User blog:TexasSweetie/Battle Dragon Thoughts

 I have tried for some time to figure out a way to determine the best “Fightin’ Dragons” and have seen a number of posts here and on other sources of the same type. Well, I got lost in my head and spreadsheets the past few days and I have come up with a list of Dragons that I believe is a pretty nice starting place.

 First of all a few notes & explanations. This is in NO WAY a scientific or verifiable list. It should not be considered to be from an expert (as I am not one & this is all from my own head). It is not from gamecode and it is not an exhaustive list by any means.

 A final note: Pure Champions & DIPPS have already been pretty well talked about. Most people (including some verifying through game code) have defined them as very nice fighters. I agree (from experience) and advise doing your best to get them & max them out as quickly as possible. I have therefore taken them out of all of the following equations.

 Okay, what I did is this: I went through the past four arena battle lists to create a list of opponent dragons that S8 has used in the later stages of tournaments. I ended up with 27 dragons & then ran each of these through the battle calculator as a level 20 opponent.

 From these calculator results, I compiled a huge list of dragons that are commonly our top rated fighting dragons. I then culled through this list to get rid of Champion types & DIPPS. I then culled out any dragon that was only listed once (there were so many of them). So now I had a list of dragons that had been the best choice at least twice & removed all their duplicates. I then culled out all dragons that I do not personally have at least one at any level. Yes, there are dragons that I do not have and this is the main reason that this list cannot be considered exhaustive by any means. However I do have a lot (currently 306 unique dragons, even after deleting more than 90 common and rare dragons that I cleared out).

 So at this point, I had about 65 dragons. I then culled out all of the common & rare dragons. Down to 41.

 I noticed at this point, everyone left was in food groups D, E, F, G, & H. I decided to get rid of all the G &H, as they are so much more expensive to feed. However, I did keep 3, because they had come up soooo many times earlier; they were among the top repetitive names, so I felt like I should add them to the list. I also had 16 other dragons now left on my list and here they are:

 Food Costs D: Mistmoth & Aether.

 Food Costs E: Devine, Phase, Beaded, Night Imp, Festive Light, Anemone, Fool, Knightmare, & Sweet Tooth.

 Food Costs F: Black Cat, Crystal, Cursed Idol, Duchess, & Hidden Gem.



 Food Costs G: Lollipop & Magic Lamp.

 Food Costs H: Supreme.

 Now for something that I noticed through all of this. Maybe someone that understands the gamecode better than I (which is none, by the way) can sniff into this: Of the dragons that I ended up with (Outside of the DIPPS & Champions) 16 of the 19 contain the color purple. I thought to myself, “Hmmm, interesting” and took it no further.

 Beaded, Fool, Magic Lamp & Lollipop … these are the next 4 that I am personally go to try to advance to level 15. I have three reasons: Fighting, Breading & I like them.

Good Luck everyone, hope this helps out in some way or another