HYDRA CLAN BOSS: BEST CHAMPS, TEAM TIPS & STRATEGY! 

No amount of nerfing/quests/guides will make me like that boss. I only endured it to get Mithrala. Unless they add some crazy broken Ninja 2.0-kind of champion to the reward pool, I'm not touching that snake again. Still, thanks for the guide. I'm sure it will be a great help for those who actually enjoy Hydra but are struggling.

The main problem with Hydra for ftp/low spenders who haven't been playing for years is not just the amount of job specific maxed champions you need for three teams, but also the fact that 99.99% of those champions need to be fully booked to be effective in Hydra lol. Then factor in that in most cases it seems champs need to be built differently with masteries/artifacts than the rest of the game - more expense swapping gear in and out each time. The only time I hit Hydra is when the advanced quest pops up, then throw a group of champs together, set it to auto and accept the 40k damage run. Done, dusted and forgotten for another few days 🤔🤣. Great video for Hydra strategy though, might revisit it in 2023 sometime 👍 Edit: seems I am not alone - the Telerian Summer Trials page shows that 758,033 keys have been used of the 4,500,000 target lol. That compares to almost 10mil of the 40mil target being reached for Demon Lord

I wish there were better rewards with Hydra like shards or books. I've got a few of the champions you talked about, so I'm excited to try to put better teams together! Wish I had more block buff champions besides Deliana - she's my only one... Uugo has risen up my most wanted list, for sure.

I think the rewards for content like hydra is really hard to balance. The easiest version of hydra is one of if not the most difficult boss in the game. The vast majority of the playerbase can't even get the lowest chest on normal. If the rewards were overtuned it becomes this cycle of only feeding the rich. I think the whole boss needs to be rebalanced. Players early on should be able to fight hydra and still get something from it. it feels like a cliff to me. With normal clan boss there are these stairs, and they get pretty steep towards the end but you are always able to keep going up. Hydra is just a sheer cliff. Until you are good enough to just reach up to the top there is no way for you to start making progress. Every other part of the game, even doom tower, you can start taking on within the first month of playing. The rewards are pretty garbage but you can start fighting them and work your way up. Hydra is the only one where there is no reasonable starting point.

The best hydra boss introduction with no doubt ! I’ve watched several Hydra videos of other CC but Ash did this with flying colors and get to the bottom of it. That Star Wars T-shirt tho? Invisible power S Tier 🤣🤣

Was expecting a Nub collab again, still another fantastic video nonetheless! Thanks for the content Ash. I am really enjoying Hydra lately and am hoping for a new head to be released soon. I think Maulie and Iron Brago are sleepers for Hydra personally

Hey Ash, really enjoy the content. There's a RU-vidr that does raid content that I've never seen in a collab with any other channel despite having over 10k subs. His name is Soda dragon. Would live to see a video with you guys together.

I have actually been moving away from block buffs for hydra. If you have a burner and a mischief tank, you really don't need block buffs anymore. You still need to find a way to remove inc attack from wrath but there are a lot of champs that can reduce buff duration that are already good for hydra. ie, geo, godseeker, brogni, lydia (with single target block buffs)

So I just finished upgrading ninjas 2nd ability, and I just got my first legit damage done to hydra clanboss. 2M damage!!!. Im a mid game player, but I ran with Lyssandra for speed and debuff transfer, stag knight for debuffs, Deliana for block buffs and decrease Res, Mausoleum mage for cleanse and buffs, Ninja for HP burn/damage, and finally Visix for provoke.

After getting Mithrala, you lose 1 reward slot in every chest because her fragments are not replaced by anything. That sucks Additionally, Hydra fights may be very long : around 45 mins per fight if you have a good team + the reloads you may have to do + 99.9% of players can't Auto these fights. It's a lot of time investment even if Hydra resets are weekly. Protection and Stone Skin sets are cool but Hydra rewards are still poor, very poor when you consider how much time it takes to fight it.

Good video bud. Thanks. I also use demy bc I have here so fast for my cb team. Keep up the good content

thanks ash, this is the kind of guide ive been looking for but couldnt find for some reason! I really appreciate you for making this.

Great vid Ash! #1 thing i gathered from this is you need SPECIFIC hydra only champs (basically champs you are not using in other parts of the game). I dont mind this as I have a lot of champs I just never use. I think I'll max out 1 team and go from there with the spare champs I have

For me Wythir is just a real unit in Hydra, AoE Leech A1, Cleanse and huge heal on A3 and increase defense on all with more heal and even mor continious heals on everybody with every thing she does

I struggled with hydra as a new to end game. The best tip was someone who is a slow boy with high res and the most buffs and build a all aoe champ in taunt set. After that it's easy I have 4 early game players in my clan working towards one keys on normal full auto.

