Rally Help and Rally Building

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Incomplete Rally Building Guide:

THE RALLY
The rally is essentially your army. It is the key to success in Mini Warriors. Therefore, it is VERY IMPORTANT you build your rally correctly. This page will give tips on how to go about doing this.

HEROES
Let's start with heroes, the backbone of the rally. Without good heroes placed well a rally cannot succeed.
Here I will copy-paste my Hero Ranking guide on which heroes are worth using. Note that every hero has a weakness and no hero is good against all.

The following is a list of heroes by my ranking. I hope this helps some of the newbier people. The list is alphabetical within classifications.

BEST (Must-use) 9-10
Alash (good tank until he sees AOE)
Gilles de Rais (very good tank, and the best counter for Merlin)
Hyacinth (must have, he will really amp up your frontline)
Ignatius (might be better than Leonidas, arcane dmg is a yes!)
Merlin (pretty good, but costs 3000 crystals :/ obliterates everything but Gilles.)
Octavius (gets better the lower on hp he is. counters GDR well.)
Reinhard (tanking god)
Terim (excellent tank)

BETTER (Good if used right) 7.5-9
3-star Archers (call the archers to come in, and make it rain death)
Achilles (very good hero wrecker)
Barfoot (good damage + good heals)
Belthor (polymorph is a good skill)
Carter (tanks all day long... until he finds pikemen or AOE)
Candello (an alternate of Cannon)
Cannon (a good tank and damager)
Cedric (healing tank can be useful)
Charles the Great (defensive and offesnvie at the same time... basically a much better El Cid)
Circe (fun to use and practical in late game)
Edward (use for his luck and dat damage)
Edward IV (strong at lower levels, not sure about using him later)
El Cid? (maybe good? too unpredictable sometimes)
Elizabeth (takes out heroes fast.)
Einar? (considering moving him up due to his amazing damage)
Eugene? (too unstable at times and procs when not needed)
Galahad (stun + smack)
Gawain (Lord of thee demons + rips through heals. Hyacinth hates him)
Hilda (really can save you some damage at later levels)
Joan (getting more and more trashy these days)
Kelly (quite good nowadays)
Lancelot (meh...okay I guess)
Leonidas (only low def that makes him weaker, and Achilles)
Manto (among the equivalents of Sarah and Philinus)
Mary Read (almost like Edward. May go up.)
Morgana? (I don't find quieting too too useful, but decent. Almost like Edward IV)
Pettyfer (okay)
Philinus (better than Sarah in some situations, such a lifesaver)
Robinhood (sometimes could help weakening defenses)
Saladin (particularly useful with Ignatius or Octavius)
Sarah (quite reduced in power by Manto, still decently good)
Sarky (big explosions + AOE)
Shazzo (the roaring/raving tank)
Seamas (formerly Summers, not that good but tanks decently)
Seth (seems like he could be better, but doesn't work too well at the moment)
Uriah (not good enough for his price, and costs 10000 crystals D:)
William (very versatile, but gets killed too much...good at lower levels, weakens the further you go up)
William Tell (okay I guess?)

GOOD (More difficult to use) 5.5-7.5
3-star Mages (polymorph mages)
3-star Musketeers maybe?
Anatole (absolute trash)
Bellerophon (summoning minions would be good on a cavalry or a paviser, or a mage or even a musketeer, but on mounted archer it's just a waste)
Hedvig? (stats are better than most arbalists, but skill is still bad)
Helmar (no tanking or damage ability)
Nicolai (no longer better than Bellerophon)
Paris (nope, this hero is not good)
Ragnar (berserking but tough to use)
Urza? (higher def than Leonidas, and more survivable, but still weak)

DECENT (Very difficult to use, hardly useful) 3-5.5
3-star Arbalists maybe?
3-star Savages maybe?
3-star Mounted Archers
3-star Healers
3-star Duelers with Shockwave
3-star Longswordsmen
3-star Mages (weakness curse mages)
3-star Five Lions members (Kent, Tyler, Joseph, and Matt) maybe?
3-star Tankers are decent, but they just don't have the survivability of their leader Carter. May go back down!
Charles Martel? (horrible ability-useless tank)

BAD (Don't use) 0.5-3
All other 3-stars

HORRIBLE (Very bad and will probably destroy your rally) 0-0.5
All 2-stars
All 1-stars

So now you know which heroes are typically better than others. But, this does not guarantee all, because if you just try to use all the "best" heroes there is a good chance your rally can still fail. So how is a good rally made? With hero combos.

HERO COMBOS
When heroes are combined, the results can be amazing. Combine heroes with attributes that would work together well. Examples include:

-Infantry hero with Scutarii for stuns, then adding a musketeer with Heavy Musketeers for the bonus damage.
-Throw Cantello or Cannon into the previous combo for even better results.
-Hyacinth with Octavius; as Octavius takes damage his attack increases-Hyacinth heals him and Octavius has more HP he can lose to buff his attack, potentially increasing his damage by a lot.
-Ignatius + Achilles + Saladin; Saladin's damage boost is HUGE! Once I saw a player who had finished a battle with this combo. Ignatius dealt 12,000,000 damage (that's 12 million) and Achilles dealt 10,000,000 (10 million) damage.
-El Cid + Carter; Carter already has really good anti-AOE tanking ability, and when combined with El Cid can completely nullify AOE damage.
-Add Hyacinth in to the previous combo to ensure Carter stays alive for longer, but as there are so many good uses for Hyacinth this might be a bit of a waste.
-Hyacinth + Gilles de Rais; GDR can put a lot of hurt on enemies that proc AOE on him, but unfortunately after sustaining AOE damage Gilles tends to die quickly, so add Hyacinth in to ensure he stays alive.
-Philinus + Reinhard; Do I even need to explain? Reinhard can be invincible half the time, and in the other half of the time he can take quite large amounts of damage, so have Phil heal him.
-Seth + AOE; The AOE hero damages enemies and boosts Seth's attack in doing so.
-etc.

But remember, hero combos aren't the only way to make a good rally. Another way is to predict the battle.

PREDICTING THE BATTLE
If you knew exactly what was going to happen in a battle, making rallies would be a great deal easier. But this isn't entirely possible.
I often find myself able to predict what can happen based on previous experiences.

For example:
-Arbalists will always attack straight forward until the enemy straight forward is dead.
-Cavalry like to charge forward, unless enemy units are in the back rows.
-Archers like to target the farthest enemy from them (remember there is also vertical and diagonal distance factoring into this)

But predicting the battle doesn't always work. An important thing to do is to use counters whenever possible.

COUNTERING
If you see an enemy hero, it's best to counter it. There are two types of countering:
-Direct Countering, where you use a hero that directly counters the enemy hero, or
-Minion Countering, where you use a hero with a certain minion type that has an offensive advantage against an enemy.

Direct Countering examples:
(in format COUNTER VS ENEMY)

-Gawain VS Hyacinth
-Achilles VS Alash
-Gilles de Rais VS Merlin/Sarky/other AOE
-Octavius VS Gilles de Rais
-Carter VS AOE

Minion Countering examples:
(in format COUNTER VS ENEMY)

-Infantry VS Pavisers
-Pikemen VS Infantry
-Pavisers VS Pikemen
-Mages VS Pavisers
-Pavisers VS Musketeers
-Pikemen VS Cavalry
-Cavalry VS Infantry
-Archer VS Arbalist, Cavalry
-Musketeer VS Mage, Archer