Best Teams in AFK Journey (Campaign, Dream Realm, Arena)

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.

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

When it comes to this there are a ton of factors in play and giving you distinct team doesn’t make sense for two reasons – one, you depend on the heroes you pull early and, second, also if you fail stages you need to increase your resonance level and then you can power-creep the stages.

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:

Cecia / Florabelle

They both deal a ton of damage to all enemies and help clear stages a lot. You can build one of them or both

Best Cecia Build

Best Florabelle Build

Odie

Incredibly single-target damage dealer with huge area of effect and easy to get copies from the Dream Realm Store for and work well with your AoE damage dealer. Also A-Rank so easy to build

Best Odie Build

Koko

Easily overlooked but her ultimate becomes so valuable if the level deficits get higher since she decreases the damage taken baed on percentage

Best Koko Build

Smokey and Meerky

Very good healer with a huge area of effect and once built more even deals quite some damage with his aura and will be your bread-and-butter healer

Best Smokey and Meerky Build

Thoran

One of the best tanks in the game and can easily one-shot entire teams and should the tank to build and focus on, also viable in other modes later on

Best Thoran Build

Brutus

As alternative for Thoran simply because he can survive a fatal blow and become immune to damage which helps a lot in stages where burst damage will take your tank down. No need to build him up a lot also since Thoran will be your tank later on but having him early is a huge help

Best Brutus Build

Rowan

Will make your heroes gain energy and make their ults pop a lot faster and has some emergency healing. No need to build much and easy plug-and-play hero for many teams early

Best Rowan Build

Best Dream Realm Teams in AFK Journey

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.

Best Team Against Skyclops

Skyclops requires you to have some AoE damage in your team as he will summon his minions that you have to get rid of quickly and there are multiple teams you can use:

This is the best team to use against Skyclops that deals with the summons and deals enough damage to get through the stages and is able to stay alive long enough to deal the damage

This is right now the best team but the exact formation, what spells work, what Magic Charms you should use and alternatives (since the heroes are not really low-spender friendly) would make this guide here explode. That’s why we have a dedicated team guide with teams for every player available:

Best Team Against King Croaker

King Croaker has two annoying abilities – one is his energy shield that will reduce the damage he takes. At this point you need to make a ton of DPS to even scratch him and with his magic bubble he instantly kills one of your heroes.

This is the best tem against King Croaker right now:

This is right now the best team but the exact formation, what spells work, what Magic Charms you should use and alternatives (since the heroes are not really low-spender friendly) would make this guide here explode. That’s why we have a dedicated team guide with teams for every player available:

Best Team Against Necrodrakon

With the ground aura you need a team with heroes that change their position frequently to stand a real chance against him. The best team right now against Necrodrakon with heroes that change their stance all the time while dealing good damage and stay alive

This is right now the best team but the exact formation, what spells work, what Magic Charms you should use and alternatives (since the heroes are not really low-spender friendly) would make this guide here explode. That’s why we have a dedicated team guide with teams for every player available:

Best Team Against Snow Stomper

The annoying part about Snow Stomper is that he will silence your heroes for a lot of time so they can’t use their ultimate so you want to run heroes that also deal good damage with their regular attacks + he will freeze one of your top attackers at times. This is the best team against Snow Stomper right now and the heroes needed are actually also quite accessible – although you need some heavy invest into Cassadee

This is right now the best team but the exact formation, what spells work, what Magic Charms you should use and alternatives (since the heroes are not really low-spender friendly) would make this guide here explode. That’s why we have a dedicated team guide with teams for every player available:

Best Team Against Lone Gaze (Season of Strife)

Starting Season 2, there will be Lone Gaze in the rotation as well. You might remember him from the Primal Lord event. He requires your team to actually deal primarily melee damage but with his summoned wolfs he can also rip apart your support line easily so your team has to be capable of protecting each other while still dealing damage.

This is right now the best team but the exact formation, what spells work, what Magic Charms you should use and alternatives (since the heroes are not really low-spender friendly) would make this guide here explode. That’s why we have a dedicated team guide with teams for every player available:

Best Team Against Alpha Bear (Season of Strife)

Also the other Primal Lord from Season 1 enters the Dream Realm in Season 2 as a boss – Alpha Bear deals brutal damage to your team and has a ton of protection so two elements in your team are key – protection in terms of healing/damage reduction and shielding and when it comes to damage you need heroes that can deal true damage to actually be able to deal damage against him.

This is right now the best team but the exact formation, what spells work, what Magic Charms you should use and alternatives (since the heroes are not really low-spender friendly) would make this guide here explode. That’s why we have a dedicated team guide with teams for every player available:

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.