Protean Grimoire 5 - Survival

Protean Grimoire 5

Protean Grimoire is a difficult one to crack. Don't lose heart if you cant win stage 5 in the first attempt, it is a long struggle to reach there.

The task in Protean Grimoire 5 is to survive for 15 rounds of enemy assault. That means getting to round 33 without losing.

Every round, one of the enemy creatures will randomly get battleblow (+300%). Battleblow shoots up the creatures attack to 4000. Your creatures should have more than 4000 hitpoints to survive this.

There is a lot of magic and poison in this grimoire. Mythril Drone doesn't work. It is difficult to out-heal two pyres and a 4000 attack hit. Then there is Rip.

There is also an enemy with chainstrike, so the creature you place in front of her needs to be unique. (otherwise your duplicate card with die from +220% chainstrike damage)

Enough about the horrors of the grimoire, now onto deck building!


There are three ways to beat protean grimoire.

Method 1

• Hero: Predator level 10
• At least 6-7 Henrietta(guild map 6) melded with immunity 7. 
• One or more unmelded Dragonlords or Ash Beasts melded with bless.

Rune up maximum for health and healing. The idea is that the Henriettas help you get past 4000 HP, Rip and Freeze. They also provide the healing required. You will need some non-Henrietta cards to throw before the chainstrike enemy. Grizzly level 10 will easily survive the hero hits with this much healing.

The heroes needs to have HP boosting talents (Faen stamina for Predator, Protection for Judgement)
If you still cannot succeed, consider taking an HP boost with 15 gems. (the small silhoutte figure next to the profile on the top left will take you to the HP boost screen)

Method 2

This is a lot lot more easier, if you have the card called 'Sacred Wolf'. Many of us got this card cheap during an event (with less than 1000 gems spent, because nobody wanted this card then!). This is the method that I use.

• Hero: Judgement (from tournament mall) with a minimum of extra +30000 HP from runes.
• Sacred Wolf (from events)
• 4 Nidhoggs (from coupon altar or guild map 2) 

Sacred Wolf

Play your cards when 6 or 7 of enemy creatures are out. Sacred Wolf and 4 Nidhoggs, along with 3 rounds of Protection from Judgement will give your creatures over 5000 HP. Place your Sacred Wolf against the chainstrike enemy if the chainstrike enemy is among the first 5.

If the enemy with rip comes in the first 5 slots, you will lose in this setup. If you have a creature that can resist rip (like Cancer or Virgo), use it in place of one of the Nidhoggs. This doubles your success rate because you can now counter if rip appears in the first five enemy draws.

It is very much recommended to get 'Group Tactics' talent for judgement. Group Tactics along with a rip-resist will take your win rate over 90%.

Method 3

• Hero: Royal Guard any level
• Oracles melded with immunity 7 or unbound (Seraphs melded with bless could replace some oracles)

The idea is that Royal Guard would be able to limit damage every round (including chainstrike damage). Immunity oracles are required so that they heal some damage every round, to be able to lose HP again and fill the rage bar of Royal Guard for the next round. Also immunity helps in avoiding the instakill enemy.

There are a few people who successfully use this deck to clear protean 5.

In the meantime, if you don't have the cards yet... Protean 4

If you don't yet have the cards to beat protean 5, you can still go for protean 4. The setup for this is much easier. You just need to have a Predator or Berserker with very high hero vigor rune (from glory altar). Take random 10 creatures, drop creatures one by one per round just enough to keep making Grizzlies or Boars. You will reach round 33 comfortably.


Let us know how far you are into cracking the grimoire.


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