Summoners War RTA Season 39: How to Counter Defense Compositions

To counter defense-scaling compositions in Summoners War World Arena (RTA) Season 39, draft units with true damage or defense-ignoring skills, bring reliable buff strippers, apply Oblivion to passives, and target sustain engines during the pick-and-ban phase.

Defense teams rely on dual-stat scaling from monsters like Feng Yan, Velajuel, and Byungchul, where defensive stats amplify both survivability and outgoing damage. In World Arena, the Battle Frenzy mechanic steadily increases attack power and reduces maximum HP as matches drag out, but defense values remain untouched. This allows defense bruisers to maintain their effective durability longer than HP-scaling units while scaling lethal counter-damage in late-game turns.

Draft Defense-Ignoring and True-Damage Attackers

Standard attack-scaling cleaves fail against high base defense and defensive buffs. The most reliable counter is drafting units whose damage calculations completely bypass armor and damage-reduction passives.

Units like Sonia can eliminate critical threats before defense buffs are active, provided her attack stat significantly exceeds the target's defense. Dominic and Miles provide consistent true damage on every hit, ensuring incoming damage never drops against heavily buffed frontlines.

Strip Defensive Buffs and Disable Passives

Defense bruisers depend heavily on layered buffs (such as Immunity and Defense Up) and passive abilities to trade effectively. Neutralizing these tools strips away their core advantages:

1. Remove Buffs with Area-of-Effect Strippers: Deploy monsters like Moore, Haegang, or Chiwu to clear immunity and defense buffs immediately. Removing these barriers opens the enemy frontline to crowd control and debuffs.
2. Apply Oblivion to Passive Anchors: Once immunity is down, use Tesarion to inflict Oblivion. Monsters like Feng Yan and Camilla lose their passive retaliation, turn-cycling, and damage scaling entirely once silenced.
3. Layer Crowd Control and Heal Block: Defense teams rely on sustained regeneration from units such as Riley or Abellio. Apply Recovery Block and stuns to prevent support units from resetting the board after you make an opening trade.

Pick-and-Ban Strategy Against Defense Drafts

When finalizing your draft, avoid picking only single-target damage dealers. Drafting three narrow nukers allows the opponent to ban your fastest threat and overwhelm the rest of your team with defense-buffed bruisers.

Instead, construct a draft containing at least two distinct damage profiles, one dedicated stripper, and a control or debuff flex pick. During the final ban, target the enemy's engine rather than their damage finisher. Banning a cleanser or immunity buffer leaves a defense bruiser like Feng Yan vulnerable to defense breaks, stuns, and heal block, rendering them manageable even if they survive your initial burst.