In this post, I will provide a detailed explanation of the hero Thunder Peterson, covering how to obtain him, upgrade his skills and talent tree, and integrate him with other heroes.
How to get Thunder?
The only way to obtain Thunder is by acquiring 10 of his fragments during the Infantry Top Commander Event. Unfortunately, this is the sole method, and the Top Commander is a challenging competition where you need to rank at least top 15 to obtain 10 fragments.
Talent trees
Thunder is an infantry commander. His secondary abilities are defense and garrison. You can use Thunder as your garrison commander or you can use him on the field.
For the garrison build, maximize the defense talent tree. If you’re attacked while offline, your squad size will be under 30%. You want to gain more rage in garrison and have extra damage when your shelter is flanked. My garrison build would look like this:
For field build, you prioritize the defense tree then fill up completely the infantry talent tree. You don’t want the extra rage when your squad size in under 30% (in the red zone). In this case, you need to return your squad to your shelter and refill the squad. My field build would look like this:
Skills
- His first skill is called Super Thunder. This is the best healing skill in the game. 2800 healing factor for 5 sec is the equivalent of a damage factor of 14000. It also reduces the attack of 3 squads in a fan-shaped area by up to 30% for 2 seconds with an additional 15% on rider squads.
- His second skill is called Armed Fortification increases HP and defense.
- His third skill is called Gutsy Stunt reduces the damage received from basic attacks. It increases the counter damage only in garrison.
- His fourth skill is called Secret Base has a 10% chance to heal with a factor of max 2200 after each enemy basic attack. The counter damage is the reaction to every basic attack. It can be triggered once every second. On the top of that in garrison only it reduces all damage taken by up to 12%.
- His awaken’s skill is called Role Model and boost the damage to your squad and 2 nearby allies after a skill for 2 seconds. This is very good to boost your other squads in the field.
How to upgrade his skills?
For every fighting hero, you need to upgrade the 1st skill, the raging skill, first. I recommend upgrading the 2nd skill next, followed by the 3rd, and finally the 4th. The suggested order would be 1, 2, 3, 4. You want to upgrade the stats first then the reduce damage because Thunder provides a very good healing already and you can only heal the lightly wounded troops. Which means if there’s no lightly wounded troops you won’t heal. This is why you upgrade the 4th skill last.
How to combine Thunder?
In my opinion, Thunder is THE best garrison captain in the game. He serves as my garrison captain with Louis as assistant. You can combine Thunder with other infantry hero such as Tom, Raigoro or ranged heroes such as Louis or Jacobs if you have a lot of ranged troops. Another option is the use Victor, the new leader type hero. We know very little about this new hero and checking his skills I don’t think he will be a very good garrison assistant. You can also pair him with Martin. Here are the best options to pair Thunder with as a garrison captain:
Thunder/Tom: Best healing effect and very strong defense
Thunder/Louis: Best combo against people swarming your shelter
Thunder/Raigoro: Best combo for counter damage and strong defense
Thunder/Jacob: Best squad if you have a lot of ranged troop and are attacked by 3 squads.
Thunder/Martin: Good squad for strong healing effect and strong defense with a good damage factor for a single target.
If Thunder serves as your garrison captain, you can also deploy him on the field as the assistant of one of your infantry squads. You can pair him with Adut, Tom, Raigoro, Eddie or Robert. Depending on who you will pair him with, you will vary the tankiness and the amount of damage dealt. It is best to pair him with a damage dealer such as Adut because you don’t want to have a strong tank on the field as people won’t target that squad. If you don’t have many legendary hero upgraded, you can pair him with Charlie.
On the field, as the leader of you squad, you can pair him with a more damage dealer oriented hero such as Martin, Adut, Robert, Eddie, eventually Tom. But in general, I would use the skill tree of Adut or Robert to lead your squad on the field. You can also use Louis to make damage. The last possibility is to pair him with Lee to debuff the enemy squads or Bianca to boost your squads. The best squads if you want to use him as the leader are as follows:
Thunder/ Eddie: Good tank and great damage factor from Eddie.
Thunder/ Martin: Good healer and good damage factor from Martin
Thunder/Louis: Good combo to make damage with Louis without being targeted
Thunder/Lee: Good debuff squad but be careful to change the talent tree (No “when only leading infantry” buff) and use 2 or more troop type in the squad.
Thunder/Bianca: Good squad to debuff the enemy’s squads and buff your own squad. It also provides safety to Bianca.
Conclusion
Thunder is the best infantry hero in the game and the best garrison captain. He is an essential hero to have and to awake. I strongly advice you to use your legendary fragments on him. In my opinion, you should use him as a garrison captain and deploy Adut/Thunder on the field.