On the bright side for Awoken Shiva  teams, Ares just had an Awoken Evolution announced (no icon yet). This will grant him Devil / Attacker typing and causing him to become TPA  oriented with massive base attack and an enhanced fire skyfall active in conjunction with double orb change. This is also great news for  teams as the double orb change helps flood the board with fire orbs. Unfortunately, this will remove his presence on Shiva Dragon  teams so exercise caution before committing. I will also do his own special post comparing his evolutions at a later date.

Australis  has 5  awakenings and a more powerful active as her skyfall buff lasts for 4 turns. Liu Bei  has 3 TPA  awakenings and by default hits harder (maybe the skyfall mechanic negates this). Regardless, playing Artemis on a TPA oriented combo team such as Awoken Bastet  is problematic due to overflowing the board with too many wood orbs and potentially causing you to be unable to form 7+ combos required for full leader skill activation. You can arguably use Awoken Artemis  as a leader on her own to form a 4x HP / 16x ATK team but must work around awkwardly matching water and wood orbs.

However, one thing Awoken Artemis  shines at is being an Awoken Astaroth  sub as her team is normally quite restrictive in their sub choices.

For further reading as to which Artemis evolution is best for you, please read my full analysis HERE.

 

 

 

On the other hand, Awoken Apollo  is quite the horny and majestic unicorn (seriously, his art is just mind-boggling) and appears to have less synergy with most teams as he lost his row enhances. The strange part of the entire Greco-Roman pantheon’s active favours row formation due to flooding the board with their respective colour. Regardless,  gains the healer typing and opens options to be used on Awoken Ama  , Light Metatron  , and Light Zhuge Liang  teams. In addition, the new wood typing means Awoken Sakuya  teams do not need to bring a wood sub and may ease team building. Of course, the overflow of light orbs may make it problematic to adequately combo, but can be used after Light Kali  ‘s active to ensure a more combo friendly board. Furthermore, the enhanced skyfall mechanic may add lethal amounts of additional damage.