Slayers of Fell Shadows Empires and Puzzles Event and Stage Guide

The Slayers of Fell Shadows event in Empires & Puzzles was introduced to the game in August 2021. It is another of the rotating Challenge Events, and re-appears every 8-10 months. Of course that infrequency is a problem if you want to build up a stable of Slayers heroes to take advantage of the family bonus. The heroes also are highly specialized, and not of great value for most uses in the game. So, the best strategy for savvy players is just to shrug your shoulders, have fun, but don't use your gems on the event summon portal. 

The reflect color is blue. So, when you play the event, leave your blue heroes on the bench, unless it is a Slayers of Fell Shadows event hero. 

Slayers of Fell Shadows Stages

This is the stage guide for the Slayers of Fell Shadows. As with other challenge events, there are three difficulty levels (Rare, Epic and Legendary). This event presently has 10 stages at each of these difficulty levels, with enemy monsters that are yellow, purple, and blue on every stage. 

During the event, I come back here frequently to plan out my attack teams for each stage. 

(Thanks to @Cap for creating this graphic.)

Tip: Know the Reflect Color - Blue / Ice 

Slayers of Fell Shadows Portal Grading

The Slayers family of heroes all have slow mana and are highly specialized.  Their only significant use, as with other slow heroes, is for Rush Attack wars or tournaments, where all heroes automatically have very fast mana. In those events, their family ability helps to make them even faster. Their family bonus gives them a chance to actually build up an increased mana speed stack a bit each turn. In other circumstances, the family bonus builds up too slowly to make a big difference, and only raises them to about average mana speed.

BEST STRATEGY: Play and enjoy the game! Use your free token pulls, and feel happy if you get a good Slayers event hero, but remember the chances of a 5* Slayers hero are tiny - under 2%! DON'T SPEND on every portal. Pick a few that have heroes you want and focus on those. And, this one is not a good pick because of the overly specialized nature of the heroes. DON'T chase heroes, and understand for every hero you already pulled from that event, your chances of getting a new 5* you don't already have DROPS rapidly!

Portal Grades:

• Quality of the heroes: Grade D. 
• None of the heroes are "must have" and you will do better focusing your spending elsewhere.
• Effective chance of summoning good heroes: Grade D. 
• The percentages for the 4* and 3* are among the worst in the game.
• 5* Heroes Impact: D.
• These heroes shine in limited circumstances
• Portal Frequency: F. 
• The more frequent the portal, the better your chances of pulling multiple heroes and taking advantage of the family bonus using coin pulls. This event is expected no more than every 8-10 months making it too infrequent to accumulate the whole family, without overspending hundreds of dollars/euros for most players.  

Overall Slayers of Fell Shadows Hero Portal Grade: F

The "Rage" Event Mechanic

The enemy heroes in this event get "Rage" every time you use a battle item or fire a special skill. This makes color stacking even more important for this event, since tiles will be far more powerful than special skills in attacking the enemies.

• Enemies deal increased damage based on the amount of the Rage they have: The more Rage they have, the more damage they deal, and the more immune they are to damage.
• At maximum "rage":
• all enemies receive 50% less damage.
• your Battle Items deal 50% less damage.
• status ailments of the enemies are cleansed at the beginning of their turn.
• The Rage gets reduced if you don’t us any Special Skills or Battle Items during a turn.
• The maximum "Rage” is 75%
• The rage factor increases 15% each time you use a battle item or special skill.
• Rage decreases just 15% if you do not use a battle item or special skill in a turn.

Slayers of Fell Shadows Heroes Event Bonuses

Slayers Heroes Get Increased Attack, Defense And Health

Every Slayers event hero has a 20% increased attack, defense, and health in this Event’s stages. As an example, if the event hero has an attack stat of 700, then for this event, its attack stat goes up to 840! This 20% buff also applies to the defense and health stats. This is a major increase and can significantly increase your score.

Slayers of Fell Shadows Heroes Bypass Elemental Barriers

Slayers family heroes bypass the Elemental Barriers. This means blue Slayers bypass the blue reflect, and can damage blue targets in this event.

Slayers of Fell Shadows Strategies: 

Bring Heroes That Are Strong Against the Mobs and Monsters in the Stage - But Not Purple in this Event!

If you've been reading my event guides, you know that a good strategy is to check the stage guide (see the guide above) and remember to put together teams that are strong against the monsters and bosses for that particular stage. 

Strategy: Go Mono

To score high, top players typically put together single-color teams. For Slayers of Fell Shadows, you should not use any  blue heroes unless they are in the slayers family. In this event I recommend bringing green, yellow or purple heroes.

Remember the Tips For High Scores in Challenge Events

These are the same as for other challenge events.

• Bring Mono teams.
• Play fast.
• Make combos.
• Bring high level battle items: time stops, tornadoes, bomb attacks and battle axes.
• REROLL TRICK: you can play a level as many times as you want. So top players play each level until they get lucky and make many combos and diamonds. Some top players look at their initial board, and if they cannot make an immediate diamond, the flee and try again.

The Slayers of Fell Shadows adds one more tip:  

• Bring Slayers family heroes.

Slayers of Fell Shadows Family Bonus

The Slayers family bonus for using 1/2/3 heroes is:

• 50% / 75% / 100% chance to receive the following stacks at the end of each turn:
• Stack (Max 10): The caster recovers 10 HP each turn
• Stack (Max 10): The caster gets +5% mana generation