Best 5 champions to use in hydra: 1. Krisk (he brings everything. basically 3 champs in one) 2. Ursala (brings so much! pair her with any healer and thats all the support you need) 3. Shamael (speed boost on lead, best torment counter, can also serve as mischief tank) 4. Uugo (block buffs and dec def would be enough, but the heal and cleanse are sneaky good) 5. Duchess (massive support!)

Great vid as usual. I have yet to even attempt to put a Hydra team together yet. BTW, I hope you get your AC fixed soon..... looked like you were melting! ha ha

Hello, thanks for your videos. Did you go on attack for Riho masteries? Thank you

I agree with so many points in this video lol. Uugo is so freaking good man. I used to like her but with Hydra added she has become S+ tier. When it first came out, I hated Hydra but I am starting to enjoy it actually. Granted I am at a point where everything else is auto aside from pushing hard DT. But yea having to go in and manual and think about it is actually kind of fun (though not really worth it after getting Mithrala as you mention).

That’s what I need! Thank you bro

I like the rewards. I like how you can farm mithrala in give or take 30 weeks with just a clan that can finish the boss on normal difficulty, I also like how good mithrala is for hydra. I hate the resistance required to beat this boss by doing a full auto run (which would make a lot more people enjoy it). 300 resistance and 200 accuracy is just too damn much. Even with raf matab its a struggle to get that kind of accuracy without having your great halls filled.

I'm very good on clan boss, I usually take the top rank up to brutal / nightmare, but hydra! I can't even do 1 million damage, on normal.

I JUST started using Uugo in my hydra team...and she's really, really good, especially paired with BEK. I never realized how good she was, even though I've heard Ash go on...and on...and on...ad naseum....about her. Sometimes I'm devoid of logic and common sense.

I feel the whole extension of de/buff masteries has become a bit of a rule of thumb in general for me since I hit the LV20+ dungeons on bosses, my builds that don't have them feel really underwhelming- particularly buffers.

I have yet to watch but before I do, THANK YOU!!! I hope you are doing well Ash :)

With one of the recent patchets, the "Cursed" armor set bonus changed from heal reduction to placing Hex. Would using this set provide some viability to other champions regarding the Head of Mischief?

Nice video, finally at that spot where I'm really enjoying hydra as well. Truly end game content, but come on. Up the rewards.

I just have to say....the "Put some money in your pocket" and "Still Not a Player" memes had me rolling. 👏👏👏 Well done sir.

Thanks. Coming back after a break to a clan boss I never faced. Alot of good info

This guide made a lot of sense. A lot of the other videos were complicated and made me turn away from Hydra for a while cause I was like "yeesh, I came here to play a game, not to do physics"

