User blog comment:Smaugtastic/Secrets to Dragon Story/Tourney Battle Plan/@comment-25462635-20160426202107

Hi Smaugtastic,

Very nicely worded instruction on battling! I agree to all - after all, it's just math, and yes, statistics can be a b...tch, so it makes you lose battles that you should actually win (like just now I lost a 90% chance battle), but in general, you are totally right.

My arena squad is slowly building. I have two lvl 15 Diamonds, a lvl 15 Pyramid, and a lvl 13 Warrior Princess. My goal is to get her to 15, but as you pointed out, I am heavily distracted by getting random other dragons to epic for no good reason (to word it more nicely, because I like them to be epic, and because I got bored to death saving food to feed WP). But to be honest, despite this, I'm quite successful in battles, and that is of course because of my basic squad, but also because I have a Marshmallow, Forestfire, Dame of Darkness and Aladdin at lvl 15. At least one of those four usually ranks in the 80% or more tier against most dragons, usually even before Warrior Princess 13. Marshmallow I levelled because I wanted to breed all Primes, together with Idol (which didn't make it beyond 14 yet - sooo expensive to feed!), and Forestfire was an experiment, which worked out wonderfully. Not only was he super cheap to feed (feeding chart A), but he is he a very effective fighter, and together with Marshmallow he parented my two Prime dragons (Life and Magic). :). The others were byproducts of tales and possible parents for Primes.

So I want to add a thought. And that is, since you have to feed one dragon to lvl 14 for the tales anyways, I'd go ahead and feed them one more lvl. Usually nowadays they have feeding chart I, which makes them relatively cheap, and usually they are considered unbreedable for battling purposes, so all quite good. Sure, they will not help against Diamonds or Champs a lot, but against almost any other dragon, plus you might use them for Prime breeding.

So this food is probably not wasted, and any unbreedable lvl 15 is a good addition for your arena squad. :) The least apples it ate, the more valuable it is.