i won a war once with out even fire off 1 special skill i got 23 combos and killed them that way, my team power was 3850 going against a team that had a team power 0f 4020
That's where I think that randomness applies. Sometimes, I will get a very good board where the opponents won't touch me at all. Sometimes, I will get aboardwhere I'm annihilated before I can power up any of my Mana.
Can you please let me know how you get 5 star hero’s past level 50? I notice you have really high level ups even though it says they’ve been maxed out.
I do not agree with you in fact what you explain is a serious mistake of many players who see things with a linear thought and lose progress for the same reason. Usually there are very few who start to upload a hero and they can finish uploading it on the same day if it is your case give it all the same color if on the same day you can take it to the maximum now the great but the majority of players are He will tame and he does it in several steps and waiting to have heroes of that color to feed him or to spend resources to get a specific color is the mistake in that case it is more worth spending a little more food and upload the hero mixing colors and upload it faster since that way you can have more power and advance more in the game and get more resources, for this a big but big mistake is that what you have to do is concentrate all your efforts on a single hero and raise it to the maximum And not stop or continue with another until you cannot upload it more is the best way and in this aspect to do the opposite after 3 years playing the game I must say that it is the worst thing that can be done since this slows down progress and a lot
Food is the scarcest resource in the game, so if you have too much, you need to use it on something. Either train heroes, level troops, or put emblems on maxed heroes.
[another] Honorable mention: not fleeing a battle when A) you can't do substantial damage and B) they're about to heal/potentially resurrect. (especially relevant during field aid!)
@@astralmindny9055 I'm not sure if you're joking or serious, but if it's the latter, you're wrong. There are plenty of instances where fleeing will help your alliance more than staying and fighting. Picture the following situation: You're down to one hero left who has about 100hp. You've taken out three heroes on the other team, but the wings - Alberich and Magni - are still alive. Both are around 50% health and both have their skills ready. You don't have the tiles to ensure beating either of them. Sharkey's approach: Flee, take the 25 points or so and one of his teammates has relatively simple clean-up of two half-defeated wings. Lots of room in the middle to ghost tiles. Godmind's approach: stay and fight! Connect three tiles against Alby and do 150 damage. Then Alby fires his special, heals himself and Magni and resurrects Kunchen (tank) and Gravemaker. Then Magni takes out Godmind's last hero. Now Godmind's teammates have a much more difficult cleanup with no area to ghost tiles, and Godmind gets much fewer points for the flag. You're telling me you think it's better to stay and fight? And if you still aren't convinced, go watch Mr. Roar's alliance battle video from the other day. He himself fled one of the battles, IIRC. Even if it's a regular healer and not Alby or Mother North, the principle is the same.
This video is absolutely fantastic. So educational. I just posted it to my alliance telling everyone to watch it. I mean, you just summed up so many issues in one solid vid, I am just in awe of the intelligence here. Great job bro. You are an asset to the entire E&P community.
When you started talking about War flags I couldn't agree more. It's super frustrating to have members not use all flags. There were times where we won by 1 point and vice versa all because of a flag
I have lucked out, my alliance is so good about using all flags. There are times when someone totally spaced out that they had one or two left, but on average we have 100% participate. It's awesome!
Michelle, you have described my alliance quite well. I kind'a understand when they have 6 flags left (ie did not log in during the war), but we have many members who finish with 4, 2 or 1 flag remaining. I think the excuse for 1-flaggers is that their last team was too weak to have an impact on the war. That issue is dealt with in this video so no need to continue with that. But how do you finish with 4 flags left? We have 24hrs in which to use them. You can be at lunch break at work, on the bus/train, on your couch at home, at the fast food outlet waiting for your order to get done. How many minutes does a battle take? I've left 2 alliances before because the majority never fought titans or used war flags. I like my current alliance friends and if not for them, I would have left weeks ago.
I never use up all flags, because I only keep 10 heroes, so it's enough to form 2 teams, sometimes I manage to form a third, super weak team with newly summoned heroes.
@@Robert-zc5be you have 24 hours to prep for war so in that time and during a war do not level you heroes. Instead you should keep all heroes and use 6 flags. After that you can start leveling again
@@vyduong2626 Everything is wrong with it. It's a gross waste of time. They should honestly do away with the animation all together. Just trust and tap the screen.
It is ridiculous. The animation also makes this grand show about it, and makes it look like your hero will change in appearance, when it doesn’t. It is a waste of time.
Rant on Randomness from a Programmer's Perspective lol What's funny about randomness in a piece of software is that computers cannot be *truly* random. They don't have thoughts the way humans do. There's a mathematical formula used to *emulate* randomness. And all mathematical formulas inevitably have a pattern to it. For example, the Java algorithm for Math.random function returns a "pseudo-random" number with an equal chance of getting each number within a given range. What happens over thousands of iterations is that you see patterns form in the "randomness" and an *even* distribution of numbers generated by the function. ------ Board generation example: Based on how they sort heroes in the hero roster by color, we can assume SG has the following numbers assigned to each color: Purple 0 Yellow 1 Blue 2 Green 3 Red 4 So when they generate the board, they'll create all the tiles and generate a random whole number between 0 and 4 for each tile to determine the color of each tile. Since the algorithm only generates 35 tiles per initial board (and a couple tiles at a time when they pop up), it *seems* random. You'll need a much much larger sample size to find if one color shows up more than another in a statistically significant way. An expert player (like you!) knows that each new tile has exactly a 1 in 5 chance of being the color you want. So unlocking the randomness helps you turn the board in your favor... like setting up diamonds from tiles that aren't even on the board yet.
I binge watched your entire beginner E & P episodes last night. I am soooo thankful for all the knowledge that you have shared! Now I don't feel so lost! I have been playing blindly for 2 months doing all the wrong things. I haven't joined an alliance yet because I was too scared of the unknown. Now i know what to focus on and feel much better. Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Absolutely! Head over to the forum to find alliances that are recruiting. There’s alliances for beginners, experts, and everyone in between. forum.smallgiantgames.com/
Hi my name is Mimi. I am nine years old. I am the leader of Alliance called Let’s go fight.I got a question. Can you please teach me how to talk to other Alliance leaders?
