AFK Journey is amazing so far and quite generous when it comes to unlocking new heroes for you to progress through campaign, Dream Realm and other game modes that will give quite a bunch of rewards to continue building your teams. Like already stated in my best hero tier list for AFK Journey here, the heroes and mechanics are somewhat different if you come from playing AFK Arena before so this guide is meant to help you build your core teams for the different modes.
Ravaged Realm

Guild Supremacy

Supreme Arena


Best Dream Realm Teams in AFK Journey in Season 5
In Dream Realms you fight a boss with unique abilities every day to gain Dream Fragments that you can use to buy hero copies. Scoring well here is important and every boss has quite some unique abilities that require you to use certain heroes.
Please select your boss from the rotation – IMPORTANT! The bosses are sorted alphabetically and some are currently not available
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Please mind that we update boss guides that are active in the current season. With the rotation some bosses disappear for some seasons.
The Main Things When Building A Team in AFK Journey
I know many players love to go for the faction and team bonus for the 10 or 15% stat improvement – but let me tell you right away that you are better off using heroes that are great than using less effective heroes and get them some extra stats in AFK Journey!
If we exclude a couple of funky stages you always will aim to build your team with one tank that keeps enemy lines busy while your other heroes load their ults (the only exception here is the Crystal Defense stages where often 2 tanks are better), one healer that will heal your tank and other team members and one strong area damage dealer. Then you can add other support heroes, single-target damage dealers.
That all in mind, I have below some main team setups that you will love:

Best Campaign / AFK Journey Teams in AFK Journey
Farming AFK Stages is really important since progress means better daily rewards that accumulate throughout each season so we handpicked some generally successful teams here for you.
SEASON 5 Update! We updated the teams with the new Season 5 meta
But, here are some heroes you should focus on building early that will carry very well in those stages – these heroes work incredibly well without a lot of invest in ther EX Weapon so they are perfect to carry you while you start building your roaster:
AFK Stages Shemira Carry
Absolutely the easy team here for most players to run and you can change a lot here to be flexible enough as well. As tank you should keep Ulmus, he is just too good and cheap to build here. At the end of the day the team is all about keeping up until Shemira and Bonnie will snowball through the enemy team
AFK Stages Smokey Pull
Smokey and Meerky is the best healer and support for AFK Stages and with him you can make this team that is versatile and can beat deficits really well
AFK Stages Lightbearer Core
Around Baelran you can build a team with Lightbearer synergy that beats high level deficits
AFK Stages Mauler Core
Around Maulers you can build this team that is more accessible than meets the eye since twins and phraesto should be one of your heroes to build
Conclusion
I hope this guide helps and we are working hard to get you settled with more teams that you can use since the recommended team feature in the game is nice, but also filled with heroes that either require a ton of invest or money to unlock in the first place.