Empires & Puzzles - Analytical view of Alfrike in War Defense

[@jfosss928]

I must say I’m incredibly impressed, breakdown of each hero, by position and modifier is a whole level of knowledge the community has never really had. Only 20 appearances at rush tank in a year for the riddle? It has to be someone extremely obscure, that few people ever leveled. It would probably be hero the is incredibly underestimated in that format and probably not purple due to just the volume of purple tanks in rush. I’m going crazy off the rails and guessing Atomos. If I could guess a second time it would be Neith.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

I like your train of thought JFosss! You are correct that it would be someone obscure. But I actually think a lot of people have this hero leveled, but underestimate its potential. You'll know soon if you are right!

[@danielbest8733]

Great info! Apparently I’m probably underutilizing Alfrike. Thanks for the great research. I think the triangular representations are very effective.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Thanks Daniel, I was trying to find a suitable visual to portray the information. I appreciate the feedback. As for Alfrike, I think she doesn't get enough credit outside of rush for the most part which is understandable because most people are scared that she won't go off. If used at tank, I highly recommend two yellow flanks. This way, when the attacker stacks up on Alfrike with holy, they are completely screwed for getting by your flanks. They wouldn't dare use darks against Alfrike, so it forces them to go neutral which may not be enough to beat through Alfrike's defenses before she fires. She obviously has be great on the wings too in most cases.

[@nevarmaor]

Yay I am mentioned in a KZbin video! One more off the bucket list :b For the riddle ... I am going to guess one of the dodgers. When they get dodging it is a royal PITA and in rush they will be firing constantly. For me the most annoying dodger is C. Kadilen so I will guess her.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Yeah, I had to give credit! Let's see if you can make it two in a row! Also, let's make this fun. Seeing as you guessed who it was and I don't exactly have prizes to hand out, why don't you pick a hero that you want to know about most and I'll bump it to the front of the list to cover after the ones I'm working on now. Make sure it is not a brand new one, it needs to have been released before December. All the new ones since then won't be covered until version 2 is complete.

[@nevarmaor]

@@ssnakepitgaming Well, none of my heroes are recent ones anyway ... :D I would be interested in seeing Onatel's breakdown. I find if I don't beat her early I don't beat her at all.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

@@nevarmaor Sounds good Nevarmaor! I'll get on her shortly!

[@dhananjay-singh]

The top Rush tank is LudwiG… must have unseated Alfrike Good analysis, lots of food for thought

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Good guess Dhananjay, and being released towards the end of the 1 year study, he does have a low count of occurrences. Thanks for your reply and I hope you enjoy the next ones too!

[@dhananjay-singh]

I have LudwiG & combine with Alfrike for rush. Eats a lot of flags….hence the guess. Keep the good work on. Cheers & my game name is : dansing007. I say it as I feel….

[@scottlaughland598]

Another great video, solid solid tank

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Sure is, and effective in other places too!

[@monodensity]

i love the techincal aspect of your videoes. I couldn't find another video in such detail of breakdown of a hero. keep it up. My take is Black Knight.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Thank you for the kind words monodensity, helps keep me going knowing that people appreciate it. Great guess, I won't keep you waiting long. I'll put this hero out soon.

[@Gargon667]

Absolutely love version 2.0 of Ssnake Pit videos! If possible even more so than the first batch :) I read through the comments, so I try pick someone else to increase chances somebody gets it right haha :) Although to be honest I don´t have the slightest clue. My guess would be maybe an older hero and probably a slow one and since you always say healer in tank: Kunchen (there are actually quite a few slow older healers out there lol) btw I was super surprised how well Alfrike does in non-tank positions! Much more so than that she´s doing well outside rush :)

[@ssnakepitgaming]

We are actually still on what I call version 1 G Pac. All the videos right now that I'm doing are based on my first year-long study. Version 2 will be updated videos with my new ongoing study to see if anything changes with the new heroes being introduced and new metas. Glad you like the hero section that i just started, and I was surprised as well about Alfrike outside of Rush. Clearly she used enough by others so some people had faith in her. Great guess with Kunchen by the way, I love this hero still. He was my first HOTM and still use him often! New hero breakdowns coming tonight and the next few days. Cheers G Pac!

