Vermin Guide

## Characteristics of the dragon

### Strengths

* High damage over time, in the case of a large number of burn statuses, increases to the level where one attack can kill the entire team
* He is appling healing block status, which makes it harder for the party to recover from an attack.
* Removes all buffs before it attacks the squad, including immunities that could disable its damage ability

### Weaknesses

* Not immune to most of the statuses
* Low value of ACC attribute

## Team Selection

The most important element of the strategy against Vermin is protection against his ability to impose statuses. We can do this in two ways. In this strategy we will use characters that remove statuses, Vermin imposes several of them, so it is worth having two such characters in your squad:

**Recommended characters for status removal**

Afterburn status, unfortunately, deals a lot of damage before your characters can move, and while the worst effects are wiped out by removing it, you will still need a lot of team healing and healing potions. Therefore, it is also worth considering an alternative strategy, based on building sufficiently high resistance values in the team. Vermin has an ACC value of 4 to 150 (depending on dragon level), which means that an RES value of 104 to 250 will prevent him from uploading any statuses, almost completely disabling him. However, trying to extract such values is difficult, but possible with the right characters. Extracting RES only from artifacts is ineffective, rather we should look for other sources. First, an effective method is to select the right leader for the team. At the moment we have 4 characters that are suitable for this

RES Leaders

An additional element that increases resistance is the advantage of colors, each blue hero receives an additional 30 RES against Vermin. Another effective move is to lower the dragon's ACC value by applying the appropriate status. Unfortunately, there is currently no blue character with this status and the list of these characters is limited. However, it is possible that this will change in the future. An additional difficulty is the fact that we have to give a lot of points in RES anyway, so building ACC at the same time will be very difficult. We currently have the following selections from non-green characters: Syllis, Corrim, and Circe. Only the latter has the skills that will enable us to do so.

Recommended Heroes that apply Decrease Accuracy status

Additionally, the yellow dragon Bastet can impose this status on Vermin. Unfortunately, not often enough. Then the connection with Arma can protect us if something pass through.

We can also raise the RES value through a cabinet, it will give us an additional 0 -40%. Additionally, each character has 15% base RES, which in total gives us a maximum of 125% RES + 40% ACC reduction of the dragon if we put the status on him. Thus, it remains to extract 125% RES (or 80% with a reduce accuracy status) from artifacts or passive abilities to make the character completely immune to dragon statuses 6.6. Obviously, the required number decreases with dragon level.

Despite the drastic reduction of the damage caused by the dragon with this method, in most cases we will still need a doctor to support our team. An exception may be the lineup attacking with HP or DEF. Then it may turn out that the support of the dragon N'agash or healing potions. may be enough. The best doctors in their star levels that we have at our disposal using a high RES factor are:

Recommended healers for RES strategy

Naturally, you can choose a different doctor, or as I mentioned before, try to build a squad without him using the green dragon and healing potions. However, you must remember that the dragon will remove all defense statuses from the heroes before it deals any damage. This means that many may not be as effective as they could, which of course does not exclude their choice.

We have a few places left to build a reasonable damage value, which will give us a general score. Again, we should remember that Vermin removes statuses, so attackers with HP or those that apply a damage-increasing status before the attack are better suited. (It is not required, but it makes the game easier) It is best if the characters are blue. It is also worth thinking about a character that reduces the dragon's defense, imposes vulnerability, or reduces the dragon's speed or attack. Especially if we decide on the characters that heal little, or in the RES approach, we decide to go without a doctor at all. We already have little space in the team so we certainly won't be adding all the buffs. The exception is having Mayra.

