Introduction
In the AFK Journey Supreme Arena, many of the archetypes used in the non-season arena can be used here as well, but many opportunities are made available by season talents and artifacts. For attack teams, it is often necessary to tailor your teams based on what the other player is running, so below we will list some solid defense teams.
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Map 1
Athalia Burst Team

This team uses Athalia’s massive burst damage as well as dunlingr’s Curelock to quickly eliminate enemies one by one, without much they can do to fight back. Ultimate denial mode also works.
- Athalia is our main damage carry, capable of delivering massive burst damage.
- Dionel can also be used in her place, in a more buff-oriented team.
- Dunlingr is used to disable enemy ultimates, while not inconveniencing our own team much.
- It is possible to run a version of this team without Dunlingr, but it will not be nearly as strong. Instead of Dunlingr, you can run Phraesto as a frontline or another tank, or a damage carry to lean further into the burst team idea.
- Ludovicprovides some initial healing to protect our frontline, while also offering some CC and damage.
- Damian can also be used to perform a similar role.
- Smokey & Meerky works better for the Dionel variant.
- Elijah and Lailah provide energy, buffs and healing, greatly speeding up the team.
- Hugin can also be used instead, allowing us to place Athalia on a talent tile.
- Alternatively, we can also bring an additional carry such as Harak.
- Can also use another support here if running Dionel.
- Cyran helps provide some Artifact disruption the enemy can’t play around until it is too late thanks to hidden tiles.
- Lily May is a good general purpose alternative.
- Alternatively, we can run an additional support as a safety net.
Eironn Burst Team

This team is relatively accessible thanks to not necessarily requiring Celestial/Hypogean heroes, while also being very powerful against many matchups. We can make use of the hidden tiles to make it appear to be a traditional Eironn team at first glance
- Eironn is used to group up and debuff enemies and is the core of this archetype.
- Of course, we can always run other sources of CC for our frontline, such as Granny Dahnie,Lumont, orLucca, but they will lack the explosive potential of the main Eironn variant.
- Ulmus is used to root enemies after Eironn groups them up, and act as a frontline along with Eironn
- Ulmus is not strictly necessary but he does make the team a lot more consistent. Another option is running more damage carries such as the ones listed below.
- Arden is the preferred damage carry for this team, and his dupes are readily available
- Carolina can be used instead of Arden, or along with Arden as long as we drop one of our supports for more damage.
- Parisa is just as powerful as a burst damage damage carry, lacking either of the others
- Bonnieacts as debuffer and secondary damage carry.
- A support can be used for more sustain if needed
- Carolina complementsArden, adding more burst damage to the team
- Elijah and Lailah can be used as a higher investment alternative to greatly speed up our ultimates and provide some healing and stat stacking, and work perfectly in this mono faction team.
- We run Bryon here as a counter to Lily May, allowing Eironn’s ultimate to go through, and also providing some true damage conversion through his buff tile.
- Niru can also be used as an alternative for this purpose
Map 2
Shemira Team

As this map favours ranged damage, this team relies on Shemira to deal the bulk of our damage, using Thoran backed by supports to buy us enough time for Shemira to get her Ultimate out.
- Shemira is our main carry, and the reason to be running this team.
- Lily May provides some extra damage, and helps protect Shemira from an enemy ultimate and help buy more time.
- Thoran is used to protect Hewynn from getting burst down.
- If you have to drop Damian for some reason and need an extra wilder, consider running Granny Dahnie here.
- It is also possible to run a CC variant with Eironn andUlmus if available.
- Hewynn provides map-wide healing to help keep Shemira alive
- Ludovic can also work if available.
- Damian provides some start of battle healing as well as protection for Hewynn via his charm effect.
Tasi Talene Team

We can also use this same template to run a Tasi Talene team instead!
Map 3
Mauler Rush Team (Shakir-Brutus Variant)

This melee-based team takes advantage of the map forcing awkward unit placement to get into the thick of battle while Odie deals damage from afar.
- Odie is our main damage carry.
- Depending on the enemy team, we can double down as a melee-based team by running Silvina to harass the enemy backline.
- We can also run Alsa to provide some CC.
- Shakir is here to keep the enemy busy, deal damage, and share his aura with Brutus
- Soren can also take advantage of the mauler faction tile
- Brutus eats the brunt of enemy burst damage, taunting them.
- Antandra can also work well here.
- Koko provides healing and damage resistance buffs .
- Gerda can also work here, if you have enough damage to overcome the healing she provides to enemies.
- Mikola helps support the melee playstyle by providing her Honor Arena to heal and buff allies.
- Smokey & Meerky can also help, providing stationary healing for Odie.
Mauler Rush Team (Alsa-Soren Variant)

This is a more CC-oriented variant of the team, using different damage carries.
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Here are some additional ideas for teams to use: