User blog:Cleared/What is the trick to building a sucessful team to alliance battles?

Ranking in alliance battles seem easier than ranking up for AW in terms of dedicated hours playing the game. I asked some of my alliance members and they responded that they only had to use 15 rods to rank up for HUR pup. Over this month, I managed to get 5 HSR AOE'rs with maxed skill but that doesn't seem to be enough to 1 hit some of the defense teams I am facing.

Does anyone know how much atk I should upgrade each of my AOEs so that they can 1 shot defense teams? Upgrading 5 cards to 20k is extremely expensive and time consuming so I was wondering if ~15k was enough.