The Last Flame - Challenger Tips

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Tips for Challengers

Ive gotten ultimate victories on flame master with a variety of very different teams.

Right now im getting to act 4 about 70% of runs but i think i can do better with practice.

Have a main tank and an offtank, and maybe a 3rd character who is at least not squishy.
Have at least one good aoe dps and one good single target, they can be the same hero with the right items.
You need a good healing source, it can be a character, an origin or items.
Try to have as many supports as possible that scale your main damage dealers.
Heroes can fill multiple roles, your tank can do good damage, your dps can heal etc.
If you dont get what youre looking for in the first 5 hold your trophies and take star fights/shops to fish for more synergistic characters, dont commit to leveling heroes until you really need to, you can beat the hands with level 2-3 characters if your items and relics are good

Get your first fire asap for origin, be ready to reroll one that fits your team, enchants and resting are less important.
From there its about getting as many relics as possible.
Fight as many elites as possible.
If you get the relics that give you relics at shops/fires prioritize those.
Events are mostly not that great unless you have the relic that gives you trophies for entering them.
Try to get your fragments as early as possible for more pathing freedom/less risk later.
Resource stacking relics change your pathing priorities, gold stacking relics make shops bad, trophy stacking relics make fights better.
Options are good, try to leave the opportunity to change course depending on what you need, maybe you didnt get a good origin, maybe you need an heirloom for the legendary recipe that just dropped, maybe youre low on flame and just dont want to die etc

Smash that reroll button, flame is a resource, i routinely spend 100+ flame a run on rerolls.
Legendaries especially dont be afraid to burn 30 flame to get something that fits your team.
As long as you have enough flame to survive a wipe be aggressive with rerolls, if you sit on full flame you are losing value from flame restoration sources, if your flame is overhealing you arent using it aggressively enough
The key to winning on max difficulty is multiplicative damage scaling.
Physical teams like attack damage, crit and attack speed.
Spell teams like frost, spell power and mana regen.
Ethereal teams like amp, magic steal and attack speed.
Stun heavy teams like shock, mana regen and attack speed.
For summon or surge teams just look for the words summon/surge.
For defensive teams you need origin + items that convert max hp/defense into damage.

Be aware of your heroes targeting, focus priority targets or split damage as needed, dont spam aoe in the middle of empty space.
Know ranged vs melee enemies so you can predict where your heroes and the enemies will end up so you can position your damage/healing/buffs appropriately.
Be aware of enemy targeting like furthest hero, split damage, lowest hp etc.
There are some fights where even a gigatank cant survive all the aggro, split it up appopriately.
Dont get your heroes killed just for a hextile buff.
Generally its good to keep your team close together unless the fight punishes you for it or you have a specific hero that likes to be alone.

Hope this helps good luck out there.