Massacre Demon Diablos

PSA: I have decided... I will no longer pull on any REM machine until one of two conditions are met:

1) I roll on this collab
2) I die

Tell a friend: You may want to BF a Diablos or grab 20 Diablos friends. Chances are high one of your best teams includes Diablos as a friend leader!

Diablos is unique among top-tier cards in P&D's history because he is the lord of all piggyback, and even if you don't have a team that can stomp all over endgame, you likely have many teams that do better by pairing with him and hitting a high amount of combos than by pairing with a second similar leader. This mostly goes for combo leaders and cross-stacking leaders, but can go for wood/dark row or rainbow leaders as well, as the 25% shield, 7x6 board, and Diablos's devastating body and awakenings are so useful for so many dungeons. For many leaders you can shrug off their type or even att restrictions for x1.5 or even x2 stats when considering Diablos, as Diablos's stats are great without any mult.

It's worth noting here that a 7x6 board comes with the following inherent properties:
+++ Combo shields are much, much less threatening as you can routinely hit 9 or 10 with enough time extends and skill.
++ A board after combos or board change is more likely to have the orbs you need to activate, making it easier to consistently heal, activate full rainbows, and even heart cross without needing actives.
+ Many enemy board-modifying attacks are balanced to be threatening on 6x5 boards, by changing a certain number of orbs, or even a row or column or few, and will be less relevant when you have a 7x6 board. This goes for cloud row/columns and movement restriction rows/columns.
- Skyfall combos happen more often. For most situations, this is a good thing, but in lategame dungeons, damage control is occasionally CRITICALLY important and this property hampers damage control, increasing the chance things will get out of hand. This also makes poison skyfalls a little more threatening. This property is dealt with somewhat by the lower multiplier you'll have as a 7x6 leader.
- It's harder to fully solve a board. When you play a 7x6 leader, even Diablos, your maximum multiplier suffers and you will need to clear boards skillfully to get the combo count and orb attack count to compensate. If you lack skill or time extends, it'll be hard to compensate. This makes a full board blind more devastating and exhausting.
- It's harder to perform diagonal movements. Diagonals require a fair amount of precision to perform. On a 7x6 board, on small smartphones especially, you're less likely to be able to count on diagonals at all. This can hurt players who use diagonal movement a lot in their playstyle, even when carefully planning.

ReAnubis hits x255 ATK with Diablos. ReKushi hits 153x ATK for healers and gets further privileges of an HP mult and no skyfall damage control. Both are a Diablos player's first choices because of their incredibly good awakenings, including bind immunity and clearing and multiple time extends.

But don't own these to pair with a Diablos? Don't throw away too much money in your wallet unless you need to kill ENDgame (more comfortably and/or more quickly). You probably have strong pairings, potentially still endgame capable, if you can just find Diablos friends and play the game well (in some cases, only if you're a master and plan your movements well). Below I'll list some strong leader pairings; leaders that have HIGHER than 8.5x ATK but make use of Diablos's board or other features. Leaders with less ATK mult won't be the target of a Diablos's attention but understand if your best or favorite leader has LESS of an ATK mult, you can still pair with Diablos to be better off. I can't stress this enough: Diablos can bring mediocre leaders with seemingly little synergy into having the potential to clear A2-level content or harder.

Some better examples include:
· Acala gets x114.75 ATK with 2 crosses, x344.25 with 3, x1032.75 ATK with 4. A splendid pairing if you're an EXPERT at crosses (you NEED to be able to make 3 crosses and still hit 8 combos, and making 4 would be occasionally useful (fun fact, making 4 crosses and 8 combos takes 32 orbs, the same as making 8 combos with a must-match-4 leader like Noctis), but lacks bind immunity/clearing and has a worse active and stats than Anubis and Kushi. Great damage control. Resist the urge to use split-ult Verdandi in favor of more ET. You'll need every moment you can get. By the way you may be doomed if your orb movement time is slashed and you can't stall, so Enoch will be a good inherit when he comes out, or an A. Ra laser.
· Glavenus gets x153 ATK at 2 crosses, x459 ATK at 3, x1377 ATK with 4. A little harder to build for than Acala (easier than Tigrex) and only makes use of Diablos's sub att, but still has great potential, is easier to play (better stall, skyfall combos), and has great awakenings. Can use Hinomitsuha for blind resist and 2 on-color atts, if you farm her. Blinds suck if you're a cross leader!!
· Tigrex has Acala's numbers, enormous health, and a better active, but a worse leader skill due to a dragon clause, and bad awakenings. Even with only 2 or 3 dragon subs, the Acala type leaderskill and great health give him somewhat similar potential, though.
· Trailokyavi x119 ATK (for fire), enormous RCV multiplier of x7. Damage control is limited (for purposes like Sopdet and Parvati), but no skyfall can still let you choose the orbs you attack with.
· ReBastet hits x106.25 ATK. Bastet can stack wood tpas and use tpa/7c wood subs, making her a comfortable and fun pair, but reliant on a spike active.
· ReSakuya hits x170 ATK (no shield or RCV multiplier). Diablos grants guard break which is nice for rainbow leaders, covers wood and dark, boosts her survivability. The ability to break both dark and heart orbs lets her use Diablos's large board better than other rainbow leaders, as she can look for opportunities to burst many floors with just 1 orb changer.