Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-9897020-20141204111052/@comment-9897020-20141206112546

Some of my thoughts I forgot to post earlier- mainly on the defence side, since OP attack daemons are so readily available these days for all three types. This is going to be really long but do bear with me ^^"

I think Divina defence probably has the best cards at the moment as Zynga has been continuously shoving it down our throats. As a result it's really popular (so popular it's starting to get really, really boring), but how well does it stack up against all them Anima whales?

Phantom defence doesn't have as many amazing cards, but I reckon it probably has the best chance of pulling off a successful counter against whales since there are far less OP chains in Divina attack to deal with. However, it's only marginally better than Divina defence at doing so and has the added difficulty of having to deal with good free player Divina teams too.

As for anima defence... oh dear. It's pretty clear Phantom attack is super-OP these days (there has been a 15k+ or higher Phantom in LRS every month except August and a ton of good ones in recent events) and there's also been a significant increase in Anima defence reducers available to free players, to the point where average free player phantom teams can have a decent chance of winning against good Anima defence teams. On top of that Anima is now the only type that hasn't had an easily accessible dramatic defence booster (Leviathan and Cinderella were LRS and Nostra was FH, while Lottery Lottie was normal RS and Yohen was bell) that people can lead with and scare potential attackers off with.

I'm wondering if this is because Zynga wants to prevent Anima whales that run Vestments/Mira lead from becoming too powerful- allow them to boast amazing attack teams, but limit their ability to defend in exchange. The lack of Anima in GCQ is also quite apparent... maybe Zynga is making Animas 'limited' so that the Anima whales will all go crazy and spend a ton whenever a new Anima comes out (though, this is entirely limited to Anima attack daemons).

Thoughts?