Casino Lines

Casino is a defender hero released when you enter the first Dimension.

## Example Casino Lineups for arena

There are a lot of variations possible. The most used lineup includes the following heroes, but usually players play it in a different order:

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In essence, Casino uses his skill on turn 1 or turn 2, before the enemy's high damage characters use their skills. This will allow you to get the first big hit since the enemy does not have enough focus to use their main skills on turn 2/3. As a bonus, if Casino wins with the Try the Luck skill #2 passive, he will block an additional hero from doing anything but do a basic attack. In Summit Arena, it is not good to do this, due to the increased damage of the heroes there, while in regular Arena, this is fine.

The other heroes do good damage with the comboing. Heytex is placed in slot #3 here. If an enemy Casino gets his skill off, this would mean that Heytex's skill will still be launched on turn #3.

## Requirements

### Gear

Casino can wear his own gear set Tycoon or use the Mental Control set for additional focus gain. Casino with the Tycoon gear should be a slow-attacker. This allows him to get his skill off at turn #1 if he gets two attacks on him in the first turn before his own attack. Some players like to gear him with Super Core gear.

The gear for Heytex is usually Resolute. If using Tycoon or Mental Control on Casino, then Ricardo should hold Super Core. The others can choose to go for damaging gear such as Resolute or one Alpha Bless set. Buccaneer by default wears the Ripper gear set due to availability of the set and because of the increase in basic attacks damage counting for his skills. Heytex should be faster than all heroes except Ricardo in the lineup, so others can synergise with Heytex's rockets. Make sure he has higher LUK. Ricardo has an initiative boost, making it not necessary to invest in much LUK for him to be faster than Heytex.

### Car Modifications

Casino slows the game down, since he denies enemies from using their focus skills. Since the game lasts for more rounds in the Arena anyways, it is best invest in these later rounds.
V-Engine (if still going for LUK) or Super-Exhaust Engine, Portable Missile Launcher weapon, Thorn Barrier or Alloy Bumper, and the Car First Aid Kit are recommended. The New World Protector is the most used APC.

## Weaknesses

This is a current meta line. It is a very strong lineups so it is hard to counter. Although the author of this guide thinks the full potential of Casino is not used yet in the current meta's, it is easiest to adhere to it.

* This lineup is only available in the Dimensions and many players run a variant of it.
* There is no Buri in this first lineup, making the lineup vulnerable to high spike damage such as from Heytex. Some variations do have him though
* Even at max level, Casino's skill has a decent chance to fail. This makes it a liability to use in PvP outside of the Arena in main lineups.
* Versus other Casino lines, it is a matter of which Casino hits his ability first and also how the enemy lines are positioned. A Casino using his skill turn 1 may not always block skills of Heroes in slots #1 and #2, assuming the use of Super Core gear. A Casino using his skill on turn 2 will not block the ability of the enemy in the backline on slot #3.
* Casino's skill only makes the enemy lose 200 points of focus. The skill itself also grants the enemy 100 focus for striking them (first it grants 100 focus, then reduces total focus by 200). If they do not have max focus, the reduction is thus only 100.
* Placing your backline hero in slot #3 instead of slot #4 or #5 will make the still use their skill versus an enemy Casino on turn #3. (If not targeted by his passive Try the Luck).

## Variations

Many players have similar lines, but swap few heroes to get more general synergy, to get more out of their Policy Cards, or for the Faction Bonus.

Here is a variant using Buri to prevent high spike damage. This lineup can be used in normal Arena. In the Summit Arena, the Heytex and Victoria are usually in separate lineups.

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This second lineup is used by the author as an underdog lineup in the Summit Arena. It only uses a low quality Casino. It is focused on single-target backline damage and countering backline-lineups by denying the strong hero on turn 3, 4 and potentially 5 (if still alive) with Casino and Buccaneer. Casino must wear Mind Control gear in order to use his ability on turn #2.

Note that Ricardo and Buccaneer are usually placed in a Heytex Carry Lineup. For the Summit Arena, it is not a matter of winning one battle guaranteed with a very strong lineup, but winning a second one with a weaker line. Balancing the strengths by spreading the strong Heroes in this case can be beneficial. Laurel or Hughie can be used instead of Blanche to decrease the randomness of this lineup's targeting.

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