In addition, any “trainer” heroes you obtain from rare loot or shop bundles will can further improve XP gain by 20% when used to feed characters of the same color. It’s a good idea to use the same-color fodder for your favorite characters because this increases the XP gained by 20%. To increase a hero’s level, you can feed them up to 10 other heroes for XP. Once you’ve obtained a decent hero that you want to include in your “core” team, it’s time to take a look at all the possible upgrades. Even then, it might be worth waiting for a couple of summons because 1-star heroes will be the first to go. There is generally no good reason to invest resources into 1-star heroes, unless you absolutely have to in order to progress through the storyline. However, it does need lots of food and plenty of building upgrades to even give you the chance to land a higher-rarity hero.
To put together a solid team, you need to learn how to obtain more heroes and troops, as well as how to upgrade your best ones. As with most mobile games, not all heroes are equal. These abilities can be extremely useful when you’re up against bosses and other tough enemies, but, of course, there’s a catch… and its name is Gacha. In addition, heroes feature special skills that can be used in combat outside of the “normal” order of things.
Then, whenever you match 3 or more gems of a specific color, you deal damage to your opponents based on the stats of the hero and the troops associated to that color. To go to “battle”, you will need a team of 5 heroes, one for each gem color. You might not have expected to need a hero and troops guide for a Match-3 game, but Empires & Puzzles smoothly blends RPG elements into the mix and allows players to completely customize their armies.