Hi Mimi, I’ve been looking for a good forum for some time. There is an official game forum (which can be accessed from Options\Support\Ideas&Feedback) to chat with other active players and to discuss game strategy, new features and etc. It might be not a perfect one, but it’s a good start. There are also some chat rooms in Discord. Hope, this is helpful 😉
Minimum # of SAME coloured feeders to max a hero. 3*. 4*. 5* 1* 278 / 932 / 1965 2* 108 / 360 / 759 3* 67 / 222 / 468 1965, 1* feeders to max a 5* hero 67, 3* feeders to max a 3* hero **More if you use off coloured feeders **
I have been watching videos by the veteran players of the game. Thank you so much for sharing these comprehensive tips! Really useful to improve in playing the game. I just really have to be patient in doing things in the game, like leveling up heroes and fighting in raids. 😀
Hi there I’m new at this game I’ve been watching your vids I really like them . How long have you been playing ? And can I be a really good player without spending a tone of money on it ? Please reply
This expenditure of REAL MONEY is the main part that all these giants of the game FAIL to leave out. Also, the massive amount of time invested in an account like this🤷♂️🤷♂️
Has SG made some player comprising, yes. Does it suck, yes. Do we remember Telluria in her original form? It was tough but not unbeatable. For heroes that are “nerfed” I think SG should offer more than a 20% return on the resources spent. If a product is labeled and sold as something specific then altered later it’s theft. For example, there are lightbulbs with built in speakers on the market. If you bought a set and then 3 months later they stoppedd the speaker functionality would you only expect to 20% return? Or would you be content (well they still are light bulbs)? The time/resources/money investment is stolen. This shouldn’t be the stock market where one day a good hero is good and the next it’s not. Costume Kiril heals and does -34% attack and def. No one is complaining about that. But who is next? Finley, Jabberwock, Gravemaker? I’m a c2p for context, I don’t spend hundreds on the game each week/month like some. Anyway, thanks for the conversation @nittanylionroar
Sorry nittany my english is not the best so i think i am a mid Player so i do not unterstand should i level for example 4 or 5 heroes at the same time with the same color or just level 1 hero with the same color, omg iam finished with my question 😂😂 thx for ur advice
F2p has been the most amazing journey. No luck in summons and so forth for the first months. I learned to kick the ass of so much better heroes with my 2*s. Then up my game when I finally got my luck in the game I knew most of the tricks to take down those heroes and which were the worst to meet and so on. Im still far from done, But in my soon 1 year played Ive managed all the needed boulding to 20 and the hunters logde done. Made a few lucky 5*s from Investing all the saved up hero tokkens, and using all the w/e flasks during the more important events like Atlantis and Challange events. Today im a 56 lvl player with 9 event 5* heroes, 30+ maxed 4*s and over 40 3*s. Kickin ass and getting in the top 1k in every monthly event and makin sure Im in an active clan and Does my part. So even if you are a hardcore Cardswiper or want to play for free, this game works for you.
That's awesome! Way to kick butt! I used to do free to play, but I got sucked into the vip pass, I like having more than 1 building going. This will be good to see for people who say f2p is impossible to get anywhere.
Gwen Troy Thx! Appretiate it! F2p or p2p, we all have the game in common which is the most important thing to remember :)). May the Tile-gods be good to you ;)
One more mistake, not sure if helpful: don't waste PvP flags. by fighting other players, you can a) improve your ranking and gain better loots b) test out new combination of heroes incl. their specials and how they work best together c) prepare teams for war raids to be more effective in wars and help your alliance to win
Thanks for the ghosting tip. I has no idea. So it’s better to ghost more to assemble diamonds and heads and use hero’s to kill? Do I have that right? Two months in the game, still learning. Thanks for the video’s. Discovered them by accident. Enjoying them.
Having triples of any one card is ridiculous regardless of what people try to tell you . You only have 6 attack teams so you're going to have one card in three of your attack teams nope (except for a few top tier cards)Not even in mono It would make a proper stack impossible.
Watched this and decided to quit the game. No way I will ever get to that level. I have been playing for years, can't afford to spent real money an I still only have 2 five star cards. Nice vid though
msb1123 - you can only ascend a costumed hero if the underlying hero is ascended (meaning, ascend the uncostumed hero first, then level up and ascend the costumed version).
Great video like always ! Can i ask you if u can make video where u will show which talent path you took for your main heroes ? I know u made video what we should focus on, but when we have to chose 2% mana or maybe % of def what should we choose and if u can show us your paths with explanation it would be great
Great tips! I see you upload regularly. I'm a free to play E&P player and it would take forever to earn enough gems for a 10 pull, so I usually do 1 or 2 (at the previous Alantis I did 3 pulls with the coins). If I want another hero, I can't wait till 2600 gems to pull. What do you think of leveled up (but not ascended) 2* heroes? I've reached the point where I have enough 3* heroes and my 4* are strong enough to finish season 1. With all the leveled 2*'s on my list, its difficult to level up 10 of the same colour simultaneously.
Nice video. I like how you talked about the low percentages of getting 5 stars and you've got a tonne of them! You've definitely put the time into the game though
I fed a gravemaker to level up my first one faster because I didn't know any better. I did the same thing with Margaret but that one dies hurt as bad lol
Hi Nittany, thank you for all your video's. I have learnt so much from watching your channel. One thing I do need to ask, why do you have the animation sounds on when you summon? Are you able to turn the volume down on them because it seems very loud. Other than that, please dont stop with your video's, they are always very informative.
Omg 5 Neiths?! Too bad you can't combine them into one good 5*. lol Yes yes, I know some people think she's good. I'm just as happy I got Kingston instead of her.