I haven't tried CB Hydra yet... Actually, I stand corrected... I ran one run and got obliterated, but only reason I ran it, knowing I was going to die; it was the only quest one particular day left to complete in the advanced quests I had, as those are often random on a day to day basis. The objective to the quest simply says to fight in Hydra one time, luckily it does not require a victory, so I did just that... "I fought the law, and the .. law won!!" 🫤😂🤣 and for the first time in a long time, that particular day, I pulled off a daily sweep of all the advanced quests, I don't get that often! Anyway. I appreciate the video. I've been curious about Hydra! UNFORTUNATELY... I don't have much going for me, but I do have some of those you mentioned! They're just not built up yet... My account is reaching for the 5 mo daily soon, maybe 1-2 weeks and I grab that 5 mo reward, if I'm on every day. I've played closer to or more than 5 mo, but I've probably missed a total of 5-10 logins in 5 mo, so I've been on almost daily!! BT the only two LEGOS I have, UDK and RONDA (help help me Ronda... Get her out of my .... 🤨🤣) (Yes I loves puns and quotes too!😁). Idk if they would help my potential Hydra team, but they both have potentially useful kits?! Maybe!! 🤔🤣 I also have Uugo, ANIRI, Umbral, Jareg, Steadfast Marshall, Virgos. And. When you mentioned Speed controllers, either buffers or debuffers... You NEVER mentioned HighKat (Khatune)? WHYYYY?¿ How could you Skip out on an EPIC with Dec turn meter in A1, and Speed BUFF + turn Meter Buff ally AOE on A2 + Decrease Speed AOE on A3, on an ATK based Barbarian?? 🤨😲 My HighKat, as I call her, is Max at L50 currently, and I'm considering ranking her up next (HER OR UUGO, who still at L40, been passing her up for others), but she currently deals good damage, has aura speed buff, and helps control speed for my arena teams, many times over. I've also got ELHAIN, and Galek, obviously both starter Rares... But it's my understanding those starters who reach L60 and Fully loaded become near endgame essential champs!? My Elhain, whom I started with, Is L60, max Ascended, fully booked and Mastered with Giant Slayer, And she's a hard hitter!! Wondering how she would do with the Hydra team?? Also has Kill streak, Methodical, Life Drinker, Whirlwind Death, Keen Strike, Shield Breaker, and Deadly Precision for her ATK side. DEF side started at Defiant, straight to Shadow Heal and than to Retribution. Kept it simple, do lots of damage, let others focus on Defense! She and ANIRI are the only two at L60, and both are Fully booked, and fully mastered. From what you know, and seen here... Do I have a plausible Hydra Team pending?? I'm 50 Frags away from Yannica. Also been working Faction crypts daily, hoping I get that guarantee Lego, and also working on MISSIONS tab as well, their is 1-2 Legos there guaranteed, when I reach the progress! But those are in the near to distant future, but HOPEFUL at minimum! From your perspective, do I have a chance at Hydra? Of what I have, who should I work on, for Hydra? What levels should I reach all the members on the team to? Best if all L60? Can be done if some are L50? That's another thing. When discussing champs of any kind, for any objective, in any video, most of you guys suggest Champs... But don't give us goals to reach for them! Granted, it'd be great if all my champs were L60 with absolute gear of all 6 star, +16 fully ascended gear, right?? We know that's not happening all at once, andwill take time, so it'd be nice if we had goals set as suggestions from the CC YT'rs making the video! You suggested Uugo, and mentioned gear, so it be nice if you said "Get Uugo to L50, with minimum 5 star gear at +12, and she can handle the job" or if L60, 6 star gear, Max at +16 is absolutely necessary, than mention that too, so w at least know how long to plan it! My Uugo I mentioned, is still Max 40, but mastered, and partially booked, and I think +12 to +16 on Relentless (or could be Reflex, i forget) and Perception gear. So obviously, she's probably not ready for Hydra, but without you mentioning a goal for Champs, I'm left to think it has to be max everything as you had her, but hoping that's not the case. Just a thought. Hopefully you can let me know what you think!? Thanks again for the video. Lord Dman Doom, L48 on Raid, in Way of The Warrior clan!

A little off-topic, but need your input on this: Do you think "10X chance" is a misleading name for an event as it pertains to a casual player? Some people seem to think it's common knowledge, I think the true odds are cleverly veiled behind the fine print and math that a casual player should not have to go through to realize that the real odds are miniscule. Would like to hear from casual players and noobs, when you see "10X chance to pull Cupidus", what do you expect your odds of pulling Cupidus to be?

I like hydra clan boss too, they just need to cut down on the amount of time that it takes to play. That said the most beastly toon for hydra is Master Butcher. He's my #2 pick for Bommal and my #1 pick for Hydra. He beat out warchief because of his affinity. One day Warchief was resisted 4 times in a row, so i replaced his ass. Anyone who can keep the dispel head taunted solo 100% of the time is worth gearing up.

Ash, why do you speed up the playback of your videos from how fast they were recorded?

Ash I don't have good reflect pieces for my kantra, maybe could I use frenzy or relentless instead?

Given how much Decreased Speed, and Debuffs in general are essential to Hydra and the Number of Heads and your love of Kantra on this boss, have you considered a Judge as a more F2P Friendly option that might work out nicely and be a bit more accessiable to folks?

I'm not trying to be a smart ass but you only told us which champions we're good to use. Please could you possibly walk us through the fight against the HYDRA and explain how and what as you go?? I'm ftp but I do have NINJA, Scicia and Drexthar. . . . . . The problem is that if I can get the HP burn on ALL the heads, every time the damage ticks I get attacked, well I've been getting 2,000,000. So I'm at least getting my chest on my accounts but I am having to wait til the poison cloud is gone. Even when I manage to place block buffs the one HYDRA head removes it. I have been disabling the auto function and that's when I was finally able to get a chest the last 6-7 times. PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! CAN you walk us through the battle on normal....... I wish they would have a EASY mode, I want Mythralla sooooo bad. TY Ash!! P.S. I WAS DOING OKAY UNTIL THEY NERFED BRIMSTONE!!!! DAMN IT, COME ON PLARIUM.

This video was super helpful! Much appreciated!

