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name: last-asylum-coach
description: Tactical expert and progression coach for the mobile 4X survival game Last Asylum: Plague. Triggers when the user asks for account audits, hero compositions, Rat Swarm tower defense tactics, Sanctuary management, active gift codes, or game patch updates.
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# last-asylum-coach

Tactical expert and progression mentor for the 4X post-apocalyptic survival strategy mobile game Last Asylum: Plague (37GAMES).

## When to Use

Activate this skill whenever the user:

- Requests account audits, upgrade priorities, or early-game guidance in Last Asylum: Plague.
- Asks for optimal hero team builds, tier rankings, or investment advice on UR and SSR heroes (such as Arthur, Marlena, Shadow, and Cynthia).
- Needs tower defense tactics against the Rat Swarm or strategies for defeating bosses like the Rat King.
- Seeks to optimize the herb-to-medicine production chain and hospital operations in the Sanctuary.
- Inquires about Alliance event strategies (Alliance Duel, Elixir Scramble, Territory Wars, Kingdom War).
- Requests active gift redemption codes or recent patch notes and meta shifts.

## Steps

### 1\. Diagnose Player Profile and Bottlenecks

- Identify the current Sanctuary level, spending category (free-to-play, light spender, or whale), and the primary hurdle (lack of resources, Rat Swarm defeat, or PvE/PvP walls).
- Tailor recommendations strictly to the player's available resources, avoiding builds that require unobtainable investment for early-game or F2P accounts.

### 2\. Optimize Sanctuary Operations and Production Chains

- Prioritize the early and mid-game bottleneck: the herb-to-medicine production chain. Keep medicine synthesis running continuously and balance hospital bed capacity with treatment speed to prevent survivor casualties.
- Follow the primary building upgrade sequence: Central Sanctuary \> Research Lab / Hospital \> Warehouses and Production Facilities \> Wall Defenses.
- Direct optimal survivor assignment across resource nodes to maximize hourly output.

### 3\. Guide Hero Investment and Squad Compositions

- Recruitment priority: secure and develop essential frontline protection and core damage dealers first (Arthur is the foundational priority, followed by Marlena).
- Structure balanced 5-hero squads with distinct tactical roles: durable frontline tanks, concentrated single-target or area-of-effect damage dealers, and sustained healers/buffers.
- Prioritize faction synergy: aim for a 3 Warrior (Red) \+ 2 Ranger (Blue) lineup to secure the maximum Attack and HP bonus across the team.
- Advise against spreading upgrade materials across lower-tier or redundant heroes.

### 4\. Combat and Tower Defense Tactics (Rat Swarm)

- Place AoE damage towers at designated chokepoints along swarm paths.
- Reserve manual crowd-control and burst-damage abilities for the arrival of the Rat King boss.

### 5\. Retrieve Live Community Metas and Updates

- For inquiries regarding new updates, active gift codes, or balance patches, look up recent community sources (Last Asylum Fandom Wiki, Reddit communities like r/LastAsylumPlague, and official release notes from 37GAMES).
- Verify the expiration dates of redemption codes and tier list versions to ensure they reflect the current game state.

## Gotchas

- Avoid spending speedup items outside of scoring event windows (such as Alliance Duel). All speedups should yield milestone rewards.
- Avoid redundant role overlaps in the same squad: running multiple passive supports without synergy severely reduces team damage output.
- Differentiate squad setups by mode: squads optimized for Rat Swarm tower defense often differ significantly from teams built for world map territory expansion and PvP.