Portal Defense: How to Clear Tier 4 Portals with Bandi

To clear Tier 4 Portals in Portal Defense, place Bandi at the primary spawn chokepoint as your main damage dealer and funnel early gold directly into her upgrades. Support her with low-cost utility units that provide crowd control or energy regeneration rather than spreading resources across multiple expensive attackers.

Positioning Bandi and Managing Resources

Bandi relies on area-of-effect (AoE) damage to defeat the dense enemy waves in Tier 4 Portals. Position her near narrow pathways or corners where enemy paths converge, ensuring every skill activation hits maximum targets.

Unlike standard builds that split gold across several offensive units, this strategy requires investing heavily in Bandi early. Base damage alone cannot keep up with Tier 4 enemy health scaling. Delaying her initial level upgrades risks allowing mobs to breach your line before your defense stabilizes.

Recommended Team Setup

A creator guide for Tier 4 Portals demonstrates establishing your main DPS output before organizing your support composition around the 2:07 mark of the match. Your secondary slots should enhance Bandi's output without competing for gold.

• Primary DPS: Bandi (funnel early gold upgrades here).
• Crowd Control: Low-cost units that slow enemy movement or pull targets into clusters.
• Energy Support: Units with passive energy regeneration buffs to speed up skill cycles.

Avoid high-cost secondary damage towers. Starving Bandi of resources delays her mid-game power spikes, leaving the lane vulnerable during high-density waves.

Skill Timing and Wave Management

Do not activate Bandi’s skills immediately off cooldown. Holding abilities until mob density reaches its peak prevents wasted damage on single targets and ensures maximum lane coverage.

Save high-damage or ultimate abilities specifically for large, high-HP enemies identified on the spawn timer. If energy management becomes a bottleneck, bring units with passive energy regeneration to maintain skill uptime during the final portal waves.

Strategy Risks and Adjustments

Relying on a single carry unit leaves little margin for error:

• Stuns and CC: If Bandi is disabled or forced out of position, minimal secondary damage exists to clear the lane.
• Resistances: High elemental resistance against Bandi's damage type can drastically reduce clear speed.
• Under-leveled Bandi: If Bandi cannot one-shot standard mobs, temporarily shift to defensive utility units and prioritize lane survivability until you accumulate enough gold for her next key upgrade.