Tyrant the MVP - HP lead, tank, solo Spider and IGolem, Def up + ally protect + 3 turn burns AoE... what do you need more. :)

What do you think of putting ultimate death knight in salwart gear ash

I use Deliana and her Block Buffs. I love her in my team ❤

For Hex I like Mickinachi. He might not have been released as a champion by the time to first released this video. For Decrease SPD I like Sniktraak, Countess Lix, Lady Kimi and Royal Guard For Nukers - I prefer single-target damage dealers, as to not lose out on damage mitigation from AOE hits. I like Konstanine the Dayborn and Fennax For healers I agree with your list but.......My favorite healer in the game is Wythir the Crowned. She is a beast, amazing healer for Hydra Clan Boss. I think Hydra is a bit over-turned still, myself. I am late game and only do 2 keys in Hydra. I am looking to build my Husk and Royal Guard next for Hydra - to try to hit Brutal - Hydra. The rewards for Hydra and Hydra Clash are lacking a bit. Where are the skill tomes? Where are the 5-star chickens? Where are the Void and Sacred shards? More silver would be nice also. Thank you for the video.

Arbiter relentless + support speed/heal and she crazy. She takes extra turns if she revives so... it stacks amazing. It can get you out of so many situations, everywhere.

lol i have a really hard time setting up teams for normal stuff never mind hydra "never even done over 500k" I just put what ever together just to get the missions done.

About time someone made this video.

Great video dude. remember when people felt like they beat the game when they beat clan wars lol man has the game changed sense then

my favorite part of this content is discovering champs that are otherwise not used.

Ninja slaps and is my overall best Hydro champ.

DOOMPRIEST! Not a bad option as a debuffer/healer...and buffer, too. And you don't have to book her, either.

Liked it, as I also like hydra more than others in my clan. Having said that, many of your recommendations only really work on normal or hard hydra and definitely not on brutal and nm. If you stated somewhere that your point of view is lower difficulty then ok, otherwise your list of champs is sometimes a bit lackluster imo.

i use norog in my normal rotation and i agree, he's amazing as an alternative to Uugo if you don't have 2-3 Uugo's. If you have 2-3 Uugo's... then maybe just do that.

You forgot a few absolute S-tier hydra champions like Shamrock, Skull-lord or Nekmo Thaar. And there are a few underrated champions that could be highlighted with their Mischief tanking role like Oboro or Beardall

Thank you for this video, gonna shoot for my first chest this week! only have a hand full of champs to use so doubt its gonna go well lmao but its a start. Prob gonna put doompriest to the test

No talk of Raglin??? Revive, Heal, Remove Debuffs, 15% turn meter fill AND 33% defense in all battles Aura!!!

Would you run Geomancer over sinesha?

Yesterday I had uugo do her revive all in hydra. First time it ever happened but it was funny as I was thinking I am screwed her with just uugo left and still 1m short of the next level chest....I glanced away from my phone for a second and when I looked back I had all 6 team members back. Hahaha, I was thinking how on earth did that happen. Then I remembered her special skill!!

Rewards need a buff in most areas of this game,it would be cool if we could trade rewards for other rewards that we could use nothing crazy but like maybe 10 books for a shard depending on its rarity of xp brews for double xp idk something along those lines.and can we get some new god like in uncommons

Totally off topic but....I love all your tattoos but can't tell what they all are....do you think maybe in one of your videos you can give us a run down??? If not that's OK too!!! Keep up all the good work Ash!!

I have no thoughts about the rewards on hydra because I have never gotten a single chest. I watch all these hydra videos, but apparently, I'm just not getting the jist. I am building geo and rector but I am not cc class getting books tossed at me. I've said this before and stick to it, take over my acct and see if you can build a team that gets even a novice drop.

I suck at Hydra. Thank you so much for this great video!

Could you do a guide on Mother Cybele and how you built her and how you build a hydra team around her? You say she’s sooooo good but I’m not impressed still since fusing her

Thanks these hints are helping. I got 7 blue shards ready for next extra event. spent my gems.

16:35 killed me.🤣🤣

I love it when ash forgets not to wear green

Damn yo your Ma Shallad is a beast! So much def and hp alongside damage, jeesh

This is the best and most useful video out there thank you so much

Hey ash. Have you ever thought about Having a meet up or something so fans can meet you?

I'd like to see more examining of which boss does what. I just hit auto and if they eat a guy attack that one with the green bar, I have no idea which boss is which. It's a terrible instance/raid.

I'd LOVE shards in Hydra rewards or at least shards in the clan shop at a level where EVERY clan get them.

Angar does not have a provoke on his a1. He has an extra hit if the target is under a provoke

If aoe provoke is up 100% is it necessary to have a hex person on the team?

Cardiel is top tier for healing and cleansing, I know u don’t have him but you gotta show some love for him!

