Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-209.112.208.101-20160329043305/@comment-32973614-20190308162941

A tip i can give to people, seeing how many have an hard time realizing it, is to not fill all 8 slots if you know you aren't going to have a huge income (unless it's meatshields), it's a thousand times better to use some slots for combos, better if they include already-present cats, so that those 5-6 usable cats you still have will get in the battle stronger, rather than having more variety but the same average strenght.

great sets of combos i usually use:

Horror Movies, Boney Bone and Biohazard to let ramen stack tank about any (non deadly) angel stage.

E.kubilan and Lion for a generalist army, one acts as an anti metal for eventual supprt enemies of that trait, since metal heavy stages require a specific army anyway, while lion helps a lot as a fast meatshields for certain long range enemies or attacker for LD units, all while granting 2 EXTRA levels of worker cat.

Sister act and Ramen, easy to get, ramen would be there anyway in most cases, and it grants minor counter chance for metals, attack bonus and lvl 2 worker.

and many more.

I have beaten the game, yet i struggle to remember a case in which fighting with 8 cats and no combos felt like the best choice.