Last War Air Squad Build and Gear Priority Guide

To build the most effective Air squad in Last War, run Lucius and Carlie in the front row, with DVA, Morrison, and Schuyler in the back row. This specific five-hero lineup grants a 20% squad attribute bonus to attack, defense, and HP, along with the innate aircraft type advantage against tank units (+20% damage dealt, -20% damage taken).

To ensure the team survives skill bursts from popular tank lineups, immediately direct your highest-tier defensive upgrades to Lucius's Radar and your primary offensive upgrades to DVA's weapon.

Core Lineup and Hero Roles

Each hero in the five-aircraft composition serves a distinct mechanical role to balance survival, mixed damage, and crowd control:

• Lucius (Front Row, Tank): Serves as your primary defensive anchor. His active skill deploys an energy shield that absorbs burst damage from enemy energy carries.
• Carlie (Front Row, Off-Tank): Provides damage resistance, off-tank shielding, and disruption to prevent single-target focus fire from overwhelming Lucius.
• DVA (Back Row, Energy DPS): Acts as the primary damage carry. Her missile bursts scale heavily with critical strike stats to output massive energy damage.
• Morrison (Back Row, Physical DPS): Provides targeted physical damage and armor-shredding utility, ensuring your damage remains high against targets with heavy energy resistance.
• Schuyler (Back Row, Support/Control): Delivers crowd-control stuns that disrupt opposing skill rotations, buying time for DVA and Morrison to complete their attack cycles.

Equipment Upgrade Priorities

Do not distribute gear upgrade materials evenly across all slots. Air squads rely on surviving the initial enemy skill volley, meaning specific hero slots must take priority.

Give your highest-tier Radar to Lucius first. Because opposing tank lineups typically rely on high-tier energy attackers, raising Lucius’s energy damage reduction is the single most critical defensive threshold for the squad.

Positioning Tactics

While Lucius and Carlie must stay in the front row, their column placement should adapt to the enemy's setup:

1. Place Lucius directly opposite the primary enemy carry. If an opposing tank squad positions an energy threat like Kimberly on their left, place Lucius on your front left to absorb her opening skill strike.
2. Align Carlie with the secondary attacker or off-tank. Carlie absorbs off-lane damage while Lucius takes the heavier burst.
3. Position DVA directly behind Lucius. This keeps your primary damage dealer protected even if Carlie's lane falls first.
4. Align Morrison against the opponent's lowest-durability frontliner. This secures a quick elimination and clears a direct path to the enemy backline.

Skill, Weapon, and Tech Investment Order

Resource allocation should focus on keeping the front row standing long enough for the back row to cycle their skills.

• Primary Damage Skills: Invest skill books into DVA's primary missile barrage and passive damage boost first. When her Exclusive Weapon unlocks, level it early to reach its attack and skill trigger milestones.
• Frontline Mitigation Skills: Level Lucius's energy shield skill alongside DVA's main attack. If Lucius’s shield falls behind, the front row will collapse before DVA can trigger a second skill rotation.
• Secondary Utility: Upgrade Morrison's armor-shredding debuff next, followed by Schuyler's stun duration and Carlie's debuffs once baseline damage and frontline survival are secure.
• Tech Center Research: Concentrate military research badges and speedups exclusively into the Aircraft tree rather than splitting research across Tank or Missile nodes. Maximize unit health and damage reduction nodes first.
• Drone Support: Equip drone skill chips that provide early-round shielding or back-row damage reduction. Combined with Schuyler's crowd control and Lucius's barrier, drone mitigation protects your backline carries from stray fire during the opening combat rounds.