Having good garrison heroes are crucial on Doomsday: Last Survivors. You require garrison heroes to protect your shelter from enemies wanting to steal your resources or kill your troops for points. Additionally, having a strong shelter defense is essential for scoring points in all fighting events. By leaving room in your hospital, you can earn points without sacrificing your troops. Also, as a member of an alliance, you’ll be required to protect your towers and fort from other alliances.
Best garrison heroes are a difficult topic, as the best heroes will change depending on your attacker, the number of attackers and also depending on what’s happening on the field. Therefore, I’ve created various options depending on the situation and have explained the pros and cons.
Option #1: Thunder/Louis
I personally use this squad to defend my shelter and I love it. Thunder is excellent for defending your shelter or tower due to his phenomenal healing abilities.. It will require a lot of effort from the attacker to get rid off Thunder. Thunder has a defense and a garrison talent tree which make him the ideal garrison captain. Combined with Louis, it makes a great duo as Louis produce more rage and therefore increase the number of healing skills. Louis has also a circular aoe which is great when people swarm your shelter or when people are putting their squads on the tower to block you reinforcing the tower.
Note: Louis’s skill damage is reduced by additional targets, so opponents may exploit this by sending four squads of one troop each to mitigate your damage.
Option #2: Thunder/Victor
Again Thunder has a great healing skill which makes him a very strong garrison leader. This time you can combine him with Victor. Victor boosts the stats of all your troops (not one type only, for example Thunder only boosts your infantry), making him a strong garrison hero, especially to defend your shelter. Victor/Thunder can also be used for your shelter as Victor has the defense and garrison talent trees and you can also boost all troop stats with the leader armaments. However, Victor can only target one squad. Therefore, during a tower defense, people will block the tower, which will make it very hard to reinforce the tower. He is also less effective against multiple enemies.
Option #3: Raigoro /Riven
Even though Raigoro is an old legendary hero, I think he can form a very strong garrison squad with Riven. Paired together, these heroes have a very strong synergy, a lot of shield and therefore a lot of counter damage and damage dealt when the shield is up. Riven, like Victor, increase the defense of all the troops not only infantry. She has also a strong damage factor on a single target but over 4 seconds. Again during a tower defense, people will block the tower, which will make it very hard to reinforce the tower.
This particular duo might be weak against a rider rally led by Bella. Bella gets a 24% damage bonus dealt on shield squads. It can be wise to change the leader to Thunder. Thunder/Riven will also be a good combo but you will have less shield.
Other potential heroes
I don’t have all the heroes awaken, making it challenging to determine which squad performs best. Here are some suggestions of other heroes you can use for garrison if you don’t have the heroes above:
- Tom is a very good garrison hero and can also heal like Thunder. He also has a defense and a garrison talent tree.
- Jacob same as Louis, can deal damage to multiple targets and he has specific skills bonuses for garrison. However, his 3rd skill is at the moment bugged and doesn’t work.
- Eddie: If you have a majority of infantry, it might be useful to try Eddie. Eddie has very good bonus stats (+30% infantry DEF and HP) and he can reduce the HP of your attacker. Eddie also has a good damage factor and a shield.
- Robert can also be an interesting hero to test because of his burning damage. His counter attack having a 20% chance to burn the enemy, is a 66% chance to happen during a full round (5-7 basic attacks + skill damage). Which means that every 3 rounds you can deal an extra damage factor of 3600 twice for a single target! The probability will increase if there are multiple targets attacking your squad. The burning damage can be increased by 50% if the enemy squad has an HP debuff. Robert has also a good damage factor and can get a shield twice over 3 rounds.
Conclusion
The ideal garrison squad for your shelter hinges on your troop preferences and available heroes. I hope this guide aids your hero selection process. In summary, prioritize Thunder as your garrison leader. The choice of assistant should adapt to the circumstances. Opt for heroes like Victor or Riven for single-target defense, while favoring those with area-of-effect damage or robust counterattacks for multiple targets.