Island Challenge Tier List

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There are 3 basic strategies to the game. Sleep, poison, and stun. Different events have different strategies that are most effective for that specific event. Sleep can gain you complete control of the battle which is why its most ideal for events with monsters of outrageous buffs but it is also hardest to set up. Stun allows you temporary control of the battle making it ideal for events with moderate buffs but can sometimes be difficult to set up. Finally poison gives you no control of the battle and offers a fixed amount of damage but is extremely easy to set up making it not such a great option against buffed monsters but is possibly the best option for PvP. What is unique to the island challenge is that you are facing fewer monsters in opposing teams. With that in mind it’s less important to set up your sweepers with kills in order to continue killing and its more important to focus on the initial kills. Of the 3 aforementioned strategies poison is least effective and stun is most. Once you get a bit higher and the buffs get stronger youll see that the poison damage wont do much.
Drafting is very important obviously. With your first draft, the epic you choose should be more for support for later on then to be a sweeper. Like give turners and protector are really good for supporting your super epic and legendary sweepers to come. You wont need too many sweepers in your team. Just a few are necessary and the rest of your team can set them up for a few killls each and before you know it you went through the whole enemy team. So here will be a list of monsters that are the best drafting options for your team. If you use this list as a reference while drafting your team dont just draft the highest rated monsters every time. You obviously have to use common sense to know what to draft that will fit your specific team. For example if timestrikers are rated high dont draft them if you have no stun bombers. And if give turners are rated high dont make your team only give turners. This can be a guide to help those that dont have much experience with the island challenge.

Epics:
S: stun bomb/stun immunity, 400sec mega bomb, give turn/stun immunity, last stand, protect teammates/stun absorber, stun bomb/sleep bomb
A: Throw/bloodcrave, create duplucate/stun revenge, give turn/dreamhunt, timestrikers, give turn/heal all
B: auto protect, risky heal/survivor, one on one
C: twin killers, create duplicate/desperate bite, poison eater, sacrifice summon
D: poison massacre

Super epics:
S: team turn, protect teammate/stun absorber, blitzdragon, galvbane, searguard, lavamane, 400sec megabomb, twin death sentence
A: unwanted friends, frostrider, shinobidragon, robinator, desperate doubles, devilborg, diredemon, throw/bloodcrave, steamhawk, twin killers, virrabit
B: stunning entrance/heal all, cryptblade, rexkong, viridizidon, bonetalon, stun flash, gearcroc, torrentide, bullbrazen, cyrogolem, nighthunter, lunalord
C: gaiawolf, horrorclaw, ogremaster, rattlewyrm, protect focus, caniswyrm, snowhulk
D: hiberzor, sunlord, poison massacre, assisted moves, wolfrozen

3 stars and below:
S: stun bursters, knockback
A: sleep all/dreamhunt, one on one, sacrifice summon, timestrikers, protect teammates/stun absorber, puffoxin/rhynobrute, risky heal, heal all, grizzrex
B: stunning entrance, sleep all/sleep bomb, sacrifice heal
C: most others
D: poison

I hope this helps. Feel free to share your input. List can be changed

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I kind of expected UC 'cause of chance for one 10 in 1 this festival, but no. Disapointed seeing IC…

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Featured mons in IC s*ck bigtime. -_-

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Idk, I don’t think it’s that great, probs useful for a sleep team, but it’s super relegated to support roles, so imagine stunning it or leaving it bc it’s mostly harmless. Anyway, with newer monsters, everything dies with 1 hit, so it’s not as useful unless that monster has HG. I’m not say it can’t ever be useful, but there are much better support roles. E.g. if you wanted a sleep team, I feel like stun immune give turner, or sleep bomber give turner are more useful for getting off more sleep.

What do you/ others think?

