I don't have a best team ahead enough of the others to make up for element advantage. The closest the RNG came to focusing on one element for me is Michael/Raphael/Sol for light, and that fared worse than my thunder team against Jormungandr. (I tried that then for the 3 defenders mission)
Don't bring up miracle tickets; I'm completely f2p. And don't go any further in certain directions I know that you're inclined to go in. Just stop here.

Not that it matters anyway, as I did just try again after finally seeing an Anubis show up. That was a legit success with Andromeda.

Random observation: small sample size, but the stage 1 mobs' ability to inflict paralysis/dazzle was noticably worse in the double Amphisbaena attempt compared to the 1x Amphisbaena runs. It went from 'oh, the paralysis/dazzle isn't so bad' to 'ok, I can see this being annoying'.