Totally disagree about you saying the 10 pull is better just because of the value rather than single pull for a 5 star , I've got 19 five stars and 18 of them came from single pulls and I've done a ton of 10 pulls way more than single pulls and gotten more 5 stars on single pulls than doing 10 pulls and that goes for 25 of my alliance members aswell they all have done far better on single pulls than 10 pulls so theres no way we just all got lucky that way . Single pulls and challenge coins and Atlantis coins single summons are better to get 5 stars it's a fact.
Not impressed at all with this game. It is a money grab and nobody will convince me otherwise. The only time I get good boards is when I don’t need good boards. And does one of your training camps seriously setting on 1281 days?? All I can say is this guy did not get this without spending a sh*t ton of money.
Good video for beginners, the only issue; you talked about Ghosting three times but you never truly explained what Ghosting is. You did a good explanation of what not to do but no explanation of why you should Ghost.
J Roc I suppose I could have stated it more clearly, but I show an example of how ghosting is more powerful at the end when I do it to charge my heroes faster and slow them down.
Great vid on silly mistakes, but how about a vid on setting up from scratch. Like what things do, what to buy, how to use items. In other words, a vid for newbies???
@@Jannesverige I've done both, and the single pull works better for me. I know for a fact I'll yield far better results doing 30 single pulls, as opposed to 3 ten pulls. I have 43 5* heroes, and only 15-17 of them from 10 pulls, and I've done a lot of 10 pulled. If you want to get technical, I think they sort of (sort of) developed an algorithm for the 10 pull summons, and you don't start to get anything good until your 3rd or 4th 10 pull, individual summons is harder to develope an algorithm for, mainly because of the free summons token, Atlantis coin, and it's just harder because they are individuals. The underlying factor is how much energy you put into the summons; 10 pull or individual. If you pull with the mindset that your not going to get anything, then you won't, it's all about energy!!!
I learned the 'use all war flags no matter what' when my alliance tied. all we needed was 1 pt, so of course, people with uwf were kicked! Your videos are always super informative which really helps us that are still learning!
Hey there, I hope you answer this. I've been playing this game for about a week. Please fill us in on how long we should expect to take to reach a decent level. I spend hours and don't get very far. Could you give advice to beginners? I don't understand why I can't level up my healer beyond 20. Stuff like this. Advice for newbies please 🙏🤷♀️thank you. Are you really waiting 120+ days to get a warrior?
@@LionRoarGamer I haven't gotten very far I'm at the end of part one, I just discovered that we can craft as many of anything that I have the food, etc that needed. I made 100 minor portions. Whhyyhy? I can't believe how much money I spent I had no intention to. This is a greedy game. I still got junk. 🙄
If you feed a hero to another hero and both are somewhat leveled, Does the hero that was fed get the experience from the hero that it had already been upgraded?
Yeah it kind of pisses me off that some people on my team don't use their war flags. But I'm not a team leader so there's not much I can do about it. The only rule the leader and co leader do enforce is if you don't play for 5 or 7 days you will get kicked off the team. The other 2 rule's are you have to fight in team wars if you hit the participation check mark this not enforced on a regular basis. And the other rule is you have to fight the Titans or dragons or whatever which generally everyone does on the team but not always. The leader that created the team dosen't enforce the rules they made. The leader only shows up once a day or Skips a day. Even the co leader doesn't enforcement the rules. But the co leader more so make the decisions of who to kick or promote or demote on the team. No body chats much. And only a small handful do chat not very often. The co leader was a a hole to me once for trying to help another team mate with a question about the game. It's true I didn't know what I was talking about at the time because I didn't know as much as I know now Heroes and puzzles game. But other than that the co leader is cool and okay we get along fine. And I help kick the people off who don't play for a week because I'm a Elder on the team. I kind of like that no one has to chat if you don't want to and if have questions someone will answer if and when they can if they know the answer. And the people that do chat are nice and polite most of the time. One day I am going to make my own alliance because the Alliance I'm in kind of sucks because the leader and co leader don't enforce the rules properly on a regular basis and they or anyone else isn't doing anything to make the Alliance better as a whole. This Alliance I'm on is called dragon society clan. And we have 10 open spots for new members. I think it's a good alliance to start on if you're new to Heroes and puzzle game in general. You can build up your base or team or teams get what you need and move on when you're ready and join another Alliance or make your own alliance. I have googled and watched as many RUclips videos as I can to become a better player in Heroes and puzzles. Thanks for these videos they are very helpful.
Ultimately you decide how to play the game and what alliance to be in. It’s just a game, loyalty is a nice trait but only for the leaders, not for yourself.
@@LionRoarGamer thanks for responding I know it's just a game and I do plan on making my own alliance one day. You have to check out the alliance see what I mean about it.😏
I agree with this video. However a small notion, when lower players use unleveled 3* heroes to cleanup, it's sometimes better to not ghost tiles because their specials can't deal enough damage to the enemy heroes. That's probably where the mistake comes from
I would also add: using diamonds to do elementary summons from the normal portal, instead of running tc20. Save diamonds for anything you *cannot* get from tc20. Another tip not everyone realises quickly is to use tc11 to store feeder heroes and tc20 to store food (and now you can use hero Academy to store iron, in troop training).
Thankyou!! The tips on not using strong duplicates & resisting randomness madness really helped....also thankyou for reminding others about the importance of togetherness in an alliance...I began playing in January. I joined my alliance at level 7...now I'm level 28 and they are like another family...many have come and gone. We all really try hard and it is frustrating when someone uses no flags in war or on Titan...
I cant tell you how many 5* Ive fed to themselves. Even just lastnight...my reason is saving space and thinking I will not need a 2nd one or pointless redoing a whole other dupe..hmm maybe Ill change my ways. Right now I have so so many 5* to level im losing my mind. Its too many to focus on all at once. Im using different strats now and realize how easy it is to run low on food. I need to continue building up my farms theyre a bit neglected. Mines are up to date all food and iron storages are maxed just gotta do the farms. Great advice tho. Will make some changes.
Great video..posted it for a members of our alliance..we are mostly new players with little experience, but with the heart of a lion...this helps tremendously!! Thx...i signed up for your channel after watching this..
