Arena

Squad Formation

Five seats. Slots never move — only the heroes you drop into them.
The colour on each slot is how much damage it eats, not its number.

Your defensive lineup, mapped to the five slots — two infantry up front (S1, S2), marksmen and a lancer behind. S4 is the safest seat.

Damage taken — most → least

S1
Front tank
Soaks the opening burst
S2
Second line
Next focus after S1 falls
S3
Right flank
Edge seat, exposed
S5
Left flank
Edge seat, exposed
S4
Centre back
Safest — your best DPS lives here

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Improving your setup

Who takes damage from whom is fixed by the seats. Fill them with that in mind — and when in doubt, just run your five best heroes and find a layout that holds.

Read the chart above to see who is likely to take damage from whom — the heat colour on each slot is its damage rank.
S4 is the safest spot, so park one solid marksman hero there.
S1 & S2 are usually infantry heroes with a stun — like Sergey or Natalia. At times S2 can be a lancer instead.
S3 & S5 are flexible — lancers, marksmen, or even infantry, depending on the setup you're facing.
For most of us: just use your best five heroes and find a good layout around them.

▲ enemy

Infantry

Marksman

Lancer

InfantryLancerMarksman key seat

Early default

Up to Gen 7

Two infantry hold the line, two marksmen and a lancer behind. Damage lands S1 › S2 › S3 › S5 › S4, so S4 is the safest seat and carries your hardest-hitting marksman.

Put here

Your strongest marksman — Alonso, Gwen…

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Improving your heroes

To actually be strong in arena, two things matter more than raw power: the right skills levelled, and gear that's properly forged.

Skills & stars

Exploration skills are the ones used in arena — get them to level 4 or 5, so 4-star heroes are best.

Gear — the big one

Hero gear is super important. For most light spenders, aim for:

Mythic gear on at least 3 heroes
Epic gear on the other 2 heroes
Focus Enhance & Mastery Forging on your mythic gear

Heroes you do not want to fight

If your line-up is missing these, you're highly likely to lose the match — even when your power is far higher. Know them before you queue.

Gen 2

Alonso

Gen 3

Greg

Gen 4

Reina

Gen 7

Bradley

Gen 8

Hendrik

Holger

Expert upgrade · Holger

Two expert skills that buff every hero you bring to the arena. Both are worth maxing.

Arena EliteLv. 10

Tough training, tough results — raises Arena heroes' +20% Attack and Health in the Arena.

LegacyLv. 10

Holger's legend-creation process grants a further +20% Attack and Health in the Arena.

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Best teams · F2P → P2W

Tap a generation to open it. Each shows a free-to-play roster and the spender ($$$) version. Top heroes are your frontline, the rest sit in the backline.

Gen 1

F2P