really powerful from your soul beacon and from your soul train and from your throne of the dead which isn't featured here uh they're all all very powerful the big problems they're suffering from that dropped them from s tier is necromancy got nerfed you no longer use it as regeneration but better and these units are categorically just weaker i've had i've had pvp after pvp after pvp match where the decay players are looking crazy but then when you show up with a with just stronger units and more throughput they collapse like a pile of bones so that's why i gotta say about that so you heard it here first shaboom bottom of the a tier to gate now next middle of the a tier pyre pyre is absolutely fire they belong on on the eight here and i don't want to hear otherwise because just everything they have is good grotesques they suffer from having sturdy and retaliation so they're kind of garbo but there's a mastery build or there used to be yeah they're yeah so there there's there you can build builder you can build around kind of asterix there used to be a build around them so that's probably why they're still a tier tyr sorry they they just updated the new heroes so some that might affect my future lists so grow tests they suffer from not being that great except for a fringe build that's no longer in the game so grotesque not very good so but flame fiends are amazing ranging and burning comboing together is super powerful the lava beast with their 68 health and their lashing is great uh hell spawns leaping and burning are great if you want to push hard they're powerful sturdy and summoning the these guys cause sulfur so they are absolutely terrible uh we got charmy boys let's see they were these were the ones to pick because they costed uh mercury they no longer are so it's now the flyboys and archdemons are absolutely powerful and will tear up an army so they have they have pretty much s tier they have s they they have s tier units here here here and here and they have the infernal gate which allows you to summon things and talia has had a real time trying to make it less overpowered it is super powerful stocks powerful like that they have chamber of rituals which allows you to level up your people which is the best economy you can have in the game because what you do is you grab a hero look at their talent tree use chamber of rituals to purchase the hero and get get the economy on them it makes you more money than counting house slave pins conscriptory or any of the other economy buildings can hope to except for market um and of course ever burning flame you need sulfur that's whatever uh overall they they are a strong eight-year faction people will win games with them people will win tournaments with them just because of all the amazing things they have oh and on top of all this they can tell they have their fire trapping of fire gating teleport spells are super powerful especially when you're messing with people's enemy units and they have the ability to portal between uh portal between nodes that they own the resource ones giving them the best traveling game making them even more powerful than than other movement upgrading abilities like the hassler so a tier pyro just keeps winning now last on the a tier we have enclave and enclave isn't not just good they are insanely good like they can uh they are the top of the eightier there is only one faction more powerful than them and that and deservedly so so we uh go to these boys and first off they look amazing i love the art updates second off they just get tons of units they have the top best sing they have the best a tier in the game this does what you want out of a tier one it's got 60 stinking health it leeches life to stay alive it is it sits there and then it protects swamp arrows which are an s tier unit they have venom and arrow rain and i don't think anybody is going to say swamp arrows are weak and if you are you're either just wrong or trolling it sucks to be you um then they kind of kind of break down petrifying charge is a weird combo uh terrifying stuff like that my most success has been getting these two together hex the problem with with our hexi boys is they're like if you drop hex on an anima you've you've just made you just you upgraded them you end up healing units that need to be looking at they this should be your swarm buster it's not a swarm buster it why did it has white attacks yeah it just does two different things go with with your legionnaires they only have 70 health but they terrify and leap that they're going to die if you get them but that's okay your your units aren't here for a long time they're here for a good time uh yeah usually games in before you get into these higher units so you'll notice that my knowledge of them are very low definitely pick the hero fonts over the monsters though these guys kind of suck even with their good health and the rexes are fine they have charged knockback the biggest thing holding them back is they aren't holy griffins they don't fly so they're they're probably in it they're they're ftier they've got the slytherin temple which gets you the griffin the problem with them is it costs artifacts so you have to have them and if you're going with the current meta strat you're probably getting animal taming so that you can get a as i did did uh earlier today you're probably going to be going for animal taming so that you can have like two griffins or 50 spooters or whatever other ridiculous animals you can get to absolutely just go collect your victory from the enemy that's why they are the top of the a tier just great all around all right and last but certainly not least in a league of their own arcane is s tier they are insurmountably powerful the most powerful faction in the game by a wide marge gin arcane makes all the b tier and lower look as bad as lament looks compared to all the other factions and we'll go over exactly why now one they have arcane spires so every battle they have a free spell which is amazing second they have the ziggurat and it goes online fast enough at the time you need it it completely fills your mana bar when you go touch it and it gives you mana on the go when you finally want to mount your fence then they have the aether forge and the aether forge is is blisteringly overpower powered and you can you use you can use either of these to go jungle through and fight and you use the the fights you get get to get yourself more or more athermancy points to get units and spells and these spells are like the seven day ultimate spells like you can get town teleport you can get uh conflag you can get plus 20 spell power you can get conflux which summons in a bunch of elementals and with through a combination of having your artisans and or you can then dump your market with no restrictions to dump all your money into ore all them into the eighth or forge and have just insurmountable power against your enemy in addition to that they have they're the only faction in the game with easy access to tier one range units uh i believe sharpshooters may be as well but these bad boys have quick strikes and ranged attack so they're not likely to die now the gating that caused them trouble in previous parts was these two units cost ore and you need ore for other things so that's admittedly not great but they're still great units still worth purchasing with war especially in the early game to get uh cryomancers have 22 freaking health they don't exist but just pretend like like like just pretend you didn't see these and instead go for the automations battle mages they cast spells they tell warp they cat these are amazing units with good health definitely get them they'll soften things down so that the guards pick them off and the stone watchers start picking them up and dropping them it's disgusting sultans are amazing demigods and lion gods are amazing so basically every single one of these units are amazing except for cryomancers and they can combo their entire economy funnel it through with alchemy to aether forge to get an army that the undead wish they could have that spiffing brit should probably take a look at and feature because of just how insanely overpowered it is and will it probably need a nerfing yes but don't don't tell things on his own that that uh just cut off the video video this is a prank yeah and that's that's the thing between the juiced up spells the unlimited combo the constantly being able to fill your bars up oh and royalty and battle there and all these amazing units arcane that takes the s tier in the uh cur in the uh current heroes hour meta i'm brian pond i love you all thank you again to uh misogynist for providing these wonderful image tiles i will see y'all next time and let me know what y'all feel down in the comments below

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Published: Sun Oct 17 2021