User blog comment:Yoshijr/Dragon Book monsters ranked for Team Wars December 2019/@comment-39230426-20191227090705/@comment-36515094-20191227174032

For Predagelum, I put him where he is because a good amount of higher tiered monsters are immune to freeze. Ugluk, All 3 Lucifires, All 3 Nadiels, Drakor, Mountezuma, Ihtiander, and Vodyanoy are all immune to freeze. Too many monsters are immune to freeze for him to be a reliable denier in this book since that is his only form of denial. I probably could have bumped him to B, but the abundance of immunity to freeze and his high stamina costs make me want to keep him where he is.

Grumpex may have an abundance of tortures, but all but 1 of his torture skills are single target. This makes it to where he would have to take out his enemies with tortures 1 by 1 which I don't think is very effective. Couple that with 2 of his torture skills being random and he could potentially apply the same tortures already applied. He will get completely walled by both Pierceid and Mountezuma due to his unreasonably high cooldowns. Also, he has to rely more on single enemy tortures than actual damage since he can increase his damage. This does hurt him since his main source of DoTs are single target. I will be honest and say I was close to putting him in B, but I just don't think he is all that useful in the dragons book.

For Zameleon, I put him in B since he has no NER skills or PER skills which is key for a support. He's the best in B tier, but without the NER or PER a regular support would have, it would make him a little less reliable. He has the ability to give him Area Dodge which is amazing, but Wyrmlad is already this but better. The lack of NER and PER are a huge turn off considering so many monsters in the higher tiers spread a crazy amount of negative effects and positive effects to themselves.

I put Alpha Cliviast in the same tier as Clivia because Alpha is a hybrid attacker and denier, but is kinda bad at both. Clivia has multiple ways to boost up damage to actually be able to kill the enemies with his high damaging skils. Alpha has no way to buff up damage output making him rely heavily on raw damage and Poison if used as an attacker. Clivia also has far lower stamina costs and slightly lower cooldowns which is always good. While Alpha does have an AoE deny which is nice and AoE Death Countdown, I feel as if Clivia's pros in attacking make up for the Alpha's AoE DC and AoE Stun + Poison

Viperhotep is becoming a huge sleeper pick imo for this book. I put Viperhotep in A because the most of the best monsters in this book aren't immune to stun and he has an AoE stun. Also, Viperhotep has a 0 CD single enemy PER skill which is extremely useful since he is one of the only monsters that can PER away effects that O'Reilly and Wyrmlad apply to themselves. He has access to Sherezar's Amulet which will activate after he uses his AoE Stun skill and remove any stamina the enemies will have. Hotep also has a pretty good speed stat for this book as well as low stamina costs and his PER is 0 CD. Surprisingly pretty good in this book imo. (I know I'm copying and pasting this, but its already been the answer before). He isn't completely stomped in this book really. He has a pretty reliable deny compared to let's say Predagelum, since you think he should also be B tier, cuz less higher monsters are immune to stun than compared to freeze in this book. His speed is pretty good overall since most deniers in this book are pretty slow. People do keep glossing over the fact that he has a 0 CD single enemy PER skill. While it may not seem special, it is actually pretty big since this makes him one of the few monsters capable of removing the positive effects Wyrmlad and O'Reilly can apply to themselves. Seeing as they are extremely good this would make Viper pretty useful overall.