Early game is where you will be spending your first 7-10 days trying to reach level 35 to unlock all the content this game has to offer and it is very essential to have a good understanding on what characters to invest in to get the best progression possible.



DARIAN

One of the best starting characters for the Order faction.

Your whole team survival will depend based on how strong he is, make sure to invest all your initial resources on him.

Level him up till level 31 and gear to level 3.

It is recommended to three star him as soon as possible and try to get all his Runes to level 8.

His leadership ability is very strong and it is recommended to get all his skills to level 2.

Don’t bother to make him into top 5 arena if you have Freezard since Clans faction has superior starting characters which will easily fill up your first four slots.



ALYRIA





Alyria is very good at healing as well as producing a very high magical damage.

This should be the second character you need to focus on after Darian as Alyria’s heal+ Darian’s taunt will be the strategy you will be using in Early game.

It is recommended to take her to level 31 and gear to level 3.

3 Staring Alyria is a very good choice as it will definitely help in clearing campaigns.

Max all her skills to level 2 only if you haven’t unlocked Korkhrim, otherwise just increasing Magic arrow and Mass healing is enough.

Get all her runes to level 8 and increase it further to level 16 only if she is in your Top 5 arena team.



SHARP

A very strong first day damage dealer, but soon fades down to become one of the weakest characters in the game.

Level him up only if you want to progress in the campaign, if you have freezard just kick this guy out.

Not really recommended to farm nodes for him.Keep him at max 2 star, make sure you only equip him with grey colored ruins.



FEY





Squishy but a has a very strong ability – Grace.

Level her up only when you need more power to progress in the campaign.

Worth passively farming for because of two reasons: 1. Its a panda(Pandas are the most annoying characters in this game) 2. Its evade ability is a gamechanger at higher levels(Literally evades 90 percent of incoming attacks).

If you find this character in arena, this is the character you kill first.

Dont bother equipping it with any high level ruins/investing in skills other than grace during its early game.



MASTER DUO





Nothing special, only has a below average attack skill. He is the last character you would want to level up at early game. His skills only comes into effect during midgame.

Dont bother farming him for now, there are better nodes to concentrate like Hera, Kinli,Salvador and the orcs.

ATOM





This game will give tons of ATOM shards and make you want to star him up, but don’t even bother wasting gold on this character. He is the worst beginner character in this game, ditch it as soon you get your 6th fighter for clans.

Unreliable taunt and has attacks that cause close to 50 damage to the enemy etc. etc; Avoid like plague.



RANTHA

Best clan leader for early game. Upgrade might of the clans to level 2 as soon as possible.

Give her the best ruins , gears and make sure all her abilities are at level 2. She will be your key in Secret of Solius event.

Bearpooh’s taunt when combined with Tromgar’s regen+taunt is a viable strategy to clear campaigns with 6+ enemies.



MORTHA





Average beginner character, but becomes so good in a team full of orcs.

Personal curse hits like a truck and grants shield to the ally who is taking damage. Gives Tromgar a decent shield when tanking and regenerating damage.

Its ball lightning skill helps you to ignore shield which is really useful is killing enemies with almost 0 health but 500+ shield over its head.

Keep it maxed only if you have resource to spend. Consider maxing out Korkhrim and Tromgar before going for Mortha.



TROMGAR





Best of the best. The Tier 1 Early game character which is going to carry you far in clans campaign.

It is recommended to get this character as soon as possible. This is usually going to be the first 4 star character in your team.

It has so much health and couple with regeneration, you don’t even have to worry about its health for about 2 turns.

This character is going to be the key for getting into top 2500 in arena ranking.



Kaggie

This is going to be one of the first characters you will be getting to 3 stars.

This is one of my personal favorites . It has a very good damage but as the saying goes, anything that isn’t an orc is not worth leveling up. Keep him at maximum level until you get another orc to replace him with. Don’t bother putting any runes/increasing any skill levels.



Korkhrim

One of the best supporting characters in Early game.

You will be getting him around day 5 after completing daily tasks. So make sure you have enough money to level him up to the max level as soon as you get him. Totally worth it.

Effects like burn does a lot of damage to opponents and storm(stun aoe ability) is one of the best skills in game.

*This guide is especially written for F2P and subscription players and thats the core reason I am not including characters like Freezard.

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Further resources:

Tier list: https://www.docdroid.net/diaCQ9c/dragon-champions-tier-list-2019oct17.pdf Official wiki: https://www.beadc.info/tier-list/ Mcmole2 channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrqHNtzbdAA&t=21s Darth microtransaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTWQ1S4EdBo Stew gaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ05w-raqvs&t=179s Official discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/rZugGF3 Ninja Panda Chronicles: https://dorianblade.podbean.com/e/ninja-panda-chronicles-episode-1/