Puzzles and dragons

Bored at work so started playing this game. Any tips for a newb? I got Flame Wiz Laila as my first rare monster and been playing been playing since. Guides seem to suggest reinstalling until getting good stuff, is Laila crap or something? If shes at least mediocre, prob will keep playing... I'm not too serious about playing.

Also spent pal points on 7 pulls from a special pal machine, got keeper of gold, keeper of rainbow and Angelid, rest being different masks (?).

Laila is more of a sub for fire teams that have RCV(healing) problems. Honestly I would reroll based on the next godfest (This last one was not noob friendly). Monsters that are considered good noob leads are typically combo related, or any of the godfest exclusive save for Guan Yu. It been easier to direct you depending on what lead you decide to start out with but leilan is kind of a hard one.

There's a player Choice Godfest at the end of the month, I would take advantage of that.

Edit: As for my pad news, I made the perfect star vault farming team, able to farm 75+ eggs in about 45 minutes, along with baby dungeons for the mini lights. Almost done hypermaxing verndandi then kind of expanding my Green repertoire to take advantage of my Osiris. With Awoken shiva coming out next I already have a great fire set up going for him.