- Fortify exists - despite being terrible
- Progress rewards exist - despite being pretty bad - but in many cases enough to 6* the hero the second month
- Where you have point 2. in Challenger-locked heroes? Nowhere, bye.
Challenger-locked hero is harder to raise than sign-in now. You get no Skill Chips for such hero compared to the sign-in. So what do we even discuss here? Your oblivious observations?