Great stuff, just started playing the game. Already figured most of these stuff by my self but learned few things I didn't know. Thank you, like and subscribe.
Ive been playing for MONTHS and still only have 1 5* hero. How in the world do you have so many and not have spent an absolute ton of cash on gems to power up things? I love this game but it goes at snails pace and the item I need to even ascent my 4* heros are so hard to come by :-(
To be honest , Randomness algorithm is not really well programmed. Its not really random. I have seen many many people pulling 10x and getting 3 5* heroes. And most people getting 1 or 2 4* heroes . I mean. In a statistical point of view , If you pull do many heroes the random factor should be minimized and the more you pull the more likely the probability gets closer to the percentage mentioned in the hint about the summon.
Random is random. That’s not how probability works...the odds don’t get better the more you summon. If you summon one hero, you have 1.3% chance of getting the HOTM and 98.7% of getting something else. If you summon 999 heroes, the chance to get the HOTM on the 1,000th summon is still only 1.3%. You are no more entitled to a better chance than the 999 times before. Sure, sometimes you get lucky and get three 5-stars in a 10x summon and sometimes you get 0 in 100 summons. That’s called a regression to the mean...it doesn’t mean they programmed it badly. Random is random...that will happen and you should expect it to happen.
@@LionRoarGamer I am a mathematician. I know these things. But this is not my point. What I mean, In statistics there is, something called "Standard deviation" which gets smaller the more you make more summons . if the size of the sample is sufficiently large then the number of 5* heroes you get "should" get closer to the probability they have mentioned in the hint message. Thats if we really suppose that the randomness of the random events in the game are very well programmed.
Yes, absolutely. So have you taken the data to see if it fits within the standard deviation? I’ve done that a couple of times in different ways...for example, Wu’s misses and tile color appearances, but I haven’t done it with summons. I found Wu’s misses and tile color appearances in raids/against titans to fit the percentages correctly.
That’s just the way it is. All you can do is put the best defense together that you possibly can. It doesn’t really matter though, it just makes your next series of attacks easier which makes you fill the hero chest quicker.
@@LionRoarGamer sorry I mean khagan is only 5 star hero I have :D I tried to pay for gems at first but they dont even easily give 4star hero. Thats why I focused on upgrading my castle to upgrade my camp to produce my own strong heroes.
I knew that leveling up with different colors was okay. So many players argue against this, but I have found myself finally with someone else who understands!
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A must watch for newbies and a good refresher for the experienced. Thanks Nittany.
i won a war once with out even fire off 1 special skill i got 23 combos and killed them that way, my team power was 3850 going against a team that had a team power 0f 4020
That's where I think that randomness applies.
Sometimes, I will get a very good board where the opponents won't touch me at all. Sometimes, I will get aboardwhere I'm annihilated before I can power up any of my Mana.
Can you please let me know how you get 5 star hero’s past level 50? I notice you have really high level ups even though it says they’ve been maxed out.
How much money do you spend on this game? I know it's free, but a get thr feeling that you've spent a bit of cash to get as powerful as you have.
I do not agree with you in fact what you explain is a serious mistake of many players who see things with a linear thought and lose progress for the same reason. Usually there are very few who start to upload a hero and they can finish uploading it on the same day if it is your case give it all the same color if on the same day you can take it to the maximum now the great but the majority of players are He will tame and he does it in several steps and waiting to have heroes of that color to feed him or to spend resources to get a specific color is the mistake in that case it is more worth spending a little more food and upload the hero mixing colors and upload it faster since that way you can have more power and advance more in the game and get more resources, for this a big but big mistake is that what you have to do is concentrate all your efforts on a single hero and raise it to the maximum And not stop or continue with another until you cannot upload it more is the best way and in this aspect to do the opposite after 3 years playing the game I must say that it is the worst thing that can be done since this slows down progress and a lot
And what do I do with all this food????
Food is the scarcest resource in the game, so if you have too much, you need to use it on something. Either train heroes, level troops, or put emblems on maxed heroes.
[another] Honorable mention: not fleeing a battle when A) you can't do substantial damage and B) they're about to heal/potentially resurrect. (especially relevant during field aid!)
You should NEVER flee from a battle!!!!
@@astralmindny9055 I'm not sure if you're joking or serious, but if it's the latter, you're wrong. There are plenty of instances where fleeing will help your alliance more than staying and fighting. Picture the following situation:
You're down to one hero left who has about 100hp. You've taken out three heroes on the other team, but the wings - Alberich and Magni - are still alive. Both are around 50% health and both have their skills ready. You don't have the tiles to ensure beating either of them.
Sharkey's approach: Flee, take the 25 points or so and one of his teammates has relatively simple clean-up of two half-defeated wings. Lots of room in the middle to ghost tiles.
Godmind's approach: stay and fight! Connect three tiles against Alby and do 150 damage. Then Alby fires his special, heals himself and Magni and resurrects Kunchen (tank) and Gravemaker. Then Magni takes out Godmind's last hero. Now Godmind's teammates have a much more difficult cleanup with no area to ghost tiles, and Godmind gets much fewer points for the flag.
You're telling me you think it's better to stay and fight? And if you still aren't convinced, go watch Mr. Roar's alliance battle video from the other day. He himself fled one of the battles, IIRC. Even if it's a regular healer and not Alby or Mother North, the principle is the same.
@@peterkleiner9114 I actually just started wars about 3 months ago, and I've never fled but now I see where it can be deployed, thanks!!
@@astralmindny9055 You're in the right place, then. NittanyLionRoar is a really great teacher. Keep watching!
@@peterkleiner9114 I see!
That video on the psychology of randomness in this game would be very good to see.
Indeed
Not seeing the video on your playlist
Here you go! ruclips.net/video/BviO2PfCa2s/видео.html
Dude, you have taught me so much about this game, I'm so happy u make videos. Keep up the good work!!
This video is absolutely fantastic. So educational. I just posted it to my alliance telling everyone to watch it. I mean, you just summed up so many issues in one solid vid, I am just in awe of the intelligence here. Great job bro. You are an asset to the entire E&P community.
