Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-9204520-20130615060104/@comment-10535698-20130615062038

The thing is there are advantages to many different team comps.

All one faction: 20% bonus stats

Putting three of one faction on your top three slots: 10% bonus to stats

Attack based team (What recommend does): Puts out most damage per turn

Tanky: Lives longer to potentially do more damage.

As far as picking a faction goes and where to put what of each faction to do the most damage the recommend button does a really good job of this. It seems to really focus on doing most damage per turn.

However, sometimes building tankier makes you do more damage in the long run, but this depends on you having some really tanky people (i.e. Scourge, Trypticon) to put up there to really be a wall.

The recommend button won't build you tanky, so sometimes building that way will give you more damage, but usually the recommend button is going to get you the best layout you can unless you have a plethora of T4 bots to move around and play with.