Hoarding is the only way to substantially improve your chances to cover a 5* to a worthwhile degree, you have two options:
Latest Legends, 5* pull rate is 1 in 7, across 3 heroes
or
New 5* feature store, pull rate is 1 in 10 across 1 hero
Downside with the featured 5* store is that you cant use hoarded LTs...
It takes a while to build up a stockpile of LT pulls between tokens and CP, FAR longer than it takes to stockpile appreciable amounts of ISO, and the only 4*s that will be helpful to you when you pull your hoard are the ones in the current featured 12, which are likely NOT the ones currently featured now (unless you amass CP quite a bit faster than I do)
I'd advise stockpiling ISO as well as LT and CP now in prep for blowing a hoard at around 300LT pulls... if you don't have progress on the 12 featured 4*s that means upwards of 5.5 Mil ISO needed to champ 2 5*s and all the 4*s so you wont have loss in covers you have to sell.... 5.5M ISO is faster to amass than 300 pulls, once you hit the ISO target, spend on whatever 4*s you want.
The featured 5* is tempting, its the statistically cheapest route to cover just one 5* but you cant use LTs, and you end up pulling less 5* covers overall, I'd only do it if you absolutely need to have a specific 5* can feel able to make that judgment very early on.
Theres probably a happy medium with ISO spent while you hoard, depends on your rates... and the sad fact is that the 4*s about to be retired will be useless to you in terms of saving covers when you get a big enough hoard to pull
Good luck!
JVReal said: You'll need enough Iso to Champ any 5* you cover to use their dupes, and you'll need the iso to Champ the 12 most current 4*'s that you'll pull a boatload of dupes of as well.
If you don't want to go all in with hoarding, a more... moderate plan would just be to pull until you have 13 covers on the 2 4*s next to retire out of the top 12.... when you get enough ISO to champ all the 4*s and at least 2 5*s (somewhere around 5.5M) and over about 300 pulls, go nuts.
I'm not doing that, because it takes substantially longer before I get to cover the 5*s well, and I was waiting for information promised us about possible "fixes" for the vaulting issue. I'll have to re-evaluate, but in the mean time I'm hoping the mechanics change while I wait...
MissChinch said: If you don't want to go all in with hoarding, a more... moderate plan would just be to pull until you have 13 covers on the 2 4*s next to retire out of the top 12.... when you get enough ISO to champ all the 4*s and at least 2 5*s (somewhere around 5.5M) and over about 300 pulls, go nuts.I'm not doing that, because it takes substantially longer before I get to cover the 5*s well, and I was waiting for information promised us about possible "fixes" for the vaulting issue. I'll have to re-evaluate, but in the mean time I'm hoping the mechanics change while I wait...