It's really self explanatory!!
So we're just going to ignore that his one training has 1281 days and 11 hours to go?
When you started talking about War flags I couldn't agree more. It's super frustrating to have members not use all flags. There were times where we won by 1 point and vice versa all because of a flag
I hope all the leaders communicate that shit happens all year long 🤦
I have lucked out, my alliance is so good about using all flags. There are times when someone totally spaced out that they had one or two left, but on average we have 100% participate. It's awesome!
Michelle, you have described my alliance quite well. I kind'a understand when they have 6 flags left (ie did not log in during the war), but we have many members who finish with 4, 2 or 1 flag remaining. I think the excuse for 1-flaggers is that their last team was too weak to have an impact on the war. That issue is dealt with in this video so no need to continue with that. But how do you finish with 4 flags left? We have 24hrs in which to use them. You can be at lunch break at work, on the bus/train, on your couch at home, at the fast food outlet waiting for your order to get done. How many minutes does a battle take?
I've left 2 alliances before because the majority never fought titans or used war flags. I like my current alliance friends and if not for them, I would have left weeks ago.
I never use up all flags, because I only keep 10 heroes, so it's enough to form 2 teams, sometimes I manage to form a third, super weak team with newly summoned heroes.
@@Robert-zc5be you have 24 hours to prep for war so in that time and during a war do not level you heroes. Instead you should keep all heroes and use 6 flags. After that you can start leveling again
Honorable mention: When leveling your heroes, skip through the leveling animations by clicking on the screen to speed up the process.
WAIT, What's wrong with that? I'm new here.
@@vyduong2626 Everything is wrong with it. It's a gross waste of time. They should honestly do away with the animation all together. Just trust and tap the screen.
That's funny because I was superstitious that skipping this didn't give me my specials.
It is ridiculous. The animation also makes this grand show about it, and makes it look like your hero will change in appearance, when it doesn’t. It is a waste of time.
It only saves like 10 seconds of time, but it adds up and can save you hours of time
That "what not to do when you raid" demo had me silently yelling "No! Stop! You're going to get yourself killed!" LOL
Rant on Randomness from a Programmer's Perspective lol
What's funny about randomness in a piece of software is that computers cannot be *truly* random. They don't have thoughts the way humans do. There's a mathematical formula used to *emulate* randomness. And all mathematical formulas inevitably have a pattern to it.
For example, the Java algorithm for Math.random function returns a "pseudo-random" number with an equal chance of getting each number within a given range.
What happens over thousands of iterations is that you see patterns form in the "randomness" and an *even* distribution of numbers generated by the function.
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Board generation example:
Based on how they sort heroes in the hero roster by color, we can assume SG has the following numbers assigned to each color:
Purple 0
Yellow 1
Blue 2
Green 3
Red 4
So when they generate the board, they'll create all the tiles and generate a random whole number between 0 and 4 for each tile to determine the color of each tile. Since the algorithm only generates 35 tiles per initial board (and a couple tiles at a time when they pop up), it *seems* random. You'll need a much much larger sample size to find if one color shows up more than another in a statistically significant way.
An expert player (like you!) knows that each new tile has exactly a 1 in 5 chance of being the color you want. So unlocking the randomness helps you turn the board in your favor... like setting up diamonds from tiles that aren't even on the board yet.
Wow how much do you spend on this bro? I've been playing like 6 months and still dont have 4 ascended.
How to get 4+ stars hero? Without spending money?
How to get heros leveled so high
I binge watched your entire beginner E & P episodes last night. I am soooo thankful for all the knowledge that you have shared! Now I don't feel so lost! I have been playing blindly for 2 months doing all the wrong things. I haven't joined an alliance yet because I was too scared of the unknown. Now i know what to focus on and feel much better. Thank you Thank you Thank you!
Absolutely! Head over to the forum to find alliances that are recruiting. There’s alliances for beginners, experts, and everyone in between. forum.smallgiantgames.com/
Hi my name is Mimi. I am nine years old. I am the leader of Alliance called Let’s go fight.I got a question. Can you please teach me how to talk to other Alliance leaders?
Hi Mimi, I’ve been looking for a good forum for some time. There is an official game forum (which can be accessed from Options\Support\Ideas&Feedback) to chat with other active players and to discuss game strategy, new features and etc. It might be not a perfect one, but it’s a good start. There are also some chat rooms in Discord. Hope, this is helpful 😉
I've got several 5-star heroes just sitting around stuck on level 3. Ascension materials are impossible - it seems.
Minimum # of SAME coloured feeders to max a hero.
3*. 4*. 5*
1* 278 / 932 / 1965
2* 108 / 360 / 759
3* 67 / 222 / 468
1965, 1* feeders to max a 5* hero
67, 3* feeders to max a 3* hero
**More if you use off coloured feeders **
I have been watching videos by the veteran players of the game. Thank you so much for sharing these comprehensive tips! Really useful to improve in playing the game. I just really have to be patient in doing things in the game, like leveling up heroes and fighting in raids. 😀
Be patient and remember you have a family or life, this is for fun! Yes, takes awhile....
I only have one question it seems that everyone is using 5* heroes but what about using 4* heroes?
Khagan is my only 5*... lol
Draconic more to come!
Still better than no 5* heroes lol
Khagan isn't too bad, especially after the buff a few months ago. Definitely better than Thorne.
I wanted Mitsuko, called her name, and BOOM......I got her on my first summons, 3 more and now I'm gunning for Ariel!!! #gottalovethesinglesummons.
Hi there I’m new at this game I’ve been watching your vids I really like them . How long have you been playing ? And can I be a really good player without spending a tone of money on it ? Please reply
THAT, is the million dollar question! To have decks and cities like these. Better shell out some cash!
This expenditure of REAL MONEY is the main part that all these giants of the game FAIL to leave out. Also, the massive amount of time invested in an account like this🤷♂️🤷♂️
Has SG made some player comprising, yes. Does it suck, yes.
