[Wauthan]

You'll get a lot of different opinions on this one. In early game I send a champion that would be sure to either win, like say a level 5 priest with water9 blessing, or someone that would atleast take down one other participant, like an assassin or a melee commander with the selfdestruct item, berzerkers pelt or the amulet of lycantropy (the winner will more than likely pick the item up).

I only send the pretender in when I'm sure I can beat the snot out of every other pretender out there. Only a SC will have much use for the trident however.

Tuatha are strong enough to be able to slay most basic commanders, especially if they got the spells to back their melee.