[Help] New Player needs help with a team

Blackbird and Raffine are your best leaders, but they'll be difficult to build for and play early on.

If you can get the Super Snowglobe Dragons then Blackbird/Loki/base Hyunckel/Eir/Super Revo Lucifer might work. You'll need the Skill Boost+ Super Awakening on Loki, Hyunckel, and Lucifer, and the Blackbird helper will need to have a SB equip (or evolve the other Hyunckel to his equip and assist it onto the other Hyunckel). Eir is your answer to binds and awoken binds, Lucifer is your answer to damage absorbs (though he's kind of iffy with it). Work on evolving Dark Metatron to Mega Awoken, then replace Lucifer with her and switch Hyunckel for his evo.

I'm not really seeing enough subs to make Raffine work well. She's great for clearing through Normals and early Technicals, though. Just throw on devil types that cover all colors and have some skill boosts.

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My usual new player tips:

• Story mode is a great place to start. It gives a lot of stones and other goodies, is fixed team so it doesn't matter what you do or don't have, and does a much better job as a tutorial than the actual tutorial.
• Don't pull in the regular Rare Egg Machine, it's lost all value. Save your stones for godfests and good collabs. The exception is rare events like Sin Dragons or Mystics.
• Don't sell anything from the REM/collabs/seasonals. Even if it seems bad or low use, it may have better evolutions, may get better evos later, may get buffs later, or may have some niche use.
• Favorite everything that comes from the REM, godfests, collabs, seasonals, etc. Anything worth 1k monster points or more. This protects them from accidental selling or feeding off and filters the good stuff to the top when sorting by Fav.
• Don't use stones for continues or stamina refresh, it's generally not worth it. Pulls and box space are where it's at.
• Team building revolves around leader skills, read the leader skill carefully and pick subs that suit it. Similarly, synergy with the helper leader skill makes a huge difference, so pick helpers that work well with your leader(s).
• Check out the new player guides and teambuilding guide on the subreddit wiki
• http://ilmina.com/ and https://pad.chesterip.cc/ are great databases.
• Check https://www.puzzleanddragons.us/news once or twice a week for NA news, check http://pad.protic.site/ to see what's upcoming.
• https://pad.protic.site/glossary/ is good for learning terms and mechanics

Hi there, I'm not the best at this but in my opinion, yes, your Blackbird is your best leader, although you don't really have a team to maximize him just yet. Definitely Hyunckel as a sub but the others I'm not so sure about except you're best off using dark subs. You'll want to pay attention to Blackbird's 25 turn leader activation cost, and see what subs you have that have S++ awakenings (or regular S+ in a pinch) in order to start with needing as few turns as possible before you get the first transform. At the risk of being obvious, with Blackbird, the goal is to make two separate dark matches each turn.

Raffine may be easier to start with because you can put together a rainbow team which for you is expanding from a pretty limited set of starting cards. Then you will want to clear as many different attributes as possible on each turn.