Do we remember Telluria in her original form? It was tough but not unbeatable.
For heroes that are “nerfed” I think SG should offer more than a 20% return on the resources spent.
If a product is labeled and sold as something specific then altered later it’s theft. For example, there are lightbulbs with built in speakers on the market. If you bought a set and then 3 months later they stoppedd the speaker functionality would you only expect to 20% return? Or would you be content (well they still are light bulbs)?
The time/resources/money investment is stolen. This shouldn’t be the stock market where one day a good hero is good and the next it’s not.
Costume Kiril heals and does -34% attack and def. No one is complaining about that. But who is next? Finley, Jabberwock, Gravemaker?
I’m a c2p for context, I don’t spend hundreds on the game each week/month like some.
Anyway, thanks for the conversation @nittanylionroar
Sorry nittany my english is not the best so i think i am a mid Player so i do not unterstand should i level for example 4 or 5 heroes at the same time with the same color or just level 1 hero with the same color, omg iam finished with my question 😂😂 thx for ur advice
bela horn yeah beginning and mid players should do 5 at the same time with the same color
F2p has been the most amazing journey. No luck in summons and so forth for the first months. I learned to kick the ass of so much better heroes with my 2*s. Then up my game when I finally got my luck in the game I knew most of the tricks to take down those heroes and which were the worst to meet and so on.
Im still far from done, But in my soon 1 year played Ive managed all the needed boulding to 20 and the hunters logde done. Made a few lucky 5*s from Investing all the saved up hero tokkens, and using all the w/e flasks during the more important events like Atlantis and Challange events.
Today im a 56 lvl player with 9 event 5* heroes, 30+ maxed 4*s and over 40 3*s. Kickin ass and getting in the top 1k in every monthly event and makin sure Im in an active clan and Does my part.
So even if you are a hardcore Cardswiper or want to play for free, this game works for you.
That's awesome! Way to kick butt! I used to do free to play, but I got sucked into the vip pass, I like having more than 1 building going.
This will be good to see for people who say f2p is impossible to get anywhere.
Gwen Troy Thx! Appretiate it! F2p or p2p, we all have the game in common which is the most important thing to remember :)). May the Tile-gods be good to you ;)
One more mistake, not sure if helpful: don't waste PvP flags. by fighting other players, you can
a) improve your ranking and gain better loots
b) test out new combination of heroes incl. their specials and how they work best together
c) prepare teams for war raids to be more effective in wars and help your alliance to win
Thanks for the ghosting tip. I has no idea. So it’s better to ghost more to assemble diamonds and heads and use hero’s to kill? Do I have that right? Two months in the game, still learning. Thanks for the video’s. Discovered them by accident. Enjoying them.
Having triples of any one card is ridiculous regardless of what people try to tell you . You only have 6 attack teams so you're going to have one card in three of your attack teams nope (except for a few top tier cards)Not even in mono It would make a proper stack impossible.
How you get so many 5 stars??? Did you spend thousands of dollars?
And in 1 building 1281days before completion of training?? 🤔🤔
Watched this and decided to quit the game. No way I will ever get to that level. I have been playing for years, can't afford to spent real money an I still only have 2 five star cards. Nice vid though
I just became the leader of my alliance, a video about tips to leading would be great (I’m aylajane=Lazy Vikings)
Bad Video, because it say not the true background frohm tghe game...Manipulation, Hacks only they want money
Since u mentioned the costumes how to ascend a hero with costumes? Thanks
msb1123 - you can only ascend a costumed hero if the underlying hero is ascended (meaning, ascend the uncostumed hero first, then level up and ascend the costumed version).
I know from first hand experience that the game manufacturers have started targeting their political enemies, Don play this game....
Nice video and tips. What is early game/mid game/late game/end game tho? Im assuming being able to complete Season 1 is early mid-game
How much money have you spent on this game??? I just got back into this game bc I lost everything on my other phone. So I had to start all over again
Great video like always !
Can i ask you if u can make video where u will show which talent path you took for your main heroes ? I know u made video what we should focus on, but when we have to chose 2% mana or maybe % of def what should we choose and if u can show us your paths with explanation it would be great
Thank you so much! This is an excellent training tool. We have a new training alliance and I am going to borrow your video for them! Keep them coming!
Great tips! I see you upload regularly.
I'm a free to play E&P player and it would take forever to earn enough gems for a 10 pull, so I usually do 1 or 2 (at the previous Alantis I did 3 pulls with the coins). If I want another hero, I can't wait till 2600 gems to pull.
What do you think of leveled up (but not ascended) 2* heroes? I've reached the point where I have enough 3* heroes and my 4* are strong enough to finish season 1. With all the leveled 2*'s on my list, its difficult to level up 10 of the same colour simultaneously.
Jackson M. If you don’t have anything better to work on that’s fine. Doesn’t matter if you ascend either.
Nice video. I like how you talked about the low percentages of getting 5 stars and you've got a tonne of them!
You've definitely put the time into the game though
when ya try to ghost tile but get a skyfall leading to enemies getting their mana bars filled..
Great video. I share these with my alliance. All my event pulls were garbage but I got Nieth twice on a ten pull. Thanks!
I accidentally feed away one Evelyn I thought I don't needed 2 😂😂 😂 but I just had like a month playing so I didn't know shit back then 😬
I fed a gravemaker to level up my first one faster because I didn't know any better. I did the same thing with Margaret but that one dies hurt as bad lol
Damn.... that hurts!!!
i love ur voice sm its so relaxing
Best video that explained "ghosting"...thank you..I understand now. 😁👍🏽
Ah, ah feeling very small...I am a player but don't have so many heroes and they are weaker
Psychology degree from where???
I'm 67 years old and know so little about this game but after tips I've beat the crap out my raids ty
You might want to turn the games sound down when making a video. Couldn't hear you over the game sounds sometimes.
just wondering i'm a free to play how much have you spent playing the game??
Hi Nittany, thank you for all your video's. I have learnt so much from watching your channel. One thing I do need to ask, why do you have the animation sounds on when you summon? Are you able to turn the volume down on them because it seems very loud. Other than that, please dont stop with your video's, they are always very informative.
