I still like hatsume for her change. But yeah, Andromeda is making I&I slowly stronger.
Your only 2 rows off my shiva team now :v
wat :V how the heck do I beat this. :ohdear: lul
Wellll I'll keep telling myself I don't need a hatsume so as to not have to go crazy over muracores anymore.
Well, for a team with ~33k hp but only 4k recovery, heartmakers are actually quite important because you can actually take hits from bosses now but healing is not as simple as Ronia's silly 6.25x rcv. Now that many mid-bosses throw all kinds of poison orbs at you, it is even more important to have more sources of heart orbs (Neptune of Zeus Mercury comes to mind).
Also, andromeda have wayyy better stats. 2985 / 1238 / 578 is just amazing for a healer.
The more I think about it the more I don't think I would use Andromeda on my team. Changing away light is too unfortunate, since it makes the one-two punch of Sun Quan active, then Ruka+Valkyrie on the first turn and Gabriel on the second turn unusable. The extra damage from the additional row might make up for that to some extend, but the colors just don't work. I still would like one so I can run an I&I team eventually, but it's not a priority. Maybe that's just me trying to rationalize her away because I don't have one. Without her my team has 50k HP and seven rows, and with her it would have 52k and eight rows, which is actually kind of negligible. The extra skillboost, lock resist, and time extend are nice though.
What do we think of using her as a leader? Would Andromeda+I&I have any merit? Maybe Andromeda/Gabriel/Valkyrie/Sharon/Sun Quan/I&I? I've never played a hero god, but I guess at that point you'd probably be better off abandoning the healer theme and just going all-blue with two Andromeda leads.
Yes, the difference might be in how mine's I&I lead and yours Gab. When I use SQ, I just use the first turn to arrange the board a bit so that I can go for 3 rows on the 2nd turn, so usually I just use Gab+BlueValk or Ruka+BlueValk but not all three on two separate turns.
There has been a few times during descent that I had used Ruka for the heartmaking, but also a few times where I hoped she did heartmaking+bluemaking so I can finish off this wave while recovering.
As for Andromeda+I&I, well I can't think of many blue orb changers that aren't healers, Hermes is one, but most are healers which made Blue Healers so viable in the first place anyways. It's just a matter of throwing SQ in or using I&I, I'd lean towards I&I cause' my pluses are on them but theoretically would SQ be the better choice?
Oops, I mis-remembered how her active works. Because it changes red to blue, whereas I thought it changed light to blue, it actually works exactly the same as the setup I have now, I'd just have to have Gabriel go first. At that point the only real concern is the lack of healing oomph from her orbchange, since it makes less hearts which actually does matter to a stall team. However, the time extend would hopefully boost my combo count by just enough to bring more hearts onto the board naturally and heal a little more every time I match hearts to make up for it.
I can't imagine a single colour->heart not being enough to recover to full on a healers team with 4x rcv...
