You don't need to use a burn strat until like 17 or so. At 14 just aoe nuke and brute force through it.

I think he's going to do way, way too much damage until you get to the point where HP burn becomes more of a necessity. 

Yep he does, slaughters the spider minions 1 hit. Still just wanted to give him a shot got a team for spider, but got the complete den 14, 10 times on auto, thought he might speed my time up a bit, but reverse was true.