Ajax there is no necessary reliance on the item shop in the last season. I beat the last season with a 10-0 record on my first try without opening the item shop. As soon as you buy players with all maxed out stats you don't ever lose.
Tips:
-Save money
-Max out Agent
-Watch out for opportunity to buy players with any skill maxed out early on. You can buy them for like $6k and sell them for $20k+
-Buy like 2 cheap players just to have more than 3 so if you see a good player on the market you can sell your more expensive players. (Wont let you sell if you only have 3)
-Max out Manager
-Hoard money and refresh buy list until you find maxed out players (about $46k each).
-Never lose a game again
To find the final boss just remember the lane you started in and then go all the way up. He's in the last bubble to the north of your starting point. He's an easy kill if you choose the class with the 2 mega cannons as its secondary.
conld getting great mage with great sea is one of the easiest games. By using their mana drain and just stacking its effect all the classes are left without being able to do their special, including the 600dmg atk from the burning hill and the instant death from poison water.
& for all those who are having trouble. Max out one of your atks first and raise ur atk dmg to 5. Then raise your MP to atleast 50 to beat ur peer out of gng to the competition. By the competition max out your other atk spell and get your MP to 110. Use the points that are left to get the hi lvl magic of extra atks either top or bottom and out your stats into that. You dont really need to increase your health until after the competition. Once your done with the competition train in the arena cause it gives you 2 skill points per month instea of in the training grounds that only give you 1.
For all that are having trouble first get a hillary with a fan and max her out and get the fan to like lvl 2 or 3. Then upgrade an Obama fully. Then finish upgrading the fan. THen sell the hillary and get another Obama. Nothing can beat 2 Obamas.
Does choosing a staff over a sword increase your spell dmg automatically or are the stats mentioned in the description all that really matters? Also, if you have a spell twice does it do more dmg?
Towers should be programmed to shoot the defenders nearest the exit or at least have an option where you set the strategy for your towers like: (shoot the one with lowest health), (shoot leader) or (shoot last).
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