In S1, the Frost-based team built around Hvitar has been a dominant and frequent presence in the top ranks of Grand Gladiator Arena. This guide offers a counter-strategy centered on Nastjenka, breaking down battle tricks to give you a new strategic approach.

Team Management

This team is built around Nastjenka. Since her battle skill can be cast right at the start of battle, activating Talent - Desperate Stand allows Nastjenka to easily threaten enemies with early defeats. With backline strikers dealing extra damage, and support units providing protection and healing, Nastjenka takes down enemies one by one through her deadly single-target blows.

Basic Team

Advanced Team

*When enemies have shields, the shield-ignoring effect of Darkthorn Claw allows Nastjenka to achieve higher killing efficiency than her exclusive Artifact - Arbiter's Pendant.
When facing a similar enemy lineup, it is advisable to adjust equipment to stack Defense on Grishnaar, making him your team's lowest-HP target to attract attacks from enemy Nastjenka.
 Tamar's main role is to dispel enemy buffs, and inflict Defense Penalty through Artifact effects, assisting Nastjenka in eliminating targets in the back row.
Ivellios also aids Nastjenka in attacking back-row targets through his passive skill. However, he needs to stack Enlightenment and Attack to enhance his damage output, which makes him squishy and an easy target for enemy AOE skills.Acilia can heal all allies and dispel debuffs like Frozen on them, ensuring the team's offense stays on track.
Zeffi enhances the team's survivability by providing shields and Invincibility for allies. However, since ultimate skills are automatically cast in PVP, after Zeffi grants Invincibility to allies, Resurrection at Death from Mithrasea's ultimate skill becomes useless. Additionally, Buff Dispelling from Zeffi's battle skill overlaps with Tamar's.Mithrasea can grant healing, Immortality, and Resurrection at Death to allies, and even resurrect fallen ones. This provides the team with exceptional resilience.
Alternatively, you may consider sacrificing some endurance to enhance the team's burst damage with Sagomir. Utilize his battle skill's dash effect to coordinate with Nastjenka in disrupting the enemy backline. Furthermore, his passive skill usually triggers on Nastjenka under focused fire, helping Nastjenka unleash her ultimate skill sooner to whittle down the enemy team.
 

Battle Tricks

Notes: 1. Focus first on enemies who are standing apart. When enemy Hvitar — though with the lowest HP — is surrounded by ranged heroes (as shown below), Nastjenka cannot hit Hvitar directly with her battle skill.2. Before the battle starts, confirm that enemy Hvitar has the lowest HP, otherwise the opponent might adjust equipment to cause your Nastjenka's battle skill to select another target.

Disadvantageous Scenarios

Defensive Team

Summary: A single-core damaging team built around Nastjenka struggles to break through a fully tank-and-healer defensive lineup, often leading to a loss by timeout.
If you still intend to build a team around the Radiance-Lightning Affinity, it is recommended to replace Nastjenka + Mithrasea with Philto + Lorentheel. Utilize Rally-based massive AOE damage to overwhelm enemies.

Summoner-based Team

Summary: The Chaos effect from enemy Berengar reduces Nastjenka's initial burst damage. In addition, the constant stream of low-HP enemy summoned units diverts her battle skill, making it difficult to eliminate enemies.