Crafting the Ultimate Party in Across the Obelisk

Across the Obelisk is a challenging and deep deckbuilder RPG that gives players a ton of options for customizing a party of heroes. With 16 unlockable characters that can be specialized into different builds, plus the ability to distribute perks and artifacts, there are nearly endless party combinations you can try. But what team synergies have players found to be most powerful or fun in Across the Obelisk? After researching community opinions and analyzing the skills of each hero, I’ve compiled this guide to the best and most complementary party compositions for dominating the game.

What Makes a Great Party?

Before jumping into specific party recommendations, it’s helpful to understand what qualities make for an effective team in Across the Obelisk:

• Synergy – Heroes that can play off each other’s abilities or empower certain damage types work better together, Look for interlinking mechanics

• Versatility – Able to handle multiple enemy types and have solutions for various combat scenarios. You want options.

• Survivability – Sufficient defenses, healing, and mitigation to avoid being bursted down. Durability is key.

• Efficiency – Fast mana generation, card draw, and low-cost skills keep your deck cycling smoothly. Less clogged hands.

• Damage – Ultimately you need high damage output to defeat tough enemies Prioritize scaling damage,

Keep these principles in mind as we explore some of the community’s favorite team builds that embody them.

Crowd Control and Burn (Cornelius, Evelyn, Heiner, Gustav)

This composition focuses on stacking burning and chilling effects to cripple enemies while dishing out high fire damage:

• Cornelius – Fire mage applying lots of burning stacks with skills like Conflagration. Also boosts fire damage

• Evelyn – Main damager wielding powerful fire, lightning, and ice attacks. Focuses on chilling.

• Heiner – Tank who can buff fire damage along with chilling foes. Grants added crowd control.

• Gustav – Support granting energize, healing, cleansing, and buffs like evasion. Helps fuel Evelyn.

The abundance of burning and chilling allows this party to severely hamper enemy damage and action economy while Evelyn wears them down. Gustav and Heiner also enhance survival.

Poison Bleed Burst (Malukah, Zek, Thuls, Bree)

This lineup utilizes poison, bleeding, and curse effects to quickly take down foes:

• Malukah – Witch doctor spreading poison and dark magic debuffs. Significant damage over time.

• Zek – Rogue focusing on bleed effects and physical damage. High single target damage.

• Thuls – Fighter who can apply riposte bleeds. Functions as off-tank and DPS.

• Bree – Paladin supporting with heals, buffs, and crowd control like thorns. Improves durability.

The multiple DoT effects combine with Zek’s spike damage and Malukah’s dark magic to deliver devastating opening bursts. Bree and Thuls provide added defense and utility.

The Spark Show (Wilbur, Reginald, Nexgulek, Evelyn)

This magic-heavy party leverages spark effects for insane damage scaling:

• Wilbur – Primary damage dealer stacking sparks and using skills like Arc Torrent for AoE damage.

• Reginald – Support mage providing buffs, heals, and spark generation. Enables Wilbur.

• Nexgulek – Generates insight and spreads debilitations to boost spark damage. Secondary damage.

• Evelyn – Flexible elemental damage and crowd control. Can spend sparks generated by the team.

With three heroes feeding him sparks, Wilbur can scale his damage exponentially. Nexgulek and Reginald fuel the engine while Evelyn contributes strong baseline DPS.

The Blinded Legion (Nezgulek, Cornelius, Sylvie, Heiner)

This setup leverages sight reduction and evasion tanking for survival while dealing heavy damage:

• Nezgulek – Primary sight reducer applying insanity and healing allies. Enhances evasion.

• Cornelius – Fire mage providing burning damage and sight reduction via blinding.

• Sylvie – High piercing damage dealer able to sustain with life steal. Receives added evasion.

• Heiner – Evasion tank constantly dodging attacks. Can chill foes.

With minimal sight, enemies can barely hit your team. Heiner avoids damage while Sylvie sustains herself. Nezgulek and Cornelius enable the strategy while dealing solid damage.

Balanced Beginners (Woodsman, Cleric, Mage, Warrior)

For new players with just the starting heroes, this composition provides a solid blend of damage and survival:

• Woodsman – Reliable marksman bringing ranged damage. Has crowd control via traps.

• Cleric – Main healer keeping the party alive with Restoration and protective shields.

• Mage – Flexible elemental damage supplemented by energizing the party. AOE capabilities.

• Warrior – Tank who can taunt enemies and apply vulnerability. Soaks damage.

This covers all the bases with ranged and melee damage, healing, buffs, debuffs, tanking, and crowd control. Simple yet effective fundamentals.

All-Out Offense Party (Grukli, Zek, Nezgulek, Malukah)

When you just want to steamroll enemies, this super aggressive party gets the job done quickly:

• Grukli – Extreme glass cannon wielding giant nukes like Crushing Blow. Deletes bosses.

• Zek – Provides backup burst potential with abilities like Death Mark.

• Nezgulek – Brings healing to offset damage taken and debilitations to enable the DPS.

• Malukah – Secondary damage and casting Curses to amplify Grukli’s insane damage.

This lineup sacrifices defense for sheer damage potential, able to eliminate most enemies rapidly with its massive crits. High risk, high reward.

Balanced Burst (Thuls, Otis, Reginald, Evelyn)

For well-rounded functionality with solid damage plus durability, this party delivers:

• Thuls – Bruiser dealing good melee damage while able to off tank if needed.

• Otis – Primary tank protecting allies with Sacred Shield and healing/dispelling.

• Reginald – Provides supporting heals, buffs like courage, and mana generation. Helps fuel Evelyn.

• Evelyn – Flexible ranged magic damage supplemented by Reginald. Controls the field.

Thuls and Otis form a strong frontline allowing Reginald to bolster Evelyn’s damage. This balanced composition has solutions for most combat encounters.

Maximum Defense Wall (Andrin, Otis, Heiner, Bree)

When you want to turtle up and just weather enemy assaults, this super tanky party has staying power:

• Andrin – Main tank stacking evasion and resistance. Can mark enemies.

• Otis – Secondary tank providing even more shielding and healing to the party.

• Heiner – Applies chilling while granting shields and damage mitigation from auras.

• Bree – Paladin healing, cleansing, and thorn damage to discourage attacking into her.

With four dedicated tanks supplemented by barriers, constant healing, and crowd control, this party simply does not die. It will slowly whittle down enemies through attrition.

Stealth Assassins (4x Scout)

Why bother with tanks and supports when you can simply sneak past enemies? This party says skip the combat entirely:

• 4x Scout – Each scout clones the others when dropped below half health, allowing you to stealth past most normal encounters.

With four scouts, you essentially have unlimited lives to stealth straight to objectives and bosses. High risk speedruns to test your luck. It’s a unique and challenging way to play.

Customize Your Own Party

Across the Obelisk: 24
party: 32
heroes: 15
skills: 8
damage: 17
healing: 6
crowd control: 5
burning: 5
chilling: 4