This weekend's Time Gate Champs

[AgentX_[IBT]]

Howdy.

I just started playing a couple of months ago. I have some gear on the stock Champions, done a few gem-farming and favor farming.

I found a couple of guides ranking the Champions that you can get from doing Time Gates...... however the guides are a few years old.

Out of the three Champions for this weekend's Free Time Gate, which one is any good?
Strix , Beadle & Grimm , Warden ?

[cesare2172]

https://idle.kleho.ru/timegates

[No_Whey]

For early(ish) game, your timegate priorities should be towards getting a second champion in each slot to unlock your first Core and start automation. Past that, you'd either be looking for Champs close to getting an Epic from their personal chest pity-timer or picking up Champs you don't already have to add their gear to the Patron chest pools.

I don't have B&G so I can't speak to their usefulness, Strix seems generally outclassed by newer Champs, and Warden is a pretty decent debuffer who can put in good work.

Improtant to note, the Champs on offer during a freebie are randomly generated per-player. I had Deekin, Omin, and a third that I didn't pay particular attention to.

[Namarus]

Beadle & Grimm, are very good. Although all three champions are decent.

B&G, along with Strix are used in click damage formations.

I like to use Warden as an extra debuffer when you are at your wall, their debuff works even if they are swapped out later.

[SuperTim]

Well, the general rules for beginners for time gates are:

* Always try to get champions that you don't have.
* Try to get the champions first in slots that you only have 1 champion of.
* Try to get the really useful champions like Deekin, Hew Maan, Melf, Briv and others. (Ask someone else for a good list.)
* Try not to get champions that you will soon get in the regular weekend events. For example Beadle and Grimm will be available in about 4 weeks, so you probably want to skip them.
* Try to get Year 1 champions because they won't appear in the regular weekend events.

In your case, Strix is a Year 1, so I'd probably choose her.

[Phantom]

Strix - Key to breaking level 1,000 (click damage is OP)
Beadle and Grimm - Also helpful in breaking 1000, Only good as a potential swap increase to gold find, sometimes
Warden - Solid debuff hero

IMO

Warden > Strix > B&G most of the time

Uber late game?

Strix > B&G > Warden

[Noeh23]

First of all ... you just started playing so ignore EVERYTHING you see and hear about click damage. Irrelevant for you for quite some time.
SuperTim gave your pretty good advice overall but let me comment

* Always try to get champions that you don't have.

Well that's most for you so kind of irrelevant but indeed, until you have all the champions always use TGs to actually unlock new champs

* Try to get the champions first in slots that you only have 1 champion of.

Very good advice to help you unlock Automation in this game.

* Try to get the really useful champions like Deekin, Hew Maan, Melf, Briv and others. (Ask someone else for a good list.)

Very good advice - there are certain heroes that can help you when you are a new player more than others.

* Try not to get champions that you will soon get in the regular weekend events. For example Beadle and Grimm will be available in about 4 weeks, so you probably want to skip them.

Pretty solid advice. As the cycle is kind of yearly then if you are going to get a hero in an event anyway soon, you may as well unlock another one.

* Try to get Year 1 champions because they won't appear in the regular weekend events.

Kind of - you started to play this game quite some time after launch and some heroes are already sunset (don't appear as unlocks in events). The issue is that it's not only year 1 but actually most of year 2 as well. I would really not worry about this now, you will not catch up sunset champions via free time gates anyway and quite a few of the sunset champions are actually crap so just focus on getting the champions you want and need and don't fall into the trap of taking a champions just because it's sunset

My advice would be to take B&G as they are the best of the 3 heroes (not sure why people claim otherwise :-) ) but because B&G will come in an event soon its between Warden and Stryx. Warden is a slightly better hero imho. especially because Stryx is a DPS hero and you probably should not be using a slot 11 DPS any time soon. Actually Warden is already sunset too so both Stryx and Warden need to be unlocked via Time Gate.

TLDR: my advice is Warden, but in those 3 you can't really go wrong. Good time gate :-)

[Soteria]

Beadle and Grimm are far and away the most useful of the 3 champs. In addition to being useful for click damage, they are incredibly versatile and can be used for most variants that have restrictions, and are just good for pushing your wall in any formation.

[Coo Coo Pigeon]

Assuming you got neither:
I would grab Strix myself, tho not as great as ever been still a good champion which you can only unlock through the timegate.

Not taking the possibility to unlock in mind, I would take B&G.
Good for (de)buffs and gold find.

About Warden, he's not bad but unlucky to be outmatched by the other choices.

[OldGamer]

Even with B&G coming soon in an event, I would still be tempted to do the free timegate as this will mean you will have full blues with them via the timegate. Thus not having to spend the tokens in that event on them. (as much)

Either that or Warden. Because Warden is great :)

[Noeh23]

Originally posted by OldGamer:

Even with B&G coming soon in an event, I would still be tempted to do the free timegate as this will mean you will have full blues with them via the timegate. Thus not having to spend the tokens in that event on them. (as much)

Either that or Warden. Because Warden is great :)

As a new champ in an event you surely want to do the 3 gold chest variants and it would be super unlucky not to get all blue. I think it happened to me once since I started playing where I would do 3 adventures + the first 4 free plays which are cheaper and not end up with all blue minimum