[@Gargon667]

@@ssnakepitgaming sorry bad terminology on my part, just meant to say I like the individual hero breakdown even more than I did the general war type. btw especially how you handle the low sample size now :D

[@abehjhakibuuka71]

Great job at pronouncing my name not perfect, but very close. Ah-bay-jha. I’ve been reluctant to use Alfrike on D because she’s so damn slow, but thanks to your research she’s in the right wing. Would love to use her at tank, but we run green. Oh, and my guess for most used tank - Xnolphod. Thanks for all your hard work.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Sorry for mispronunciation Abehjha, I tried! Most used tank in my study was not Xnolphod, not by a longshot. Dark tanks weren't prevalent until around end August - mid September at my alliance's level and Xnolphod was still relatively new when I wrapped up recording stats for version 1. In Version 2 of my study, Xnol will most certainly be the most used if I had to guess too. My question for this video though actually surrounded which hero had the highest survivability rate in Rush, not most used. Care to try another guess?

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Also, seeing as you guessed the hero correctly, why don't you pick a hero for me to cover? I'll bump it up to the near the front of the line so you can see it sooner. It must be a hero released before December as version 1 recording stopped then. Heroes since then will be in version 2.

[@abehjhakibuuka71]

@@ssnakepitgaming Yeah, I had my suspicions about X man, only because he’s so hard to pull. My amended guess is Vivica.

[@abehjhakibuuka71]

@@ssnakepitgaming You’re too kind. I select Skadi. I only recently gave her scopes over cKrampus and Quintin, but don’t quite understand Stacks, how to get nor how they’re used. Thanks again for all the hard work and I hope this channel grows exponentially; I’ve mentioned it to my alliance, Arcane Academy.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

@Abehjha Kibuuka Great choice for the hero you want me to cover! I'll cook that one up shortly. By the way, all three of those blues are fantastic and you won't be disappointed with any of them.

[@selenewriter]

Interesting! I wonder if there were any instances of multiple Alfrikes and if that impacted things?

[@ssnakepitgaming]

There were some cases with multiple Alfrikes, but the bulk of these cases were singles. Give me some time, I'll respond back with how many and what the differences are. I suspect that those teams with multiple Alfrikes do somewhat better than a single one as this hero is pretty incredible on her own, let alone when there are 2 or more stacked up.

[@pandita_match_3]

@@ssnakepitgaming yeah we had some in our wars and they were almost unbeatable rush I’m talking like 8/9 flags each. The worst I ever saw tho was a fly trap with lidwig and her flanked with that big butterfly yellow guy in the middle …. It was so bad they just waited for respawn … that was when our war score was 130k and above tho… you won’t really see stuff like that till then

[@ssnakepitgaming]

@@pandita_match_3 Not to mention the team you describe that did so well has that Dark/Holy/Dark combo up the middle that I've described as being a top consideration for defense teams before. Yeah tough team to beat for sure. Add a reviver on the wing and people will be tossing their phones.

[@pandita_match_3]

@@ssnakepitgaming he did have MoNO on one wing and Heim on the other😅😂 …. But I don’t think they got that far …..

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Selene, sorry it took a few days to get back to you but I went over the entire spreadsheet and it was not a quick evolution. What I've found is that there were no cases of multiple Afrikes in Arrow Barrage, Attack Boost, Undead Horde, or Equalizer. Only Rush Wars had teams with multiple Alfrikes. 23 teams to be exact and each one of those had 2 Alfrikes, none with 3 or more. So, when we split off teams with a single Alfrike and Teams with 2, here are the results: Teams in Rush with 1 Alfrike in the lineup (192): 44.9% Teams in Rush with 2 Alfrikes in the lineup (23): 54.2% She's difficult to deal with when there is only 1, obviously 2 Alfrikes makes it that much harder for the attacker. Version 2 of my study which I'm collecting for now has cases with 3, so it will be interesting to see how that turns out. I hope this answered your question Selene. Cheers.

[@989msg]

So, my guess is Heimdall. My health is great at 1072 and it continues to boost health.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Mike G, I've always loved Heimdall and it's a great guess! Answer coming soon and thank you for taking a stab at it!

[@frankzhao8352]

I'm going to guess Xnolphod. That guy is intimidating to face. At least Alfrike has ways to counter like malosi, garnet, taunt heroes, etc. There's no countering Xnolphod.

[@ssnakepitgaming]

Great guess on Xnolphod. As Xnol was relatively new on the war scene when I was wrapping up version 1 recording, I can see you are playing the edge for relatively low usage. That and I mentioned dark tanks was most popular for rush in a different video. You've been listening and it is a logical guess. I almost have Kadilen/Costumed Kadilen video done, and once complete, I'll put out the one that answers: who at tank in rush gave the highest survivability rate to their team. Stay tuned!