Improved Boss 5

Pick me!

I saw a youtube video last night where the guy was using a slowdown team on boss5, but spreading the bosses exactly as I do in my strategy.  But he also had a significant improvement that my strategy can use.

Instead of using just any hero as a sacrifice to draw off the Rage Goblin, use a hero with Revive.  The Rage Goblin kills the sacrifice, then immediately locks on the next-nearest hero.  Then the sacrifice revives; so you get the full damage of all six heroes.  Indeed, this hero isn't a sacrifice at all.  I need a better label for what it is doing.  The "bait" hero?  "Distance bait"?

That guy used a Siren as his distance bait, which is kind of neat since she naturally ends up pointed the right way to zap both enemies.  But really, it doesn't matter much which hero you use.

Don't forget that this hero needs Scatter, too.  In my case, I want my scatter crests where they are, but I did not have Pixie in my lineup.  (She has Scatter 5 built in.)  Her proc is kinda bad for the circumstances, what with having a timeout.  But on the other hand, she had on a low-value crest set.  So I put Revive 2 crests on her, and I am ready.

I'm not 100% sure it will work, since my current sacrifice, Cupid, does help amp up PD.  But I am about 95% confident.

[update: yes, it works great.  168m each time.]