that's about where i'm at right now. hit s4 yesterday which means a) my winrate will be taking a steep nosedive and b) i need to start figuring out some alternative champs to use.

Anyone feel like posting their stats for their Shamael? I'm thinking mine'll be playing a damager role on the team.

In what team? Hydra? Arena?

Hydra. Probably Brutal for now. I expect the team is going to be something like Shamael, Lydia, Ukko (provoke set), Bivald, Dreng, and [filler]. Not sure who fits best on that last spot, but there's plenty of candidates. I expect the shortlist to involve people like those in this screenshot:

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I use mine in NM without too much trouble actually.

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Still fiddling with Cybele or Ukko lead.

And here's the stats that get about 15-20 on NM:

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Cool. Will give that a whirl. Thanks!

PS - why so much RES?

Makes for much smoother runs to have everyone on your team around 350 res. No matter what, Mischief usually can't get my buffs, and I can run everyone at speed rather than need a tank.

also means much more auto friendly due to heal reduction, provoke and such not landing. 

Upping everyone's resist did the trick. For now I'm content running Hard and Brutal on auto, which means I only need to spend time on Hydra once a week for Nightmare.

I'll give Nightmare a try next week to see if the team works there as well, though I'm doubtful it will. Wasn't quite able to get to the 350 mark on everyone - mostly hovering closer to 300.

Team was Bivald (lead), Shamael, Lydia, Ukko, Ratbomber, and Dreng. I wouldn't call it consistent, though - took a few retries before everything panned out properly.

love to see it. 

thoughts on running ukko lead, do you have him in Taunting?

Yup. Think that'd work better than Bivald?

Much better. especially with constant attack down, block/remove buffs (though of course there's still the fresh respawn issue) and speed boost/revive

Does mean you might want to (likely) get Bivald in Relentless, though.

For sure. 

I also run Bivald in Relentless, which is a big help to keep shields up and provoke up at the same time. I run Ukko in Provoke.

Basically though, Ukko lead with Shammy's TM boost means he keeps Dec Accuracy and Block Buffs up on the hydra heads most of the time. This made the few champs that used to be closer to 300 resist still able to resist Hydra debuff nonsense.

With the amount of DPS Ratking puts out hopefully you can consistently one key. Personally, I don't even run a third DPS as you can see. Cybele for AoE slows and Inc Def, Ukko for block buffs, dec accuracy and speed, Lydia for speed and dec def/weaken and block buffs, Shammy for damage, Geo for damage, Bivald for damage and heals/shield and provoke.

Will give it a whirl next week. Putting Bivald in Relentless shouldn't be too much of a problem, probably I'll just scavenge gear from one of the others that I don't really need to have in it.

If you can get Warmaster and CR/CD onto him you'll be pretty happy too. Just 10 million from him makes all the difference when everyone else is redirected by Mischief, since he's mostly AoE.