Agreed, the game sounds are a lot louder than necessary, even louder than the narration.
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Have a guestion we are having touble finding items like the compass and other items do u have a advice on how to find them
I'm so jealous you got alice! I got two jabberwok's and somehow have 5 neith (literally was not gonna try for her) just from random summons...
Omg 5 Neiths?! Too bad you can't combine them into one good 5*. lol
Yes yes, I know some people think she's good. I'm just as happy I got Kingston instead of her.
WOW, I've been playing all wrong! Very helpful tips. Thanks
Like this video. So true points. Cant wait for rng psychology.
Credit card warrior. Lol.
Thank you so much. Especially at the end about the tiles. World of difference
Totally disagree about you saying the 10 pull is better just because of the value rather than single pull for a 5 star , I've got 19 five stars and 18 of them came from single pulls and I've done a ton of 10 pulls way more than single pulls and gotten more 5 stars on single pulls than doing 10 pulls and that goes for 25 of my alliance members aswell they all have done far better on single pulls than 10 pulls so theres no way we just all got lucky that way . Single pulls and challenge coins and Atlantis coins single summons are better to get 5 stars it's a fact.
Bryan Smith watch my ‘Psychology of Randomness’ video, where I talk about this phenomenon in a little more depth.
Not impressed at all with this game. It is a money grab and nobody will convince me otherwise. The only time I get good boards is when I don’t need good boards. And does one of your training camps seriously setting on 1281 days?? All I can say is this guy did not get this without spending a sh*t ton of money.
Ryan Halstead haha you don’t buy recruits, you just save them in TC11 when you get them.
Good video for beginners, the only issue; you talked about Ghosting three times but you never truly explained what Ghosting is. You did a good explanation of what not to do but no explanation of why you should Ghost.
J Roc I suppose I could have stated it more clearly, but I show an example of how ghosting is more powerful at the end when I do it to charge my heroes faster and slow them down.
Ghosting is when you send tiles to an empty space with no heroes. Ghosted tiles raises your mana faster than tiles that hit enemy heroes.
Great vid on silly mistakes, but how about a vid on setting up from scratch. Like what things do, what to buy, how to use items. In other words, a vid for newbies???
Thanks for watching! Yes, I have a whole “beginners guide to E&P” series on my channel. Check it out.
I'd be interested in seeing a whole video on randomness. Fascinating stuff, the way our brains work (and sometimes DON'T work).
The psychology of gambling
Best video ive seen on e&p in a VERY long time
WOW! So many 5* heroes..
I don’t know man I got pretty much all my five star heroes on single pulls I’m just crazy lucky I guess 👍
Yes you and me are 2. And its not a lie. Its just luck. Then you can have 20 drystreak with no other then 3stars.
Me too. I do single summons, it's easier to get 5*.
@@astralmindny9055 Sorry buy its not, but it feels like it is easier. Cuz you rarly do 30 singlepulls as you do 1 30pull at atlantis.
@@Jannesverige I've done both, and the single pull works better for me. I know for a fact I'll yield far better results doing 30 single pulls, as opposed to 3 ten pulls. I have 43 5* heroes, and only 15-17 of them from 10 pulls, and I've done a lot of 10 pulled. If you want to get technical, I think they sort of (sort of) developed an algorithm for the 10 pull summons, and you don't start to get anything good until your 3rd or 4th 10 pull, individual summons is harder to develope an algorithm for, mainly because of the free summons token, Atlantis coin, and it's just harder because they are individuals. The underlying factor is how much energy you put into the summons; 10 pull or individual. If you pull with the mindset that your not going to get anything, then you won't, it's all about energy!!!
2 is a good tip, I’m sure in 5 years I’ll have troops as good as yours.
Ok I really really want yr E&P like I wanna lend some of your heroes😁
Excellent Video much appreciated 💯%
I learned the 'use all war flags no matter what' when my alliance tied. all we needed was 1 pt, so of course, people with uwf were kicked! Your videos are always super informative which really helps us that are still learning!
What happens what there is a tie in the war?
@@unholywarrior9007 win = 5 points, tie = 3 points, loss = 1 point.
Hey there, I hope you answer this. I've been playing this game for about a week. Please fill us in on how long we should expect to take to reach a decent level. I spend hours and don't get very far. Could you give advice to beginners? I don't understand why I can't level up my healer beyond 20. Stuff like this. Advice for newbies please 🙏🤷♀️thank you.
Are you really waiting 120+ days to get a warrior?
I have been playing for 2 and a half years. This game requires ultimate patience and perseverance.
@@LionRoarGamer I haven't gotten very far I'm at the end of part one, I just discovered that we can craft as many of anything that I have the food, etc that needed. I made 100 minor portions. Whhyyhy? I can't believe how much money I spent I had no intention to. This is a greedy game. I still got junk. 🙄
So crazy to see how different the game was back then.
Can you make new video on leveling up passed 20.......?
Great information Thanks for taking the time to educate everyone
Feed 10 reds does not guaranteed getting the special
If you feed a hero to another hero and both are somewhat leveled, Does the hero that was fed get the experience from the hero that it had already been upgraded?
Nope. It does give a little extra EXP, but not much.
