Late game performance is irrelevant: Focus on early game!

And the order you get your skills matters more then what you get overall.

It also helps if your dad is better than theirs as well.

Mid game is more important, as it sets the framework for how the rest of the game will progress. You can make a comback by mid-game, but after that, it becomes very hard to win if you aren't already.

Essentially, Midgame>Early Game>Lategame.

Midgame is most important for two reasons. First, because it's when most Demigods start to really play to their strengths, but also because each side will begin gaining access to important upgrades(cats, and later giants). For this reason it's imperetive that you keep the pressure up during this time. Likewise, it's at this point where you can turn the game around if you've been keeping your warscore up. At this point in the game, DGs will be gaining enough power to push, and generals will gain much of their killing power, moving the game forward at a much faster pace.

I like to end the game around the midgame period, as Erebus' skills tend to scale fairly badly after the midgame point(although his stats scale very well after that point).

I think it is very dependant on the team strategy. If your team are well coordinated to arrive at late game before your opponent do (everyone chip in for early ashkandor etc), this "early late game" is going to wreck havoc.

However, considering most team are mostly not coordinated, I agree with TheGuildfordStrangler (do you have to have such a long name?).

TheStrangler sounded too generic, and TheStranglers sounded too obvious, not to mention tacky..

Yeah End Game is pretty bad for a Rook sometimes, especially vs a late game UB player or a demi of similar agressive playing.

Best thing I do is try not to die early game giving them gold for upgrades or items early on then start being more agressive and trying to get kills/push myself mid game and hope it doesn't grind into a lategame fiasco. (glares at guild)

...Wasn't my fault I held the artifact shop for the entire game...

Besides, I wouldn't call it a fiasco... more of a clusterfuck. More mooks on the field then you could even count(my processor was even feeling a little pain through all that), and me making at least half a dozen suicide runs through your base. Cap'd your portal... what? Twice? 3 times? Then you'd just sit in front of it and Hulk Smash the entire wave just as it spawned.

The winning blow was on the part of some wicked good teleporting(through your citadel in order to stop you and your cronies from reaching me). And running the hell away from you.

Really though, it was up in the air, as I find most late games are. It really came down to me destroying the fortifications around your base before you got to mine, which was done about midgame, when I got giants. That further supports my claim that midgame means everything.

Easily the craziest game I've ever had though.

ive won games where the team doubled us in kills and gold, beat us in war rank. we just turtled untill we had enough gold to buy enough artifacts to push back

This is wrong.

This is right.

I agree. Late game QoT with heavy minion build is both unstoppable and able to deal high damage (though unable to chase).

the OP is right about end-game dominance though. some DG's have better endgames then others, period. full stop. 

Regulus, Beast, and Oak are the strongest DG's at level 20. QoT peaks around level 12. she can certainly be quite strong in the endgame as well, but in relative power level terms she is strongest at level 12ish not level 18-20. 

I'd say 15+ when she gets mulch 3 (2250 hp heal). I agree Reg and Beast are stronger than Her, but I would put her above everyone else in her shear ability to win the game at that point (assuming not playing slaughter).

Why is it wrong? Details please.

If I can get to late game with any DG (specced according to the game at hand, I dominate.  Except QoT.  I still lose with her.

Yeah that was a mistake on my part.