The 1/10/89 Bear Hunt Formation: Maximizing Your Event Damage Output

The Raging Bear event is the ultimate alliance-wide DPS check, scheduled every two days. To truly dominate the leaderboards in competitive zones like Kingdom 199 or 210, you cannot just throw random troops at the trap and hope for the best. Maximizing your event rewards requires strict discipline, optimized host orders, and the mathematically proven 1/10/89 formation.

Here is the definitive guide on how to restructure your rallies to shatter your previous damage records.

Introduction

Every commander wants to claim the top spot during the Bear Hunt event. While many players focus solely on upgrading their heroes, the true divider between average alliances and top-tier rankings is troop composition and ratio discipline.

Why Defense is Useless

The most important rule of the Bear Hunt is understanding the enemy: the Bear never fights back.

Because there is zero incoming damage, defensive stats are completely useless. Your sole focus must be on maximizing Attack and Lethality. This completely changes how you should approach your troop ratios compared to standard PvP or PvE combat.

Breaking Down the 1/10/89 Formation

Once your account reaches Generation 4 and 5, your troop composition should shift to the universally recognized 1/10/89 ratio.

Troop Type	Percentage	The Strategy
Infantry	1%	Infantry act as a meat shield in standard combat, but here, they only take up valuable rally capacity. Bring the absolute minimum required to trigger baseline hero skills.
Cavalry	10%	Cavalry troops provide necessary tactical flanking damage and decent offensive multipliers, but they are not the primary engine.
Archer	89%	Archers are the undisputed damage dealers of Kingshot. Flooding the rally with archers maximizes your overall Lethality output, allowing your alliance to punch through the highest damage tiers.

Save this exact ratio in your preset formations. This allows you to auto-join rallies instantly without messing up the alliance's damage math.

The Ideal Hero Lineup

To capitalize on the 1/10/89 setup, your hero lineup must synergize with an aggressive, archer-heavy backline. While newer Gen 7 heroes like Ava offer incredible long-term value (since her second skill miraculously works despite the event's turn counters), a highly accessible and devastating core includes:

• Amadeus (Infantry): Despite being an infantry commander, Amadeus's twin swords and raw speed provide massive baseline offensive scaling, making him a rare infantry hero who thrives in DPS races.
• Petra (Cavalry): The eccentric 14-year-old royal fortune-teller offers offensive, casino-like probability spikes that heavily favor rapid burst damage in short event windows.
• Yang (Archer): The Winter Huntress is the absolute anchor of this formation. Since archers make up 89% of the rally, Yang’s unmatched lethal precision in the frozen tundra ensures your massive backline deals maximum DPS.

Alliance Execution and Discipline

Having the perfect formation means nothing if the execution is sloppy. When your alliance leadership—whether it is Pluto stepping up as R5 or your designated R4s—schedules the trap, strict coordination is mandatory:

• Pre-Determine the Host Order: The best Bear Trap hosts should be decided ahead of time using the Hero Stat Comparison Tool. Do not just let whoever opens a rally first take the captain seat.
• Joiner Discipline: Joiners do not need to be flashy; they need to be consistent. Stop optimizing tiny details until everyone in the alliance is strictly adhering to the saved 1/10/89 presets.
• Boost Your Stats: Strip out defensive widgets and maximize your Attack/Lethality buffs and Pet refinements before the 30-minute timer begins.