Yeah it kind of pisses me off that some people on my team don't use their war flags. But I'm not a team leader so there's not much I can do about it. The only rule the leader and co leader do enforce is if you don't play for 5 or 7 days you will get kicked off the team. The other 2 rule's are you have to fight in team wars if you hit the participation check mark this not enforced on a regular basis. And the other rule is you have to fight the Titans or dragons or whatever which generally everyone does on the team but not always. The leader that created the team dosen't enforce the rules they made. The leader only shows up once a day or Skips a day. Even the co leader doesn't enforcement the rules. But the co leader more so make the decisions of who to kick or promote or demote on the team. No body chats much. And only a small handful do chat not very often. The co leader was a a hole to me once for trying to help another team mate with a question about the game. It's true I didn't know what I was talking about at the time because I didn't know as much as I know now Heroes and puzzles game. But other than that the co leader is cool and okay we get along fine. And I help kick the people off who don't play for a week because I'm a Elder on the team. I kind of like that no one has to chat if you don't want to and if have questions someone will answer if and when they can if they know the answer. And the people that do chat are nice and polite most of the time. One day I am going to make my own alliance because the Alliance I'm in kind of sucks because the leader and co leader don't enforce the rules properly on a regular basis and they or anyone else isn't doing anything to make the Alliance better as a whole. This Alliance I'm on is called dragon society clan. And we have 10 open spots for new members. I think it's a good alliance to start on if you're new to Heroes and puzzle game in general. You can build up your base or team or teams get what you need and move on when you're ready and join another Alliance or make your own alliance. I have googled and watched as many RUclips videos as I can to become a better player in Heroes and puzzles. Thanks for these videos they are very helpful.
Ultimately you decide how to play the game and what alliance to be in. It’s just a game, loyalty is a nice trait but only for the leaders, not for yourself.
@@LionRoarGamer thanks for responding I know it's just a game and I do plan on making my own alliance one day. You have to check out the alliance see what I mean about it.😏
I agree with this video. However a small notion, when lower players use unleveled 3* heroes to cleanup, it's sometimes better to not ghost tiles because their specials can't deal enough damage to the enemy heroes. That's probably where the mistake comes from
I would also add: using diamonds to do elementary summons from the normal portal, instead of running tc20. Save diamonds for anything you *cannot* get from tc20.
Another tip not everyone realises quickly is to use tc11 to store feeder heroes and tc20 to store food (and now you can use hero Academy to store iron, in troop training).
Thankyou!! The tips on not using strong duplicates & resisting randomness madness really helped....also thankyou for reminding others about the importance of togetherness in an alliance...I began playing in January. I joined my alliance at level 7...now I'm level 28 and they are like another family...many have come and gone. We all really try hard and it is frustrating when someone uses no flags in war or on Titan...
I'm new to game great information you provided
Is there any site, who provide free gems??
I cant tell you how many 5* Ive fed to themselves. Even just lastnight...my reason is saving space and thinking I will not need a 2nd one or pointless redoing a whole other dupe..hmm maybe Ill change my ways. Right now I have so so many 5* to level im losing my mind. Its too many to focus on all at once. Im using different strats now and realize how easy it is to run low on food. I need to continue building up my farms theyre a bit neglected. Mines are up to date all food and iron storages are maxed just gotta do the farms. Great advice tho. Will make some changes.
I scrapped like 3 5 Star Heroes ... Not mad ..
Great video..posted it for a members of our alliance..we are mostly new players with little experience, but with the heart of a lion...this helps tremendously!! Thx...i signed up for your channel after watching this..
Great Info... I was wondering if Wu Kung is worth leveling up.
If mainly have 3- and 4-star heroes, yes...for Titans.
Great stuff, just started playing the game. Already figured most of these stuff by my self but learned few things I didn't know. Thank you, like and subscribe.
Ive been playing for MONTHS and still only have 1 5* hero. How in the world do you have so many and not have spent an absolute ton of cash on gems to power up things? I love this game but it goes at snails pace and the item I need to even ascent my 4* heros are so hard to come by :-(
Im a new player and this video definitely helped
Excellent video. Thanks!
What's the point of using this, nearly all my alliances with 1800 attack 3300 and nearly every single time got 0 points
To be honest , Randomness algorithm is not really well programmed. Its not really random. I have seen many many people pulling 10x and getting 3 5* heroes. And most people getting 1 or 2 4* heroes . I mean. In a statistical point of view , If you pull do many heroes the random factor should be minimized and the more you pull the more likely the probability gets closer to the percentage mentioned in the hint about the summon.
Random is random. That’s not how probability works...the odds don’t get better the more you summon. If you summon one hero, you have 1.3% chance of getting the HOTM and 98.7% of getting something else. If you summon 999 heroes, the chance to get the HOTM on the 1,000th summon is still only 1.3%. You are no more entitled to a better chance than the 999 times before.
Sure, sometimes you get lucky and get three 5-stars in a 10x summon and sometimes you get 0 in 100 summons. That’s called a regression to the mean...it doesn’t mean they programmed it badly. Random is random...that will happen and you should expect it to happen.
@@LionRoarGamer
I am a mathematician. I know these things. But this is not my point.
What I mean, In statistics there is, something called "Standard deviation" which gets smaller the more you make more summons . if the size of the sample is sufficiently large then the number of 5* heroes you get "should" get closer to the probability they have mentioned in the hint message. Thats if we really suppose that the randomness of the random events in the game are very well programmed.
Yes, absolutely. So have you taken the data to see if it fits within the standard deviation? I’ve done that a couple of times in different ways...for example, Wu’s misses and tile color appearances, but I haven’t done it with summons. I found Wu’s misses and tile color appearances in raids/against titans to fit the percentages correctly.
New sub!! I just started playing 2 months ago. I love this game!! Thank you for posting this video and great raid game!
I have question, what is best way to protect yourself from raids? I wake up and I've been destroyed by teams way lower than me
That’s just the way it is. All you can do is put the best defense together that you possibly can. It doesn’t really matter though, it just makes your next series of attacks easier which makes you fill the hero chest quicker.
@@LionRoarGamer thank you
you say khagan is the worst 5star hero but I have the only 5 star hero the game gave me from the summon :D :D I am kinda new by the way level 23
There will be plenty more to come!
@@LionRoarGamer sorry I mean khagan is only 5 star hero I have :D I tried to pay for gems at first but they dont even easily give 4star hero. Thats why I focused on upgrading my castle to upgrade my camp to produce my own strong heroes.
I knew that leveling up with different colors was okay. So many players argue against this, but I have found myself finally with someone else who understands!
Khagan is not great but he is WAY better than Azlar. I think Azlar may be the worst 5-star in Red.
Great video but we need a video for beginners
the bit of advice at the end was the best lol