Best attack support

If we do not have her, it is worth looking for a character that offers the status of reducing the defense at least. Vermin is not immune to this status and it is worth taking advantage of the fact

Other attack supports

Vermin has a relatively high level of RES, which makes it difficult to superimpose statuses. However, if we invest in ACC for one character, the cost can be returned by increasing the damage or survivability of the remaining heroes accordingly. Vermin has a RES ranging from 7-250 depending on the level. So the goal is to achieve an ACC in the range of 0-235 depending on the dragon level. The ACC must be as high as possible to reach a value as close as possible to 85%. It is not required to reach this ceiling, but it would be worth having at least 50% chance of applying them. 30% can be obtained from the advantage of colors, from 0% - 40% from the cabinet. Additionally, if we do not use the high RES strategy, we may be tempted to choose the ACC leader. In addition to the above-described Jaspur and Gadora, we also have:

Other ACC Leaders

We complement the team with characters whose goal will be to build a point value, i.e. damage. Among such characters, the following heroes stand out in particular:

Recommended Damage Dealers

Naturally, these are not all the heroes that we can use in the fight against the dragon, but in my opinion they are the most effective in their groups. However, every blue attacker will do.

## Sample Teams

Knowing the strengths and weaknesses of Vermin and knowing which heroes will be effective in the fight against the dragon, and what we have at our disposal, we can choose the team. When choosing, it is worth considering the colors of the heroes and their interaction with each other. The following champion layouts will be the best matchups for Vermina.

* mono blue squad - will make full use of the color advantage, but a large penalty for collecting mana will be applied to allies. Additionally, in this list, the dragon will attack the hero with the lowest EHP, so you should think about taking Otelin with you to force the dragon to attack him.
* 4 +1 - Four characters should be blue in this setup. A character not blue will attract the dragon's attention, which we can use to our advantage, if we set its DEF and HP values high. Blue heroes will have a color advantage dealing increased damage, while they will have a moderate mana collection penalty for allies.
* 3 + 2 - In this setup, it is best to choose three blue heroes who should attack and 2 of a different color act as supports. The dragon will attack a non-blue hero with a lower EHP, so all non-blue characters should have high durability. Three heroes will have a small mana-gathering penalty for allies. However, focusing only on two colors will more than compensate for it.
* 2 + 2 + 1 - the most economical setting when it comes to collecting mana, while as many as 3 characters will be taken into account when searching for the weakest target by the dragon. Therefore, it is worth adding a character dedicated to drawing the dragon's attention with a taunt or provocation, or make sure that all 3 have high EHP.

Here are few sample team's setups:

## Gameplay

There are two things you need to pay attention playing with status removal strategy. First, try to make sure that the character that removes conditions is loaded with mana after the dragon's move, so that the statuses are removed as soon as they appear. Secondly, it is worth taking the red stones from the dragon just before its turn. This will reduce the frequency of imposing negative statuses on us. In addition, during the game, before the dragon moves, you need to make sure that the character that will be attacked by the dragon has the appropriate number of health points, in the case of a small amount, he must be treated with healing potions. It is worth taking two types of such potions to heal differently depending on the need. Also, it's a good idea to take the potions that remove statuses from all characters with you. Vermin has a chance to impose a healing block on the party, so you need to remember to use the Arbor skill first, which removes the statuses, and then the Guinevere ability for example. I recommend the following set of potions:

With a high RES strategy, you don't need that much stone pick-up, and you can focus more on building up your team's mana. However, in the case of characters that impose buffs, such as Aurora, you need to remember to activate this skill after the dragon moves, and preferably on the turn in which the character using the buff moves. It is also good to synchronize the speed of the heroes, or to set the supports equally 50% faster than the attackers. Then more often we will have a series of 5 moves with the use of a buff. Still, you have to remember to heal the character attacked by the dragon before its movement, for this purpose we use healing potions. If our squad has a good doctor and we have no problem keeping the team alive, we can try potions that increase damage, such as poison or potion of strength (the latter only in the case of attackers based on the ATK attribute), fill the rest of the potion slots with mana and health bottles .

Just before the frenzy, it is worth recharging the skills of our attackers with the remaining mana bottles to take advantage of the negative statuses imposed on the dragon, before he removes them and thus improve your score a little more.

If you got some other tips or ideas how to beat the dragon, do not hesitate and write the comment below.

Good luck dragon hunters !

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