Hi,
I hope i won't bother you too much, but i've been lurking this topic since i started OPTC, and... i'm looking for some advice on my team comp / goals.
Right now this is my team :
And this is my box atm (Started a game during the anniversary event)
Right now my goal is to replace Arlong by Koala (I need more levels for the cost), but i'm kinda lost on what would be the best comp i could use with my characters (Especially for the captain spot)...
Thank you very much !
Welcome! I'll try to cover advice that hasn't yet been given to you in other posts in this thread, but it actually seems like you know what you're doing since you haven't evolved your Legend yet at your player level(<----I did this at your level, lol).
It's good that you've kept a spare Zoro; Ashura Zoro is still a standout unit due to being a F2P 9-hit combo unit which is super handy during turtle time(that half hour period that happens twice a day every Monday and Friday when you can farm evolvers). You can use
this site to find out when your account should be getting turtle times(it's different for everybody based on the 6th digit of their ID). Buffalo is also an excellent unit for quickly clearing turtle time to get as many runs in as possible. Daimyo turtles have 15 HP so I tend to bring two 9-hit units and two 6-hit units like Golden Pound Usopp and Captain Fullbody to quickly clear them. I see you have fortnight Hina; next time she comes around you'll want to do your best to get a copy of Captain Fullbody and get his special up, as at max it can instakill an elder turtle on the last stage making farming turtles waaaay faster.
That spare Luffy that evolves into the 8-hit Gear 2nd Luffy isn't going to have as much use as Ashura Zoro unless you use Buffalo as a captain which, not gonna lie, can actually be incredibly powerful. It's a quirky team that's often a hassle to plan out since the damage calculator doesn't support it yet, but Buffalo can clear Shiki, one of the hardest raids in the game. So it's probably worth hanging on to that spare Luffy too.
You've got both Mirage Tempo Nami and Golden Pound Usopp ready, which is excellent. Any extra Strawhats that you get in the future can be fed to your most used version of that character to get sockets, although I'd probably save one each of Usopp and Nami for their own super evolutions, although Usopp is just a slightly stronger Golden Pound Usopp(GPU) with a slightly worse cooldown. You'll rely on GPU 99% of the time and can thus be safely ignored if you like. Chopper and Sanji are both straight upgrades, and we don't know if Brook, Robin, and Franky will get super evolutions of their story variants yet.
If you read the above paragraph and don't know what sockets are, well, let's go. If you've played Final Fantasy 7, think of sockets as materia. Every character has a fixed number of slots for sockets, and sockets give different powers with some sockets being blatantly better than others. You gain one random socket each time you feed a copy of any variant of a character onto itself. Kind of wordy, but it's the most precise way of saying it. For example, you can feed 5+ Luffy any copy of Luffy you like, from the unevolved original starting Luffy, the fortnight variant Afro Luffy, the raid variant Nightmare Luffy, even the Legend variants Log Luffy and Timeskip Luffy(never ever do this unless you want to make me cry). A socket triggers for your entire party with scaling effects(Lv. 1, Lv. 2, Lv. 3, etc) once you hit a certain number of that socket type between your entire party. For example, anti-bind sockets trigger for Lv. 1 with 10 sockets between your entire party, and trigger Lv. 2 with 15 sockets. If sockets seem confusing, don't worry, I went about a month into the game before I started worrying about them at all and they're definitely a mid to late game feature that can be safely put off at your level. Understanding them to make goals for yourself will help you in the future, however.
Finally, you've got three excellent rainbow leads(Rayleigh, Gear 3rd, 5+ Luffy) and have heard good advice about how to use all of them, but not when you should pick one over the other. I'll try to shed some ideas on it. With all of them being Fighters, the selection criteria is a bit trickier.
-Rayleigh is the easiest of them all to use, and is the 2nd safest of them too since he can still do good damage even if you don't mash all your perfects. Pick him when playing casually, he'll see you through almost anything and can clear almost everything too. And the best part is, he can work with almost any color or class.
-Gear 3rd is a powerful glass cannon most suited to clearing DEX content, definitely the hardest to use, BUT if you're comfortable using him I'd encourage you to keep using him until you at the very least farm Mihawk, as Gear 3rd can demolish Mihawk easily. After that I'd suggest retiring him unless you're following a specific clearing guide for a piece of content that uses Gear 3rd that you don't think you can do with either Rayleigh or TS Luffy. Gear 3rd does have excellent clear rates, after all.
-5+ Luffy is the safest of the three, and middle of the pack in terms of ease of use. He's a very slightly weaker Gear 3rd in damage but with a much better special and slight HP boost. Use him when you're not going to be bringing GP Usopp but will still need to use a delay. But ALSO use him alongside friend Timeskip Luffy, as he's your most reliable Free Spirit lead for easy clearing. You have Senor Pink, SW Franky and Jabra for orb boosters, Koala is a Free Spirit who boosts all of your Fighters which TS Luffy, 5+ Luffy, and Senor Pink all are. Buffalo is a low cooldown orb randomizer that will work VERY well with Timeskip Luffy's effect, as will Blue Gilly who will let you get orbs on your most critical units. Between these two, almost full matching orbs is very possible, although Raid Ivankov would potentially fit better over Buffalo as they are also a fighter/free spirit that scrambles orbs. Although you're guaranteed three matching orbs between Buffalo, Gilly, and Senor Pink.
This is the damage you'd be looking at, 2 million to every class and 3 million to STR units. Slightly higher with Gear 3rd, but more risky if you mess up since they're all one-turn boosters and have no orb locker.
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