If you go without speed buff, your team will not win the speedrace. Even if your fastest champ goes first, the opoonent will interrupt. Without speed buff in your team, his fastest champ will probably take the second turn. I think your team you want to build get's a lot of problems from this.

False.

All he has to do is speed tune his team using the deadwood jedi speed calculator to ensure all his champions go before the enemy (no cut in). 

@OP - Your team looks fine, for now. Look to replace Kael with Fu Shan and Septimus with Dutchess. 

Septimus with Dutchess @AirMaxxx? They serve very different purposes. Septimus is an attacker, the Dutchess is not.

Yup, warmaiden + fushan damage should be enough to wipe any team, dutchess is there as a clutch for those times he gets outsped by the enemy team and fails to go first.

Did you read about his actual team? The actual speedleader, High Khatun, has (only) 221 speed, the slowest champ has 153 speed. Do you really think the thread opener can form a team that gos first without a speedbuffer? Because he has some 4-roll legendary speed-artifacts he just doesn't want to use now on his HK?

High Khatun is indeed what you would call a "speed buffer", as she boosts TM, for low 221 speed he only needs about 180 speed to ensure the rest of his team goes immediately after HK. 

Speed buff itself doesn't help much until you reach very high speeds 300+ 

But without that High Khatun, what he wants to do, what I say he shouldn't do and where you say I would be wrong, his whole team would need much more than 200 speed to go without somebody cutting in. 

As we don't know all artifacts the thread-op has, we can't say for sure if that's a realistic approach. But we can guess from the speed stats his actual champs have.

Duchess is so good that she's basically a lock, but as others above have said, you still need a turn meter/speed boost. HK could do that or Golden Reaper, who actually has a slightly stronger turn meter buff (no speed aura but that's ok, Duchess can cover that). Basher can be useful, but not instead of a decrease def - his job would be making sure you survive even if your speed nuke fails, but that's also Duchess' job, so probably you don't have room for Basher in addition to Duchess. Fu-Shan is an upgrade over Kael (even unbooked) and Armina could be an upgrade over Warmaiden, but she requires a good number of epic books and has a different affinity. 

Sorry I must've misread.

Yes High Khatun is absolutely essential. Everything that I said I meant with him using HK lead in my mind. 

Okay, so Khatun has to stay. Then Arminia for Warmaiden, Fu-Shan for Kael and Duchess for Septimus?

To be honest, I don't like the Idea of heaving Dutchess as the last hero acting, shouldn't her 50% attack-buff be applied before the nukes?

Or did you meant it that way, that I should go 

1. Khatun

2. Duchess

3. Arminia

5. Fu-Shan?

Replacing Septimus with Duchess just meant that Septimus should leave the team and Duchess should join. Of course the turnorder should be the way you described above. Duchess should be fast, so even if the enemy interrupts after her move, you have Block Debuffs active.

Your Best Speed Aura is Fu-Shan

Your Best AOE Nukers are Fu-Shan, Sinesha, Dark Elhain, & Pitiless One

Your Best Turn Meter Filling hero is Golden Reaper

4 types of Damage:

- Weak Damage

- Average Damage

- Strong Damage

- Godlike Damage

In Terms of Nukers:

Kael AOE Damage = Strong

Dark Elhain AOE Damage = Strong

Pititless One AOE Damage = Strong

Sinesha AOE Damage = Godlike <-------This is Sinesha A1 move which the AI doesn't do on Auto

Fu-Shan AOE Damage = Godlike

In Terms of AOE Def Down:

Warmaiden AOE Damage = Strong

Armina AOE Damage = Strong

Based on the above information, Your Best Speed Nuking Arena Set up might be:

Leader: Fu-Shan - Speed Aura 24%

1st move: Golden Reaper ------> Turn Meter Fill 20% + Speed Buff

2nd move: Armina -------------> AOE Def Down

3rd move: Dark Elhain ---------> Increase Her Own Attack by 50% 

Than ------ Dark Elhain --------> AOE Nuke

4th move: Fu-Shan -------------> AOE Nuke/Stun

Alternative Best Speed Nuking Arena Set up might be:

Leader: Fu-Shan - Speed Aura 24%

1st move: Golden Reaper ------> Turn Meter Fill 20% + Speed Buff

2nd move: Duchess ------------> Increase Attack 50% + Block Buffs + Veil

3rd move: Armina --------------> AOE Def Down

4th move: Fu-Shan -------------> AOE Nuke/Stun 

Which one is better?