Edit: Nvm I read this wrong, I thought you said sick like “awesome, that’s sick” 

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I preferred to see better Mon,so diapoiting :frowning:
BTW,I like IC and DC,they are some how seems easier than other event

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Calm down guys maybe we will get some surprise with that monster(or maybe not) :smiley:
He looks strange maybe he as some strange moves or passive i hope for that

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Sorry guys,but can someone put the time remaining to start this event for me?I’m from out of us and don’t know the exact different time zone.
Tnx
Arash

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This won’t work, the reason being that monsters in IC vary in value depending on what you’ve picked already. I did try it when the IC started but the variation was too great.

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nope. Not really. Most monsters can be rated. Obv if epic and super epics protectors are rated s any nood shud know not to draft both. But this guide can give you an idea what to draft from the beginning

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If you can make it work then kudos to you, cause I couldn’t. I’m willing to lend a hand if you need it but the problems start arising on the 3rd/4th drafts. Last time I ended up with about 6 different lists and the whole thing was a mess, hence I scrapped it. 

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Edited. List added. See first post

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I don’t play IC that much, but has there been anyone who drafted a last biter? 

I’m guessing no?

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Last biters are removed from the monster pool, it’s impossible to get one. 

You can get last standers though. 

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Did they nerf sleep? It has been missing a whole bunch

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Not for me. . .

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I am afraid I have to disagree,for starters there shouldn’t even be a rating in IC drafts,as the monsters value almost entirely depend upon your previously chosen monsters, even though some monsters are apparently more effective than others for example bloodfury/crave/thirst monsters over poison monsters,but that’s it, as poison loses its effect in buffed monsters on higher levels but you can’t do it with rest.

See Ever since I have played this game I have ‘Always’ completed 300 levels on IC and that too before Legendary drafts arrive (you can even check the current ranking for proof) and I was once faced with a situation when almost all my epic drafts had protectors and poison and I was forced to choose 2 absorbers and 1 epic sleep bomb ,and my first SE draft was robinator, Se absorber and shinobidragon

And if I had gone by your list and chose your ‘S’ rated absorber I would have no sweepers to take down higher levels and reach level 300 but I chose a ‘A’ level Robinator which is below ‘S’ and all I had to do was grant him fury through dreamhunt to HG + poison touch and stun bombs and sleep bomb to purify support.

Other example would be how do you expect a person with 0 stun bombs to effectively use timestrike? Didn’t you rated him high as well.

And a personal question at end , why would you rate epic stun bomb as ‘S’ , is 40 extra stun and immunity that great that it outclasses sweepers?

Anyway I appreciate you trying :slight_smile:

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id suggest reading the intro before going on about the list

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Well I had other points too.

And yes I did read almost everything before replying everything other than that last line with stun bomb as I was looking forward to your list and for that I sincerely apologize.But still I am dying to know why Se absorber is ‘S’ and robinator ‘A’ and why is epic stun bomb ‘S’ and throw/bloodcrave(which with some support including heal easily took me 300+ already) is at lower rank, nothing you could given in intro could justify this, so why not justify it now. And I don’t mean to oppose, I just am genuinely interested behind that, so please do tell :smiley:

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The only thing I disagree with is robinator at an A. I see that dude in the lineup and cringe. Not unbeatable, but that dude can ball in ic. He alone is the reason I don’t keep a protector in the front line in every uc. You do and you chances of winning are slim and none, and slim is out back banging nones sister, giving a slap and telling her that her their other sister was better. After she finishes crying he apologizes because he misspoke, her spirits are lifted and he tells her that her sister was much better and leaves never to be seen again.

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^ lol that was my whole point even if we agree to make a table/list then also it needs changes.

Mate jack you yourself said in description that we should use the starting drafts as support and later ones as sweepers , so all I am asking is you should either swap a few(quite a few Actually) monsters and then this list if not perfect then at least will become a bit meaningful , and I might not be much of a help but feel free to ask and I will try everything to help :slight_smile: improve it even though I think ratings might not even be appropriate in IC.

And Why don’t you just make separate lists for both sweepers and supporters?, in which you can have a column with sweepers and add Robinator, TDS as S (in SE section of that particular column) and a column with support monsters like absorber at S and continue in same manner. This would atleast be more accurate.