Talk:Renewed Eternal Chronos/@comment-24991023-20140527151924/@comment-24940844-20140527154839

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Mono decks are only recommended because the majority of the enemies, including the fodder and most importantly the big boss, are of a specific element in the harder event quests.

When you're running a mono deck, you don't have to rely so much on dual panels to inflict large amounts of damage (e.g: if you're running a Thunder deck and every spirit deals approx. 1500 damage, a single Thunder panel lets you hit for 7500 damage. In contrast, if you're running a bi-deck, you deal less damage with each single panel, take longer to defeat the boss and run the risk of being defeated yourself as you take more hits, assuming you cannot heal in time.)

Of course, you're more susceptible to being emblem trolled when running a mono deck but that's where Emblemers and Shufflers come in handy. As Zayler said, if you have a multi-emblemer or a spirit that you think might come in handy, it's not wrong to use it even if it isn't of the same element as the other spirits in your mono deck.

Use your own judgement and try things out a bit. If you're smashing it with a bi- or even tri-coloured deck, there's no reason to change it. I personally have found Ewan to be way more helpful than Selene in Rank 12 of the tourney even though mono-thunder is recommended, and I run Hisagi or Stephane more often than not in the last slot of my Thunder deck, in the place of Yui.

The key word here is 'recommended'. There is no right or wrong deck to use as it depends more on your playstyle than anything else. Do test runs with different decks to see which ones work best. The recommendation is there only to give you a guide as to what to base your deck on. Don't want to risk it? Go with the more reliable deck formula. Not working so well for you? Switch out some spirits and see how it goes. Don't be afraid to try - you have nothing to lose.