After you have 3-4 premium slaves fighting, you can get really picky with your 5th slave. You can easily burn through 2000 trophies without any 1200 slaves

Edit (I checked my theatric yesterday, now i know why he sucks so bad vs shadows... he actually has Int at 67 and Chi at 69.. ) so you can get at least ones a year a top 3 spot with such abyssmal stats.

And please tell us if you picked your glad, its always fun to watch young glads climb up the ladder.