08 May 2019

Having fun with Date Masamune

Greeting, fellow PAD players!

So I just got this guy from the RemDra Fever reward mail that will get you a guaranteed 7* card. Mind you that they're not always a 7* base. Many are getting evolved 5* base pantheon cards while the lucky ones getting 7* Fest Exclusive cards such as Zeus GIGA, Valkyrie CIEL, Echidna SARA, Zela, Madoo and many more.


Looking at his Leader Skill, first thing I noticed is that he is a far better Rank EXP multiplier leader to date. The other leader that has such capability are Scholarly God of Wealth Building, Ganesha and Great Witch of the Unexplored Region, Saline. Ganesha comes with similar 1.5x Rank EXP with the addition of getting 1.5x Coins when entering a dungeon as leader. Saline is the best for Rank EXP gain because of her 1.8x Rank EXP multiplier when entering a dungeon as leader. Ganesha doesn't have any ATK multiplier while Saline boosts 2x ATK for Light attributes. For easy dungeon, Ganesha and Saline is okay but for harder dungeon you'd need a better ATK multiplier to clear the dungeon. Comes the Samurai God 3 Series pantheons. All cards from the series have 1.5x Rank EXP multiplier clause in their Leader Skill while having a fair 6x ATK and 25% damage reduction when attacking with two attributes corresponds to their main and sub attributes.


36x ATK seems decent and could see some use for harder contents. We've seen leader such as Sonia Fio and Sonia Clea with 25x ATK multiplier (essentially a 56.25x ATK when counting their 1.5x all stats to Dragon) clearing many top dungeons such as Alt Arena and the likes.


So, I decided to try this guy out in Ultimate Descended Rush - Gathering of Talents 2. This is perfect because as of right now, we have an event where we get 6x Rank EXP when clearing Ultimate Descended Rush (both the 50 or 99 stamina dungeon).


His Leader Skill favors heavily on Wood or Dark cards because he needs Wood and Dark to achieve his ATK multiplier and damage reduction. My team comprise of Date Masamune as Leader, Odin Dragon Light Lance Form, Green Cotton, Uevo Cronus and Beach Fujin. There are many possible spawns with varying mechanics in UDR1/2 so I built my team to be able to resist poison, can clear awoken bind and normal bind, do some decent damage and can get past either Sopdet or Hanuman. I had many quits in this dungeon thanks to my stupidity of not bringing Fujin and met with Hanuman as boss. While technically I could stall out his 99 turns of damage absorbs, it would be a huge time sink so I just quit lol.
















The problem (especially in NA server and you have no dupe) is that you will have a hard time finding a mirror leader to use for non-meta leader such as this one. Almost all of players have meta cards in their first and third slot. I could ask for some of my Best Friends to see if they have him but it'd take some time so I decided to pair Date Masamune with Vraska the Unseen (from Magic the Gathering Collab) who has compatible Leader Skill, in which she also boosts Wood attributes and needs Wood and Dark attacking at the same time for maximum multiplier.

Seems like not right paring Date Masamune with Vraska, but, eh... it is what it is. Vraska has better ATK multiplier (x12 compared to x6) but she doesn't have any Rank EXP multiplier so with the 6x Rank EXP in UDR I will only get 9x Rank EXP when clearing the dungeon with Date Masamune as leader as supposed to 13.5x when using double Date Masamune lead.


My other account actually pulled a card from the series but they don't mix. It pulled Tokugawa Ieyasu who boosts Dark and Light cards.



Anyway, enjoy the video:


 


 
Please leave a comment, good luck and have fun. See you next time!

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