War Inc: Rising Leviathan Hunting Lineup and Damage Guide

To maximize your score against Leviathan in War Inc: Rising Hunting mode, deploy a squad dedicated strictly to sustained, single-target damage paired with armor reduction and attack speed buffs. Replace all area-of-effect (AoE) units, place a durable tank in the center frontline to absorb frontal sweeps, and tuck your primary carries into the back corners to ensure uninterrupted damage output before the boss enrages.

Leviathan Combat Mechanics

Leviathan is a solo Water-element boss encounter. Understanding its specific combat design prevents wasted board space:

Isolated Single Target: Leviathan fights alone. Multi-target mages, bouncing attacks, and wide splash abilities waste their damage potential on empty tiles.
Water Affinity: Leviathan's Water attribute means elemental counter-units receive direct damage multipliers, vastly outperforming neutral units with similar base attack values.
Frontal Cleaves and Disruption: Leviathan directs its heaviest attacks and crowd control at the nearest targets in a frontal cone. If your frontline drops, the boss locks onto backline units, interrupting their attack cycles and lowering total damage.
Crowd Control Resistance: Hard crowd-control effects like stuns, freezes, and slows suffer heavy boss resistance. Bringing crowd-control units sacrifices offensive output for negligible utility.

Recommended Hunting Lineup Composition

An optimal Leviathan board features one frontline anchor, one or two dedicated single-target carries, and offensive force multipliers.

Role	Squad Function	Priority Mechanics
Frontline Anchor	Absorbs boss aggro and frontal cleaves	High durability, self-shields, damage mitigation
Primary Carry	Delivers the bulk of total damage	Single-target focus, fast attack rate, counter-element typing
Secondary Carry / Shred	Amplifies damage and provides secondary DPS	Armor reduction debuffs, vulnerability status, steady damage
Offensive Support	Increases primary carry output	Attack speed auras, energy acceleration, damage buffs
Flex Utility	Team survival and consistency	Secondary damage amplification, cleanses, or critical buffs

Support Synergy: Armor Shred and Attack Speed

Leviathan's native armor curve heavily reduces incoming physical and standard damage. Bringing reliable armor reduction strips these defenses so your main damage dealers hit near unmitigated values.

Pairing armor shred with attack speed buffs creates a compounding damage loop. Accelerated attack speed helps your carries cycle energy faster, trigger on-hit mechanics more frequently, and maintain stacking passive buffs without letting them expire.

Board Positioning

Board placement dictates whether your carries survive until the enrage timer or fall to incidental splash damage early in the fight.

Center Frontline (Tank): Position your frontline anchor directly in the center of the front row. This funnels Leviathan's initial strikes and frontal cleaves away from the rest of your board.
Mid-Row Flanks (Supports): Place your buffers and debuffers in the middle row, off to the sides behind the tank. This keeps them within range to apply their auras and skills while avoiding the boss's central cleave path.
Back Corners (Primary and Secondary Carries): Station your ranged carries in the far back corners. Corner placement maximizes the distance ground projectiles must travel and prevents stray splash damage from interrupting attack animations.

Execution and Skill Timing

Align Ultimates With Debuffs: Do not fire high-damage active abilities on cooldown. Wait until your armor-shredding support applies full debuff stacks to Leviathan before triggering your main carry’s burst abilities.
Respect Transition Phases: Hold cooldowns if Leviathan raises temporary shields or enters invulnerability windows. Unleashing damage into boss immunities permanently lowers your final Hunting tally.
Prioritize Sustain on the Anchor: Ensure your tank has sufficient survivability to last until the enrage mark. If the tank collapses thirty seconds into the battle, the remaining squad will lose targeting cadence and wipe shortly after.