Is there any benefit to running 2x Inquisitor Shamael? Would Acolyte be any good for Hydra? EDIT - LMAO at the pic of Bulwark. wtff

My husband can get 50 million on the Normal Hydra. I can barely get over 1 million. I do well in every other area of the game. But I just don't have the crabby paddy formula yet I guess. I still really appreciate the game, though. It's a beautiful game with lots of really cool looking champions and enemies. I can't think of a better game I can play on my phone. This takes a lot of effort to make the game fun and being creative with the characters and bosses. It's a great game despite flaws. Gotta be forgiving with stuff like this. They will balance it out and no matter what, they can't make everyone happy all the time.

ash love your vids its a shame you can't do DWJ events or do twitch i can understand your busy :)

Soulless is great at provoking and nuking Hydra. Modecai does yeoman work in putting out AoE burns. Round out with Cardiel, Ursala, Rhio and Shamael and I can get max normal chest on auto. I'm fine with getting Mithrala next year

I never understand how to know all the details from champs to each piece armor but I just can't for some reason. I think I have some pretty ok champs but I dont understand how people do it. i watch so many people to try learning like you, hades, skratch, i watched a vid from gameleap, and i just dont know nothing. my hydra team does 1.2m most of the time and my 2nd and 3rd team dont do more than 500k

Great video man very informative covered a lot you are starting to sound like an auctioneer 😆 🤣 but you do it 👍

Hey Ash? Can you do an account takeover for me on Normal 120 Eternal Dragon. Right now I can only get him to half health and he always seems to eat one of the brown minions gaining his health back and completely overwhelming my team after that

You forgot my fav reviver/healer/cleanser Ash, Raglin is really solid.

Great vid would love more hydra vids no enough info around

I don't have any of those champions so I have yet to even try hydra. Okay I do have the 4 free to play but I don't think they can handle it by themselves.

My man, how often you hit the gym....looking beast!

Head of Mischief is the single most ridiculous of the Hydra heads. It's just not fun. The ability for it to steal buffs on its MAIN attack is 90% of the problem with Hydra. There is a reasonable answer for literally every other head, but Mischief is what makes the whole thing less desirable to even run. In fact, once I've got Mithrala (I'm 5 shards away), I may stop doing hydra altogether unless they boost rewards and/or nerf mischief.

I’m at such a weird spot in the game no clan and having a hard time with fire night not really sure what champions to use I feel like I have a lot but nothing to good

They need to do something to hydra to make people go after it. And not by forcing people with the daily missions and such. Better rewards. Gems, shards, books. At the same time. Almost all of my clan can't even get the "Novice Chest" from Hydra easy. They need to do something better then what they are doing now. I definitely say they need to take the Head of Mischief out till much difficult lvs of Hydra. That is all of my clans biggest weakness to Hydra. For me, when facing Mischief, I just deal enough to get the Warrior chest. When I don't see that head, like on this rotation, I did almost 40 mil. I believe I could of done even more if I didn't have that head pop up after decapitating a previous one. That freaking head always swallows my team... every......Single......TIME.

I'm still new to raid, and it feels like I can't even touch Hydra unless I have decent lego's. And with the summoning events....not having any luck what so ever >.

no mention of nemko for inc/dec speed?

i'd take black knight over angar as well, unfortunately i have pulled angar 3 times and zero black knights.

It's def a pain but a great challenge as well. Can't get a one key max chest on the lowest 3 difficulties but it's a good source of gear but after mithrala is unlocked it's pretty meh. Frustrating with little reward

How did you get geo to do that damage with no hex?

Ash I don't play hydra since my champs are not made for hydra but I want at one point to be able to do it since mythrala is amazing

I tried Hydra only one time since I hit lvl 45 and I was like nope. Lol my 10 mil demon lord team got wiped at less than 300k damage. Let me know when they add rewards worth the effort

1st.. love your content.. getting paid but still hold true and honest. 2nd.. Unless I missed it. U forgot my boy krisk..

Bro, besides needing multiple teams, the rewards are quite lackluster, but most of all… It just takes too long 😭.

I've been wondering this for a while, my void champions are getting weak hits in the hydra clan boss, is there a reason why that is?

Rewards in general makes sense

I gave up on Hydra a year away from beating it. I think I had 6 k in all attacks

ok so I won't plan on an actual successful hydra fight for at least a year and it will only be to get the champs, demon lord is cool, I am still struggling with bomel and nether spider on the higher levels of doom tower

You left out my 2 mvp's! Cardiel and siphi ! They carry my team hard . Oh and doompriest to deal with the fear head 🤣