Watcher of Realms | GD3 Stage 13 | Mina and Praetus strat | No Erlang, Dracula, Durza, or Gwen

Firstly, credit goes to Draconic for team inspiration. I saw their clear in-game, which gave me the idea to use Lady Mina and try something similar. However, the placements and timings are my own. This stage is genuinely insane. As you'll see at the end, my heroes were in some pretty cracked gear, unstoppable force weapons on both Kigiri and Wukong, and it still was insanely close. Even if you have the heroes and awakenings to use the Dracula, Durza, Gwen, and Gretchen comp, it still will require insanely good gear. That being said, this same strategy will clear stages 11 and 12 easily, so even if you can't clear 13, hopefully it helps out on the early stages (which are still incredibly difficult. Imo, stage 12 is arguably more difficult than GD2-13 simply because the gear requirement is higher and there are fewer options.) Bottom: The bottom is arguably more difficult than the top, though it's pretty damn close tbh, mostly because so much of it comes down to Ne Zha rng. I tried strategies using a bunch of units to block, like Talin, Erlang, or Vlad, but I could not get it to work as someone would always die. This strategy is reversed; instead of just stalling and slowly taking everything out, this strategy just obliterates everything so quickly that block doesn't become an issue. This is thanks to Praetus with chain of fate. Not only is the bonus true damage incredibly useful (especially when Ne Zha executes one of the smaller enemies, and that damage gets distributed onto everyone in the link), but it also allows the shields to be broken in seconds without needing a dispel because the true damage from it counts as hits. With this strategy, you absolutely need Praetus a1 so he gets his ult back fast enough, and it will also be very hard without Ne Zha a3. On stage 13 only, towards the end, 3 big enemies will spawn on the upper lane where Ne Zha is in, so you need to remove Praetus to place Aracha so she can block. It is important to use Aracha as lord instead of Iovar because she does have a use here. Removing Praetus also allows Laya to be placed on the top, providing 2 ults, which helps a ton with the bonus rage regen. Additionally, for Draelyn you ideally want her in her exclusive chestplate, even if you have to use broken sets, and the rolls suck. Her exclusive makes her shields drastically larger, which helps so much with keeping everyone on the bottom alive. Top: It's a similar concept to the bottom; deal so much damage that you don't need to worry about survivability as much. If you're wondering how Kigiri survives, it's because of his self-healing with Yuri bond, hp increase from Riven, and Wukong's clones distracting. The Nyx clones will target Wukong's which really is the sole reason he lives. Both Kigiri and Wukong are in full damage builds, though Kigiri has 1 hp% substat. Ideally, they're both in Hell's Lament, but if you can't do that, run Soulbound. *Cataclysm is not good for this because it wears off!!!* For Mina, she needs at least 4 hp% substats to have enough hp to survive the global aoes. Ideally, she is also in HL, but I don't have very good HL gear with hp% substats, so I just ran SBA. You want her in 3 crit damage mains as well, and her exclusive artifact for the bonus rage regen. Mina is incredibly crucial to this strategy because she does really good damage after her buff (even though she's an "aoe" dps, she still does great ST damage), also applies physical vulnerability, and buffs Kigiri and Wukong's damage with blood sigil during her ultimate. You'll notice that I ult with her early a lot of the time. This is not only because she needs to cycle her ults super fast, but also so that the clones have blood sigil and vuln on them when Kigiri and Wukong ult. Additionally, with her a1 (which is needed btw), she'll snipe enemies on the bottom lane, which helps A LOT. I tried a similar team but with Ingrid on the top, and I didn't have enough damage on the bottom for the final wave because Mina wasn't there to take out the archers and sychophants. You can see by her damage at the end, she's VERY important. Finally, you need to ult with Rivenhald as soon as the casting bar for the boss's global aoe appears. This is so that he has enough time to put a few stacks of his hp increase buff onto Mina. Otherwise, she will die even if you have his a1. Also, because you need to ult with Mina early, ulting with him also allows her to get inspiration (if you didn't know, phantom Dracula is treated like a summon), and so Wukong and Kigiri can ult asap and have inspiration. One final thing. When placing Mina, make sure to wait a bit so that the archers get close to Ne Zha. Otherwise, she can get sniped by them and the boss and will instantly die. Also, I use Laya's ult just to build up SBA stacks, so if you do that as well, you need to watch your timing so that you don't interrupt Laya from being able to heal her up.