Hello, been playing for a little while, at lvl 300ish and what seems to be very apparent at higher lvls (but prior to getting all cities to 5 stars). Only a small subset of troops are good at leading your team.
Attack stats are high enough that most troops are 3 skull matches from being eaten. This isn’t the end of the world per say but those with stone-skin as so much better than other leads. Of those with this trait there are really only:
Emperor Korvash****
Lava elemental**
Knight Cornet**
Treant**
Golem
Gorgon (maybe)**
Of these Emperor is so so much better than the others, once you get him you will never use the others (except maybe Treant)
With just a small change you can add a huge number of troops to the lead position and create all kinds of interesting team creations.
All you need to do is this:
Armored: Reduce ALL damage dealt to the troop by 25%
Regeneration: Regenerate 2 life each turn.
These two changes would make so many more troops viable as leads, especially the first one. There are a number of situations where armored might even be better than stone-skin against some teams. And yet it wouldn’t be op.
Luther***
Lion Prince*
Herald of Chaos***
Morthani’s Will***
Carnex****
Deep Borer*
Armored Boar
Griphon Knight*
Winter Knight*
Templar*
Thorn Knight*
All of these would be real choices in both defense and offense
Kruag****
Flesh Golem**
Berzerker**
Black Beast**
Priestess
War Sphinx**
You might even consider these for real as well.
Thoughts?