User blog comment:AKFrost/Halloween Conq Leaks/@comment-76.221.83.54-20131021150536/@comment-14298960-20131021170241

People who aim for FH and SH are most likely whales so you can ignore them (top 1500-2500 rank?) after that, you can cleanly divide the FH and Sh groups. Free players will either try for FH (ill adviced due to the number oh whales and semi0whales aiming for the 5*) or SH which for all intents and purposes is much easier. Free players that aim for FH usually run dry wy before SH so SH is in essence easier as less people are comepeting and even semi-whalers are only just trying to keep their points up to say within TR.

TL;DR: SH is easier than FH in most cases, though obviously the daemon isn't as good as FH most of the time (if only because its 4* vs 5*).