Board Thread:LOC General Discussion/@comment-5616072-20130806121457/@comment-5616072-20130828123657

Acnotalpha: It's been suggested on this wiki before that each element has a 'natural enemy' in which it has a built-in statistical advantage when doing battles. That you get an 'element boost' for cards in your front line that are of your element, and that there is also another 'boost' or 'advantage' when facing the element that you've been given power over. Congo and I had a discussion about this months ago and it was confusing and frustrating that nothing in the game docs really elaborated on it. The mention of the latter advantage mentioned above is something that I can no longer find on the Wiki. It was in the description of 'Battles' and it made no mention of skill.

I DO understand what you're saying, and I've wondered if the statement you're making might be the 'advantage' in it's entirety...

The skills are most definitely stacked the way you describe... you can pull up the list on the wiki  HERE  (arange by skill) and see that "Great drop to Fire XXX" are all water cards, "Great drop to Forest XXX" are all Fire cards, and finally "Great drop to Water XXX" are all Forest cards.

But LOC in an earlier email had this to say:

In regard to Colosseo defense lines, in your Main DEF line, you will receive a defense boost to cards of your element. However, in the Support Lines, you will receive a DEF Boost only to cards of the same element as the line. The Forest Support line will get a boost only to forest cards. Your forest Support line will be called in when you are attacked by a Water player, so that you have the elemental advantage. Unfortunately you will never personally witness your support line being called in as this only happens when you are attacked by other players. If you do not set up a support line, your main DEF Line will be called in. Your main line is the DEF Line  you use when you attack other players.

The reason you should set up Support Lines is to take advantage of the Elemental Boost, as well as the elemental weakness of the player attacking you.

It's interesting to me that they make the last comment with no mention of skill at all. I acknowledge that I could be over-thinking it, but the primary frustrating problem to me is that it is so poorly explained... EVEN when direct questions are fielded.

Why wouldn't they just SAY it's because of the skills? With the high prevalence of broad-effect skills in the higher powered cards it's pretty likely that people are buying cards for these lines that dont have the single-element (or even dual) max boost versus the indicated ATKing element.

Congo: Yep, definitely.