Why Orange Heroes are Favored over Red Heroes?

When you compare heroes for their base qualities, Red heroes surely would be the "Legendary" type among the bunch. However, why is it that a lot of players favor the orange heroes instead?

Although Red Heroes are much more stronger when compared having their base stats (and skills), upgrading red heroes is very tedious as they require harder to acquire hero shards before you get to upgrade them, as well as higher overall upgrading cost. It is more likely that you will be able to improve a lot on your orange hero, for the same effort of a single upgrade on your red hero.

So basically, it all boils down on the availability of the hero shard that players rate how better it is to use a particular hero in the game. For even among orange heroes themselves, players usually stick to improve on the orange heroes listed in the first few chapters of Biography - simply because their shards are easier to collect.

Additional Tip:

Among your Best Bet for Orange Heroes are:

Di Renjie: Reasonably well balanced hero with above normal stats. The thing that makes him a good choice is that his hero shards are easily obtained in the game -- meaning powering him up is relatively a bit more easier compared to other heroes.

Jing ke: Jing Ke is a Tank, and your very first orange quality hero in the game. He would probably be securing a position in your roster and get you to the advanced stages of the game up until you earned someone better than him like Xiang Yu for instance.

Xiang Yu: Xiang Yu is probably the beefiest among all Tank heroes in the game, as he has the highest defense stat (at least among orange heroes).

Yang Yuhuan: If Xiang Yu is the best tank among all orange heroes, Yang Yuhuan is the orange hero healer counterpart.