**** Devil Dinosaur (Gigantic Reptile) ****

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  • Unknown
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    Gotta think DD will be a bit more attractive as a defensive deterrent with this Sentry nerf
  • Unknown
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    With the all year gift, i will have DD 2/5/4...

    I have a question..If at level 270, his max red damage is around 2500 for 7 red, what is the purpose if LazyThor does quite the same for 8 red (2305 ?) with the same 5 red color ?

    Does the only advantage of DD is his HP ? (19000 I think ?) because if i invest iso for level 270, it will be quite expansive icon_e_wink.gif
  • Unknown
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    soursenseless wrote:
    Gotta think DD will be a bit more attractive as a defensive deterrent with this Sentry nerf

    Absolutely this. Nearly 20k health? Good luck doing that in 2 of the new format World Ruptures, especially if DD is spamming his purple.
  • Unknown
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    Darek wrote:
    With the all year gift, i will have DD 2/5/4...

    I have a question..If at level 270, his max red damage is around 2500 for 7 red, what is the purpose if LazyThor does quite the same for 8 red (2305 ?) with the same 5 red color ?

    Does the only advantage of DD is his HP ? (19000 I think ?) because if i invest iso for level 270, it will be quite expansive icon_e_wink.gif
    He's not meant to be as good as other 4*s, obviously. They gave like 10 covers to most people in one week.
  • Unknown
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    And yet he's still much better than IW.
  • Pwuz_
    Pwuz_ Posts: 1,214 Chairperson of the Boards
    Grizzlegom wrote:
    And yet he's still much better than IW.

    Thats like saying that Mussolini was a better dictator than Hitler since he killed fewer people!

    One bad character does not justify another.
  • Unknown
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    Pwuz_ wrote:
    Grizzlegom wrote:
    And yet he's still much better than IW.

    Thats like saying that Mussolini was a better dictator than Hitler since he killed fewer people!

    One bad character does not justify another.

    Is there something in the water today? Stop Godwinning threads. It's embarrassing.
  • Pwuz_
    Pwuz_ Posts: 1,214 Chairperson of the Boards
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    Is there something in the water today? Stop Godwinning threads. It's embarrassing.
    What?
    I don't get it...
  • franckynight
    franckynight Posts: 582 Critical Contributor
    Obviously ppl who downright labeled DD as a bad and useless char have not played with him..he is my mvp in pve (along with hood and lcap) and my anchor in pvp (paired with xf).. His cheap red comes in handy more than once especially after SS ripped all the redtile.png from sentry users.. His big health gives you an insurance that you will survive anything the ai will throw at you and his pink dancing save my **** more than i can remember.. He is such a deterrent for sentry hoppers than you can safely make 3 matchs hop even above 1500.. Actually he was the only reason i secretly hoped sentry wouldnt be nerfed.. Unfortunately.. In a xf meta he wont be of much use.. SS on DD is like giving candies to a child.. Post sentry nerf my dd will return to his box but it will have been a good ride.. Farewell soon my beloved DD
  • Unknown
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    Pwuz_ wrote:
    Ben Grimm wrote:
    Is there something in the water today? Stop Godwinning threads. It's embarrassing.
    What?
    I don't get it...

    Godwin's law - given enough time, any discussion on the internet will eventually start comparisons to Hitler. "Godwin" is used as a verb to indicate bringing up a completely inappropriate Hitler comparison. It's happened multiple times today, for some reason.
  • Unknown
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    Am I the only one who thinks this power is completely useless? Please change this to something more helpful. I think he's an awesome character but pink just sucks.
  • CrookedKnight
    CrookedKnight Posts: 2,579 Chairperson of the Boards
    Reasons it's not useless:

    1) It shuffles up to six tiles for the lowest cost in the game, providing a very high match chance relative to the AP you spend. On average you'll get at least 3 AP back, and if it starts a cascade, hey, awesome.

    2) On PvP defense, the AI uses it all. The. Time. Which means matches take even longer than they already would given that Devil Dino is a giant tank. Which means shield-hoppers who need a fast win will hit "skip" and you won't lose the points they'd have taken from you.
  • Unknown
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    I guess I just haven't had much luck with the tile shuffle. It'd be nice if I had some of his other covers.
  • Unknown
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    If your a high scorer his purple is great for defense as it takes forever and goes every other turn, so you get several skips!
  • Unknown
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    I'm not sure if Polarity ran numbers on Prehistoric Arms but you should be losing AP by a significant margin if you actually tried to gain AP with Prehistoric Arms. It seems to be about 50-75% effective at converting purple AP into random AP, which isn't as bad as it sounds because a lot of teams have no use for purple AP whatsoever. Now whether that is enough to warrant using him at all is a different question, but for a purple power I think it's usable.
  • NorthernPolarity
    NorthernPolarity Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    Phantron wrote:
    I'm not sure if Polarity ran numbers on Prehistoric Arms but you should be losing AP by a significant margin if you actually tried to gain AP with Prehistoric Arms. It seems to be about 50-75% effective at converting purple AP into random AP, which isn't as bad as it sounds because a lot of teams have no use for purple AP whatsoever. Now whether that is enough to warrant using him at all is a different question, but for a purple power I think it's usable.

    It's roughly a 35% on a uniformly distributed board to cause a cascade, 2 tiles destroyed on average.
  • Daeft
    Daeft Posts: 20
    It might just be my bad luck but has anyone else noticed the AI prioritizing special tiles in his purpletile.png swaps? I mostly run Patch/Daken so I have plenty or red strikers out and I've seen it pull a nice big best-there-is tile more times than I'd expect, even on fairly red starved boards (~3 redtile.png ).
  • Konman
    Konman Posts: 410 Mover and Shaker
    Technically, dinosaurs are not reptiles. Can't believe no one else is harping on this. What's wrong with you people?
  • Pwuz_
    Pwuz_ Posts: 1,214 Chairperson of the Boards
    Konman wrote:
    Technically, dinosaurs are not reptiles. Can't believe no one else is harping on this. What's wrong with you people?

    Probably because "Devil Dinosaur (Proto-Avian)" doesn't have the same ring to it. We are talking about a video game based on a comic series prominently featuring superhuman & mystical powers. How much scientific accuracy do you expect?
  • Unknown
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    Konman wrote:
    Technically, dinosaurs are not reptiles. Can't believe no one else is harping on this. What's wrong with you people?
    Maybe he is secretly a reptile but named himself as a dino cos he was afraid of racism against gigantic reptiles.

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