Summoners War Season 39 Guardian RTA Draft Priority Guide

To climb in Season 39 Guardian World Arena in Summoners War, prioritize versatile bruisers and speed-contesting utility units in your opening picks before committing to narrow counters. High-tier matches reward drafts that protect turn order, mitigate single-target burst, and adapt to enemy threats without revealing a fixed win condition on turn one.

Core Bruiser Anchors

Chandra, Sagar, and Byungchul serve as the primary foundational bruisers for standard elemental compositions in Season 39. Drafting two of these units early establishes high survivability and control while leaving your team open to multiple strategies.

• Chandra: Provides single-target damage mitigation through Hug, protecting fragile allies against aggressive single-target burst from threats like Sonia and Miles. Chandra also cycles turns using self-speed buffs and applies team stuns.
• Sagar: Strips enemy buffs, inflicts Provoke, and resets ability cooldowns. His kit neutralizes skill-dependent monsters and functions equally well in fast disruption setups or slower sustain teams.
• Byungchul: Delivers passive shielding, sustain, and scaling damage that pressure both turn-one cleave teams and drawn-out control drafts.

Rune these anchors with high Effective HP (EHP), tight speed-tuning, and Will sets to prevent first-turn crowd-control locks.

Speed Leads and Utility Strippers

Speed contestation remains essential, but pure speed must be backed by control or sustain. The following options provide the safest baseline for early-to-mid draft rotations.

Vanessa remains the safest non-Light/Dark speed lead because her passive revive cushions your team against first-turn elimination. Oliver punishes drafts that lack immunity by continuously cycling attack bars and increasing enemy skill cooldowns. Moore interrupts multi-hit damage dealers through his passive, while Haegang directly counters enemy AoE strippers like Cheonpung, Chiwu, or Moore by advancing your team's attack bar whenever your team loses buffs.

Counter-Picks and Turn-Two Disruptors

Reserve your fourth and fifth picks for specialized monsters that exploit your opponent's drafting commitments.

Speed-Scaling Damage

• Sonia: Ignores defense when her attack stat sufficiently exceeds the target's stat, allowing her to eliminate vulnerable supports or bruisers immediately.
• Miles: Deals fixed damage based on active buffs and overall team speed, bypassing high defense while building passive combat speed.

Passive Control and Equalization

• Racuni: Functions as an accessible support whose constant passive debuff cleansing and turn advancement keep heavy anchors active through enemy control.
• Tesarion: Applies Oblivion to disable dominant passive skills on threats like Camilla, Douglas, and Verdehile.
• Leo: Caps the combat speed of all monsters to his own base speed. Pairing Leo with high-HP, low-speed bruisers equipped with Vampire, Nemesis, or Revenge rune sets neutralizes Swift-based cleave teams and shifts the match into a rune-stat check.

High-Impact Light and Dark Threats

Certain Light and Dark monsters warp draft phases and frequently dictate fifth-pick bans:

• Tian Lang: Restricts attack bar boosting by triggering self-boosts and multi-target stuns whenever an opponent gains attack bar.
• Ragdoll: Accelerates team-wide turn progression whenever an ally suffers a critical hit.
• Veronica and Giana: Veronica strips buffs and resets cooldowns across the board, while Giana converts enemy Will runes directly into team stuns.
• Lucifer: Converts initial turn-one damage into an immediate team-wide attack bar boost.

When facing these monsters without owning direct answers, draft high-resistance cleansers, Leo, or multi-Revenge tank units to survive the opening attack.

Draft Sequencing Strategy

Structure your five-unit selection to protect your win conditions while keeping your bans focused:

1. Picks 1–2 (Neutral Anchors): Open with flexible staples such as Vanessa, Chandra, Sagar, or Moore to avoid revealing your primary win condition.
2. Picks 3–4 (Tactical Pivots): Adjust to the opponent's core. Draft Oliver or Sekhmet if the enemy lacks immunity, or add Byungchul and Sonia if they draft heavy Water sustain.
3. Pick 5 (Force Ban): Lock in a dedicated counter such as Leo against high-speed teams, Haegang against strip-heavy setups, or an unaddressed damage carry.
4. Final Ban Phase: Ban the specific monster that disables your attack bar engine or breaks your defensive sustain, rather than automatically banning the opponent's highest damage dealer. Protect your team's turn flow to secure the win.