Zoe

Strategy: Zoe's whole design fits one specific fight: Bear Hunt. The Bear's opening frontal attack is a large single hit that, for most Infantry leads, either kills them outright or drops them well below half Health before the fight has really started. Agony Rush is built exactly for that moment — a guaranteed 40% Health recovery once per battle when she crosses the 50% threshold, functioning as a second HP bar precisely when the bear's opening swing would otherwise end the run early. Death or Glory (her exclusive skill) turns that survival moment into an offensive one: the instant Agony Rush triggers, she gains +24% Attack for the rest of the battle. So surviving the bear's hit doesn't just keep her alive, it makes her hit back harder for the remainder of the fight — which matters because Bear Hunt is usually a damage race against a clock or against other alliances' scores, not a slow grind. Shield Strike and Infinite Arsenal both stack enemy damage-taken amplification (30% and a 50%-chance 50% respectively), which compounds that damage-race value further once she's past the survival moment and into pure offense. Skill priority: Shield Strike first for the damage and amplification, Agony Rush second — it only fires once per battle, but that activation is the whole reason to run her against a bear specifically, Holy Might third. She's also a legitimately strong general-purpose F2P Infantry lead before Gen 4+ options arrive, thanks to Infinite Arsenal's amplification alone. But even after you've moved on to Alcar or better for regular rallies, keep Zoe geared specifically as your Bear Hunt specialist — nothing else in the early roster survives that opening hit as reliably.