Scaled is similar, and you can pick it if you just really want a Slardar or Venomancer early (if they pair with the other alliance well). Warrior feels weak, but has good enough units that you can get away with picking and transitioning. It's literally just giving away stats to enemy Brawny and Bloodseeker players, in a way that doesn't happen in Standard, due to the effect multiplier of Brawny and Stonehall items.
In terms of avoiding Alliances, the only one bad enough to blacklist is Primordial. Builds like Savage have a true dependency on getting Lycan upgraded rapidly, and starting with one is the best way to do so. The biggest deal for these is guaranteeing powerful units - it is worth picking a subpar pairing so long as one of the alliances is strong, if it's showing you something like Lycan or Terrorblade. Same goes for things like Brute/Druid, Heartless/Hunter, and other pairs that have strong crossover units. However if it shows you a different Brute as the primary picture, and then Lifestealer as the image for Heartless, you seem to have much higher odds of opening with 4brute/2heartless. Brute/Heartless for instance, is very likely to include lifestealer, but could easily saddle you with Brute2(3)/Heartless2(3). Not all starting builds are created equally, even when they list the same alliances. Your pick should include specifically looking at the unit icons it shows you. Assassin is generally reliable, but tricky if you want to go hard for them. Insect goes well with a lot of things, and helps win early rounds a lot. Savage is very viable but heavily dependent on a few units - more on that in a moment. Knight is good but risky because your picks are at weirder tiers. Inventor may as well be a second roll for Scrappy so treat it as such and pick when needed.
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Druid paired with any of the previous mentions can get you off to a strong start with free stars. Champion and Deadeye are viable but risky picks. Since the buff, Heartless is an excellent pick too, but generally needs one of the others behind it. Your opening Alliances should ideally be one of Brute, Scrappy, or Hunter.
This is just speaking in terms of average results I've witnessed both from myself and from opponents on the way up ranks.
Any build can hard low roll and lose, too. A week from now this might not be true if they mix everything up, but frankly, this has held true for the past several months and basically carried me from Smuggler to Big Boss by doing it, so I don't think it will change much before Season 1 hits in a couple weeks.Īlso keep in mind that everything below does not matter if you get lucky. There's the general advice - the rest of this will be specific to the current meta. Not worrying about interest means you can dig as deep as you need to find a unit. Automating levels means you can plan exactly when new units are entering your team without planning XP investment gold. Knockout is a game about "builds" in a way that standard isn't. You do that by choosing a strong starting alliance, and then knowing almost your entire build out of the gate. First place, even in standard Underlords, is decided more by that final bit of extra luck among the top 3 players. Your goal should be top 3 - good rank gains. Your goal should never be to get first, because that isn't always decided by you. Not just because you start with (effectively) 5 random units and everything tiers up faster, but because 3-stars are so prevalent that the power imbalance of them becomes evident faster. Knockout is a blast, but you have to accept that it takes the RNG of normal Underlords and magnifies it a great deal. I'm BigBoss in knockout (currently 3, but bounce between 1 and 4 whenever the streaks hit). I'm sure higher level players would have a lot to disagree with. I'm not a Lord, so take my advice with a grain of salt, but here it is anyway. I started this as a response to this post, but I was bored at work and it got out of hand.
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