Summoners War: How to Draft Multi-LD5 Teams in RTA

To draft an effective multi-LD5 team in Summoners War World Arena (RTA), prioritize functional role synergy and tight turn-order speed tuning over simply picking rare Light and Dark monsters. A disjointed lineup of powerful LD5s easily falls to cohesive standard elemental compositions if your units lack turn-one contestation, buff stripping, defense breaks, and follow-up burst.

Establish Core Role Archetypes Over Pure Rarity

Drafting starts by categorizing each monster by its tactical function rather than its flex appeal. A common mistake in World Arena is combining aggressive control enablers with passive, turn-two bruisers. When fast initiators like Lora or Giana are paired randomly with slow tanks like Ragdoll or Tian Lang, the team loses tempo and allows standard elemental drafts to exploit the lack of focus.

A balanced four-monster core should cover four distinct tactical responsibilities:

Role Assignment	Primary Responsibility	Representative LD5 Units	Recommended Rune Sets
First-Turn Stripper	Removes enemy Will runes and boosts team attack bar or speed	Lora, Giana, Woonsa	Swift / Focus, Despair / Will
Primary Setup / Debuffer	Applies area defense breaks, silences, or attack bar reduction	Maximilian, Nephtys, Asima	Despair / Will, Violent / Focus
Burst Finisher	Converts active debuffs into immediate eliminations	Lucifer, Julianne, Han	Rage / Will, Fatal / Blade, Violent
Tempo Flex / Anchor	Prevents enemy cut-ins, controls cooldowns, or provides sustain	Tian Lang, Vivachel, Veronica	Violent / Nemesis, Swift / Will

Pairing monsters that chain naturally ensures you do not waste key cooldowns. When an area-of-effect (AOE) stripper strips immunity and sets up an armor break, your main attacker can eliminate priority targets before the opponent takes a turn.

Sequence Turn Orders and Synchronize Speeds

LD5 offensive engines depend on closing combat speed gaps between your monsters to prevent enemy cut-ins. Because high-rank opponents frequently draft counter units equipped with Nemesis runes, your initiator must not run too far ahead of your secondary setup monsters. If a stripper moves at +225 bonus combat speed while your primary defense breaker sits at +170, reactive units such as Haegang, Juno, or Abellio can easily cut between them.

Calculate your speed tuning using effective combat speed rather than raw profile numbers:

Calculate total combat speed: Include monster base speed, rune bonuses, speed leader skills, arena speed totems, and incoming speed buffs.
Turn 1 (AOE Stripper): Moves first to remove enemy Will runes and push team tempo forward.
Turn 2 (Primary Debuffer): Moves immediately behind the stripper to land defense breaks or attack bar drops before the enemy can tick into a turn.
Turn 3 (Primary Nuker): Acts directly after debuffs land to execute priority elemental threats.
Turn 4 (Flex Anchor or Control): Resets enemy cooldowns, controls remaining attack bars, or cleans up survivors.

Protect the Draft Against Elemental Counter-Picks

Fielding an LD-heavy team often prompts opponents to draft specific elemental counter-picks designed to punish multi-hit or debuff-heavy attacks. Passive-heavy monsters like Juno, Douglas, Camilla, and Haegang capitalize on predictable debuff engines. If an LD draft relies solely on stacking debuffs without addressing passive cleansing or self-sustain, a single counter-pick can dismantle the composition.

To counter these threats during the draft:

Select hybrid damage sources: Use units that deal fixed damage, feature glancing-hit immunity, or inflict continuous oblivion against passive tanks.
Avoid full glass-cannon commitments: Ensure your fourth and fifth slots retain enough control utility to lock down passives before they trigger.
Diversify attack profiles: Blend multi-hit debuffers with high-impact single-target hitters so units like Juno cannot passively heal their team off excessive harmful effects.

Maximize Rune Efficiency and Artifact Substats

LD5 units attract immediate focus fire and bans, requiring balanced defensive padding alongside offensive benchmarks. Offensive utility units like Maximilian or Julianne require enough survivability to survive snipes from rapid single-target threats such as Sonia or Ethna.

Tune your artifacts to secure damage thresholds and debuff reliability:

Left Artifact (Attribute): Prioritize Damage Dealt on Fire/Water/Wind to ensure your LD damage dealers eliminate bulky elemental bruisers.
Right Artifact (Type): Stack Skill 2/Skill 3 Accuracy so key strips and armor breaks bypass high-resistance targets without requiring main-stat rune compromises.
Universal Substats: Emphasize Additional Damage by Speed, Attack, and HP. These flat bonuses bypass enemy defense, allowing multi-hit LD units to wear down shield and Will protections even if an initial armor break fails.

Manage the Ban Phase and Fifth Pick

Opponents typically ban either your fastest attack-bar booster or your primary damage carry. To survive the ban phase, draft redundant threats that make a clean ban impossible. If your team relies entirely on a single stripper to interact with the enemy, banning that stripper leaves your entire roster trapped behind enemy Will runes.

Use your fifth pick to counter the opponent's defensive plan or force a defensive ban:

Against speed contestation: Lock in a high-base-speed contest pick, a strong speed leader, or a turn-cut disruptor like Leo or Tian Lang to force the ban onto that slot.
Against bulky sustain compositions: Select a dedicated single-target executioner or an oblivion monster to eliminate passive defenses.

Maintaining two viable paths to your win condition ensures your multi-LD5 lineup controls the match from the opening pick to the final turn.