Who are the most powerful pretenders?

[DireAussie]

I prefer rainbow pretenders. Your expansion isnt as quick. However you get early research, early gems searching, and if you survive the early game you have a lot more options with forging and summoning later on. You also dont have to worry about losing your pretender in battle.

[kasnavada]

Cyclop, wyrm, kraken, great enchanteress, gorgon and all immortal pretenders are among the most powerful.

Immobile pretender seem somewhat above the norm due to the high starting dominion and low cost, but they don't move.

Basically, any pretender that can be used out of the box with no or little equipment as an SC, or that can provide you an advantage in mid and late game via immortality or large amount of magic diversity is powerful. Other are rather useless by themselves (even if they may be useful for a powerful bless effect).

[Cerlin]

Lets see, for total usefulness I prefer any rainbows but especially the ones on mounts or flying.

For bless i tend to use the Lord of the Forests a lot. I love the Nature 4-6 and Earth 9 bless in general, especially EA.

For theme my favorite is divine emperor and the Allfather.