I don't know - They both seem very strong.

They both have pro's & con's.

I think the first set up I recommended to you is Ultra-Aggressive.

Pro's:

- The set up has 2 Nukers from different Affinity - It can help kill enemies better.

- Enemy heroes who manage to live will most likely be Stunned due to Fu-Shan.

Con's: You have no protection.

If the enemy manages to Survive + Avoid the Stun - You will be in major trouble.

- You don't have Veil to hide your heroes.

- You don't have any Resurrection to revive your heroes.

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I think the second set up I recommended to you is Aggressive with Recovery.

Pro's:

- Duchess Veil will give your team protection to survive longer.

- Duchess Resurrection could bring your team back from the brink of defeat.

Con's:

- The set up will only rely on Fu-Shan to kill - You will miss out on some extra damage.

- You will have to be more careful picking your Arena Match ups.

(Fu-Shan is Force Affinity - teams with tons of Spirit Affinity heroes will be a No Fight Zone)
 

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I wanted to share this information.

It can give you fruit for thought.

Yeah, I was a bit confused at that moment @skadi 😁

Thank you very much @Player J 🙂 I really appreaciate your effort!

I'm thinking it over and I'm havin a hard time to decide, but I think I will go with the second team. 

I did some math and since Fu-Shan is getting a nice buff here (and so are Arminia/Warmaiden!), the dealt damage should be nearly the same in both teams and thus having a better base for a second round (where Golden reapers A2 will be a nice bonus :) ) is probably the better way to go.

Again, thanks a lot!

I would say you need to be faster.  I have 2 speed boosters and that barely got me into silver 2 (yesterday everything went to pieces and I'm down to silver 1 for the first time since I got Jorrg).  The first thing I did when I got high Khatun was ascend her to 6 for the extra speed (leveling to 6 doesn't do it, you have to ascend her apparently).  That'll get you 6 or 7 more speed immediately.  My High Khatun is at 241 although I haven't found any artifacts with a speed substat.  I win about 80% of the speed races of the battles that I select but I avoid the speed auras which are greater than 24% most of the time (I'm willing to go up to that though).  I'd say you have to get up to at least the mid 230s with your faster character to have a chance in Silver 1.  I got into Silver initially when I got my Khatun up to 235.  It seems to be getting harder and harder though as more teams get pushed down.

We will see @Quintinar 🤔

I already got Golden Reaper, Fu-Shan and the Duchess on Rank 6, right now I'm bringing them up to LvL 60. Besides that, bringing reaper up to the 230s should be possible, Fu-Shans better Aura could do this even without improved items.

But we will see. I hope that plarium fixes the arena in time, the community prooves that this is necessary.

What I meant was my High Khatun was 235 prior to the speed boost but Fu-Shan does have a better boost than she does!  Best of luck!

So guys, it has been a while and I thought maybe you would like to hear how it all went.

The short answer: Pretty well!

The long answer: 

My new Team is

1. Golden Reaper (281 speed), fully booked, masteries up to LvL 4

2. Duchess Lilitu (226 speed), not booked, masteries up to LvL 4 

3. Arminia (196 speed, 239 acc, ca. 3600 attack), fully booked, masteries up to LvL 4 

4. Fu-Shan (186 speed, 5250 attack), fully booked, masteries up to LvL 4 

This team brought me up as high as gold 2 - a great success for me! :) It seems like I hit the end of the road here, stopping to win at middle gold 2, but I can sustain in bottom gold 2 without big problems. At this point, my speed is not enough anymore but this is fine. My goal was to break out of Bronze 3-4 and that obviosly worked brilliant. I even win around half of the defensive battles, which is also great.

Cool! Good to know that there are players ready to help with Arena!