We will see how short the time is. The only benefit is that people really need to be thinking ahead to trait him - no Arcane Venoms available in the foreseeable future (but I am farming every chance I get).
I don’t play a lot of looping teams, but that looks like a winner. Pretty quick to get up and running and 100% predictable. I’ll take transformers over creators every day. Also, better coverage of mana colours than the Green Seer/Giant Spider team. That one feeds Kraken, but only by spillover since he’s otherwise mana blocked.
Infernal King/Alchemist would work too, though you probably don’t even want the skulls.
With Kraken’s third trait being broken, it will be doubly bad that he can’t be stunned. Frozen might be the only way to slow this down.