In CookieRun Tower of Adventures it’s not all about selecting your strongest cookies, they also have to work together as a team and also serve the purpose of your mode. What does that mean? Well, you can theoretically put the 3 strongest damage dealers together and push but at one point you realize that you miss healing. Or you can use a strong cookie for area damage but in a mode like Honeycomb Dungeon just not be able to deal enough damage against single target. I can go on with these examples but the important takeaway here is that you need a team that supports each other and also works for the game mode.
So in this guide I have several setups for you that should help you assemble a team in CookieRun Tower of Adventures that really work. Actually multiple teams as there is not one single-fits-them-all teams right now.
Team Building Theory in CookieRun: Tower of Adventures
So, most people think that you simply take the strongest cookies in the game and throw them together and then it’s showtime (as shown in my individual cookie ranking list here). Well, this often ends tragically and before we look at distinctive teams that work well in the game, here is some very basic theory that you always have to follow when building your lineup – you always want one fighter, one tagger and one support cookie in your team. Ideall from the same element. The reason is with two fighter cookies you won’t get much since fighter cookies needs to be on the field and active to do something. With the aboe lineup, you will have a cookie active, a tagger to increase the fighter cookie damage and a support to keep everyone happy and alive.
So much for the theory. In reality the cooies are designed to work okay with each other or synergize really well and make strong teams.
Best Teams
So for each element you can make your teams and normally most of you will start with your water team since Cream Soda Cookie is the first banner cookie in the game:
Alternatively, you can also use Chamomile Cookie as your support cookie since she is really universal and you get her for free at the release of the game if you haven’t pulled Rockstar Cookie:
Looking at the first banner in the game, you might alternatiely or additionally also build your wind team up:
If you don’t have Plantain Cookie, you can also early enough in the game, use Ninja Cookie as your tagger but that will not go a very long way:
With the release of Mala Sauce Cookie the fire team finally has a good lineup, since Cherry Cookie wasn’t really working too well overall:
As I said, you can run Cherry Cookie as your tagger here but she is mediocre so rather wait it out for the lineup instead of wasting resources on her.
And here is the Dark Element team(s) that make sense. Mind that there is no Dark Element support cookie available so do not throw two fighter cookies together without support unless you’re on a suicide mission. Also, Kohlrabi and Dark Choco use similar gear so you will hate your life when you attempt to do that. Here are the teams with the relase of Blackberry Cookie:
With the release of Lemon Zest you can finally also build your light element team
Alternatively, and I think for most players this is actually the better option, use Chamomile Cookie instead of Pistachio Cookie and save yourself a ton of resources:
What about the earth team? Well, you would have to use Sting Durian as your fighter since Ginger Brave is absolutely worthless and then you have Twisted Donut as tagger and MuscleCookie a support. This team can work but none of the cookies are really great so unless your notoriously bored or have to spend money on the game there is no point in building a earth team right now. But I am sure we will see an earth meta cookie in the future that will change that.
After quite a while we finally can make a decent earth team now. Still, earth in total as meta lacks but I think it only takes one strong dps cookie to change that since the tagger and support here are quite viable already.
Conlcusion
The meta changes, for sure, so don’t start pulling certain cookies now and spending money. There is a lot to happen in the future and what we know from the beta is that cookies like Lemon Zest can easily bring a cookie like WIzard Cookie into the meta. Epic cookies are all good and better than the rare ones (sad but true), so this should be a good starting point for you to assemble your main teams and lineups in CookieRun Tower of Adventures.
