Maximize your Titan attacks

How to Increase Your Titan Damage in Empires & Puzzles

If you've got the basics down and want bigger Titan scores, damage comes down to stacking the right advantages: element, the weak spot, buffs and debuffs, criticals, and the right items. Here's how to squeeze the most out of every flag.

Quick Answer

To do more Titan damage, bring heroes strong against the Titan's element, aim your matches and specials at the weak spot to stun it, then unload specials while it's stunned. Layer in attack buffs and defense-down debuffs, raise your critical hit chance, and use Titan Hunter heroes, who are specifically designed to deal bonus damage against Titans, and the strategic use of battle items.

Why This Matters

Your Titan damage contributes to taking the Titan down along with the other members of your Alliance. Your cumulative Titan damage relative to others in your Alliance also determine the level of rewards you will receive, with placing higher offering better and better rewards. The difference between an average and an optimized flag is mostly preparation, not luck.

How It Works

Here are the strategies in more detail:

• Element advantage. Every Titan has an element (Fire, Nature, Ice, Holy, or Dark Titans). Heroes of the element that is strong against the Titan deal 2x more damage. Further, some special abilities weaken a Titan even more towards a certain element.

• The weak spot and stunning. Hitting the Titan's exposed weak spot is how you stun it. A stunned Titan is wide open, so time your hardest tile matches and Special Skills for the stun window.

• Attack up / defense down. Buffing your heroes' attack and applying defense-reducing ailments (for example, Corrosive Burn lowers a target's defense) both increase the damage the Titan takes.You can equip heroes that have these special abilities and/or use battle items to achieve these effects.

• Critical hits. Increases chances of critical hits. Some heroes increase critical hit chance with their special ability while some have it as part of their elemental link.

• Titan Hunter heroes. The Titan Hunter family and other heroes carry the "Against Titans, deals more damage" property and are summoned specifically to be "devastating against Titans." They also help charge mana faster against Titans.

• Battle items. Titan-focused items — Titan Banner, Bear Banner, Dragon Banner, can all help increase your heroes attack damage. Giant Harpoons deal damage and, when enough are used, make the Titan drop Titan Parts.

What To Do First

1. Match the counter-element. Stack heroes strong against the Titan's color, plus the matching elemental Troops.

2. Set up before you swing big. Open with attack buffs and defense-down debuffs so your charged specials land into a weakened Titan.

3. Aim for the weak spot to stun, then dump your biggest hits during the stun window.

4. Bring the right items. Slot Titan battle items (banners and attacks) for extra damage when it counts, and keep Giant Harpoons in rotation for Titan Parts.

5. Invest in Troops and Titan specialists. Higher-level Troops mean greater attack and critical chance; Titan Hunter heroes add a damage multiplier specifically against Titans.

6. Depending on the level and depth of your whole hero roster, it may make sense to just use your highest power heroes. But as your roster grows, you’ll discover better and better combinations. 

Common Mistakes

• Ignoring color. Off-element flags leave your biggest multiplier on the table.

• Firing specials into an un-stunned Titan or before your team is buffed and the Titan is debuffed. Save your heaviest damage for these windows where possible.

• Skipping debuffs. Defense-down on the Titan can be as valuable as raw attack stacking.

• Forgetting Harpoons. They don't drive your damage much, but they protect your Titan Parts loot.

Quick FAQ

Q: What increases Titan damage the most?

A: Element advantage — building your flag with heroes strong against the Titan's element — combined with stunning the weak spot and unloading buffed, debuffed hits.

Q: How do I stun a Titan?

A: Land hits on its weak spot. While stunned, the Titan skips his next attack.

Q: Do critical hits matter against Titans?

A: Yes. Troops raise your Attack and critical hit chance, and critical hits deal increased damage.

Q: Are Titan Hunter heroes worth using?

A: They're built for it — they carry a bonus-damage-against-Titans property and help you charge faster against Titans.

Final Tip

Treat each flag as a setup-then-payoff sequence: counter the color, weaken the Titan, stun the weak spot, and fire your specials when your heroes are buffed and the Titan is weakened. Lastly, experiment. You can always see your Titan damage after every attack to signal which team combinations produce the best results.