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Back in the olden days, where there was no Awoken-Skills (that means Time-Extends, too),
hardcore players use Ra or even Anubis for high ATK.

I am still relatively young in this game, 'cause by the time I joined P&D, Awoken-Skills were just freshly implemented.

You're right. It was a pretty difficult time back then. But only the best of the best were using Ra or Anubis, while others were sitting back, using easier leaders. Sakuya, Horus, and Isis were among the top leaders because of their simplicity to use

Niche button, great leader if you're Reco.

Make sure to factor in you get only FOUR seconds of orb movement time. I am planning to play Nargacuga/Barufuruku, for fun, but it is going to take a lot of practice and re-learning how to plan and execute 6 combo turns with no orb movement time. Any hesitation or match-ruining mistake during movement botches the whole turn, and diagonals become both more useful and significantly more risky.

Fortunately the tanking potential is enormous. It REALLY helps that no stat is sacrificed with Baru's or Narga's stat spreads, so they can each get a headstart on solving their own missing multiplier. With double Barufaruku, you can go full stall mode by enlisting Mizutsune (if you happen to roll it). And even without Barufaruku, there are some high RCV dragons that you can have on your Baru team, like ReSakuya, ReKushi, Odin Dragon, & Wisedragon Diena. Odin Dragon is ~farmable, covers wood & light, handles bind clear problems. Both Stormwing and Light Lance are good here for different reasons.

So true, I had to reconfigure my whole team because I was wasting awoken space on pointless time extends. I switched to quick cooldown board changers and it took off quite nicely.