Skills Manual - Auras - What Counters What?

Some time ago i wrote a guide about which skills to get in the Tower of Knowledge (ToK)

today we will be talking about which skills counter each other and we will see some interesting strategies to use them.

But first and foremost, here is some info for those ones who may be new to the game and have just started playing it.

What is the ToK?

The Tower of Knowledge will be crucial for developing your marches, here in fact you can learn new skills to add to your commanders.

There are four levels of skills:

• green
• blue
• purple
• gold

From green to gold, the green ones will give less power, while the gold ones, will give more power.

This doesn't mean though that having all gold skills will give you an advantage over teams with both purple and gold skills.

Costs to unlock and upgrade the skills

Each skill has 8 levels and the costs to upgrade them differ based on the skill's color.

Let's start from the green one:

Unlock : 1.000

from 1 to 2: 720

from 2 to 3: 1.440

from 3 to 4: 2.880

from 4 to 5: 5.400

from 5 to 6: 10.800

from 6 to 7: 21.600

from 7 to 8: 43.200

Now it's the blue turn:

Unlock : 2.000

from 1 to 2: 840

from 2 to 3: 1.680

from 3 to 4: 3.360

from 4 to 5: 6.300

from 5 to 6: 12.600

from 6 to 7: 25.200

from 7 to 8: 50.400

These are the costs for the purple ones:

Unlock : 8.000

from 1 to 2: 960

from 2 to 3: 1.920

from 3 to 4: 3.840

from 4 to 5: 7.200

from 5 to 6: 14.400

from 6 to 7: 28.800

from 7 to 8: 57.600

And last but not least, here are the gold ones

Unlock : 20.000

from 1 to 2: 1.200

from 2 to 3: 2.400

from 3 to 4: 4.800

from 4 to 5: 9.000

from 5 to 6: 18.000

from 6 to 7: 36.000

from 7 to 8: 72.000

Disclaimer: you can reset a skill, but it will be turned back to level 1 and you will get only 80% of the purple you spent to upgrade it.

Now time to see which skills counter each other!

Misleading vs Coercion

Misleading helps you dodging more hits, really nice to have against teams which have immortals that deal lots of damage

Once the battle starts, reduces the Accuracy Rate of all enemy units by 20%.

Coercion helps countering earth, holy and wind teams, which are focused on sustaining and dodging hits.

Once the battle starts, reduces the Dodge Rate of all enemy units by 20%.

Main Takeaway:

if your opponent runs Coercion, you need to use Misleading

if your opponent runs Misleading, you need to use Coercion

Weakness vs Malice

Weakness helps reducing the resilience of your opponents, so you can make them weaker against your critical damage.

Once the battle starts, reduces the Resilience Rate of all enemy units by 20%.

Malice helps against teams who are based on dealing critical damage.

Once the battle starts, reduces the Crit Rate of all enemy units by 20%

Main Takeaway:

if your opponent runs Weakness, you need to use Malice

if your opponent runs Malice, you need to use Weakness

Paralysis vs Berserk

Paralysis is a really nice skill to have against teams based on speed, you can use it to counter an Alex equipped with Berserk and a rapid exclusive artifact as well.

Once the battle starts, reduces the Attack Speed of all enemy units by 15%

Berserk is a must for lightning and earth teams.

Especially if you have a good rapid artifact on your Alex and Zenobia's unique artifact, to make your Alex attack speed skyrocket even more.

Increases the Attack Speed of all your unites by 10%, [...]

Main Takeaway:

if your opponent runs Berserk, you may need to use Paralysis

if your opponent runs Paralysis, you need to use Berserk

Final thoughts

I'm not a Paralysis fan, in fact i haven't unlocked it, but it could be an interesting way to counter Alex's exclusive artifact.

Berserk can be nice as well, but i wouldn't use it in a mix earth team, maybe for a pure earth team may be a really good choice.

Hope this post helped you understand more about the different auras and how they counter each other ^^

Stay tuned for more posts and if you have any doubts or questions, feel free to ask them down in the comments