Xiao Zan's LOP Guides

Xiao Zan's Guide to Debate

Debate may not be everyone's favourite, but it is one of my favourites! Plus, it has a large influence on how you arrange your partner team, and I find the ideal format for debate is the best strategy for the game as a whole. From the mind of a fairly experienced debater, here are my tips for excelling in debate!

Step 1: Dress for Success

Make a solid debate team!

How you distribute your resources (pot fruits, books, etc.) to your partners is a major factor in how your debate performance will turn out.

Partner Stats And Debate

In debate, Potential = ATK, and Total ATTR = HP. Therefore, a the more potential a partner has, the stronger their attacks will be, and the more total ATTR a partner has, the more HP they have and thus the longer they will survive a debate. However, through personal experience I find Potential > HP. I have tried using a two partners with very similar HP values, but one was almost double the potential. The partner with more potential survived much longer and was able to defeat more OP opponents, so it seems potential (ATK) is more important to give a partner.

Structure

For normal daily debates, you should make a decently strong top 8, and a decent top 9-12 for guild war. Personally I recommend your top 4 to be stronger than top 5-8, and to have one SUPER OP (overpowered) partner with tons of potential and HP (in my opinion, this is one of the most important parts, but make sure you don't just have one OP partner without having some other sorta strong partners hanging around too). The reason for making so many different tiers of partners is to use them on different debate opponents. For instance, you could use your top 5-8 on opponents around your power range, top 2-4 for stronger opponents, and your OP top partner for that time when someone twice your power ends up in your enemy list.

I strongly recommend AGAINST balancing all your partners. One may think it'll give you better defence abilities in debate, and if everyone else balanced their partners this may be true, but someone who makes one OP partner will easily wipe out a balanced team. Offence is the best defence. Having several OP partners floating around in your team is likely to stop a total annihilation before it happens, and those OP partners can turn around and annihilate others!

Think of your partners as a loaf of bread and your resources as butter. Both are limited, and it is up to you how to butter the bread. You could spread the butter evenly on every slice of bread, or you could slobber a gigantic blob onto a few slices, spread an amount a sane person would spread on a good majority of them, and gently dab a bit on the rest. Now think about eating them in a random order. In the first example where all the slices are buttered evenly, you know what to expect and can kinda guess how many you can eat before you get full. However in the loaf buttered by an insane person (me), some slices barely have anything and are easy to eat, BUT if you come across one of the ones with like a ton of butter on it, you will be full immediately after eating it. you may not even finish that slice before you give up.

Lesson of this strange analogy? Think of eating the bread like a debate/guild war and the person eating as your opponent. In a balanced team, they know just what to expect, not to mention, since the butter is divided evenly on every slice, each slice only has a little bit. However in the "buttered-by-insane-person" loaf, they have no idea what's coming next, and are more likely to get full faster.

Which partners should I include in my team?

Shangguan Wan'er and Fan Lihua are absolute MUSTS. They give you double debate points for every partner defeated (so 4 instead of 2), and also take double points from your opponent! So pair them with a pursuit token, and that's a BIG ouchie @_@.