1) Abs KD does not have to be as good at warring to win a crown as a non abs kd due to having naps with about 2/3 KD's who go for top 10 land/nw. Rage is decent enough, sanct in the past has been ok but never a great warring KD. Fury has proven to be utter garbage. But if you war them odds are they will have a bank and every advantage imaginable so its going to be hard to win...

2) Try warring the couple land/nw non abs kds in past and they were generally quite good. There is a few who were generally just farmed for land a lot of the time but whored ever age anyway and would finish generally in 10-20 (finishing that high then is like top 3 now...)