**** Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2) ****
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Rocket & Groot (Awesome Mix Volume 2) :rocket:
4 Star Rarity (Legendary)
At Max Level: HP: 13995 74/85/12/4.0/13/65/11/43
Rocket’s Pack 12 :blue: AP
Rocket zips around the battlefield with his new Aero Rig, blasting any poor schmo that gets in his way. If there’s not one already, creates a Blue Countdown that activates every turn, dealing 148 damage and creating a strength 56 Black tile.
- Level 2: Deals 268 damage and creates a strength 65 Black Attack tile.
- Level 3: Deals 296 damage and creates a strength 93 Black Attack tile.
- Level 4: Deals 361 damage and creates a strength 149 Black Attack tile.
- Level 5: Deals 851 damage and creates a strength 187 Black Attack tile.
- Max Level:
- Level 3: Deals 578 damage and creates a strength 180 Black Attack tile.
- Level 4: Deals 704 damage and creates a strength 288 Black Attack tile.
- Level 5: Deals 1662 damage and creates a strength 360 Black Attack tile.
Welcome to the Team 0 :yellow: AP
(PASSIVE) Welcome to the frickin' Guardians of the Galaxy. At the start of the battle create 3 strength 51 Strike tiles. If there is another member of the Guardians of the Galaxy on their team create strength 79 tiles instead.
- Level 2: Creates 4 strength 56 Strike tiles or strength 84 Strike tiles instead.
- Level 3: Creates 4 strength 65 Strike tiles or strength 107 Strike tiles instead.
- Level 4: Creates 5 strength 68 Strike tiles or strength 124 Strike tiles instead.
- Level 5: Creates 7 strength 68 Strike tiles or strength 143 Strike tiles instead.
- Max Level
- Level 3: Creates 4 strength 126 Strike tiles or strength 207 Strike tiles instead.
- Level 4: Creates 5 strength 131 Strike tiles or strength 239 Strike tiles instead.
- Level 5: Creates 7 strength 132 Strike tiles or strength 276 Strike tiles instead.
Don’t Push This Button 10 :green: AP
What? No! That’s the button that’ll kill everyone! Creates a 3-turn Atomic Bomb Countdown tile that deals 820 damage to the enemy team. If it’s matched away, it deals 676 damage to the enemy team and 232 damage to your team.
This power becomes I Aaaaam Groooooot!
- Level 2: Deals 1192 damage to the enemy team. If matched away, deals 926 damage to the enemy team and 353 damage to your team.
- Level 3: Deals 1516 damage to the enemy team. If matched away, deals 1204 damage to the enemy team and 445 damage to your team.
- Level 4: Deals 2308 damage to the enemy team. If matched away, deals 1741 damage to the enemy team and 677 damage to your team.
- Level 5: Deals 3345 damage to the enemy team. If matched away, deals 2824 damage to the enemy team and 928 damage to your team.
- Max Level:
- Level 3: Deals 2952 damage to the enemy team. If matched away, deals 2345 damage to the enemy team and 866 damage to your team.
- Level 4: Deals 4495 damage to the enemy team. If matched away, deals 3392 damage to the enemy team and 1317 damage to your team.
- Level 5: Deals 6614 damage to the enemy team. If matched away, deals 5503 damage to the enemy team and 1804 damage to your team.
I Aaaaaam Groooooot! 0 :green: AP
(PASSIVE) At the start of each turn, Groot makes a match for you. This clears lines and creates Critical tiles as normal (but no extra turns).
When the Atomic Bomb Countdown tile is matched or goes off, this power becomes Don’t Push This Button.
*Levels 2-5 are all the same as above, this power adds Groot making a quick match for the player that gains AP for the player right before the player can move tiles on the board.
Comments
either way this guy looks like a must for trivial and goon nodes.
That green looks OP.. 6000 or 5000 team damage no matter what plus an extra turn. Sure Groot can mess up match-5s but at least he gathers AP. To balance it, it should only be Groot making a match, not the player. This way the team cannot use a power for 3 turns. As of right now.. I'm alittle afraid to face this guy.
I am referring to fighting 4* Grocket, it will be a pain to go up against. As far as me using Grocket, the risk is worth it.. not many players are complaining about taking similar damage with Thanos' black.
So as others have stated, hopefully the rework on Drax turns out as good as it looks on paper and he rounds out all active colors perfectly.
MPQ rewards:
Speed
Ap gen
Ai suppression
Powerful nuke
Reliable performance (losses hurt more than wins help, especially in pvp)
This character has almost none if those features.
They don't self-accel until after you cast green for 10ap. And then he only generates 3 ap per round weighted towared his colors.
They don't suppress the ai at all.
The active abilities are slow, each taking 4 matches.
There is no immediate damage. Everything is tied to CDs, which means waiting at least 1 turn (or using another character to proc the CD).
They have a lot of randomness, with groot matching away friendly strikes and CDs.
He will be useful for fast starts against weak opponents with those free strikes, but we already have thanos for fast starts.
I hate to be pessimistic about the character; the design looks fun and unique. But i have a hard time seeing how extrinsic game systems will NOT relegate thus character to "pretty fun when boosted for low priority matches."
I don't think the blue countdown that activates every turn triggers Carol though, it's like Human Torch and that doesn't. It's the countdown expiring, not triggering that makes Carol happy.
Carol is a great partner for new r&g. But i hesistate to say that makes 4* grocket good, mostly it just says that carol is awesome.
I am not sure I agree with your assessment but without playing I have to reserve judgment, you make some valid points but, I think you may be underestimating his nuke and those strike tiles add speed to a character that may look a little slow on paper. Paired with Carol his green could be deadly. Is he top 3, I don't think so but I think they may quickly jump into the top 10-15 possibly higher due to flexibility in possible team ups.