Bear Hunt Guide

What Is Bear Hunt?

Bear Hunt is a recurring alliance event where a massive boss bear spawns on the kingdom map. Every alliance member sends marches to attack it, accumulating personal damage scores. At the end of the event, rewards are distributed based on your individual score tier — the higher your damage total, the better your chest.

The bear has a massive HP pool that requires the entire alliance to chip away. This is not a solo activity — your alliance needs to rally it or coordinate multiple marches hitting simultaneously. But your individual contribution within that collective effort is entirely up to you.

Bear Hunt rewards include hero shards, premium speed-ups, gems, and sometimes equipment materials — making it one of the best regular events in the game for account progression.

Why Blue Heroes Score More (The Key Mechanic)

This is the most misunderstood part of Bear Hunt. The game gives a significant score multiplier to marches led by Rare (blue) heroes, not Epic or Legendary heroes. This seems backwards — and it catches most new players completely off guard.

The reason is in how Bear Hunt scoring is calculated: it weights the number of marches and the troop tier differential differently than standard PvP damage. Blue heroes cap out at lower troop capacity, which the event's scoring formula actually rewards more efficiently per troop sent versus high-tier marches.

In practice: send your highest-capacity march with a Legendary hero for raw damage, then use every remaining march slot with blue heroes and lower-tier troops. Your total score will be substantially higher than using all Legendary heroes.

Hero Selection

Primary March (Use Your Best Legendary)

Your primary march should be led by your strongest Infantry Legendary hero — Zoe (Gen 2) is the top choice if you have her, since she has a passive Bear Hunt damage bonus that stacks on top of her normal infantry buffs. If you don't have Zoe, use your highest-leveled Infantry hero. Troop capacity matters here — this is your damage march.

Secondary Marches (Blue Heroes Only)

Fill every other march slot with Rare (blue) heroes — even low-level ones. The troops they lead matter less than the scoring multiplier. Use T1 or T2 infantry to fill their capacity — don't use your best troops here, just enough to send a march.

Formation

For Bear Hunt, use a heavy Infantry formation: 80 / 0 / 20 (Infantry / Cavalry / Archer) or even 100 / 0 / 0 pure Infantry. The bear's attack patterns deal heavy frontal damage, which Infantry absorbs most efficiently. Cavalry die faster than their DPS contribution justifies, and Archers don't survive the bear's AOE.

This is the opposite of PvP formations where balance matters. Against a boss mechanic like Bear Hunt, stacking the tank troop type is correct.

Volume Beats Power: March Cycling

Bear Hunt scores accumulate from total damage across all marches. The fastest players — not the strongest ones — hit the highest tiers. The key is keeping your march queues full at all times during the event window.

• Set a timer for when your marches return — send the next batch immediately when they land
• Stay within your march capacity (Command Center level determines how many marches you can send simultaneously)
• Don't let marches sit idle — even 3 minutes of idle march time across multiple slots adds up to significant lost score
• During active play, cycle marches every 1–3 minutes depending on your march speed and bear distance

Hospital Management — This Will Hurt

Bear Hunt casualties are real. Your troops will take significant damage from the bear's counterattacks, and the wounded go directly to your hospital. If your hospital fills up, any additional casualties become permanent deaths.

• Before the event, count your hospital beds and compare to the troops you're sending — know your ceiling
• Heal troops between march cycles if your hospital is approaching capacity
• Use speed-ups to heal quickly if needed, but don't let hospital overflow happen — dead troops cost resources that dwarf any Bear Hunt reward
• If your hospital is small, reduce the troop size on your blue hero marches to lower casualties while keeping march count high

Reward Tiers

Bear Hunt uses tiered rewards — your total damage score determines which chest you receive. Higher tiers contain significantly better rewards. The score thresholds vary depending on your server's bear level (which scales with the kingdom's overall development).

The jump between Tier 3 and Tier 4 is where most of the meaningful rewards are. Optimizing your march cycling and hero selection to push into Tier 4 consistently is the main Bear Hunt goal for mid-game players.

Alliance Coordination

The bear spawns based on alliance activity and needs to be found and rallied by your R4/R5. A few coordination points that help the whole alliance score better:

• Alert alliance members as soon as the bear spawns — the sooner everyone starts, the more cycles everyone gets
• Coordinate rally timing — a rally that the whole alliance piles onto scores everyone points, not just the rally leader
• If your alliance has multiple march capacity players, stagger rally launches slightly so not everyone's marches are idle simultaneously between bear hits
• After the bear dies, it respawns at a higher level — move quickly to the next spawn